Mariaweiler

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Mariaweiler
City of Düren
Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 57 ″  N , 6 ° 26 ′ 45 ″  E
Height : 121 m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.58 km² (with Hoven)
Residents : 2801  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 782 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1972
Postal code : 52353
Area code : 02421
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Location of Mariaweiler in Düren
The parish church of St. Mariae Himmelfahrt

Mariaweiler ( Dürener Platt Melwiele ) is a district of Düren in North Rhine-Westphalia .

location

Mariaweiler is located in the northwest of the city of Düren. Neighboring districts are Hoven , the old Düren city area, Birkesdorf and Echtz . The Rur flows along the site . The Lendersdorfer mill pond flows through the village .

history

The place is first mentioned in 973 as Miluchwilere in a document from Emperor Otto II . In this, Mariaweiler is named as a border town between the Franconian wilderness districts of Jülich and Cologne . The name Miluchwilere lead etymologists to the Old High German miluh = milk together with the Roman villare back, which in Frankish times for Wilre was = hamlet.

Already in 1270, in Mariaweiler a convent , the Augustinian - Convention Nazareth mentioned. The last remains of the monastery are still visible as ruins.

In a document dated January 28, 1351, Pope Clement VI. confirms that the Schwarzenbroich monastery had a patronage right over the parish of Mariaweiler.

On January 1, 1972, the community of Mariaweiler-Hoven was incorporated into the city of Düren.

schools

One of two comprehensive schools in the city of Düren is located in Mariaweiler , the Anne Frank Comprehensive School with around 1,000 students.

church

The current church was rebuilt in 1878. The parish of St. Mariae Himmelfahrt , together with the parishes of Merken, Derichsweiler, Echtz and Hoven, has been part of the community of parishes (GdG) Düren-Nordwest since May 19, 2004 .

The Christ the King's Monument was erected on Lommessemstrasse around 1930 .

economy

A grinding mill in Mariaweiler is mentioned as early as 1340, which first belonged to the Nazareth monastery and later was a paper mill from the Schwarzenbroich monastery . In 1499 there is also evidence of a copper mill that processed the copper mined nearby , which was bought by the Augsburgers of Fugger . In 1607 it was no longer a copper mill, but an oil mill. On August 2nd of this year, the co-owner Karsilius Hurth von Schoeneck received the concession to convert it into a paper mill. At that time the copper mill was a manor suitable for the state parliament. Around 1820 there were five different mills in the village, including cloth mills. In 1782, the Kufferath metal cloth factory , the GKD Gebrüder Kufferath company and in 1852 the Thomas Josef Heimbach felt cloth factory with the Heimbach company health insurance company .

Mariaweiler has changed from a rural village to an industrial location.

Until recently there was still a factory for photographic paper and film in the village. This was TURA AG, founded in 1901 in Wernigerode / Harz, which came to Mariaweiler in 1948. With sales of over DM 30 million, the company was one of the leading manufacturers of photographic films for various areas. Disposable cameras, photo paper and much more rounded off the offer. Since digital photography increased more and more, but this innovation was “overslept”, TURA AG had to file for bankruptcy in 2005. Today the buildings are falling into disrepair.

traffic

Mariaweiler has been an important crossroads since the first settlement around 200. A north-south axis connected the Jülich fort with the Eifel . This street was crossed by the Rhein-Maas-Straße, which led across the Rur at the level of the village. Later this was the coronation route from Aachen to Frankfurt .

From July 20, 1912 to February 28, 1970, Mariaweiler had a train station on the ring line of the Dürener Kreisbahn (DKB). This was primarily used for freight transport and the connection to the felt cloth factory Thomas Josef Heimbach. From 1951 to 1955, passenger trains also ran to Birkesdorf-Süd and Distelrath during rush hour .

Today Mariaweiler can be reached from all directions via a well-developed road network. The place is served by the AVV bus lines 206 of the DKB, since January 1, 2020 Rurtalbus , and 237 of the Busverkehr Rheinland GmbH (BVR) .

Clubs, associations

  • May society 1873 Mariaweiler
  • Football club Rhenania Mariaweiler eV 1919
  • Grün-Weiß Mariaweiler tennis club
  • Mariaweiler fire fighting group of the Düren volunteer fire brigade
  • Carnival Association Melwiler Ströpp eV 1991
  • Singing community 1983 Mariaweiler
  • Table tennis club 1950 Mariaweiler eV
  • Residents' initiative Mariaweiler eV
  • Club of the alumni of the May Society 1873 Mariaweiler

Listed buildings

The following architectural monuments are entered under group 9 in the monument register of the city of Düren :

literature

  • Hans-Heinrich Linden: Mariaweiler, a village through the ages . trans-aix-press, Aachen 2000.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.dueren.de/kultur-tourismus/stadtportraet/zahlen__fotos?sr=7584
  2. ^ Paul Fabianek: Consequences of secularization for the monasteries in the Rhineland - Using the example of the monasteries Schwarzenbroich and Kornelimünster . BoD, Norderstedt 2012, ISBN 978-3-8482-1795-3 .
  3. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 306 .
  4. ↑ Gerd Wolff: German small and private railways, Volume 4: North Rhine-Westphalia - southern part . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 1997, p. 50 .