Garzweiler

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Garzweiler
City of Juchen
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 28 "  N , 6 ° 30 ′ 22"  E
Height : approx. 70 m
Area : 40 ha
Residents : 1154  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Population density : 2,885 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 41363
Area code : 02165
map
Location of the former and relocated Garzweiler in the Rhenish lignite mining district
Location of the former villages Garzweiler and Priesterath on a map by Christian Sgrothen from 1575
Garzweiler and Jüchen, Tranchot map from 1807
Postcard Alt-Garzweiler
New St. Pankratius

Garzweiler is a district of the city of Jüchen in the Rhine district of Neuss in North Rhine-Westphalia . The formerly located further south had to give way to the Garzweiler open-cast lignite mine of the same name and was relocated to today's new location from 1984 to 1989.

Geographical location

Garzweiler is located northeast of Juchen and on the east by Herbe Rath, on the north by Kelzenberg and to the west Priesterath .

The original village ( 51 ° 4 ′  N , 6 ° 30 ′  E ) was east of Otzenrath and Pesch , which meanwhile also had to give way to opencast mining.

history

Old Garzweiler

The place name was mentioned in 1283 as Gartzwilre (= Gerhardswilere ) in a document from the Mariengraden Abbey in Cologne , which stipulates that the tithe from Garzweiler should go directly to the provost of the abbey.

In 1794 French troops occupied the place, and in 1796 the Mairie Garzweiler was established in the canton of Elsen in the Arrondissement de Cologne in the Département de la Roer . In 1815 it became the Prussian mayor's office in Garzweiler.

The synagogue of the Jewish villagers was burned down on the night of the pogroms in 1938 .

On January 1, 1972, the village of Jackerath (4.80 km² with 763 inhabitants) was reclassified into the municipality of Titz . On January 1, 1975 Garzweiler was incorporated into Jüchen with the remaining 17.10 km².

Population development
year Residents
1933 2562
June 6, 1961 1970
May 27, 1970 1791
June 30, 1974 1841

Relocation and demolition of Alt-Garzweiler

In 1980, the north of Jüchen was set as the relocation site for the village. In 1987 the elementary school closed. In the following year the last rifle festival was celebrated and the old people's home closed. The abandoned houses and yards were immediately leveled. The neo-Gothic parish church of St. Pankratius, built from 1858 to 1860 by the future Viennese builder Friedrich von Schmidt , was also demolished in 1989. The parish has taken over the organ , windows and baptismal font in the new parish church. The cemetery, which also had the graves of Jewish Garzweilers, was also "relocated". In 1989 the resettlement was completed. The abandoned and destroyed village was used by individual artists and photographers for their work. In 1997 , the photographer Andreas Magdanz created a documentary photo series. 60 percent of the total population of Alt-Garzweiler moved to (New) Garzweiler.

New Garzweiler

In 2000 the district of Neu-Garzweiler received a special prize for monument preservation as part of the competition Our village has a future . The addition "New" was deleted and the new district is only called Garzweiler.

Club life

  • The Rifle Brotherhood St. Sebastianus Brotherhood Garzweiler around 1450, which according to a document from 1550 already existed "since time immemorial".
  • The sports club VfL Viktoria Jüchen / Garzweiler 1908/1909 e. V., which was created on July 1, 1994 through the merger of the two clubs FC Viktoria 09 Jüchen and VfL Eintracht 08 Garzweiler. The club operates football, athletics and, as a popular sport, gymnastics, gymnastics and aerobics.

literature

  • Hans Georg Kirchhoff: History of the former community Garzweiler . In: History of the community of Jüchen (=  series of publications of the Neuss district ). tape 1 . Neusser Druckerei und Verlag, Neuss 1989 (219 pages).
  • Andreas Magdanz : Garzweiler . Self-published, 1997 (photo book, newspaper print in a cardboard slipcase).
  • Ingrid Bachér : The pit . 1st edition. Dittrich, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-937717-70-8 (140 pages).
  • Jürgen Kiltz: The communities Bedburdyck, Garzweiler and Kelzenberg with their villages on postcards (=  history of the community Jüchen . Volume 15 ). Hundt Druck, Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-00-053029-6 (294 pages).

Web links

Commons : Garzweiler  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Garzweiler / Priesterath / Stolzenberg / Jüchen-Süd ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). RWE website on resettlement. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  2. ^ Anne Dorothee von den Brincken: The St. Mariengraden Abbey in Cologne, messages from the city ​​archives , issue 57. Cologne 1969 (the document itself is in Volume I, p. 360 under: Collections Farragines Gelenii , inventory 1039)
  3. ↑ Peter Saatz: The story of Otzenrath and Spenrath , Jüchen 2008. P. 141
  4. ↑ a b c Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 295 .
  5. ↑ with Jackerath
  6. ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 48 .
  7. ^ Organ of the Church of St. Pankratius ( Memento from April 25, 2001 in the Internet Archive )