Grevenberg

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Grevenberg
City of Würselen
Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 34 ″  N , 6 ° 7 ′ 41 ″  E
Height : approx. 190 m

Grevenberg is a district of Würselen in the Aachen city region .

history

Since the 19th century Grevenberg belonged to the municipality Würselen in the district of Aachen . In the census of 1885, Grevenberg was the third largest district of the municipality of Würselen with 800 inhabitants behind the center of Würselen and Morsbach . In 1924, the municipality of Würselen was awarded the Rhenish Town Code. The Würselen district of Grevenberg housed the main post office of the city of Würselen until the new building on Lindenplatz. This was formerly on the corner of Kaiserstraße / Elchenrather Straße (today: Posthotel restaurant).

Street directory

In addition to Grevenberger Straße, the district Grevenberg also includes Lehnstraße, Kaiserstraße (odd side between house numbers 85 and 147), Bahnhofstraße between Kaiserstraße and Aachener Straße, Maarstraße, Schweilbacher Straße to the confluence of Maarstraße, Eibenstraße, Weißdornstraße, Gracht, Morsbacher Straße to the confluence of Teutstrasse, Elchenrather Strasse to the confluence of Solvaystrasse, the site of the former Solvay works (better known today as the Recker site).

Origin of the name of the district

Ecclesiastical and secular class names are often used compositional elements for place names: bishops, priests, provosts - emperors, princes, dukes and knights appear mainly as identifying words. The name Graf with its variants Gräf (e), Greve, Grebe can also be identified in this type of place name.

The initial meaning is still recognizable in Grebe, Greve "Dorfrichter, Dorfvorstand, Schultheiß" in Hessian and other German-speaking areas. The Aachen area, where Griev and Greve are old for "guild leaders, guild masters", has developed in particular . The official title from the Holzgreve frost management system is also known here. These forms cannot be traced back to Old High German gravo like Graf , but come from the subsidiary form Old High German gravio (Central German grebe , Central Low German greve ).

The Würselener toponym Grevenberg shows this part of the name Greve (n) - as a defining word . It is not possible to understand whether there was a former aristocratic property here, whether a guild master or a forest manager gave the name. In any case, the place in the former Würselener quarter got its name as the name for the "Greven Berg".

Document mentions

  • 1491 Gravenberg
  • 1569 Greuvenberg (frieze map)
  • 1640 Grevenbergh (Hatzefeld Treasure 140r)
  • 1777 Grevenberg (Copzo map)
  • 1805/07 Grevenberg ( Tranchot / v. Müffling card )
  • 1863 Grevenberg (district map Aachen)

Others

There used to be a boys' game in Grevenberg too . However, this took place for the last time in 1954. At that time it was even the inner city royal game. King of the St. Sebastianusschützen 1624 Würselen was Josef Göttgens at the time. The last king of the St. Sebastianus Schützen-Gesellschaft 1624 eV who shot for the Grevenberg Boys' Game was Josef Sulski in 1963. The last May King in Grevenberg was Robert Bock.

In Grevenberg the approximate crossing point of the railway line with the federal highway 57 was at Grevenberg station.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The administrative district of Aachen presented topographically and statistically. (Digitized version) Aachen government, 1852, p. 21 , accessed on December 15, 2014 .
  2. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland, community parts of the community Würselen with census data 1885 , Berlin: Verlag des Königlichen Statistischen Bureaus, 1888, page 215
  3. ↑ City of Würselen: Historical data ( memento of the original from December 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wuerselen.de
  4. ↑ (Source: http://www.sebastianusschuetzen1624wuerselen.de/index.php/traditionsschuetzen/koenige-1950-2000 ).