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City of Düren
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| Height : | 112 m above sea level NHN |
| Area : | 7.07 km² |
| Residents : | 3002 (Dec. 31, 2019) |
| Population density : | 425 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 1972 |
| Postal code : | 52353 |
| Area code : | 02421 |
 Location of Merken in Düren
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Merken ( Dürener Platt Märke ) is a district of the district town of Düren in North Rhine-Westphalia .
location
The place Merken borders north on the municipality Inden with the dying district Pier and the Düren district Echtz in the west, the district Hoven in the south and east on the community Niederzier . The Lendersdorfer Mühlenteich and the Rur flow east of Merken . Remember is at about 108 m above sea level. NHN . The lowest point of Merkens is also the lowest point in the city of Düren at 105 m above sea level. NHN an der Rur on the border with the municipality of Niederzier. Immediately next to Merken is the Inden open-cast lignite mine . On March 12, 2010, there was a landslide on the edge of the mine . In contrast to the Nachterstedt landslide , the local embankment slide arose on the working embankment , which is steeper than the final embankment after recultivation .
history
The first reliable documented mention of the place Merken comes from the Liber valoris from the time around 1300. There is in the chapter about the dean's office Jülich in fifth place “Marken capella” with an estimated tax income of 5 m [a] rc [e] and one Tenth payment of 6 sol [idi] listed. Firstly, a fire urn grave field from the Hallstatt period (around 800 BC), which was discovered in the Merkener Flur “In der Woeste” in the late summer of 1936 during the construction of the Cologne - Aachen motorway , and secondly “many Roman bricks ” that were found in the lower tower area of the Merkener parish church are built. There is evidence of a Roman rubble site that has not yet been explored in the area of the planting strip between Schlichbach and Luisenstrasse.
The Merken Dingstuhl was first mentioned in a document in 1439. At this point in time, Merken belonged to the territory of the Duke of Jülich-Berg . Around 1550 the Duke of Jülich-Kleve-Berg reformed the territory. The Dingstuhl Merken and Dingstuhl Pier form the Dingstuhl Pier and Merken from then on. This belongs to the Oberamt Jülich until 1794 and is dissolved by the French occupiers in 1798. The French organize their conquests on the left bank of the Rhine according to the administrative rules customary in their country. The municipality of Merken belongs to the Mairie Merken in the canton of Düren ; the canton of Düren in the Arrondissement d'Aix-la-Chapelle in the Département de la Roer . The municipalities of Merken, Mariaweiler-Hoven and Derichsweiler belong to the Mairie Merken . The area of this Mairie has formed the mayor's office of Merken in the Düren district in the Kingdom of Prussia since April 5, 1815 . From 1879 to April 1, 1921, the mayor offices of Birkesdorf and Merken were run in personal union. The administration of the mayor's office in Merken has been in Mariaweiler since August 15, 1927. From 1928 the term ' Amt ' replaced the term 'mayor's office, the administrative area did not change. Between July 1944 and February 1949, the mayor offices of Echtz and Merken were run in personal union. Since January 1, 1972, the municipality of Merken no longer exists. Merken is a district of 15 districts of the city of Düren.
Remember the name
Remember comes from the Latin Margo (edge, border, border) and means something like place or area on the border . At the time the name was created, there was a high probability that there was a limit. For the period around 69 AD, however, the soldiers' stay did not serve to secure the border, but presumably to prepare for the invasion "into the tribal area of the Batavians ". "The military protection of the western boundary of the CCAA ( Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium ) or perhaps still existing civitas Ubiorum one can rule out the outsourced Ubii but incuriosius so pretty indifferent or careless. This behavior does not fit with a military border security, otherwise the Ubier would certainly have expected an attack. "
In the Middle Ages, the Merken thing chair belonged to the territory of the counts and later dukes of Jülich . In 1336 “the emperor released the“ castrum Royde ”, that is, the castle and rule of Merode, from the feudal sovereignty of the empire and placed it under the feudal sovereignty of the Count and later Duke of Jülich. In 1348 Charles IV confirmed this order. “Until the end of the Ancien-Régimes in 1794, the Dingstuhl area bordered the Merode dominion in the south.
Labor service camp
Camp 2/25 of the German Labor Service of the NSDAP existed in Merken until autumn 1933 . 140 unemployed people between the ages of 15 and 24 were doing clearing work in this camp. From November 1933 the camp was in Düren.
Population development
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| year | Families who own land | ||||||
| 1694 | 112 | ||||||
| 1716 | 93 | ||||||
| 1736 | 96 | ||||||
| 1776 | 145 | ||||||
| 1797 | 158 | ||||||
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Population development |
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| year | population | ||||||
| 1799 | 616 | ||||||
| 1802 | 730 | ||||||
| 1815 | 667 | ||||||
| 1828 | 870 | ||||||
| 1849 | 1021 | ||||||
| 1853 | 1226 | ||||||
| 1892 | 1453 | ||||||
| 1905 | 1793 | ||||||
| 1925 | 2109 | ||||||
| 1932 | 2233 | ||||||
| 1939 | 2360 | ||||||
| 1950 | 2468 | ||||||
| 1956 | 2653 | ||||||
| 1960 | 2744 | ||||||
| 1961 | 2681 | ||||||
| 1965 | 2810 | ||||||
| 1970 | 2724 | ||||||
| 1971 | 2876 | ||||||
| 2001 | 3367 | ||||||
| 2005 | 3323 | ||||||
| 2009 | 3275 | ||||||
| 2010 | 3221 | ||||||
| 2011 | 3169 | ||||||
| 2012 | 3107 | ||||||
| 2013 | 3077 | ||||||
| 2014 | 2984 | ||||||
| 2015 | 2979 | ||||||
| 2016 | 3000 | ||||||
| 2017 | 3001 | ||||||
| 2018 | 3001 | ||||||
| 2019 | 3002 | ||||||
politics
Council members
In the last local elections on May 25, 2014, the people from Merkener voted for the city council of Düren:
| CDU | 517 votes | 44.68% | 7 seats |
| SPD | 424 votes | 36.65% | 6 seats |
| Green | 83 votes | 7.17% | 1 seat |
| AfD | 63 votes | 5.45% | 1 seat |
| The left | 35 votes | 3.03% | - |
| FDP | 18 votes | 1.56% | - |
| BfD | 13 votes | 1.12% | - |
| Free list | 4 votes | 0.35% | - |
Source:
Horst Knapp (CDU, direct mandate) and Helmut Sieger (SPD, via list) became representatives in the Düren City Council. On September 16, 2014, the Memorandum district committee elected Horst Knapp as its new chairman and confirmed Helmut Sieger as his deputy. The joint list of the two candidates was chosen unanimously.
District Committee Note
A district memorandum committee has existed since 1999. Presided over
- 1999–2000 Walter Vitzer, SPD
- 2000–2004 Helmut Sieger, SPD
- 2005–2009 Wilfried Prescher, CDU
- 2010–2014 Ralf Freiberger, CDU
- 2014 Horst Knapp, CDU
Horst Knapp is chairman of the Merken district committee, and Helmut Sieger is the deputy chairman, both of whom live in Düren-Merken. All members of the district committee Merken can be viewed in the council information system of the city of Düren.
Buildings
The buildings marked with an asterisk * are listed buildings:
- Parish Church of St. Peter , built from 1966 to 1968
- Anna Chapel * built in 1850
- Juswenge Hauf *, today: Thelenhof , built 1753, Roermonder Straße 74
- Wallraff farmhouse, with an archway * from 1598, Peterstraße 4
- Half-timbered house Kügeler *, Gertrudisstraße 1
- Transformer house *, Gertrudisstraße 9
- Keller brewery, later Gerhards, now Giehler, Klapperstrasse 19
- the former water tower *, now a residential building, Roermonder Strasse / Quirinusstrasse
- Farmhouse Schröder / Berg, Andreasstraße 27
- Half-timbered house Husch / Kutsch *, Peterstraße 77
- Administration building Gebr. Schmitz (today: CWS Lackfabrik)
- Half-timbered house of the gardener of Gebr. Schmitz, Sebastianusstraße 9
- Half-timbered house of the coachman of the Schmitz brothers, Sebastianusstraße 1
- Villa Schmitz *, Paulstrasse 50
- Villa Emmel * (today: Elisabeth-Heim), Paulstraße 71
- the silo of the Buirer-Genossenschaft, Peterstrasse
traffic
On January 1, 1901, Merken was made accessible by the Düren Railway . The train station at the entrance to the town in Roermonder Straße from the direction of Düren was initially the end point of the meter-gauge railway line from Düren and Birkesdorf . In 1908 the line was extended to Pier, in 1927 to Inden. Rail traffic from Inden to Düren ceased on June 30, 1965. The station building is still there and is used for other purposes today.
Today, local passenger transport is ensured by the Düren circular railway , since January 1, 2020 Rurtalbus , with omnibuses. Line 216 runs at least every hour between Düren and Inden. The stops Neffgenshäuser , Markusstraße , Kirche and Wasserturm are in Merken .
Public facilities
In Merken there are two kindergartens , a primary school , a youth home and a retirement home , which is now used as a residential building.
fire Department
In Merken there is a fire fighting group of the Düren volunteer fire brigade with a fire fighting group vehicle 10/6 and a team transport vehicle .
societies
Despite its size, Merken has a fairly large number of clubs. Some of them are:
- Working group (ARGE) Merkener Geschichte eV
- Blau-Weiß Merken 1977 eV (Schalke Fan Club)
- Friends of the parish, youth home and kindergarten St. Peter, Merken eV
- Interest group "For a liveable memory" eV
- Church choir St. Cäcilia
- Löstige Kings 1978 eV (Carnival, traditional customs)
- Memorize May Society (Customs)
- Mandolin Club TC "Wandervogel"
- Men's Choir 1899
- Remembered shooting friends
- Rad-Renn-Club Düren-Merken eV (cycling)
- Spielverein 1923 Merken eV (sports club)
- St. Quirinus Schützenbruderschaft Merken eV (shooting club, traditional customs)
- Remember tennis club
- Gymnastics Club 1886
- Football clubs against the right - no place for racism and violence
- Ringerclub Merken 1987 eV
Personalities
- Johann Clöben was a 17th century doctor who was born in Merken.
- Alberich Bergh (1677–1736), Abbot of Marienstatt
- Josef Sommer (1877–1951) was the main teacher, principal of the elementary school in Merken and a local researcher.
- Michael Hirte (* 1964), winner of Das Supertalent 2008, lived in Merken until 2011.
Web links
- District film on the website of the city of Düren
- Site of the place
- Working group remembered history
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.dueren.de/kultur-tourismus/stadtportraet/zahlen__fotos?sr=7584
- ↑ The fear of the demolition edge - residents fear for their houses and criticize RWE, Westdeutsche Zeitung, March 19, 2010, p. 3 , (accessed on March 24, 2010)
- ↑ OEDIGER, Friedr. Wilh., Die Erzdiöszese Köln um 1300, first issue, Der Liber Valoris, page 52, in: Publications of the Society for Local Regional Studies XII, Bonn 1967.
- ↑ WITROCK, Clemens, chronicle of the parish of St. Peter Merken in Merken, page 1 (unpublished manuscript)
- ↑ Bonner Jahrbücher, Excavations, Finds and Findings 1995, Bonn 1997, page 294
- ↑ Kind communication from the Rheinisches Amt für Bodendenkmalpflege dated December 2, 2002
- ↑ KAEMMERER, Walter, Urkundenbuch der Stadt Düren 748–1500, Volume I, Part 2, document texts from 1400–1500, page 378, in: Contributions to the history of the Dürener Land, Volume 13, Düren 1974
- ↑ GEUENICH, J., The former territories of today's Düren district, page 750, in: Dürener Geschichtsblätter 34, Düren 1963
- ↑ DOMSTA, Hans, J., inventory of the archive of the Dingstuhl Pier and Merken, Düren 1980, page 4
- ↑ a b Hans J. Domsta: inventory of the archive of the Office noted . Düren 1978, p. 1 .
- ^ Chronicle of the elementary school in Mariaweiler, page 41
- ↑ DOMSTA, Hans J., inventory of the archive of the Merken Office, Düren 1978, pages 1 and 2
- ^ 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 .
- ↑ SCHULZ, Thorsten, The status of the Ubier and civitas Urbiorum after the founding of the Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (CCAA) in the Spiegel der Quellen, in: Yearbook 76 of the Cologne History Association, Cologne 2005, p. 23
- ↑ SCHULZ, Thorsten, The status of the Ubier and civitas Urbiorum after the founding of the Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium (CCAA) in the mirror of the sources, in: Yearbook 76 of the Cologne History Association, Cologne 2005, p. 22
- ↑ DOMSTA, Hans J., History of the Princes of Merode in the Middle Ages, Volume I, Genealogy of the Family, page 32, in: Contributions to the history of the Dürener Land, Volume 15, Düren 1981
- ^ Horst Wallraff: National Socialism in the Düren and Jülich districts . Hahne & Schloemer, Düren 2000, ISBN 3-927312-30-4 , p. 419/420
- ↑ http://wahlen.regioit.de/AC/KWEW14/05358008/html5/Ratswahl_Stadtteil_Merken.html
- ↑ City of Düren District Committee Note . City of Düren. Retrieved September 9, 2019.
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