Pesch (Nettersheim)

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Pesch
Municipality Nettersheim
Coordinates: 50 ° 31 ′ 42 "  N , 6 ° 41 ′ 33"  E
Height : 393 m above sea level NHN
Area : 6.19 km²
Residents : 524  (June 30, 2016)
Population density : 85 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st July 1969
Postal code : 53947
Area code : 02484
Pesch in the municipality of Nettersheim
Pesch, Church of Saint Caecilia

Pesch is a northern district of the municipality of Nettersheim in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Euskirchen in the North Eifel. Pesch has 524 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2016).

The remains of the so-called pagan temple , which was used to worship the matrons in Roman times, are worth seeing .

The painter Otto Pankok and the writer Jakob Kneip lived in Pesch . The Jakob-Kneip-Berg (438 m) and the Dorfstrasse, which connects Oberdorf and Unterdorf, are named after the latter.

Parish church

There was probably a chapel in the cemetery as early as 1498. The chapel is not mentioned until 1698. Pesch became an independent parish in 1794, thus breaking away from the parish of St. Peter Zingsheim , to which the chapel community had belonged until then.

The old chapel in the cemetery was demolished after it was decided at the beginning of the 19th century to build a new parish church due to its poor condition. In 1846 the neo-Gothic Catholic Church of St. Cäcilia was completed. The church is a quarry stone hall building and has three window axes, a sacristy attached to the choir in the east and a west tower. It has 95 seats and 70 standing places.

geography

The Quartbach and the Wespelbach flow through Pesch.

traffic

The L 206 runs through the village . The next motorway junction of the federal motorway 1 is Nettersheim . The town is connected to the Cologne-Trier Eifel line via Nettersheim train station, 7 km from Pesch .

There are bus connections every hour to Bad Münstereifel and Nettersheim, but also to Kall and Schleiden and on school days twice to Adenau and once to Blankenheim.

history

Numerous finds that were made in and around Pesch at the beginning of the 20th century prove that the Pesch district was settled in Roman times. a. Cremation and body burial graves north of the village. There were also buildings and graves in the Wespeltal and Unterpesch, as well as a late Roman coin find, which is no longer preserved.

The so-called pagan temple , a Roman sanctuary of the Matronae Vacallinehae , which was excavated between 1913 and 1918 in the corridor "Auf dem Addig", is of great importance among the ancient monuments.

For the first time the place is mentioned as "bessyhc" in the Prümer Urbar . This shows that the Prüm Abbey already owned properties in Pesch in 893.

In the 13th century Pesch was a fief of the Counts of Jülich , who transferred it to the Lords of Kerpen.

On July 1, 1969, Pesch was incorporated into Nettersheim.

Culture

The cultural life in Pesch is shaped by associations, some of which are rich in tradition. These include u. a. the sports club SpVg Germania Pesch-Harzheim, the choral society St. Cäcilia and the Heimat-Echo band, as well as the volunteer fire brigade of the community of Nettersheim, the Pesch fire fighting group.

Special village festivals that have existed for many decades and are still celebrated today are the fair (parish fair), the sports festival and the duck race in a slimmed-down form. The duck race used to be held in the Wespelbach, since 2013 it has been held in a basin in order to do justice to landscape protection and species protection.

Attractions

There are the following sights in and around the town:

literature

  • Hans-Dieter Arntz : The painter Otto Pankok as a lifesaver in the Third Reich . In: Eifeljahrbuch 2012. Düren, pp. 71–81.
  • Annekethe Barthel: Pesch 893–1993. A chronicle on the occasion of the anniversary of the first documentary mention. Publisher: Association of Pesch. no year
  • Joseph Hagen: Roman roads of the Rhine province. Eighth volume of the explanation of the historical atlas of the Rhine Province (= publications of the Society for Rheinische Geschichtskunde. XII). Second edition. Kurt Schroeder Verlag, Bonn 1931, p. 172.
  • Heinz Günter Horn (Ed.): The Romans in North Rhine-Westphalia . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-8062-0312-1 .
  • Hans Peter Schiffer: Churches and chapels in the parish of Nettersheim. History, design, equipment. Kall 2004.
  • Ernst Wackenroder : The art monuments of the Schleiden district (= Paul Clemen [Hrsg.]: The art monuments of the Rhine province . Volume 11, section II). Published by L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1932.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( information ) (query from September 1, 2012)
  2. ↑ Hans Peter Schiffer: Churches and chapels in the community of Nettersheim. History, design, equipment. 2004, p. 123.
  3. ↑ Ernst Wackenroder: The art monuments of the Schleiden district. 1932, p. 291.
  4. ↑ Hans Peter Schiffer: Churches and chapels in the community of Nettersheim. History, design, equipment. 2004, p. 123 f.
  5. ↑ Hans Peter Schiffer: Churches and chapels in the community of Nettersheim. History, design, equipment. 2004, p. 124.
  6. ^ A b c Hans Peter Schiffer: Churches and chapels in the parish of Nettersheim. History, design, equipment. 2004, p. 125.
  7. ↑ Ernst Wackenroder: The art monuments of the Schleiden district. P. 287ff.
  8. ^ Josef Hagen: Roman roads of the Rhine province. Eighth volume of the explanation of the historical atlas of the Rhine province. 1931, p. 172.
  9. ^ Heinz Günter Horn: Bad Münstereifel-Nöthen: Roman temple district. In: Heinz Günter Horn (Ed.): The Romans in North Rhine-Westphalia . 1987, p. 342 ff.
  10. ^ Heinrich Beyer : Document book for the history of the Middle Rhine territories, now the Prussian administrative districts of Coblenz and Trier. Edited from the sources by Heinrich Beyer. First volume: From the oldest times up to the year 1169. Hölscher, Coblenz 1860, p. 177 .
  11. ↑ Ingo Schwab and Reiner Nolden (eds.): Matthias Willerwersch: Die Grundherrschaft des Klosters Prüm. Trier 1989, p. 67
  12. ↑ Ernst Wackenroder: The art monuments of the Schleiden district. 1932, p. 290 f.
  13. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 101 .

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