Endeich

Endeich Federal city of Bonn Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 31 ″  N , 7 ° 4 ′ 22 ″  E
Height :	66 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	12,588  (Dec. 31, 2018)
Incorporation :	June 1, 1904
Postal code :	53121
Area code :	0228
Location of the Endeich district in the Bonn district

Endeich, aerial photo (2017)

Endeich seen from Kreuzberg

Endeich is a district in the west of the federal city of Bonn with around 12,500 inhabitants and belongs to the city ​​district of Bonn .

location

Endeich borders in the west with the Meßdorfer Feld on Lessenich / Meßdorf , in the northwest on Dransdorf , in the north on Nordstadt and Weststadt , in the east on Poppelsdorf and in the south on Lengsdorf and Duisdorf . Endeich is located on the A 565 and is the namesake of the distribution cross " Endeicher Ei ".

history

Catholic Church of St. Maria Magdalena in Endenich

St. Maria Magdalena, aerial view (2017)

The village Endeich was founded in the 8th century AD, first mentioned on April 5, 804: Villa quae vocatur Antiniche (in the village called "Antiniche" (Endsich)) after a wealthy Roman named Rungus the Cassius -Stift had two acres of farmland in Antiniche including a church and a few precious objects donated. Endeich Castle dates from the Middle Ages .

Endenich belonged country wonderfully for Electorate of Cologne and was named the glory Endenich (also Poppelsdorf called) in the Electoral Cologne Oberamt Bonn , which was owned by the Bonner Cassius-pin. The rule comprised the towns of Endenich, Ippendorf and Poppelsdorf. After the Left Bank of the Rhine was taken over by French revolutionary troops (1794) and the French administrative structures were introduced (until 1798) Endenich belonged to the Mairie Poppelsdorf in the canton of Bonn external . In the Prussian period (from 1815) the community Endenich remained part of the Poppelsdorf mayor , which was assigned to the Bonn district . The community was incorporated into the city of Bonn on June 1, 1904 . The district Endeich within the boundaries of the former community still exists today. The Immenburg existed from 1879 until the Second World War .

After 1941, the monastery "For Eternal Adoration" was used as an interim storage facility for the mass transports of Bonn Jews to the extermination camps as part of the Holocaust .

In 2004 Endeich celebrated its 1200th anniversary.

Culture and sights

Schumann House Bonn

• The torture chapel at the foot of the Kreuzberg.
• Endeich Castle , today the seat of the district library.

The improvisation ensemble Die Springmaus , founded by Bill Mockridge , has its home in Endenich. Well-known comedians such as Bernhard Hoëcker , Christoph Schunck , Maximilian Osterritter , Dirk Bach and Bastian Pastewka , but also the Piccolo puppet shows , for example, have started their road to success from here.

The House of Springmaus heard how the music club harmony , the Rex cinema and theater in the ballroom for Endenicher culture mile in Frongasse.

The composer Robert Schumann spent the last two years of his life in the "Richarz'schen Heilanstalt" in what was then Magdalenenstrasse (today Sebastianstrasse). The building is now a memorial ( Schumannhaus Bonn ) and is used as a museum and music library.

The prince couple from Bonn always have their first official appearance after their introduction in the Bonn market square.

science

A number of scientific institutes are located in the north of Endeich: since 1965 the Parasitology (today Institute for Evolutionary Biology & Ecology) and Pharmacy at the University of Bonn , since 1972 the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy and since 1973 the Astronomical Institute (since 2006 Argelander Institute for Astronomy ). The Institute for Inorganic Chemistry and the Kekulé -Institute for Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry have also been located in Endenich since 1972.

literature

• Herbert Weffer: Endeich. The story of a Bonn suburb , Gruna u. Langer, Bonn 1987 (712 pages)
• 1200 years Endenich , commemorative publication for the anniversary, local committee Endenich e. V., Bonn 2014

See also

• List of architectural monuments in the Bonn district of Endenich

Web links

Commons : Endenich  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population in Bonn by districts (according to the main statute) on December 31 , 2018 , Federal City of Bonn - Statistics Office, February 2019
2. ↑ charlemagneseurope.ac.uk: Endenich (Antiniche *) , chap. RHE 57 (accessed December 29, 2014)
3. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, 2nd volume: The map of 1789. Bonn 1898, p. 59/88.
4. ↑ State Survey Office North Rhine-Westphalia: Directory of the landmarks ( Memento from April 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (as of 2005; PDF; 243 kB)