Engelgau
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Engelgau
Municipality Nettersheim
Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 38 " N , 6 ° 40 ′ 41" E
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| Height : | 518 (350-590) m above sea level NHN |
| Area : | 9.24 km² |
| Residents : | 584 (Jun. 30, 2017) |
| Population density : | 63 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | 1st July 1969 |
| Postal code : | 53947 |
| Area code : | 02486 |
 Location of Engelgau in Nettersheim
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Engelgau is a district of the municipality of Nettersheim in the Eifel in the south-west of North Rhine-Westphalia and belongs to the Euskirchen district .
The Ahekapelle , which is still involved in church activities (such as the Servatius Festival ), can be visited in the Geneva Bach Valley a little further from the town center .
geography
The most important street in Engelgau is Landesstraße 115.
The place is in the immediate vicinity of the federal motorway 1 ( interchanges Nettersheim or Blankenheim ).
history
The Engelgau district was already settled in Roman times. In his book about the Eifel aqueduct , CA Eick mentions Roman "rubble" and grave inscriptions on the Ahekapelle. The chapel was part of a place called Ahe , in which people lived until the 18th century, as can be seen from the baptismal records of the Zingsheim parish. Today only the Ahekapelle remains here.
Engelgau, which belonged to the county of Blankenheim until 1794 , is already mentioned in documents from the Middle Ages. In 1307 Luxembourg received Engelgau as a fief from the Count of Blankenheim. Another document mentions Engelgau in 1492 as the seat of the Gau jury , to which, in addition to Engelgau, the places Frohngau , Buir , Roderath and Bouderath were also subordinate. Jacob Grimm published the Weistum von Engelgau from 1582 in his work on the Weistümer.
In modern times, the northern Eifel was ravaged by several wars, such as the Cologne War at the end of the 16th century, the Thirty Years' War , the French Wars of Prey , the Spanish and Austrian War of Succession . The worst event in the War of the Spanish Succession was, as the Zingsheim pastor Matthias Pfleumer (1700–1712) reports, a famine in Engelgau, as English troops in Engelgau and Zingsheim in particular plundered or destroyed the crops. French, English, Dutch and imperial troops moving through the northern Eifel caused a lot of fear and horror among the inhabitants of both places in this war.
During the time of the French occupation of the Rhineland after 1794, Engelgau was part of the canton of Gemünd in the Aachen arrondissement of the Rur department .
About two months before the end of World War II in Europe, American troops arrived in Engelgau on the morning of March 7, 1945, coming from Zingsheim. With that, the horrors of National Socialism were over for the Engelgauer.
On July 1, 1969, Engelgau was incorporated into Nettersheim.
Church of St. Luzia
Engelgau belongs to the parish of Zingsheim . The church is dedicated to the holy martyr Luzia . The church tower dates from the 15th century. The original nave with two window axes and the former choir came from the 18th century.
In 1934, the construction of a larger house of worship began, based on designs by the Cologne architect Rolf Distel. Everything was laid down, only the old church tower and vestibule remained. The church has 120 seats and 100 standing places.
literature
- Hans Peter Schiffer: Churches and chapels in the parish of Nettersheim. History, design, equipment. Kall 2004, p. 159 ff.
- Ernst Wackenroder : The art monuments of the Schleiden district (= Paul Clemen [Hrsg.]: The art monuments of the Rhine province . Volume 11, section II). Verlag von L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1932, p. 134 f.
Web links
- Engelgau town portrait. Nettersheim community, accessed on January 21, 2016 .
- Legends and old village stories of Engelgau (compiled and edited by Sophie Lange) ( Memento from October 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ The most important points in brief. Nettersheim, June 30, 2017, accessed September 25, 2017 .
- ^ CA Eick : The Roman aqueduct from the Eifel to Cologne. With regard to the Roman settlements, fortifications and military roads that were initially located. 1867, p. 20 ff.
- ↑ a b c d e f Hans Peter Schiffer: Churches and chapels in the parish of Nettersheim. 2004.
- ↑ a b Ernst Wackenroder: The art monuments of the Schleiden district. 1932, p. 134.
- ↑ Jacob Grimm (Ed.): Weisthümer. Second part. Co-edited by Ernst Dronke and Heinrich Beyer . Göttingen 1840, pp. 575-576.
- ↑ Nikolaus Reinartz : Matthias Pfleumer in Zingsheim, in reforming Eifel pastor (1700–1712) (= Heinrich Schiffers (Hrsg.): Publications of the Episcopal Diocesan Archives Aachen. Volume 14). Aachen 1952, p. 35 f.
- ^ Nikolaus Reinartz: Matthias Pfleumer in Zingsheim, in a reformist Eifel pastor (1700–1712). 1952, p. 34 ff.
- ^ H.-Dieter Arntz : End of the war in 1944/45 in the old district of Schleiden. 1st edition. Kümpel Verlag, Euskirchen 1995, ISBN 3-9802996-6-X , p. 224.
- ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 101 .
