Langweiler (Aldenhoven)

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Map with the location of the former village of Langweiler as well as of "Neu-Langweiler" in the Rhenish lignite district

Langweiler is a place near Aldenhoven in the Düren district that was lost due to open- cast lignite mining . He was in the triangle of the localities Hoengen , Warden (today both Alsdorf ) and Laurenzberg (also dredged, belonging to Eschweiler ). Langweiler belonged together with Laurenzberg, Lürken and Obermerz to the Catholic parish of Laurenzberg. Most of the residents opted for the resettlement site north of "Kalvarienbergstrasse" in Kinzweiler . The relocation was completed in 1970. The Kinzweiler vernacular called this district Neu-Langweiler .

In this "new Langweiler" several street names remind of the departed Langweiler:

  • Langweilerstrasse in Alsdorf-Hoengen
  • Langweilerstrasse in Niedermerz
  • Langweilerweg
  • Peter-Koch-Straße after Peter Koch (* 1929, † 1983), boring local politician
  • Konrad-Müller-Straße after Konrad Müller (* 1883; † 1968), zeppelin designer and pioneer, grew up in Langweiler and flew over Langweiler in a zeppelin on March 29, 1936
  • Viktoriastraße after the Boring Football Club Viktoria
  • Valentinstrasse named after the patron saint of the chapel in Obermerz

On July 1, 1969, Langweiler was officially incorporated into Niedermerz . Since June 1, 2014, the hamlet of Langweiler has belonged to Schleiden and no longer to Niedermerz .

The memorial stone "Langweiler" erected in 1985 at Blausteinsee says:

BORING 851 - 1969
650 inhabitants, 346.74 hectares
851 Lothar I gives tithes to Lanklar to the Münsterstift zu Aachen
1347 Dingstuhl court with 4 lay judges
14th century St. Cornelius Chapel, later St. Valentin Chapel in Obermerz
17th century St. Antonius Eremit Gasthaus Kapelle
1863 school
1953–1970 resettlement

Langweiler gave his name to several archaeological excavation sites: Langweiler 2, Langweiler 8 , Langweiler 9.

The hamlet of Aldenhoven is also named after the place .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 99 .
  2. ↑ Population figures on the municipality's website, Notes section ( Memento of the original dated January 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.aldenhoven.de

Coordinates: 50 ° 52 '  N , 6 ° 15'  E