Forest (Aachen)

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Forest
City of Aachen
Forest coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 6 ″  N , 6 ° 7 ′ 20 ″  E
Height : approx. 200 m
Residents : 12,731  (Dec. 31, 2003)
Incorporation : April 1, 1906
Postcodes : 52066, 52078, 52080
Area code : 0241
Former Forster town hall
Forst Hospital (1967)
Former Schönforst Castle
rk. Parish Church of St. Catherine

Forst ( listen ? / I ) is a district of Aachen in the Aachen-Mitte district . It lies between the districts of Aachen-Frankenberg and Rothe Erde . Audio file / audio sample

history

As independent community forestry in 1815 was from the former to the Duchy of Jülich belonging Office Schönforst forth. On the initiative of Mayor Philipp Veltman , Forst was incorporated into Aachen on April 1, 1906 as a second place after Burtscheid and has since formed one of the districts of Aachen . With the territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia through the Aachen law , Burtscheid was assigned to the Aachen-Mitte district in 1972 and divided into the statistical districts of Forst, Trierer Straße and Rothe Erde, the extreme south of the district became the statistical district of Oberforstbach in the Kornelimünster / Walheim district assigned.

Before the incorporation, Forst had 7,874 inhabitants and a community area of ​​1145.7 hectares and belonged to the district of Aachen . According to the VdK Forest Association , this district, including the new Driescher Hof district , which was built between 1960 and 1980 by the Forst-based construction company Grünzig GmbH , has around 25,000 inhabitants today.

description

The landmark of the village of Forst is the Forster linden , a mighty tree on the east side of the former village square, next to the former jury's house and the parish church. Also worth seeing in Forst is the Aachener Tierpark Euregiozoo and as a local recreation destination the Nellessenpark with the flowing Beverbach near Gut Schönthal, which passed into the possession of Baron Carl von Nellessen in 1860 , but has been freely accessible since 1980.

Forst Hospital

Despite the obligation of the enlarged city of Aachen as a partner in the company "Krankenhaus Forst" to ensure that the Forster Hospital is retained as a general hospital, the 185-bed primary care hospital with six medical departments was closed in the 1980s and the building in converted into a retirement home.

coat of arms

The community of Forst bore the coat of arms of the Lords of Schönforst , Reinhard von Schönau for the first time .

Lords of Schönforst

After Schönforst Castle came to the von Schönau family in the first half of the 14th century (the seat was the Schönau Castle north of Aachen in what is now the suburb of Richterich ), this noble family was also called the von Schönforst family . Schönforst Castle itself and the small area between Burtscheid and Kornelimünster were lost to the Duchy of Jülich as early as 1396, as was the area around Schönau due to armed conflict . In 1710, Elector Johann Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg , who was also Duke of Jülich-Berg , exchanged the Schönforst house with Baron Josef Clemens von Weichs for the Eller moated castle near Düsseldorf.

The most important family member was Reinhard I. von Schönforst . In 1353 he bought large parts of the Falkenburg inheritance from their heirs after they had expired. Reinhard von Schönforst sold a part ( Euskirchen and the Nothberger Castle in Eschweiler ) to the Duchy of Jülich. The descendants of Reinhard von Schönforst were able to hold onto the main part of the Falkenburg inheritance, the Monschau estate , until the von Schönforst family died out in 1433.

The history of the family has been examined in detail by way of example. Especially with regard to the connections of this family in the politics of all important territories in the Meuse area (especially duchies of Jülich, Geldern and Brabant - Limburg ) as well as to the Rhine ( Kurköln ).

The Lords of Drimborn

The Lords of Drimborn form another noble family that is closely associated with Forst. She is the namesake of the Drimborn community secondary school and the Aachen zoo in the Drimborner Wäldchen . The origins of those of Drimborn are apparently in the village of Dreiborn (today part of Schleiden, Eifel). The Eiflia illustrata by Johann Friedrich Schannat shows the connection between Drimborn, Trimborn and Dreiborn as early as 1829.

The coat of arms of those of Drimborn consists of three diagonally running roses in the escutcheon and above a helmet with a cap, at the top of which there is another rose. The village of Dreiborn in the Eifel still bears this coat of arms today. As a reference to the coat of arms, two streets in Forst now have the "three roses" in their name.

Buildings

→ See also: List of architectural monuments in Aachen-Forst

Sons and daughters of the Aachen-Forst district

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Law on the unification of the community of Forst with the city of Aachen of March 31, 1906 together with the contract (PDF file; 21 kB)
  2. ↑ Social Development Plan 2009 (PDF file; 3.71 MB)
  3. ↑ in § 11 of the Association Act
  4. ^ F. Mainz: Das alten Forst - Contributions to a history of the district Aachen-Forst , Verlag M. Olivier, Aachen, 1985, page 17 f., Library of the society Burtscheid for past and present .
  5. ↑ Schönau - Schönforst, a study on the history of the Rhenish-Maasland nobility in the late Middle Ages (PDF, 455 pages; 3.20 MB)
  6. ↑ Eiflia illustrata

Web links

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