Kirchberg (Jülich)

Kirchberg City of Jülich
Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 55 ″  N , 6 ° 21 ′ 14 ″  E
Height :	83-106 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.81 km²
Residents :	1631  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	339 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1972
Postal code :	52428
Area code :	02461

Kirchberg is a district of Jülich in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Düren in Germany in the south of the core city .

geography

location

Kirchberg is located between Jülich and the Inden lignite opencast mine . The southern villages of Pattern and Altdorf had to give way to this and were relocated. In the meantime, the road to Altdorf and Inden has also been excavated.

Waters

In the east of Kirchberg the Rur flows , in the southeast and southwest the Inde , which was relocated past Aldenhoven, Bourheim and southwest of Kirchberg as part of the renaturation of the Inden opencast mine - now flowing around the opencast mine. She now meets her old bed again on Schophovener Strasse, south of Kirchberg.

In the village is the mill pond , in the north there are some quarry ponds towards Jülich .

history

Incorporation

On January 1, 1972, Kirchberg was incorporated into the city of Jülich.

Architectural monuments

church

The parish church of St. Martinus

The Catholic parish church is dedicated to St. Martinus . It was mentioned for the first time in 922 in Kiri mountains .

→ Main article : St. Martinus (Kirchberg)

Further architectural monuments

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Jülich

traffic

The bus lines 216 and 294 (partly as an on-call bus) of Rurtalbus GmbH as well as a call collective taxi drive through the town.

While the Jülich-Kirchberg-Altdorf-Inden-Frenz connection used to lead to the Weisweiler motorway junction ( federal motorway 4 ), this road can no longer be used today due to the Inden open-cast lignite mine .

In 1882 the Aachen-Nord – Jülich railway line was opened between Kirchberg and Jülich , and in 1912 the Jülich circular railway line was put into operation. Kirchberg had extensive track systems with two train stations and reception buildings until 1980, because Kirchberg originally linked two lines: the Aachen-North-Jülich railway line and the Jülich district railway (JKB). There was a connection from Kirchberg-Nord station to the neighboring Kirchberg station on the Aachen Nord - Kirchberg - Jülich state railway line; on September 14, 1912, the remnant Jülich Nord - Kirchberg Nord followed, which ran parallel to the state railway. In 1980 passenger traffic was stopped. Scheduled freight traffic has now also been given up.

The large station building on the Aachen-Jülich railway company was demolished in early 2000 due to its severe deterioration. Today the area belongs to a company and is fenced in. The Deutsche Bahn track has been converted into a bicycle route. Until 2009 there was a badly dilapidated wagon of unknown origin on the site of the former Kirchberg train station.

Waiting hall of the former Jülich Kreisbahn in 2020

The JKB's 'Königshütte' shelter is still there and was restored in 2019 by the association Dorfgemeinschaft Zukunft Kirchberg eV . It now serves as a resting place on the Jülich-Aachen expressway. For this purpose, the association rented the building from the Kreisbahn for a symbolic price. It is also the starting point of a historical circular route through Kirchberg.

economy

The Carl Eichhorn KG corrugated cardboard factory was founded in 1854 . It is the largest employer in town. The company Metzeler Plastics GmbH (now: epsotech) opened a company on the outskirts in 1960. The Fleck & Schleipen forwarding company is right next to it . The corrugated cardboard factory Gissler & Pass from Jülich has set up one of its locations in the former Richter beverage factory (formerly Kirchberg Krieger paper factory, Meuser & Co. KG), with a focus on display construction and co-packing . Siep Kieswerk GmbH & Co. KG started production again in May 2006. There is also a retail shop and a hairdressing salon in town.

Personalities

• Wilhelm Koslar (1924–1993), ceramist and poet, born in Kirchberg

Others

societies

The most important clubs are the “ Maiclub Kirchberg 1824 e. V. ", the shooting club " Sacramentsbruderschaft Kirchberg 1626 e. V. ”, the soccer club FC Germania 09 Kirchberg and the carnival club KG Blau-Weiß Kirchberg e. V. Other clubs are the tennis club , the choral society , the workers' welfare , the church choir , the dance club and the IG (community of interests) Carnival Kirchberg, the shock club Kirchberg, the club “care of local customs” and the women's community St. Martinus Kirchberg e. V. The volunteer fire brigade also participates in the club life.

Public facilities

In Kirchberg there is a fire fighting group from the Jülich volunteer fire department . This has two fire engines, a TLF 16/25 and an HLF 10 with extended equipment for technical assistance in traffic and industrial accidents. With the two vehicles, the fire fighting group in a train with the fire fighting groups Bourheim and Selgersdorf covers the areas of operation Bourheim with the L 238n (connection A44-Weisweiler), Kirchberg with the L 241 and its five industrial companies, Altenburg , Selgersdorf and Daubenrath with the Rurtalbahn railway line ( Linnich - Düren ), as well as sections of the B 56 ( Aldenhoven - Selhausen ).

literature

• U. Cormann: The Church of St. Martinus in Kirchberg. In: Yearbook of the Düren district. 1984.
• S. Jenter, B. Päffgen, The wall paintings of the villa rustica on the Steinacker near Jülich-Kirchberg. (= Archeology in the Rhineland ). Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1998.
• W. Johnen: The story of the Johnen family, a Rhenish farming family from the Schrickenhof in Kirchberg. (= Old Families of the Jülich Land. Booklet IX). Jülich 1972.
• B. Päffgen: A rare aureus of Emperor Trajan from the villa rustica at Steinacker near Kirchberg. (= Archeology in the Rhineland). Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1998.
• HW Lammertz, K. Quadflieg: 1075 years Kirchberg - yesterday and today. Sattler Druck & Design, Jülich 1997.

Web links

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

• Kirchberg. Retrieved April 24, 2018 . 
• Dorfgemeinschaft Zukunft Kirchberg eV Accessed on April 24, 2018 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Residents by district Jülich in 2019. Accessed on March 13, 2020 . 
2. ^ 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. 308 .
3. ↑ Environment, public space and transport. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 25, 2018 ; accessed on April 24, 2018 .