Immendorf (Cologne)
 district 212 of Cologne |
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 51 '37 " N , 6 ° 57' 33" E |
| surface | 5.225 km² |
| Residents | 2060 (December 31, 2017) |
| Population density | 394 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation | Jan. 1, 1975 |
| Post Code | 50997 |
| prefix | 02236 |
| Borough | Rodenkirchen (2) |
| Transport links | |
| Bus route | 135 |
| Source: 2017 residents . (PDF) Cologne district information | |
Immendorf is a district on the extreme southern edge of the city of Cologne and belongs to the Rodenkirchen district within it .
location
Immendorf borders the Cologne district of Godorf in the east, the city of Wesseling with its Berzdorf district in the south, the Cologne district of Meschenich in the west and the Rondorf district in the north .
history
Archaeological traces in Immendorf already show Roman and Franconian buildings. Immendorf was in the year 948 in a copy of the Archbishop of Cologne Wichfrid as Iminethorp mentioned, in which he gave the tenth duty along with his church Cologne pin location Saint Severin overwrote. In 1794 the place was occupied by French revolutionary troops. Under French rule , Immendorf belonged to Mairie Rondorf and with this to the canton of Brühl . Since 1815 it belonged to the mayor's office and then to the municipality of Rondorf, or after renaming in 1961 to the municipality of Rodenkirchen in the district of Cologne . Immendorf has been a district of Cologne since 1975 as a result of the law on the reorganization of the municipalities and districts in the greater Cologne area .
Parish church
A church is said to have existed in Immendorf as early as the Frankish times. When the Normans pillaged the place in 881, the church was also destroyed. This was followed by the construction of an early Romanesque church, which was expanded in 1841 and had to give way to the current building in 1873. The neo-Romanesque church was built in 1873 and 1874 according to plans by August Carl Lange . This Catholic Church of Saint Servatius was extensively renovated in 1966 and 1967. Like its predecessor buildings, the church is located on a hill in the middle of the village, which curiously bears the field name Heidenberg . Immendorf local researcher Wolfgang Gerard assumes that a pagan cult site dedicated to the god Irmin may have existed on this hill , which could also have given the settlement its name. However, Irmin is also part of Germanic names with the meaning large .
The expansion of the parish reached in the 19th and partly in the 20th century to the Bischofsweg south of Severinstores on the city limits of Cologne and also included the neighboring Godorf.
Architectural monuments
The monuments in Immendorf include the church building, the parsonage and two crossroads, as well as the former school building on Godorfer Strasse, which was built in 1872 and last redesigned in 1914 by Edmund Bolten . Other architectural monuments are the Zaunhof on Immendorfer Hauptstrasse, an estate created in the 16th century by the lords of Efferen as a knightly goldsmith's place, and numerous small farms along Giesdorfer Allee.
To the north of Immendorf, in the corridor called Giesdorf, are the Friedrichshof and the Gillessenhof, which until the secularization of 1802 partially belonged to the Groß Sankt Martin Abbey in Cologne and were then handed over to the Cologne poor administration.
Population structure
The proportion of young people under 18 years of age was 18.0 percent in the 2014 survey year. The proportion of over 64-year-olds is just under 19 percent. As of 2015, Immendorf also had a share of residents with a migration background of 12.5 percent. Almost 7 percent of those able to work in Immendorf are also unemployed.
Economy and Infrastructure
Immendorf is located near the Cologne refinery center and indirectly borders the Rhineland refinery of Shell Deutschland Oil GmbH , where many residents are or were employed.
The townscape is still characterized by old farms, but only a few of them are farmed. After 1945 new building areas were built in an easterly direction and south of Godorfer Straße. Apart from a kiosk in the building of the former bakery, a timber wholesaler and a large flower shop, there are no longer any shops in town. The famous restaurant Bitzerhof from 1821 was located on Immendorfer Hauptstraße opposite the church until it closed in 2013 .
Leisure opportunities and club life
The place enjoys national importance in road cycling . The cycling department of TSV Immendorf 1968 e. V. , which before 1981 as an independent RC Condor Immendorf e. V. was founded by Cornelius Fohrn and has been active under the name RTC Condor since then , organizes a renowned bike tour every year within the official calendar of the Association of German Cyclists . Furthermore, until 2018, the former Polish professional cyclist Ryszard Szurkowski owned a quarters in Immendorf, from where he took part in the Jedermannrennen around Cologne every year .
On Berzdorfer Straße there is a large tennis facility with indoor courts and open ash courts, including an adjoining restaurant. The men's quartet Frohsinn 1925 e. V. , the Immendorfer Karnevalsgesellschaft Blau-Weiß from 1968 e. V. and the aforementioned popular sports club TSV Immendorf 1968 e. V. , which offers gymnastics, basketball, soccer, gymnastics and table tennis, among other things.
To the west of Immendorf there are seven quarry ponds that are up to five meters deep and are used in places for gravel extraction. The northern quarry ponds in particular have a healthy population of different fish and other animal inhabitants, including the following: pike, pikeperch, perch, ruff, eel, trout, carp, bream, chub, crucian carp, roach, rudd, tench, bleak, Gudgeon, crayfish, freshwater jellyfish, clam, and river mussel.
Until 2010, the quarry ponds were partly used by the residents for swimming and by the local ASV Immendorf 1972 e. V. and befriended clubs used for fishing are completely closed for the time being due to exposure to toxic perfluorinated surfactants . The exposure to the chemical, which was banned by the European Union in 2006 and contained in extinguishing agents, occurred as a result of exercises by the works fire brigade of Lyondellbasell Industries NV , located in neighboring Berzdorf . Lawsuits by individual residents of Immendorf against the chemical plant as a result of health problems ended with a settlement.
See also
literature
- Paul Clemen: Der Landkreis Köln , Volume 4 of the series Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz , Düsseldorf 1897, reprint, ISBN 3-590-32118-0 , page 150
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kölner Stadtanzeiger from 11./12. June 2011, p. 39
- ↑ Inhabitants according to selected age groups - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de
- ↑ Inhabitants according to selected age groups - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de
- ↑ Inhabitants by type of migration background - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de
- ↑ Employed and unemployed part of the city - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de
- ↑ Susanne Wächter: Anglerin sued the company because of chemicals in the blood , Die Welt, January 28, 2014; accessed on April 3, 2020
Bayenthal | Godorf | Hahnwald | Immendorf | Marienburg | Meschenich | Raderberg | Raderthal | Rodenkirchen | Rondorf | Sürth | White | Folding rule