Hemmerich

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Hemmerich, aerial photo (2016)
View of the valley from the slope of the Ville near Hemmerich

Hemmerich with the castle of the same name is a district of the city of Bornheim (Rhineland) northwest of Bonn . With 1561 inhabitants it is one of the smaller districts.

Geographical location

Hemmerich is located above Kardorf on the slope of the Ville between Rösberg and Waldorf as one of the places in the foothills . The main town of Bornheim lies to the east at the foot of the Ville in the plain of the Cologne Bay . Hemmerich has a share in the Rhineland Nature Park .

history

Hemmerich Castle , 19th century lithograph by Alexander Duncker

The place is mentioned for the first time in a document from the year 1163. However, the country is an old settlement area. A Roman consecration stone for Mercurius from the end of the 2nd / beginning of the 3rd century AD, which came to light in 1985 during deep plowing, names Nigrinia Titula as the founder . The patronage of St. Aegidius , the church connected to Hemmerich Castle , was most widespread in the 11th century. The Romanesque choir from the 12th century has been preserved from the medieval church (today the chapel at the cemetery). The new church was built in 1897.

Hemmerich Castle, located in the center of town, protected the old military route from Bonn to Aachen, which runs at the height of the foothills and connected the castles and manorial farms in Alfter , Waldorf , Hemmerich and Rösberg, from there it crossed the Ville and then from Liblar on the western slope along the ville. In 1210 a knight Albero von Hemberg is mentioned. From 1620 to 1756 Castle Hemmerich was, together with the rule of Bachem and Biessen and the associated office of Erbkämmerers of the Archbishopric of Cologne to the family of Empire Barons Raitz von Frentz . In 1824 Karl Freiherr von Nordeck , who came from a Hessian noble family that last had an estate in the former Hessian St. Goar, moved into Hemmerich Castle. It was followed by his wife Louise Freiin von Bodelschwingh-Plettenberg , and later by his children Maria, Adelheid and Rudolf. The castle still belongs to the von Nordeck family, whose last member of the family also lives in the outbuildings of the castle. The complex was rebuilt after a fire in 1870, the gatehouse, which is worth seeing, was either spared or was rebuilt in the appropriate style (compare the pictures in the Commons). The castle survived both world wars without damage, but was set on fire in the post-war chaos of 1945 by marauding former prisoners of war and foreign workers. The mansion burned down to the ground and remained ruinous, but still imposing to this day. In addition to the gatehouse, the restored garden pavilion , a small cavalier's house, called the poet's house by the family , as an ancestor used to write poetry there, is also worth seeing .

  • Attractions

  • Hemmerich castle ruins

  • restored garden pavilion

  • Sankt Aegidius, view from the south-west

  • Saint Aegidius

literature

  • Horst Bursch: History from Hemmerich.
  • Local committee Hemmerich (editor): Our Hemmerich introduces itself.
  • Horst Bursch: Hemmerich in the foothills. The village through the ages. Bonn 1982.
  • Hermann Kelm: The history of the evangelical community Bornheim until 1951 . ( online [PDF; accessed on November 22, 2015] Pastor Hermann Kelm (1913–1993), pastor in Bornheim from 1947–1958, wrote the text for the 1951 commemorative publication).

Web links

Commons : Hemmerich  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ residents in the individual localities. Retrieved March 25, 2020 (population figures: August 2, 2019).

Coordinates: 50 ° 46 '  N , 6 ° 56'  E