Enzen (Zuelpich)

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Enzen
City of Zuelpich
Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 24 ″  N , 6 ° 41 ′ 45 ″  E
Height : 191 m above sea level NHN
Area : 5.91 km²
Residents : 574  (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 97 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st July 1969
Postal code : 53909
Area code : 02256
Town center

Enzen is a district of Zülpich in the Euskirchen district in North Rhine-Westphalia . The mayor is Leo Wolter.

location

Enzen is in the Zülpich Börde . Neighboring towns are Linzenich , Ülpenich , Dürscheven and Obergartzem , which belongs to the city of Mechernich .

history

The Roman stone coffins in the Enzen cemetery

Enzen was already settled by the Romans. A Roman fort may have stood on the site of the old churchyard . An artificial hill can still be seen here today. The first written mention of the place Enzen took place in 893 in the Prümer Urbar . There used to be a castle east of the Enzbach.

In 1663 a stone coffin made of reddish sandstone was excavated in Enzen , which is carved from one piece ( monolith ). A skeleton was found in the coffin . Reports of the grave goods were passed down orally in the population for almost two hundred years before the first scientific publication took place. The exact determination of the lost finds and their location in the grave is hardly possible according to tradition. The dead man's head is said to have been in a golden bowl. It was previously assumed that this was the grave of King Theudebert II . However, this interpretation is no longer permissible. The two grave goods that have been preserved, an arm ring and a crown, rather clearly point to a Roman woman's grave. In 1811 a Roman cremation grave was found in a stone ash box in Enzen . Another rich women's burial was discovered in the village in 1977. Finds from the grave from 1977 are exhibited in the Museum of Bathing Culture in Zülpich. The stone coffins found in 1663 and 1977 are now exhibited in the local cemetery in the immediate vicinity of the church entrance.

Enzen had its own mayor's office very early on . Enzen later belonged to the Satzvey -Wachendorf-Enzen district administration.

On July 1, 1969, Enzen was incorporated into Zülpich .

church

Church of St. Kunibert, on the left the preserved apse of the old church

The parish church is under the patronage of Kunibert .

In 1899 the old church was demolished. The apse from around 1200 is the oldest evidence of the existence of a church in Enzen. There is evidence of its own pastor as early as 1366 . However , Enzen did not become an independent parish until 1806.

In 1902, today's three-bay, neo-Gothic brick hall church with a slated roof was built according to plans by the architect Anton Becker . The architect, builder and building contractor, born in Lüftelberg (town of Meckenheim, Rhein-Sieg district) in 1853, had already built numerous churches and chapels in southern North Rhine-Westphalia and in the northern part of Rhineland-Palatinate. The art historians Herzog and Nussbaum attribute it stylistically to the “Cologne School” with reference to the church building in Enzen.

school

Today's House Metternich and the former blacksmith's (workshop) Besseler served as the first schoolhouse . Later, today's Schröder and Schumacher houses were used as a school.

The old school was moved into around 1875. It was a single class and had a common entrance with the teacher's apartment. In 1929 a second class was established.

In the late 1960s, a new elementary school was built in the new development area at the sports field and used as such for a few years. A training workshop was then set up there, and today there is a company manufacturing electronic components in the building.

traffic

By the place running state roads 61 and 178. At the site over the going A1 . In the past six Roman roads crossed in the village .

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population figures as of December 31, 2018
  2. ^ J. Freudenberg: The old grave find in the so-called royal grave in Enzen not far from Zülpich . In: Bonner Jahrbuch 25 . 1857, p. 122-139 .
  3. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 88 .
  4. ↑ Harald Herzog, Norbert Nussbaum: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, monuments in the Rhineland . 9.5 City of Zülpich. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1988, p. 87 .
  5. ↑ Weyres, Willy, Mann, Albrecht: Handbook on Rhenish Architecture of the 19th Century, 1800 to 1880 . Cologne 1968, p. 32 .
  6. ↑ Harald Herzog, Norbert Nussbaum: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany, monuments in the Rhineland . 9.5 City of Zülpich. Cologne 1988, p. 87 .

Web links

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