Limperic

Limperic Federal city of Bonn Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 37 ″  N , 7 ° 8 ′ 3 ″  E
Height :	57 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	5492  (Dec. 2018)
Incorporation :	1st August 1969
Postal code :	53227
Area code :	0228
Location of the Limperich district in the Beuel district of Bonn

"Northernmost vineyard in the Rhineland" on the slopes of the Finkenberg

Metropolitan Church of Agia Trias

Limperich is a district of the federal city of Bonn in the Beuel district . It belongs to the statistical districts Li-Kü-Ra , consisting of Limperich, Küdinghoven and Ramersdorf , and Beuel-Süd .

geography

Limperich borders in the north on Beuel-Mitte , in the east on Küdinghoven, in the south-west on Ramersdorf, in the south on Oberkassel and in the west on the Rhine . Limperich and Küdinghoven form the central terrace of the Siebengebirge towards Beuel . The highest point is the Finkenberg . The soil in the Limperich area is generally loamy .

history

Limperich is one of the oldest in its region. Its first documentary mention dates back to 922 AD in the form of a deed of donation from Archbishop Hermann I.

In the 12th century Limperich was under the rule of the Knights of the Löwenburg (today Bad Honnef ). In the 16th century, Anabaptism was widespread in some parts of the Beuler Rhine side, including Limperich. On February 27, 1784, there was a great flood of the Rhine , from which Limperich, among others, was severely affected. During the Second World War , the quarry on the Finkenberg was the place of execution for Polish slave laborers .

Until the 1970s and 1980s, large areas of Limperich were arable land.

Surname

The name Limperich has an interesting history. Initially the place is known as "Lintberg" or "Limberg", which today can be interpreted as Lindenberg. Lindenberg can have several meanings in this case: First, the linden population widespread in the region and, second, “mild” or small mountain. This can be explained by the fact that the Finkenberg is much smaller than the Siebengebirge. In 1297 the place was called "Limperg", then in 1436 "Lympurch". For someone who knows the Rhenish language, it is then only a small step to the place name "Limperich".

Population development

year	Residents
1816	271
1843	316
1871	411
1905	941
1961	3,178

Infrastructure

Limperich is mostly inhabited. There are resources for daily needs. Otherwise, Limperich is oriented towards Beuel-Mitte, but above all towards Bonn city center. There is a Catholic , a Protestant and a Greek Orthodox church in Limperich (seat of the Greek Orthodox metropolis of Germany ). The district has very good transport connections, on the one hand by the Siebengebirgsbahn (tram line 62) and the bus routes 606 and 607, and on the other hand by the federal motorways A 59 and A 562 . Right next to the Rhine is the Rheinaue leisure park , which on the Beuel side largely consists of meadow areas. With the settlement of T-Mobile in nearby Ramersdorf, several thousand jobs have been created in the vicinity over the past few years.

On the north-western border of the district , the house on the Rhine designed by Ernst van Dorp has been the boat and club house of the Bonn Rowing Society , one of the largest clubs in the German Rowing Association , since 1975/76 .

Catholic Church

→ Main article : Holy Cross Church (Limperich)

The Catholic parish Heilig Kreuz Limperich was separated from the mother parish of St. Gallus Küdinghoven late . In 1960 Limperich became an independent parish, in 1968 the large parish church Heilig Kreuz (popularly called Limperich Cathedral ), which was also a school church for the neighboring Cardinal Frings grammar school and (until 2005) a monastery church for the Order of the Cross, was solemnly consecrated.

Limperich Castle

→ Main article : Limperich Castle

Limperich Castle is first mentioned in 1285 as the property of a noble family and also served as the seat of the Lords of Limperich. The property was sold to Frank Nesselrode in 1688, who transformed it into a baroque mansion . The castle has undergone a lot of renovation, conversion, relocation and demolition work and is therefore no longer a property today, but rather resembles an ordinary house with a good plot of land. Today the castle serves as the seat of the Bonn local association (G03) of the German Amateur Radio Club as well as the interest group of Bonner Funkamateure to promote international understanding and international sentiment .

Viticulture

The first documentary mention already mentions viticulture. The Cologne Monastery of the Thousand Virgins ( St. Ursula ) already owned a vine here. The first documentary mention of the vine that can still be seen today, which is currently owned by the Limpericher Bürgererverein e. V. is recultivated was in the year 922. This vineyard was sometimes called the “northernmost vineyard in the world”, but was generally known as the “northernmost vineyard in the Rhineland”. Were grown Müller-Thurgau , Riesling and Blue Portugal . In 1992 three of the terrace walls were restored. Since 2004, 50 years after cultivation was discontinued, 500 vines have been planted again on the once 5000 m² vineyard, with more to follow.

Art in public space

Reinhard Puch : Chord I on the Finkenberg

On July 20, 2007, Akkord I , a steel sculpture by Reinhard Puch , was unveiled on the Finkenberg . The initiative came from the “ Monument and History Association Bonn-Rechtsrheinisch e. V. ". The work of art should point to the multifaceted history of the Finkenberg.

See also

• List of architectural monuments in the Limperich district of Bonn
• List of crosses and wayside shrines in the Limperich district of Bonn

Web links

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

• Limperich Citizens' Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population in Bonn by districts (according to the main statute) on December 31 , 2018 , Federal City of Bonn - Statistics Office, February 2019
2. ^ Community encyclopedia Prussia , 1871 and 1905; Overview ... of the government district of Cologne , 1816 and 1843.
3. ^ Contributions to the statistics of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, special series of the population census 1961. Issue 2 b, Düsseldorf 1963, p. 59.
4. ^ Ingeborg Flagge : Architecture in Bonn after 1945: Buildings in the federal capital and its surroundings . Verlag Ludwig Röhrscheid, Bonn 1984, ISBN 3-7928-0479-4 , p. 158 .