Morschenich
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Morschenich
Merzenich municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ N , 6 ° 32 ′ 33 ″ E
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| Height : | 113 m |
| Area : | 6.6 km² |
| Residents : | 174 (Feb 29, 2020) |
| Population density : | 26 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | 1st July 1969 |
| Postal code : | 52399 |
| Area code : | 02275 |
 Location of Morschenich in the Rhenish lignite district
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Morschenich ( Dürener Platt Muschenich ) is a district of the Merzenich municipality in the Düren district , North Rhine-Westphalia . The place is in the originally planned mining area of the Hambach opencast mine and should give way to this. The residents have therefore been relocated to the newly emerging Morschenich-Neu since 2015 . In January 2020, the opencast mine operator RWE announced that it would refrain from excavating Morschenich. The future of the place is currently being discussed.
geography
location
The place is directly on the Bürgewald , a forest area between Rur and Erft, which surrounds the place in the west and north. Morschenich was even a clearing in the Bürgewald until the 19th century. State road 257 runs through the village . Morschenich borders on Buir and Manheim in the Rhein-Erft district to the east, and on Arnoldsweiler , Ellen and Merzenich to the west .
history
There are two variants of the origin of the place name. One says that the name Moirsazzin comes from settlers from the Morsatengau in Emsland , who became known as Morsassen. The other version says that the Celtic name Morsiniacum was changed to Morschenich with a German “I” ending.
The place was first mentioned in 1158 when the Moorsassen settled it. During the territorial period, Morschenich was part of the Nörvenich office and the Hambach Dingstuhl .
In 1794, the municipality of Morschenich was attached to the Mairie Arnoldsweiler in the French Département de la Roer , to which the two municipalities Arnoldsweiler and Ellen also belonged. After the village fell to Prussia in 1815 , the Mairie was renamed Mayor Arnoldsweiler in 1816 . Nothing changed in the composition. In 1927 the mayor's office was renamed to office and on March 8, 1936 the two offices of Arnoldsweiler and Merzenich merged to form the new office Merzenich. From now on this included the communities Arnoldsweiler, Ellen, Girbelsrath , Golzheim , Merzenich and Morschenich. On July 1, 1969, the municipality of Morschenich was dissolved and incorporated into Merzenich.
The residents of Morschenich have been gradually relocated since 2015. In 2017 the last and at the same time the first shooting festival took place in Morschenich-neu. Since then, the club's life has shifted increasingly to the new location. The future of the place is being negotiated, but there have been hardly any articles since a negotiation at the end of June.
Bürgewald
In 1360 Morschenich is listed as Morßhusen in a document from Duke Wilhelm I of Jülich , which confirms the wax interest from a total of 26 places on the Bürge to the parish church of Arnoldsweiler . All of these places, including Morschnenich, had to bring the wax interest to Arnoldsweiler every year on Whit Tuesday . The Morschenicher had to deliver a candle of four pounds of wax. This candle offering is based on the legend of St. Arnoldus , through whom the listed places were allowed to use the forest. Previously this was under an imperial wild ban . For centuries, the authorized communities used the forest equally, only in 1775 was each community assigned a specific piece of forest. Morschenich also received a piece of the forest, the Morschenich guarantor .
future
The site should be demolished from 2019 to 2024 and then dredged, as the Hambach opencast mine is moving in the direction of Morschenich, and the resettlement has been ongoing since 2015. The place will be rebuilt in the west of Merzenich "Between the Courtyards", beyond the L264. The new location was determined by a public survey. In January 2020, RWE announced that it would leave Morschenich standing there, but want to continue the resettlement. The last hearing took place in June 2020.
On June 15, 2019, the church in Morschenich was the last to be desecrated at the Hambach opencast mine. It should now be used again.
Population development
| year | population |
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| 1933 | 489 inhabitants |
| 1939 | 428 inhabitants |
| 1970 | 621 inhabitants |
| 1980 | 580 inhabitants |
| 1990 | 555 inhabitants |
| 2000 | 534 inhabitants |
| 2010 | 506 inhabitants |
| 2013 | 508 inhabitants |
| 2016 | 386 inhabitants |
| 2018 | 205 inhabitants |
| 2020 | 174 inhabitants |
Schools, kindergarten
The Bürgewald daycare center with 50 places is located in the village . Elementary school and comprehensive school are located in Merzenich, the secondary school in Nörvenich .
traffic
The federal motorway 4 runs about one kilometer from the town . The next junction is the Merzenich exit. Buses of the Düren circular railway drive through the place. The next Deutsche Bahn stops are the Merzenich and Buir S-Bahn stations .
church
There was a chapel in Morschenich as early as the 12th century . Legends tell of a hunting band in the forest in the 8th century.
The parish church of St. Lambertus was built in the 16th century. After the bomb damage of the Second World War , the Düsseldorf cathedral builder Lehmbrock built a two-aisled hall made of rubble stones on the brick tower that had been preserved .
Test facility
In the Morschenicher guarantor, north of the village, there were 1939 to 1955 a large-scale test facility, called pit Union 103 , tried in one, brown coal in underground mining dismantle. Above all, the geological conditions did not permit economic mining, so that the experiment was ended after a few years.
Clubs, associations
- KK Club Waldesgrün Morschenich
- St. Lambertus Rifle Brotherhood Morschenich
- SV Morschenich 1925 e. V.
- Catholic parish youth Morschenich
- Fire fighting group Morschenich of the Merzenich volunteer fire brigade with youth fire brigade
- UL-Aero-Club Morschenich e. V.
Others
At Morschenich there is an airfield for microlight aircraft .
Behind this is the settlement of the so-called Hambacher Forest occupation.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ RWE: Hambach opencast mine: Hambach Forest is not planned in an island location - Morschenich should not be used for mining purposes. Retrieved January 20, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 98 .
- ↑ Arnoldsweiler: History & Coat of Arms. In: Website of the city of Düren. Retrieved October 5, 2018 .
- ^ 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.
- ↑ https://www.aachener-zeitung.de/lokales/dueren/merzich/st-lambertus-litzer-gottesdienst-in-kirche-in-morschenich_aid-39459941
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. dueren.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of February 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on February 12, 2015)
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ http://www.aachener-nachrichten.de/mobile/lokales/region/hambacher-forst-soll-wieder-besetzt-sein-1.649656
- ↑ District of Düren wants to vacate private property ( memento from January 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Police arrest landowners ( Memento from March 31, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.aachener-nachrichten.de/lokales/dueren/camp-signalisiert-bis-hierher-und-nicht-weiter-1.487663
- ↑ http://www.ksta.de/kerpen/hambacher-forst-protestcamp-soll-geraeumt- Werden, 15189188,23720304.html
