Kirchherten

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Kirchherten
City of Bedburg
Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 24 ″  N , 6 ° 29 ′ 10 ″  E
Height : 97  (90-101)  m above sea level NHN
Residents : 1960  (Nov. 30, 2015)
Postal code : 50181
Area code : 02463
Kirchherten

Kirchherten is a district of Bedburg in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis , North Rhine-Westphalia . Local mayor for Kirchherten and Grottenherten is Hans Wilhelm Maaßen ( CDU ) (as of September 2018) .

location

Kirchherten is northwest of Bedburg. Roads 277 and 279 meet in the village . The federal highway 61 passes northeast of the village . Kirchherten was on the Bedburg – Ameln railway line . The closest place is Grottenherten.

History and sights

Tranchot map from 1806

Kirchherten was the parish for the surrounding villages, especially for Grottenherten and Pütz. In 893, property of the Prüm Abbey in Hertene was identified in the Prümer Urbar . The Catholic parish church of St. Martin attests to its first foundation from the Merovingian period through the Franconian patronage . The late Gothic tower from the middle of the 15th century is still preserved. The neo-Gothic structure was built in 1857–1861. The organ from 1876/77 with 21 registers, restored in 2008, comes from the workshop of the Burtscheider organ builder Georg Stahlhuth .

The St. Irmundus chapel stands by a small pond at Hahnerhof about two kilometers northwest of the village. This “Hahnische Capell” from 1672, which was preceded by a medieval building, was visited by pilgrims until the last century.

The beginnings of the Protestant - originally Reformed - parish go back to the 16th century (a Reformed parish of Kirchherten was first mentioned in 1583 in the minutes of a synod held in Bedburg. The parish has been united since 1827). Your central place of worship, the house church Kirchherten , is the oldest Protestant church in the district. The building was erected in 1684 on the foundations of a former farm as a “house church”. In this design, the church service room and pastor's apartment are combined in one structure. The building is covered by a slated hipped roof with a four-sided ridge from 1827.

Former monastery building

In 1862 the Maria Hilf monastery was built on Pützer Straße. The brick building was first used by Franciscan Sisters from Bonn and from 1892 to 1996 by Dominican Sisters from Arenberg . The nuns devoted themselves to the care of the elderly and ran the kindergarten.

The oldest house in town is at 99 Zaunstraße. It is a two-story half-timbered building from 1558.

education

In Kirchherten there are two kindergartens , one of the Catholic parish and one of the Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe , as well as the Geschwister-Stern-Community Primary School.

Architectural monuments

Evangelical house church

The Catholic parish church of St. Martinus is located in the center of the village . It is a neo-Gothic building, built between 1857 and 1861. The late Gothic tower on the west side dates from the middle of the 15th century. The Catholic cemetery is on the south side of the church. The small evangelical cemetery is located directly behind the choir of the church building, separated from this by a wall. On the western edge of the village is a small Protestant (originally: Reformed) church. It was built in 1684 as a “house church”, that is, the worship room and the preacher's apartment are combined in a single structure. It is the oldest Protestant church in the Rhein-Erftkreis (→ Hauskirche Kirchherten ). There are numerous crossroads in the village , one of them in the Pulverturm street . At the eastern exit of the village in the direction of Pütz is the former Maria-Hilf monastery of the Arenberg Dominican Sisters . The extensively renovated and expanded building now houses a privately run retirement home. The oldest residential building in the area is the listed half-timbered house Zaunstraße 99 from 1558.

Personalities

  • Aurelius Arkenau (1900–1991), Dominican priest and Nazi opponent
  • Robert Dressing (1891–1966) Protestant pastor of the Confessing Church and anti-Nazi opponent
  • Karl Gatzen (1921–1975), member of the Bundestag

literature

  • Heinz-Gerd Schmitz: history of a double place. 1100 years of Kirch-Grottenherten (893-1993). With a contribution by Johannes Grashof. Langwaden 1992 (240 pages).
  • Hans Georg Kirchhoff, Heinz Braschoss: History of the city of Bedburg. With a contribution by Rut Wirtz and Achim Werner. Bedburg 1992 (255 pages).
  • Heinz-Gerd Schmitz: Churches, cribs, chapels in Bedburg / Erft. With photos by Herbert Hintzen and Heinz-Gerd Schmitz. Edited by Association for history and local history Bedburg eV; Elsdorf 2002 (36 pages).
  • Evangelical Church Kirchherten 1684 - 1984. Commemorative publication for the 300th anniversary. Edited by Evangelical Church Congregation Kirchherten, Dr. Wolfgang Hering, pastor. Eigendruck, Bedburg 1984 (195 pages).
  • Ekkehard Krumme: Old Protestant churches in the “Jülich Land”. A contribution to their history and design. In: Ecclesiastical art in the Rhineland, articles on church building, grave memorials and altar pieces in the Protestant church. Ed. Dd Archive of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland by Dietrich Meyer. Series of publications of the archive of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland No. 3. Düsseldorf 1986 (pp. 43–106).
  • Annaliese Ohm, Albert Verbeek: The monuments of the Rhineland, Bergheim district, Vol. 3 Düsseldorf 1971, ISBN 3-508-00186-5 , pp. 67–76 and Fig. 364, 279–303

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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
  2. ↑ Mayor of the city of Bedburg. Retrieved September 9, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Timeline for the history of the Evangelical Church Community in Kirchherten . Retrieved January 7, 2016