Kufferath (Düren)

Kufferath City of Düren Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 5 ″ N , 6 ° 27 ′ 56 ″ E
Height :	164 m above sea level NHN
Area :	5.44 km² ; (with Berzbuir)
Residents :	318 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	58 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1972
Postal code :	52355
Area code :	02421
	Location of Kufferath in Düren

The chapel

Kufferath is an old farming village, characterized by agriculture, and since 1971 part of the district town of Düren , North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

location

The second smallest district is located on the southwestern outskirts at the foot of the Eifel slopes. The district borders the municipality of Kreuzau with the district of Langenbroich , the municipality of Hürtgenwald with the district of Horm and the districts of Berzbuir and Lendersdorf in Düren . The place is somewhat hidden in a valley basin.

history

As early as the Middle Ages, lead , copper , zinc and other ores were mined in small pits in and around Kufferath . From Welk, for example, a 2 km long tunnel from the Johanna mine led through the valley. It was not until the end of the 19th century that mining stopped. In 1946, large-scale lead and zinc ore mining began in the Maubacher Bleiberg open-cast mine, about 1 km away .

Since the beginning of the 19th century, the municipality of Berzbuir-Kufferath belonged administratively to the Birgel office . In the course of the local reorganization, the municipality of Berzbuir-Kufferath was incorporated into Lendersdorf on July 1, 1969. With the dissolution of the Birgel office and the municipality of Lendersdorf on December 31, 1971, Berzbuir-Kufferath and Lendersdorf came to the city of Düren on January 1, 1972.

traffic

The place is only served five times a day by line 202 of the Düren district railway , since January 1, 2020 Rurtalbus . There is also a scheduled regular taxi. There is no through traffic through the town.

church

The St. Hubertus Catholic Chapel is a branch of the parish of St. Michael Lendersdorf . It was built from rubble stones in 1957.

societies

Tambour corps Blau-Weiss Kufferath 1924 e. V.
Ladies Club '77 "Dürener Switzerland" e. V.
St. Michael Schützenbruderschaft Kufferath 1900 e. V.
Youth group construction trailer
May youth Kufferath

Others

According to the main statute of the city, the district is part of the Lendersdorf-Berzbuir-Kufferath district. This district has a joint district committee .

There are some small businesses in the village. In the local restaurant Friesenhof there are often concerts by jazz or dialect bands.

Web links

District film on the website of the city of Düren

Individual evidence

↑ https://www.dueren.de/kultur-tourismus/stadtportraet/zahlen__fotos?sr=7584
↑ Dieter Mätschke: Heimatbuch Birgel . Düren 1981, p. 121 .
↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 98 .
^ 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. 306 .

[1] ttps://www.dueren.de/kultur-tourismus/stadtportraet/zahlen__fotos?sr=7584

[2] Dieter Mätschke: Heimatbuch Birgel . Düren 1981, p. 121 .

[Neugliederungsprogramm-3] Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 98 .

[4] 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. 306 .