Fuessenich

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Fuessenich
City of Zuelpich
Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 7 ″  N , 6 ° 37 ′ 7 ″  E
Height : 158 m
Area : 5.78 km²
Residents : 792  (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 137 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1972
Postal code : 53909
Area code : 02252
Entrance to St. Nikolaus Stift

Füssenich is a district of Zülpich in the district of Euskirchen , North Rhine-Westphalia . The head of the village is Siegfried Schäfer.

location

Füssenich, a street village , is located on the northeastern edge of the urban area of ​​Zülpich. Neighboring towns are Geich , which has grown together with Füssenich, and Vettweiß in the Düren district . The place is in the Zülpicher Börde . On the outskirts lies the Füssenich nature reserve lake , which today also serves as a retention basin for the Neffelbach .

Earlier that led Federal Highway 56 through the town. Today the traffic is led around the village by a large bypass .

history

The former place name Fusciniacum suggests a Celto- Roman foundation. In Zülpich a matron stone was found on which this place name was already carved, namely "Matronis Aufaniabus Fuscinius". Fuscinus must have been a Gallo-Roman farm owner, from whom Füssenich derives its name.

Füssenich used to be on a side street of the large Roman road Cologne - Zülpich - Trier .

On July 1, 1969, Füssenich was expanded to include Geich and Juntersdorf. As a result of the Aachen law , Füssenich came to the city of Zülpich in the Euskirchen district on January 1, 1972 from the Vettweiß district in the Düren district.

Parish

Füssenich and Geich form a parish. In 1806 it became an independent parish .

Aldericus Chapel

The cornerstone of the church was laid in 1711. In 1716 the Premonstratensian monastery church was consecrated and later elevated to a parish church . The patron saint of the parish church is Saint Nicholas of Myra, whose feast day is December 6th.

In Füssenich and Geich, the local saint Aldericus is particularly venerated, who has enjoyed great veneration since the Middle Ages. The bones of St. Aldericus rest in a richly decorated wooden shrine, which is buried in a sarcophagus (donated in 1644) made of black marble in the central aisle of the church .

The Füssenich parish includes the Rochus and Brigida Chapel in the Geich district, the Aldericus Chapel and the Petronella Chapel near Gut Dirlau.

The pen

On the site of today's vocational college, a monastery of the Order of the Premonstratensians was built in 1147 ; the current buildings date back to the period from 1711 to around 1750, when the Premonstratensian sisters had the church and monastery rebuilt in the baroque style. When the monastery was dissolved as a result of the French occupation and secularization in 1802, the monastery buildings went into private ownership, while the church was elevated to the parish church of the parish of Füssenich. After several sales, the former monastery, which was run as an estate, came into the possession of an unmarried lady: Mrs. Magdalena Hambloch, geb. 1813 in Sinsteden , died 1892 in Bettenhoven . In her back in 1886 built Testament bequeathed "the Ackergut monastery Füssenich the Archbishop of Cologne chair for the purpose to build a boarding school for girls in it."

With the death of Magdalena Hambloch on January 12, 1892, the ownership rights are therefore transferred to the Archbishop's Chair in Cologne; and Philipp Cardinal Krementz , the archbishop of Cologne at the time, determined in the sense of the testator: "In accordance with this requirement, an agricultural educational institution for girls will be founded on the imaginary monastery property under the name of St. Nikolaus-Stift zu Kloster Füssenich."

Since then the former monastery and later arable land has been a school; and even if the subject orientation, school type and pedagogical principles have changed and renewed again and again, the community of the St. Nikolaus Stift knows that it is connected to this tradition. In particular, it gratefully honors the generous donor Magdalena Hambloch, who ultimately owes today's school its existence. Her portrait and death note, which are kept in the so-called bishop's room of the Nikolausstift, also contribute to this commemoration .

Today the St. Nikolaus Stift is a vocational college for nannies and social assistants as well as a technical school for social pedagogy and curative care with the possibility of obtaining the technical college entrance qualification. The technical college entrance qualification can be obtained in a two-year course of study and the Abitur in a three-year course with professional knowledge in social and health care. In the dual training, the general higher education entrance qualification is offered with the professional qualification "state-approved educator".

In addition to the vocational college, the St. Nikolaus Stift maintained a boarding school and dormitory with a cafeteria in the former monastery complex , which was closed on July 31, 2019.

St. Nikolaus Stift, aerial photo (2016)

societies

The following associations exist in Füssenich:

  • Fördergemeinschaft Füssenich-Geich e. V. - Association for the promotion of young people and cultivating relationships with Braud et St. Louis (France)
  • KG Füssenicher Grieläächer 1948 e. V. - Carnival Association
  • St. Donatus Schützenbruderschaft 1910 e. V. - Rifle Brotherhood
  • TB-SV Füssenich-Geich 1895 e. V. - sports club
  • Wanderfreunde Neffeltal Füssenich-Geich 1980 e. V. - Hiking Association

Others

The bus line 218 of the Düren district railway passes through the town on its way from Zülpich to Embken .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population figures as of December 31, 2018
  2. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 97 .
  3. ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X .
  4. ^ Hanns G. Noppeney: 300 years of St. Nikolaus Füssenich - facts, memories, reflections - lecture. September 11, 2011, accessed January 21, 2016 .
  5. ↑ http://epaper.supersonntag.de/2.0/#/read/ssv-m1/20190721?page=10&article=57590319