Oberaussem Fortuna

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Oberaussem Fortuna
City of Bergheim
Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 27 ″  N , 6 ° 41 ′ 5 ″  E
Area : 10.67 km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 50129
Area code : 02271
Oberaußem-Fortuna (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Oberaussem Fortuna

Location of Oberaußem-Fortuna in North Rhine-Westphalia

Oberaussem-Fortuna is a district of the town of Bergheim in the Rhein-Erft district in North Rhine-Westphalia . Until 1975 Oberaußem-Fortuna was an independent municipality.

geography

The two parts of the municipality of Oberaussem-Fortuna were the places Oberaussem and Fortuna . While Oberaussem is now a district of Bergheim, the entire Fortuna area, consisting of a briquette factory, power plant, opencast mine and settlement, is now only an uninhabited and renatured area. The former municipality of Oberaussem-Fortuna had an area of ​​10.67 km².

history

The rural community of Oberaußem had existed in the Bergheim district in the Cologne administrative district since the 19th century . In the south of the municipality, a briquette factory, the Fortuna power plant and a completely new town called Fortuna have been built since the end of the 19th century . After the Second World War , the entire community was renamed Oberaußem-Fortuna .

The municipality of Oberaußem-Fortuna was incorporated into the city of Bergheim on January 1, 1975 by the Cologne Act . The entire former part of the municipality Fortuna fell victim to the Bergheim opencast mine since the late 1970s , which was shut down in 2002 and has since been recultivated.

Population development

year Residents source
1871 940
1885 990
1910 1756
1925 3142
1939 3287
1946 3867

Sports

The name of the SpVgg Oberaußem-Fortuna still reminds of the former community .

Individual evidence

  1. § 3 main statute of the city of Bergheim
  2. a b Community dictionary of the Rhine Province 1930
  3. 1871 census
  4. Community encyclopedia for the Rhine Province 1885
  5. Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on February 2, 2017 .
  6. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. euskirchen.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  7. 1946 census