Friesdorf (Bonn)

Friesdorf Federal city of Bonn Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 52 "  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 42"  E
Height :	62 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	8632  (December 31, 2018)
Incorporation :	July 1, 1904
Postal code :	53175
Area code :	0228
Location of the Friesdorf district in the Bad Godesberg district of Bonn

Friesdorf is a district of the federal city of Bonn on the northern edge of the Bad Godesberg district . To the north Friesdorf is bounded by the undeveloped route for a no longer possible extension of the A 562 , to the east by the B 9 , to the south the district ends approx. 150 meters behind the Hochkreuzallee, to the west on the Rheinhöhenweg.

history

There was already a villa in Friesdorf in Roman times, the remains of which were discovered in 1954. The discovery of an altar stone of the Roman emperor Gordian III. dates from the 3rd century AD. In addition, a Frankish burial ground from the 9th century and possible remains of the Celts' settlements were found in 1969 and 2010.

A chapel is mentioned in a document in 1274, and a little later the first parish church.

See also : Klufterhof

See also : Annaberg Castle (Friesdorf)

Origin of the place name

The origin of the place name "Friesdorf" is controversial. It is found in the Carolingian era in the form of "Fritigestorp" (Fritigiso village). In 1174 it is called "Fritisdorf". In the Liber valoris around 1200 "Vryetsdorp", "Frederisdorp". Heinrich Merck, pastor in Friesdorf from 1836 to 1853, after whom a street in Friesdorf is named today, reported in his writings: "The name of the village of Friesdorf most likely comes from a former Roman war colonel Frisius."

The Godesberg local researcher and professor of Egyptology at the University of Bonn , Alfred Wiedemann , on the other hand, traces the name Friesdorf back to a Franconian personal name in his history of Godesberg and its surroundings (1920) , referring to documents from the cathedral chapter of Bonn between 819 and 842 in which the place name "Fritigiso villa" appears. Like Rinnigiso, after which Rüngsdorf got its name, Fritigiso is a Franconian personal name.

Wilhelm Levison zu Friesdorf quotes in Die Bonner Urkunden of the early Middle Ages : “In pago Bonnensis in villa quae dicitur Fritigesdorp” (documents from the years 722/23, 794/95 and 873).

A certificate from the Bonn Cassiusstift, to which the tithe in Friesdorf was entitled, from the years 819 to 841 reads: “ Ego in Dei nomine Alvard (et) c. dono ad ecclesiam sive ad reliquias santi Remidii, quae est constructa in villa Basilica et ubi praeesse Hathabaldus primae sedis Agrippinensium civatis episcopus, vineam in pago Bonnensis in marca, cognominatur Fristorp. “( In the name of God I, Alvard, give the church that is built in the villa Basilica and in which the Cologne Bishop Hathabaldus is head, as well as the relics of St. Remigius a vineyard in the Friesdorf district ).

Modern times

In 1670 Friesdorf comprised 69 houses. Around 1900 Friesdorf was a poor place with an underdeveloped infrastructure between Bonn and Godesberg. In the course of the growth of both cities, Friesdorf was to be incorporated into one of the two , which they initially resisted because of the associated costs. On July 1, 1904, Friesdorf was finally incorporated into Bad Godesberg with an area of ​​510  hectares and in 1969 through the incorporation of Bad Godesberg into the district of Bonn. The district Friesdorf within the boundaries of the former municipality still exists today.

The baroque church building with a Romanesque tower was replaced at the end of the 19th century by a neo-Gothic church, which was built between 1886 and 1891 by the Bonn architects “ Becker & Böhm”. The solemn consecration took place on July 20, 1891 by Auxiliary Bishop Dr. Anton Fischer, who later became cardinal and archbishop of Cologne. This church was destroyed in an air raid in 1944, rebuilt and expanded in 1949. The independent parish of St. Servatius was headed from 1981 to 2010 by Indian Fathers of the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate .

In 1880, the first cooperative bank in the Bonn district was founded in Friesdorf.

In 1949/50, the first and only joint housing project (101 residential units) of the Allied High Commission to accommodate their employees came into being in Friesdorf . Today around 8,300 people live in Friesdorf. The proportion of children and young people is above average. More than 65% of the population is younger than 60 years. The town center has numerous shops and service providers.

Population development

year	Residents
1816	601
1828	703
1843	819
1885	1368

Public facilities

• an outdoor pool , called "das Friesi", and on the street "Am Weckhasen" a large playground with a municipal playhouse and an educator
• two all-day primary schools (OGS), two kindergartens and two day-care centers
• an old people's meeting place with lunch, this is also used as a neighborhood center
• the Servatiushalle as a multi-purpose hall
• a large square in the town center (Klufterplatz) with a fountain and outdoor catering (ice cream parlor)

Monuments in the district

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in the Bonn district of Friesdorf

Tower house

The tower house in Friesdorf

The tower house dates from the 12th century. It is one of the oldest residential buildings in the Rhineland and its walls in the basalt foundation are up to two meters thick. At first it was probably the aristocratic seat of the Knights of Friesdorf, who were first mentioned in documents in 1139 and last in 1328. The tower house was formerly called the tower courtyard because farm buildings belonged to the house. The old church in Friesdorf stood there until 1888 and the cemetery was next to it. In the 14th century, the tower house came into the ownership of the Siegburg Benedictine Abbey. The manager was one of the so-called four men who supervised the Kottenforst. The Siegburg Abbey granted the tower courtyard as a fief. The fiefdom was in great demand because the Ritterhof had a seat in the electoral parliament in Cologne. At the end of 1944 the tower house was badly damaged by an aerial mine and rebuilt as a residential building.

Friesdorf Park

In 1917 Max Hermann Loebner (1869–1947) founded his horticultural research institute here . The botanists sifted through assortments and bred new crops by selecting and crossing commercial plants. In 1931 the “gardening school” was added; also called "Horticultural Winter School". The last major redesign of the school garden took place in 1967, and in 1979 it was incorporated into the exhibition concept of the Federal Horticultural Show. The special stock of plants from foreign habitats was intended as a counterpoint to the Rhine meadow landscape.

After the teaching and research institute Friesdorf had moved to Cologne-Auweiler in 1986, the garden became increasingly overgrown. There are even reports of looting. In 1994, the landscape architects Raderschall , Möhrer and Peters presented the "Parkpflegewerk Friesdorf". On this basis, the garden space could be restored with a focus on the planting. Originally, the central axis was oriented towards the entrance building. Today the park is entered from Heinemannstrasse, where the visitor is greeted by transparent trellis pavilions and information boards.

The biggest festival in Friesdorf

The parish fair or the Friesdorf fair

Every year in mid-May, the Friesdorf fair is celebrated. The origin of today's fair is the parish fair , in Friesdorf on May 13th, the feast of St. Servatius. As early as 1378, in the Liber valoris, the register of church property, the chapel of St. Servatius zu Erucht (near the Klufterhof) mentioned. In 1789, after the dilapidated Klufterkapelle was demolished, the Archbishop of Cologne, Max Franz, moved the pilgrimage festival of St. Servatius in the parish church. On the patronage feast of St. Servatius, on May 13, 1886, the foundation stone was laid for the new church on Annaberger Strasse. The wooden statue of St. Servatius from the old parish church at the tower house was rediscovered in 1926 in the granary of the new parish church, it survived the war and is now shining again in its old splendor. The reliquary of St. Servatius is exhibited for worship at the parish festival in the parish church.

The connection between the parish fair and secular fair was broken after 1961. Until then, a solemn high mass was celebrated in the parish church on the Sunday of the fair with the participation of the Friesdorf associations. The parish clergy was picked up at the parsonage with brass music and led into the church. After the high mass, the pastor invited the board members of the associations involved to a small drink in the rectory . After the end of the high mass, around 11 a.m., the hustle and bustle of the fair opened on the “Waasem”, today's Klufterplatz. On the Monday morning of the fair, a St. Mass read for the living and deceased of the associations, then the parish clergy and association members moved into the ballroom with flags and brass music, where the musical morning pint was opened. The Zacheies, from Zacchaeus the customs officer (a stuffed straw man), was hung on a maypole (birch) in the club restaurants on Saturday evening and was solemnly burned on Wednesday after the fair. In the present a successful attempt has been made to resume the old traditions. (This was carried out very successfully from 1998 to 2009 by the local committee Friesdorf, the DPSG Bad Godesberg and the KG Kleffbotze Friesdorf and has been organized by the local committee Friesdorf 1929 eV and the Friesdorf associations since 2010).

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Friesdorf

Blazon : In red over a green three-mountain, a golden (yellow) house with a pointed roof and 6 windows (3: 2). On the right an attached golden (yellow) archway with a keystone. Above it, across the whole width, the Electoral Cologne Cross in black on a white background. Three green elevations Klufterberg, Annaberg and Kahlenberg, the Friesdorfer Mountains.

The tower house at Annaberger Straße 216 is one of the oldest permanent houses in the Rhineland. Possibly the first document from 1139. The tower house as the seat of the Friesdorf knights is supposed to remind of the possible namesake of the place. The large arch in the surrounding wall, through which one can access the property from Annaberger Straße, was built in 1777. The round arch is not closed and should be a symbol for the openness of the place. The Electoral Cologne Cross stands for the original affiliation of the place to the Electorate of Cologne. Yellow and red are the colors of Bad Godesberg. (Idea and execution by Wolfgang Kleile and Alfred Giersberg)

Personalities

• Eugen Pfeifer (1848–1915), sugar manufacturer ( Pfeifer & Langen ) and landowner (Gut Annaberg), chairman of the Association of German Refineries and shareholder in Gasmotoren-Fabrik Deutz AG and also on the supervisory board. He was married (1876) to Paula Maria Pfeifer, b. Schnitzler (1855-1949). The Pfeifer couple were charitable donors ( Paula-Maria-Stift ) in Friesdorf.
• Johannes B. Kerner , moderator, was born in Friesdorf and went to school
• Max Hermann Loebner (1869–1947), founder of the (former) horticultural teaching and research institute in Friesdorf from 1917
• Hans Riegel , founder of Haribo , was born in Friesdorf
• Hans Karl Rosenberg , pedagogue and professor, from 1935 on the parish council of the Friesdorf parish
• Joseph Roth (1896–1945), teacher and politician, from 1935 until his death teacher at the Friesdorfer elementary school, martyr of the Catholic Church
• Wilhelm Weinreis (1872–1906), architect born in Friesdorf
• Andreas Giersberg (1933–1985), local history researcher [1]

Elected city councilor of the constituency of Friesdorf

• Wilhelm Windeck 1946–1969
• Bernhard Wimmer 1969–1975
• Dr. Herbert Offner 1975–1984
• Inge Czuidaj 1984-2014
• Alfred Giersberg 2014-

Transport links

Friesdorf can be reached by bus routes 612 and 614, which go from Hindenburgplatz to Mehlem, bus route 631 and tram routes 63 and 16 (Max-Löbner-Straße stop).

See also

• List of architectural monuments in the Bonn district of Friesdorf

literature

• Alfred Wiedemann : History of Godesberg and its surroundings , second increased edition, Verlag des Amtes Godesberg, Bad Godesberg 1930, pp. 262–288.

Web links

Commons : Friesdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Commons : District Friesdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Local committee Friesdorf 1929 e. V.
• Home history

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population in Bonn by districts (according to the main statute) on December 31 , 2018 , Federal City of Bonn - Statistics Office, February 2019
2. ^ ^{A b} Contributions to the history of Friesdorf. Andreas Giersberg, 1984. Self-published
3. ^ ^{A b} Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine Province, Volume 2: The map of 1789. Bonn 1898, p. 58.
4. ↑ State Surveying Office North Rhine-Westphalia: Directory of the landmarks ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (As of 2005; PDF; 243 kB) 
5. ^ Parish of St. Servatius, Bad Godesberg-Friesdorf (ed.): Friesdorf and his churches. The local history from Roman times to the present. Bonn 1991, p. 56 ff .
6. ^ Albert Schulte: 100 Years Bad Godesberger Kreditbank, Troisdorf 1980
7. ^ Helmut Vogt : Guardians of the Bonn Republic: The Allied High Commissioners 1949–1955 , Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 3-506-70139-8 , pp. 95, 99.
8. ^ AA Mützell: New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state , Verlag KA Kümmel, Halle 1821, first volume, p. 397
9. ^ Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolaische Buchhandlung, Berlin and Stettin 1830, p. 263
10. ↑ Royal Government of Cologne: overview of the components u. Directory of all localities in the government district of Cologne. Cöln 1845, p. 7.
11. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII Provinz Rheinland, Verlag des Königlich Statistischen Bureaus (Ed.), 1888, pp. 134 u. 135 (PDF; 1.3 MB)
12. ↑ http://www.friesi.org/
13. ^ Max-Löbner-Straße in the Bonn street cadastre
14. ↑ JF.Carthaus address book of the Federal City of Bonn 2000/2001, p. IV-70.
15. ↑ ^{a b} Friesdorfer Park on http://www.bonn.de (source refers to the entire section)