Gleuel
Gleuel is a district of Hürth in the Rhein-Erft district with 6263 inhabitants, right on the Cologne city limits. (As of December 31, 2016).
history
On June 4, 898, the king of the Lotharingian part, Zwentibold , donated a Salhof in Gleuel (Gloulo) with 12 other farms and the church, as well as goods in Selstena (Sielsdorf) to the Essen monastery . Taking today's dimensions into account, the donation totaled around 1,000 acres .
Later, like the other country estates and castles of the glory Gleuel, it belonged to the cathedral monastery of Cologne , which gave these lands to fiefdom . According to the wisdom of 1567, the boundaries were as follows: From the boundaries of the Horbell estate to the first house in Bachem , then to the Alt-Berrenrath area , then along the Burbacher Bach (Schafsbach) and along Bonnstrasse to the black cross (spider road between Stotzheim and Gleuel) and back to the border of the "lowest" Beller Hof. In addition to the castle courtyard, the Schererhof and Hof Zieskoven were also jury estates , which all belonged to the lord of the castle Heinrich von Gleuel, the fourth estate in Gleuel, Grippekoven, belonged to the Sion monastery, two courtyards in Sielsdorf, two estates and the monastery courtyard on this side of the Burbach brook, Burg Sound barrier and yard sound barrier. Finally the second courtyard of Ziskoven, the Melatengut, and the two mill courtyards. The border to Horbell, Bachem and Alstädten is marked on the Tranchot map. Under French rule, the church property was nationalized and then sold. In the French era , Gleuel, with 605 inhabitants including the hamlets, was part of the canton of Brühl as the largest special community of the Mairie / mayor's office Hürth .
To sights: (→ List of architectural monuments in Gleuel )
Gleuel Castle
The oldest known owners of Gleuel Castle took their name from the place. In 1260 we find Gerard von Gluele, who fought against Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden . The last noble owner, Balthasar Kaspar von Cölln, gave the castle property back to the cathedral chapter as part of an inheritance contract (1726).
During the secularization (1802) the castle was expropriated by the French like all church property . The later Prussian mayor of the Hürth mayor, Heinrich Felten (1817 to 1845), bought the castle. The next owner was then the manor owner Josef Berk (1851 to 1926) in 1907. He bequeathed part of his land to the Catholic community, which then founded the Berk Foundation for senior citizens' aid in Gleuel in 1910 , which still exists today. Today it mainly supports the Caritas Altenzentrum St. Sebastianus-Stift near the castle. It was last taken over by the architect U. Ahlert in the mid-1970s, who runs a planning office there.
The current main building of the castle was built in 1632 by Johann von Cölln. His coat of arms can be found on the ceiling of the former knight's hall . The gatehouse and the outbuildings were converted into a retirement home or newly built and expanded in the 1980s. For many years the current owner has made the castle available for cultural events in the summer. The castle park, which is traversed by the Gleueler Bach that feeds the castle moat, is freely accessible.
Correns Mill
The Correns Mill, Ernst-Reuter-Str. 91, whose mill wheel was once also driven by the Gleueler Bach, which rises near Berrenrath (An den 7 Jumps) and flows through Gleuel and Sielsdorf to the southern edge canal , is mentioned for the first time in 1773. The mill was shut down in 1954. Of the formerly numerous mills on the Villebächen in Hürth , the facility formerly known as Keips or Mittlere Mühle is the only reasonably well-preserved thanks to extensive investments made by the current owner. The water wheel is missing.
Fairytale fountain
In the center of the village, on Jakob-Eßer-Platz, the fairy tale fountain by the Aachen artist Bonifatius Stirnberg has been bubbling since October 2011 . The well replaced a dilapidated well that had to give way to construction work. Heinz Görgens, the mayor at the time, had the idea for a citizens' fountain association back in 1999. However, it would be a long time before plans and money came together. Encouraged by pupils from the Brothers Grimm School and children from the kindergarten who drew drafts, the fairy tale characters were designed to be movable. Finally, many local craftsmen gave the necessary help with the installation of the fountain technology on a voluntary basis and free of charge. The commitment of the association, which also includes the mayor of the city, Walther Boecker , does not end there. There is still a need for design. In addition, one is considering expanding the association into a fountain and beautification association.
Miners' settlement
(→ Brown coal in Hürth with reference to the old Gotteshülfe mine)
The mining settlement around Bergmann- and Barbara-Straße, built in the 1920s between Gleuel and Hofgut Zieskoven for around 200 families, is worthy of monument for the structural development of the then young industrial community in the Rhenish lignite mining area . The most simply and uniformly built row houses with a small garden and a shed for the miner's cow , the rabbits or the pigeons behind the house only have a ceiling height of 2.20 meters and an eaves gable roof with a small dormer window that begins directly above the ground floor. The houses remained the property of the mining operations and living was tied to the employment contract. Today, after the decline of lignite mining in Hürth, the houses have for the most part been sold to the tenants, who have expanded and modernized them according to modern criteria. The sheds adjoining the houses at right angles have long been converted into living rooms or bathrooms and the top floors are often generously expanded. The settlement is exemplary for many similarly structured mining settlements on the slope or on the edge of the foothills . The intended protection of the settlement or individual still original houses would therefore have supra-local significance.
Churches
Saint Dionysius
Saint Dionysius of Paris and Saint Sebastian are venerated as patron saints in the Saint Dionysius Church in Gleuel.
The year the parish was founded is not known. In particular, the pastor Dionysius, however, allows it to be regarded as one of the first churches in the community. This saint was already highly venerated in Frankish times .
The fact that the church is mentioned in the document of 989 in connection with the Salhof proves that it is a foundation of the Salhof owner, i.e. an own church . The liber valoris mentions the parish church around 1274, as does a document from 1297. Aldenrath with the castle, part of the village of Burbach, the Marienborn monastery in Burbach - donated by the widow of Hartmann von Geyr in the year - belonged to the parish 1233 - until its dissolution in 1802 and Berrenrath, which became an independent parish in 1850. The knights' seats in Horbell and Bell, then Sielsdorf , Ursfeld and Zieskoven were also parish into the Gleuel church . In the Middle Ages, Gleuel was itself a place of pilgrimage until the French troops marched in. The pilgrimage of the residents to Walberberg to worship St. Walburga is also of great importance for the place .
The first Gleuel church was probably replaced at the beginning of the 12th century by a new building in Romanesque style, which, however, underwent some changes in the course of the following centuries. Under the church there was a burial place for the deceased pastors, for the owners of the castles and manors as well as for the deceased abbesses of the Burbach monastery. The current three - nave neo - Gothic church with a 67 m high tower, built according to plans by the government architect Julius Busch from Neuss (December 4, 1838 to October 24, 1912), was consecrated in 1893 by Cardinal Philipp Krementz . Destroyed in the war, services were held in the parish hall. A Klais organ from 1962 with 23 stops and two manuals is waiting for a general overhaul. During a thorough renovation of the church from 1987 to 1993, vaults were secured or rebuilt and the altar area moved into the crossing.
Saint Barbara
On May 2nd and 3rd, 1959, Auxiliary Bishop Wilhelm Cleven consecrated the new Saint Barbara Church in the miners' settlement, which was consecrated to the patron saint of miners, Saint Barbara . The church was profaned on May 29, 2005 and demolished in November 2017.
Martin Luther Church
Like the Catholic Church of St. Barbara, the Protestant Martin Luther Church was also planned in the mid-1950s due to the large influx of Protestants. The construction planning was carried out by the Protestant community of Frechen, to which Gleuel belonged until 1957. The foundation stone was laid on March 10, 1956, the Frechen architect Friedel Steeg directed the construction, which was inaugurated on Sunday, March 10, 1957 by the President of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland Heinrich Held and the newly founded Evangelical Congregation Hürth, under the then only one Pastor of the community, Karl Keller, Hürth-Knapsack , was handed over. The church was funded by industry donations, government grants, and a donation from American Christians.
traffic
Gleuel has its own exit on Federal Motorway 1 , which is connected to Gleuel by Landstrasse 103. On the other side of Gleuel, the L 183 leads past the foot of the foothills. The district is served by the bus routes 711 and 717 (the latter only being used for school transport) of the Hürth city traffic as well as the regional buses 910 (Hürth Mitte - Frechen ), 960 ( Bergheim - Hürth-Hermülheim ) and 978 ( Hürth-Berrenrath - Cologne Hauptbahnhof ), all used by the Rhein-Erft-Verkehrsgesellschaft .
Schools / sport / leisure
- Brothers Grimm School, community elementary school, Schnellermaarstrasse 19
- Lebenshilfe NRW vocational college for social assistants and curative educators.
- Sport: Gleueler-Knapsacker SC
- Otto-Maigler-See , with outdoor pool, rowing and windsurfing sport, circular hiking trail (southwest of Gleuel)
- St. Sebastianus Schützengesellschaft 1911 eV Shooting Sport Air rifle, air pistol, small caliber rifle. Opposite the festival hall
Mayor
The mayor is Hannelore Pantke-Reinhardt (SPD).
Personalities
- Ferdinand von Lüninck (born February 15, 1755 in Gleuel, † March 18, 1825 in Corvey), Prince-Bishop of Corvey and Bishop of Münster.
- Arnold Kürten (born January 18, 1842 in Heppendorf; † August 21, 1912 in Cologne), grew up in Gleuel, doctor and medical adviser in the Hürth mayor.
- Willy Schmitter (born February 8, 1884 in Mülheim (today in Cologne), † September 18, 1905 in Leipzig), German racing cyclist. The RC Schmitter cycling club based in Gleuel was named after him.
- Arnulf Reichert, Holocaust survivor, grew up in Gleuel, and together with his wife bequeathed around 22 million dollars to the Cologne Zoo. In his honor, the South America House under renovation in Cologne Zoo will be renamed the Arnulf Reichert House.
Web links
Individual evidence
For literature see under Hürth
- ↑ Digitization of the image in the photo archive of older original documents of the Philipps University of Marburg
- ^ Hürther Heimat 12 + 13/1966 Print of the certificate from the photo archive in Marburg
- ↑ Translation of the certificate at archive.nrw.de
- ↑ after: NS-Lehrerbund Hürth-Efferen (ed.): Heimatbuch der Gemeinde Hürth , Cologne 1934, p. 65 ff
- ↑ Rhein-Erft-Rundschau of March 8, 2016, p. 35
- ↑ Historical data based on Clemens Klug: Hürth, how it was, how it became, Cologne no year (1962) p. 58 f.
- ↑ Margret Klose: The fountain is finally bubbling , in Kölner Rundschau, Rhein-Erft, online from October 3, 2011 (accessed April 26, 2017)
- ^ According to Kölner Stadtanzeiger, Rhein-Erft edition, July 13, 2007, page 35
- ↑ to the parish website ( memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ According to the city of Hürth website, as of June 2014
Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ' N , 6 ° 50' E
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