Merten (Bornheim)
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Merten
City of Bornheim
Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 43 " N , 6 ° 55 ′ 23" E
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| Height : | 89 m above sea level NHN |
| Residents : | 5638 (Aug 2, 2019) |
| Incorporation : | July 1, 1935 |
| Incorporated into: | Real |
| Postal code : | 53332 |
| Area code : | 02227 |
 Parish church of St. Martin on Kirchstrasse in Merten
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With its 5500 inhabitants, Merten is one of the largest districts of Bornheim .
location
Merten is one of the western "foothills" of Bornheim. It is located between the town of Kardorf to the south and the town of Walberberg to the north . In the west of the village is on the Villerücken Rösberg and in the east Sechtem. The Breitbach and the Mühlenbach flow through Merten . Merten has developed into one of the larger districts of Bornheim.
history
Roman times
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In Merten, as in many villages in the foothills , numerous traces of a Roman settlement were found. Various building remains were found in the form of bricks (the Walberberg museum room shows brick, roof, floor and hypocaust bricks ) and cast masonry , but especially in the Merten area, there were also remains of baths, water pipes in the masonry and in pipe parts. Furthermore, ancient coin finds and fragments of various Roman pottery documents the early settlement of the local situation. The Hemmerich pastor Maaßen reported on the Roman Eifel aqueduct to Cologne , which was built in the first century, in research reports that were published in the annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine . For example, the Roman canal coming from Kardorf , which was 150 meters long there in the 1870s, after crossing the former Roman military road, took the direction to the later Mertener Mühle and then passed it to the right, so that only the lower ones Boundaries of today's town were touched. With this arch, the canal route avoided an increase in the floor area there and then approached today's Bonnstrasse again to continue to Trippelsdorf (formerly “pagus Trebellii”), a current district of Mertens.
A consecration stone from the 3rd century, salvaged by Pastor Maaßen, was immured in the altar of the medieval Merten parish church, which was demolished in 1871. The stone, consecrated to the nymphs (natural deities) around 250 AD, was brought to the "Vaterländisches Museum" in Bonn (today LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn ) and the Merten site was later given a lifelike cast.
The translation of the inscription was given as follows:
"Titus Flavius Severinus, standard-bearer of the 30th victorious Ulpian Legion, happily fulfilled a vow for himself and his family."
Pottery in post-Roman times
Since the requirements for pottery - water, clay, firewood and sales market - were not exhausted even after the Romans had left, pottery was still distilled in the foothills between Bonn and Cologne, for which medieval distilling technology began in the 5th / 6th century Furnaces with stacked firing and combustion chambers were used. This is evidenced by ceramic finds that range from the Merovingian era to productions with improved firing techniques of the late Middle Ages. Remnants of the region's kilns could also be recovered. In 1974 a standing oven was uncovered in Eckdorf, Grüner Weg. During excavations in May / June 1997, four Carolingian pottery kilns were discovered on a property in Walberberger Buschgasse and in 2003, during preparatory work for the construction of a new building project, a lying oven and its fire grate from the late Middle Ages in Brühl (Franziskanerhof) were uncovered.
Culture and sights
Museums
- Fruit growing museum on the farm of the fruit growing pioneer Otto Schmitz-Hübsch
Buildings
- Bergfriedhof with a Romanesque choir from the 12th century and a memorial chapel with the grave of Heinrich Böll
- Parish Church of St. Martin - The church, built in 1866, combines old and new construction methods. In 1967 the central nave was laid down for structural reasons and rebuilt. The tower and choir have been preserved in their original state. Merten is the Ripuarian variant of the name Martin .
- Vincent's Chapel of the Marian Brotherhood Merten-Trippelsdorf 1713 eV in Merten-Trippelsdorf, rebuilt and completed by volunteers and donors in 2000, altar consecration by Joachim Cardinal Meisner on June 3, 2012 on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the Marian Brotherhood.
Sports
In Merten there is a soccer field on which the SSV Merten (soccer department) is located. For the 2009/10 season, the sports field was converted into an artificial turf field and has been called MerKuR ( Mer tener Ku nst r asen) ever since .
In the 2016/2017 season, the men's team of SSV Merten rose to second place in the regional league in the Middle Rhine League and is currently the strongest football team in Bornheim.
In the sports hall of the Martinus School, table tennis, children's gymnastics and dancing, etc. a offered. Badminton is played in the sports hall of the Franziskus School and, in winter, football is also played. The football players sometimes use the smaller hall of the Martinus School, which is right next to it.
Regular events
The traditional carnival parade in Merten takes place annually on Carnival Tuesday.
As is common throughout the foothills, May festivities also take place in Merten. On the Heinrich-Böll-Platz as well as on the Mertener Heide, local village associations each set up a village May and organize a May singing under the tree on the evening before May 1st.
Since 1984 the JGV men series "Unity" 1852 Merten-Heide eV has been organizing the traditional Lehmkuhlefest on the 3rd weekend in July, the proceeds of which go to charitable purposes in Merten.
In honor of Saint Roch, the people of Merten celebrate their large fair on Heinrich-Böll-Platz every year, usually on the last weekend in August.
Economy and Infrastructure
Public facilities
- Catholic day care center St. Martin
- Kindergarten "Rappel-Kiste", non-denominational
- Kindergarten "KiTa in the old monastery"
- Forest kindergarten "Die Waldlinge"
education
- Elementary school, Martinus school
- Hauptschule, Franziskus-Schule
- Secondary school, Heinrich Böll Secondary School
traffic
Merten is on the L 183 and on the Vorgebirgsbahn , from which there are fast connections to Cologne and Bonn via the KVB line 18 . A bus route number 818 to Hersel and Sechtem also runs through Merten.
Others
- The fruit growing pioneer Otto Schmitz-Hübsch founded Germany's first pure fruit farm in Merten in 1896, thereby establishing fruit growing as an industry. Today the only fruit growing museum in West Germany is located on his farm.
literature
- Andreas Heege: Pottery Furnaces in the Rhineland , pp. 193–197. In: Thomas Otten u. a. (Ed.): Find stories. Archeology in North Rhine-Westphalia (writings on the preservation of monuments in North Rhine-Westphalia; Vol. 9). von Zabern, Mainz 2010 (catalog of the national exhibition of the same name, Römisch-Germanisches Museum, March 19 to November 14, 2010).
Individual evidence
- ↑ residents in the individual localities. Retrieved March 25, 2020 (population figures: August 2, 2019).
- ^ German HC Maaßen, The Roman State Road from Trier via Belgika to Wesseling on the Rhine and the Roman Canal on the foothills.
- ^ Andreas Heege: Pottery ovens in the Rhineland. In: Find stories - Archeology in North Rhine-Westphalia. Accompanying book for the state exhibition 2010. Writings on the preservation of monuments in North Rhine-Westphalia, Vol. 9., 2010, pp. 193–197.
- ↑ Lehmkuhlenfest. Retrieved June 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Fair in Merten - City of Bornheim. Retrieved June 26, 2019 .
