Luxemburger Strasse (Hürth)
The Luxemburger Road is the main thoroughfare in Huerth . It begins in Cologne and after the outer Cologne green belt at the underpass of the A 4, it reaches Hürth city area. In Cologne it is also called Luxemburger Strasse . It is part of the B 265 from Cologne to Prüm . It also keeps its name in the following places in Hürth. With the junction "Köln-Klettenberg" of the A 4 on the city limits to Cologne and " Erftstadt " on the A 1 / A 61 a little beyond the city limits in the south, it is the most important feeder to long-distance traffic.
history
The Luxemburger Straße was laid out by the Romans almost 2000 years ago as a section of the Roman road from Trier to Cologne . Today it was named after its builder Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa Agrippa-Straße Cologne-Trier . In Efferen, the tracks of the Vorgebirgsbahn to Bonn (today KVB line 18 ) run parallel to the street for almost the entire length of Luxemburger Straße. Shortly before Hermülheim the railway line crosses the street. At the beginning of the railway history, the tracks up to the former Hermülheim station (building of the Lazarus aid organization ) were still on the street. In Efferen, during the construction of the former train station there, a Roman grave typical of Roman arterial roads was discovered, which can be viewed. Until the Prussian era, the street was mostly called Zülpicherstrasse or Trier Strasse.
Until well into modern times it was only relevant for through traffic. The main town of Hürth is off the road, the road was the eastern limit of the glory of Hürth. In Efferen, which extends over the street today, only the Effern windmill was on the street. Even today, the street still seems to be a foreign body in the inner part of the town. In Hermülheim alone, some of the town's formerly 20 or so houses were on the street, but most were on Kirchstrasse, today's Severinusstrasse, which leads from Luxemburger Strasse in the direction of the Hermülheim church and castle . The development began and ended at the two former inns related to through traffic, the Gasthaus zur alten Post at what was then the northern end of the village, formerly also called the Lockmeise (place of work of the Hürth arm doctor Arnold Kürten , today Talke-Haus opposite the AOK) and the second Gasthaus, the Krone at the intersection with Bonnstrasse at the southern end of the village (today a gas station). Today she transferred her name to a restaurant in the Talke House. Both inns were formerly also customs stations, the respective innkeeper of both houses, who offered the most, could lease the customs collection. The elector and archbishop of Cologne held the customs and right of way on Trierer Strasse and Bönnschen Strasse . In order to repair the streets, subjects from the office were usually obliged to do manual and tension services . The ascent to the Ville , which was often impassable due to the water running in the lanes in the Holweg, was particularly vulnerable . It was not until 1854–1856 that the road was expanded by royal orders from the Prussian government fund. Crimes on the electoral streets were punished by the electoral officials in Lechenich, who at times also set up a fishing stick with four holes in the arms and legs of the detainees in front of the crown, in which they remained until they were picked up at the Lechenich prison. Only with the relocation of the administrative headquarters of the mayor's office to Luxemburger Straße in 1853 did the upswing begin here, and Luxemburger Straße developed into the first center for Hermülheim and the whole of the then large community of Hürth.
Appearance and history
As is typical for the Roman roads , the Luxemburger Straße runs through Efferen and Hermülheim in what is now Hürth's urban area, initially in a straight line. From Hermülheim it separates the districts of Alt-Hürth and Kendenich , before it is then pivoted in a south-easterly direction to Erftstadt due to the lignite mining in Hürth . The original route can still be followed for a few meters on the industrial road leading to the Knapsack Chemical Park .
The city has Huerth on the outskirts of Hermülheim towards Ville two blocks Luxemburger Straße by and between Efferen and Hermülheim roundabout connected; in the middle they each show a modeled Roman road with corresponding paving, southern roadside green and an oversized stele , which is supposed to be reminiscent of Roman Leugensteine . The overall design of the roundabouts was based on designs by the Hürth landscape planner Reinhold Mengel. The Brühl stone sculptor Hans-Jörg Blondiau carried out the construction of the Leugensteine .
Development
The street in Efferen and Hermülheim is characterized by a mixed residential and commercial development. Only recently has the southern entrance to Hermülheim been upgraded with a representative-looking, multi-storey, large-scale city entrance development on both sides of the street. The same is planned, at least on the property between road and rail, for the entrance to Efferen (from Cologne).
The old town hall (1903–1984) on Luxemburger Strasse in Hermülheim is now used as the consulate general of Turkey .
Worth mentioning are in Hermülheim, the former Hürth center, as a street neighbor
- the general local health insurance fund , regional directorate Rhein-Erft-Kreis
- in the former station building the federal office of the Lazarus relief organization
- a well-known furniture store and
- an office of the Kreissparkasse Köln .
A large hardware store has opened on the former fields between Efferen and Hermülheim. Opposite is the Nibelungenviertel and a free park and ride car park for the transition to the Vorgebirgsbahn , Kiebitzweg stop on line 18 to Cologne. On the outskirts in Efferen and Hermülheim the motor vehicle trade (petrol stations, workshops) has established itself.
The image of restaurants on the street changed a lot in the second half of the 20th century. The once best-known restaurant on the height of the Ville, the Kranzmaar, fell victim to open-cast brown coal mining in the late 1950s. Two of the once typical inns outside of the villages have been preserved: one halfway up the ascent to the ville and another at the Am dicken Stein bus stop (a drift block from the open- cast brown coal mine). Both restaurants often change operators or are closed. On the other hand, there are large parking lots between Efferen and Hermülheim, restaurants offering system catering ( McDonald’s , Cafe Del Sol and, from mid-2014, L'Osteria ). In the town of Hermülheim there are a number of restaurants and fast food establishments on the street , a Chinese restaurant , a "branch" of the Cologne Puszta-Hütte and a few Turkish restaurants near the Turkish Consulate General. In Efferen there is only one restaurant on the short part of the Luxembourgers there, today's Planet Hürth.
The development ends shortly after the intersection with Bonnstrasse, which also goes back to a former Roman road.
The Luxembourgers and the Natural Park
The Rhineland Nature Park begins on the ascent to the Ville . The Naturfreunde -Haus youth hostel and the local recreation area Hürtherberg are located to the right of the road . In the further course the road crosses the area of the Villeseen and leaves the Hürth city area with the nature reserve Nordfeldweiher and following the Bleibtreusee (parking lot on the road) on the right side.
Ecological damage
Due to the high traffic density, there is an air quality measurement station on Luxemburger Straße . Since the first measurements, the permissible nitrogen dioxide limit has often been exceeded. That is why the Cologne district government set up the clean air plan for Hürth, which came into force on October 1st, 2011. By voluntarily renouncing Luxemburger Straße and driving through Hermülheim and instead using the motorway exits in Knapsack, the Hürth-based industry should make a contribution to air pollution control. This is one of the reasons why the construction of a bypass road ( B 265n bypass Hürth-Hermülheim ) was planned to relieve the Luxemburger Straße and was built from 2018. Since the planning could not be completed in a timely manner, but the load was still high, the Luxemburger Straße for the direction of travel to Cologne was closed to heavy traffic from February 2014.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manfred Faust: History of the city of Hürth . Ed .: Heimat- und Kulturverein Hürth. JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-7616-2282-7 , p. 12 .
- ↑ Peter Simons : The development of the traffic system in the Euskirchen area. Supplement to the Euskirchener Volksblatt 6th and 7th year 1929 and 1930
- ↑ Manfred Faust: History of the city of Hürth . Ed .: Heimat- und Kulturverein Hürth. JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-7616-2282-7 , p. 65 .
- ↑ On the story: Elmar Brohl : Hermülheim und der Deutsche Orden , Hürth o. J. (1975) passim
- ↑ Manfred Faust: History of the city of Hürth . Ed .: Heimat- und Kulturverein Hürth. JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-7616-2282-7 , p. 207 .
- ↑ Bernd Imgrund: 111 places in the Cologne area, Emonds Verlag, Germany 2010, page 102
- ↑ Manfred Faust: History of the city of Hürth . Ed .: Heimat- und Kulturverein Hürth. JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-7616-2282-7 , p. 141 .
- ↑ Air quality measurement station in Hürth, Luxemburger Straße ( Memento of the original from January 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection North Rhine-Westphalia
- ↑ Traffic is the biggest polluter of the Cologne city gazette
- ↑ Air pollution control plan Hürth ( Memento of the original dated May 31, 2012 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. City of Huerth
- ↑ Plan approval draft for the B 265n bypass Hürth-Hermülheim ( Memento from February 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 272 kB) ( Converted to archives in February 2016)
- ↑ Information will be provided about the expansion of the Hermülheim bypass (B 265n)
- ↑ Driving ban for trucks on Luxemburger Straße in the direction of Cologne ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. huerth.de
- ↑ Blocking seems to be working Radio Erft , published February 3, 2014, accessed March 5, 2014
Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 45.1 ″ N , 6 ° 54 ′ 25.2 ″ E