Pingsdorf

Pingsdorf City of Brühl Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 56 ″  N , 6 ° 53 ′ 22 ″  E
Height :	86 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	4736  (Dec. 31, 2017)
Incorporation :	1932
Postal code :	50321
Area code :	02232
Catholic Parish Church of St. Pantaleon

Pingsdorf is a district of Brühl in the Rhein-Erft district in the southwest of North Rhine-Westphalia .

location

Pingsdorf is located south of the city center of Brühl on the slope of the foothills . The district is cut through by Euskirchener Straße (formerly B 51 ) and the Pingsdorfer Bach, which flows partially piped.

history

The area of ​​today's Pingsdorf was already settled in prehistory. During an excavation in the area between Südfriedhof and Bonnstrasse, several longhouses of a settlement made of ribbon ceramics , trenches of an earthwork and remains of graves and buildings from the Iron Age were found on an area of ​​8 hectares . A Roman burial ground was also discovered here. The current part of the city emerged from a Franconian Fronhof and has been continuously inhabited since around 900 AD, although many residents moved to the city from 1285 after the establishment of Brühl, into which Pingsdorf was later incorporated.

Population development

Due to the lignite mining in the southern part of the Rhenish lignite mining area , which has now expired , the place grew with the influx of miners from Bavaria , among others , especially at the end of the 19th century. The population figures reflect the growth of the village over the last 250 years:

• 1750: about 300
• 1900: around 700
• 1950: 2512
• 1977: 3027
• 2009: 4749

Lignite mining

The mining of lignite began in the valleys, in Pingsdorf that is the valley of the Pingsdorfer Bach, where the seams were cut and therefore easily accessible with primitive mining methods. The pits were called Im Metzenmacher on the southern flank of the valley and Im Bärchen on the other side of Euskirchener Strasse, and to the north of it Im Bären am Schild and St. Pantaleon . The lignite works Badorf, Pingsdorf produced around 1883 with 120 (winter) to 200 men (summer). From 1907 they were connected to the Pingsdorf freight railway to Vochem . The Pingsdorf colony was established in 1889 as the first demonstrable workers' settlement for job-seeking Bavarian forest workers of the Brühl union . (today Maiglerstrasse). The Badorf mine still produced Klütten by hand until 1913 . The later larger mine fields further up on the Pingsdorfer Bach were the mine Berggeist field with briquette factory and power station. The mine also supplied the Brühl sugar factory with fuel. The pits in the southern district were already charred at the beginning of the 1950s. Phantasialand is located there today .

A number of street names such as Maiglerstrasse, which, like Maiglerwiese, are named after the lignite pioneer Otto Maigler , are reminiscent of the time of the lignite industry .

Attractions

Pingsdorfer Madonna in the Kolumba Museum, Cologne

The Catholic parish church of St. Pantaleon was built between 1746 and 1763 with financial support from Elector Clemens August , who resided in Brühl . In the interior there is a copy of an early Romanesque Madonna figure from the 12th century, the Pingsdorf Madonna . The work of art was not rediscovered until 1919. Due to its importance in art history, the original is now in the Kolumba Diocesan Museum in Cologne . Four bells hang in the tower , the oldest of which was cast by Martin Legros from Malmedy in 1776. In 2000 it was supplemented by three bells from the foundry Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock , which are adapted to the sound of the old Annenglocke . The full bells (strike tone sequence Ges ¹ –as ¹ –b ¹ –des ² ) sounds every Sunday during mass.

Pingsdorf pottery

Main article: Pingsdorf pottery

Pingsdorf pottery (12th century),
Burg Linn Museum

Those in the Brühl area for the 8th – 10th The potters' production facilities in Badorf , which were occupied in the 19th century, were gradually relocated to the Pingsdorf area, possibly due to the locally exhausted clay deposits. From the 9th to the 13th century, pottery was traded from Pingsdorf to England , Scandinavia and the Baltic region . In addition to mostly gray spherical pots , the high mediaeval Pingsdorf ceramics are characterized by light- ground tapping and drinking vessels painted with red-burning engobe .

Pingsdorfer Bach, Pingsdorfer See and Rhineland Nature Park

The brook, one of the many short brooks that run down from the Ville into the Rhine plain and seep away there, begins today below the Villenhofer Maar , one of the Villeseen in the Rhineland Nature Park , it is renatured below Pingsdorfs today. The Brühler Südfriedhof, once laid out on its left bank, now stretches across the stream, which can be crossed there with wooden bridges. The brook feeds the island ponds in the Schlosspark Brühl nature reserve , where it joins the Mühlenbach (formerly Siegesbach) coming from Heide and then flows as the Palmersdorfer Bach towards Berzdorf . The Pingsdorfer See, an opencast mine of the former Maria Glück mine , is one of the larger lakes in the lake district. It is drained through the Wehrbach to the Pingsdorfer Bach. The Römerkanal hiking trail leads around Pingsdorf, tracing the Eifel aqueduct from the Romans to Roman Cologne . Other circular and long-distance routes open up the nature park directly adjacent to Pingsdorf.

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  Pingsdorf lake

traffic

The B 51 was routed around Pingsdorf and Brühl and replaced by the 553 federal motorway between the Brühl-Nord junction and the A 1 , Euskirchen junction . The street was therefore downgraded to Landesstraße 194. This crosses Landesstraße 183 to the north, the old Bonnstraße, which leads past the foothills below Pingsdorf.

With the Badorf stop, the district has, together with Badorf, a connection to the foothills of the Stadtbahn line 18.

Web links

Commons : Pingsdorf  - Collection of Images

• www.pingsdorf.de

literature

• Walter Buschmann , Norbert Gilson, Barbara Rinn: Brown coal mining in the Rhineland , ed. from LVR and MBV-NRW , 2008, ISBN 978-3-88462-269-8
• Fritz Wündisch : From Klütten and Briquettes, pictures from the history of the Rhenish lignite mining , Weiden 1964

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://offenedaten.kdvz-frechen.de/dataset/6af925ab-855f-457d-b3b8-7904f9faad3a/resource/6af925ab-855f-457d-b3b8-7904f9faad3a
2. ↑ Martha Aeissen: Nothing or Everything - an excavation between Südwiese and Südfriedhof in Brühl. In: Archeology in the Rhineland 2016 . Theiss-Verlag, Darmstadt 2017, ISBN 978-3-8062-3636-1 , p. 83-85 .
3. ↑ Marta Aeissen, Raymund Gottschalk: Buried at the grave - late Roman burials in Brühl . In: Archeology in the Rhineland 2016 . S. 166-167 .
4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated June 12, 2012 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. 
5. ↑ Map of Dechen in Buschmann et alii p. 40
6. ↑ [1] Google books: Dechen, p. 423 ff.
7. ↑ Buschmann et alii pp. 50 and 96
8. ↑ Buschmann et alii p. 129 f.
9. ↑ Buschmann et alii pp. 301-309
10. ↑ Buschmann p. 276