Vinegar (Swisttal)

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vinegar
Swisttal municipality
Coat of arms of the former municipality of Essig
Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 30 ″  N , 6 ° 53 ′ 18 ″  E
Height : 160  (154-166)  m
Area : 1.7 km²
Residents : 362  (Jan 2, 2019)
Population density : 213 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st August 1969
Postal code : 53913
Area code : 02255
Vinegar (North Rhine-Westphalia)
vinegar

Location of Essig in North Rhine-Westphalia

Essig is a town in the Swisttal municipality in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia . Essig was an independent community until 1969.

geography

Essig is located on the left bank of the B 56 , roughly in the middle between Rheinbach and Euskirchen . The city limits of Bonn can be reached after a good 14 kilometers via the B 56 . With around 430 inhabitants, Essig is the smallest of the ten villages in the Swisttal municipality. Odendorf to the south and Ludendorf to the north are in the immediate vicinity of Essig .

history

Once located on the Roman road from Castra Belgica ( cheap ) via Kuchenheim to Buschhoven , this place was already touched by an important traffic route during the time of the Roman legions in the Rhineland and mentioned in documents from the 9th century under the name "Hesengahova". The history of vinegar is closely linked to that of the Stella Mariae (Marienstern) monastery . The monastery wind vane, the seven-pointed star, was the inspiration for the later municipal coat of arms and can still be admired on the roof of the Brauweiler family's estate in Sternstrasse.

The star on the roof of the house at Sternstrasse 7 dates from the time of the monastery

The Maria Stern Monastery is not one of the old foundations that have existed since the early Middle Ages and can look back on a brilliant history. Maria Stern owes its foundation to that wave of pre-Reformation, inner-church renewal, which, starting from the Lower Rhine and Holland , also reached Germany in the 15th century. The great time of religious brotherhoods had come, and streams of pilgrims swept across Europe. It was precisely at that time that the importance of Aachen-Frankfurter Strasse as a trade, military and pilgrimage route grew extraordinarily. The foundation should primarily serve the pilgrims who made their way on the great Heerstraße. In 1432, Nikolaus Sasse, Harnischmacher zu Münstereifel , arranged for the married couple Edelherr Johann von Schleiden and Anna von Blankenheim, owners of the Blankenheimer Hof next to the old church in Odendorf , to donate a plot of land called "auf dem Essig", so that a monastery here will be built. In the same year, the then pastor of Odendorf, Heinrich Wobel, gave his consent to the construction of a pilgrims' hospital with a poor cemetery and a small chapel . Later, the building was to be expanded into a monastery. As soon as the pastor's permission was given, Nikolaus Sasse donated the planned facilities with the help of other donors. The chapel was built in 1437 in honor of Our Lady , St. Apostle Jacobus and the holy marshals of Cologne.

The monastery was initially managed by Birgittinnen and later by Augustinians , until 1802 the secularization also meant the end of the Essiger monastery. With a consular resolution of June 8, 1802, monasteries and monasteries in the entire left bank of the Rhine were expropriated and their property was transferred to worldly property. Maria Stern's monastery buildings were auctioned and the church demolished in 1804.

After changing fortunes under French and Prussian domination, the Weimar Republic and the Nazi , came after the end of World War II on the basis of the Basic Law on October 28, 1952, a municipal code and in March 1953, an official order for all municipalities in North Rhine-Westphalia in force . After that, the municipalities belonging to the former Ollheim office received their own councilors and mayors and their own official representative, who were assigned the public administrative tasks. The Amt Ollheim, to which Essig belonged, existed until 1961 and was then renamed to Amt Ludendorf until the municipal reorganization in 1969. With the law on the municipal reorganization of the Bonn area , which came into effect on August 1, 1969, the Swisttal municipality was born with vinegar as the smallest town.

politics

The mayor of Essig is Michael Bienentreu (as of 2012).

literature

  • Robert Ostrovsky : On the Essi (n) g: History and Stories . Citizens' Association Swisttal-Essig 1979 e. V., Swisttal 1999.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Parish. Residents according to districts. Municipality of Swisttal, January 2, 2019, accessed on February 26, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Dieter Trammer, Mayor: Our district. Archived from the original on January 20, 2014 ; accessed on January 20, 2014 (excerpt from: Auf dem Essi (n) g - history and stories ).
  3. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 83 .

Web links

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