Niederkassel

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Coat of arms of the city of Niederkassel
Niederkassel
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Coordinates: 50 ° 49 '  N , 7 ° 2'  E

Basic data
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Cologne
Circle : Rhein-Sieg district
Height : 55 m above sea level NHN
Area : 35.79 km 2
Residents: 38,667 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 1080 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 53859
Primaries : 02208, 0228Template: Infobox municipality in Germany / maintenance / area code contains text
License plate : SU
Community key : 05 3 82 044
LOCODE : DE NKL
City structure: 7 districts

City administration address : 		Rathausstrasse 19
53859 Niederkassel
Website : www.niederkassel.de
Mayor : Stephan Vehreschild ( CDU )
Location of the city of Niederkassel in the Rhein-Sieg district
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Niederkassel , official spelling until August 14, 1936: Niedercassel, is a town in the Rhein-Sieg district in the south of North Rhine-Westphalia . It lies between Cologne and the federal city of Bonn .

geography

Geographical location

The city of Niederkassel stretches almost 12 km along the right bank of the Rhine , the district of Niederkassel is located at Rhine kilometer 666. Niederkassel is located between the major cities and regional centers of Cologne , Bonn and Troisdorf , which can be reached within 20 minutes thanks to convenient transport links. In the south of the city, near Mondorf , the Sieg flows into the Rhine.

City structure

Niederkassel consists of the districts of Lülsdorf , Mondorf , Niederkassel, Ranzel , Rheidt , Uckendorf and Stockem .

history

Early Bronze Age to Late Antiquity

Ceramic bowl from the Early Iron Age. FO. Niederkassel

Due to the rather turbulent Rhine river, which covered large parts of the settlement area by floods, the early settlers of the Bronze Age from 2000 to 800 BC gave birth to Their places soon. In the Iron Age these conditions obviously changed, because the settlement can be proven by some finds from Lülsdorf, Niederkassel and Mondorf. The Romans pushed forward to the Rhine in the last century BC and fortified the left bank of the Rhine with forts, only the right bank at the bridgeheads such as Cologne-Deutz and Mainz-Kastel . The auxiliary fort in Bonn in the area of ​​the market square in Bonn dates from the second half of the 1st century BC. Around 60 years later, a legionary camp - the Castellum Bonna - with a square side length of 500 m was built opposite the delta of the Sieg. During the Roman imperial period (the birth of Christ up to 400 AD), the settlement area in the area around Niederkassel was abandoned with a few exceptions.

Late antiquity to early modern times

In the 5th century, Roman rule broke up and the Frankish conquest of the land began. A real settlement began only in the 6th century by the Franks and the Merovingian rulers on the Rhine. This beginning permanent settlement later led to the founding of today's localities.

The earliest mention of Cassele comes from the year 722 . Mondorf is mentioned in 795 and Rheidt in 832. The settlements of Niederkassel, Rheidt and Mondorf belonged to the Auelgau and Lülsdorf to the Deutzgau in Carolingian times . At the end of the 14th century , Lülsdorf was combined with the parishes of Bergheim, Mondorf and Volberg to form the Bergisch Amt Lülsdorf. The parishes of Niederkassel and Rheidt finally fell to the Bergische Amt Löwenburg in 1484 .

Lülsdorf Castle

The castle Lülsdorf was the administrative seat of the Bailiwick and the later Office Lülsdorf and was from 1553 together with the Office Lowenberg managed by a bailiff, who resided at Castle Lülsdorf.

Early modernity until today

The French rule that began at the end of the 18th century brought about major changes in administration and living conditions. Church possessions and state domains were often squandered for little money. In 1815, the Congress of Vienna decided that the Rhineland would become part of Prussia . Under the Prussian administration, the Siegburg district was re-established in the Cologne administrative district in 1816 , which from 1822 on belonged to the Rhine Province . Also in 1816, the mayor's office in Niederkassel was formed to administer the communities of Lülsdorf , Niederkassel, Mondorf , Rheidt , Stockem and Uckendorf . The mayor's office was initially located in Uckendorf (now the second smallest district), but then permanently in Niederkassel. In 1927 the mayor's office was renamed Amt Niederkassel . In the course of the law on the local reorganization of the Bonn area (Bonn Law) , the Niederkassel office was dissolved on August 1, 1969 and its six municipalities were merged to form the new, non-official municipality of Niederkassel.

On January 1, 1981, Niederkassel was raised to the rank of town . Since 1975, the city's population has increased by over 50 percent from around 24,300 to around 38,000 today.

Population development

Population development of Niederkassel from 1816 to 2016
Year 1 Residents
1816 782
1852 791
1871 703
1905 701
1961 1,821
2004 36,766
2016 37,828
1 Census results from 1816 to 1970 of cities and municipalities

Denomination statistics

The current distribution of the city's population according to their religious affiliation (as of November 30, 2019) is Roman Catholic 42.4% (17,294 inhabitants), Protestant 17.6% (7,168 inhabitants) and other / none 40.4% (16,301 inhabitants). According to the 2011 census , 48.6% of the city's population were Catholic , 20.2% Protestant , and 31.2% belonged to other or no public religious community

politics

City council

Local election 2014
Turnout: 58.0% (2009: 55.0%)
 %
60
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
54.7
25.5
7.1
9.5
1.0
2.2
Gains and losses
compared to 2009
 % p
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
-10
+5.8
+2.7
-9.4
+0.2
-1.5
+2.2

As of May 25, 2014, the 38 seats on the city council will be distributed as follows:

(As of: local elections on May 25, 2014 )

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Niederkassel
 Blazon : “In a semicircular shield with a red background and a green corrugated shield base, a silver castle rises. Between two towers is the coat of arms of the von Lülsdorf family with a red counter-tin bar on a silver background. "
Justification of the coat of arms: The representation together with the wave shield base connects the location of today's city on the Rhine with the importance of the former bailiffs of Lülsdorf and their castle , the later seat of the ducal officials. The lords of Lülsdorf carried the red pinnacle bar in gold, the first line of the Bergische Counts until 1225 as a double pinnacle bar in black.

Town twinning

Niederkassel has twinned cities with Premnitz in Brandenburg and Limassol in Cyprus .

Culture and sights

Buildings

  • Parish office of St. Matthew

  • Chapel at the cemetery

  • Half-timbered houses

  • Elisabeth retirement home

See also

Sports

Sports park south near Niederkassel-Rheidt, aerial view from the north-west

Due to its location on the eastern bank of the Rhine, Niederkassel offers rowers optimal conditions. The rowing society Niederkassel from 1978 e. V. has its boathouse in Mondorf's harbor and is primarily dedicated to leisure and touring rowing .

About Regional importance enjoys in table tennis , the table tennis community Niederkassel 1958 e. V. , which represented a women's team in the 2nd table tennis Bundesliga in the late 1980s .

The Spielvereinigung Lülsdorf-Ranzel 1959 e. V. , with its eleven departments and around 2500 members, offers a wide range of sports from individual to team sports, such as swimming , athletics and handball .

Since 2008, in the south of Niederkassel the Sports Park South as a home ground in particular in football active sports clubs FC Hertha Rheidt e. V. and TuS Mondorf 1910/1920 e. V. , who had to vacate their previously operated sports facilities. Since 2009, both have been bundling their youth soccer work in the youth soccer club 09 Mondorf-Rheidt e. V. with around 30 teams and around 500 young people.

The pure football club 1. FC Niederkassel 1920/2010 e. V. with around 400 members is mainly committed to children and young people.

natural reserve

Niederkassel is committed to flood protection by providing the Langeler Bogen flood protection basin .

In almost all of Niederkassel, the forests are protected.

Natural monuments

Economy and Infrastructure

The Rhine ferry in Mondorf
Evonik plant in Lülsdorf, Niederkassel's largest employer
The marina of Mondorf lies in an oxbow lake of the Sieg on the Rhine

education

Niederkassel has five primary schools and one grammar school each, a comprehensive, secondary, secondary and special school:

  • Drei-Linden-Schule (Ranzel Community Primary School)
  • Catholic primary school Lülsdorf
  • Catholic primary school Mondorf
  • Catholic primary school in Niederkassel
  • Rheidter-Werth-School (Catholic elementary school)
  • Kopernikus high school in the city of Niederkassel
  • Comprehensive School Niederkassel
  • Alfred Delp Realschule Mondorf
  • Community secondary school Lülsdorf (expires from the 2015/2016 school year)
  • Laurentius School Mondorf (special school)

traffic

On January 1, 2018, 26,069 motor vehicles were registered in the city, including 22,229 cars.

There is a rail connection for goods traffic on the Lülsdorf – Troisdorf route .

The tariff of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg (VRS) applies to public transport .

Personalities

Born in Niederkassel

Connected to Niederkassel

  • Helmut Loos (1924–2000), a North Rhine-Westphalian state politician and former chairman of the Petitions Committee in Düsseldorf, lived in Niederkassel
  • Friedemann Immer (* 1948), trumpeter, lives in Niederkassel
  • Sabine Schulte (* 1976), German champion in 1997 and 1998 in the pole vault, trained in the LG Bonn / Troisdorf / Niederkassel
  • Lena Schöneborn (* 1986), 2008 Olympic champion and world and European champion in modern pentathlon, began her career in the swimming department of SpVgg Lülsdorf-Ranzel in Niederkassel
  • Andreas Mies (* 1990), tennis player, grew up in Niederkassel
  • Malcolm Cacutalua (* 1994), soccer player, grew up in Niederkassel

Others

For the duration of the 2006 World Cup , Niederkassel played host to the Ivorian national football team .

Web links

Commons : Niederkassel  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 )
  2. ↑ Statistics of the German Reich, Volume 450: Official municipality directory for the German Reich, Part I, Berlin 1939; Page 268
  3. ^ Wilhelm Classen: Castle and Office Lülsdorf under the dukes of Berg . In: Lülsdorf am Rhein , edited by Heinrich Olligs, Lülsdorf 1952, p. 196 ff.
  4. ^ The Rhein-Sieg-Kreis . Publisher: Senior District Director Paul Kieras. Stuttgart 1983, p. 283.
  5. ^ Law on the local reorganization of the Bonn area (Bonn Law) of July 1, 1969; § 8th
  6. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory 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. 303 .
  7. ↑ Contributions to the statistics of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, Vol. 17 / Siegburg 1980, p. 113.
  8. ↑ Niederkassel population statistics as of November 30 , 2019, accessed on December 20, 2019
  9. ↑ Census 2011 City of Niederkassel Population in regional comparison by religion -in%
  10. ↑ 2014 election results
  11. ^ List of the Rhein-Sieg district ( Memento from August 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ Schools. City of Niederkassel, accessed on March 16, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Mobility in North Rhine-Westphalia - data and facts 2018/2019. In: Road traffic. Ministry of Building, Housing, Urban Development and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, p. 66 (PDF; 14.2 MB, holdings on January 1, 2018).
  14. ↑ Irmgard Bracker: Ferryman overtake! The new “Rheinschwan” ferry was inaugurated with a great celebration. In: Extra sheet. October 16, 2017. Retrieved October 17, 2017 .