Muffendorf

Muffendorf Federal city of Bonn Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 17 ″  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 38 ″  E
Height :	90 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	3761  (December 31, 2018)
Incorporation :	1st August 1969
Postcodes :	53177, 53179
Area code :	0228
Location of the district of Muffendorf in the Bad Godesberg district of Bonn

Main street Muffendorf

Muffendorf is a district of the federal city of Bonn in the Bad Godesberg district . It is mainly used as a residential area and has a picturesque town center with Franconian half-timbered houses from the 17th century.

location

Muffendorf is located on a mountain slope between the higher Heiderhof and Pennenfeld in the Rhine Valley. It is bordered in the north by Alt-Godesberg and in the south by Lannesdorf .

history

Finds of hand axes prove that people lived in today's Muffendorf area as early as the Paleolithic .

At the time of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius (161 to 180 AD), his legate Gaius Scribonius had a temple dedicated to the hunting goddess Diana built.

Around this point, today, surrounded by the cemetery that is still in use and the privately owned rectory, largely from the 17th century, stands the Romanesque St. Martin's Church, in which the temple's consecration stone (used as an altar table) was discovered in 1911 .

The first written mention of the Franconian settlement Muffendorf is dated June 13th, 888. The name possibly goes back to an even older Celtic settlement (Muffo) . The “Siegburger Hof”, located opposite the Martinskirche and once belonging to the Benedictine Abbey of St. Michael in Siegburg, has been restored; a vineyard below the courtyard is being cultivated again.

Until June 19, 913, the "legitimate church" Muffendorf was owned by the canons of Weilburg , which Konrad I only founded in 912 in memory of his father Konrad the Elder , who fell in the Babenberg feud in 906 , and had rich property from his own and royal estates was equipped. As a result, this church had been in the possession of Konrad since 911, his year of coronation as king. Today's Alt St. Martin Chapel developed from it .

On June 19, 913 there was a contract issued by the royal chancellor between the Walpurgis monastery Weilburg and the priest Guntbald, according to the latter "from the property of the monastery" the "legal churches" Muffendorf and Breidenbach against "his own property at Breidenbach and Gladenbach “Receives. Muffendorf was then "in Bonngau in the county of the other Eberhard" ( what is meant is the Ezzone Eberhard † after 937, a son of Erenfried I, who was count in Bonngau until 907).

Accordingly, the document of the Diocese of Osnabrück , according to which King Arnulf of Carinthia would have given the church in Muffendorf (along with those in Boppard, Düren, Kirchberg and Froitzheim) to him on December 12, 889, is factually incorrect. Brandi has provided evidence of the forgery.

On May 20, 979 Otto II met in his Palatinate Allstedt with Gotzbert, abbot of the Imperial Monastery of Hersfeld since 970 . Otto II exchanged his royal court "Moffendorf" and other possessions with Gotzbert for chapels in Allstedt, Osterhausen and Riestedt and tithe rights in the Gau Friesenfeld and in Hassegau . Klobikau in Hassegau , which fell to his grandfather Heinrich I in 906 through his marriage to Hatheburg von Merseburg , belonged to the other royal property . Muffendorf was already built as a royal "villa" to which the Carolingian church was probably built. The certificate identifies Muffendorf as a property in the "Grafschaft Siegfried". Count in Bonngau was then Hermann I , from around 985 Count Palatine of Lorraine. The the exchanged chapels and tithe used Otto II. To the equipment of that time to commemorate I. Otto founded the monastery Memleben .

"At the request and complaint of Abbot Arnold", Heinrich II restituted the lucrative tithe rights to the Imperial Monastery of Hersfeld on January 26, 1015, which the monastery had to cede to Emperor Otto II and took back the goods "Moffendorf" and Klobikau.

Muffendorf did not remain a royal estate for long. As early as July 24, 1020, Emperor Heinrich the Holy gave the “Hof Moffendorf” to the Marienstift Aachen “for the salvation of Emperor Otto III. ". The farm was referred to as being "in the county of Count Palatine Ezzo ".

In 1254 the Teutonic Knights founded the Kommende Muffendorf . In 1670 Muffendorf recorded 65 houses with the former place Wattendorf.

Wonderfully country belonged Muffendorf by the end of the 18th century to the Electorate of Cologne and stood Wattendorf the management of the Office Godesberg (-Mehlem) in Oberamt Bonn . From 1816 Muffendorf was a municipality in the administrative district of the mayor's office in Godesberg within the Bonn district . In 1915, the community was in the city Godesberg incorporated . The district Muffendorf within the boundaries of the former community still exists today.

buildings

• The Kommende Muffendorf was a branch of the Teutonic Order
• Parish church of St. Martin , built from 1894 to 1895 by the architect Anton Becker, who was born in Lüftelberg , in a neo-Gothic style with two small glass paintings by Charles Crodel , executed by Carl Helmut Steckner
• Romanesque church Alt St. Martin , former parish church, originally built around 1100, with surrounding cemetery
• Small Beethoven Hall , a listed event hall from 1896

Impressions from Muffendorf

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  Copy of the "Dianastone"

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  Valley view

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  Coming

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  Old St. Martin

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  St. Martin

Culture

• Once a year, on the first Sunday in September, the Muffenale , a craft and trade show, takes place in Muffendorf .
• Concerts, theater and carnival events take place in the Small Beethoven Hall.

people

• The radio presenter Frank Wallitzek lived in Muffendorf from 2008 to 2010.
• The sculptor and painter Heinz Feuerborn (1930–2018) lived and worked in Muffendorf.
• The violinist and composer Konstantin Gockel , a specialist in new music , lives in Muffendorf.
• The genre painter Peter Schwingen (1813–1863) was born in Muffendorf. His village and children's pictures show the experience in the village environment.
• During her time in Bonn, today's Chancellor Angela Merkel lived in Muffendorf (Elfstrasse).
• The " RTL aktuell " presenter Peter Kloeppel lives in Muffendorf.
• The actress Heide Keller lives in Muffendorf.

See also

• List of architectural monuments in the Muffendorf district of Bonn

literature

• Herbert Strack: Walk through the 1100 year old Muffendorf. Bad Godesberg 1988.
• Pia Heckes, Horst Heidermann : Peter Schwingen (1813–1863), life and work. Siegburg 2004.
• Alfred Wiedemann : History of Godesberg and its surroundings. 2nd, increased edition. Verlag des Amtes Godesberg, Bad Godesberg 1930, pp. 71–123.
• Pia Heckes: Muffendorf. History and stories from the Paleolithic to today. Bonn 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-045507-0 .

Web links

Commons : Muffendorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population in Bonn by districts (according to the main statute) on December 31 , 2018 , Federal City of Bonn - Statistics Office, February 2019
2. ↑ Certificate of June 19, 913 = RI I n. 2087b in: Regesta Imperii Online. Retrieved February 5, 2015.
3. ↑ Document dated December 12, 889 = RI I n. 1841 in: Regesta Imperii Online. Retrieved February 5, 2015.
4. ↑ Description of the Alt St. Martin chapel in: Website of the Catholic pastoral care area Bad Godesberg. Retrieved February 5, 2015.
5. ^ Certificate of May 20, 979 = RI II, 2 n. 782 in: Regesta Imperii Online. Retrieved February 5, 2015.
6. ↑ Document from January 26, 1015 = RI II, 4 n. 1857 in: Regesta Imperii Online. Retrieved February 5, 2015.
7. ↑ Document of July 24, 1020 = RI II, 4 n. 1974 in: Regesta Imperii Online. Retrieved February 5, 2015.
8. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, 2nd volume: The map of 1789. Bonn 1898, p. 61.
9. ↑ State Surveying Office North Rhine-Westphalia: Directory of the landmarks ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (Status 2005; PDF file; 237 kB) 
10. ↑ In Bonn, Merkel lived on 70 square meters. Express , July 17, 2014.