Lammersdorf

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Lammersdorf
community Simmerath
Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 54 ″  N , 6 ° 16 ′ 46 ″  E
Height : 539  (505-583)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 16.42 km²
Residents : 2422  (Dec. 31, 2012)
Population density : 148 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1972
Postal code : 52152
Area code : 02473
Lammersdorf (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Lammersdorf

Location of Lammersdorf in North Rhine-Westphalia
Lammersdorf, church
Lammersdorf, church

Lammersdorf is a district of Simmerath in the Aachen city region in North Rhine-Westphalia . With its 2422 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2012) Lammersdorf is the second largest town in the municipality of Simmerath. The western part of Lammersdorf is legally separated from the rest of the town by the Vennbahntrasse , as the railway body, with the former train station, is Belgian national territory and belongs to the Belgian municipality of Raeren . This part can only be reached from German soil by crossing the border and is one of the few German exclaves . The area of ​​the exclave extends from Lammersdorf between the border with Belgium and the Vennbahn to Roetgen .

history

The Belgian railway line of the disused Vennbahn "separates" Lammersdorf as well

Until the end of 1971 Lammersdorf belonged as an independent municipality to the also dissolved district of Monschau (see Aachen Law ). On January 1, 1972 Lammersdorf was incorporated into Simmerath.

The Eifel town "Lammersdorf", which in earlier years was nicknamed "At the foot of the High Fens", was evidently mentioned for the first time in a document as "Lamberscheyt" in 1361 and is therefore one of the oldest villages in the Monschauer Land. The development of the small community was initially similar to that in most of the villages in the North Eifel. Until the conquest of the Left Bank of the Rhine by the French revolutionary troops (1794), Lammersdorf belonged to the Duchy of Jülich and in 1798 became the seat of a Mairie as part of the Rur department . After the defeat of France, the Eifelort became part of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815 and became the seat of a mayor's office in 1816 . In 1850 this mayor's office was dissolved and the municipality of Lammersdorf was assigned to the mayor's office of Simmerath.

The boggy Venn area, interrupted by primeval oak and beech forests, extended right up to the town center until around 1900. This consisted of some stately farms and a small church built around 1700. The barren ground gave little more than the grass on which the cows could graze. The pigs were driven into the surrounding oak forests for fattening. The hard life of farmers and artisans was characterized by a strong bond with the Catholic Church.

With the establishment of Otto Junker GmbH in 1924, a lot changed. More and more people came to Lammersdorf to find work and a new home here. Around 1960 the industrial furnace and mechanical engineering company Junker reached its peak with around 1200 employees. No wonder that as the company expanded, so did the population. Wherever there are many people, business also flourishes. Around 1955 there were more than 50 shops and craft businesses in Lammersdorf.

Towards the end of the Second World War , Lammersdorf became a staging area for the fighting in the Hürtgen Forest . More than 300 residents who had resisted the evacuation and stayed in their houses had to endure the shell fire by the German Wehrmacht and the almost six months of occupation by Allied troops. It is estimated that between 4,000 and 6,000 grenades were shot at Lammersdorf. At the beginning of the 1950s, a new, better time dawned for Lammersdorf and its residents.

After the end of World War II, Belgium planned to annex the exclave created by the Vennbahn, but dropped these plans again in April 1949.

The German-Belgian border treaty of 1956 last regulated, among other things, the return of certain areas in the area of ​​what is now Lammersdorf. This took place on August 28, 1958 ( Federal Law Gazette II p. 262 ).

During the Cold War , Lammersdorf was one of the transmitter sites for the NATO communication system ACE High .

Culture and sights

Lammersdorf Farm Museum

Lammersdorf Farm Museum

The idea of ​​founding a local history museum in Lammersdorf / Eifel was born in 1983 when the Lammersdorf teacher and local friend H. Jürgen Siebertz came up with the idea of ​​collecting as many farm implements as possible and making them accessible to the public. Hundreds of exhibits came together within a few months and were initially housed in a cellar and storage shed. A year later the time had come: on September 23, 1984, the farmer's museum was opened as part of a village festival.

The Association for Local History and Village Culture Lammersdorf e. V. is the operator of the museum. Many volunteers and helpers have restored and maintained this old Eifel farmhouse and the exhibits there over many years. This museum is maintained and financed through membership fees, donations, entrance fees and events such as the annual children's theater shortly before Christmas. The furnishings in the museum are designed as if the residents had just left the house to go about their daily work.

Buildings

Events

  • annual Highland Games North Eifel

Tourism and local recreation

Established businesses

Otto Junker GmbH, the largest employer in Simmerath-Lammersdorf

The largest employer in the municipality of Simmerath is Otto Junker GmbH, with its headquarters in Lammersdorf.

Honorary citizen

literature

  • H. Jürgen Siebertz: The history of the elementary school Lammersdorf. Helios-Verlag, Aachen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86933-086-0 .
  • H. Jürgen Siebertz: Height 554 - The fighting on the first Westwall line in the Roetgen-Lammersdorf section and around the Paustenbacher Berg, autumn 1944. Helios-Verlag, Aachen 2010, ISBN 978-3-86933-036-5 .
  • H. Jürgen Siebertz, Bernd Läufer: That was Lammersdorf. Volume 2: The 1930s and 1940s. Helios-Verlag, Aachen 2009, ISBN 978-3-86933-011-2 .
  • H. Jürgen Siebertz, Bernd Läufer: That was Lammersdorf. Volume 1: From the beginning to the 1920s. Helios-Verlag, Aachen 2008, ISBN 978-3-938208-81-6 .
  • H. Jürgen Siebertz: The heyday - industry, craft and business life in Lammersdor / Eifel. Helios-Verlag, Aachen 2007, ISBN 978-3-938208-60-1 .
  • H. Jürgen Siebertz: Everything in Butter - The 50s in Lammersdorf / Eifel. Helios-Verlag, Aachen 2007, ISBN 978-3-938208-46-5 .
  • H. Jürgen Siebertz: Schwellmänn, Trevvel and Makkei - The post-war years in Lammersdorf / Eifel. Helios-Verlag, Aachen 2006, ISBN 3-938208-25-2 .
  • H. Jürgen Siebertz: Save yourself - who can! The 2nd World War in Lammersdorf / Eifel - A documentation. Helios-Verlag, Aachen 2005, ISBN 3-938208-08-2 .
  • H. Jürgen Siebertz: The smallpox, chronology of a catastrophe in Monschauer Land 1962. Documentation. Helios-Verlag, Aachen 2011, ISBN 978-3-86933-065-5 .
  • H. Jürgen Siebertz: The 2nd World War in Rollesbroich and the years after , documentation, Helios-Verlag, Aachen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86933-100-3 .
  • Läufer, Bernd: From the fire horn to the siren - the story of a volunteer fire brigade , self-published in 1988.
  • Läufer, Bernd: News of the strangest incidents , chronicle of the communities Lammersdorf, Zweifall and Mulartshütte 1813 to 1851, Helios-Verlag, Aachen 2006.
  • Josef Kreitz, Herbert Arens: Catholic parish then and now , Offermann-Druck, Roetgen, 1980.
  • H. Jürgen Siebertz: We post-war children - childhood and youth in the Monschauer Land. Helios-Verlag, Aachen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86933-104-1 .

Web links

Commons : Lammersdorf (Simmerath)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population figures in the community of Simmerath (main residence) at www.simmerath.de
  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. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Archives in NRW - Administrative affiliation of the municipality of Simmerath@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.archive.nrw.de
  4. ↑ Bettina Blank : The West German States and the Emergence of the Federal Republic , Munich 1995, p. 220 (online)
  5. ↑ Bike tour on the Vennbahn route: three days, three countries . In: Spiegel Online . June 19, 2015 ( spiegel.de [accessed March 14, 2018]).