Culture path Porz
The Porz Culture Path was a four-part cycle or hiking trail in the Porz district of Cologne . It is part of the Cologne Culture Trail . The path is prepared with information boards and leads along places of interest and buildings, although the path is not signposted and there are no more maps that can be purchased. The year of origin is unknown.
The texts listed below correspond to those on the information boards on the cultural objects. The numbering of the information board can be found in brackets at the beginning of the sections. The georeferences that are hidden behind the link "Map" each relate to the location of the information board.
Tour 1
Libur
Urbanus cross
(1.1) Map The Urbanus Cross was erected in 1729 together with five summer linden trees on the old Bonner Strasse. In 1948 the location was moved to Urbanusstrasse. The cross was dedicated to St. Urban , patron saint of grapevines.
Stompeler Cross
(1.2) Map A typical field cross that was erected in 1906 with 3 horse chestnuts.
Bröhl's cross
(1.3) Card memorial cross from 1882 for the married couple Jodokus Bröhl and Klara Küster. Two Dutch linden trees are accompanying trees (natural monument). The location shows the south side of the commons , the community corridor . The cross is a particularly careful sculptural work with elaborate console, profiles and niche edging. In the niche there is a statue of Our Lady.
Holser Cross
(1.4) Map Past the Pleienpool (Kleih-Kuhle) is the crossroads at an old intersection that led from Uckendorf via Stockum to Spich . The cast iron cross and sandstone base were erected in 1787 by the namesake couple. In 1900 it was destroyed and rebuilt.
.JPG)
Pastor-Huthmacher-Strasse
(1.5) Pastor-Huthmacher-Straße still shows evidence of the typical older buildings (end of the 19th century) in the hamlet of Libur (No. 2, 10, 16, 22). A uniform alignment is still missing. House no. 2 is a two-storey, gable-independent half-timbered house with a brick gable from the 19th century; No. 10 a small, two-storey, eaves-standing brick house, built around 1900; No. 16 a two-story half-timbered farmstead from the late 18th century with a plastered ground floor and a hipped roof; No. 22 a two-storey residential building (1882 inscribed. Dated) in a former courtyard, with a multi-colored brick facade, central projecting (ital. "Risalto": protrusion; part of a building that protrudes over its alignment line in full height, one differentiates middle- Side and corner risalit) with a gabled entrance area and Madonna in a niche.
St. Margareta
(1.6) Catholic parish church St. Margareta on Pastor-Huthmacher-Strasse, built 1909–1911 based on the design of Pastor Hubert Huthmacher, a neo-Gothic three-aisled brick basilica, the original interior (stone altars, pulpit, organ loft, windows, sculptures) have been well preserved is. Restored in 1981 according to monument conservation criteria. Next to the church is the old cemetery with tombstones dating back to 1650.
Margaret Cross
(1.7) The Margaret Cross was donated in 1874.
Urbach
Residential and commercial buildings at Frankfurter Str. 529
(1.22) Map Located directly at the intersection of the two Urbacher Hauptstraßen, the two-storey residential and commercial building built in 1903 is one of the few examples of urban-influenced Art Nouveau architecture that has survived in the village.
Frankfurter Strasse ensemble with Ossenbach mill
(1.23) Map In the historical urban context, the ensemble of one to two-story houses from the 19th and 20th centuries is a must. at the beginning of the 20th century: the rural. stamped building No. 511, 513 and No. 519, the former Issenbach-Müghle, a single-storey, gable-free half-timbered house (mid-19th century) with an elongated, eaves-side extension (1981-1983) total restoration, as well as No. 515, 527 u. 512 rural buildings with urban influences.
Maarhof
(1.24) The Maarhof, first mentioned in 1613, Frankfurter Strasse 540, a closed, four-wing courtyard from the 18th and 19th centuries. Century, has a two-storey mansion with a rich stucco facade (1896) and a crooked roof. The former farm buildings are made of brick. After giving up the lanschwirtschftl. The internal and external restoration and the conversion of the stables into a residential complex (1984/86) were used. The Maarhof was the culmination and highlight of the development on Frankfurter Straße. Despite all the changes, the complex is an indispensable part of the only partly rural structure of the place.
St. Bartolomew
(1.25) Map The Catholic parish church of St. Bartholomäus, Frankfurter Straße 522, was built in 1879/80 according to plans by H. Nagelschmidt as a three-aisled hall church with transept, choir and three semicircular apsides, built in the form of the Rhenish-Romanesque round arch style. The square tower dates from 1899. The east arch of the tower of the Romanesque predecessor is preserved in the current building. Parts of the interior of the old Urbach parish church have been preserved. The baroque organ front comes from Klein-St. Martin in Cologne. Main altar and ambo designed by H. Gernot (1970); interior color scheme from 1978.
Urbach cemetery
(1.27) Map This typical village cemetery was built at the time of the mayor's office on the outskirts of Heumar. The mixed-denominational cemetery contains graves from the 60s and 70s of the 19th century. A magnificent tomb made of white marble (1982) of Urbach's mayor Bernhard Sternenberg and his wife Eva, nee. Balchoss stands out. The USSR Memorial to the slave laborers killed in World War II is located on the site facing Mühlenweg.
Residential building at Frankfurter Strasse 482
(1.28) The two-storey, eaves-facing residential building with brick facade, arches, and anchor pins, built in 1880, is reminiscent of the original street scene.
Tour 2
Westhoven
Nicholas Chapel
(2.2) Map The St.-Agatha-Straße St.-Agatha-Straße, St.-Agatha-Straße, was consecrated to the patron saint of boatmen and was formerly part of the St. Heribert Abbey in Deutz. The small Romanesque hall building (restored 1959–1964) made of plastered tuff and pebble masonry with retracted rectangular choir, half-timbered gable and a roof turret is located in the middle of the former cemetery with old gravestones and iron crosses, which was used until 1929 (restored in 1987 by the Ensen-Westhoven citizens' association).
Langel
Fronhof
(2.7) Map Bounded by Frongasse, Rosengasse and Lülsdorfer Strasse is the Fronhof, first mentioned in 965 and then in 1225 in the land register of St. Pantaleon in Cologne. In 1633 the then 178 acre farm, the center of a manorial court association with a large number of dependent farms, was destroyed by a fire. In 1803, the newly built facility became the property of the Prussian state, which sold it to the Immendorff brothers in 1820. The Fronhof, which was rebuilt after severe damage in the Second World War and now partially changed, is the center of the Langeler Oberdorf in the immediate vicinity of the Church of St. Clemens.
St. Clement
→ See main article St. Clemens
(2.8) The Catholic parish church of St. Clemens, Lülsdorfer Straße 114, built in 1890/91 according to designs by the Cologne architect Heinrich Nagelschmidt , is a neo-Gothic three-aisled brick hall church.
So-called. Friedenseiche (natural monument)
(2.12) The "Peace Oak" was planted to commemorate the Franco-German War of 1870/71 and the establishment of the Empire in 1871 at the crossroads from the former Langeler Unterdorf to Lülsdorf and from Oberdorf to Zündorf.
Tour 3
Poll
Milk Maiden settlement
(3.1) On an area delimited by Siegburger Strasse, the railway line and the cemetery (Rolshover Kirchweg, Allerseelenstrasse, An den Maien), the "Milchmädchensiedlung" was built in 1919–1921 according to plans by E. Mewes in the urban style, based on the concept of " Urban living in the countryside ”. With it, the last pure single-family housing estate in Cologne was created. The urban center is the Efeuplatz with the “milkmaid” sculpture (around 1922). Although today the appearance has changed significantly, are originally The structure and structure of the settlement can still be seen clearly.
Altenberger Kreuzweg settlement
(3.2) The Altenberger Kreuzweg settlement was built in 1927–1929 according to plans by E. Mewes on the ground plan of an irregular pentagon (Am Altenberger Kreuz, Im Mittelfeld, Siegburger Strasse, Bahnstrasse) as an addition to the Milchmädchensiedlung with 15 multi-family and single-family houses arranged from symmetrical rows built. The urban center is the Dreifaltigkeitskirche, Am Altenberger Kreuz, newly created by K. Band 1951–1954, including the remains of the wall from its predecessor, who was destroyed in the war.
Old school bollard
(3.7) The school building, built around 1900 at Poller Hauptstrasse 61–65, has a richly decorated, multi-colored brick facade.
Brick and half-timbered houses from the 19th century
(3.8) The buildings Poller Hauptstrasse 33, 37, 43–47, 51, 53, 46–50, during, form an ensemble of one to two-storey, mostly gable-independent brick and half-timbered houses from the 19th century (partially renewed)
“Wilhelminian” houses
(3.9) Salmstraße still has a number of “Wilhelminian”, two-storey houses with stucco, brick and plastered facades built between 1880 and 1912 (No. 73–85, 91, 74, 76, 94).
St. Joseph
(3.10) In the center of the village, the Catholic parish church of St. Joseph, Kirchplatz 1a, was built according to plans by H. Nagelschmitz in 1862–1864 as an original neo-Gothic three-aisled brick basilica and, after severe war damage, since 1951 by A. Hauk while retaining the surrounding walls and the lower floors of the west tower and M. Krantz rebuilt. The choir furnishings were created by H. Rheindorf in 1955. A plague cross (1666) made of trachyte on the church square / corner of Poller Hauptstraße, in its current location since 1891.
Waterworks
(3.11) In 1904 the waterworks (technical monument) of the RGW (Rechtsrheinische Gas- und Wasserversorgung AG), Porzer Ringstrasse 1, erected in the former fortress pale away from all residential and industrial settlements , whose splendid, brick-structured plaster facade is visible from afar.
Ensen
America Cross
(3.15) Map The 4.20 m high so-called America Cross, made of sandstone, donated on August 7, 1869 by the American emigrant Balthasar Schmitz, born on the market square, stands. zu Ensen, whose parents ran their own farm on the site of today's market square.
Gremberghoven
Gremberghoven settlement
(3.20) Map A typical example of workers' settlements in the first third of the 20th century is the Gremberghoven settlement, 1919–1922 based on the idea of the garden city with large self-sufficiency gardens according to M. Kießlings for the employees of the Gremberg marshalling yard (laid out 1917– 1924). One to three storey one and Multi-family houses with plastered facades combine with streets and gardens on the elliptical settlement floor plan to form a spacious, symmetrically structured roundabout. Reconstruction in 1951 after war damage with certain changes.
Porz
Villa Dr. Hollstein, Villa Ahren, Villa Broicher
(3.27) The historic ensemble on Hauptstrasse includes the Villa Dr. Hollstein (No. 303), Villa Ahren (No. 305) and Villa Broicher (No. 307), which are located on the southern outskirts of old Porz in a privileged location near the Rhine. They were built between 1900 (Villa Dr. Hollstein) and 1912. Despite some modernization measures, the elaborate standard of living can still be seen. The Villa Dr. Hollstein still owns the front garden, the original wrought iron gates with the fencing, and the coach house. In the villa gardens there are still three copper beeches as natural monuments.
Tour 4
Zündorf
St. Michael
(4.11) St. Michael am Burgweg, the old parish church of Niederündorf (11th – 17th centuries), located on a slight hill above an old arm of the Rhine, is a Romanesque hall building with a richly decorated square tower with a diamond-shaped helmet (1170) in the west, three-sided Choir in the east, chapel in the south and sacristy (1662) in the north. The north aisle was demolished in 1906. Inside 2 panel paintings from the Barthel Bruyn School with Calvary a. Adoration of St. 3 kings (2nd half of the 16th century), a Merovingian tendril relief (7th century) a. 17th century gravestones. The walled cemetery area is of medieval origin; a grave cross dated 1630 on the entrance gate.
Historic buildings on Burgweg
(4.12) The 1½-storey half-timbered house (with plastered eaves) Burgweg no. 9 dates from 1677. The Bitzhof, Burgweg no. 12, dates from 1836. The two-story half-timbered house with a single external staircase was extensively restored in 1982 inside and out .
Börschhof
(4.18) The Börschhof (former Abtshof), Hauptstrasse 2, is a closed courtyard from 1780/81 with a two-storey, five-axis manor house and single-storey farm buildings (all in brick). The courtyard marks the southern border of Zündorf and, together with the other courtyards, shapes the village image along the main road.
literature
- City of Cologne (Hrsg.): Kulturpfade Stadtgebiet 7 (Porz) .
- Markus Eckstein: Culture Paths Cologne 06: Zündorf, Langel, Libur . JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-7616-2436-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ City of Cologne (ed.): Kulturpfade Stadtgebiet 7 (Porz) . No. 1.1 . Cologne, S. 6 (1990s).
- ^ City of Cologne (ed.): Kulturpfade Stadtgebiet 7 (Porz) . No. 1.2 . Cologne, S. 6 (1990s).
- ^ City of Cologne (ed.): Kulturpfade Stadtgebiet 7 (Porz) . No. 1.3 . Cologne, S. 6 (1990s).
- ^ City of Cologne (ed.): Kulturpfade Stadtgebiet 7 (Porz) . No. 1.4 . Cologne, S. 6.11 (1990s).
Coordinates: 50 ° 53 '16.9 " N , 7 ° 3' 10.6" E