Priestly council

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Location of the former and relocated Priesterath in the Rhenish lignite mining area

Priesterath is a district of the city of Jüchen in the Rhine district of Neuss in North Rhine-Westphalia. The original location was relocated from 1984 to 1989 because it had to give way to the Garzweiler open-cast lignite mine .

geography

Old priest council

The old place was a street village on the road from Garzweiler to Jüchen . In the north there was a settlement that is now near the viewing platform of the opencast mine and belongs to Jüchen. Alt-Holz , which is now also resettled, bordered on the west and the A44 . In the south were the Stolzenberg and Garzweiler estate. To the east were the villages of Elfgen and Belmen.

New Priestly Council

The new location borders on Jüchen to the south, Schaan to the west, Kelzenberg to the north and Garzweiler to the east .

history

Place name

Priesterayd (older spelling) on ​​a map from 1575
Priesterath, tranchot card from 1807

The place name of Priesterath has a -rath ending, which draws attention to a clearing site. Scientists assume that clearing sites were founded in the 9th and 10th centuries. The village is probably called Priesterath, as the forest was probably cleared by monks (i.e. priests). This thesis is also supported by a demarcation on the former road from Belmen to Garzweiler . The name for this area was "Auf'm Mönch".

Old priest council

The old place was probably founded in the 9th or 10th century as a clearing site. In the 13th century Dietrich III. von Myllendonk established a Lehnshofverband in Priesterath, which he enlarged on November 13, 1262. The second son, Gerlach, sold the farms around Priesterath and others to Archbishop Engelberth II of Cologne on April 2, 1274 . Alt-Priesterath had to relocate from 1984 to 1989 due to the Garzweiler opencast mine .

New Priestly Council

“Priesterath” is to be found within Jüchen . New residential areas with the street names “Priesterath” and “Stolzenberg” were created for resettlers from Priesterath and Stolzenberg. The center of the Neu-Priesterath was the bell tower with the old bells in the immediate vicinity of the community center. In 2010 the bell tower was destroyed by arson . A new tower with a new bell was built, which was consecrated in 2010.

Architectural monuments

Bell tower, Klauth Cross from 1846, bell, memorial and town house
Historic Klauth cross in Priesterath from 1846
Monument of the Priestly Council, right in front of the town house

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arson on the bell tower

Web links

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 29.5 ″  N , 6 ° 30 ′ 11.9 ″  E