Krekel

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Krekel
Municipality of Kall
Coordinates: 50 ° 28 ′ 16 ″  N , 6 ° 32 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : approx. 580 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 225  (December 31, 2016)
Postal code : 53925
Area code : 02447

Krekel is a southern district of the municipality of Kall in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Euskirchen .

Krekel belongs to the Krekel district, the mayor designated for the district is Hans Dieter Schäfer.

location

The Fischbach rises in the north and the Gringelberg and the Scherenberg to the south. 233 people live in the village (2016). The oldest district - the original Krekel - corresponds to the current "Unter-Krekel", while the district around the parish church was settled later (formerly: Kreckelerkirch ).

Social facilities

Krekel has a community kindergarten. The Catholic Church is consecrated to Saint Barbara, the patron saint of miners. This is an indication of the mining activity in the area of ​​the parish: Iron ore was mined between Benenberg and Krekel and silver was mined near the town of Roder, which also belongs to the parish of Krekel, the district name Silberberg gives eloquent evidence of this.

In Krekel is the "Haus Krekel", a youth education center and a youth holiday home of the St. Georg scouts in the Diözesanverband Aachen e. V.

Neighboring communities

In the vicinity of Krekel are the villages: Rüth (at the eastern exit of the village), Roder (south) and Benenberg (west). North of Krekel lies the Krekeler Heide forest and nature reserve. The Krekeler Hardt forest is located between Krekel and Roder. 65 people live in Roder, 48 in Rüth and 113 in Benenberg (2016).

traffic

The federal highway 258 runs through the village . The next motorway junction is Nettersheim on federal motorway 1 .

Parish and local history

A church in Krekel has been documented since May 6, 1435. It stood above the then place Krekel (then Krewinkel , later also Kreckelen ; today Unter-Krekel), at the present place. The first house of God was the Mother of God and the hll. Consecrated to Georg , Barbara , Katharina and Agatha . The chapel belonged to the pastoral care district of the parish church of St. Andreas in Steinfeld .

In 1858 the Krekel chapel was elevated to a parish church by the Archbishop of Cologne Johannes Cardinal von Geissel . The new parish church of St. Barbara was built according to plans by the architects Willy Weyres (who later became master builder in Cologne) and Hans P. Fischer (both Cologne). The first groundbreaking was on February 4, 1930, the foundation stone was laid on June 15, 1930. The first Holy Mass in the new church took place on April 25, 1932. The consecrator was the then auxiliary bishop and vicar general of the newly established diocese of Aachen in 1930, Hermann Joseph Sträter . The old parish church now serves as a parish home.

Radio 700 transmitter

The program from Radio 700 and other program providers is broadcast on shortwave for worldwide reception via a transmitter of the former police station in Krekel. In addition, test broadcasts took place on medium wave .

literature

  • Festschrift for the parish anniversary on August 24, 2008. 150 years of the parish of St. Barbara Krekel (Editing: P. Wieslaw Kaczor SDS, Manfred Gehrke, Manfred Konrads, Karl Heinz Müller).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Municipality of Kall: residents by district , accessed on February 2, 2017
  2. ↑ Mayor. Municipality of Kall, accessed on July 15, 2016 .