Paffendorf

This article covers the district of Paffendorf. For further meanings see Paffendorf (disambiguation) .

Paffendorf City of Bergheim Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 43 "  N , 6 ° 36 ′ 38"  E
Height :	65 m above sea level NHN
Area :	4.72 km²
Residents :	1247  (June 30, 2019)
Population density :	264 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1975
Postal code :	50126
Area code :	02271

Paffendorf is a district of Bergheim in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis , North Rhine-Westphalia .

location

Saint Pancras

Paffendorf is located in the Cologne Bay in the northwest of the district town of Bergheim. On the southern outskirts of the village the federal highway 477 runs , north around the place the county road 41 and through the place the state road 361 , in the southwest the federal highway 61 . The Erft flows through the village .

history

The fertile landscape was inhabited as an old settlement landscape in the early days. During the development of the industrial park near Paffendorf, a Celtic burial ground with 300, possibly even 600 cremation graves, which had been in use for almost 1000 years, was discovered on an area of ​​around 7  hectares . According to the ceramics and ash urns found, the oldest graves date from the 8th century BC, the youngest from the 1st century AD. The associated village of around 50 residents has not yet been found. In late Roman times the place was no longer occupied.

In 882 the place was first mentioned in writing as "Paphentorof". It belonged to the Trier Imperial Abbey of St. Maximin . In the 13th century, the name Paffendorf reappears in documents of the Essen women's monastery as its property. In 1767 Paffendorf had 328 inhabitants.

In October 1855 the poor servants of Jesus Christ founded their first branch outside the Diocese of Limburg . The sisters worked in school (temporarily), in outpatient nursing, in kindergarten and in the sewing school. The branch existed until the summer of 1962.

On January 1, 1975, the place was incorporated into the district town of Bergheim.

Bürgewald

Paffendorf is one of the so-called Bürgewald communities that owned the rights to the Bürgewald . According to the legend, this was due to the holy Arnold von Arnoldsweiler , through the legendary "Ride around the Bürgewald". The main town of the Bürgewald communities is Arnoldsweiler . The Paffendorfer had to go there on Whit Tuesday, later on Whit Monday, to offer a candle to St. Arnold. This wax interest was only canceled in the 19th century.

Attractions

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Paffendorf

Paffendorf Castle

Paffendorfer mill

• Paffendorf Castle , brown coal information center
• Saint Pancras Church
• Jewish Cemetery
• Paffendorfer Mühle , historic water mill

Reorganization

As early as 1937, the Bergheim and Paffendorf offices as well as the Hüchelhoven municipality merged to form the Bergheim office. Paffendorf came to the city of Bergheim on January 1, 1975 through the Cologne Act .

Others

Between Niederaußem and Paffendorf lying Wiedenfelder height , a recultivated Hochkippe from the tailings of the overburden of the open pit Fortuna Garsdorf in Rheinische coal mining area . There is a stop on the Erftbahn in Paffendorf . Paffendorf also has a football club, BC Viktoria Glesch / Paffendorf.

The place is on the old Roman road Trier-Neuss .

Personalities

• Wilhelm Hoffsümmer (* 1941), priest and author, was pastor in Paffendorf from 1979 to 2007.
• Gottfried Engels

Web links

Commons : Paffendorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the city of Bergheim
• Local homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ bergheim.de
2. ↑ Kölner Stadtanzeiger , Rhein-Erft, May 5, 2010, p. 33 and online ksta.de ( Memento of the original of July 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed in August 2010 
3. ^ Eva Cott: A metal age burial ground in Bergheim-Paffendorf - prospection and excavation. History in Bergheim. Yearbook of the Bergheimer Geschichtsverein eV 22, 2013, pp. 18–36.
4. ^ 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. 300 .
5. ↑ Document from 1360 to confirm the wax interest, by the Duke of Jülich.