Euskirchen

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Euskirchen
Map of Germany, position of the city of Euskirchen highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′  N , 6 ° 47 ′  E

Basic data
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Cologne
Circle : Euskirchen
Height : 160 m above sea level NHN
Area : 139.49 km 2
Residents: 58,381 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 419 inhabitants per km 2
Postcodes : 53879, 53881
Primaries : 02251, 02255
License plate : EU, SLE
Community key : 05 3 66 016
LOCODE : DE EUS

City administration address : 		Kölner Strasse 75
53879 Euskirchen
Website : www.euskirchen.de
Mayor : Uwe Friedl ( CDU )
Location of the city of Euskirchen in the Euskirchen district
Belgien Rheinland-Pfalz Kreis Düren Rhein-Erft-Kreis Rhein-Sieg-Kreis Städteregion Aachen Bad Münstereifel Blankenheim (Ahr) Dahlem (Nordeifel) Euskirchen Hellenthal Kall Mechernich Nettersheim Schleiden Weilerswist Zülpichmap
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Euskirchen [ ˈʔɔɪ̯skɪʁçn̩ ] is a medium-sized city in the Rhineland and, at the same time, as a district town, has been the administrative seat of the district of the same name in the southwest of North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ) since 1827 .

Euskirchen, aerial photo (2015)
Euskirchen - View over the train station towards the city center

Euskirchen received its town charter as early as 1302 and today, with over 56,000 inhabitants, is the seat of numerous central institutions and the center of a region with a supply area of ​​over 190,000 people. Parts of the old city wall and three defense towers that belonged to the city ​​fortifications are present and stand next to buildings of modern architecture. The pedestrian zone extends within the medieval city wall ring. The native language of Euskirchen is the mother tongue of the Eifeler Platt , which has different characteristics than the Kölner Platt , which is widespread in the region . The name Euskirchen is stressed on the first syllable.

geography

Spatial location

Euskirchen, old market

Euskirchen is located in the Zülpicher Börde on the northern edge of the Eifel , around 25 km from Bonn and 35 km from Cologne . The partly underground Veybach flows through the city center , through the entire city area and along the edge of the city along the Erft .

The urban area extends in north-south direction over 15 km, in east-west direction over 14 km. The total area is 139.63 km², the city limits are 85 km long. Euskirchen is located 50 ° 40 ′ 0 "north latitude and 6 ° 47 ′ 0" east longitude. The lowest point is 137  m above sea level. NHN on the northern edge of the urban area in the Erft lowlands, the highest is at 411.5  m above sea level. NHN the Hahnenberg in the Flamersheimer Wald, southeast of the Steinbachtalsperre .

Water balance

Euskirchen has below average rainfall and a low water table. The most important river is the Erft .

Precipitation and groundwater in the brown coal field

The Rhenish lignite district is north of Euskirchen

In Euskirchen there is about 680 mm of precipitation per year. This is about 110 mm less than the national average and is due to the geographic location of Euskirchen. Due to the prevailing westerly winds, a large part of the precipitation is absorbed by the western slopes of the low mountain range, and high amounts of precipitation are already falling in front of and in the Eifel. Open- cast lignite mining influences, among other things, the groundwater and the amount of water in rivers and streams. This open-cast mine is only possible through large swamps , i.e. lowering the groundwater . In 2010 around 550 million cubic meters of water were lifted, most of it from the Hambach opencast mine . Almost half of it was directed into the Erft and thus transported away.

Rivers and streams

In addition to the rivers and streams that follow, classified according to their course and tributaries, there are numerous other streams, especially in the southern area of ​​the Euskirchen district, e.g. B. in the Münstereifel forest , on whose ridges the Erft and Ahr watersheds are located.

  • Erft (flows into the Rhine)
    • Mersbach
    • Veybach
    • Erftmühlenbach
    • Swist
      • Kleinbach
      • Steinbach / Orbach
        • Sleeve depths
        • Intoxication
        • Gehlensiefen
        • Treuenbach
        • Sürstbach
          • Hunnensiefen
          • Madbach
          • Düffelssiefen
          • Kohlsiefen
    • Lommersummer Mühlengraben
    • Rotbach
      • Bleibach

Lakes and dams

There are no natural lakes in Euskirchen, just a few ponds , man-made ponds and two reservoirs. The Steinbachtalsperre and the Madbachtalsperre in the urban area were built in the 1930s to supply the Euskirchen cloth industry with process water and are located in the south of the city, near Kirchheim and Queckenberg , only a few kilometers apart.

Floor areas

Agriculture: 75.0 km²
Land use
Forest: 35.8 km²
Building and open space: 15.5 km²
Traffic area: 9.3 km²
Recreation area: 1.3 km²
Water: 1.2 km²
Plant area: 0.6 km²
Others: 0.5 km²

City structure

Districts of Euskirchen

In addition to the core city with the (unofficial) districts of the old town , east , west , north and south of town , the city ​​of Euskirchen comprises 22 other statistical districts :

Cheap , Dom-Esch , Elsig , Euenheim , Flamersheim , Frauenberg , Großbüllesheim , Kessenich , Kirchheim , Kleinbüllesheim , Kreuzweingarten , Rheder , Kuchenheim , Niederkastenholz , Oberwichterich , Palmersheim , Roitzheim , Schweinheim , Stotzheim , Weidesheim , Wißkirchen and Wüschheim . The terms Disternich and Rüdesheim do not designate any separate city or districts. These places belonged to Euskirchen when the city was founded, but later became desolate.

Neighboring communities

Euskirchen is bordered by cities and communities in the Euskirchen district in the north, west and south, and the Rhein-Sieg district in the east .

The community of Weilerswist is located north of the districts of Großbüllesheim and Wüschheim . In the north-west and west, the border with the city of Zülpich runs along the A 1, with the exception of the districts of Oberwichterich and Frauenberg, which are to the west of the motorway. In the southwest, west of the Wißkirchen district, the town of Mechernich joins, the border of which runs south of the Billiger Wald to Kreuzweingarten. The border to the town of Bad Münstereifel begins to the south , and leads through the Münstereifel forest around the Steinbachtalsperre to the vicinity of Berg in the municipality of Altenahr ( Rhineland-Palatinate ). However, there is no common border with Rhineland-Palatinate. In the further course from the height of the mountain Euskirchen borders in the southeast and east on the area of ​​the city Rheinbach in the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis. At the level of the Palmersheim district, to the northeast, the municipality of Swisttal , also in the Rhein-Sieg district, adjoins.

Weilerswist Swisttal
Zülpich Neighboring communities Rheinbach
Mechernich Bad Münstereifel

history

Thick tower and historic city wall

Finds of tools prove the existence of humans around 3000 to 2000 BC. In today's urban area. Celtic settlements are around 800 to 500 BC. Proven. In Roman times around 38 BC BC Eburonen and Ubier settled the river area of ​​the Erft and built a road network. A Roman road junction and trading center (vicus Belgica) was established in Billig.

From 500 to 800 AD there was a Franconian court settlement near today's Annaturmplatz. The name Euskirchen was first handed down in 870. At that time people spoke of Auelskirchen , Auskirchen , the “Church on the Aue”, which probably meant the still existing Martinskirche in the heart of the district town, which stood on a meadow . The settlements Disternich, Rüdesheim and Kessenich joined Euskirchen. The Martinskirche was expanded around 1151 and the court church of St. Georg was built. Around 1270 a rampart and ditches were dug, the place was expanded to the east and southeast to the Mühlbach by millers and tanners . From 1280-1300, the quarter around the Martinskirche was expanded.

Euskirchen was granted city rights on August 1, 1302 by Walram VIII (1277–1302) von Monschau - Falkenburg . In the Middle Ages from 1325, the city was surrounded by a 1450 meter long city wall with seven defense towers and three city ​​gates ( see old town ).

The municipal cemetery in Euskirchen on Frauenberger Strasse was laid out in 1887.

Euskirchen was captured on March 4, 1945 by the 1st US Army , which advanced as part of Operation Lumberjack (March 1-7, 1945) and reached Cologne a day later. On March 7th, the Americans captured the Ludendorff Bridge , a still intact railway bridge , near Remagen .

Until the middle of the 20th century, a narrow-gauge railway, the Euskirchener Kreisbahnen , popularly known as "Flutsch", ran from Erftstadt- Liblar and Zülpich in the direction of Euskirchen. The bar In de Flutsch is still a reminder of the disused railway line.

On January 3, 2014, there was an explosion on the premises of a construction waste recycling company, as a British HC 4000-lb explosive bomb was in the construction waste . Mk 3 was located. An excavator operator was killed in the incident and two other employees were seriously injured. Due to the explosion, some of the surrounding buildings were damaged.

Incorporations

On July 1, 1969, the previously independent communities became Billig, Dom-Esch, Elsig, Euenheim, Flamersheim, Frauenberg, Großbüllesheim, Kirchheim, Kleinbüllesheim, Kreuzweingarten-Rheder , Kuchenheim, Niederkastenholz, Palmersheim, Roitzheim, Schweinheim, Stotzheim, Weidesheim, Wißkirchen and Wüschheim as well as parts of the communities of Antweiler, Arloff, Lessenich-Rißdorf , Obergartzem and Satzvey-Firmenich .

politics

Allocation of seats in the city council
      
A total of 48 seats
Local election 2014
Turnout: 43.48% (2009: 45.39%)
 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
44.03%
25.46%
11.60%
8.83%
5.62%
4.45%
Gains and losses
compared to 2009
 % p
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
+ 0.39  % p
+ 3.18  % p
+ 0.12  % p.p.
-6.28  % p
+ 3.46  % p
-0.88  % p

City council

The city ​​council is the municipal representative of the city of Euskirchen. The citizens decide on the composition every five years. The last election took place on May 25, 2014.

mayor

After the change in the North Rhine-Westphalian municipal code, the mayor has not only been the city's representative since 1999, but also the head of administration (previously: city director). In addition, the mayor has since been elected by the population in a direct election.

The current mayor, Uwe Friedl, was elected mayor with an absolute majority in 1999, 2004, 2009 and 2015.

Old Town Hall

Coat of arms of Euskirchen
 Blazon : "In red a golden floating city ​​gate (castle) with half-drawn portcullis and two crenellated towers, flanked by two shields, in front a left-facing, double-tailed, gold-crowned red lion in silver, behind in gold a black lion."
Reasons for the coat of arms: The two-tailed red lion with a golden crown in a silver field is the coat of arms of the Dukes of Limburg and the noblemen of Heinsberg-Falkenburg, the black lion in a gold field is the coat of arms of the Dukes of Jülich . Up until the city's 650th anniversary in 1952, there were two facing golden lions to the right and left of the (growing) city gate with side towers, holding the gate.
  • Flag Euskirchen.svg

Description of the flag: “In addition to the coat of arms, the city has its own flag in red and gold. It is red-yellow (gold) in a ratio of 1: 1, stripes across and can be carried with the city coat of arms in the shield in the middle. "

From 1974 to 2002 a logo was used that contained the lettering "Stadt Euskirchen" in a modern font, as well as a four-leaf clover, which was composed of the first letter 'E'. The logo was later used without the word “Stadt” and was subtitled “City between the Rhine and Erft”.

In 2002 a new logo was introduced. The first letters 'Eu' form a face, and the slogan “city with face” is noted under the word “euskirchen”. The quiff symbolizes both the Veybach, which flows through the city, and the hills of the Voreifel in which Euskirchen is located. The hair stubble represent the green surroundings of the district town. The graphic and the associated slogan were designed by the Euskirchen architect Gernot Schlüter in collaboration with graphic designer Thomas Latzke as part of a competition announced by the city in 2001.

Town twinning

  • Charleville-Mézières (France), since 1961
  • Basingstoke and Deane (United Kingdom), since 1986
    • A sports competition in various disciplines takes place between Euskirchen and Basingstoke and Deane, alternating every year

Culture and sights

Museums

Since 2012 the Euskirchen City Museum has been located in the Kulturhof, Wilhelmstrasse 32–34. The permanent exhibition shows the city's history from Roman times to the present day. Changing exhibitions further expand the museum's offerings.
The city museum was housed from 1992 to 2010 in the "thick tower", which was formerly part of the city wall, and an adjacent building from the Wilhelminian era. This location was closed in December 2010 due to deficiencies in fire protection. After the renovation, the registry office of the city of Euskirchen moved into the ensemble of buildings.
The old Müller cloth factory from the beginning of the 20th century is located in the Kuchenheim district. Most of the factory is in working order and looks the way it was when it was abandoned in 1961.
The Fire Brigade Museum in Flamersheim has existed since 1993 and shows 250 m² of exhibits from the history of the fire brigade over the past 100 years with free entry.

Religions

Euskirchen is traditionally Catholic. In a visitation report from 1698 it says: “In Euskirchen no people of different faiths, all Catholic.” Before and after, however, other denominations were always represented, mainly Protestants and Jews. The first Jewish cemetery was established in 1467.

Catholic parish church of St. Martin
Sacred Heart Church

Catholic churches and chapels

The churches belong to the deanery Euskirchen in the Archdiocese of Cologne and form three pastoral care areas.

Pastoral care area St. Martin:

Pastoral care area Erftmühlenbach:

Pastoral care area Bleibach / Hardt:

Protestant churches

Greek Orthodox Church

Evangelical Free Churches

Pietist communities

Islamic community

  • Turkish Islamic Community of Euskirchen eV

Jewish religion

Other churches and communities

Buildings

Old market with town hall tower

Old town

  • Old market in the city center, which is now part of the pedestrian zone. The Hotel Joisten stood here until 1973, which had to give way to a modern office and commercial building with shops and a shopping arcade.
  • The Sankt-Martin-Kirche on Kirchstrasse was built in the 7th century.
  • The neo-Gothic Herz-Jesu-Kirche, on the other hand, dates from the 20th century.
  • Parts of the medieval city ​​fortifications and some of their city towers have been preserved.
  • Lost Synagogue: in the Anna Tower Street was one in 1816 synagogue built, initially burned in a great fire on May 19, 1886, but was immediately rebuilt. It was burned down in the pogrom night on November 9, 1938. Since 1981 a memorial stone has been there to remind of the pogrom .

Castles

There are a total of twelve castles in the city area, which can be viewed from the outside on the 45 kilometer long Euskirchen Castle Tour .

The "Palmersheim Castle" was never a castle, but a fortified manor .

Roman aqueduct

The Roman aqueduct leads through the Kreuzweingarten district of Euskirchen to Cologne. An exploration of the pipe shows a particularly thick layer of sinter , which, like marble, was a valued building material in the Middle Ages .

Between Euskirchen-Rheder and Euskirchen-Stotzheim there was an aqueduct bridge over the Erft , which with a length of approx. 500 m was a large structure of the Eifel aqueduct . Apart from a weak elevation west of the Erft, nothing can be seen of it on site, as it was exploited for the extraction of building material in post-ancient times.

Parks

Auelsburg
In the 1990s, the Auelsburg facility with a large playground and a skate park was built between Basingstoker Ring and Georgstraße along the Veybach .
Disternicher gate wall
The green space Disternicher Torwall is located in the middle of the city center along the city wall with the Fresenturm .
Erftanlagen / Erftauen
Erft and Erftauen 2012 before the thermal baths & bathing world were built
As early as 1896, the Erft systems were built on both sides of the Erft between Kölner Strasse and Erftstrasse, which were extended to Kessenich in 1907 . In the 1970s, the green area along the Veybach was extended to the Gansweide. The Erftanlagen are today the largest green area in the city. Until 2006 and 2007, respectively, they included an indoor and an outdoor pool, both of which were demolished. In connection with the construction of the Euskirchen thermal baths & bathing world, an indoor swimming pool has been available again since September 2014. The Rheinische Woche, later the Euskirchen Wirtschaftswoche, has been held in the Erftanlagen since 1975 . Today the facility serves exclusively as an amusement park.
Schillerpark and Mitbachanlagen
At the end of the 1920s, the Schillerpark was built in the southern part of the city near the former Disternich. With its small lake and Mitbach streams, the park is still an idyllic gem near the city center.
City park, Ruhrpark
The Stadtpark or Ruhrpark is located at the Wilhelmstraße / Alleestraße roundabout between the railway embankment and the former Schiffmann cloth factory. With its population of large trees, a central fountain and its downtown location, the park is attractive and invites you to linger.
City forest
The city forest was rebuilt in 1900 as a park with paths and benches and in 1905, on the 100th anniversary of Friedrich Schiller's death, was given a central roundabout with the “Schillerstein” named after the poet. Today's Stadtwaldrestaurant was opened in 1907. The city forest, located on the southern edge of the southern part of the city , right next to the Marienhospital, is still a popular destination over 100 years later, especially for sports activities. It offers a tennis facility , a fitness trail and is popular with joggers and walkers.

carnival

Euskirchen is a stronghold of the Rhenish Carnival . Every year there is a big Rose Monday procession and a children's procession.

The four major carnival societies take turns with the prince , who is appointed by the Euskirchen Carnival e. V. (FEuKa) is elected. On the occasion of the millennium there was a triumvirate in 2000, and in 2012 as well. The cooper (child prince) is also alternated between the four patrician carnival societies. Prince and Cooper are proclaimed by the mayor. Now that the search for princes has become more and more difficult, princesses or female triad are now also possible.

The four large traditional carnival societies in Euskirchen are:

  • Prinzengarde Euskirchen 1938 e. V.
  • Fools guild 1949 e. V.
  • Alt Oeskerche 1953 e. V.
  • KG Erfttal 1958 e. V.

There are also two carnival interest groups in Euskirchen:

  • IG Südstadtkarneval 1990 e. V.
  • Carnival IG der Nordstadt 1999 e. V.

After all, there are very active carnival clubs in almost all of Euskirchen's districts, which also have their own madness and organize their own traditional events.

Entertainment and leisure

Every year the fair takes place in Euskirchen once in May and once in October. The so-called "Donatus May Fair" is always on the weekend in the second week of May. It was created over 200 years ago. It was named after St. Donatus , patron saint of St. Martin's Church. This is how today's fair arose from the Donatus Festival, which was celebrated for the first time in 1784. The autumn fair, the “Simon Juda Market”, takes place on one of the last two October weekends. Both events start at the Alter Markt and continue along Annaturmstrasse to Annaturmplatz and on over Grünstrasse, Bergerstrasse and Carmanstrasse to Charleviller Platz. A mixture of snacks, rides and play shops regularly attracts numerous visitors from the area.

The Steinbachtalsperre , which is used as a service water storage tank, is located in the south of the urban area, near the Kirchheim district . A delimited part of the water area and the adjacent area is managed as a public forest swimming pool in the warm season. After the inner-city indoor pool was demolished in 2008 due to dilapidation and the adjacent outdoor pool was closed, there has been the "Thermen & bathing world Euskirchen", which was built by the private investor Josef Wund , in the vicinity since December 2015 . The sports pool, which is also located in the building, is rented by the city of Euskirchen for school and sports swimming.

There is a mill trail along the Erft and the Erft-Mühlenbach. Although the body of water is small, it used to be important for industry.

The city of Euskirchen is connected to a number of cycle paths :

The swimming pool after completion, aerial photo (2016)

Sports

Euskirchen-based sports clubs of the Euskirchen City Sports Association include the Euskirchen Gymnastics and Sports Club (ETSC), the Olympia Euskirchen / Erftstadt Athletics Association (LGO) and the Euskirchen Running Club .

Economy and Infrastructure

Industry and commerce

Euskirchen has a diverse and balanced economic structure. As a result, the district town offers many jobs for a wide catchment area with almost 190,000 inhabitants. Euskirchen is a rural medium-sized town in an agricultural area that is mainly used for arable farming and thus offers useful land for many farmers from Euskirchen and the region. Mainly sugar beets are grown. Euskirchen has been the seat of a sugar factory since 1879 . Up until a few decades ago, another important branch of industry was cloth manufacture, which, however, could not hold up due to competition from large international companies. The Vocational Training Center Euskirchen (BZE) was founded in 1970 in the legal form of a public-law special purpose association under the sponsorship of the Aachen Chamber of Crafts , the Aachen Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Euskirchen District. It is primarily intended to support and promote structural change in the region through appropriate qualification measures and model concepts.

The two largest industrial and commercial areas in Euskirchen with a large part of the more than 21,000 jobs are:

  • the IPAS ( I ndustry p ark a m S ilberberg) with 2 million m
  • the EURO-Park (located between EU Skirchen and RO Itzheim) with 1.5 million m².

Because of the favorable location to the motorways 1 and 61, the largest contiguous commercial and industrial area in the Euskirchen district was created on an area of ​​over 2 million m² under the name IPAS (Industriepark am Silberberg). The consumer goods group Procter & Gamble maintains a production facility and a large goods distribution center here.

The German Nestlé Purina PetCare (pet food) has its headquarters in EURO-Park . The sugar factory Pfeifer & Langen is located in the EURO-Park, in it, the building material chain Mobau (Modern builders') was established in the following Euro building materials has risen.

Directly next to the IPAS is the “PrimeSite Rhine Region”, a settlement area exclusively for large investors with a size of 205 hectares . About 85% (177 ha) of it is located in the area of ​​the city of Euskirchen and about 15% (28 ha) in the municipality of Weilerswist . For financial institution see Kreissparkasse Euskirchen .

Economic sectors

(Share of employees subject to social security contributions in 2014)

Agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishing 0.6%
Manufacturing 26.4%
Commerce, hospitality and transportation 21.9%
other services 51.1%

Broadband expansion

New multifunctional housing next to the old cable distributor in the Kleinbüllesheim district

At the end of 2015, the Euskirchen district submitted an application for funds from the federal funding program for broadband expansion. In December, the district was one of the first 31 applicants to receive the grant notification for funding of up to 50,000 euros as a basis. A total of up to 14.9 million euros are to be handed over by the federal government to the Euskirchen district, making Euskirchen by far one of the most heavily funded applicants in North Rhine-Westphalia. Furthermore, in September 2016, a funding decision of over 150,000 euros was handed over to District Administrator Günter Rosenke . The money is to be used to finance a broadband coordinator for the district administration, who will support and further promote the upcoming expansion.

Most of the expansion work for the VDSL expansion began in the summer of 2016. The two Bonn telecommunications companies Deutsche Telekom AG and bn: t Blatzheim Networks Telecom GmbH shared the expansion in the Euskirchen city or community area . A large part of all cable distributors is either supplemented by a multifunctional housing shown here (typical procedure at bn: t) or built over (typical procedure by Telekom). The new technology housings are connected by fiber optic cables, bringing the active technology of the so-called DSLAM closer to the customer. In addition to the three switching centers in the Euskirchen district, numerous new technology locations have been created, which enable Internet bandwidths of up to 100 Mbit / s to be downloaded for large parts of Euskirchen using VDSL2 vectoring technology. All 22 city districts and Euskirchen itself were gradually expanded.

However, the construction work met with complaints in many places. For example, a multifunctional housing was erected on a listed building or residents complained about the restrictions caused by the numerous construction sites.

After the VDSL expansion was completed, another milestone in broadband expansion began in the Euskirchen district at the end of 2018 . The starting shot for the subsidized FTTH expansion by Deutsche Telekom AG was given in December 2018. In contrast to the former, this program is funded by federal and state subsidies as well as by municipalities and has a total amount of around 30 million euros. The district of Euskirchen was analyzed and all households with less than 30 Mbit / s bandwidth were entered in so-called expansion clusters. Telekom is currently in the process of gradually expanding these locations and is aiming for completion at the end of 2020. With this expansion, households will be supplied with a fiber optic connection right into the house ( FTTH / FTTB ), which can currently provide bandwidths of up to 1 Gbit / s. There are no costs for the homeowner. Due to the restriction to undersupplied areas <30 Mbit / s, this expansion mainly benefits areas with long cable lengths that cannot be supplied by the VDSL expansion, such as remote settlements or courtyards, but also public institutions such as schools or kindergartens.

retail trade

The retail trade in Euskirchen is concentrated in the city center with the pedestrian zone created in 1974 and the EURO-Park industrial area on the outskirts. There are a wide range of goods and department stores and specialized retail stores . The main areas of the pedestrian zone extend from Veybachstrasse via Bahnhofstrasse and Neustrasse to Alter Markt and Berliner Strasse. Four multi-storey car parks , numerous parking spaces, the nearby train station and good connections to local public transport offer a comprehensive infrastructure. The district town of Euskirchen is a medium-sized center with a supra-local supply function and also represents a central shopping location for the surrounding area.

traffic

rail

Bördebahn in Euskirchen station
Euskirchen train station (before the renovation)

The station Euskirchen is a path node in the up Gerolstein largely two-track and up in the further course Ehrang single track Eifelstrecke ( Cologne - Euskirchen -Gerolstein- Trier , from the in Euskirchen) Voreifelbahn by Bonn , the Erftstadt Talbahn after Bad Münster Eifel and the crimp Bahn branch off to Düren .

There are five other train stations and stops in the city: Zuckerfabrik (KZU Hp according to the operating location directory ), Kuchenheim, Stotzheim, Kreuzweingarten and Großbüllesheim.

In rail transport which operate regional express -line RE 12 Köln Euskirchen -Gerolstein-Trier ( Eifel-Mosel-Express ) weekdays with two pairs of trains, as well as the line RE 22 Köln Euskirchen -Gerolstein ( Eifel-Express , with through binding to Trier as RB 22) every hour with densities in rush hour traffic. The regional train line RB 24 ( Eifel-Bahn ) also provides a connection on the Cologne- Euskirchen - Kall / Gerolstein route every hour between Cologne and Kall. Furthermore, there is a connection to Bonn with the S 23 ( Voreifel Railway ) and the RB 23 ( Erft Valley Railway ) to Bad Münstereifel every hour. The connection to Bonn is compressed to half-hourly intervals on weekdays, and to 15 minutes during rush hour. With the regional train RB 28 ( Bördebahn ) there is a connection to Düren every two hours during the week and every three hours on weekends.

bus

The Stadtverkehr Euskirchen GmbH network consists of 11 lines: 860, 869 and 870 - 878, on which more than 4.8 million passengers were carried in 2006. The bus routes cover almost the entire city area and run every 20 minutes during the day and every hour in the evening. There is also an hourly service on Saturdays and Sundays. As a special feature, lines 870/873 go to the Steinbachtalsperre excursion area during the summer. On the nights from Friday to Saturday and from Saturday to Sunday as well as before public holidays, night traffic is offered every hour.

There are also six inner-city school bus routes. Numerous lines of Regionalverkehr Köln GmbH ( RVK ) enable connections to destinations outside the city.

The tariff of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg (VRS) applies to all local public transport (ÖPNV) and the NRW tariff applies to all tariff areas .

Street

Trunk roads and railway lines in Euskirchen
A 1 near Euskirchen

The A 1 ( Heiligenhafen - Saarbrücken ) runs through the Euskirchen district and leads north over the Bliesheim junction to the A 61 (Kaldenkirchen-Hockenheim). The district town of Euskirchen is connected to the federal city of Bonn via the B 56 . In a westerly direction, the B 56 leads to Zülpich and Düren . The B 51 , which today runs partly on the A 1, connects Euskirchen with Cologne and the Eifel. The B 266 from Simmerath in the Eifel to Linz am Rhein also runs through Euskirchen.

The city center of Euskirchen is surrounded by a ring road that was planned as early as 1904 and not completely closed until 2003, and which takes up a considerable part of the city's traffic. Four-lane roads lead to the B 56 to Bonn , the B 51 to Cologne and Bad Münstereifel and the A 1 . The northern and southern bypass roads from the B 56 / B 266 west of Kuchenheim to the B 56n / A 1 and the B 266 in Euenheim are currently being planned or built .

Connection to airports

The nearest airports are the commercial airports Cologne / Bonn (50 km) and Düsseldorf (97 km) and the commercial airfields Bonn / Hangelar (34 km) and Dahlemer Binz (42 km). A total of eight national and international airports can be reached within a three-hour drive.

research

Euskirchen is the seat of the Fraunhofer Institute for Scientific and Technical Trend Analysis (INT).

media

In Euskirchen, Radio Euskirchen has been broadcasting on the 99.7 MHz frequency in the ultra-short wave range since August 1997 . The station belongs to the network of NRW local radio stations. The local program is produced in the studios in the Euenheim district. Radio Euskirchen takes over the supraregional share of the program from the broadcast program provider Radio NRW from Oberhausen .

In July 2002, on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the city of Euskirchen, Radio 700 - Das Europaradio "the real hits and oldies of the 60s to 80s" was founded, which broadcast from a single-family home in the Kuchenheim district. The station moved to East Belgium in 2009.

Newspaper editors are also located on site. The Kölnische Rundschau and the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger have a joint local editorial team, the Rheinische Redaktionsgemeinschaft. Once a week the weekly newspapers Blickpunkt am Sonntag (Sundays) and Wochenspiegel (Wednesdays), each with their own editorial office in Euskirchen, are distributed free of charge to all households. Rundblick Euskirchen & Zülpich has been operating since January 2016 as the official gazette in which all official notices from the district town are published . It appears every two weeks and is distributed free of charge to all households.

climate

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Euskirchen
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Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 2 4th 8th 12 16 20th 20th 22nd 17th 12 6th 2 O 11.8
Min. Temperature (° C) -2 -1 2 4th 8th 10 12 12 9 7th 2 -1 O 5.2
Precipitation ( mm ) 48.2 49.7 44.2 54.6 53.9 54.8 69.6 75.4 55.0 62.7 60.4 52.3 Σ 680.8
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Public facilities

Education and Research

As a city ​​of schools , Euskirchen has an extensive educational infrastructure.

Elementary schools
  • Catholic primary school Franziskusschule
  • Catholic elementary school Gertrudisschule
    (closed since July 31, 2014)
  • Community elementary school Hermann-Josef-Schule
  • Community elementary school Martinschule
    (closed since July 31, 2014)
  • Community Primary School Nordstadt (since August 1, 2014)
  • Evangelical elementary school Paul-Gerhardt-Schule
  • Community elementary school in Flamersheim
  • Community elementary school Großbüllesheim
  • Catholic primary school Kirchheim - part of the primary school network Schule an der Hartburg
  • Kuchenheim community elementary school
  • Primary School Association School an der Hardtburg - Catholic Primary School Stotzheim
  • Veybach School Wißkirchen
  • Community elementary school Weststadt
  • Menno Simons Primary School (private denomination school)
 Secondary schools
  • Georgschule (closed since July 31, 2019)
  • Joseph Emonds School (closed since July 31, 2014)

comprehensive school

  • Euskirchen comprehensive school

Realschulen

  • Kaplan-Kellermann-Realschule
  • Willi-Graf-Realschule - European School (closed since 2015/2016)
  • Evening middle school
  • Menno-Simons-Realschule (private confession school)

High schools

Special schools
  • Matthias-Hagen-Schule (primary and secondary level I) (since Aug. 1, 2015 district)
  • Rhenish School for the Hearing Impaired (LVR) Max Ernst School
  • Rheinische Förderschule KME Euskirchen-Euenheim (LVR) Irena-Sendler-Schule
  • Hans Verbeek School, School for the Mentally Handicapped (district)

Vocational schools

  • Thomas Eßer Vocational College (District)
  • Vocational training center Euskirchen
  • Specialist seminar for geriatric care, geriatric care school of the German Red Cross
  • Rescue service school Euskirchen, school for professions in rescue services in the Red Cross Center Euskirchen

Other facilities

Sports facilities

Euskirchen - sports facilities, schools, city administration, district court
Euskirchen - “Im Auel” sports complex (Heinz-Flohe-Sportpark), schools

Judicial authorities

armed forces

Euskirchen's 1800  post the fourth-largest location of the Bundeswehr in North Rhine-Westphalia. In the Major General Baron von Gersdorff army barracks sits the Center for Cyber Security of the Bundeswehr (ZCSBw), in which Mercator barracks , the Center for Geoinformation of the Bundeswehr (ZGeoBw) and the Big Band of the Bundeswehr . The Bundeswehr Center for Software Competence (ZSwKBw) is represented on the Flamersheim campus .

Personalities

Honorary citizen

sons and daughters of the town

Other people associated with the city

literature

  • Collective of authors: On the history of the Flamersheim forest . In: Ministry for the Environment and Nature Conservation, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (Hrsg.): Series of publications by the State Forestry Administration of North Rhine-Westphalia . Booklet 8. Forestry Documentation Office of the State Forestry Administration of North Rhine-Westphalia, Arnsberg 1999.
  • Friends and sponsors of the Stadtmuseum e. V. (Ed.): The churches and chapels in Euskirchen . Euskirchen 2006, ISBN 3-00-019035-X .
  • Jürgen Friedrichs , Robert Kecskes and Cristof Wolf: Structure and social change in a medium- sized town. Euskirchen 1952-2002 . Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2002, ISBN 978-3-8100-3658-2 .
  • Peter Kremer: Where horror lurks. Bloodsuckers and headless horsemen, werewolves and revenants on Inde, Erft and Rur . Düren 2003, ISBN 3-929928-01-9 (illustrated and annotated collection of legends from the districts of Euskirchen, Düren and the Erftkreis).
  • Hans-Dieter Arntz : JUDAICA - Jews in the Voreifel . 3. Edition. Euskirchen 1983, ISBN 3-9800787-0-1 .
  • Hans-Dieter Arntz: End of the war in Euskirchen in 1944/45 . In: End of the war 1944/45 between the Ardennes and the Rhine . 3. Edition. Euskirchen 1986, ISBN 3-9800787-1-X , p. 428-552 .
  • Hans-Dieter Arntz: Isidors Letters - About the correspondence of a Jew from Euskirchen . Aachen 2009, ISBN 978-3-86933-007-5 .
  • Hans-Dieter Arntz: The last Jewish elder from Bergen-Belsen . Helios Verlag, Aachen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86933-082-2 .
  • Hubert Meyer: Euskirchen - as it was, Volume 1 . Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1974, ISBN 3-7700-0374-8 .
  • Hubert Meyer: Euskirchen - as it was, Volume 2 . Droste-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1977, ISBN 3-7700-0463-9 .
  • Renate Mayntz : Social stratification and social change in an industrial community . Enke, Stuttgart 1958 (known as the “Euskirchen Study”).
  • Gabriele Rünger, Manuel von Zelisch: Euskirchen in Transition . Geiger-Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-86595-219-6 (illustrated book).

Web links

Commons : Euskirchen  - Collection of Images
Wikivoyage: Euskirchen  - travel guide
Wikisource: Euskirchen in the Topographia Westphaliae (Mathäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Population in the Cologne district. (No longer available online.) IT.NRW, June 30, 2010, archived from the original on May 25, 2014 ; Retrieved May 25, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.it.nrw.de
  3. ↑ Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )
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  8. ^ City of Euskirchen. Council election - overall result. May 25, 2014, accessed October 27, 2014 .
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  10. ↑ Name and logo: The first steps… (PDF) In: City-Magazin Euskirchen. 2011, p. 8 , accessed on November 17, 2015 .
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  13. ^ Mosque in Euskirchen
  14. ^ Klaus Grewe : Aqueducts. Water for Rome's cities. The big overview - from the Roman Canal to the aqueduct marble. Regionalia Verlag, Rheinbach 2014, ISBN 978-3-95540-127-6 , p. 280.
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  16. ↑ Simon Juda Market. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 28, 2016 ; accessed on May 13, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.euskirchen.de
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  18. ^ Sports clubs: District town of Euskirchen. Retrieved August 13, 2017 .
  19. ↑ The BZE introduces itself. (No longer available online.) Vocational Training Center Euskirchen, archived from the original on May 25, 2014 ; Retrieved May 25, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bze-euskirchen.de
  20. ^ PrimeSite Rhine Region. (No longer available online.) NRW.INVEST, 2009, formerly in the original ; Retrieved March 19, 2016 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.nrwinvest.com  
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  22. ↑ 50,000 euros in funding for broadband expansion in the district. Retrieved November 17, 2016 .
  23. ↑ Federal money should enable faster internet in the Euskirchen district. Retrieved November 17, 2016 .
  24. ↑ District of Euskirchen: 150,000 euros for fast Internet. Retrieved November 17, 2016 .
  25. ↑ Fast internet almost everywhere in Euskirchen by the end of 2016. Retrieved November 17, 2016 .
  26. ↑ Fast Internet in Euskirchen is getting closer. Retrieved November 17, 2016 .
  27. ↑ Distribution box on Dönkes not permitted due to monument protection. Retrieved November 17, 2016 .
  28. ↑ DSL distribution cabinet in Euskirchen directly at the bedroom window. Retrieved November 17, 2016 .
  29. ↑ Broadband expansion also has its downsides. Retrieved November 17, 2016 .
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  36. ↑ WBK Bonn - Abendrealschule evening in Euskirchen. Retrieved March 25, 2018 .
  37. ↑ WBK Bonn - night school in Euskirchen. Retrieved March 25, 2018 .
  38. ↑ Properties: The location of the new triple hall in Euskirchen has been determined. Kölnische Rundschau , April 28, 2016, accessed on August 13, 2017 .
  39. ↑ Renaming of the sports facility “Im Auel” to “Heinz-Flohe-Sportpark” will be postponed. Presse-Eifel, July 14, 2020, accessed on July 27, 2020 .
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