Hermulheim

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Hermülheim is a district of Hürth in the Rhein-Erft district near Cologne . It has 16,017 inhabitants. (As of December 31, 2016). December 31, 2010 there were still 15,379 inhabitants. Together with the Hürth-Mitte building area, which was developed in 1965, it forms the center of the city of Hürth.

View of Hermülheim from the Theresienhöhe
Matronenstein from Hermülheim

history

Because of the favorable soil and water conditions at the exit of the Hürther Valley, it can be assumed that the Hermülheim district was already settled in pre-Christian times.

Only the Romans brought economic and cultural changes to the region. So finds evidence of an early settlement reaching up to the present day. A Roman - Franconian burial ground in the center of Hermülheim behind the AOK, on ​​the other side of Luxemburger Straße , which as the Roman road Trier-Cologne leads directly past the old settlement core, is evidence of the oldest settlements. In this grave field, on the corner of Kölnstrasse / Am alten Bahnhof (formerly Ladestrasse), seven matron stones were found in 1912 , which were probably used for stone boxes from urn graves, but because of their uniform consecration to the Audrineh matrons on a former, possibly in near the Eifel aqueduct on the edge of the lignite mines on the other side of Bonnstrasse indicate the matron sanctuary, after which the stones were recycled (today in the Roman-Germanic Museum, Cologne ). The various Roman aqueducts southwest of Hermülheim, which collected spring water from the streams of the northern foothills: Duffesbach (Hürther line), Burbacher and Gleueler line, which converged in the later castle park , whose bundling in a canal to Cologne and its later topping up by the Eifel water line were an aqueduct a technical masterpiece at the time. A Roman settlement will certainly have been located in the Hermülheim area. A villa rustica in the nearby Hürther Tälchen is clearly proven . On the Kummet (today on the Kumme) a small street is called Römerhof .

Hermülheim is first mentioned in a document in 943 (the abbot von Prüm left an estate in Molinen (mills) to the married couple Ramengarius and Adalgarda ). Other names over the years were Mulenheim , Richemülheim , Richzaemülheim and Rizemolheim . The name comes from a mill location at the exit of the Hürther Tälchen near a swamp area, the Faulbroich, on which there is now a car repair shop.

  • Hermülheim Burgpark, archway to the former castle of the Teutonic Order

  • Bridge over the former moat

  • Coat of arms stone of the order (around 1760), today at the rectory

  • Archway segment Luxemburger Strasse

  • former Deutschherrenmühle

  • Bas-relief , old town hall (Turkish Consulate General)

  • Saint Severin

  • Sankt Severin, gate

The last renaming to Her (ren) mülheim took place after 1256, when the Teutonic Knight Order had settled in the former castle of Hermülheim . Since that time the mill has also been called Herrenmühle , one of the 16 mills in the Hürth area ; a street still bears the name today. The center of Hermülheim at that time was on the Duffesbach between Herrenmühle and Burg, only slightly expanded in the triangle with Luxemburger Straße around the Scheteling . For Hermülheim, the reign of the Teutonic Order began for more than 500 years, which only ended with the arrival of the French revolutionary troops in autumn 1794. Under French rule , Hermülheim belonged to the Mairie (mayor's office) Hürth and with this to the canton of Brühl in the Arrondissement de Cologne .

industrialization

The development of Hermülheim in the period of industrialization cannot be separated from the development of industry, which was based on lignite in Hürth . Briquette factories stood on the edge of the foothills on the border to (Alt-) Hürth ( Theresia ) and to Kendenich ( Ribbertwerke ). Both also used the clay deposits under the brown coal. The first factories that supplied the lignite industry with machines and equipment also settled in Hermülheim. Hermülheim has been located in Hermülheim since 1851, when the local and mayor of Hürth, Rosellen, was allowed to settle in Hermülheim on Luxemburger Straße at his request, and the building of the mayor's office on Luxemburger Straße that followed in 1888 was the administrative seat of the mayor's office, which was founded in 1800 during the French era the large community of Hürth founded in 1930 (town since 1978). Before that, he moved with the mayor's residence. However, a real center was still missing for a long time. In 1831 Hermülheim had 488 residents of the mayor's offices, Hürth 881.

Special neighborhoods

All newer construction areas are connected to the district heating supply of the municipal utilities.

Older neighborhoods

A first expansion of the old core of Hermülheim took place in the 1950s beyond the train station with the flower settlement in the direction of Kalscheuren. Another building area was built with the Nibelungenviertel in the square between Luxemburgerstrasse, Krankenhausstrasse and Rosellstrasse.

Huerth center

The construction of the residential area Hürth-Mitte belonging to Hermülheim , which began in 1964/65 in accordance with a resolution of the municipal council in 1960, therefore aimed to establish a “town center” roughly in the geographical center of Hürth. The decision was certainly also favored by the then steadily increasing population. The area comprises a part between the Krankenhausstrasse and the castle grounds, which is built on with smaller mostly single-family houses, and an area built on with tiered high-rise buildings. This is made accessible by the Sudetenstrasse, which runs along the edge. A church center was also included in the planning and was also implemented in 1978. The Protestant Martin Luther King Church and the Catholic Church of St. Joseph replaced the churches of Dankeskirche and St. Josef , which had previously been demolished in Knapsack , and the Protestant community center on Kölnstrasse from the 1950s, which was finally demolished in 2012. On the other side of Sudetenstrasse are public and private sports facilities, a second grammar school (1974 the later so named Albert Schweitzer grammar school ). A comprehensive school (initially in the Dr.-Kürten-Förderschule building) and the De Bütt leisure, sauna and family pool (1977) with a large outdoor area follow, and finally two private psychiatric special clinics . In 1969 the foundation stone of the Federal Language Office was laid on Horbeller Straße, which has developed into one of Hürth's largest employers. Hürth experienced its first completion in mid-1985 with the construction of a new council and community center. The former town hall is now the consulate general of Turkey and, with its catchment area of ​​North Rhine-Westphalia, has considerable supra-local importance.

The Hürth Park shopping center (1st construction phase inaugurated in 1977) and Germany's first multiplex cinema center (1990) are also located there. Opposite is the H + Hotel Köln Hürth (formerly Ramada -Hotel Hürth-Cologne) (1993), which is the largest hotel in the Rhein-Erft district, and the central bus station (ZOB).

  • Theresienhöhe with "Hürth-Med" practice clinic

  • Hürth-Park shopping center

  • Street intersection Hürther Bogen

  • Hürther Bogen development

Theresienhöhe / Hürther Bogen

With the residential development on the south side of the "Theresienhöhe" with six and seven storeys and the completely redesigned adjoining street of the "Hürther Bogen" with four-storey apartment blocks on both sides, a new second west was built next to Horbeller Strasse north of Hürth-Mitte from 2009/10 -East axis from Hürth's center. The end points of the axis are not built on.

In the ridges

The 50,000 m² new development area “In den Höhnen” with around 100 mostly single-family houses is located on the border with Efferen. It connects to a similar quarter on the Efferen side. The special thing here is that rainwater infiltration has been created for the property.

Cherry blossom square and corner of Kölnstrasse

Seat of GWG Rhein-Erft GmbH, Kölnstrasse 16

The last new development area for the time being was the Kirschblüten-Carré between Luxemburger Strasse and the railway site from 2007 (purchase) on around 10,000 m² with over 90 apartments, which are also suitable as integrative apartments for disabled and old people. Two communal apartments are each designed for disabled young people and for ventilated people. A Protestant kindergarten is also integrated. In 2012, the state awarded the concept for the second time to ten projects of equal value and endowed with € 3,000 in the “State Prize for Architecture, Housing and Urban Development North Rhine-Westphalia”. The city declared that it no longer wanted to designate any new development areas for the future.

The residential and administrative building of the GWG Wohnungsgesellschaft on Kölnstrasse built in 2013/14 sets an urban accent with its architecture and size. The same applies to the multi-storey development at the southern exit of the town on both sides of Luxemburger Straße.

Churches

The formerly small town of Hermülheim had a small chapel next to the castle courtyard on the other side of the moat, which was also dedicated to Saint Severin . After the castle was acquired by the Teutonic Order, a small church was built in the area of ​​today's Severinusstrasse. It was the Knight and Bishop of 1264-1299 Kurland , Edmund von Werth consecrated . However, it was not always independent; between 1807 and 1833 it was temporarily associated with (Alt-) Hürth. With industrialization, a larger church was needed. The church was demolished in 1888/89. For a long time there were no Evangelicals in Hermülheim, and Jews essentially only in (Alt-) Hürth. Today's other denominations are listed in the article on the city.

Catholic community

→ Main article St. Severin (Hermülheim)

In 1886 a neo-Gothic building, which was planned by the cathedral master craftsman of the Archdiocese of Cologne , Franz Schmitz , was erected. This church, too, no longer met the requirements after the Second World War . In 1966 Karl Band added a large hall to it. The youngest church in Hermülheim, dedicated to Saint Joseph, was built in 1976 to replace the former Knapsack Church of St. Josef . After St. Severin was initially merged with St. Joseph in Hürth-Mitte and the now secular church of St. Ursula in Kalscheuren to form the parish of the Saints Severin, Joseph and Ursula, Hürth , the three former parishes now form together with St. Mary's Birth in Efferen the parish association Efferen / Hermülheim.

Evangelical community

Former community center Kölnstrasse

→ Main article on the history of the Martin Luther King Church

At the end of the 1950s, the Evangelical Community of Brühl built a community center at the intersection of Hans-Böckler-Strasse / Kölnstrasse with a kindergarten, sister station, church hall and parsonage, which was then taken over by the Hürth parish, which was reorganized on January 1, 1957. The church hall was planned to grow in view of the expected growth through residential areas in the direction of Kalscheuren. Since this was not realized, but the expansion took place in the new city center, a new church center was planned there, the Martin Luther King Church, which was inaugurated in 1979. The old community center was then only used very extensively until it was sold and demolished in October 2012. The kindergarten was also rebuilt nearby.

politics

Council members for Hermülheim and Kalscheuren are Margit Reisewitz, Heiko Twellmann, Joachim Tonn and Annette Seurer (all SPD), Georg Fabian, Dirk Breuer, Sebastian Horst and Hans-Josef Lang (all CDU), Gabriele Weisheit (Free Voters), Saleh Mati ( FDP) and Alexandra Osburg (non-attached). The mayor is Hans-Josef Lang (as of June 2014).

Sana-Klinik, on the right old building with cafeteria entrance, on the left visitor entrance (patient delivery on the back)
Turkish Consulate General

Central facilities, infrastructure

The central facilities in Hermülheim serve both the district and the entire city. They are therefore dealt with in detail there. In the middle of the Second World War in 1940, the young large community in Hermülheim afforded itself the first secondary school in the Cologne area, today's Realschule , a first central institution at that time (between Hermülheim and Efferen). Today there are two high schools, the Ernst-Mach-Gymnasium and the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium , both in the new center, as well as a comprehensive school in the direct vicinity of the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium. Other central facilities in Hermülheim are the city's hospital with the private Sana Clinic, which was built as a municipal hospital as early as the war years 1914/15 and was increased by 80 beds to 140 beds in 1951/53. In 2012/13 the new building from 1950 was extended and extensively renovated. Other regionally oriented specialist clinics are in the neighborhood. The medical care in Hürth today can be described as good to very good (see main article: Clinics in Hürth ). The administration of the general local health insurance for the Rhein-Erft district is located in the center of the village on Luxemburger Straße, as is the headquarters of the Lazarus relief organization . The book telephone booth on the corner of Luxemburger and Hans-Böckler-Strasse should be mentioned in particular. The constantly expanding Hürth Park shopping center (since 1977) serves the district and the whole city and, thanks to its good transport links, also the surrounding area through the wide range of free parking spaces. It is supplemented by a UCI cinema center with 14 halls and a medical center as well as a shop and service line with another clinic facility across from the Theresienhöhe. The Luxemburger Straße is traditionally used for shopping for daily needs and offers a number of restaurants.

traffic

In Hermülheim, Bundesstraße 265 , Luxemburger Straße , for which a Hermülheim bypass is being built, intersects with Landstraße 92 and L 183, which runs along the foothills as Bonnstraße. The parallel street to Luxemburger Straße, the Krankenhausstraße, is traffic-calmed with a top speed of 30 km / h, but as part of the north-south axis Alt-Hürth-Hermülheim-Efferen has to cope with a lot of inner-city traffic and additional target traffic towards Cologne. The district road 2n (K 2n) leads past Hermülheim to the west as a bypass road.

  • Lazarus relief organization, formerly KBE reception building (monument)

  • HGK route Hermülhein at the Hürther Bogen

  • Bus station at the Hürth-Hermülheim train station

  • Hürth-Hermülheim station, platform of line 18

The Hürth-Hermülheim station on Stadtbahn line 18, the former Vorgebirgsbahn and the former Black Railway , is, among other things, an important transition point to the city ​​bus within the city of Hürth and with bus routes from Cologne regional transport or the Rhein-Erft transport company to Brühl , Frechen and the district town Bergheim and the line to Erftstadt connected. The Hürth-Hermülheim train station belongs to the HGK and not the KVB, ultimately the Stadtwerke Köln, since both the HGK and the KVB are subsidiaries of the same. However, the KVB, SWB & SSB have to pay route fees to the HGK for their journeys on the former Vorgebirgsbahn. On the branching Kendenich / Hermülheim route to the Knapsack Chemical Park , only goods traffic is handled. However, a branch to the new city center has also been left open for passenger transport as a possibility that may be realized later. Local public transport is carried out by the Stadtverkehr Hürth (SVH) city ​​buses via the central bus station at the Hürth Park shopping center . Other lines connect with Cologne, Brühl, Frechen / Bergheim and Liblar / Lechenich. A collective call taxi system supplements this on Sundays and public holidays and in the times and areas in which there are no buses.

The two Deutsche Bahn (DB) routes, the Eifel route and the left Rhine route can be reached in neighboring Kalscheuren by city bus or car.

schools

Sports

Attractions

→ List of architectural monuments in Hermülheim

  • Roman aqueduct , outcrop at the Friedrich-Ebert-Realschule, Krankenhausstr. 91
  • Former small train station near the intersection of Luxemburger Strasse and Hans-Böckler-Strasse at the old station
  • Castle park of the former castle, also a collection point for the Roman aqueducts in Hürth

Gertrudenhof

The Getrudenhof is an Aussiedlerhof established in 1964 , north of the town center on the border with Stotzheim , with 130 hectares of cultivation area today. In 2004, the focus was on an adventure and school farm . In 2013 the farm was recognized by UNESCO as an "Official Project of the World Decade for Sustainable Education" for its work in nature and environmental education . 2015, the Court received as one of three winners of the first time from WWF advertised and partners Enjoys us! - Award against food waste.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population statistics - annually, City of Hürth, archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.huerth.de
  2. ↑ Description in inscription database ( Memento from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Since the matrons were usually named after places or rivers, Elmar Brohl ( Hermülheim und der Deutsche Orden , Hürth o. J. (1975), p. 12) suspects a reference to Hürth (Audri = Haudri = Hurth = Hürth)
  4. ↑ Discovered in 1952, Clemens Klug: Hürth - how it was, how it was , Steimel Verlag, Cologne undated (1962), pp. 28 and 32
  5. ↑ Manfred Faust: History of the City of Hürth , ed. from Heimat und Kulturverein Hürth, Cologne, JP Bachem Verlag, 2009, p. 65
  6. ↑ Clemens Klug: Hürth how it was, how it became, Cologne o. J. (1962), p. 159 (based on an overview of the territorial division of the Cologne administrative district at the end of 1831 , printed by Peter Schmitz)
  7. ↑ Manfred Faust: History of the City of Hürth , 2009, p. 198
  8. ↑ https://www.h-hotels.com/de/hplus/hotels/hplus-hotel-koeln-huerth
  9. ↑ In the Höhnen on the WestGkA website ( Memento from September 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Kirchblüten-Carré on the WSG website
  11. ↑ Clemens Klug: Hürth how it was, how it became, Cologne o. J. (1962), p. 80f.
  12. ↑ Parishes in the parish association
  13. ↑ Parish Association Efferen / Hermülheim
  14. ^ Exposure of the Roman water pipes to Cologne in Hürth-Hermülheim, Realschule (PDF; 5.2 MB) Klaus Grewe , Der Römerkanal-Wanderweg , ISBN 978-3921805169 , chapter 71, pages 168–169
  15. ↑ Delicious and informative fresh from the farm rp-online.de
  16. ↑ Premiere: First Enjoy Us! - Award presented by WWF

Literature / sources

  • Elmar Brohl : Hermülheim and the German Order , Hürth o. J. (1975).
  • On the Roman burial ground cf. Raymund Gottschalk: On the late Roman grave culture in the Cologne area. - Two burial areas in Hürth-Hermülheim. First part. Bonner Jahrbücher 207, 2007, pp. 211-298; ders .: The Roman cemetery of Hürth-Hermülheim in Hürther Heimat 74 (1995) pp. 1–17; ders .: New excavations in the Roman burial ground of H-Hhm , HH 86 (2007), pp. 5–22.

Web links

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Coordinates: 50 ° 53 '  N , 6 ° 53'  E