Ehingen (Duisburg)

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Duisburg-Ehingen

Ehingen is a district of Duisburg . The place belongs to the Duisburg district of Mündelheim in the district of Duisburg-Süd .

location

The small town of Ehingen is located in the north of Mündelheim, between the Rhine and an industrial area of ​​the Hüttenwerke Krupp Mannesmann , on two dunes from the last Ice Age at an altitude of almost 41  m above sea level. NN or 39  m above sea level. NN . The dunes are also known as the Ehinger Mountains . There is also a forest of the same name that is under landscape protection. Towards Mündelheim there are agricultural areas and towards the Rhine there are large meadows and a ditch, the Drapgraben. The city of Duisburg therefore describes the place on its website as a "small green oasis, located directly on the Rhine, in the immediate vicinity of the steel industry".

Name origin

The name Ehingen goes back to the farm of the same name, which was later renamed to Overheider Hof after the owner at the time.

history

People are likely to have settled in the area today, as it was an ideal shelter against floods thanks to the dunes. The first indications of settlement come from the Middle Stone Age. There are traces of a larger settlement from the 2nd century. With the arrival of troops on the right bank of the Rhine, the settlement had to be abandoned. Only since the late Franconian period have there been settlements again. The first documentary mention comes from the year 1165: The abbot of the Werden monastery confirms the donation of 15 shillings from Gerbert, priest of St. Clemens am Born. In the certificate u. a. also called Wanheim bei Ehingen ( Iuxta eing in Wagenhem ).

The next documented mention of Ehingen dates from the year 1221: With the document, the Archbishop of Cologne, Engelbert, announced that Konrad von Erkrath ( Erkerohde ), son of the sister of the late noble lord Heinrich von Denn ( Danne ), would take over the farm in Ehingen ( In ) in the parish of Mündelheim, in favor of the archbishop. The Archbishop now donates the court with all its accessories for the salvation of his brother Count Adolf von Berg, who died on the Damiette crusade in 1218, to the Marienkirche in Gräfrath . Heinrich von Denn had previously given the free private court in Ehingen to Count Adolf von Berg and received it back as a fief.

In 1452, the Gräfrath monastery exchanged the free manor Ehingen ( erve ind goit zo Egyngen, which is located in the kirspel van Mundelichem ind ouch vrij rittergoit is ) with all its accessories for the bush Jagenberg in the parish of Solingen . As a result, Ehingen came to Eberhard von Overheid ( Everhart van Overheyde ) and his wife Mechtild ( Mettel ). Their descendants still lived on the farm in 1670. Later the estate apparently came into the hands of the von Hatzfeld family . In 1762, Baron Ernst Ludwig von Hatzfeld sold the farm to Johann Schmitz and Elisabeth Blomenkamp for 5000 Reichstaler.

Over time, a small fishing village with farm buildings developed around the farm. Nevertheless, Ehingen was never independent, instead always belonged administratively to Mündelheim and was always one of the smallest places. Around 1850 150 people lived in 50 buildings. Since August 1, 1929, Ehingen has belonged to the city of Duisburg (initially until 1935 Duisburg-Hamborn ). Before that it was an independent community in what was then the Angermund office .

With the expansion of industry, 75% of the place had to be demolished. Including the Protestant primary school, the Catholic one was destroyed in World War II. Since the reorganization of the Duisburg districts in 1975, Ehingen has been part of the Mündelheim district of Duisburg. Until 1975 Ehingen also had a volunteer fire brigade . With the reorganization of the fire brigade in Duisburg, the Ehinger were merged with Mündelheim to form extinguishing group 705. Before the reorganization of the Duisburg districts in 1975, the district had around 1500 inhabitants. The area known today as Ehingen has between 130 and 150 inhabitants.

today

Today Ehingen presents itself as a small green oasis, located directly on the Rhine, in the immediate vicinity of the steel industry. On the Rhine, in a former farm, is the waterworks of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Wasserwerkgesellschaft, in the south the communal cemetery. Popular destinations for excursions are the boathouse and the restaurant at the Eichenwäldchen, as well as the forest and the Rheinaue. The local associations include the Freie Wasserfreunde, the St. Sebastianus Schützenbruderschaft and the citizens' association, which has been using the old fire station for several years, which was vacated in 1999 after the two houses in Mündelheim and Ehingen were rebuilt. Annual events in the year are the village festival of the citizens' association on the bird meadow, the bird shooting in the Ehinger wood and the rifle festival in September, a hiking day and a Christmas market.

literature

  • Citizens' Association Mündelheim (ed.): Mündelheim - home in the great Rhine bend . Duisburg 1996.
  • Hans Josef Michel: Ehinger stories, documents and stories. Duisburg 1992.

Web links

Commons : Duisburg-Ehingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ZBGV VII, p. 30 (= Crec. Werd. 135); ZBGV LXXIV, p. 15.
  2. ↑ Kurt Niederau , Aline Poensgen (arrangement): Gräfrath Monastery, documents and sources 1185-1600 , in: Anker und Schwert, Volume 11, Solingen 1992, p. 23, No. 20; LAC II 52.
  3. ↑ Kurt Niederau, Aline Poensgen (arrangement): Monastery Gräfrath, documents and sources 1185-1600 , in: Anker und Schwert, Volume 11, Solingen 1992, pp. 174 ff, No. 249.
  4. ^ Johann von Trostorff: Contributions to the history of the Lower Rhine with special consideration of the church and monastery history and the history of individual noble families . Part III. Juchener Vereindruckerei [u. a.], Jüchen 1899, p. 99.
  5. ↑ Michel (1992).

Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′  N , 6 ° 42 ′  E