Merzenich
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Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ' N , 6 ° 32' E |
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| State : | North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Administrative region : | Cologne | |
| Circle : | Düren | |
| Height : | 134 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 37.92 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 9885 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 261 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 52399 | |
| Primaries : | 02421, 02275 | |
| License plate : | DN, JÜL, MON, SLE | |
| Community key : | 05 3 58 040 | |
| LOCODE : | DE MZH | |
| Community structure: | 4 districts | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Valdersweg 1 52399 Merzenich |
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| Mayor : | Georg Gelhausen ( CDU ) | |
| Location of the municipality of Merzenich in the Düren district | ||
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Merzenich is a municipality in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany and belongs to the Düren district . The place Merzenich has 6,963 inhabitants (February 29, 2020) , the entire municipality 9,883 (November 30, 2018) . This number has remained roughly constant since 1998, after having risen twice in a row by more than 10% per decade.
geography
Geographical location
Merzenich is located on the eastern outskirts of Düren in the Jülich-Zülpicher Börde , part of the Lower Rhine Bay , and is traversed by the Ellebach . Immediately to the north is the Hambach lignite opencast mine , which is advancing with the relocation of the A 4 and the relocation of the village of Morschenich to the northern municipality. The remaining part of the Bürgewald is also in the mining area .
Expansion of the municipal area
The municipal area is 37.91 km² and is located on the eastern edge of the Düren district.
Community structure
The municipality of Merzenich consists of the localities
- Merzenich
- Girbelsrath
- Golzheim
- Morschenich and
- Morschenich-New
Neighboring communities
in the Düren district
in the Rhein-Erft district
Coat of arms and banner
Coat of arms of the Merzenich community
Banner of the Merzenich community
The municipality was granted the right to use a coat of arms on October 24, 1975 with a certificate from the District President of Cologne and, on June 23, 1978, the right to use a flag (as a banner). The coat of arms is based on a seal from 1447, which only showed the double-headed eagle. The tournament collar comes from Mr. Stach from Golzheim and was added later. The four Lätze represent the districts of Alt-Merzenich, Girbelsrath, Golzheim and Morschenich.
Blazon : "In the red flag cloth above, a golden double-headed eagle raised by a continuous four-lipped tournament collar."
history
Europe's deepest Stone Age well (over 15 m deep) (around 5100 BC) was discovered near Merzenich-Morschenich and recovered in the block.
The name of the place is derived from Martiniacum , a compound of the Latin personal name Martin [i] us and the Celtic suffix - (i) acum (fr: -acum), meaning "home of Martinus". Merzenich is mentioned for the first time in 1225 in a document from Count Otto von Neuenahr . There was a castle in the village that has completely disappeared apart from a few moats. In the 19th century the castle fell into disrepair and was never rebuilt.
In 1360, Duke Wilhelm I of Jülich confirmed the obligation to deliver the wax interest from a total of 26 places in the Bürgewald to the parish church of Arnoldsweiler . Mertzenich is also listed among the 26 places . The residents of these places, including those from Merzenich, had to bring the wax interest to Arnoldsweiler every year on Whit Tuesday . The Merzenicher had to deliver a candle of 12 pounds of wax. Thus Merzenich is one of the places that had to deliver the most amount of wax. This candle offering is based on the legend of St. Arnoldus , through whom the villages were only allowed to use the forest. Previously, this was under the imperial wild ban , entry was forbidden for the common population. For centuries, the authorized communities used the forest equally, only in 1775 was each community assigned a specific piece of forest. Merzenich also received a piece of the forest, the Merzenich Bürge , also called Merzenich-Girbelsrather Bürge. This part of the forest has meanwhile been cut down and dredged. In addition to this community forest , the Merzenich population was able to use the Merzenich hereditary forest , which also belongs to the Bürgewald .
In the regests of the Archbishops of Cologne, Golzheim is mentioned for the first time on November 28, 1015. In 1382 the village of Gerbätzräude (Girbelsrath) was ceded to the Archbishop of Cologne . Morsaz (Morschenich) was first mentioned in 1158. There were also 1939 to 1955 a large-scale test facility, called pit Union 103 , tried in one, brown coal in underground mining dismantle. A daily output of around 10,000 tons of brown coal was planned, but this was never achieved. The average daily output was 200 tons.
Churches
Incorporations
On July 1, 1969, the former communities Girbelsrath, Golzheim and Morschenich were incorporated.
politics
Municipal council
The 26 seats of the municipal council are distributed among:
- CDU : 10 seats
- SPD : 8 seats
- Citizens for Merzenich: 2 seats
- Active for Merzenich: 3 seats
- Greens : 3 seats
(As of May 2014)
mayor
Georg Gelhausen (CDU) was elected the new mayor in September 2015 with 66.09 percent of the vote. Michael Breuer (SPD) achieved 33.91 percent.
Culture and sights
Jewish Cemetery
Museums
Buildings
The landmark of Merzenich, the old Catholic parish church , consisting of a high Gothic tower and a late Gothic nave, was first mentioned around 1300. The current parish church of St. Laurentius was built around 1900. The spire was destroyed in World War II and not rebuilt.
Another landmark of Merzenich is the old, restored water tower , which was built in 1608 and was a windmill until the 20th century . Today it is used for cultural events.
→ See also water towers in the Düren district
Economy and Infrastructure
At the beginning of the 1970s, a large industrial area was built near Girbelsrath. There is the J. & W. Stollenwerkstatt oHG , one of the largest canners in Europe, a resident. In addition, GMS Günter Meyer Gesellschaft für Fahrbahnsanierungen mbH , a service provider for roadway renovations, and Rövenich Industrietechnik GmbH, which has been active in regional industry for 1972, have their headquarters. Many medium-sized companies are also located in the Merzenich industrial park.
The council of the municipality of Merzenichs has decided to redevelop another industrial area on the municipality area. Concrete plans envisage that this industrial area on the Heide will be on the northeastern edge of the town. It is therefore very conveniently located to the S-Bahn (S-Bahn) stop of the S 12 to Cologne, but also right next to the “Merzenich / Niederzier” motorway junction on the A 4, which is soon to come .
traffic
From 1908 to 1963 Merzenich was accessible by a small train and tram of the Düren district railway . The train went from Düren via Merzenich, Nörvenich and Zülpich to Embken . The Aachen - Cologne railway line also touches the municipality. Until 1995 the Düren - Neuss railway branched off in the direction of Elsdorf . This line is now closed and dismantled. On previous branch on 29 April 2003, an S-Bahn -Haltepunkt large commuters - Parking at the line Aachen - Cologne. The S-Bahn lines 13 and 19 (previously: S 12) connect Merzenich with Cologne on working days and in the opposite direction to Düren. The Merzenich stop is served by the following lines for local rail passenger transport (as of December 13, 2015):
| line | course | Tact |
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| S 13 |
Düren - Merzenich - Buir - Sindorf - Horrem - Frechen-Königsdorf - Köln-Weiden West - Köln-Lövenich - Köln-Müngersdorf Technologiepark - Köln-Ehrenfeld - Köln Hansaring - Köln Hbf - Köln Messe / Deutz - Köln Trimbornstraße - Köln Frankfurter Straße - Cologne Bonn / Airport - Porz-Wahn - Spich - Troisdorf 1 × daily from / to Aachen Hbf |
20/40 min |
| S 19 |
Düren - Merzenich - Buir - Sindorf - Horrem - Frechen-Königdorf - Köln-Weiden West - Köln-Lövenich - Köln-Müngersdorf Technologiepark - Köln-Ehrenfeld - Köln Hansaring - Köln Hbf - Köln Messe / Deutz - Köln Trimbornstraße - Köln Frankfurter Straße - Cologne Bonn / Airport - Porz-Wahn - Spich - Troisdorf - Siegburg / Bonn - Hennef (victory) - Hennef Im Siegbogen - Blankenberg (victory) * - Merten (victory) - Eitorf - Herchen - Dattenfeld (victory) - Schladern (victory) - Rosbach (Sieg) - Au (Sieg) * Blankenberg only single trips |
60 min |
The railway cycle path also runs along this railway line .
The federal highway 264 runs through Merzenich from Düren towards Cologne . After relocating the A 4 because of the Hambach opencast mine , Merzenich received a motorway access in September 2014.
education
There are primary schools in Golzheim and Merzenich. Secondary school students are driven to Nörvenich by school bus. There are locations of the Niederzier / Merzenich comprehensive school both in Niederzier and in Merzenich itself. Other secondary schools are located in nearby Düren.
There are four day-care centers in Merzenich and one each in Girbelsrath and Morschenich for the next generation.
Electricity, gas, water
Electricity is supplied by RWE , while gas and water are supplied by the Düren municipal utility .
Telephone prefixes
The area code 02421 applies in Merzenich. 02275 is only dialed for calls to Golzheim and Morschenich.
Personalities
- Kalle Pohl (* 1951) comedian
- Josef Bläser (* 1952) football player
- Dirk Berger (* 1971) producer / guitarist
- Manuel Rösler (* 1972) composer
- Peggy Porschen (* 1976) confectioner, author and entrepreneur living in England
- Florian Moll (* 1991) disabled athlete
- Günther Körffer (* 1954) confectioner
literature
- T. Meyer, P. Bergsch, H. Geich, G. Kirstein, H. Welsch: The series archive images Merzenich, Sutton Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86680-580-4
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 . ( Help on this )
- ↑ Landesdatenbank NRW, structural data for Merzenich, short version of the municipal profile ( memento of the original from June 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Status: December 18, 2008) 72 KB, accessed on May 18, 2010
- ↑ Relocated A 4 with AS Merzenich and new Hambachbahn on the RWE search area map for Morschenich ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 2.27 MB, accessed April 21, 2010
- ↑ Main statute of the municipality of Merzenich, § 2 paragraph 1 and 2. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 8, 2013 ; Retrieved December 19, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Europe's deepest stone age well discovered - and recovered in the block. (No longer available online.) In: Archeology Online. archaeomedia, July 8, 2011, archived from the original on October 23, 2012 ; accessed on March 21, 2020 (original website no longer available).
- ^ Rudolf AH Wyrsch: The holy Arnold von Arnoldsweiler. Legend and history of the veneration of a Rhenish saint. In: Forum Jülich History Issue 9 , Jülich 1994, pp. 73 f.
- ↑ T. Meyer, P. Bergsch, H. Geich, G. Kirstein, H. Welsch: The series archive pictures Merzenich . Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2010, ISBN 978-3-86680-580-4 , p. 28/30 .
- ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 98 .
- ↑ The results of the 2014 local elections
- ↑ German Music Author Award 2017: The Winners - German Music Author Award. Retrieved June 19, 2017 .
Web links
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