Manfort

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Manfort is a Leverkusen district in the city district I.

location

Location of Manfort in Leverkusen

Manfort borders on Cologne-Dünnwald , Schlebusch , Küppersteg , Alkenrath and Wiesdorf .

history

Johanneskirche Manfort

The Hemmelrather Hof located in Manfort was first mentioned in 1050 . The name is derived from an old ford over the Rhine, the so-called Mannesfurt , which people could wade through, but which could not be passed by wagons. The main arm of the Rhine once ran further east than it does today.

In the 19th century, Manfort was part of the community of Wiesdorf, which was renamed the Wiesdorf mayor in 1920 and received city ​​rights the following year . Wiesdorf belonged to the district of Solingen . Since 1930 Manfort and Wiesdorf have been part of Leverkusen.

The Wuppermann steel plant as well as the established from 1869 after the construction of the railway significant industries based in Manfort of explosives -Fabrik Kaiser & Edelmann emerged work Schlebusch of Dynamit Nobel . The Hamburg Alfred Nobel u. Co. (from 1876 Dynamit AG, DAG) took over the factory in the early 1870s and named it after the neighboring Schlebusch train station.

Culture and sights

The Cross of the German East, erected on October 8, 1950, stands in the cemetery in Manfort . On the day of the home where an annual memorial service will be held that the victims of flight and expulsion after World War II from its East German homeland recalls.

Since 2015, the annual day of remembrance for the victims of flight and displacement has also taken place on June 20 at the East German Cross .

Facilities

  • Protestant day care center
  • Municipal kindergarten
  • catholic kindergarten St. Joseph
  • Community Elementary School Rainbow School
  • Theodor Wuppermann Secondary School

traffic

Street

Manfort is on the junction Center Leverkusen the Federal Highway 3 achievable.

railroad

In Manfort, the Leverkusen-Schlebusch train station is on the Gruiten – Köln-Deutz line . The station is named after the neighboring Schlebusch district, as the Manfort district did not yet exist at the time of its construction.

Transportation

Several wupsi bus routes run through Manfort . They mainly connect the Schlebusch and Mitte stations , as well as other parts of Leverkusen.

literature

  • Leverkusener Informations 2004, publisher: City of Leverkusen, Leverkusen 2004.
  • Dr. Dieter Froitzheim: Manfort through the ages

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ East German cross in Leverkusen / Manfort
  2. ↑ Leverkusen school directory http://www.leverkusen.com/daten/Bildung.php?view=B0302

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′  N , 7 ° 0 ′  E