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community Weilerswist
Coat of arms of the former municipality of Vernich
Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 19 ″  N , 6 ° 50 ′ 5 ″  E
Height : 120 m above sea level NHN
Area : 15.23 km²  ( Vernich village )
Residents : 2540  (2018)
Population density : 167 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st July 1969
Postal code : 53919
Area code : 02254
Großvernich (North Rhine-Westphalia)
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Location of Großvernich in North Rhine-Westphalia

Großvernich (also Groß-Vernich or Groß Vernich ) is a district of the municipality of Weilerswist in the district of Euskirchen , North Rhine-Westphalia , and together with Kleinvernich and Horchheim forms the village of Vernich, one of the six localities of Weilerswist with their own local mayors , which had a population of 3,346 in 2006 2011 had 3,361 inhabitants on an area of ​​around 15 km².

geography

location

The district is located south of Weilerswist on Landesstraße 194 between the Erft in the west and the route of the Eifel route in the east. District road 3 also runs through the town .

history

Traces of settlement from the Hall Stone Age

The large vessel was found in situ in one of a total of 67 storage pits. It was dated to the time 600-470 BC

Recent findings of archaeological research evidence for the age of the older pre-Roman Iron Age and Hallstatt period Hallstatt D = 600-475 v. BC, human settlement areas in the area around the village, the agricultural storage of which took place in large double-conical ceramic storage vessels . The secondary standing in silo-like pits about 1.60 m deep, hermetically sealed and durable.

The stocks stored in this way consisted primarily of grain seeds, but the research does not exclude the storage of other products such as vegetable oils or animal products (cured meat, etc.). Traces of the settlement areas of this time are in addition to the also evaluated everyday ceramics as well as bones of the animal husbandry at that time (cattle, pigs, sheep, goats and horses) the settlement area reached its highest density of findings in the middle of the Iron Age, which then broke off.

Origin of name

The name Vernich could go back to the Roman Varinius, who had a villa near today's cemetery in Großvernich. The rough outlines of the villa's earth wall can still be seen today. Varinius had served as a legionnaire and after his military service he settled near the road between Cologne and Trier (today L 194 and K 3).

In 1145 Vernich was first mentioned in a document from Emperor Konrad III , in which the freedom of a property in Vävernich in the county of Ahr was confirmed.

middle Ages

Vernich was a Jülich subordinate in the Tomburg office. Herrmann von Tomburg and his wife Adelheid von Saffenburg gave Vernich a fief to Margrave Wilhelm von Jülich in 1342.

17th century

In the course of the Dutch War , the commander of the French army in the region and the cathedral chapter of Cologne signed a contract on November 3, 1678, according to which the electoral state of Cologne paid the sum of 70,000 Reichsthalers in cash for a contribution of 130,000 rations of hay and straw and 2,500 cows should. When the cathedral chapter refused to ratify the treaty, a crowd of 500 French plundered as far as Metternich and Vernich, where they terrorized the population and forced ratification.

19th century

At the beginning of the 19th century, Groß-Vernich was part of the mayor's office in Weilerswist in the Lechenich district and had around 380 inhabitants. In the middle of the 19th century there were more than 550.

Second World War

In December 1944, an ammunition train exploded in the area between Rübenkämpchen and the black bridge, which was attacked by enemy planes.

Incorporation

On July 1, 1969, the municipality of Vernich was incorporated into Weilerswist.

Infrastructure

There is the Spatzennest kindergarten and the Kirchtal daycare center with three groups each. The municipality of Weilerswist is responsible for this.

Culture and monuments

church

Holy Cross Church

In the Liber valoris 1308, a St. Nicholas chapel was mentioned in the village, which was elevated to a parish church in 1658. At the end of the 17th century it was demolished and a new church was built on this site . Johann VIII. Hugo von Orsbeck donated the necessary funds . It was consecrated in 1732 on the title: "Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary". Today it is called the Holy Cross Church . The church owns one of the most important works of European art, a wooden Albertus Magnus crucifix from 1248.

Castle

Grossvernich castle tower ruins

The two-part moated castle Groß-Vernich was built around 1300. Only a ruined tower that is in danger of collapsing reminds of the late Gothic castle.

museum

In Groß-Vernich there is the handicraft and local history museum, which is maintained by the village beautification association. It is located in the old school in Groß-Vernich and is divided into areas of traditional handicrafts and daily village life including religious elements and agriculture.

Personalities

  • Johann Hugo von Orsbeck (1634–1711), born at Großvernich Castle, Elector and Archbishop of Trier, Bishop of Speyer
  • Pierre Littbarski , national soccer player, lived in Großvernich in the early 1980s.

Web links

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

literature

  • Thomas Otten, Jürgen Kunow, Michael M. Rind, Marcus Trier (Eds.), Archeology in NRW 2010-2015, Finds - Research - Methods in two volumes. Verlag Theiss, Darmstadt 2015. Museum edition SBN: 978-3-8062-3253-0

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ p. 58
  2. ↑ Statistical data of the community of Weilerswist - residents including secondary residences, status: 2006. Weilerswist, 2006, archived from the original on October 3, 2006 ; accessed on July 1, 2019 (original website no longer available).
  3. ↑ Statistical data of the community of Weilerswist - residents including secondary residences, status: 2011. Weilerswist, 2011, archived from the original on June 23, 2013 ; accessed on July 1, 2019 (original website no longer available).
  4. ^ Community of Weilerswist - Living in Weilerswist - General. (No longer available online.) In: www.weilerswist.de. Archived from the original on December 22, 2016 ; accessed on December 17, 2016 . 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.weilerswist.de
  5. ↑ mayor , weilerswist.de, accessed on June 28, 2019
  6. ↑ Archeology in NRW 2010-2015 - Finds - Research - Methods, Volume 1, p. 46 ff.
  7. ^ Johann Friedrich Schannat , Eiflia illustrata , first volume, second section, 1825, p. 943 .
  8. ^ Johann Friedrich Schannat , Eiflia illustrata , first volume, second section, 1825, p. 943 .
  9. ^ Johann Christian von Stramberg , Rheinischer Antiquarius, Middle Rhine. The III. Department 13th volume, 1867, p. 382 .
  10. ^ Johann Friedrich Schannat , Eiflia illustrata , first volume, second section, 1825, p. 943 .
  11. ^ Johann Christian von Stramberg , Rheinischer Antiquarius, Middle Rhine. The III. Department, Volume 13, 1867, p. 157 .
  12. ↑ H.-Dieter Arntz, End of War 1944/1945 in the old district of Euskirchen, 1995, p. 292.
  13. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 88 .