Queckenberg

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Queckenberg
City of Rheinbach
Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 39 ″  N , 6 ° 53 ′ 29 ″  E
Residents : 854  (March 31, 2014)
Incorporation : 1st August 1969
Postal code : 53359
Area code : 02255
Queckenberg (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Queckenberg

Location of Queckenberg in North Rhine-Westphalia

Chapel St. Josef, Madbachstr.  51
Chapel St. Josef, Madbachstr. 51

Queckenberg is a district of Rheinbach , but also a town in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The place is about 10 km southwest of the core city - near the Madbachtalsperre - on the heights of the Voreifel in the Ahr Mountains, right on the border with Rhineland-Palatinate . Neighboring towns are in the south-east Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler , south-west Bad Münstereifel , north-west Euskirchen and north-east Meckenheim . The nearest train stations are Rheinbach and Meckenheim on the Voreifelbahn Bonn-Euskirchen railway line , and the nearest motorway junction is Rheinbach / Meckenheim on the A 61 .

The place is agriculturally structured and also a place of residence for commuters to Rheinbach, Meckenheim, Bonn and the Cologne Bay.

Queckenberg was incorporated into the city of Rheinbach on August 1, 1969. Up to this point in time, the following districts and residential areas belonged to this village:

  • Oak trees
  • Hardt
  • House Winterberg
  • hole
  • Surr

Hiking trails

The Via Coloniensis from Cologne to Trier goes through Queckenberg. The Camino de Santiago then continues through France and Spain to Santiago de Compostela.

Individual evidence

  1. City of Rheinbach, subject area Bürgerbüro, SGL Volker G., as of October 31, 2014 (total number of residents: main residence = 797; secondary residence = 54 )
  2. Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, DNB  456219528 , p. 83 .
  3. ^ Ingrid Retterath: Way of St. James Via Coloniensis from Cologne to Trier . 1st edition. Conrad-Stein-Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86686-439-9 . conrad-stein-verlag.de ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. / @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.conrad-stein-verlag.de