Caster
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Caster
City of Bedburg
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| Height : | 70 m above sea level NHN |
| Area : | 16.16 km² |
| Residents : | 6116 (Oct 31, 2015) |
| Population density : | 378 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | 1st January 1975 |
| Postal code : | 50181 |
| Area code : | 02272 |
Kaster is a district of the city of Bedburg in the Rhein-Erft district in North Rhine-Westphalia . The local mayor is Michael Lambertz ( SPD ).
location
Kaster borders the Garzweiler opencast mine in the north, the town of Königshoven in the west, Lipp in the south and Grevenbroich - Neurath in the Rhine district of Neuss in the northeast .
Cityscape
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Alt-Kaster presents itself as a fortified country town. Most of the houses date from the time after the town fire of 1624. The parcelling still indicates the village status before the town elevation, in which the houses do not form regular lines, as in a planned complex, but occupy an angular position.
history
Middle Ages and early modern times
At the time when the Archbishop of Cologne, Philipp I von Heinsberg, began his territorial policy by purchasing castles on the Lower Rhine, in 1148 Castle Caster belonged to a nobleman who named himself Heinrich von Caster after his castle . It was located at the crossing of the Erft and an important medieval route from Cologne to Jülich . Unlike Lechenich in the neighborhood, the castle stood on a small hill, which is enclosed by the Erft and a branched arm, the Kellnerey-Graben . The settlement followed later. In the 13th century, the castle came to the Lords of Jülich, the rival neighbors of the Archbishops of Cologne, and temporarily became the seat of a branch of the Count's House and later dukes ( Pingsheim Peace ). Today's castle ruins north of the city are the remainder of the complex built by the Jülich counts in 1278. From 1328 to 1337 the castle was the widow's seat of Elisabeth von Brabant, the wife of Gottfried von Kaster. 1328 awarded Count Gerhard VI. from Jülich Kaster the city rights. In 1648 the main castle was destroyed after it was conquered by imperial troops.
After that, the former outer bailey, the farm yard of the former castle, which is included in the city wall, served as the seat of the rentmaster appointed by the liege lord for the office of Kaster, who was therefore called a waiter . Because of this function, the building was called a cellar .
Modern times
In 1794 French revolutionary troops occupied Kaster, which from 1801 formed a mairie in the Département de la Roer . Since the Congress of Vienna, Kaster belonged to the Bergheim (Erft) district in the administrative district of Cologne . In 1955, Kaster was the second smallest city in Germany in terms of population. With the further advance of open -cast lignite mining , the neighboring villages of Epprath, Morken-Harff and Königshoven were relocated to Kaster and the population increased to almost 5000 by 1975. Kaster owes the fact that it was not included in the open-cast mine to its listed medieval structure.
The city in the Bergheim (Erft) district was incorporated into the city of Bedburg on January 1, 1975 as part of the municipal territorial reform in accordance with Section 5 (1) of the Cologne Act with the communities of Lipp , Königshoven and Pütz .
Kaster is the station of the Way of St. James in the Rhineland . The place is on route 9, which leads from Dortmund to Aachen. The next stations are Grevenbroich and Jülich.
politics
Former city arms
In blue and gold split shields on the right a silver three-tower castle, on the left a red-tongued, soaring black lion belonging to Jülich.
Attractions
In addition to the remains of the old city wall and the main castle, which was destroyed in 1648, there is the owl tower from 1370 and the winery from the 18th century, which has been restored several times. A two-storey city gate made of brick, the Agathator or the Niederpforte and on the opposite side of the closed medieval city, the Romanesque Erfttor made of brick .
Harff Castle , which was demolished in the early 1970s for the Frimmersdorf open-cast lignite mine, was located in the middle of an extensive park, covered by a moat . Apart from the high medieval keep one erected in 1700 living quarters of three parallel juxtaposed wings with corner towers joined who in the 19th century in the style of Neo-Renaissance had been converted.
A Jewish cemetery , probably from the 19th century, is close to the Erft. He no longer has any tombstones.
The listed church of St. George was built in the 18th century.
literature
- Günter Bers, Wolfgang Herborn (Ed.): Kaster on the Erft. History and population structure of a former Jülich official town in 1799. ISBN 3-932903-10-2
- Heinz Andermahr, Uwe Depcik: History of the city of Kaster. From the beginning to the municipal reorganization. ISBN 978-3-932903-36-6
- Roland Günter. Art hikes in the Rhineland (Bels art hikes). Stuttgart, Zurich 1979. ISBN 3-7630-1258-3
- Historic city and town centers in North Rhine-Westphalia. Published by the Ministry of Urban Development and Transport. 1994² - Chapter Bedburg-Katser
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://bedburg.active-city.net/city_info/webaccessibility/index.cfm?region_id=336&waid=119&item_id=852073&link_id=213824133&fsize=1&contrast=0
- ↑ Mayor of the city of Bedburg ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 300 .
Bedburg | Blerichen | Broich | Kaster | Kirchherten with Grottenherten | Kirchtroisdorf with Kleintroisdorf | Kirdorf | Königshoven | Lipp with Millendorf | Pütz | Rath with Garsdorf