Kelz

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Kelz (disambiguation) .

Kelz Vettweiß municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 7 "  N , 6 ° 35 ′ 42"  E
Height :	137 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.27 km²
Residents :	1079  (Jun. 30, 2020)
Population density :	130 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st July 1969
Postal code :	52391
Area code :	02424
Entrance from the south

Kelz is - after the main town Vettweiß - the second largest town in the municipality of Vettweiß in the Düren district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

location

Kelz is about ten kilometers from Düren and lies in the triangle of the villages Vettweiß, Frauwüllesheim and Lüxheim .

history

On July 1, 1969, Kelz was incorporated into Vettweiß.

church

→ Main article : St. Michael (Kelz)

societies

The club life in Kelz is shaped by the following clubs (as of November 2010):

• Spielverein Kelz 1923 e. V. (football),
• Carnival Society Fidele Jonge Kelz 1961 e. V.,
• Youth Club Kelz eV,
• St. Michael Schützenbruderschaft Kelz e. V.,
• Turnverein Kelz 1950 e. V.,
• Fruit and horticultural association Kelz 1923 e. V.,
• Voluntary fire brigade - Kelz fire fighting group ,
• Friends of culture and nature Kelz e. V.,
• St. Michael e. V.
• Tennis club Kelz eV

Attractions

See also : List of architectural monuments in Vettweiß

• In the middle of the village is the Catholic Church of St. Michael with its 50 meter high tower. The Kelz parish of St. Michael was independent until the end of 2009. At the beginning of 2010, the parish was merged with the other parishes of the parish of Vettweiß to form the new parish of St. Marien . The parish church of the new parish is the Church of St. Gereon in Vettweiß, the St. Michael Church in Kelz has since had the status of a branch church .

Others

• During the Advent season, the Catholic parish in Kelz maintains the tradition of “looking for a hostel”. To commemorate the search for a hostel by Maria and Josef (Jesus' parents) around 2000 years ago, large pictures (paintings, drawings) of Maria are carried from family to family in the village. Each family houses the picture for one day. The altar servers of the parish church and the first communion children have taken on the task of picking up the picture from the host family in the evening and taking it to the next house.
• Events and changing exhibitions take place in the Kulturhaus and the Alte Schmiede.
• In the competition Our village has a future , the place was able to achieve some success. Kelz won seven times at the level of the Düren district and in the state competition of North Rhine-Westphalia there was four silver and two bronze awards (as of July 2008).
• Kelz is located on the former coronation road that ran from Frankfurt am Main to Aachen .
• An unofficial honorary citizen is Josef Gilles (1931–2009), to whom a bronze monument was erected in the center of the village.

Personalities

• Johann Bollig (1821–1895) was a Jesuit and orientalist born in Kelz
• August Bender (1909–2005), a former camp doctor from Buchenwald concentration camp, worked as a general practitioner in Kelz from 1949 to 1988.

gallery

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  Parish Church of St. Michael

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  Virgin Mary statue in the Kelzer Kirchhof

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  Josef Gilles in bronze

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  Property in Kelz

Web links

Commons : Kelz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official village site

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population figures accessed on July 15, 2020
2. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 98 .