Upper winter

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Upper winter
City of Remagen
Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ′ 36 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 9 ″  E
Height : 55 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 3735  (Dec. 31, 2018)
Incorporation : 7th June 1969
Postal code : 53424
Area code : 02228
Oberwinter (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Upper winter

Location of Oberwinter in Rhineland-Palatinate

Oberwinter is one of six local districts and at the same time one of eight districts of the association-free city of Remagen in the district of Ahrweiler in the north of Rhineland-Palatinate . The district is divided into the districts of Oberwinter (with the locations Birgel and Waldheide), Rolandseck and Bandorf (with the melting mill residential area). On December 31, 2018, the population of the local district was 3735, that of the district Oberwinter 2486 (excluding secondary residences ).

geography

Oberwinter is located on the north of the Middle Rhine on the left bank across from the municipality of Rheinbreitbach . In terms of natural space, the place can be assigned to the Honnef valley widening , which is characterized by a steep bank up to 100 m high on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite of which is a much wider, crescent-like valley area on the right bank of the Rhine; the upper altitudes ("Rheinhöhe") with up to a good 160  m above sea level. NHN reaching local documents Waldheide and Birgel, however, the Oberwinter terraces and hills , a terrace riedel country with patch volcanic summits. The residential development of the Oberwinter district itself extends in the valley and on the valley slope between 55 and about 105  m above sea level. NHN . The Oberwinterer Rheinbucht, the location of a port, allows the shore to recede significantly over a length of one kilometer. The historic site of the Oberwinterer Grund gravel bank is located on the Hafendamm . In the north of the district near Rolandseck, Oberwinter has a share in the southern tip of the island of Nonnenwerth .

history

Parish Church of St. Laurentius
Burghaus (17th century)

The village was first mentioned in a document in 886. In 1131 the parish church of St. Laurentius in Oberwinter was mentioned for the first time . Birgel is mentioned for the first time in 1166. In 1318 Burgrave Gerhard von Landskron received the glory of Oberwinter together with the parish of Birgel as a fief. In 1366 rule over the place was transferred to the Lords of Tomburg as a dowry from Kunigunde, the heirloom of Gerhard, the Burgrave of Landskron . (The two coats of arms of Landskron and Tomburg are under the vine in the city arms of Oberwinter.) In 1441 the glory of Oberwinter was divided. One half went to the Lords of Saffenburg as dowry , the other half to Messrs. Quadt von Landskron .

On November 27, 1565, the Reformation was born in Oberwinter. The Catholic cult was officially abolished. Soon afterwards (1593), however, both halves of the glory of Oberwinter fell to Duke Johann Wilhelm von Jülich-Kleve-Berg through an exchange of territory . The pastors in Oberwinter and Birgel became Catholic again. The Protestant church was built from 1721 to 1723 . On February 28, 1784, Oberwinter was hit by the worst Rhine flood to date.

Up until the end of the 18th century, Oberwinter belonged to the duchy of Jülich and, as the rule of Oberwinter (with Bandorf and Birgel), was under the administration of the (Sinzig-) Remagen office . After the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops (1794) and the acquisition of the French administrative structures (1798) Oberwinter became the Mairie Remagen in Canton Remagen assigned. The municipality of Oberwinter, together with Bandorf and Birgel, had 133 houses with 762 inhabitants around 1,800, including three Jewish families. Agriculture and viticulture were the only trades. In 1815 the Rhineland was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia and Oberwinter was assigned to the newly formed mayor's office in Remagen in the Ahrweiler district in 1816.

In 1887 the decision was made to build a winter shelter in Oberwinter. The main reason for this was the Oberwinterer Grund , a wide gravel bank that had formed in the middle of the river. In the years 1888 to 1891, the bay of Oberwinter was closed by an 800 meter long dam, creating an approximately 5 hectare state security harbor. Nowadays the port has mainly a function as flood protection for upper winter, not so much as a protective port for shipping. Since 1956 it has been the home port for the Bonn Yacht Club 1911 and since 1957 for the Yacht Club Mittelrhein Bad Godesberg .

Branch of the Embassy of Ukraine (2015)

In 1885 the community of Oberwinter included the residential areas Bandorf with 145, Birgel with 83, Mühlenloch with 9, Rolandseck with 125, Schmelzmühle with 9 and Unkelstein with 9 inhabitants. In 1910 the community in the then Prussian Rhine Province had 1522 inhabitants.

After Bonn had become the seat of government of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1949 , the community experienced extensive population growth. By 1952 the state of Japan set up the residence of its ambassador in the "Villa Struwe" (Hauptstrasse 26) in Oberwinter, which was previously used by the French High Commission and was located there until 1961 (→ Embassy of Japan (Bonn) ). In December 1994, Oberwinter became the location of the Ukrainian embassy in the Federal Republic of Germany after it had bought and rebuilt the former “Waldheide” hotel on the Rhine Heights. It was officially opened on July 4, 1995 on the occasion of the state visit of the Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma . After relocating the seat of government to Berlin in 1999, Ukraine set up the embassy's Bonn branch there , its only branch and the only diplomatic mission left outside Bonn, which was closed in 2015 (→ Embassy of Ukraine (Remagen) ).

Population development

year Residents year Residents year Residents
1585 500 1943 2,035 1990 2,677
1767 750 1963 3,201 1995 2,669
1817 677 1975 2,841 2000 2,621
1866 1,447 1980 2,858 2005 2,686
1905 1,583 1985 2,670 2010 2,592

Residents with secondary residences, before 1969 the municipality of Oberwinter

politics

District

Oberwinter with its districts Bandorf, Oberwinter and Rolandseck is one of six districts of the city of Remagen. The district is represented by a local advisory board and a local mayor .

Up until it was incorporated into the city of Remagen on June 7, 1969, Oberwinter was an independent municipality .

Local advisory board

The local advisory board consists of twelve members who were elected in the local elections on May 26, 2019 in a personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairperson.

The distribution of seats in the local advisory board:

choice SPD CDU FDP Green FBL WGR total
2019 3 4th 1 3 1 0 12 seats
2014 3 5 1 2 1 0 12 seats
2009 4th 4th 1 1 1 1 12 seats
  • FBL = Free Citizens List Remagen e. V.
  • WGR = voter group Remagen e. V.

Mayor

Angela Linden-Berresheim (SPD) became the mayor of Oberwinter on August 20, 2019. In the direct election on May 26, 2019, she was elected for five years with a share of 51.48% of the vote.

Linden-Berresheim's predecessor Norbert Matthias (CDU) had held the office since 2009, but did not take up office again in 2019.

Attractions

The Rolandseck train station and the Richard Meier building form the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck
Eberhard Bosslet - Rain Catcher 2001

At the end of the headland of the Oberwinter marina stands the sculpture "Rain Catcher" by Eberhard Bosslet , which was realized in 2001 and is visible from afar . It consists of construction equipment. It is one of the eight works of art on the sculpture bank along the Rhine from Remagen to Rolandseck train station .

Rolandseck with train station, seen from Rolandsbogen

The sights of the district include the Catholic parish church of St. Laurentius (first mentioned in 1131, current construction 1865/66), the Schwanen house from 1671, the Wirtz house from the 18th century, the Zettelmeiersche house from the 17th century and the Evangelical Church from the years 1721–1722. “De ahl Pump”, a water pump from 1780, is a landmark of Oberwinter.

The Rolandseck railway station , built in 1856-58, is located in the Rolandseck district. Since September 29, 2007, the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck has been located in its rooms and in a new building . The Rolandseck Wildlife Park is also located in the same district .

Economy, infrastructure and transport

Bad Honnef – Rolandseck ferry

On the northern edge of the Oberwinterer Hafen is the Mittelrhein shipyard , which goes back to the Oberwinter shipyard founded in 1947 by the French occupying forces and privatized in 1952, as well as the Schmidt shipyard , which was located there from 1977 . Another shipyard in Oberwinter was the Clausen shipyard , which mainly produced ferries and passenger ships.

The main road in Oberwinter is federal highway 9, which runs along the banks of the Rhine .

The station Oberwinter is located on the West Rhine Railway Cologne-Mainz. In the SPNV the RB 26 ( Middle Rhine Railway ) and the RB 30 ( Ahrtalbahn ) stop every hour . There are thus continuous connections to Koblenz Hbf and Mainz Hbf , to Bonn Hbf , Köln Hbf and Köln Messe / Deutz , as well as via Bad Neuenahr to Ahrbrück .

There is also a train stop in the Rolandseck district . Only the trains of the RB 26 ( Mittelrheinbahn ) stop here . The landing stage for the ferry connection with Bad Honnef is also located here . This goes back to an earlier yaw ferry at the same place. The pier for the ferry connection to the island of Nonnenwerth is also located between Rolandseck and Rolandswerth .

Personalities

  • Adolf Galland (1912–1996), famous fighter pilot in World War II, lived and died in Oberwinter
  • Annemarie Renger (1919–2008), President of the German Bundestag (SPD), lived and died in Oberwinter-Birgel
  • Hermann Scheer (1944–2010), member of the German Bundestag (SPD), lived in Oberwinter
  • Erwin Wickert (1915–2008), writer and ambassador, lived and died in Oberwinter
  • Eugen Gerstenmaier (1906–1986), resistance fighter, President of the German Bundestag (CDU), lived and died in Oberwinter
  • Erich Topp (1914–2005), Rear Admiral in the German Navy, lived on the Rheinhöhe in Oberwinter-Birgel
  • Horst Walter Endriss (* 1938), tax advisor and auditor, lives on the Rheinhöhe in Oberwinter-Birgel
  • Ralf Schmitz (* 1957), pioneer of deaf pastoral care, founder and first pastor of the first Catholic deaf community in Germany
  • Robert Landfermann (* 1982), jazz musician

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Rolandseck (legend by Heinrich Pröhle)
Commons : Oberwinter  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Source: Residential statistics of the city of Remagen
  2. ↑ a b Main Statute of the City of Remagen. § 2 and 3. Remagen City Administration, June 24, 2019, accessed on July 25, 2020 .
  3. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality. Status: January 2019 [ Version 2020 is available. ] . S. 4 (PDF; 3 MB).
  4. ↑ Federal Research Institute for Regional Studies and Regional Planning (ed.); Ewald Glässer (arrangement): The natural spatial units on sheet 122/123 . Self-published, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1978, ISBN 3-87994-328-1 , p. 18. (= Geographical Land Survey 1: 200,000. Natural division of Germany )
  5. ↑ H. Atzler, H. Wilms: Oberwinter 886-1986 . Remagen 1986, p. 17.
  6. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, 2nd volume: The map of 1789. Bonn 1898, p. 283.
  7. ↑ Rheinischer Antiquarius, III.Abt., Vol. 9, pp. 386f.
  8. ^ Chronicle of the place on the website of the Oberwinterer Rathausverein. Retrieved April 18, 2020 .
  9. ^ Hermann Josef Fuchs: 100 years of the Oberwinter port facility . In: Ahrweiler district's homeland yearbook 1988 . ISSN  0342-5827 . ( online )
  10. ↑ William Knippler: Aake and Schelche, Tauer and Tjalken. A primer on shipping on the Rhine , in: Heimatjahrbuch des Kreis Ahrweiler 1969, p. 90
  11. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia (PDF), Volume XII Provinz Rheinland, Verlag des Königlich Statistischen Bureaus (Ed.), 1888, page 38
  12. ↑ Municipal directory Germany 1900 - Ahrweiler district
  13. ^ Hermann Wandersleb (Ed.): The accommodation of the federal organs in Bonn . Düsseldorf undated (October 1949), p. 62.
  14. ↑ H. Atzler, H. Wilms: Oberwinter 886-1986 . Remagen 1986, p. 144.
  15. ↑ Official municipality directory (= State Statistical Office of Rhineland-Palatinate [Hrsg.]: Statistical volumes . Volume 407 ). Bad Ems February 2016, p. 176 (PDF; 2.8 MB).
  16. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2019 Oberwinter. Retrieved July 25, 2020 .
  17. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2014 Oberwinter. Retrieved July 25, 2020 .
  18. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: Local Advisory Council election 2009 Oberwinter. Retrieved July 25, 2020 .
  19. ^ A b Peter Günther: Minutes of the 1st public meeting of the Oberwinter local advisory board on August 20, 2019. (PDF; 100.8 KB) Oberwinter district, August 20, 2019, accessed on July 25, 2020 .
  20. ^ The Regional Returning Officer Rhineland-Palatinate: direct elections 2019. see Remagen, non-association municipality, third line of results Retrieved July 25, 2020 .
  21. ↑ Michael Schankweiler-Schell: The evangelical church in Oberwinter - meaning evangelical church building ( Memento from July 3, 2011 in the Internet archive ) , Heimatjahrbuch des Landkreis Ahrweiler 2005, p. 153ff.
  22. ↑ rain catcher ( Memento of 2 September 2014 Internet Archive ), arp museum Rolandseck Station
  23. ↑ www.wildpark-rolandseck.de