Bachem (Frechen)

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Bachem is a south-eastern district of Frechen in the Rhein-Erft district .

Bachem on the Map of Tranchot 1807/08

location

Bachem lies along the B 264 . The closest motorway junctions to the A1 are “Frechen” on the B 264 and “Gleuel” directly on the border with the Hürth district. The old site was south of the B 264 elongated by the river, the Bachemer stream that two sources at Ville Hang arose when Feldhof and in another run the Burgweiher Burg Bachem, House Bitz and Castle Hemmerich plus two mills dined before with him the Frechener Bach united.

history

The place name Bachem is derived from Bach-Heim . The place is mentioned for the first time in the Prümer Urbar , the property register of the Prüm Abbey from 893 . In the Middle Ages, Oberbachem with Bachem Castle and Unterbachem with Hemmerich belonged to different territories, namely the Duchy of Jülich and Kurköln . Bachem therefore also had two churches, each of which was near the castles. The Holy Spirit Church was built in 1960 in the area where the Marienkirche once belonged to Hemmerich. In 1794 the place was occupied by French revolutionary troops. In 1815, after the coalition wars , Bachem fell to the Kingdom of Prussia . Bachem formed its own municipality in the Cologne district, Cologne administrative district, which belonged to the Frechen mayor. On December 1, 1910, Bachem had 1702 inhabitants. In 1927 Bachem merged with the communities of Frechen and Buschbell. Bachem was shaped for a long time in the 20th century by the industry in the Rhenish lignite mining area. The Schallmauer mine and briquette factory , named after the Schallmauer moated castle on the border with the Hürth districts of Gleuel and Berrenrath , existed from 1901 to 1963. Today only a warehouse building in Schallmauerstraße , which houses a school, reminds of this past.

Residents

After the city center and Königsdorf, Bachem is the third largest district of Frechen with 5421 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2012).

Attractions

The Bitz House , Bachem Castle , the Hemmerich castle ruins (not freely accessible; only foundations still exist) in the private garden of the Neuhemmerich estate and the St. Mauritius Church are well worth seeing .

  • House Bitz

  • Bachem Castle

  • Hemmerich castle ruins around 1890

The old parsonage next to the new Heilig-Geist-Kirche, which was built in 1960 and consecrated in 1962, dates from 1738. The stoneware floor in the hallway of the house consists of vertical Frechen clay plates that were used during the firing of vessels to stack the items to be fired in the stoneware furnace are; therefore they are hard sintered . The same floor is located in the St. Giles Chapel in Frechen-Huegel .

The Church of St. Mauritius is the old Bachem parish church and was built as the castle chapel of the Barons von Geldern in 1721. Your tower dates from 1935.

War memorial 1914-18

  • Saint Mauritius

  • Rectory from 1738

  • Holy Spirit Church

The war memorial for the sons of the community who died in the First World War stands on Hubert Prott-Strasse . The monument is worth seeing insofar as Christ sits on the pedestal here. The war memorial was created according to a design by the architect Julius Gatzen together with Franz Albermann (1877–1959) ( seat of Christ).

education

There are two kindergartens and a primary school in Bachem, as well as the Albert Einstein School as a secondary school in the Rhein-Erft district . The Heiliggeist Kindergarten belongs to the Heiliggeist congregation and, like the Mauritius School, is Catholic. The other two kindergartens are the AWO Kindergarten Villa Kunterbunt and the day care center (after-school care center) Knöpfchenhaus . Bachem is also home to a vocational training center of the CJD .

Sports

The football club VfR Bachem 1932 eV rose to the state league in 2008 and has been playing in the district league again since 2010 . Affiliated to this club are the RFC Royal Flush Cheerleaders .

literature

  • Helmut Wirges: Bachem - On the trail of the history of a village. Rheinland-Verlag GmbH, Cologne 1991, ISBN 3-7927-1210-5 .
  • Bernhard Gondorf: The castles of the Eifel and their peripheral areas. A lexicon of the "permanent houses" . J. P. Bachem, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-7616-0723-7 , p. 79 f .

Web links

Commons : Bachem  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rhineland Nature Park , accessed on March 4, 2013


Coordinates: 50 ° 54 '  N , 6 ° 49'  E