Glesch

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Glesch
City of Bergheim
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 20 ″  N , 6 ° 35 ′ 31 ″  E
Height : 62 m above sea level NHN
Area : 5.67 km²
Residents : 2002  (June 30, 2019)
Population density : 353 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 50126
Area code : 02272

Glesch is a district of the city of Bergheim in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis / North Rhine-Westphalia . The place is located directly on the Erft and is home to around 2000 people. Until 1974 Glesch was an independent municipality in the Bergheim (Erft) district .

Glesch and Peringshof on the tranchot map from 1806

history

Glesch looks back on over a thousand years of history. The beginnings of the place are before the year 973, when the settlement "Glessike" is mentioned for the first time in a document of the Archbishop Gero of Cologne . There must have been settlements as early as the Frankish times. Finds prove this, similar to those in Niederaussem or Auenheim . Later the church and the Counts of Jülich took turns as landlords. The influence of the nobility and the church continued until the French era after Napoleon's invasion of the Rhineland .

With the discovery of lignite near Oberaußem and the emergence of industrialization, Glesch changed from an agricultural village to the home of industrial workers. Between the 1950s and 1990s, the largest open -cast lignite mine in the world at the time, Fortuna-Garsdorf , was in the immediate vicinity. The Jewish cemetery in Glesch (1969) and the Peringshof (1963) fell victim to the opencast mine.

On January 1, 1975, Glesch was incorporated into the district town of Bergheim.

Bürgewald

Glesch is one of the so-called Bürgewald communities that owned the rights to the Bürgewald . According to the legend, this is due to the holy Arnold von Arnoldsweiler , through the legendary "Ride around the Bürgewald". The main town of the Bürgewald communities is Arnoldsweiler . There the glasses had to offer a candle to St. Arnold on Whit Tuesday, later on Whit Monday. This wax interest was only canceled in the 19th century.

presence

The recultivation with the newly created Peringsmaar invites you to relax. The village has a kindergarten , a primary school named after Hermann Gmeiner and a sports facility. As in numerous other Rhenish places, the customs are upheld and cultivated. Numerous clubs enrich local life with their commitment. The catholic parish church St. Cosmas and Damian , which has the same patronage as the Essen collegiate church , is worth seeing . Local mayor and council member has been Volker Schäfer from the SPD since the local elections in 2004, as of 2010 . The CDU has two council members from Glesch: Hubert Justen and Wolf-Dieter König.

Tourist Attractions

traffic

Erftbahn stop in Glesch

Thanks to a bypass road, Glesch is now largely free of through traffic, but with its own Erftbahn stop it has a transport connection to the cities of Neuss / Düsseldorf and Cologne as well as to the nearby Bedburg and Bergheim, which was established in 1897 by the Bergheimer Kreisbahn .

Personalities

  • Gerhard Fieseler (1896–1987), aircraft designer, fighter pilot, aerobatic pilot and industrialist in the air armaments industry

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.bergheim.de/statistik.aspx
  2. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27th, 1970 to December 31st, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 300 .
  3. ↑ Document from 1360 to confirm the wax interest, by the Duke of Jülich.