Eicherscheid (Simmerath)

Eicherscheid community Simmerath
Coordinates: 50 ° 34 ′ 44 ″  N , 6 ° 18 ′ 9 ″  E
Height :	550 m above sea level NHN
Area :	13.29 km²
Residents :	1260  (December 31, 2011)
Population density :	95 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1972
Postal code :	52152
Area code :	02473
Location of Eicherscheid in North Rhine-Westphalia

The 400 year old village in Eicherscheid

Eicherscheid is a south-western part of the municipality of Simmerath in the Aachen city region . Eicherscheid is located on the edge of the Eifel National Park at approx. 550  m above sea level. NHN at the foothills of the High Fens , which also characterizes the climate: an atlantic low mountain range climate with over 1000 mm of precipitation per year. Eicherscheid is a typical clustered village in the Eifel with a loose structure.

geography

Eicherscheid is part of the Monschau Heckenland . The Rur runs to the south, the Brommersbach rises to the east of Eicherscheid and the Holzbach to the west, which flows into the Rur at the Belgenbacher Mühle as well as the Brommersbach.

history

Church with a listed lower part of the steeple

The first traces of settlement were a Roman logging camp around 200 to 300 AD. Today's place was founded around 1400 (Eytscheit). Around 1668 the first church was built, which was supplied by the Reichenstein monastery with pastors. In 1924 it was demolished because it was in disrepair. In 1933, today's parish church of St. Lucia was built as a hall church. The listed lower part of the church tower was taken over from the old church.

Until the end of 1971 Eicherscheid belonged as an independent municipality to the dissolved district of Monschau and this to the also dissolved administrative district of Aachen (see Aachen Law ). On January 1, 1972, the former community was incorporated into Simmerath. A small area was reclassified to Monschau.

From 1961 to 1971 the postal code was 5109 Eicherscheid / via Monschau (Rheinl.) , From 1972 to 1993 5107 Simmerath and since 1993 52152 Simmerath .

In 2006 Eicherscheid was awarded gold village for the third time at the state level in the competition Our village should be more beautiful and our village has a future . In 2007 Eicherscheid was awarded gold in the national competition Our Village Has Future . In 2010 Eicherscheid took part in the European Village Renewal Competition and received the European Village Renewal Prize for holistic, sustainable and motto-based village development of outstanding quality, and with a further 12 villages it was in the highest category.

Stumbling blocks

Gunter Demnig during the transfer in Eicherscheid

Stumbling blocks embedded in the floor

On May 10, 2017, the artist Gunter Demnig laid three stumbling blocks in memory of the Kaufmann family, who were expelled by the Nazis in 1939. With a lot of luck she survived in Belgium and emigrated to the USA after the war. The Kaufmann family were the only Jews in the entire Altkreis Monschau .

politics

coat of arms

The coat of arms was created in 1961 (State Archives No. 1814-WI - Str. From June 6, 1961): coat of arms shield in gold, a black oak with four acorns, on the left, as seen from the viewer, two upright wooden girdles in black and on the right a hammer with the round handle turned down, also in black.

The two kummet woods indicate the craft of the wood saddlers who made kummets for the farm; the hammer symbolizes the hammer mill in Hammer , which was founded in 1463 by Hermann Hammerscheid in the Rur valley. The black oak is the symbol of the forest wealth of the former municipality and the charcoal trade . The oak separates the symbols Kummethölzer and Hammer to indicate that the watershed of the Rur and Kall tributaries is located between Hammer and Eicherscheid .

Architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Simmerath

education

The place has a kindergarten and a special school.

Atomic bunker district government Cologne

A piece of current affairs from the Cold War era is hidden under the schoolyard of the special needs school: a nuclear bunker built for employees of the Cologne district government and the district president.

traffic

The AVV bus line 83 provides the public transport connection via Simmerath bus station. The next federal road is the B 258 ( Monschau – Roetgen– Aachen ), the next junction Aachen-Lichtenbusch on the A 44 . The nearest train station is Aachen Hbf .

Web links

• Village website
• Eicherscheid - a village and its time. Ludwig Siebertz, accessed on May 7, 2015 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population figures in the community of Simmerath (main residence) at www.simmerath.de
2. ^ First church
3. ^ Ulrich Förster: New building of the church in Eicherscheid . In: Festschrift 1685–1985 300 years of the parish of St. Lucia Eicherscheid .
4. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 309 .
5. ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 57 .
6. ↑ Eifeler Nachrichten, July 8, 2010, Se 5
7. ^ History of Eicherscheid, coat of arms
8. ↑ Source AN