Erftstadt
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Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ' N , 6 ° 47' E |
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Basic data | ||
State : | North Rhine-Westphalia | |
Administrative region : | Cologne | |
Circle : | Rhein-Erft district | |
Height : | 95 m above sea level NHN | |
Area : | 119.89 km 2 | |
Residents: | 50,010 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
Population density : | 417 inhabitants per km 2 | |
Postal code : | 50374 | |
Area code : | 02235 | |
License plate : | BM | |
Community key : | 05 3 62 020 | |
LOCODE : | DE ERT | |
City structure: | 18 districts | |
City administration address : |
Holzdamm 10 50374 Erftstadt |
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Mayor : | Volker Erner ( CDU ) | |
Location of the city of Erftstadt in the Rhein-Erft district | ||
Erftstadt is a town in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia, formed in 1969 by the amalgamation of several places . Since none of the places could claim the rank of capital, the name was chosen after the largest river in the new urban area, the Erft . The city administration is mainly located in the Liblar district and partly also in the Lechenich district .
geography
location
Erftstadt is located 20 kilometers southwest of Cologne and 25 kilometers northwest of Bonn in the Jülich-Zülpicher Börde at an altitude of 81 to 151 m above sea level. NHN .
Neighboring communities
The towns and municipalities of Kerpen , Hürth , Brühl (all Rhein-Erft district), Weilerswist , Zülpich (both district Euskirchen ), Vettweiß and Nörvenich (both district Düren ) border Erftstadt .
City structure
According to Section 1 (2) of the main statute, the city of Erftstadt is divided into the following city districts and city districts:
Borough | Districts according to Annex I of the main statutes |
Population as of March 31, 2018 total 52,419 |
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Ahrem | Ahrem | 1152 | |
Blessem / Frauenthal | Blessem and Frauenthal | 1905 | |
Bliesheim | Bliesheim | 3407 | |
Borr | Borr and Scheuren | 413 | |
Dirmerzheim | Dirmerzheim | 2218 | |
Erp | Erp | 2615 | |
Friesheim | Friesheim | 2975 | |
Gymnich | Gymnich and Mellerhöfe | 4734 | |
Great | Great | 533 | |
Kierdorf | Kierdorf | 3209 | |
Köttingen | Köttingen | 3717 | |
Lechenich / Konradsheim | Lechenich and Konradsheim | 11,767 | |
Liblar | Liblar | 13,178 | |
Niederberg | Niederberg | 581 |
history
Historical review
Since Erftstadt has only existed since 1969, the following review is about the history of the individual districts and their predecessors.
The relics from Roman times cannot be overlooked in Erftstadt . Both during field inspections and during civil engineering work, one encounters artifacts that indicate a dense settlement, especially in the 2nd and 3rd centuries. About 60 villae rusticae , which are now visible on the arable surface as rubble with remains of red-clay roof tiles, can be detected. In most of today's places or in the immediate vicinity there were 3–4 Villae rusticae at a distance of 1–2 km. These manors with buildings and lands had different sizes and facilities. They were mostly simple farmhouses, but there were also larger manors. Some like the Villa rustica north of Blessem Castle were discovered and examined during civil engineering work. A villa rustica in Lechenich on the Kölner Ring , recorded in the local files under Blessemer Lichweg , seems to have belonged to the large estates . The area of the house and courtyard buildings extended as far as Kilianstrasse , as was revealed by the course of the fire layer at the excavation site. A villa in the old churchyard in Lechenich, which was examined as early as the 19th century, had a high level of equipment and living comfort through water pipes and hypocaust heating . The country house in Frauenthal was furnished in a similarly comfortable way (a portico house ), the outlines of which could be seen in aerial photographs in the ground. The cremation graves found near the Villae rusticae , simple body graves, sarcophagi and grave goods such as ceramics, glasses and coins, as well as other ceramic finds and cult objects are evidence of the settlement.
Several regional roads ran through today's urban area. The most important was the Roman road Cologne - Trier, today Agrippa-Straße Cologne-Trier , on which a mansio was set up at the Erftübergang . Another street, which led from Bonn Fort via Swister Berg to Neuss Fort , crossed the Roman road Cologne - Trier in Liblar . On the road to Aachen branching off the Bonn - Neuss road near Haus Buschfeld , northwest of today's city center Lechenich, in the Flur Am Böttgen there was a small settlement ( vicus ) with an adjoining temple district ( matron sanctuary ). The name Lechenich is derived from a Matronenstein of Matronae Lanehiae, which was used as a grave cover.
The road connections established in Roman times are still used over long distances today.
Businesses were also located. Remnants of the wall of a former nail forge were found in Erp , iron slag and nails indicate this. An extensive Roman pottery district with at least seven pottery kilns was located in the Rotbachttal between Friesheim and Niederberg . Between Lechenich and Ahrem , about 700 meters from the Roman road Cologne - Trier, there was a large bakery with four ovens, which made bread for the troops, probably also for the population of the nearby settlements.
The current places of Erftstadt were built in the 5th / 6th centuries. Century in Franconian times and are therefore older than the first written mentions, which begin around the middle of the 7th century.
Lechenich was first mentioned around 650 when the Cologne Bishop Kunibert allocated income from his court in Lechenich to the alms brothers of the St. Lupus Hospital in Cologne . Around 830 Count Emundus, Count in the Kölngau , bequeathed the place Friesheim (Frisheim) and the Villication Friesheim to St. Peter , the patron saint of the High Cathedral in Cologne . Bliesheim is mentioned for the first time in 1059 in a papal document in which the St. Mariengraden Abbey in Cologne owned its property, a. a. in Bliesheim (Blisna) was confirmed. 1108, the Count gave Adalbert of SAFFENBERG and his son Adolf I of SAFFENBERG the Klosterrath Abbey estates in Borr . In 1113, the abbess of the Dietkirchen monastery in Bonn confirmed the residents of Roggendorf (Ruochesdorp), today Kierdorf, the right to wax interest , as her parents had owned. In 1121, the Archbishop of Cologne, Friedrich I, of the St. Michael Abbey confirmed their possession in Gymnich (Gimnich). Erp is mentioned in 1140 as Erlipen in a deed of possession of the Zülpich provost's office . Around 1155 Liblar, at that time already a parish, became a parish together with Blessem , Dirmerzheim Herrig , Mellerhöfe or Meller (Milre), Heddinghoven , Konradsheim , the parishes of Bliesheim, Lechenich and Roggendorf (Kierdorf) in a record of the Deutz Abbey about the delivered collections called. In 1166 the abbess of the Dietkirchen monastery in Bonn bought back the tithe in Köttingen (Cotingen). In 1193 the income of the Margarethenkapelle hospital in Cologne from Niederberg (Berge) was recorded. Around 1220 the Frauenthal monastery was called Marienthal (In valle beatae Marie), and in 1276 it was called Vrouwendale. In 1233 Kierdorf (Kirdorp) fell to the provost when the property of the St. Severin Monastery in Cologne was divided. In 1246 the Bürvenich Monastery acquired a farm in Scheuren (Scuren). In 1256 the St. Aposteln monastery in Cologne received the archbishopric court of Ahren (Airnhem) in an exchange of goods with Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden . In 1276 Wenemar von Gymnich left his sister Beatrix von Gymnich and her children Buschfeld (busvelt) and other goods, who received Kerpen Castle in return .
In 1279 the Archbishop of Cologne, Siegfried von Westerburg, granted Lechenich city rights .
All locations Erft Forbidden City, including the sub-dominions Bliesheim (since 1328), Friesenheim (since 1363), Erp (since 1592), Liblar (1633) and the lower village Gymnich (since 1628) included with the exception of low mountain to the invasion of the French revolutionary troops in 1794 to Electoral Cologne Office Lechenich .
In 1800, during the Napoleonic period, Erp, Friesheim, Gymnich, Lechenich and Liblar became the main towns of a mairie in the canton of Lechenich , which was established in 1798 and existed until 1814. After the withdrawal of the French, the area was initially administered by the Allied powers as the Generalgouvernement through the Governor General Johann August Sack . With the dissolution of the General Government on April 22, 1816, the new district administrations began their activities on May 10, 1816. From 1816 to 1827 the former cantons of Lechenich and Zülpich formed the Lechenich district. In 1827 District Administrator Bilefeldt arranged for the district administration's office to be relocated from Lechenich to Euskirchen.
Kierdorf, Köttingen, Liblar and Bliesheim were shaped in the second half of the 19th and in the first half of the 20th century by the lignite mining of the southern Rhenish lignite mining area . The Concordia briquette factory was closed on July 1, 1958, and the Donatus mine on July 1, 1959 .
Administrative history
Erftstadt was founded in 1969 in the course of local government reform from the above districts.
On the basis of § 2 of the law on the reorganization of the Euskirchen district of June 10, 1969, the city of Lechenich, the communities of Dorweiler, Erp and Pingsheim (Lechenich Office), Bliesheim, Kierdorf and Liblar (Liblar Office), Dirmerzheim and Gymnich (Amt Gymnich), Borr, Friesheim and Niederberg (Amt Friesheim) and the community of Wissersheim ( Amt Nörvenich , Düren district ) merged to form a new community. The community was named Erftstadt and is called "City". The offices of Lechenich, Liblar, Gymnich and Friesheim were dissolved. The city of Erftstadt is the legal successor. The Nörvenich office was dissolved. The legal successor is the municipality of Nörvenich.
On January 1, 1975, Erftstadt had to cede the former communities of Dorweiler and Pingsheim and the main part of Wissersheim to the community of Nörvenich. The city changed to the Erftkreis (today Rhein-Erft-Kreis ).
The city in the headlines
In 1977 Hanns Martin Schleyer was held hostage by the Red Army faction in the Liblar skyscraper Zum Renngraben 8 . During the search for his kidnapping , indications of this possible hiding place were not followed up in time.
The first German solar cycle path was opened in Erftstadt in November 2018 . However, in March of the following year it was proven that the electrical connections between the individual modules could not cope with the operating conditions. With the far too low energy yield and other problems, this led to the project being abandoned in autumn 2019.
politics
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City council
The city council is the municipal representative of the people of the city of Erftstadt. The citizens decide on the composition every five years. The last election took place on May 25, 2014.
mayor
On August 30, 2009, SPD member Franz-Georg Rips became mayor of the city of Erftstadt with a narrow majority in front of Volker Erner (CDU). He followed Ernst-Dieter Bösche , also SPD, as mayor of the city. On December 20, 2012, Rips announced his resignation as mayor at the end of the year for health reasons, the business was led by Volker Erner (CDU) until the new election. On June 9, 2013 Erner achieved a share of the vote of 52.45% in the mayoral election.
mayor | from | to |
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Jürgen Mittelbach | November 24, 1969 | 1st December 1969 |
Werner Tiemann | 15th December 1969 | May 15, 1974 |
Kurt Bröhl | May 24, 1974 | May 22, 1975 |
Erich Schramm | May 23, 1975 | April 23, 1976 |
Adolf Kappes | May 21, 1976 | October 16, 1979 |
Heinz Cremer | 17th October 1979 | October 26, 1992 |
Franz-Georg Rips | October 27, 1992 | November 1, 1994 |
Hermann Josef Hanisch | November 2, 1994 | September 30, 1999 |
Ernst-Dieter Bösche | October 1, 1999 | October 20, 2009 |
Franz-Georg Rips | October 21, 2009 | January 31, 2013 |
Volker Erner | June 9, 2013 |
Second residence tax
Erftstadt has been collecting a second residence tax since January 1st, 1998 , which corresponds to 10% of the gross annual rent. The aim of the city is that the residents share in the costs of the urban infrastructure and also receive an incentive to convert the secondary residence into a main residence. In Erftstadt, the second residence tax also applies to all mobile homes, mobile homes, caravans and campers that are parked for residential purposes on their own or third-party property for a not only temporary period.
Coat of arms, seal and flag
With the incorporation into the Erftkreis and due to the approval of the district president on March 15, 1974, Erftstadt received its own coat of arms, which was created by the graphic artist Josef Günterberg. It was the second draft of the coat of arms, as its first draft had been objected to by the main state archive in Düsseldorf . The first draft of the coat of arms already contained the elements contained in today's coat of arms, although the Erft, signaled by a white band today, was there in blue and the two yellow rectangles existed as red circles.
Today the city has a coat of arms, a seal and a flag (banner and flag) with the following description:
- coat of arms
Blazon : "In green a silver (white) right flank bar and two golden (yellow) squares on the left edge of the shield." | |
Justification for the coat of arms: The green shield background stands for nature and health, with a silver (white) river band as the right flank bar, symbolizing the Erft, which gave the city its name. On the left edge of the shield two adjacent golden (yellow) squares, the arrangement of which results in an "E", as a clearly protruding "note" for Erftstadt. Or the two golden (yellow) squares stand for the two largest districts of Lechenich and Liblar. |
- seal
- Inscription above: City , below: Erftstadt
- Seal image: The city coat of arms in the shield with the following tinging: a white right flank bar in black and two white squares adjacent to the left edge of the shield.
- flag
- As a banner: green / yellow / green in a ratio of 1: 4: 1, striped lengthways with the city's coat of arms a little above the center.
- As a hoisting flag: green / yellow / green in a ratio of 1: 4: 1, striped lengthways with the city's coat of arms in the middle of the front half.
The coat of arms is deliberately kept modern and dispenses with the use of older coats of arms of the districts.
Town twinning
- Wokingham , UK , since 1977
- Viry-Châtillon , France , since 1980
- Jelenia Góra , Poland , since 1995
- Panketal , Brandenburg , since 1990 (cooperation between municipalities)
Culture and sights
Attractions
Castles and Palaces:
- Gracht Castle in Liblar. The open park in the immediate vicinity was laid out before 1700 and redesigned by Count Johann Ignaz in 1780. Today it is the esmt campus .
- Gymnich Castle . Guests of the federal government used to live here. After that, it was the residence of the Kelly Family until 2002 and remained in the family's possession until the owner changed hands in a foreclosure sale in 2012.
- White castle in the south of Friesheim, built in the 14th century.
- Redinghoven moated castle in the north of Friesheim, built in the 15th century.
- Konradsheim Castle
- Buschfeld House in Liblar
- Lechenich State Castle
Churches:
- St. Martin Church (Friesheim) . Neo-Gothic church with almost complete wooden inventory (altars, choir stalls, pulpit and benches): building and inventory design by August Lange. Particularly worth seeing is a triumphal cross from the beginning of the 14th century, as well as a glass painting Maria and Johannes under the cross (1948), the first work of this kind by Walter Benner .
- St. Kilian Church (Lechenich)
- St. Alban's Church (Liblar)
- Marienkapelle (Frauenthal) with neo-Gothic furnishings
Further:
- Gate buildings of the Lechenich city fortifications
- Lechenich historic town hall , a representative neo-Gothic building
- the hussar quarters in Lechenich
- the Jewish cemeteries :
nature
Erftstadt lies directly on the 880 km² Rhineland Nature Park ("Kottenforst-Ville" until 2005), whose many large and small lakes in the Ville owe their origin to lignite mining in the Rhenish lignite area . Recultivation began in 1920 with beech, pine, red oak and larch afforestation . Of the approximately 40 lakes, the Köttinger See , the Concordiasee and the Liblarer See , one of the largest lakes with around 54 hectares, belong to Erftstadt. In the recreational area, the Liblarer See is released as a bathing lake.
The Frauenthal health garden for the Marienhospital , the elderly and care center and the Erftaue hospice is developing into a special national attraction . All three facilities and the public can use this garden. Attractions are an artificial fountain with creek, boulder stone settings , sculptures and a boxwood - Labyrinth . This should stimulate relaxation, meditation, but also entertainment. The garden is supported by a support association, the facilities and plantings were sponsored by Erftstadt companies and private individuals.
In Konradsheim there is an oak that is over 650 years old .
Tourist routes
A number of touristically developed and marked routes lead through Erftstadt and its districts, which can also be interconnected and used for short and round tours within Erftstadt:
- The moated castles route of the Rhine Basin touched six moated castles in the urban area: Schloss Gracht , House bushveld , castle Blessem that country castle Lechenich , Burgkonradsheim and the Schloss Gymnich .
- The Erft cycle path can be used from Gymnich to Blessem along the Erft for the return journey.
- Mill route 2 of the Erft mill circle connects the Bliesheimer Mühle , Buschfelder Mühle , Dirmerzheimer Mühle , the Heddinghover Mühle , the Heinensmühle and the Oebelsmühle as well as the Ahremer Mühle, four of them at the Lechenicher Mühlengraben.
- The old Römerstraße , Agrippa-Straße Köln-Trier , can be hiked in the urban area from Liblar via Gestüt Römerhof past Lechenich and Erp towards Zülpich .
- The street of garden art between the Rhine and Maas is represented by the park of Schloss Gracht in Erftstadt.
- The Kaiser Route also touches Erftstadt.
regional customs
The historical past of the individual, sometimes very old, districts of the city of Erftstadt is also reflected in the maintenance of old traditions . These include a number of nationally well-known festivals and celebrations whose origins go back to the early days of the region. Another aspect of preserving the past is the efforts of the city administration to ensure the preservation of rich historical buildings through monument conservation measures.
Many of the traditional customs have lost their importance through the passage of time, but others have remained in some annual festivals and celebrations or are experiencing a renaissance . For example, the celebrations of a fair that emerged from the patronage festivals or the traditional rifle festivals associated with parades take place in many parts of the city. The erection of the maypoles in the central squares of the city districts is just as much a custom as the parades for the feast of St. Martin .
As in earlier times, the pilgrimage town of Trier has been a regular destination since 1986 for a crowd of pilgrims who gather in Lechenich from the surrounding area and then set off together . Even more popular, however, is the pilgrimage destination Kevelaer , to which pilgrims have set out from the city of Erftstadt since 1785. The starting points of the route, which is partly covered on foot, are both Lechenich and the Kierdorf district. There, this tradition of the former parish Kierdorf / Brüggen, which was first mentioned in 1740, is carried out again as a Kevelaer pilgrimage. The most interesting event in the city of Erftstadt is the annual equestrian procession of the Gymnicher Ritt , which is held on the feast of Ascension , although its medieval origins are not clear.
Today's club life also has a long tradition. In many parts of the city there is a sports, singing or shooting club, but there are also a large number of various carnival societies, of which the most famous organize their own pageants in the corresponding fifth season .
Sports
With the WSF Liblar , Erftstadt has a Bundesliga team in canoe polo that has been German champion seven times, most recently in 2011, and whose team members have often been appointed to the German national team. The four teams set up for the German championship in Essen in 2006 all reached the finals and with one exception all became German champions.
For its youth work, the Erftstadt chess club was awarded the seal of quality "German Top Chess Club" for the seventh time since 2000, making it the only chess club in Germany to have received seven awards. The greatest successes of the club lie in several qualifications for German club championships in different age groups and in 2008 in the rise of the women's team to the 2nd Bundesliga. The club's former correspondence chess team, which had a correspondence chess grandmaster Maximilian Voss on the top board , is also experienced in the second division .
Various tennis clubs , such as Tennis Sport Erftstadt e. V.
The Association for Movement Games Erftstadt e. V. (VfB Erftstadt) , which offers around 50 sports on some of the club's own facilities. The Sportgemeinschaft Erftstadt e. V. (SGE) with meanwhile 15 sports departments.
The swimming departments of these two clubs have been competing in swimming competitions as a starting community (SG) since 1987. In 2012 the name of the SG was changed to SG Rhein-Erft-Köln . At the German Swimming Team Championships (DMS), the men's team took 3rd place in the Oberliga West in 2017, the women's team took 8th place in the 2nd Bundesliga West.
Another important sporting event is the annual "Challenge Cup of Local Associations" held in Bliesheim.
Economy and Infrastructure
Erftstadt has designated commercial areas in five of its districts. Particularly noteworthy are the Erftstadt business park between Liblar and Lechenich with a direct connection to the A 1/61 with two further areas in Lechenich, two each in Liblar and Friesheim and one each in Gymnich and Köttingen. The Maywerke there are an important company in the food industry.
Action group trade and commerce
The AHAG ( Aktiongemeinschaft Handel und Gewerbe (AHAG) Lechenich e.V.) was founded in autumn 1979 by 13 participants as an advertising and interest group after an exhibition for the 700th anniversary of the city of Lechenich. Its goals are advertising campaigns, increasing the attractiveness of the city, better communication among the members, representing their interests in politics, and striving to strengthen and expand the Lechenich business location.
Medical supplies
The centrally located Marien Hospital in Erftstadt-Frauenthal is a primary care hospital, emergency hospital and also provides the emergency doctor for the city's ambulance service. The conception of the house, supported by the Münch Foundation with several modern specialist departments, is an important facility for basic medical care in Erftstadt. The Münch-Stift geriatric care center and - with the district's hospice associations - the Hospice Haus Erftaue are also supported by the foundation . All three facilities form an ensemble , which with its health garden , which serves all institutions, forms a center of attraction for the city.
traffic
- Rail and bus transport
The Erftstadt station is in the Liblar district on the Eifel route ( Cologne - Euskirchen - Gerolstein - Trier ), on the local rail passenger transport
- the Eifel-Mosel-Express (RE 12) Cologne – Euskirchen – Gerolstein – Trier
- the Eifel-Express (RE 22) Cologne – Euskirchen – Gerolstein with a connection to Trier ( RB 22 ) and
- the Eifel-Bahn (RB 24) Cologne – Euskirchen – Kall , during peak hours to Gerolstein
run.
Local rail passenger transport is carried out by the DB Regio NRW , which uses the 620 and 622 series for the Eifel Express and the Eifel Bahn in partly mixed one to three-way traction for speeds of up to 140 km / h. Currently, however, only a maximum of three two-part or two three-part railcars are coupled together.
The road passenger transport within Erftstadt City's served by bus lines by a Anrufsammeltaxi system be supplemented. The bus lines of the companies Regionalverkehr Köln ( RVK ) and Rhein-Erft-Verkehrsgesellschaft ( REVG ) connect Erftstadt with all surrounding places. The tariff of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg and the NRW tariff applies to all local public transport .
- Streets
Erftstadt has four inexpensive motorway junctions with the A 1 and the A 61 . The two motorways join in the south at the Bliesheim motorway junction and forks again in the Erfttal motorway triangle northeast of Blessem . Cologne can be reached by car directly via the B 265 past Brühl and through Hürth .
Public institutions and education
- schools
- Seven municipal primary schools: Donatus School Liblar, Erich Kästner School Bliesheim, North School Lechenich, South School Lechenich, Elementary School Gymnich, St. Barbara Concordia School Kierdorf and Janusz Korczak School Erp
- A municipal special school, the Don-Bosco-Schule Friesheim, for people with learning disabilities
- A municipal secondary school: Theodor Heuss School in Lechenich
- Two municipal secondary schools: Gottfried Kinkel School in Liblar, Lechenich Secondary School in Lechenich
- Two municipal high schools: Ville-Gymnasium in Liblar, Gymnasium Lechenich in Lechenich
- Free Waldorf School Erftstadt in Liblar
- The ESMT business school maintains its Cologne Campus in Liblar (Schloss Gracht) .
- music school
- The Bernd Alois Zimmermann Music School in Liblar in the "Anneliese-Geske Culture and Music House" near the fire and rescue station.
- Community College
- The adult education center (VHS) at Marienplatz in Liblar offers a varied program for extracurricular further education in two semesters every year.
- University
- According to current planning, a new location for the Technical University of Cologne is to be built in Erftstadt , which will house a newly created faculty for spatial development and infrastructure systems.
- City library
- The city library with media library in Lechenich and the branch of the city library in Liblar keep a large amount of media available to users.
- Fire services
- The fire brigade of the city of Erftstadt consists of the full-time fire and rescue station in Liblar and 14 voluntary fire fighting groups in the districts. Depending on the size, two or three fire fighting groups form a fire fighting train , and two fire fighting groups each form a group. This structure can be used to alert a corresponding number of volunteers in addition to the full-time employees, depending on the keyword.
- Many fire fighting groups have a youth fire brigade , in which young people between ten and eighteen years of age are introduced to the basics of fire fighting technology.
Personalities
- Adolph Wolff von Metternich zur Gracht (1553–1619), dean of the cathedral in the diocese of Speyer and court master of Duke Wilhelm V of Bavaria
- Wilhelm Wolff von Metternich zur Gracht (1563–1636), Jesuit priest and rector of the colleges in Speyer , Trier and Cologne
- Johann Adolf Wolff Metternich zur Gracht (1592–1669), high official at several German royal courts, baron, lord zu Liblar, Odenthal and Flehingen, expansion of the Gracht headquarters into a baroque palace
- Anna Adriana Wolff von Metternich zur Gracht (1621–1698), canoness and abbess of St. Maria im Kapitol , Cologne
- Hermann Werner Wolff Metternich zur Gracht (1625–1704), Prince-Bishop of Paderborn. Significant participation in the financing and equipment of the parish church St. Alban in Liblar.
- Franz Arnold Wolff-Metternich zur Gracht (1658–1718) born in Liblar, later Prince-Bishop of Paderborn and Münster
- Carl Otto Ludwig Theodat von und zu Gymnich (1715–1785), President of the Councilor and First Minister of State at the Electoral Court of Bonn. He had the north wing of the palace built in 1722 expanded in the Rococo style .
- Adolf Münch (1804–1877) and his wife Helene Münch née Offermann (1802–1877), founder of the Marienhospital in Frauenthal (1867), today local supply hospital for the city, geriatric care center Münch-Stift and hospice Haus Erftaue .
- Carl Schurz (1829–1906), politician and first minister of German origin (Minister of the Interior 1877–1881) in the USA
- Carl Brendgen (1841–1916) owner of three briquette factories (in the Erftstadt area) and a pioneer in the industrial use of lignite in the Rhineland
- Jean Bungartz (1854–1934), animal painter, specialist book author, photographer, breeder, lived in Lechenich from 1886 to 1913
- Peter Hecker (1884–1971), painter, grew up in Gymnich
- Josef Kentenich (1885–1968), founder of the Schoenstatt Movement
- Anna Reitler (1894–1948), politician (KPD), member of the Reichstag
- Otto Graff (1915–1997), painter, lived and worked in Liblar from 1945 until his death
- Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918–1970), composer, born in Bliesheim
- Hennes Weisweiler (1919–1983), soccer coach, born in Lechenich
- Jakob Riffeler (1920–2003), metal sculptor
- Karl Stommel (1922–1989), teacher and historian
- Peter Schnitzler (1927–2019), dancer and choreographer
- Peter Mittelstaedt (1929–2014) physicist, philosopher and science theorist
- Manfred Donike (1933–1995), cyclist, chemist and well-known doping investigator
- Heinz Küpper (* 1935), first alderman and head of cultural affairs for the city of Erftstadt from 1982 to 1999.
- Hans Pohl (1935–2019), economic historian
- Cornelius Bormann (* 1939), WDR radio and television journalist and book author, lives in Lechenich
- Hermann Bothe (* 1940), botanist
- Hans-Jürgen Lex (1946–2019), football player
- Peter May (* 1958), lawyer and management consultant
- Manfred Donike (1960–2003), racing cyclist and official
- Michael Breuer (* 1965), former Minister of State D., President of the Rhenish Savings Banks Association, Chairman of the WestLB Supervisory Board
- Ismail Jakobs (* 1999), soccer player at 1. FC Cologne
Individuals or associations that are particularly committed to the social or cultural area of the city of Erftstadt on a voluntary basis can be awarded the Carl Schurz Medal .
literature
- all / several districts:
- Frank Bartsch / Florian Monheim : Erftstadt . Greven, Cologne 2017. ISBN 978-3-7743-0681-3
- Frank Bartsch, Dieter Hoffsümmer, Hanna Stommel: Monuments in Erftstadt , AHAG, Lechenich 1998 ff. (Loose-leaf collection)
- Heidi and Cornelius Bormann: home on the Erft. The rural Jews in the synagogue communities Gymnich, Friesheim and Lechenich , Erftstadt Cultural Office 1994, ISBN 3-9802650-3-X .
- Bernhard P. Schreiber: Archaeological finds and monuments of the Erftstädtischen area , Kulturamt Erftstadt 1999, ISBN 3-9805019-4-9 .
- Karl Stommel: The French population lists from Erftstadt 1798–1801 , Erftstadt Cultural Office 1992
- Karl and Hanna Stommel: Sources on the history of the city of Erftstadt , city administration Erftstadt
- Yearbook of the City of Erftstadt , Erftstadt Cultural Office, 1991 ff.
- Martin HW Möllers: New medium-sized cities in the suburban area. Local reorganization, economic change and political-administrative urban development management - examined using the example of Erftstadt and Sankt Augustin. Dortmund 1996.
- 651-1400 , 1991, ISBN 3-9802650-0-5 .
- 1400-1500 , 1994, ISBN 3-9802650-1-3 .
- 1500-1580 , 1995, ISBN 3-9802650-5-6 .
- Around 1500–1670 , 1996, ISBN 3-9802650-9-9 .
- 1670–1789 , 1998, ISBN 3-9805019-2-2 .
- Friesheim:
- Olaf Kalscheuer: Elements of a local church history from Friesheim to the end of the 19th century. 1998.
- Gymnich
- Matthias Weber: Erftstadt-Gymnich. Homeland book. Bachem, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-7616-0757-1 .
- Kierdorf:
- Bert Rombach: Kierdorf the cradle of the Rhenish lignite mining. Kierdorf 2008, ISBN 978-3-8334-9711-7 .
- Lechenich:
- Frank Bartsch, Hanna Stommel: Lechenich from Roman times to today. Bürgergesellschaft Lechenich, 2004, ISBN 3-924576-07-6 .
- Karl Stommel: History of the Electoral Cologne city of Lechenich. (= Publications of the Association of History and Home Friends of the District of Euskirchen eV A-5). Euskirchen 1960.
- Liblar:
- Sabine Boebé: Carl Schurz very briefly. Memoirs of Carl Schurz from 1829–1869. Pier, Erftstadt 1984, ISBN 3-924576-01-7 .
- Manfred Faust (Ed.): Liblar in old views. European Library, Zaltbommel (NL) 2000, ISBN 90-288-6630-2 .
- Karl Stommel: Johann Adolf Freiherr Wolff called Metternich zur Gracht. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-7927-0919-8 .
- Walter Keßler: Carl Schurz. Cologne 2006, ISBN 3-7743-0383-5 .
Web links
- Website of the city of Erftstadt
- Historical events in Erftstadt (extensive collection of material)
- Ralf Othengrafen: "Mysterious plans" for reorganizations in the area of today's city of Erftstadt between 1927 and 1939. (PDF, accessed on March 22, 2013)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 . ( Help on this )
- ↑ a b Main Statute of the City of Erftstadt. (PDF; 150 kB) March 17, 2015, accessed on August 26, 2015 .
- ↑ https://www.erftstadt.de/web/infos-zu-erftstadt/die-stadt-in-zahlen
- ↑ Albert Esser: Early historical and Roman artefacts in the northern district area. In: 1967 local calendar for the district of Euskirchen. P. 73
- ^ Bernhard Peter Schreiber: Legacies from a Roman bakery in Erftstadt-Lechenich. Lechenich 2012.
- ^ Hanna Stommel: First mention of the Erftstadt towns. In: City of Erftstadt - Yearbook 2000, pages 13-16.
- ^ The main state archive in Düsseldorf and its holdings. Volume 3 Part 1. 1987. Pages 472-473
- ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 86 .
- ^ 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. 307 .
- ↑ Schleyer - Naked Chaos . In: Der Spiegel . No. 11 , 1978, p. 22-27 ( Online - Mar. 13, 1978 ).
- ↑ Solmove solar road - the cycle path to more energy - ingenieur.de . In: ingenieur.de - job exchange and news portal for engineers . November 22, 2018 ( ingenieur.de [accessed November 27, 2018]).
- ↑ Sandra Enkhardt: Why Germany's first solar cycle path mainly only moves lawyers . In: pv magazine . November 19, 2019 ( pv-magazine.de [accessed January 17, 2020]).
- ^ City of Erftstadt. Council election - overall result. May 25, 2014, accessed April 25, 2015 .
- ↑ Mayor Dr. Franz-Georg Rips resigns. ( Memento from December 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) erftstadt.de, December 20, 2012.
- ↑ Erftstadt mayor resigns. Kölner Stadtanzeiger, December 20, 2012.
- ↑ Overall result. In: Election of the mayor 2013. City of Erftstadt, June 9, 2013, accessed on August 26, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Ralf Othengrafen: In the best years - 40 years of Erftstadt. Erftstadt Yearbook 2010, City of Erftstadt 2009; Pp. 5-18.
- ↑ City arms. City of Erftstadt, accessed on August 26, 2015 .
- ↑ Kölner Stadtanzeiger, Rhein-Erft, March 14, 2008
- ↑ Karl Stommel: The pilgrimage on foot to Kevelaer, compiled from the Lechenich brotherhood book of 1818 in: St. Kilian informs No. 3. Erftstadt Lechenich 1982
- ↑ 250 years of Kevelaer - Brotherhood Kierdorf - Brüggen. Ed. Kevelaer Brotherhood Kierdorf Brüggen. Festschrift 1990
- ↑ Homepage of the Erftstadt chess club (accessed on January 9, 2018)
- ↑ page parent clubs on the homepage of SG Rhein-Erft-Köln (accessed on February 12, 2017)
- ↑ page DMS results on the homepage of the SG Rhein-Erft-Köln (accessed on February 12, 2017)
- ↑ Erftstadt with A 1, A 61 and B 265 on OpenStreetMap accessed on May 15, 2010
- ↑ Press release No. 87 of the TH Köln. (PDF) Technical University of Cologne, Department of Communication and Marketing Press and Public Relations, December 11, 2017, accessed on February 27, 2019 .