Muldenau

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Muldenau
City of Nideggen
Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 16 ″  N , 6 ° 33 ′ 24 ″  E
Height : 196 m
Area : 1.99 km²
Residents : 150  (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 75 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1972
Postal code : 52385
Area code : 02425
Muldenau, aerial photo (2015)

Muldenau is the smallest district of Nideggen in the Düren district , North Rhine-Westphalia .

By decree of the Prussian government in Aachen on November 25, 1919, the place was renamed from Pissenheim to Muldenau at the request of the municipality of Pissenheim .

location

Muldenau lies on the edge of the Zülpicher Börde at the foot of the Great Mountain , also called Grosberg , in the middle of the Devonian Muschelkalkkuppe with an extremely rare flora .

history

The place can look back on a long history of settlement. Shortly after the conquest of the Franks , Pissenheim was the scene of a deployment of King Clovis' army . The place was first mentioned in 1334 when a vineyard was sold to the abbot of the imperial abbey Kornelimünster .

On January 1, 1972, the nine former communities of Abenden, Berg-Thuir, Embken, Heimbach, Hergarten, Muldenau, Schmidt, Vlatten and Wollersheim merged with Nideggen to form the new town of Nideggen. The Higher Administrative Court decided on August 4, 1972 that the new urban area of ​​Nideggen should be divided into two new municipalities, Nideggen (initially without municipal rights) and Heimbach (with municipal rights), with Hergarten and Vlatten Heimbach and the other municipalities being assigned to Nideggen.

church

The parish church of St. Barbara belongs to the Deanery Zülpich in the Archdiocese of Cologne . There must have been a church in Muldenau early on, because the late Gothic tower was built around 1450 . The current nave was built in 1866 . In December 2003 the church was named “Church of the Month”.

Muldenau, parish church Sankt Barbara, aerial photo (2015)

traffic

Country roads lead to Muldenau from the direction of Embken and Thum ( Kreuzau municipality ). The buses of the regional transport Euregio Maas-Rhein pass through the place.

Others

In the competition Our village has a future , the place has won several awards.

Personalities

Dietrich von Leers came from a family of rural origin from "Pissenheim". Together with his brother Michael, who was the Privy Councilor and State Secretary of the Palatinate Elector and Duke of Jülich, he was raised to the status of imperial knight in 1664. Since 1655 he was Jülich military master . In 1673 he lived in Düren .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.nideggen.de/zdf/downloads/20190108_Einwohnerstatistik_bis_einschl._2018.pdf
  2. ↑ a b Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register 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 f .

Web links

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