Merheim
  district 806 of Cologne |
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 56 '59 " N , 7 ° 3' 0" E |
| surface | 3.806 km² |
| Residents | 11,207 (Dec. 31, 2017) |
| Population density | 2945 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation | Apr 1, 1914 |
| Post Code | 51109 |
| prefix | 0221 |
| Borough | Lime (8) |
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| Light rail line | 1 |
| Bus routes | 157 158 |
| Source: 2017 residents . (PDF) Cologne district information | |
Merheim ( kölsch : Merrem ) is a district on the right bank of the Rhine in Cologne in the Kalk district .
location
Merheim borders in the northeast on the Dellbrück district , in the east on the Brück district , in the south on the Neubrück district in the southwest on Ostheim , in the west on Höhenberg and in the north on Holweide .
history
Name and first mention
The name Merheim is derived (similar to Heumar ) from Mar / Mer , which describes a swampy place. Here, in one of the many late Ice Age Rhine channels that run through the lower terrace , groundwater from the higher central terrace emerges. The component home indicates a foundation in the older clearing period (from the 6th century). The place was first mentioned in 1003 when Archbishop Heribert of Cologne donated three manors to the Peterstift in Cologne. One of these farms was in Merheim.
In the regional dialect Kölsch they say Merrem .
Mayor's office Merheim
Due to an administrative reform in the French occupied Rhineland in 1808 and the associated dissolution of the Porz office , the former Bergisches Botenamt Merheim in the Grand Duchy of Berg became the Mairie ( mayor's office ) Merheim in the Mülheim arrondissement , from which the Mülheim am Rhein district was formed in 1815 . The towns of Brück, Dellbrück, Höhenberg (partially), Holweide, Ostheim, Rath , Dünnwald , Flittard , Höhenhaus and Stammheim belonged to the mayor's office .
After the French troops had given up the areas on the right bank of the Rhine in 1813, the mayor's office came to the Rhine Province in 1815 as part of the Mülheim district and the administrative district of Cologne and came under the rule of the Kingdom of Prussia .
In the first decades, the administrative seat of the mayor's office was the residence of the respective mayor. This was Holweide since the middle of the 19th century. In 1900 a separate town hall was built there for the mayor's office.
In 1914 the Merheim mayor's office as a whole was incorporated into the city of Cologne together with the city of Mülheim am Rhein .
The large Prussian customs area with its free trade helped the place to great prosperity. A saying from that time is:
"Merheim and Hand are the richest communities in the Bergisches Land!"
Since it was often confused with the Merheim district on the left bank of the Rhine in 1914 , it was renamed Weidenpesch in 1952.
Development of the place
The center of the village was originally around the St. Gereon Church between Fußfallstraße and Abshofstraße, where the mayor's office was also located. At the eastern end of what was then the main street, Rüdigerstraße, was a large cattle market. The Marktgasthof, built in the Bergisch half-timbered style in 1665, still exists today and is the oldest inn in Cologne on the right bank of the Rhine. It has been called Em ahle Kohberg (Auf dem alten Kuhberg) since 1937 , which can probably be traced back to a clever advertising idea from the innkeepers at the time, Bering , who based the inn based on a line of text from Willi Ostermann's famous home song “Och wat wor dat earlier nice but en Colonia, when d'r Franz mem Nies nohm Ahle Kohberch jing “ , (Oh, what was that nice in Cologne when Franz went to the ahlen Kohberch with Agnes ).
With the construction of the suburban railway from Cologne to Brück in 1906, Merheim also got its own stop. The southern part of the town also became attractive thanks to the good transport connections. The Krauss machine factory was established in this area in 1910 and the Schwarze company shortly afterwards . From 1929 a 150 hectare public landscape park was created on a former parade ground, the Merheimer Heide . In the 1930s, the Merheimer Heide was reduced in size by the construction of the Reichsautobahn (today: A3 ) and separated from Merheim, but the town center was still connected to the Merheimer Heide by bridges. In the north, the road "Schlagbaumsweg" led from the settlement "Schlagbaumsweg" on the northern edge of the Merheimer Heide and past the "rural riding club" to Buchheim. In the south the southern edge of the Merheimer Heide was over the Olpener Straße with Höhenberg, and in the middle, at the height of "Bevingsweg", the Merheimer Heide was connected to the center by a wooden pedestrian bridge over the A3. During this time the town center gradually shifted to Olpener Straße.
After the Second World War , the Dr. Madaus & Co , because the old company premises in Radebeul / Saxony had been expropriated by the Soviets. Even the former was built on the site airbase Ostheim the nationally known, among other things by the heavy Burnt Station Hospital Merheim .
With the construction of the A4 at the beginning of the 1970s, the northern part of the village was somewhat separated from the rest of Merheim. The gravel pits that were already there were filled up as garbage dumps after the gravel mining was discontinued. A GEW thermal power station and the Merheim depot of the Kölner Verkehrsbetriebe were built on this filled in gravel pit / landfill site . The construction of the tram depot turned out to be very difficult because the former gravel pit area was very unstable and sagged.
When Madaus AG, renamed in 1989, moved away in 1998, the Merheimer Gardens residential area was built in the 2010s on the vacant industrial wasteland .
Demographic statistics
Structure of the population of Cologne-Merheim:
- Proportion of under 18-year-olds: 20.8% (2015)
- Proportion of over 64-year-olds: 16.0% (2015)
- Proportion of foreigners: 17.9% (2015)
- Unemployment rate: 7.3% (2014)
politics
mayor
- 1808–1810 Kaspar Düppes
- 1810–1813 Jakob Ringen
- 1813–1820 Bernhard Abshof
- 1820–1846 Martin Josef Faßbender
- 1846–1877 Balthasar Bensberg
- 1878–1914 Johann Bensberg
coat of arms
Blazon : "Red and silver slaughtered shield, covered with a blue tournament collar pushed up on top, covered by a blue crossing, inside an arm growing out of the left edge, covered in gold with sackcloth sleeves, holding a gold ring."
With this coat of arms and the legend S (igillum) Ionnis de Meyrhem Milit (is) seals the knight Johann (von Löwenburg called) von Merheim in 1353. The red and silver sheathed shield is the coat of arms of the noble lords of Sponheim, the tournament collar is the emblem of the younger line, which is named after its seat in Löwenberg. This coat of arms of the noble lords of Löwenberg of the Sponheim tribe is diminished by the placed crossing with the arm, the colors of which have been freely added here. This reduction in the coat of arms of the nobility can mean that Johann was an illegitimate offspring of the Löwenberg family, as Ernst von Oidtman - the best expert on Rhenish aristocratic genealogies - indicates. On the other hand, such reductions in coat of arms can be found in Burgmannen who are only in the service of noblemen, but are not related to them. (That does not rule out that a bastard son can also serve as a castle man in the service of his fatherly relatives). How things stand in the present case cannot be clarified - only on the basis of the coat of arms - without further information.
The coat of arms was commissioned by the Merheim History Society. It was designed by the heraldist Lothar Müller-Westphal from Düren.
church
The Catholic parish church of St. Gereon belonged to Cologne's Gereonsstift . Gravestones found suggest a first Merovingian church, which was connected to the Fronhof as a separate church . Later a Romanesque building was built, which was expanded several times. After the church collapsed in 1818, today's church building was erected according to plans by Johann Peter Weyer by 1821. This building was redesigned again in 1907 by Heinrich Renard . During the Second World War , the original pointed church tower had to be shortened due to its location in the approach lane to Ostheim Air Base. At the beginning of the 1970s, the interior was redesigned according to the specifications of the Second Vatican Council .
In 1996 and 1997 the church was extensively renovated. The marble columns walled in in the 1970s were uncovered again. In 1997, the Christmas mass on Christmas Eve was broadcast throughout Germany on ARD television from St. Gereon .
Attractions
- Fronhof , Von-Eltz-Platz 1, originally a Franconian courtyard from the 7th or 8th century
- Catholic parish church St. Gereon , Von-Eltz-Platz 6, originally the court chapel of the Fronhof
- Em ahle Kohberg (oldest restaurant in Cologne rrh.), Ostmerheimer Strasse 455
- Kalker Friedhof , Kratzweg
- Kath. Grundschule Fußfallstraße (built in 1959, under monument protection, extension awarded with the NRW School Construction Prize 2008 and the German Facade Prize 2008), Fußfallstr. 55
- List of architectural monuments in the Merheim district of Cologne
societies
- Schützengesellschaft Köln-Merheim from 1933.
- Football club TSV 07 Merheim eV
- Carnival Society Merheimer Musketeers from 2002 eV
- Carnival Society Merheimer Funken Anno 1984 eV
- Civic Association Civic Association Cologne-Merheim eV
- Carnival association De raderdollen Merheimer from 2001
- Allotment gardeners association Vor St. Gereon eV
- FMK Fördergemeinschaft Merheim Carnival Procession from 1979 "for us Pänz"
literature
- Jürgen Huck : The mayor's office in Merheim and its predecessors through the ages. In: The mayor's office of Merheim through the ages. Published by the Heimatverein Köln-Dellbrück eV "Ahl Kohgasser". 2nd ed. Cologne 1974, pp. 44–157.
- Johann Bendel , home book of the district of Mülheim am Rhein, history and description, sagas and stories . Cologne-Mülheim 1925.
- Stefan Pohl, Georg Mölich: Cologne on the right bank of the Rhine: Its history from antiquity to the present. Winand, Cologne 1994.
Web links
- Official website of the city of Cologne for the Cologne-Merheim district
- private website on the history of Merheim
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karl H. Hermes: the Bergisches Land between the Rhine and the Westphalian border in Cologne Bay , Geographical Guide Collection No. 6, Berlin / Stuttgart 1972, p. 249
- ↑ Christoph Jacob Kremer. In: Academic contributions to Gülchberg history . Under: Section documents, document VIII of the 19th merry month (May) 1003 . 1781, Mannheim, ed. A. Lamey, p. [230] 11. Online version
- ↑ Akademie för uns kölsche Sproch of the SK Foundation Culture: online dictionary. September 10, 2015, accessed March 7, 2019 .
- ^ Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne. List of monuments. 12.5 Cologne, districts 5 and 6 (Nippes and Chorweiler). JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1982, ISBN 3-7616-0644-3 , p. 152.
- ↑ Bernd Imgrund: Em Ahle Kohberg - cattle markets and the Ostermann song In: 111 Cologne pubs that you have to know. Emons 2012, ISBN 978-3-89705-838-5 ; P. 54
- ↑ Inhabitants according to selected age groups - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de
- ↑ Inhabitants according to selected age groups - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de
- ↑ Inhabitants by type of migration background - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de
- ↑ Employed and unemployed part of the city - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de
- ^ Fronhof in Merheim
- ↑ Picture of the original condition
- ↑ Catholic elementary school on Fußfallstraße at baukunst-nrw
- ^ Website facade price
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