Geyen

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Geyen
City of Pulheim
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 55 ″  N , 6 ° 47 ′ 12 ″  E
Residents : 2522  (March 31, 2019)
Incorporation : January 1, 1964
Incorporated into: Brauweiler
Postal code : 50259
Area code : 02238
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Location of Geyen in Pulheim

Geyen is a district of the city of Pulheim in the Rhein-Erft district in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia .

location

Geyen is located on the old road from Pulheim in the north via Sinthern in the southwest to Brauweiler. In the northwest is the village of Manstedten. The Pulheimer Bach flows through Geyen .

history

A villa rustica was found northeast of Geyen in 1978 . Geyen was first mentioned as villa Gegina in 962. The patronage of the church in Geyen was given to the Cologne cathedral chapter in 1229 . In the same year the cathedral chapter had acquired larger property in Geyen. Politically, however, Geyen and Pulheim belonged to the Bergheim office in the Duchy of Jülich , but the surrounding area belonged to Kurköln . In 1794 French troops occupied the place. Geyen as part of the canton of Weiden was administered in the French period by the Arrondissement de Cologne in the Département de la Roer . In 1815 Geyen came to the Kingdom of Prussia and in 1816 to the district of Cologne in the administrative district of Cologne . Until 1956 Geyen belonged to the Pulheim office (but not Sinthern). On January 1, 1964, Geyen came to the Brauweiler community . Since January 1, 1975, it has belonged to the city of Pulheim together with Brauweiler.

Although Geyen has overgrown the neighboring towns, especially on Sinthern, the population has nevertheless managed to preserve a historically determined independence. Geyen has 2,448 inhabitants, the nearby Sinthern around 3,330. (As of December 31, 2014)

traffic

Today the place is bypassed on a bypass road. The next train station on the Cologne – Mönchengladbach line is in Pulheim . The federal highway 59 also runs there . The Federal Highway 57 and A 1 with the Köln-Nord run a few 100 meters east / of Pulheim / Cologne's city limits.

Attractions

Junker Castle
  • The Junkerburg Geyen , a courtyard on the northern edge of the town, was first mentioned in 1337. The names of some Junker families are alive in Geyener street names. The von Judde family of mayors and councilors from Cologne owned the castle in 1434. It was originally surrounded on all sides by moats of the Pulheimer Bach, today only crossed with a stone bridge in front of the representative front between the medieval and the baroque round tower. After a fire in 1664, the complex was rebuilt in a baroque style with field fire bricks . This has essentially been preserved to the present day.
  • The local Catholic parish church of St. Cornelius from 1893 was built by the Cologne church builder Theodor Roß in neo-Gothic style instead of a medieval church.
  • Guardian Angel Chapel
    Guardian Angel Chapel
Saint Cornelius

schools

Community elementary school Sinthern / Geyen. The school building was built in 1972 by the then still independent municipality of Brauweiler. The school is on Sintherner, the gym on Geyener soil.

societies

  • SC Germania 1932 Geyen eV
  • St. Cornelius Schützenbruderschaft Geyen 1927 e. V.
  • Dorfgemeinschaft Geyen eV since 1965
  • Altar boy Sinthern / Geyen eV
  • TTC "BR" Geyen

literature

  • Pulheim amounts on history and local history: Municipality of Pulheim (Hg): The places and their monuments , Pulheim 1979

Web links

Commons : Geyen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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. 301 .
  2. ↑ Henriette Meynen: Moated castles, castles and country seats in the Erftkreis , published by the Erftkreis, Cologne 1980, p. 42.