Koblenz-Pfaffendorf

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Koblenz-Pfaffendorf
Altstadt Arenberg Arzheim Asterstein Bubenheim Ehrenbreitstein Goldgrube Güls Horchheim Horchheimer Höhe Immendorf Karthause Kesselheim Lay Lützel Metternich Moselweiß Neuendorf Niederberg Oberwerth Pfaffendorf Pfaffendorfer Höhe Rauental Rübenach Stolzenfels Südliche Vorstadt Wallersheim KoblenzLocation of the Koblenz-Pfaffendorf district
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Basic data
District since: 1937
Area : 1.04 km²
Residents : 2,772 (Sep 30, 2012)
Population density : 2,669 inhabitants per km²
Postal code : 56076
Area code : 0261
License plate : KO

Koblenz-Pfaffendorf is a district of Koblenz . It is located on the right bank of the Rhine between Ehrenbreitstein and Horchheim on a narrow strip of banks. In the 1960s, the Pfaffendorfer Höhe and in 1982 the Asterstein became independent districts on the heights of the district, which was incorporated in 1937 . From here the Pfaffendorfer Bridge leads over the Rhine to the city center of Koblenz.

history

People already settled here in the Bronze Age . Finds from the Hallstatt culture to the Celts and the Romans prove that this area was used. A Roman villa was discovered during excavations . By Pfaffendorf the right bank ran high road of the Romans.

In 1018, Emperor Heinrich II gave the Frankish royal court in Koblenz together with the vineyards in Pfaffendorf to the Archbishop of Trier Poppo von Babenberg . The name Pfaffendorf was first mentioned in a donation in 1047, in which Archbishop Poppo gave the tithing to the St. Kastor monastery in Koblenz . The priests of this monastery had their vineyards here. The cultivation of wine in the form of terraces on the mountain slopes was first introduced in the 10th century. Because of this terrace construction, passing boatmen gave Pfaffendorf the name Rhenish Nice . The last wine was harvested here in 1950. The bailiwick belonged to the Counts of Arnstein until the middle of the 13th century , then it was acquired by the Archbishop of Trier, Arnold II of Isenburg .

After the French occupation of Koblenz in 1794, Pfaffendorf belonged to Kurtrier until 1803 . After that, through the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , it came first to the Duchy of Nassau and finally to Prussia in 1815 due to the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna . The place initially belonged to the Kurier and later from 1815 to the Prussian office of Ehrenbreitstein in the Koblenz district . With the construction of the southern section of the right Rhine route, the Pfaffendorfer Bridge was built over the Rhine from 1862–1864 . In order to integrate the access into the fortifications of the Prussian fortress Koblenz , the Horchheim gate fortification was built in 1864–1867 . For system Pfaffendorfer height of Koblenz Fortress belonging, were the Fort Asterstein that work Glockenberg , the Fort Rhein Light and Bien Horn ski jump in the district . The incorporation to Koblenz took place on July 1, 1937. With the remilitarization of the Rhineland in 1936, the Augusta barracks and the Gneisenau barracks for the Wehrmacht were built on the heights .

After the Second World War , new residential areas were built on the heights. The Pfaffendorf district was then divided into new districts. North of the Bienhorn valley, the Asterstein district emerged in 1982 and the Pfaffendorfer Höhe to the south in the 1960s .

Due to the extremely low level of the Rhine, a number of ordnance from the Second World War were found on the bank of the Rhine in Pfaffendorf in November 2011 . First a camouflage barrel was found on November 19, 2011 , which was blown up the next day by the ordnance disposal service . On the same day, a walker discovered a British air mine weighing 1.8 tonnes , followed on November 24, 2011 by the discovery of an American aerial bomb weighing 125 kg and another camouflage barrel. For the defusing on December 4, 2011 , the largest evacuation in the history of the city after the Second World War had to be carried out. This affected 45,000 residents of the city, a prison, two hospitals and seven old people's homes within a radius of 1.8 kilometers from the site of the air mine.

Former coat of arms of Pfaffendorf

  • Detonation of a camouflage barrel on the bank of the Rhine in Pfaffendorf on November 20, 2011

  • The main reason for the large-scale evacuation in Koblenz in 2011 : A British 1.8 ton air mine, found on the bank of the Rhine in Pfaffendorf

Attractions

traffic

Pfaffendorf is cut through by the railway line on the right-hand Rhine route . To the east, the district is bounded by the B 42 , which was built as a bypass road in the 1930s . At the northern end are the Ehrenbreitsteiner Hafen and the bridgehead of the Pfaffendorfer Bridge on the right bank of the Rhine in the district of Pfaffendorf. In order to connect the bridge to the B 42 without crossing, the Glockenberg tunnel was opened in 2003 .

From 1907 to 1947 the " Wahrschaustation" ( seaman's language : true to see = to warn, to instruct) in Pfaffendorf regulated shipping traffic on the Rhine. When the ship bridge in Koblenz was open, it gave the ships passage with a flag.

Personalities

The following personalities were born in Pfaffendorf:

literature

  • Ulrike Weber (edit.): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 3.3: City of Koblenz. Districts. Werner, Worms 2013, ISBN 978-3-88462-345-9 .

Web links

Commons : Koblenz-Pfaffendorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bomb discovery in Koblenz in: Focus Online , December 2, 2011

Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 45 ″  N , 7 ° 36 ′ 14 ″  E