Longerich (Cologne)
 district 506 of Cologne |
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 59 '42 " N , 6 ° 55' 14" E |
| surface | 6.143 km² |
| Residents | 13,724 (Dec. 31, 2017) |
| Population density | 2234 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation | Apr 1, 1888 |
| Postcodes | 50737, 50739 |
| prefix | 0221 |
| Borough | Trinkets (5) |
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| Railway lines | S 6 S 11 |
| Light rail lines | 15th 12 |
| Bus routes | 121 125 127 139 |
| Source: 2017 residents . (PDF) Cologne district information | |
Longerich is a district of Cologne on the left bank of the Rhine in the Nippes district .
geography
Longerich borders the Niehl district in the east, Weidenpesch and Bilderstöckchen in the south, Ossendorf in the west and Lindweiler , Heimersdorf and Seeberg in the north . The district consists of several Veedeln , as they are called in Cologne. These are the old village of Longerich, which existed in the early Middle Ages at the latest, as well as the old and new garden cities and the so-called Hungarian settlement.
history
The Longerich call Longerich dialect "Lunke". Accordingly, it is called "Lunke Alaaf" in the carnival . The word is derived from Lunrike / Lunreke and is an abbreviation of -iacum, which is a reference to the Roman era. Since Longerich was on the westernmost of the three Roman road connections from Cologne to Neuss , settlement in Roman times cannot be ruled out. However, in Roman times this road was mainly used when the two roads closer to the Rhine were not passable due to flooding.
Little is known about the time in the Middle Ages . Shortly after 900 the first documentary mention takes place, the first mention of the church comes from the year 1080; possibly there was a church of its own as early as the 9th century. A successor building from 1797, which used the tower of the previous church, was demolished in 1913, after the new building on a neighboring property was completed in 1900. Until 1794 Longerich belonged to the Dingstuhl Griesberg in the Electoral Cologne district of Hülchrath . In 1794 the French and 1815 the Prussian period began in Longerich. While it was part of the French state , large parts of today's Nippes district belonged to the Mairie de Longerich , from which the Longerich mayor's office emerged in 1815. In 1886 the villages of Nippes , Mauenheim and Riehl were separated from the municipality of Longerich. On April 1, 1888, the Mayor's Office Longerich was incorporated into Cologne.
After the relocation of the old church to the neighboring area, a park (Kriegerplatz) was built on the old church square in memory of those who fell in the wars of the last century, which is dominated by a war memorial. Longerich suffered great damage during the Second World War . After 1956, Longerich grew to many times its previous size with the construction of the New Garden City .
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Population structure
Structure of the population of Cologne-Longerich:
- Share of under 18-year-olds: 15.2% (2014)
- Share of people over 64 years of age: 23.1% (2014)
- Proportion of foreigners: 12.8% (2015)
- Unemployment rate: 6.6% (2014)
Longericher quarter
Alt-Longerich
For many centuries, Longerich was a farming village northwest of Cologne. With the construction of the Cologne-Neuss-Krefeld railway in 1855, Longerich got a train station, which was initially built a few hundred meters north of the village. Only in 1934 was the station rebuilt on the outskirts of the village. Today only the trains of the S-Bahn line S 11 stop there . The elementary school in Alt-Longerich was founded in 1832 by the then mayor Franz Carl Denhoven. The Catholic parish church of St. Dionysius (architect: Vincenz Statz ), built in a neo-Gothic style in 1899, is located in the middle of the historic town center.
Old garden city
The Alte Gartenstadt-Nord was founded in 1936. It consisted of massive single-family houses and relatively large gardens for self-sufficiency with vegetables, fruit and also chickens. During the Second World War, some of these houses were hit by incendiary bombs, but neighborhood help prevented worse, so there was no major damage from the war. Between 1950 and 1952 the parish church of Christ König was built there (architect: Fritz Schaller ), the parish of which covered the eastern part of the district.
Hungarian settlement
The 1956 Hungarian uprising resulted in a large wave of refugees, with some refugees arriving in Longerich. The so-called Hungarian settlement, made up of several rows of terraced houses between Johannes-Rings- Strasse and the military ring on Meerfeldstrasse, was originally occupied by rows of Hungarian and German residents in order to avoid the appearance of a ghetto .
New garden city
On the occasion of the Katholikentag in Cologne in 1956, the foundation stone of the so-called "Katholikentagssiedlung" was laid in the New Garden City in Longerich, which was built on an area originally mostly used for agriculture as a settlement with single-family houses for large Catholic families. The official groundbreaking ceremony was held by the District President of Cologne, Dr. Wilhelm Warsch on July 16, 1956, the inauguration of the completed settlement took place on September 12, 1959 by the Archbishop of Cologne, Josef Cardinal Frings .
Within this settlement, which was at times the settlement with the largest number of children in Europe, the Catholic parish church of St. Bernhard was built in 1961 (architect: Fritz Lill) and in 1963 the Protestant Immanuelkirche (architect: Gottfried Tucholski). From 2004, the two formerly independent Catholic parishes in the garden city formed a joint parish of Christ König and St. Bernhard with two churches. In the spring of 2008, the St. Bernhard Church was reopened after almost two years of restoration work because of a dilapidated roof. Since January 1, 2010, all Catholic churches in Longerich (including the neighboring district of Cologne-Lindweiler ) have been united in a common parish under the patronage of the old parish of St. Dionysius.
Infrastructure
After the complete destruction of the Cellitinnen monastery in Cologne's Kupfergasse in 1943, a new motherhouse of the order was built in 1959 in Graseggerstrasse . However, the sisters 'initial plans to build a senior citizens' home on their premises were not implemented. Alternatively, the Heilig Geist Hospital, completed in January 1964, was built. The house was designed for 330 patients. In 2007 a large medical center was added and modernized. It bears a capital "C" on its front as a sign of the order.
There are four churches in Longerich (three Roman Catholic : St. Dionysius, Christ König and St. Bernhard; one Protestant : Immanuelkirche) and two chapels. One of the two is the former Luther Chapel , which the Protestant community converted from an old stable into a place of worship in 1933. Today this chapel serves as a church for the Ethiopian Orthodox community.
The old town center has numerous retail shops on the main shopping streets Longericher Hauptstraße and Grethenstraße, and further business islands are located in the areas of the garden city. In the north of the district is the Liège barracks of the Bundeswehr. Here, on October 5, 2006, the Bundeswehr headquarters (since December 1, 2012 Federal Office for Personnel Management of the Bundeswehr ) was put into service.
traffic
The Köln-Longerich station is on the Cologne – Kleve railway line . Longerich is connected to local public transport by S-Bahn and Stadtbahn (line 15 and line 12, which is tangent to the southeastern edge). Bus routes connect Longerich from the central Longericher Straße stop and the S-Bahn station with other parts of the city.
The connection to the regional road network is mainly via the Cologne-Longerich junction of the A 57 motorway . The junction Köln-Nord, and thus the A 1 can be reached directly from this connection point. The north-eastern end of the district is affected by the B 9 .
Sports
The traditional sports in Longerich include handball , which is represented by the Longericher Sport Club in the 3rd handball league, and cycling . The RRC “Günther 1921” Cologne-Longerich has not only organized the popular “Cologne Classic” (formerly “Rund um Longerich”) cycle race in Longerich since 1952 on Whit Monday , but also has a three-time world champion in Wilfried Peffgen .
present
Today Longerich is a district dominated by single-family housing estates and criss-crossed by green spaces. In the old part of the village with its traditional way of life, the environment is strongly influenced by club life and the parish. There are two carnival associations that organize a large parade in the district , a rifle club that celebrates its annual rifle festival , the Longerich volunteer fire brigade, which also organizes a festival once a year, and a civic association that campaigns for the interests of the Longerich citizens. There are three children's choirs, a youth choir, four church choirs, a male choir, a nationally recognized chamber choir , a brass orchestra, several rock and pop bands as well as two music schools and numerous concert events throughout the district area . There is also a square dance club.
See also
- List of architectural monuments in Cologne's Longerich district
- List of stumbling blocks in Cologne's Longerich district
literature
- Stephanie Habeth-Allhorn: 175 years of Cellitinnen at St. Maria in the Kupfergasse, a social-charitable religious order in the heart of Cologne. Bachem, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-7616-1768-2 .
- Maria Herrig: Our lively garden city north. A look back at an (almost) forgotten Cologne Veedel. Self-published, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-034501-2 http://www.gartenstadtnord.de/
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Inhabitants according to selected age groups - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de
- ↑ Inhabitants according to selected age groups - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de
- ↑ Inhabitants by type of migration background - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de
- ↑ Employed and unemployed part of the city - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de
- ↑ Stephanie Habeth-Allhorn: 175 years of Cellitinnen zur St. Maria in the Kupfergasse, a social-charitable religious order in the heart of Cologne. Bachem, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-7616-1768-2 , p. 85 ff.
- ↑ Website of the RRC "Günther" Köln-Longerich ( Memento of the original from March 25, 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.
Picture sticks | Longerich | Mauenheim | Niehl | Trinkets | Riehl | Weidenpesch