New Morken-Harff

Neu Morken-Harff or Morken-Harff (new) is part of Kaster , a district of Bedburg in the Rhein-Erft district in North Rhine-Westphalia . The original place Morken-Harff had to relocate until 1976 due to the Garzweiler opencast mine and the Fortuna-Garsdorf opencast mine .

geography

Morken-Harff (new) borders in the north on Königshoven , in the east on Kaster, in the south on Bedburg and Lipp (Bedburg) and in the west on Pütz (Bedburg) and Kirchtroisdorf .

history

Town hall square with shopping street

Place name

Morken is either derived from the Latin Mauracien, which means settlement of the Mauritanians , or, which is much more convincing, the derivation of "Maar", which denotes pools and swamps . Maerke also appears in the older spelling.

Harff is derived from "Horr" and "ouwe", which means something like swamp lowland.

religion

The majority of the population in the new district is Catholic . A Protestant Church does not exist in the district, but in neighboring Kaster.

Village history

The Martinus School

On May 14, 1962 the planning project was handed over by Roloff to the architects Himich and Bremer from Rheydt . They planned the village structure with manageable land and as many green spaces as possible, such as parks, playgrounds or wider streets. Many non-resettlers also live in the actual resettlement site today, so the area of Morken-Harff had to be (re) enlarged during the resettlement, the originally planned 33 hectares were no longer sufficient. In order to enlarge the area, area was removed from the town of Königshoven in the north.

In 1970 construction began on the new town hall, which was created with the new market square on St.-Rochus-Straße. It was completed on October 30, 1972. From September 1, 1971, the new kindergarten could be used, with the new school right next to it. In addition to the classrooms, this was given a spacious break hall, auditorium, which can also be used for school services and other events. The cost of building the school amounted to DM 2.8 million, DM 1.8 million more than planned.

The construction of the St. Martinus Church began in the same year and by Christmas 1973 it was already finished.

A swimming pool with sauna was built for relaxation in the new location. It was built according to the plan of the architect Rech from Hennef (Sieg) . That is why it is often called the “Hennef model”. It could be used from 1974.

With the swimming pool as the last public building, the resettlement was completed around 1976.

Attractions

St. Martinus Church

The church was built according to the plans of the Cologne architect Rotterdam Jr. The church houses numerous pieces of jewelry from Morken-Harff: The crucifixion group from Morken Calvary was built into the outer wall, in front of the church is the old spire from the old church in Morken-Harff, which was built in 1894/95 and demolished in 1974, is in the church park also an old bell from the former twin town. The old mosaic from the main entrance of the old church in Harff was installed above the entrance to the church , it shows St. Martin , to whom the parish church in Morken-Harff was consecrated. Inside the church, St. Martinus houses an oak confessional from the 19th century, an oak pulpit from 1760 and the Simons organ, built in 1985, with 30 registers. The station of the cross, which already adorned the old parish church, was freed by a private person before the church was demolished and thoroughly restored and renovated before it was walled into the new wall. This station of the cross was made by Jean Sauer in Aachen in 1895 , in French Sawagem stone. In the church there are still numerous figures of saints, most of which date from the 15th century.

Morken crucifixion group

The Morken crucifixion group

The crucifixion group stood in the old village before the Morkener Kalvarienberg was built in the parish cemetery. The construction of the Morkener Kalvarienberg was commissioned in 1531 by the owners of Harff Castle at the time. As a reminder of their deed, they had the coat of arms carved into the crucifixion group. The crucifixion group was brought to the resettlement site at Kaster and placed here on the wall of the new church of St. Martin.

Crossroads of the Mirbachs

There is only one memory of Harff Castle and its owner in the resettlement site, the Mirbachs crossroads; it stood behind today's Kaster town hall on the market square. Before the resettlement of Count Antonius von Mirbach-Harff, it was given to the city of Bedburg and set up here.
In 2010 it was moved to the Spless through the sponsorship of Morken-Harffer Schützen and has been maintained since then.
The following inscriptions can be read on the monument:

North side

"No more sin!
- Memento of
the mission
held at Caster from the
6th to the 20th in 1852.
Dedicated May 3, 1853
-
Whoever prays reverently in front of this cross 5
Our Father , 5 Ave Maria, 5 Glory to
the Father,
wins one Lapse of 5 years. "

South side

"In memory of Johann Wilhelm
Graf Mirbach zu Harff, his
wife, Antonette Graefinn Wolff-
Metternich zu Gracht, erected
this cross on this spot
in honor of God and encouragement
of devotion, because it was always his
and her intention, and it is
now on the aforementioned day out
, united with the
remembrance of the mission, remember
us in prayer. "

Other small monuments

The crucifixion group from Omagen, a hamlet to which Haus Omagen also belonged, is also reminiscent of the old homeland .

The Marienkapelle was built on Harffer Schlossallee. The old Harffer cemetery cross stands in a green area between the resettlement site and neighboring Königshoven.

traffic

railroad

The next train station is in Bedburg. From there the Erft-Bahn runs to Horrem or Cologne and Neuss via Grevenbroich .

Streets

The next motorway entrance is in Lipp and is called Bedburg. The district road 36 runs through the village and the country road 279 passes the village.

bus connections

In the village there are the bus stops Kaster Rathaus and Schützendelle.

Recreation and leisure

There is a swimming pool and a youth center in the district. At Alt-Kaster is the Kaster lake, created by the opencast mine. There are two sports fields in Kaster and the resettlement area of Neu-Epprath . There is a tennis court in Kaster.

Town center 2011

Facilities

Youth home and library
School and kindergarten
town hall

Web links

literature

Morken-Harff - Documentation of a resettlement site in the Erftkreis. Rheinland Verlag 1982.
Map folder of the Bergheim district from Blees Verlag Düren

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