Heimerzheim

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Heimerzheim
Swisttal municipality
Coat of arms of the former community Heimerzheim
Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 1 ″  N , 6 ° 54 ′ 49 ″  E
Height : 131  (126–162)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 16.94 km²
Residents : 6495  (Jan. 2, 2019)
Population density : 383 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st August 1969
Postal code : 53913
Area code : 02254
Heimerzheim (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Heimerzheim

Location of Heimerzheim in North Rhine-Westphalia

Heimerzheim [ ˈhaɪ̯ˑmətsaɪ̯m ] is the largest village in the municipality of Swisttal in the North Rhine-Westphalian Rhein-Sieg district . The mayor is Hermann Leuning ( SPD ). On January 2, 2019, Heimerzheim had 6,495 inhabitants.

geography

Heimerzheim lies roughly in the middle of the triangle between Bonn , Euskirchen and Brühl . The immediate neighboring villages are Dünstekoven to the south, Neukirchen , Müggenhausen and Straßfeld to the west and Metternich to the north . To the east follow the foothills villages about 8 km away .

The village is located on the western edge of the Ville on the northwestern edge of the Kottenforstes . Through the village flows in a largely artificially designed bed Swist . To the west of the Swist are very fertile soils of the Jülich-Zülpicher Börde , which are used intensively for agriculture. To the east, the landscape is mainly characterized by forest. The highest point is in the area of ​​the Roman aqueduct in the Kottenforst, the lowest at Kriegshoven Castle .

The swist jump is remarkable . It is a geological fault that runs along the slope through the site. The Swistsprung forms the border between two floes in the Lower Rhine Bay . Settlements take place along this fault, which are considerably accelerated by the lignite mining and the associated swamp measures in the Rhenish lignite district . The Swistsprung is the cause of numerous structural damage and non-buildable properties in Heimerzheim.

history

Heimerzheim was first mentioned in a document in 1074, his goods and lands belonged to the St. Kunibert monastery in Cologne . Among the possessions of the monastery, the properties at Heimerzheim were the most important, which increased its wealth. In the first half of the 15th century, the owners of six farms, together with a representative of the monastery, exercised judicial control over the “Herrlichkeit Heimerzheim”. These six courtyards are symbolically represented on the Heimerzheim coat of arms. Among the courtyards, the Fronhof was outstanding as the court hearings took place in it. From the middle of the 14th century, the Fronhofsgericht had its own judicial district. The farm existed until the early 1980s, when the stables and utility buildings were demolished. The Fronhof pharmacy is now located in the former main building.

In the Middle Ages, the settlements of Hessekoven in the Kottenforst and Uhlshoven southwest of the village were located in the area of ​​Heimerzheim. Nothing of either can be recognized today except for the field names and the Uhlshover Graben.

From the middle of the 19th century until the Second World War there was a Jewish religious community in the village. The former Judengasse - a narrow street between Kirchstrasse and Hauptstrasse (today Kölner Strasse) - was built upon after the war. Part of the Jewish cemetery has been preserved and is located on Dornbuschweg. Since the end of the 19th century, Franciscan nuns in Olpe have operated a maternity ward and a hospital ( Altes Kloster Heimerzheim ) on Kölner Strasse .

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Liblar – Rech railway line was supposed to pass Heimerzheim. A train station was planned for Heimerzheim in the area of ​​today's motorway access; So today's Weststrasse was called Bahnhofstrasse until 1969. The buildings had advanced to the foundations of the station building and a pedestrian underpass. Rails were also about to Ollheim before work was stopped in 1924.

During the Second World War, there were two war airports nearby, one between Straßfeld and Ollheim , the other near Dünstekoven . Due to this fact and the strategically favorable location on the edge of the foothills or the Ville, Heimerzheim came more and more into the sights of Allied fighter pilots towards the end of the war. To prevent the Allies from marching into Bonn , the Heimerzheim Fortress was surrounded by approx. 40 km of trenches and numerous artillery pieces were set up. On March 3, 1945, planes dropped bomb carpets on Heimerzheim and destroyed large parts of the town. The attack killed 180 people, including villagers, refugees and soldiers. In 1959, a memorial cemetery was established to commemorate the citizens who died in the air raid and the soldiers who died in this area.

After the Second World War until the 1980s, the village grew rapidly from around 1500 to over 6000 inhabitants. On August 1, 1969, the Heimerzheim community, to which the village of Dünstekoven also belonged, lost its independence in the course of the local reorganization. Heimerzheim and Dünstekoven were incorporated into the newly created municipality of Swisttal.

In 1961 and 1984 there were severe floods in the Swist. Large parts of the town center were flooded, some meters high.

On August 11, 1986, the left-wing terrorist group Kämpfende Einheit Crespa Cepa Gallende carried out an explosive attack on an antenna mast in the barracks of the Federal Border Guard in Heimerzheim. The perpetrators were caught by local police shortly afterwards and later convicted.

Culture and sights

Mansion of Heimerzheim Castle

The place has two moated castles, in the north Burg Kriegshoven and in the south Heimerzheim Castle ; both are family owned.

The Iron Man is a mysterious iron stele that was erected around 1625 in the Kottenforst between Heimerzheim and Alfter, presumably as a boundary sign.

The Roman Eifel aqueduct has formed the border between Heimerzheim and the neighboring villages of Alfter , Gielsdorf and Oedekoven on the other side of the Kottenforest since the Middle Ages . Their excavation is still clearly visible in the forest today and can be viewed along the Roman Canal hiking trail .

Heimerzheim has a lively club life; In addition to the carnival and Rose Monday procession, a village highlight is the shooting festival, which takes place every year on the first weekend in July.

Churches

Catholic Church Sankt Kunibert

The parish of Sankt Kunibert Heimerzheim belongs to the Parish Association of Swisttal, which is part of the Archdiocese of Cologne. The parish church was first mentioned in documents from 1074. In 1846 the old parish church was demolished due to its poor condition and rebuilt. The arched building was designed by the Cologne cathedral builder Ernst Friedrich Zwirner , built from 1846/47 and consecrated in 1853. His trademark is the three-storey tower on the west side, which is still visible far outside the village. During an air raid towards the end of the Second World War, the parish church was badly damaged in March 1945. It was only rebuilt years later.

St. Kunibert Heimerzheim

Evangelical Maria Magdalena Church

The evangelical parish Heimerzheim belongs to the parish of Bad Godesberg in the evangelical church in the Rhineland. The former community center on Sebastianusweg was expanded considerably in the early 1990s and a church tower was built. In the course of this it was given the name Maria Magdalena Church.

Free Church

The Evangelical Free Church of Heimerzheim is located on Höhenring 191.

schools

Swistbach School

The Swistbach School used to be called the Heimerzheim Community Elementary School. In the 19th century the primary school was housed in a building right next to the Catholic Church. At the end of the 19th century the new school building was built on the other side of the Swist. This was expanded considerably in the 1950s and 1970s, and a cafeteria was to be built in 2013.

Georg von Boeselager School

The secondary school in Heimerzheim was named after Georg Freiherr von Boeselager . It has its own secondary school branch and is also attended by students from many surrounding places. The school grounds consist of a main building from 1974 with an auditorium, as well as two sports halls and a teaching swimming pool. A cafeteria was added in 2010. A separate building was erected because it could not be built as an extension because of the "Swistsprung".

Economy and Institutions

In the south of Heimerzheim there has been an extensive area of ​​the Federal Police since 1975 . The Federal Police Training Center Swisttal and parts of the Federal Police's IKTZ are located on the premises . Since an expansion in 1982, the Academy for the Protection of the Constitution has also been located there. It serves as a training center for the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution , the Military Counter-Intelligence Service and the state authorities for the Protection of the Constitution .

The Defense Science Institute for Materials and Operating Materials (WIWeB), formerly the Federal Institute for Chemical-Technical Investigations (BICT), maintained a test and research site at the Großer Cent in the forest east of the village until 2009 . The site was abandoned, the buildings and facilities fell into disrepair. It is currently used sporadically by the Federal Police for training purposes.

Heimerzheim has an industrial area in the northeast of the town, several discount grocery stores and retail stores.

Transport links

Heimerzheim has its own junction (Swisttal-Heimerzheim) on the A 61 and is easily accessible by car.

There are bus connections to Bonn (line 845), Rheinbach and Bornheim (line 817), Euskirchen (line 806) and Weilerswist (line 986) as part of the local public transport in the Rhein-Sieg transport association .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Personalities who have worked in Heimerzheim

Web links

Commons : Heimerzheim  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Palaeoseismic mining near Merzenich and Metternich ( Memento from March 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
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