Mülheim (Blankenheim)

Mülheim Municipality Blankenheim Coordinates: 50 ° 26 ′ 56 ″  N , 6 ° 41 ′ 3 ″  E
Height :	500 m above sea level NHN
Area :	9.53 km²
Residents :	500
Population density :	52 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st July 1969
Postal code :	53945
Area code :	02449
Location of Mülheim in North Rhine-Westphalia

Mülheim is a district of the municipality of Blankenheim (Ahr) in the Euskirchen district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Mülheim is surrounded by forest on the A 1 and B 51 in a valley between Blankenheim and the Rohr district. The elevation in the east is a volcano .

history

Finds from Roman times (stones and coins) bear witness to the early settlement of the region. Mülheim itself was only named in a document in 1300. At the instigation of the Duchess von Arenberg, the chapel in Mülheim became a parish church in 1571. Forming a parish with the neighboring Rohr (and Reetz) until 1571, Reetz also split up in 1872 and became an independent parish. The probable origin of the local foundation of Mülheim is a mill .

Modern times up to the French Revolution

As early as 1567 and 1568, the Counts and Dukes of Arenberg recruited Walloons in their territories in the Liège area to relocate their expertise in metallurgy to the Eifler Aremberger Land, which also included Mülheim. Families of Walloon and perhaps Swiss origins settled in Mülheim well into the 18th century.

Emigrants

As from numerous neighboring communities, including some of Mülheim in the 19th and early 20th century sought their fortune in the emigration to overseas . The majority lived as farmers or artisans in the USA and thus found their livelihood. The observation tower , which was built on the basis of a foundation by a Blankenheim native and her daughter in 1901, "Auf dem Kalkbüsch", a kilometer west of the village, on the highest point in the community of Blankenheim, was demolished in 1934.

Contemporary history

In addition to numerous dead on the western and eastern fronts, the Second World War also left terrible marks on Mülheim itself. In an air raid on September 27, 1944, which presumably had the railway system as its target, the kindergarten and other residential buildings were hit directly. In addition to the carer, ten children lost their lives. At the end of the Second World War , Mülheim was occupied by US troops.

From 1963 the Belgian armed forces operated a missile position southeast of Mülheim in the Reetz district , on which nine Nike missiles were stationed as part of the NATO air defense until the beginning of the 1990s . The radar and control center for this position was located immediately west of Mülheim.

On July 1, 1969, Mülheim was incorporated into Blankenheim.

Attractions

See also : List of architectural monuments in Blankenheim (Ahr)

View over Mülheim

• Parish Church of St. John the Baptist , built in 1737 by the builder Cazzuola
• Gravestone of the church builder Cazzuola in the wall on Kirchberg
• 19th century lime kiln (partially restored)
• Station building (on the disused Ahrdorf – Blankenheim railway line ; now used as a youth hostel )
• Remains of the embankment of the former Upper Ahr Valley Railway
• former mill (Eichergasse, on the Mülheimer Bach)
• Half-timbered houses from the 18th and 19th centuries

literature

• Hans Ulrich Becker: Mülheim - the "Welsche" Eifel village. In: District Euskirchen (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the District Euskirchen 1998. S. 117 ff.

Web links

• Website of the place

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ernst Wackenroder : The art monuments of the Schleiden district. 1932. p. 266.
2. ↑ Hans Ulrich Becker: Mülheim - the "welsche" Eifeldorf. P. 117 f.
3. ↑ Eginhard Kranz: Lived with weapons - Nike rocket position of NATO until 1988/89 near Blankenheim . 2003 ( wisoveg.de [accessed on August 17, 2008]).
4. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 99 .