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Upper ornament
Niederzier municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 2 ″  N , 6 ° 28 ′ 29 ″  E
Height : 114 m above sea level NHN
Area : 8.12 km²
Residents : 3020  (December 31, 2016)
Population density : 372 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st July 1969
Postal code : 52382
Area code : 02428
Aerial view of Niederzier and Oberzier
Aerial view of Niederzier and Oberzier
Catholic parish church

Oberzier ( Dürener Platt Ovveziê ) is a district of Niederzier in the Düren district in North Rhine-Westphalia and lies between Niederzier-Mitte and Ellen . The Ellebach flows through the village in its western half .

history

From 1794 the left bank of the Rhine and thus also Oberzier were under French rule . Between 1798 and 1814 Oberzier belonged to the Mairie Niederzier in the Département de la Roer . In the population list of the year 1799 334 inhabitants and a stock of 85 houses are shown for Oberzier.

On July 1, 1969, Oberzier was incorporated into Niederzier.

From 1961 until the incorporation in 1969 the postcode was "5161 Oberzier (via Düren )", from 1969 to 1993 "5162 Niederzier", since then "52382 Niederzier".

Aviation pioneers

Few people know the story of the Bohlen brothers from Oberzier. In the years 1912 to 1914 they built the first Lilienthal and Wright aircraft in a wide area and tested them in the Köttenicher Feld and on the Stockheimer Heide. Paul Bohlen later moved to Marburg and his brother Otto to Frankfurt am Main .

Attractions

In addition to the Haus Horn local history museum, there are other monuments in Oberzier.

Bürgewald

Oberzier is one of the so-called Bürgewald communities that owned the rights to the Bürgewald . According to the legend, this is due to the holy Arnold von Arnoldsweiler , for the legendary "Ride around the Bürgewald". The main town of the Bürgewald communities is Arnoldsweiler . There the Oberzier had to offer a candle to Saint Arnold on Whit Tuesday, later on Whit Monday. This wake rate was only canceled in the 19th century.

church

traffic

The next junction is “Merzenich” on the A 4 ; the next train stations are “ Düren ” on the high-speed line Cologne – Aachen and “ Huchem-Stammeln ” on the railway line Jülich – Düren .

societies

In the village there is the carnival society Frohsinn Oberzier 1971 eV, the ball game club Oberzier 1910 eV, the May society "Maienlust 1922" Oberzier eV, the youth drum corps Oberzier 1988 eV, a fire fighting group of the Niederzier volunteer fire brigade , the Oberzier singers and the cycling club "Morgenstern" Oberzier. There are also two tennis clubs in Oberzier, one of the TC Schwarz-Weiß Niederzier and the other of the TV Huchem-Stammeln .

Others

To the west of the district is the Oberzier substation , which is the starting point for a planned high-voltage direct current connection line with Belgium .

Web links

Commons : Oberzier  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sabine Graumann: Departure into the Modern Age - The French Time (1794-1814). Landschaftsverband Rheinland, March 8, 2010, accessed December 14, 2011 .
  2. ↑ Niederzier community - history. Niederzier municipality, July 2005, accessed December 14, 2011 .
  3. ^ Kaulen, Heinz / Dürener Geschichtsverein: The population and social structure of the places of today's municipality Niederzier in the year 1799 - reproduction and evaluation of the population lists from French times. Contributions to the history of the Dürener Land, Volume 26, Dürener Geschichtsverein, Düren, 2006 (pp. 17, 20).
  4. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 98 .
  5. ↑ Document from 1360 to confirm the wax interest, by the Duke of Jülich.