Kirdorf (Bedburg)

Kirdorf City of Bedburg Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 28 ″  N , 6 ° 34 ′ 15 ″  E
Height :	69  (63-71)  m above sea level NHN
Residents :	1105  (Oct 31, 2015)
Postal code :	50181
Area code :	02272

Church, Alt-Sankt-Willibrordus

Old Saint Willibrordus Lourdes Grotto

Kirdorf is a district of Bedburg in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis , North Rhine-Westphalia . The local mayor is Angelika Dreikhausen ( CDU ).

location

Kirdorf is a southern district of Bedburg. The district road 32 leads past the place, the federal highway 61 runs to the west .

history

Finds from the Neolithic Age show that people lived in this area very early on. In Roman times, there was a Roman manor, a so-called " villa rustica ", which was discovered during excavation work in the course of opencast lignite mining. Around 898 the place appears in a donation from King Zwentibold of Lorraine to the Essen women's monastery. One church is mentioned in the liber valoris around 1300.

In the Middle Ages the place belonged to the Electorate of Cologne County Bedburg. At that time, two Roman country roads and a trade route ran through the center of today's village. It was completely burned down in 1642 but rebuilt. Two Roman country roads and a medieval trade route led through what is now the center of the village.

Until 1965 the narrow-gauge track of the so-called "Amelner Johännchen" (from Bedburg to Ameln ) ran through the town.

In the old cemetery is the well-preserved Lourdes grotto , which was built in 1908 by gardener Johann Sieben from Kirdorf under the direction of Pastor Simon Lassaulx. From reports of the Erftbote it can be seen that the inauguration on December 8th, 1908 was celebrated on a large scale. It became a place of pilgrimage , which was later lost again.

church

The old Catholic parish church of St. Willibrord (holy missionary from England, who converted the pagan residents to Christianity), today an annex church, used to be a two-aisled brick building with a west tower and a three-sided closed choir . From this building around 1500 only the tower remains . Its upper floor was rebuilt in 1645. After the Second World War , the church was rebuilt as an undivided hall church until 1950 . It was renovated in the 1980s.

Education and sport

Kirdorf has a Catholic kindergarten and the Anton Heinen Community Elementary School . The football club BC Kirdorf-Blerichen represents the towns of Kirdorf and Blerichen .

literature

• Hermann Hinz : Archaeological Finds and Monuments of the Rhineland Vol. 2, Bergheim district, Rheinland-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1969, p. 192 No. 30/31 and p. 194 No. 31

Web links

• Homepage of the district

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 ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ^ The BC Kirdorf-Blerichen at Community Football