Quettingen

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Catholic Church of St. Mary of the Rosary Queen

Quettingen is a district of Leverkusen with an area of ​​346 ha, a population of 12573 (September 30, 2019) and with a population density of 3732 inhabitants per km² (2007) has the densest settlement of all 13 Leverkusen districts. The geographical center of the city of Leverkusen is in Quettingen.

location

Location of Quettingens as a district of Leverkusen or the former city of Opladen

Quettingen is located in the middle of Leverkusen. It borders Lützenkirchen in the east , Opladen and Küppersteg in the west, Bergisch Neukirchen in the north and the BAB 1 and Alkenrath in the south . Quettingen includes the villages of Fixheide (with an industrial park, southwest), Feldsiefen (south, on the edge of the Bürgerbusch forest along the Köttelbach ) and north Neucronenberg and parts of Biesenbach (along the Wiembach , called "Tillmanns Loch" and "Hummel").

politics

Quettingen belongs to District II of the city of Leverkusen. In the 2014 local elections in Quettingen-East Christina Richerzhagen (CDU) and in Quettingen-West Oliver Ruß (SPD) were directly elected to the City Council of Leverkusen.

history

The Hagelkreuz on Quettinger Strasse

The first documentary mention of Quettingen as Quettingheim can be traced back to the year 1209, and in 1216 a Franco de Quettingheim is a witness in a document of Count Adolf III. listed by Berg . A small farm, the Mönchhof , belonged to the Heisterbach Abbey until 1391 , when it came into the possession of the Counts of Berg . In 1402 it became the property of Altenberg Abbey in exchange for the Duisburg tithe . The first mention of the Quettinger Hof , an agricultural property with a homestead, is recorded in 1377. The Quettinger Hof was divided into Oberhof and Unterhof in 1423. With the Mönchhof, the Oberquettinger Hof (now Maashof ) and the Unterquettingen Hof (now Mebushof ) came to the County of Morsbroich in 1808 .

At the beginning of the 20th century, the number of inhabitants increased sharply due to the establishment of the main workshop of the Prussian State Railways in 1903 , later called the railway repair shop and located between Opladen and Quettingen. The population of Quettingen consisted mainly of factory workers and small business people. From 1914 to 1955, the Opladen - Lützenkirchen small railway ran from Opladen, Rennbaumstraße via Lützenkirchener Straße to Lützenkirchen. A factory connection branched off at Feldstrasse to the Tillmanns factory in Neucronenberg and existed a few years later; for so long individual freight cars could be seen on the lower Lützenkirchener Strasse.

In the course of municipal reform Quettingen in 1930 along with Lützenkirchen by Opladen incorporated. During the municipal reform in 1975 Quettingen came to Leverkusen with Opladen.

On December 28, 1944, several houses in Maashofstrasse were destroyed in a bombing raid, killing 28 people. The attack was aimed at the railway facilities and the railway repair shop in Opladen.

Monuments

The base of the hail cross, dated 1703.

Several objects are listed for Quettingen in the list of monuments of the city of Leverkusen:

  • The “Maashof” or “Oberquettiner Hof”, Quettinger Straße 126. The two-story residential building with plastered quarry stone ground floor and half-timbered upper floor has been modernized recently. The former Kameralgut agricultural domain Quettingen was registered on 7 October 1984 under no. 142 as a memorial.
  • A hail cross in front of the house at Quettinger Straße 47 can be dated to 1703. The substructure has a shell niche and bears an inscription, the cross attachment has three-pass ornamentation and wounds. The cross was placed under protection on October 16, 1984 under No. 145.
  • From the ensemble of buildings of the former Tillmanns wood screw factory in Neucronenberg, two listed industrial villas - both called "Villa Tillmanns" - that were built around the turn of the 20th century have been preserved:
    • in Neucronenberger Straße 41 a two-storey plastered building with a hipped roof in three axes, a dominant entrance porch with an outside staircase and baluster parapet and in the lower slope with an artistically designed staircase with a pillar pergola , including a landscape park with details in the style of Romanticism. The ensemble was entered in the list of monuments on September 21, 1987 under No. 226. From 2000, the villa was temporarily owned by Rudi Völler ("Villa Völler"); it burned down at the end of 2001 during renovation work as a result of arson.
    • At Neukronenberger Straße 47, there is also a two-storey plastered building on a multi-part floor plan and rich facade decoration, lavish interior design with stairs and winter garden, and also a landscape park in the English style , extended in 1906 and placed under protection on January 27, 1967 (No. 202).
    • The remains of the former Tillmann factory were placed under protection on January 30, 1987 (No. 205). The “stepped gable hall”, another brick hall with arched windows, the attached steel framework hall and a separate chimney stump were preserved. After fires in 1987 and 2002, the remains were demolished in January 2007 and the property was deleted from the list of monuments on July 18, 2007.
  • In 1960, the first petrol station in the vicinity was built in Quettingen on Lützenkirchener Strasse . The large tapping system built in the shape of a mushroom in the Bauhaus style has been a listed building since October 25, 1999 (No. 300).

schools

On January 7, 1857, the one-class Catholic elementary school began teaching. Teacher Balthasar Höffgen taught 134 students in the school building on the corner of what is now Quettinger Strasse and Pfarrer-Jekel-Strasse. Although the number of pupils soon increased due to industrialization, the schoolhouse was not expanded until 1878 and Mrs. Josephine Wegener was employed as the second teacher. In addition, there was another class with 30 children at the factory school of the Tillmann company in Neucronenberg, which was also taught by teacher Höffgen. In 1901 the southern part of today's school building was built as a new building with four classrooms and in 1950 it was expanded to the size of today's old building. The gym was added in 1960 and from 1965 to 1969 a new class wing and a break hall. In 1968 the elementary school became the Catholic elementary school , which in 1982 was named Don Bosco School.

The proportion of the Protestant population increased significantly at the beginning of the 20th century. On May 1, 1908, the newly founded Protestant school in Quettingen moved into a classroom in the old Catholic school in Quettingen. It received its current building on Herderstrasse in 1952.

Parishes

In 1913/1914 the Catholic Church on Quettinger Strasse was built by the building contractor August Hohmann from Opladen as a branch church of St. Maurinus (Lützenkirchen) and on May 24, 1914, Pastor Adam Wirtz from Lützenkirchen gave it the title of St. Maria Rosary Queen. At first it was shorter than it is today and only had a roof turret. It was given a church tower and three bells in 1937. The church was not consecrated until October 6, 1947 by the Cologne auxiliary bishop Dr. Wilhelm Stockums . In 1956/57 the chancel was redesigned, in 1969 a fundamental renovation took place with redesign of the interior according to the specifications of the 2nd Vatican Council , the tower and the forecourt.

In 1925 St. Maria Rosenkranzkönigin Quettingen was raised to an independent chapel congregation and in 1930 to a rectorate parish with its own pastor, on September 15, 1963 it became a canonical parish . On January 1, 2011, the merger with the parish of St. Maurinus Lützenkirchen took place to form the new parish of St. Maurinus and Marien , after a joint parish association had existed since 2003 and the "Lützenkirchen / Quettingen parish community" had existed since 2005 . The two churches in the new parish keep their previous names “St. Maria Rosary Queen " and " St. Maurinus ” . The parish church is St. Maurinus.

Evangelical church at the community center, Kolberger Strasse

The Catholic parish on Holzer Weg has had a cemetery since 1931, which was given a cemetery chapel in 1971. In 1949 the community opened a kindergarten in the old school that the city had bought. The building built in 1857 on the corner of Quettinger Strasse and Schulstrasse (later renamed Pfarrer-Jekel-Strasse) was named "Marienheim"; Sisters from the Order of Recollects also lived there, who worked in kindergarten, home nursing and church service. In 1965 a new nurses' home with a kindergarten, library and priestly apartments was built next to the church. The old building was demolished.

The Protestant Christians belonged to the Bergisch Neukirchen community until 1951 and then to Opladen. In 1954 Quettingen's own pastor's office was set up and a provisional parish hall on Herderstrasse was put into operation. On June 24, 1962, the foundation stone for the Protestant community center with church, kindergarten and rectory was laid on Bahnstrasse (today: Kolberger Strasse) / corner of Jakobistrasse, which was inaugurated on February 9, 1964.

Industry and commerce

In the south-western district of Fixheide is the “Fixheide industrial area”, a commercial and industrial area that was created in the 1950s and is home to around 200 companies.

Transport links

After the discontinuation of the small train from Opladen via Quettingen to Lützenkirchen in 1955, buses of the Rhein-Wupper-Kreis took over the traffic service on Lützenkirchener Straße, later a second line was added on Quettinger Straße. In 1969 the traffic was transferred to the Kraftverkehr Wupper-Sieg company .

Today Quettingen is affected by the following lines within the framework of the Rhein-Sieg transport association :

  • Line 201 Lützenkirchen, Forellental - Lützenkirchener Straße - Opladen bus station. - Leverkusen-Mitte train station - Chempark S-Bahn station
  • Line 205 Opladen, bus station. - New Bahnstadt Opladen , Funkenturm - Lützenkirchener Straße - Lützenkirchen - Steinbüchel - Schlebusch - Schlebusch, Stadtbahn
  • Line 206 Mathildenhof, Potsdamer Straße - Steinbüchel - Lützenkirchen - Quettinger Straße - Opladen, bus station. - Langenfeld S-Bahnhof - Langenfeld, Turnerstrasse
  • Line 209 Leverkusen-Mitte train station - Schlebusch train station - Klinikum - Alkenrath - Quettingen Schützenplatz
  • Line 214 Fixheide, Benzstraße - Alkenrath - Museum Morsbroich - Tax Office - Leverkusen Mitte (only on the edge of the day)
  • Line 235 Lützenkirchen - Maurinusstraße - Biesenbach - Lützenkirchen (Monday to Friday, with minibuses)
  • Line SB 20 (express bus) Lützenkirchen, Forellental - Quettinger Straße - Leverkusen-Mitte train station
  • Line N 21 (night bus) Lützenkirchen, Forellental - Lützenkirchener Straße - Opladen bus station. - Küppersteg - Leverkusen Mitte station.
  • Line N 22 (night bus) Opladen Busbf. - Küppersteg - BayArena - Schlebusch Bf - Klinikum - Schlebusch Stadtbahn - Alkenrath - Quettinger Straße - Neue Bahnstadt Opladen, Funkenturm - Opladen

Personalities

societies

  • TuS 05 Quettingen is one of the largest sports clubs in Leverkusen. In 2005 it celebrated its 100th anniversary. The former Bundesliga professional Knut Reinhardt began his football career there . The club currently plays in the district league C (2019/2020 season) in the Solingen district of the Niederrhein football association.
  • The DJK Quettingen, the largest table tennis club in Leverkusen, celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2013.
  • The church choir "Cäcilia" has existed since 1919, the Catholic women's community ( kfd ) since 1920.
  • The Kolping Family and the Catholic Workers' Movement were founded in Quettingen in 1949.
  • There are two shooting clubs in Quettingen: the Bürgererschützengesellschaft Quettingen e. V. 2006 and the St. Sebastianus Schützenbruderschaft Quettingen from 1928.

Facilities

  • Evangelical day care center, Herderstraße 25
  • Catholic day care center St. Maria Rosenkranzkönigin , Quettinger Straße 109
  • Catholic day care center Maximilian Kolbe , Pommernstrasse 125
  • Municipal kindergarten, Am Quettinger Feld 28
  • Municipal kindergarten, Stralsunder Strasse 3
  • Day care center “Kinderhaus Am Bürgerbusch”, Feldsiefer Weg 12
  • Catholic Primary School Don-Bosco -Schule, Quettinger Straße 90
  • Community elementary school, Herderstraße 10
  • Community secondary school, Neucronenberger Straße 81

Web links

Commons : Quettingen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ leverkusen.de: Population statistics , accessed on December 4, 2019.
  2. ^ Structural data of the quarters in Leverkusen - December 31, 2007, Reports on Urban Research, Issue 69, (Ed.) City of Leverkusen, June 2008
  3. ^ Hans Mosler: The Cistercian Abbey Altenberg. In: Germania Sacra new episode 2. Berlin 1965, p. 108.
  4. ↑ These and many of the following information can be found at: Rolf Müller: Upladhin. Opladen 1974.
  5. ^ Rolf Müller: Upladhin. Opladen 1974, p. 62.
  6. ↑ Leverkusen list of monuments
  7. ↑ Bernd Imgrund , Nina Osmers : 111 places in the Cologne area that you have to see , Verlag Emons, Cologne, 2010, ISBN 978-3-89705-777-7 , place 60
  8. ^ Heinrich Backhaus: 125 years of the Catholic School Leverkusen-Quettingen 1857-1982 , o. O. (Leverkusen) o. J. (1982), 6-14; Parish council of St. Maria Rosenkranzkönigin (Ed.): 75 years of the Church in Quettingen 1914-1989 , Leverkusen-Quettingen 1989, 28-39
  9. ^ Official Journal of the Archdiocese of Cologne, Volume 151, Item 1, January 1, 2011, No. 7, p. 5
  10. ↑ wfl Economic Development Leverkusen
    Rolf Müller: Upladhin - Opladen. Stadtchronik , Opladen 1974, pp. 426–429.
  11. ↑ http://www.leverkusen.com/presse/db/presse.php?view=00023790
  12. ↑ djk-quettingen.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′  N , 7 ° 1 ′  E