Juntersdorf

Juntersdorf City of Zuelpich Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 20 ″  N , 6 ° 36 ′ 25 ″  E
Height :	166 m
Area :	2.57 km²
Residents :	227  (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	88 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st July 1969
Incorporated into:	Fuessenich
Postal code :	53909
Area code :	02425

Juntersdorf, aerial photo (2016)

Juntersdorf, St. Gertrudis, aerial photo (2016)

St. Gertrudis Church

Juntersdorf is a district of Zülpich in the district of Euskirchen , North Rhine-Westphalia . The mayor is Axel Faßbender (as of July 2017).

location

Juntersdorf is at the transition between the Voreifel and Zülpicher Börde . The Neffelbach flows directly past the village . To the northeast lies the Füssenich nature reserve . Neighboring towns are Füssenich , Hoven , Langendorf and Embken in the Düren district . A landscape protection area has been designated around the place .

history

The name Juntersdorf comes from the time of the first Franks (Knight Gunthar). The spelling “Guntersdorf” was common until the 19th century. Already in the 13th century there was a local nobility who were still wealthy here in the 15th century. The Jülich fiefdom " Juntersdorf Castle " became a knight seat that was eligible for the state assembly, and Prussian manor was entitled to the state assembly in the 19th century .

From 1830 to 1924, lignite was mined in the Astrea mine west of Juntersdorf . In the 1950s, the site was covered by an outer dump from the Zülpich-Mitte opencast mine . As a reminder of the mine, a main street today bears the name Astreastraße and on the corner of Hovener Straße and Düttling there is a historic dump car from the mine with the inscription “Astra 1833-1924” .

Juntersdorf was incorporated into Füssenich on July 1, 1969 . Since 1947 the place belonged to the then office Vettweiß in the district of Düren. On January 1, 1972, Füssenich and Juntersdorf were incorporated into the city of Zülpich.

church

St. Gertrudis Juntersdorf is one of the smallest parishes in the Archdiocese of Cologne , on the border with the Diocese of Aachen . The church towers high above the town. Juntersdorf is now an independent rectorate parish .

The oldest parts of the church date from the 12th century. The choir and tower date from the 15th and 16th centuries, the sacristy from the 19th century. The church has been a listed building since 1983 . The church bought the former school building and now uses it as a parish hall.

Castle

The moated castle is at the entrance to the village . A Frankish knight Gunthar is said to have built it. It used to be in two parts and was expanded in the 16th century. In the gate building from 1883, the coat of arms of the then owner, Graf Berghe von Trips, an ancestor of the racing driver Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips, is embedded. The castle came into the possession of the Barons Berghe von Trips through marriage in the 17th century, who owned it until the 1970s and then sold it.

traffic

Federal highway 56 runs east of the village . Until the beginning of the 1960s, a Düren circular railway ran from Düren via Nörvenich and Zülpich via Juntersdorf to Embken . Goods were also transported on this track. At the end of the 1960s, the Juntersdorf station building burned down completely.

See also : Distelrath – Embken railway line

Others

The poet and publicist André Müller senior lives in Juntersdorf .

See also : List of mills on the Neffelbach

Web links

Commons : Juntersdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population figures as of December 31, 2018
2. ↑ In the blooming fields in the Zülpicher Börde. www.eifelmomente.de, April 29, 2010, accessed on January 7, 2011 . 
3. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 97 .
4. ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X .