Laurensberg
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Laurensberg
City of Aachen
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| Height : | 163 m |
| Residents : | 19,600 (2015) |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 1972 |
| Postal code : | 52070, 52072, 52074 |
| Area code : | 0241 |
 Location of Laurensberg in Aachen
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Laurensberg is a district and an urban district of Aachen .
In addition to Laurensberg itself, the districts of Orsbach , Seffent , Soers , Vaalserquartier and Vetschau belong to the Laurensberg district , as well as the Gut Kullen and Steppenberg residential areas and the outskirts of the Hörn district. This makes it the largest urban district in Aachen in terms of area.
Laurensberg is not to be confused with Laurenzberg , which was excavated in the 1970s and belongs to Eschweiler .
location
The Laurensberg district borders on the Aachen districts of Haaren , Aachen-Mitte and Richterich , the towns of Kohlscheid ( Herzogenrath ) and Würselen (like Aachen, both belong to the Aachen city region ), Kelmis in the Belgian province of Liège and Vaals , Gulpen-Wittem and Bocholtz (municipality Simpelveld ) in the Dutch province of Limburg .
The area of the entire Aachen-Laurensberg district is 2997 hectares with a population of 19,301 (as of 2003).
The city district is characterized by its art-historically interesting parish church of St. Laurentius , located on a hill, which is visible from afar . The highlight of the old town center is the Rahe Castle , which is surrounded by a wonderful park and the former court of a patrician family in Aachen , which the merchant Gerhard Heusch had converted into a stately four-winged palace in the 18th century.
history
A Roman sanctuary was located on the Laurensberger Kirchberg in Roman times, which was proven by the discovery of a stone of the four gods. There were also Roman mansions in the Laurensberg area.
A church was built on the Kirchberg in Carolingian times , which was first mentioned on October 17th, 870. With that document, Ludwig the German gave the Prüm Abbey the church ad antiquum campum , d. H. the church at the old Kamp, the now so named estate on the Kirchberg.
In 896 King Zwentibold of Lorraine gave the Seffent and Schurzelt estates to his relatives, the abbess Gisela von Nivelles , the daughter of King Lothar II of Lorraine . Later the church and with it probably also the courts fell back to the empire and thus to Archbishop Engelbert I of Cologne .
The first documented information about the place name St. Laurentii Bergh comes from the year 1218, when the archbishop donated the church to the Aachen Marienstift , of which he had previously been provost . At this point in time, Laurensberg and its parish church were the focus of an extensive parish to which Orsbach, Seffent, Laurensberg, Vetschau and Soers as well as Richterich, Scheid, Horbach and Steinstrass belonged.
Laurensberg was not an independent community until the 18th century, but formed an economy or a quarter in the Aachen Empire , the Berger Quartier, and belonged to the Grafschaft Pont .
The proximity of the Aachen Palatinate is probably the reason why royal ministerials settled early on in this area of the formerly Roman estates that had passed into Franconian fiscal possession, and numerous important estates were created, as a result of which agriculture, supported by the mills water-rich streams that remained dominant.
The wars and feuds that have been fought in the Aachen area over the centuries also left their mark on the Laurensberg community. Often plundered by angry hordes of soldiers, the residents had to co-finance the wars of defense of the magistrate of the Free Imperial City of Aachen with high contributions .
Only the time of the French Revolution brought about an upheaval with the dissolution of the old ties of the feudal system. Once again, during the Revolutionary Wars, the community had to endure billeting and the associated excesses on the part of the imperial and the French. Only when the entire area on the left bank of the Rhine came to France in 1797 did the armed conflicts cease.
Later during the two world wars there was no major destruction in Laurensberg. However, many Laurensbergers fell or went missing at the time. With the boundaries of the old parish, Laurensberg first became a municipality and then a Mairie ( mayor's office ) through the new administrative regulations . After the fall of Napoleon I , Laurensberg belonged to the Rhine Province and thus to Prussia . In addition to the former Berger quartier, the Laurensberg community also included three other former quarters of the Aachen Empire: the Soerser Quartier, the Orsbacher Quartier and the Vaalser Quartier.
On January 1, 1972, Laurensberg was incorporated into Aachen. In the last two decades before this incorporation, Laurensberg had developed into a suburb of Aachen with the help of generously open new residential areas in good locations. This trend has continued until today, which can be easily demonstrated by the increased number of inhabitants from 9,978 in 1970 to 20,436 at the end of 1995.
Since the beginning of the seventies, Laurensberg has housed the medical facilities of RWTH Aachen University in its field , i. H. the University Hospital Aachen with the affiliated research facilities of the RWTH Aachen as a whole.
The international CHIO horse show of the Aachen-Laurensberger Rennverein takes place in the Laurensberg district of Soers every year .
population
On December 31, 2015, 19,600 residents lived in Aachen-Laurensberg.
Structural data of the population in Laurensberg:
- Population density: 6.5 inhabitants per hectare (Aachen average: 15.8 inhabitants per hectare)
- Average age: 41.87 years (Aachen average: 40.63 years)
- Proportion of foreigners: 14.9% (Aachen average: 16.9%)
- Unemployment rate: 5.7% (Aachen average: 8.9%)
Web links
- Historical overview from the Aachen-Laurensberg district office
- http://www.aachen.de/DE/stadt_buerger/politik_verwaltung/stadtbezirke/laurensberg/
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- ↑ Population. (PDF) Retrieved April 16, 2018 .
- ↑ City of Aachen: Statistical Yearbook 2008/2009 ( Memento of the original dated February 3, 2013 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. (PDF; 1.6 MB)
- ^ 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. 305 .
