Historienweg Münstereifel around 1900

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Schultes Eck
History trail "Münstereifel around 1900"
City map of the circular route

History trail "Münstereifel around 1900" is a historical circular trail with 21 stations in Bad Münstereifel and was inaugurated in 2012.

It is located in the city center of Bad Münstereifel and shows visitors to the city the original view of the city at the turn of the century using large-format photo panels . The Historienweg was financed by local associations, the Bad Münstereifel Community Foundation, Sparkassen and the NRW Foundation, projected by the Zwentibolds Erben eV culture and history association and implemented with the support of the city administration.

prehistory

In 1893, six pairs of trains ran on the Münstereifel-Euskirchen railway, the Erftbrücke, which collapsed on August 20, was rebuilt and the printer and publisher Friedrich Schulte published the first edition of the Münstereifeler Zeitung . According to the chronicle of local history researcher Toni Hürten, a lot of extraordinary things will not happen this year in Münstereifel, a city that has experienced many ups and downs in its more than thousand-year history. Emerging from the founding of a monastery, Münstereifel has developed over time into a tranquil small town that missed out on modern urban development in the 19th century. At that time to the financial disadvantage of the city and the citizens, but today to their advantage, because the medieval city structure has hardly changed for a hundred years and offers visitors a tranquil ambience that is second to none.

Friedrich Schulte

The year 1893 is nevertheless not entirely meaningless, because for the first time a Münstereifel citizen, the printer Friedrich Schulte, is mentioned, who in the following years comments and accompanies the city's events with his newspaper and ensures that the events in Münstereifel with his Münstereifeler newspaper be handed down. In the course of the beginning tourist interest in Münstereifel, Friedrich Schulte began another activity for his publishing house, he began to systematically photograph the city and his personal surroundings, partly out of private but also out of economic interest, since he was also building up his newspaper publishing house to become a postcard publisher becomes. In the course of time, a wealth of photographs have been taken and with his collection of over 400 negatives and positives he leaves the city a remarkable legacy, in which the contemporary depiction of Münstereifel at the turn of the century is documented in unique images.

With the approval of Bad Münstereifeler Council, the administration and the monument protection Schulte was selected photographs from the collection of Frederick built a history-trail in 21 stations to send people on a journey into the past and give them an image of the city around 1900 to demonstrate. On the circular route, they can now get to know the historical conditions of the city at the turn of the century and compare it with the current situation. Ultimately, this history trail is also intended as a homage to Friedrich Schulte in recognition of his life's work as a photographer.

Collegiate church
Station 1, collegiate church

The tour

The historical circular route starts at the collegiate church. You then circle the city center counter-clockwise and finally arrive back at the starting point. But you can start at any point on the trail at any time. All stations are numbered and provided with brief text information. The picture panels convey the cityscape at the turn of the century at the respective location, so one can precisely identify and differentiate the structural changes at the present time. The trail takes about an hour and is easy to walk. The station at the top of the castle is a little more difficult to approach for wheelchair users, but this point can also be omitted.

A flyer with explanations can be found on the website of the History Trail.

The individual stations

station place description
1 Collegiate church In the 9th century a monastery church , around 1200 after the fire it was rebuilt as a Romanesque, three-aisled basilica , from then on the collegiate church of the collegiate monastery , 19th / 20th century. Century renovation and security work.
2 town hall Gothic, former drapery, built in the 14th and 16th centuries, auctioned for demolition in 1821 at the Hendrichs brewery, used as a warehouse and malthouse until 1904, repurchased by the city in 1904, town hall from 1930.
3 Heisterbacher Strasse Photo around 1925, half-timbered houses from the 17th / 18th centuries. Century, many Jewish citizens lived here (see Stolpersteine).
4th Heisterbach Gate Built in the 13th century, access to the city from the southwest, after a fire without roof construction until 1910.
5 Corner of Unnaustraße / Werkbrücke Entry of the Erft into the city wall area, between Werkbrücke and Heisterbacher Tor a house leaning against the city wall, saving a wall.
6th Turmstrasse Former slider tower with city wall used as a quarry for new buildings, the aim was to widen the alley.
7th Orchheim Gate Shortened by 1 floor in 1768, used as the first local museum in 1912, now leased as an apartment, building on the right belonging to the former tannery.
8th Orchheimer Strasse View of Orchheimer Tor, Windeckhaus on the left, in between originally Quirinus Hospital with Appolonia Chapel, tower with bell, clockwork and cross are now in Orchheimer Tor.
9 Fibergasse Left behind Erftbrücke the house of the ducal administrator, destroyed by bomb at Christmas 1944, on the right the warehouse of the Hendrichs brewery.
10 Market, "Schultes Eck" On the left Schulte bookstore, behind it Hendrichs brewery, stepped gable house and town hall, all half-timbered houses are plastered to simulate stone houses.
11 Michaelgymnasium With the Jesuit Church on the left in the picture, founded by Jesuits in 1625, with the largest monastery library in the Rhineland, from 1815 a royal Prussian, then a state, from 1974 municipal grammar school.
12 Johannisstrasse Mentioned in 1472 as “Sent Johans Gasse”, the 33-step staircase leads to the former Johanniskirche, on the left the birthplace of Dr. Friedrich-Josef Haass ("Saint Dr. of Moscow", 1780–1835).
13 Castle 13./14. Built in the 14th century by the Jülich counts together with the city wall, destroyed by the French in 1689, former seat of the local administration, high court and waiter (tax authority), from 1879 partial reconstruction (castle hall, castle tavern), 1984 sale of the city to private individuals, renovation of apartments and a restaurant.
14th Werther Street Plastered half-timbered houses, view of Entenmarkt on the right and castle in the background, until the construction of the bypass road in the 1960s, to the left of the Erft main thoroughfare (B51).
15th Duck market 17th century tanner's houses .
16 At the gate The Erft leaves the city wall ring , formerly provided with portcullis , when there is a downpour, floating debris blocked the outflow and led to large floods in the city center.
17th Post office Built in 1909 as an imperial post office, destroyed by bombs in 1944, the houses of the Lombard money changers, some of which were leaning against the city wall, and the house for the image of Mary were demolished for this purpose.
18th Werther Gate Built in the second half of the 14th century, northern entrance to the city, with the coat of arms of the Duchy of Jülich and the city above the pointed arch.
19th Wallgasse Left partially destroyed city wall, formerly with a covered battlement, in the background Werther Tor.
20th Long hedge With the breakthrough of the city ​​wall (1907), residential buildings on the right in front of the extension of the Marienheim, built in 1927/28 as a city hospital, then taken over by Cellitinnen .
21st Kapuzinergasse On the left the area of ​​the former Capuchin monastery - the Capuchins came to Münstereifel in the 17th century - the castle in the background.

literature

  • Wolfram Erber: Münstereifel around 1900, Historienweg, photos and postcards by Friedrich Schulte. Daun 2019, ISBN 978-3-946328-47-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historienweg • City of Bad Münstereifel. Retrieved September 9, 2019 .
  2. ^ "Historienweg" as a new attraction in Bad Münstereifel ›Eifeler Press Agency - epa. Retrieved September 9, 2019 (German).
  3. ^ The publisher and photographer Friedrich Schulte from Münstereifel. Retrieved September 10, 2019 .
  4. ↑ https://badmuenstereifelaktiv.de/historienweg/

Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 16.8 ″  N , 6 ° 45 ′ 45.6 ″  E