Bocklemünd / Mengenich

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Bocklemünd / Mengenich
district 405 of Cologne
Location of the Bocklemünd / Mengenich district in the Ehrenfeld district
Coordinates 50 ° 58 '32 "  N , 6 ° 51' 32"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 58 '32 "  N , 6 ° 51' 32"  E
surface 4.931 km²
Residents 10,698 (Dec. 31, 2017)
Population density 2170 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation Apr 1, 1888
Post Code 50829
prefix 0221
Borough Ehrenfeld (4)
Transport links
Highway A1
Federal road B59
Light rail line 3
Bus routes 126 127 145 962 970
Source: 2017 residents . (PDF) Cologne district information

Bocklemünd / Mengenich is a district on the north-western outskirts of Cologne in the Ehrenfeld district . It consists of the villages Bocklemünd and Mengenich, which have grown together administratively in 1950 . The district is best known today for the large production facilities of the WDR .

location

The district of Bocklemünd / Mengenich borders in the east on Pesch , Ossendorf and Vogelsang , in the south on Widdersdorf , in the west on Pulheim and in the north on Esch / Auweiler . The districts are crossed by the Venloer Straße arterial road in a north-west direction.

history

Archaeological finds have brought to light the remains of an important Roman ceramic settlement from the Neolithic Age in Mengenich. There are also finds from the Bell Beaker Culture and the Bronze and Iron Ages.

Bocklemünd

On September 9, 941, the Archbishop of Cologne Wichfried gave two farms and the surrounding farmland in the area of ​​today's district ( Bugchilomunti ) to the nuns of St. Cäcilien; one of the courtyards, later called Cäcilienhof, was in the area of ​​Bocklemünd, the other - the Dohmenhof - in the area of ​​what is today known as Mengenich. This donation is considered the first written mention of Bocklemünd under the name Bugchilomunti .

Bocklemünd had several spellings over the centuries: Buchelmundt (1079-1089), Buchelmunthe (1196), Pocklemünd or Buckelmeuntt (1609). The origin of the name is unclear. On the one hand, topographical derivations of "hump" or "mouth" are represented ("mouth on the hill", "beech on the hill"), the Middle High German word for "hedge guard with Gebück" could have been used for the name. Also Bockel mouth as "steep, wooded slope" comes into question, from which one had to buck the cut wood. The word origin from the old German word boc for billy goat is also likely , so that a goat enclosure could have been named with Bocklemünd. This is also supported by the naming of nearby places, derived from animal names, such as Ossendorf (ox), Widdersdorf (ram) or Marsdorf (horse).

There were three leasehold farms in Bocklemünd, the Weierhof with 302 acres, the Fettenhof (1170) and the Arnoldshof with 280 acres. The latter was built in 1741, was managed until 1948 and still bears its name today after the tenant Arnold Conzen, who lived around 1650. The dark red brick building was redesigned in 1990 and converted into 15 courtyard houses and 18 owner-occupied apartments in a country house style.

Bocklemünd / Mengenich

For many centuries Bocklemünd and Mengenich remained two small villages characterized by agricultural farms. Until 1794, Bocklemünd belonged to the Dingstuhl Griesberg in the Electoral Cologne district of Hülchrath . With Mechtern (ferme-Hof), Melaten, Mengenich, Ossendorf, Bickendorf and Subbelrath, Bocklemünd became part of the Mairie Müngersdorf in the canton of Weiden, which was formed in 1798 . The former Lärchenhof (now St. Brigida-Heim) dates from 1748, the Neuenhof from 1854. In 1798 there were 138 inhabitants in Bocklemünd, in 1885 there were 532; Massenich had 217 inhabitants. In April 1888 both villages were incorporated into Cologne as part of the city expansion; However, its village character was retained until the 1950s, despite the settlement construction that began in Mengenich in the 1930s. The name Mengenich is probably derived from the Latin Magniniacum , meaning the settlement of Magninus , a Celtic-Roman country settlement that was on the presumed Roman highway to the west. There is also said to have been a statue of the Roman goddess Virtus .

Both villages Bocklemünd and Mengenich were administratively merged in 1950. It was not until the 1960s that the face of the district changed when a major construction project turned Bocklemünd into a modern district. It was the "satellite town of Bocklemünd-Mengenich", a building project for 3,000 residential units and 12,000 residents, the construction of which began on July 15, 1967. The fee collection center moved into its administration building in 1976, and WDR began setting up television studios in 1985, in which, in addition to the series Lindenstrasse (with a 150-meter-long outdoor backdrop), forbidden love (until 2003), Zimmer frei (until 2016) and animals are looking for a home is rotated. For the backdrop, five tons of steel, 50,000 running meters of construction timber and sand-lime brick were used for 1,100 square meters of wall surface. The summer entertainment show Hollymünd was broadcast live from June 21, 1987 and 2001 from the open-air area there and was a big crowd puller thanks to the international guests from the show and music. In addition to the WDR site, the BioCampus Cologne biotechnology center has also shaped the image of the district since April 2002. The start-up center with a floor space of 254,000 m² uses the former premises of the Nattermann company and is developing into one of the largest biotechnology parks in Germany. The company A. Nattermann & Cie. , Part of the French group Sanofi , resides in the main building with around 440 employees.

Demographic statistics

Structure of the population of Cologne-Bocklemünd / Mengenich:

  • Share of under 18s: 19.4% (2014)
  • Share of people over 64 years of age: 22.8% (2014)
  • Proportion of foreigners: 22.7% (2015)
  • Unemployment rate: 15.7% (2014)

See also

literature

  • Christian Schuh: Cologne's 85 districts. Emons, Cologne 2003, ISBN 3-89705-278-4 .
  • Jakob Obermanns, Hans Clemens: The community of Lövenich in the mirror of history. Otto Ritterbach Publishing House, Cologne-Weiden 1956.

Web links

Commons : Köln-Bocklemünd / Mengenich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Franz Wilhelm Ohligschläger , Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine , special edition volume 15/16, p. 176
  2. ↑ Olbermanns, Clemens im: The community of Lövenich in the mirror of history , Cologne 1856
  3. ↑ DER SPIEGEL 50/1985 of December 9, 1985, Herzeleid and Tratsch , p. 240
  4. ↑ Inhabitants according to selected age groups - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de
  5. ↑ Inhabitants according to selected age groups - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de
  6. ↑ Inhabitants by type of migration background - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de
  7. ↑ Employed and unemployed part of the city - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de