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Low box wood
City of Euskirchen
Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 21 ″  N , 6 ° 50 ′ 5 ″  E
Height : 220 m above sea level NHN
Area : 2.29 km²
Residents : 306  (Dec. 31, 2017)
Population density : 134 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st July 1969
Postal code : 53881
Area code : 02255
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Location of Niederkastenholz in Euskirchen

Niederkastenholz is the smallest district of Euskirchen in the district of Euskirchen , North Rhine-Westphalia .

Niederkastenholz, aerial photo (2015)
Niederkastenholz coat of arms
CP Joist, Laurentius Chapel and Fountain, woodcut around 1990

location

Neighboring towns are Flamersheim , Stotzheim and Kirchheim . Roads 119 and 210 pass on the outskirts .

history

Before the municipal reorganization on July 1, 1969 (incorporation), Niederkastenholz belonged to the Kuchenheim office and until 1932 to the Rheinbach district . On the ridge stretching from Hockenbroich via Oberkastenholz to Niederkastenholz, viticulture was once practiced; Vine seedlings made from Niederkasten wood, especially from a famous ancient vine at the castle , were sought after on the Ahr and Moselle .

To the west of the church facing Landstrasse, extensive masonry of a Roman villa ( villa rustica ) was exposed in 1967 by the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn . Remains of stables, barns and an iron smelting site right next to the residential building were found during further digging. During their excavations in the 1960s, the Bonn archaeologists then obtained more information about what and who existed in the “castellum in silva” in the 3rd century AD.

Potsherds, ceramic fragments, bricks and coins from Roman times were found by pupils of the Catholic elementary school in Niederkastenholz, which existed from 1864 to 1965, with their teacher Josef Mnich as early as 1930 in small excavations about 100 m below (north) the Roman fountain. This is reported in the school chronicle, which was kept by teacher Konrad Joist until 1964 and then duly handed over. When the school was closed in 1965, this school chronicle (with a gray marbled cover), which is so valuable for the local history, was not included in the documents passed on to the Flamersheim elementary school and is therefore “lost” to this day.

The small three-aisled basilica of St. Lawrence with flat ceilings in the ships and a barrel vault in the square choir is one of art history's most valuable churches in the Archdiocese of Cologne .

According to the archaeologist Adolf Herrnbrodt (1913–1981), the church hill was a Franconian burial place, over which the Laurentius chapel was built. South of the chapel, above the old cemetery, around 1958 when an asparagus bed was laid out, foundations were found that probably belonged to the tenth courtyard of the Kornelimünster Abbey.

Under the choir room of the Laurentius Chapel was a rich spring, the water of which ran - north - below the chapel into the well, which was built in Roman times and of which a remnant of the stamped concrete wall of the Roman collecting basin still bears witness today. Today the Römerbrunnen stands dry because this spring has dried up since the canalisation in the early 1960s.

The Niederkastenholz moated castle is a relatively uniform and well-preserved complex that has preserved the character of a castle. It is first mentioned in 1297 with the knight Walther von Kastenholz. Only the ponds around the manor house have been preserved from the former two-part water system . In 1807 the castle was sold by the French domain administration and has been used for agriculture ever since.

On July 1, 1969, the previously independent community of Niederkastenholz was incorporated into the district town of Euskirchen. The coat of arms of Niederkastenholz was designed by Konrad Schaefer (for lead glazing).

Street names

Since 1969, in the course of addressing the street names in Euskirchen, many streets in Niederkastenholz have been named after male first names.

Personalities

  • Paul Coelestin Ettighoffer (1896–1975), German writer who lived in the village. As an important war writer, he only wrote a free novella once, namely after he had bought a small farm with one hectare of land (orchard meadow) from the Wachendorf siblings in Niederkastenholz for “an apple and an egg” .

literature

  • B.Bell, CP Joist: Together in churches . Ed .: Pastoral office Erftmühlenbach. Euskirchen 2015.
  • Conrad-Peter Joist (arr.): Contributions to local history . Ed .: City of Euskirchen. Euskirchen 1991.

Others

Many prizes were won in the competition Our village should become more beautiful .

Web links

Commons : Niederkastenholz  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population figures for districts. (PDF) City of Euskirchen, December 31, 2017, accessed on July 7, 2018 (main residences).
  2. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970.
  3. ↑ Bonner Jahrbücher, Volume 168, p. 470 ff.
  4. ↑ St. Laurentius Niederkastenholz
  5. ^ Conrad-Peter Joist (Ed. And Ed.): Contributions to the local history of Niederkastenholz . City of Euskirchen, Euskirchen 1992.
  6. ↑ Yearbook of the Euskirchen District 1963, p. 60 ff.
  7. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 86 .
  8. ^ Hans-Dieter Arntz : The writer Ettighoffer in the discussion of the zeitgeist: Dispute over the naming of a street in Euskirchen (1980). Three-part online series 2011.
  9. ↑ Paul Coelestin Ettighoffer: Peter in luck. Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh 1943.