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Herrig is a district of Erftstadt in the Rhein-Erft district in North Rhine-Westphalia . The second smallest district has 537 inhabitants (as of March 31, 2018). Local mayor is Heinz Mörs (as of April 2018).

location

Herrig is located on the western edge of the urban area. In the east borders Lechenich to the place in the south of Erp , the west and north, the Nörvenicher districts Pingsheim and Wissersheim that were until 1975 even neighborhoods of Erftstadt.

history

Prehistory and Roman times

A circular moat (for urn burial) and ceramic finds from the La Tène period (500 BC) indicate a prehistoric settlement. Several Roman ruins and two stone sarcophagi in the field markings occupy Roman settlements.

Middle Ages and Modern Times

In the early Middle Ages , a settlement was built around a Fronhof with a court chapel, which was named in 1155 in a manuscript from the Benedictine monastery Deutz as "Harge" and the location of the Lechenich parish . In 1293 the Archbishop of Cologne Siegfried von Westerburg had extensive possessions in Herrig, which included the archbishop's court and eight other courts. The owners of the farms paid the archbishop their fixed taxes both in cash and in kind . Herrig's development stagnated over the following centuries . The place, which was heavily burdened by billeting during the siege of Lechenich in 1642, was set on fire when the besiegers withdrew. When the tax assessment was made in 1664, the place consisted of nine houses, seven of which were owned by farmers . The residents, who belonged to the Lechenich citizenry, were, besides the tenants of the two large farms, mostly small farmers who worked their own property of two to three acres of arable land and additionally leased land. In addition to lease and land lease, Herrig's residents had to pay sovereign taxes to the archbishop and elector . Another burden was the big tithe to be paid to the St. Aposteln Abbey in Cologne .

Noble and spiritual property

Of the courtyards mentioned at the end of the 13th century, two were still preserved in the 15th century and continued to exist in the following centuries.

Courtyard of the cathedral chapter

The court of the archbishopric , which was leased in 1597 by coadjutor Ferdinand , later Cologne's archbishop and elector, came into the possession of the cathedral chapter through an exchange of goods in 1605 . The "Domhof" with around 200 acres of arable land retained its previous privileges after the exchange, such as the right to receive 12 wagons of wood from the Ville and two wagons of hay from the electoral Benden (meadows) as well as the exemption from billeting and ordinary loads.

Courtyard of the St. Pantaleon Monastery

In addition to the archbishop's court, there was another court in Herrig, with which the noble Wolff von Rheindorf family was enfeoffed . In 1463, with the consent of the archbishop, he was sold as a liege lord to the abbot and convent of the Benedictine monastery of St. Pantaleon in Cologne.

Land ownership of the castle chapel

Land of the chapel of Lechenich Castle was also in Herrig. Since 1556 the Franciscan observants from Brühl received the income from the 53 acres of land leased from the lord's winery for the service in the castle chapel . After 1620 the Franciscans received around 200 guilders or 65 Reichstaler annually from the winery instead of the previous natural produce . This payment went to the Franciscans in Lechenich , who at the same time performed the worship service.

Representative of the community

The few inhabitants of Meller were assessed together with Herrig for tax purposes up to the end of the 18th century and jointly represented by the Herrig mayor in the meetings of the Lechenich city council.

19th and 20th centuries

In 1802 the clerical property was nationalized as a result of secularization and gradually sold in the following years. The former tenant Päffgen bought the cathedral chapter's courtyard in 1812, while the St. Pantaleon courtyard was sold to the former tenant Rolshoven as early as 1810 under the name Schöddershof.

In 1801 Herrig had 17 houses with a total of 112 inhabitants, of which 29 were children under the age of 12. Two of the heads of household were tenants of large estates, five others referred to themselves as farmers , seven as day laborers , one was a blacksmith , one carter and one line weaver . When the cantons and mairies were created by the French administration in 1798/1800, Herrig and Meller belonged to the canton of Lechenich and the Mairie Lechenich. After 1815, the localities belonged to the mayor's office of Lechenich (referred to as an office since 1927) until the municipal administrative reform and the formation of the city of Erftstadt in 1969.

The residents of Herrig continued to do mostly agriculture. In addition to the two large farms, there were several medium-sized businesses. With the intensification of lignite mining at the end of the 19th century, former day laborers earned their living in the pits or briquette factories of the Rhenish lignite companies in the area.

The expansion of the Lechenich - Düren road via Herrig in 1856 brought the town an important improvement in regional transport links.

Herrig had had his own school since 1828, which was expanded in 1861/62 and 1954 with additions. During the school reform in 1968, the Herriger School was dissolved and the students were assigned to the Lechenich schools.

St. Clement's Church

Since 1463, the Herrig parish had a house of worship that was dedicated to St. Clemens . From 1892 to 1893 a new church was built by the Cologne government architect Heinrich Krings , which retained the patronage of the old church. It was badly damaged several times during World War II . Due to this war damage, today's St. Clemens Church was built in 1952 and was fundamentally restored in 1996/1997.

Today's townscape

Herrig remained a relatively small village and has around 500 inhabitants with the new houses built outside of the town center. The prestigious residential building of the Conzenhof, the former Pantaleonshof, is protected by a wall, a little off the road in a large garden. The townscape, however, is dominated by the cathedral courtyard and the church, as well as some large brick buildings. A municipal kindergarten is housed in the former school building. Agriculture only plays a minor role. Only two farmers based in Herrig have remained. The owners of the Domhof run the business from their remote residence. The remaining residents are commuters between their place of residence and their mostly work place in Cologne. The street leading through Herrig is very busy. The RVK bus line 990 also runs over it from Herrig Peter-Mörs-Platz via Lechenich to Brühl-Mitte and connects Herrig to the regional transport network. Due to the lack of shopping opportunities on site, the residents are strongly oriented towards the shops of the nearby Lechenich.

The local cultural life is modest due to the small population. It is primarily funded by the Schützenbruderschaft, which organizes several events a year, some in connection with the very active municipal kindergarten.

The old, long-deserted football field has recently become the home of the football club "Erftstadt Bravehearts".

literature

  • Cornelius Bormann : The village Herrig. Yearbook of the city of Erftstadt. Erftstadt 2000.
  • Bernhard Schreiber: Archaeological finds and monuments of the Erftstadt area. Erftstadt 1999.
  • Karl and Hanna Stommel: Sources on the history of the city of Erftstadt. Vol. 1-5. Erftstadt 1990–1998.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.erftstadt.de/web/infos-zu-erftstadt/die-stadt-in-zahlen
  2. ↑ https://www.erftstadt.de/web/rathaus-in-erftstadt/rat-und-ausschuesse/ortsbuergermeister
  3. ^ Bernhard Schreiber: Archaeological finds and monuments of the Erftstadt area. Erftstadt 1999. Pages 141–142
  4. ↑ HAStK inventory of Deutz Abbey RH2, copy of the lost Codex thiodorici
  5. ↑ HAStK Best. Auswärtiges 170b, published in: K. and H. Stommel, Sources for the history of the city of Erftstadt, Volume I No. 178
  6. ^ Walram / Sarburg: The heroic defense of the castle and town of Lechenich 1642. Cologne 1643
  7. ↑ HSTAD inventory Electorate of Cologne II in 1117, published in: Stommel, sources Volume IV No. 2,570th
  8. ↑ HAStK inventory Domstift Urkunde 3/1978, published in: Stommel, Quellen Volume III No. 1559
  9. ↑ HSTAD inventory Kurköln II 1904 and Kurköln II 1117, published in: Stommel, Quellen Volume III 2063 and No. 2570
  10. ↑ HSTAD Kurköln II A 3937, published in: Stommel, Quellen Volume IV No. 2159
  11. ↑ HSTAD inventory Electorate of Cologne II in 1947, published in: Stommel, sources Volume IV No. 2,140th
  12. ↑ HSTAD Electorate of Cologne IV 675 and the Electorate of Cologne XIII 664a, published in: Stommel, sources Volume V No. 2,656th
  13. ↑ HSTAD Kurköln II 1257, published in: Stommel, Quellen Volume II No. 1094
  14. ↑ HAStK inventory St. Pantaleon deed 3/339, published in: Stommel, Quellen Volume II No. 1175
  15. ↑ Fritz Wünsisch 500-year-Franciscan monastery in Brühl. Bruehl 1991
  16. ^ Parish archive St. Kilian Lechenich Part I File 5 Volume 1
  17. ↑ HSTAD Electorate of Cologne IV 3482 (Kellnereirechnungen) and the Electorate of Cologne IV in 1822, published in: Stommel, sources Volume IV No. 2364 and No. 2,659th.
  18. ↑ Archive Schloss Gracht File 53
  19. ↑ Schieder (Ed.), Secularization and Mediatization in the Four Rhenish Departments, Canton Lechenich, pp. 477–478
  20. ↑ K. Stommel, the French population lists from Erftstadt 1798–1801, pages 256–261
  21. ↑ Stadtarchiv Erftstadt Lechenich 2013 (new signature A 03 1095), F. Bartsch and H. Stommel, Lechenich from Roman times to today, page 46
  22. ↑ HAStK , St. Pantaleon inventory, certificate no. 3/399, published in Stommel Quellen II no. 1175
  23. ^ Parish archive St. Kilian Lechenich, Part I, Department 1, Volume 6
  24. ↑ F. Gaspers, Herrig, a house of God introduces itself. In: "informed". St. Kilian Parish Letter No. 3 2003, p. 12.

Coordinates: 50 ° 48 '  N , 6 ° 44'  E