Frauweiler
Frauweiler was a district of the city of Bedburg in the area of the Fortuna-Garsdorf opencast mine . The place was relocated together with Garsdorf to Bedburg-Rath until 1965 .
history
Frauweiler is mentioned for the first time in 1117 in a church document under the name "Wylre". The widow of Count von Liedberg entered the Dünnwald monastery with her daughters and bequeathed her property between Bedburg and Auenheim to the church. Later the place appeared under the name Wilzau or Wilre-Au. The name "Frauweiler" finally appeared through the later monastery "
In 1404 it is mentioned that there are only seven houses and a chapel in the village. From a church perspective, Frauweiler belonged to the parish of Auenheim. The "secular" rulers were the Lords of Bedburg. In 1452 Gumprecht II von Neuenahr , Herr zu Garsdorf and Bedburg, called three sisters from the Order of St. Francis to himself and gave them the chapel in Frauweiler. The sisters turned the small farmers' chapel into a monastery, which, much to the displeasure of the pastor from Auenheim, quickly gained in importance.
Over the years the monastery grew. A boarding school for girls was set up and agriculture was carried out. During wars in the 17th century, the monastery fell apart. The Franciscan Sisters handed the monastery over to the Benedictine monks. The monastery was dissolved under Napoleon, and invalids and families from Alsace now moved in. The monastery later became a normal parish church, St. Luzia , until the Rheinbraun bought the church and demolished it.
Over the centuries Frauweiler was shaped by agriculture. However, this changed with mining. Around the mid-1950s, Frauweiler had become a place of residence for industrial workers. Until the excavators finally arrived at the end of the 1960s and Frauweiler and Garsdorf were relocated to Bedburg-Rath. The neighboring town of Wiedenfeld was incorporated into Bergheim .
literature
- Aegidius Müller: The Frauweiler Monastery near Bedburg. In: Annals of the historical association for the Lower Rhine, in particular the old archdiocese of Cologne 30 (1876), pp. 61–74 ( digitized at OpenLibrary)
Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 4.4 " N , 6 ° 37 ′ 12.4" E