Frohngau

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Frohngau
Municipality Nettersheim
Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 42 "  N , 6 ° 42 ′ 28"  E
Height : 501  (470-520)  m
Area : 6.53 km²
Residents : 460  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 70 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st July 1969
Postal code : 53947
Area code : 02440
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Location of Frohngau in Nettersheim

Frohngau in the Eifel is a district of the municipality of Nettersheim in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Euskirchen.

geography

Geographical location

Frohngau is located in the middle of the German-Belgian nature park Hohes Venn-Eifel and in the Eifel triangle of Ahr - Erft - Urft .

Distances

Cologne approx. 69 km
Aachen approx. 70 km
trier approx. 110 km
Bonn approx. 46 km

traffic

Frohngau is connected to the Eifel line Cologne – Trier via the Nettersheim train station (8 km). Bad Münstereifel Train Station is 11 km away. In the village there is a bus stop operated by the Rhein-Sieg transport association. The motorway junction Blankenheim / Tondorf of the BAB 1 is about 5 km south .

history

Finds from Roman times prove a settlement in the first centuries after Christ. The church tower was probably originally a Roman defense tower .

The first written mention of Frohngau under the name "villa gouuua" comes from the year 867. It can be found in a document from King Lothar II of January 20, 867, which gave the nobleman Otbert four farms, arable land and forests from his property in fiefdom in the Villa Gouva estate . Whether a chapel belonged to the estate cannot be proven. This document is in the now in the Stadtbibliothek Trier kept the Golden Book of Prüm Abbey . In 1492 Frohngau appears as "Gauwe" and in the 16th century the place is called "Froingauw".

King Zwentibold's document from 898 mentions several churches that belonged to the parish of Tondorf and which probably also included a chapel in Frohngau. In 1307 Frohngau with the chapel “St. Margareta ”mentioned in a document as a Luxembourg fief .

In 1400 the place was mentioned in the Bonn Annals Volume II, pages 127 and 177 with the name Frungau. In 1659, Count Salentin Ernst von Blankenheim arranged for the first school to be built right next to the church . The Vicar or Primissarius gave lessons. Participation in the class was voluntary.

The French Revolution led to the French occupation of the Rhineland in 1794 and brought about social upheavals. Administratively, Frohngau then belonged to the canton of Gemünd in the Arrondissement d'Aix-la-Chapelle (German Aachen ) of the Rur department .

After the Frohngau pastor's death in 1877, the parish was vacant until 1887 as a result of the culture war under Chancellor Bismarck .

Pastor Lösgen had to leave the Frohngau parish in 1941 because he had quarreled with the National Socialists. The Nazis imprisoned him for his conviction, which he openly expressed.

At the end of 1944 and beginning of 1945, Frohngau also suffered destruction as the front approached during World War II : Among other things, the parish church and the rectory were damaged by an air raid on October 2, 1944. Residential houses and farm buildings were also destroyed or hit during this time. American occupation troops reached Frohngau on March 7, 1945.

On July 1, 1969 Frohngau was incorporated into Nettersheim.

Parish church

Parish Church of St. Margareta Frohngau

Frohngau has a Catholic parish church that is consecrated to St. Margaret .

The steeple is the oldest surviving part of the church. Its architectural style can be assigned to the Romanesque period according to the church chronicle or to the late Gothic period according to an expert report by the preservation department. In the church is u. a. a marble font from the 16th century with the coat of arms of the Trier bishop Johann IV. Ludwig von Hagen (1492–1547). It originally comes from Blankenheim (Ahr) and was donated by him. The church nave, which had become too small and was only rebuilt in the 18th century, was demolished in 1923 and replaced by a new building in the form of a hall church according to plans by Theodor Schlebusch from Bonn.

The parish Frohngau- Buir has existed since 1804, after it was separated from the parish Tondorf.

Legends and customs

In the Frohngauer corridor "Die Eisengrube" there was a large rock that was called Zwergsley (dialect: "Quergsley"), but which later fell victim to a quarry. In this rock there were caves in which, according to legend, dwarfs (dialect: "Querje") should have lived.

There was also talk of an underground passage from the Zwergsley to Bouderather Church.

In Frohngau, the old carnival custom "Äezebär und Königin" (High German: "pea bear", also straw bear ) has been preserved. The boys choose an "Äezebär" from their ranks, the girls choose a queen.

societies

Village life is shaped by numerous associations:

  • Association of Frohngau e. V.
  • Friends of the Frohngau fire fighting group
  • Förderverein St. Margareta e. V.
  • Frohngauer Dorftreff Alte Schule e. V.
  • Bachelor club Frohngau
  • Country women local group Frohngau
  • Musikverein Frohngau e. V.
  • SV Erfttal 80 e. V.
  • Theater Association Frohngau e. V.

literature

  • Johann Friedrich Schannat and Georg Bärsch : Eiflia Illustrata. Bonn 1844.
  • Ernst Wackenroder : The art monuments of the Schleiden district (= Paul Clemen [Hrsg]: The art monuments of the Rhine Province , Volume 11, Section II). Verlag von L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1932, p. 137 ff.
  • Karl Guthausen: The settlement names of the Schleiden district. Bonn 1967.
  • Ursula Ibler, Ruth Plum, Imke Ristow: Archeology in Nettersheim . Eifel nature conservation center. Guide through the archaeological exhibition in the Eifel nature conservation center and presentation of the archaeological monuments. Publisher: Nettersheim community. 1998.
  • Hans Peter Schiffer: Churches and chapels in the parish of Nettersheim. History, design, equipment. Kall 2004, p. 47 ff.
  • Norbert Crump: 200 years Frohngau-Buir parish 1804-2004. Publisher: Catholic parish of St. Margareta Frohngau-Buir. Frohngau-Buir 2004.
  • Norbert Crump: Frohngau - history of an Eifel village - 1802 to 1975. Friends of the parish church St. Margareta Frohngau. Frohngau 2014.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Peter Schröder: Frohngau on the Internet
  2. ↑ Peter Schröder: Chronicle of the village Frohngau
  3. ^ Karl Guthausen: The settlement names of the Schleiden district. Bonn 1967, p. 38.
  4. ^ Heinrich Beyer : Document book for the history of the Middle Rhine territories, now the Prussian administrative districts of Coblenz and Trier. Edited from the sources by Heinrich Beyer. First volume: From the oldest times to the year 1169. Hölscher, Coblenz 1860, p. 113 .
  5. ↑ Peter Schröder: Chronicle of the village Frohngau 867 to 1799
  6. ^ Geschichtsverein Prümer Land eV (Hrsg.): The golden book of Prüm - Liber aureus Prumiensis. Vol I. Facsimile. Prüm 1997, ISBN 3-931478-02-5 .
  7. ^ Heinrich Beyer: Document book for the history of the Middle Rhine territories, now the Prussian administrative districts of Coblenz and Trier. Edited from the sources by Heinrich Beyer. First volume: From the oldest times up to the year 1169. Hölscher, Coblenz 1860, p. 211 .
  8. ^ A b Hans Peter Schiffer: Churches and chapels in the community of Nettersheim. Kall 2004, p. 48.
  9. ↑ Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes ) (query from August 27, 2014)
  10. ^ Norbert Crump: Frohngau - history of an Eifel village - 1802 to 1975. Friends of the parish church of St. Margareta Frohngau. P. 27 f.
  11. ^ Norbert Crump: Frohngau - history of an Eifel village - 1802 to 1975. Friends of the parish church of St. Margareta Frohngau. P. 93.
  12. ↑ Norbert Crump: 200 years Frohngau-Buir parish 1804-2004. 2004, p. 62.
  13. ↑ Norbert Crump: 200 years Frohngau-Buir parish 1804-2004. 2004. p. 18.
  14. ^ Norbert Crump: Frohngau - history of an Eifel village - 1802 to 1975. Friends of the parish church of St. Margareta Frohngau. P. 97 f.
  15. ^ Norbert Crump: Frohngau - history of an Eifel village - 1802 to 1975. Friends of the parish church of St. Margareta Frohngau. P. 98.
  16. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 101 .
  17. ↑ Peter Schröder: Description of the parish church to St. Martyr Margaret in Frohngau
  18. ^ Norbert Crump: Frohngau - history of an Eifel village - 1802 to 1975. Friends of the parish church of St. Margareta Frohngau. P. 8.
  19. ↑ Hans Peter Schiffer: Churches and chapels in the community of Nettersheim. 2004, p. 50 ff.
  20. ^ Norbert Crump: Frohngau - history of an Eifel village - 1802 to 1975. Friends of the parish church of St. Margareta Frohngau. 2004.
  21. ↑ a b Sophie Lange (Ed.): It's haunted here. Legends and old village stories from the eleven places in the municipality of Nettersheim. Collected and edited by Sophie Lange. Nettersheim 2000, p. 52 f.
  22. ^ Peter Schröder: Carnival custom in Frohngau
  23. ↑ cf. Norbert Crump: Frohngau - history of an Eifel village - 1802 to 1975. Friends of the parish church St. Margareta Frohngau. P. 74 f.