Effelsberg

Effelsberg City of Bad Münstereifel Coordinates: 50 ° 31 ′ 0 ″  N , 6 ° 52 ′ 7 ″  E
Height :	450  (410–453)  m above sea level NHN
Area :	11.53 km²
Residents :	160  (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	14 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st July 1969
Postal code :	53902
Area code :	02257
Location of Effelsberg in Bad Münstereifel
Effelsberg, aerial photo (2015)

Effelsberg is a district of Bad Münstereifel in the district of Euskirchen , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany .

Geographical location

Effelsberg is located in the Ahr Mountains 8.8 km (as the crow flies ) southeast of Bad Münstereifel or directly southeast of Lethert . The development of both neighboring towns merges into one another. State road 234 runs south-west past the village in a north-west-south-east direction.East of Effelsberg rises the Spülsbach, which flows after 1.2 km into the Effelsberg stream (6.6 km long) coming from the north-west from the Effelsberg Forest .

history

Effelsberg was first mentioned in a document in 893 in the Prümer Urbar under the name "Effellesbure".

Effelsberg has belonged to the counts and later dukes of Jülich since the 13th century . The court in Effelsberg, which also included the hamlets of Holzem , Lethert , Neichen and Scheuerheck , was pledged to the Lords of Orsbeck for 2000 guilders in 1671 as a Jülich subordinate . Later the gentlemen from Burtscheid-Büllesheim took over the pledge. In 1767 Effelsberg and the localities that belonged to it had a total of 911 inhabitants, and the area covered 1154 hectares.

After the Left Bank of the Rhine was taken by French revolutionary troops (1794), the municipality of Effelsberg belonged to the canton of Rheinbach in the Rhine-Moselle department from 1798 to 1814 . At the Congress of Vienna (1815) the region was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia . Under Prussian administration, the municipality of Effelsberg belonged to the Rheinbach district from 1816 , which was part of the Rhine Province from 1822 , and was administered by the mayor of Münstereifel .

According to Prussian statistics, the municipality of Effelsberg had a total of 489 inhabitants in 1885, who lived in 112 houses. All residents were Catholic. The localities and residential areas Holzem (86 inhabitants, 15 houses), Holzemermühle (6 E., 1 H.), Lethert (89 E., 25 H.), Liersermühle (2 E., 1 H.), Neichen belonged to the municipality (64 E., 14 H.) and Scheuerheck (126 E., 28 H.).

On July 1, 1969, the community was incorporated into the city of Bad Münstereifel; the named localities have since formed their own districts.

Worth seeing

Effelsberg radio telescope

In the village is the Catholic parish church of St. Stephan in neo -Gothic style . The original building was a few hundred meters away in the current area of ​​the cemetery. This building was demolished in 1886 in favor of the current structure, which was erected between 1881 and 1883. The parish church was first mentioned in 1222 in the commentary on the Prümer Urbar. Until 1694 it was attached to the Church of St. Martin in Kirchsahr . This church in turn belonged to the St. Chrysanthus and Daria monastery in what was then Münstereifel . The rectory was moved from the Cradenbacher Hof to Effelsberg in 1784. Pastor Michael Joseph Zinken supported this new building in 1842.

Also worth seeing is the Effelsberg radio telescope , which is located northeast of the village in the valley of the Effelsberger Bach and, with a mirror diameter of 100 m, is one of the largest fully mobile radio telescopes on earth.

Web links

• Effelsberg on the homepage of Bad Münstereifel

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population figures . Retrieved March 11, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Christian von Stramberg , Anton Joseph Weidenbach : Memorable and Useful Rheinischer Antiquarius , Volume 12, Part 3, Coblenz: Hergt , 1866. P. 655 ( Google Books )
3. ^ ^{A b} Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine Province, Volume 2: The map of 1789. Bonn 1898, pp. 275, 298, 299
4. ↑ ^{a b} District Effelsberg
5. ↑ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia , Volume XII Provinz Rheinland, Verlag des Königlich Statistischen Bureaus (Ed.), 1888, p. 132 ( digitalis.uni-koeln.de )
6. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 87 .