Kallmuth

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Kallmuth
City of Mechernich
Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 21 ″  N , 6 ° 37 ′ 11 ″  E
Height : 388 m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.95 km²
Residents : 395
Population density : 80 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st July 1969
Postal code : 53894
Area code : 02484
View of Kallmuth and St. George's Church
View of Kallmuth and St. George's Church

Kallmuth is a district of Mechernich in the Euskirchen district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

The village is west of Lorbach and east of Scheven , municipality of Kall . The Pflugberg rises north of Kallmuth .

The Kallmuther Bach rises in Kallmuth , which leaves the place in a south-easterly direction and at Vollem joins the Urfeyer Bach to the Veybach and as such flows into the Erft in Euskirchen .

history

The district of Kallmuth is rich in finds and findings from Roman times that indicate a Roman settlement in the district. The Roman Eifel aqueduct , which runs from the source at the Grünen Pütz in the Nettersheim district over the watershed in Kall to the Klausbrunnen , has also been encountered several times in the south of the village and outside of Kallmuth.

A knight of Kallmuth was named in a document as early as 1285.

In the early modern times , the noble family von Fremersdorf, called Pützfeld, owned the Kallmuth Castle . Until the French occupation of the Rhineland in 1794, Kallmuth belonged to the Archbishopric of Cologne .

On July 1, 1969, Kallmuth was incorporated into Mechernich.

Attractions

Kallmuth Castle

The castle house from the late Middle Ages stands on even older foundations and cellar vaults. You enter the building, which has a stepped gable, through a round arched portal. The castle and the village fountain have been restored. The castle is now privately owned and has been expanded into a residential complex.

St. George's Church

The church dates from 1888/89 and has a tower that was built in the 13th century.

Klausbrunnen well room

The most important Roman building in the district of Kallmuth is the Klausbrunnen. It is a source of the Roman Eifel aqueduct, which served to supply the Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium , ancient Cologne .

Kallmuther Berg nature reserve

The area was created on the site of an open-cast mine closed at the end of 1957 for the extraction of lead ore . After the open pit Bach station had run out of Mechernicher ore deposit in 1936, which began sinking of the western bay by the Preussag in 1938 in the so-called West field. Originally, the opencast mine was to be driven in the direction of Kallmuth, but the plant was dismantled after it was closed in 1958.

Culture

  • Every year on May 1st there is a procession on horseback, the St. George's ride.
  • In the summer of 2007, parts of the ARD crime comedy series Murder with a View were filmed here, and the Kallmuther community center served as a police station.

traffic

The district road 28 runs through the village coming from Scheven and leading to Lorbach , and the district road 32 from Dottel via Kallmuth and Vollem to Eiserfey .

literature

  • Karl Guthausen: Kallmuth - village on the Pflugberg. Publisher: Eifelverein Kallmuth. 1976.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Guthausen: Kallmuth - Village on the Pflugberg. 1976. p. 4 f.
  2. ^ Klaus Grewe : Atlas of the Roman water pipes to Cologne (= Rhenish excavations. Volume 26). With contributions by Werner Brinker, Günther Garbrecht, Hansgerd Hellenkemper , Heinz-Otto Lamprecht, Horst D. Schulz , Edgar Thofern. Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-7927-0868-X , p. 57 ff.
  3. ^ A b Karl Guthausen: Kallmuth - village on the Pflugberg. 1976. p. 6.
  4. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 100 .
  5. ↑ Hans Peter Schiffer: Churches and chapels in the deanery Mechernich. History, design, equipment . Kall 2003, p. 97.
  6. ^ Klaus Grewe: Aqueducts. Water for Rome's cities. The big overview - from the Roman Canal to the aqueduct marble. Regionalia Verlag, Rheinbach 2014, ISBN 978-3-95540-127-6 , p. 262 ff.

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