Kommern

This article describes Kommern in the Rhineland. For the place of the same name in Bohemia, see Komořany u Mostu .

Kommern City of Mechernich Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 45 ″  N , 6 ° 39 ′ 1 ″  E
Height :	250 m above sea level NHN
Area :	19.25 km²
Residents :	4050
Population density :	210 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st July 1969
Incorporated into:	Veytal
Postal code :	53894
Area code :	02443
Center (Kirchberg and Kölner Straße)

Kommern, aerial photo (2015)

Church, Kirchberg, and castle around 1900

Ziegenbrunnen, Koelner Strasse and Ackergasse

Kommern is located on the north-western edge of the Eifel and is a district of the city of Mechernich in the Euskirchen district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

General

The place is known for its closed half-timbered ensemble in the historic town center. Tourist attractions are also the Rhenish Open Air Museum and the Rhineland Wildlife Park . For centuries, Kommern was an important center of lead and silver mining. This was administered by the castle Kommern , which is still worth seeing today , a seat of the Dukes of Arenberg . From the beginning of the 1950s to the mid-1970s it housed a boarding school for girls.

history

On July 1, 1969, Kommern was incorporated into Veytal .

Before this incorporation, Kommern was an independent municipality, which took on its present form under the long-time municipal director Norbert Leduc (in office from 1953 to 1969): In 1958, Kommern was chosen as the location of the Rhenish Open-Air Museum. Kommern has been a climatic health resort since the 1960s . The Mühlensee also dates from this time . He dams the Bleibach in the form of a small dam. The lead sludge that the stream brings with it from the lead mine in which it rises can thus settle harmlessly. Before that, the stream flooded the meadows on its banks in spring, which is why cattle regularly fell ill with the lead content of the grass.

On January 1, 1972, the municipality of Veytal (with the exception of the district Schwerfen, which came to the city of Zülpich ) was incorporated into the municipality (now the city) of Mechernich .

In 1972 the North Rhine-Westphalia State Horticultural Show took place in Kommern . The Mühlental and the Mühlensee were integrated.

Public institutions and associations

In addition to the volunteer fire brigade, there are around twenty clubs in the cultural and sporting sector in Kommern, such as the TC Blau Gold Kommern. The tennis courts are in the middle of the forest in Kommern-Süd.

Attractions

• LVR open-air museum Kommern
• Historic town center
• High Game Park Rhineland
• Jewish cemetery (Kommern)
• Kommern Castle
• St. Severinus Church

Sports

• VfL Kommern 1960 eV (football, volleyball, badminton, table tennis, gymnastics)
• TC Blau Gold Kommern eV (tennis)

Personalities

• Thomas Braun (1814–1906), German-Belgian educator
• Bernhard Clemens August Eick (1814–1868), mining official, classical philologist, antiquarian
• Toni Steingass (1921–1987), composer and lyricist in the Cologne carnival
• Adelhart Zippelius (1916–2014), 1958 to 1981 director of the Rheinisches Freilichtmuseum
• Hanna-Maria Zippelius (1922–1994), ethologist

Web links

Commons : Kommern  - collection of images

• Local portrait of Kommern. City of Mechernich, accessed on January 21, 2016 . 
• Jews in Kommern by Hans-Dieter Arntz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 87 .
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. 309 .
3. ^ Sports club VfL Kommern (accessed on May 2, 2011)