Keldenich (Wesseling)

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Keldenich is a district of the city of Wesseling in the North Rhine-Westphalian Rhein-Erft district with 15,906 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018).

geography

The district, which is essentially a residential area , is located southwest of the Wesselingen city center and covers an area of ​​553.58 hectares. Neighboring towns of Keldenich are in the northwest of the Wesselingen district of Berzdorf , in the southwest of the Bornheim district of Sechtem and in the east in turn the Wesselingen district of Urfeld . The Dickopsbach flows on the western edge of the village . The Entenfang nature reserve is located between Keldenich and Berzdorf .

history

prehistory

Neolithic axes have been found near Keldenich .

Early, High and Late Middle Ages

Keldenich is first mentioned in a document in 858 . In 1288, the Notre Dame Abbey in Soissons sold their farm in Keldenich to the Cologne citizen Scherfgin. Members of the Scherfgin family were repeatedly mayors or councilors of the city of Cologne.

The area of ​​today's Keldenich formerly also comprised goods such as the Landskronhof (later the Sechtemer Stapelhof), the properties of which partly protruded into the Sechtem district. Since the 13th century, the estates had been in dependent fiefdom under the county of Katzenellenbogen. These gentlemen were followed by the Landgraves of Hesse, who gave Keldenich along with the Sechtemer Stapelhof to the Lords of Dörenberg and Schweinsberg . The latter, Konrad Schenk zu Schweinsberg, was still listed as the owner in 1599.

In 1630, Hesse released the far-flung territory, which, as an exclave surrounded by Kurköln , could not be offered adequate protection in the ongoing warlike times. With the consent of Lord Georg II , Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt, Ludwig and Burkhard von Dörnberg as well as Volpert Daniel Schenk zu Schweinsberg sold the Freiadeligen Güter zu Keldenich and Sechtem to the Chamberlain of Cologne, Adam von Siegenhoven called Anstel zu Holtorf, who also owned Sechtemer Gromeshof owned. The Anstel, now the Lords of Keldenich, remained so until 1751. Then the glory of Keldenich - now without real estate - went to Johann Adam von Falkenberg, who immediately ceded the acquisition without profit to the Cologne Elector Salentin von Isenburg .

End of the feudal period

Wonderfully country belonged Keldenich by the end of the 18th century to the Electorate of Cologne and was named the glory Keldenich the Electoral Cologne office Brühl . From the beginning of the 17th century to 1760 the glory was pledged to the barons of Siegenhoven-Anstel.

Political changes

In 1794 the Rhineland was occupied by France. With the Peace Treaty of Lunéville in 1801, the area on the left bank of the Rhine became part of France. Under French rule, Keldenich belonged to the canton of Brühl . In 1815 it fell to Prussia . The municipality of Keldenich was assigned to the district of Bonn (from 1887 district of Bonn) in the administrative district of Cologne to the province of Jülich-Kleve-Berg , which was merged with the province of Grand Duchy of Lower Rhine to form the Rhine province in 1822 . Keldenich was one of six parishes belonging to the mayor's office in Hersel. At the census on December 1, 1910, the community had 585 inhabitants.

In 1932 the community of Keldenich was assigned to the newly established Wesseling Office in the Cologne district and incorporated into Wesseling in 1935. From January 1, 1975 until the city of Wesseling regained its independence on June 1, 1976, Keldenich belonged to the city of Cologne.

Attractions

politics

The local mayor of Keldenich, elected by the council of the city of Wesseling, is Paul Hambach (CDU).

Infrastructure

The place has four kindergartens, the elementary schools Albert Schweitzer School and Schiller School as well as the Catholic Church of St. Andrew and the Evangelical Church of the Cross . The city of Wesseling has been running a cultural center in the Schwingeler Hof since 1999 . The Maarhof experimental farm of the University of Bonn is also located in Keldenich.

The next tram stops are Wesseling and Wesseling-Süd on line 16 of the Köln Stadtbahn ( Rheinuferbahn ) between Cologne and Bonn . The next DB train station is Sechtem on the left bank of the Rhine. The next motorway junction is Wesseling on the federal motorway 555 .

Web links

literature

  • Heinz Vorzepf: Sechtem village chronicle ,
    • Volume 3: History of our homeland, castles and farms. 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Summa Summarum 2019 - Wesseling in numbers. Stadt Wesseling - The Mayor, May 2019, accessed on February 17, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Anton Fahne von Roland, History of the Cologne, Jülische and Bergische sexes , 1848, p. 385.
  3. ^ Heinz Vorzepf: Burgen und Höfe, section Landskroner or Stapelhof (=  Sechtemer village chronicle . Volume 3 ). Bornheim 2016, p. 270 ff .
  4. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, 2nd volume: The map of 1789. Bonn 1898, p. 63/92.
  5. ^ 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. 299 f .

Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′  N , 6 ° 58 ′  E