Kirdorf (disambiguation)

Kirdorf is

the name of the following people:

Adolph Kirdorf (1845–1923), German coal and steel industrialist
Emil Kirdorf (1847–1938), German industrialist and promoter of Adolf Hitler
Thomas Kirdorf , German screenwriter
Gustav Kastner-Kirdorf (1881–1945), General of the Aviators

the name of the following places:

Kirdorf , district of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe
Kirdorf (Bedburg) , district of Bedburg

the name of the following housing estate:

Kirdorf colony , mining settlement named after Emil Kirdorf in Dortmund-Eving

The place name, which goes back to the Franks, comes from Kirchdorf. It can be assumed that the Franks called a church village of importance in each of their districts "Kirchdorf". The current district of Bad Homburg probably had this function in Niddagau. The foundation walls of a Romanesque church were found on the Rabenstein in the 19th century . In the course of time, the place name changed into its current form.