Rüdenet

View from the banks of the Rhine in Mehlem to the former location of the Rüdenet winery (center), above it Drachenburg Castle (2019)

The Rüdenet is a ridge of the Drachenfels in Königswinter , a city in the North Rhine-Westphalian Rhein-Sieg district . The Haus Rüdenet winery was located on it until the early 1980s .

location

The Rüdenet is the slightly northwestern mountain ridge of the Drachenfels, facing the Rhine , below Schloss Drachenburg . Below the Rüdenets are numerous allotment gardens , a few isolated houses and the southern foothills of the old town of Königswinter.

history

The Rüdenet is one of three Roman quarries in the Siebengebirge in which trachyte was extracted. Stone slides led the broken blocks towards a loading point. From the 13th century, the Rüdenet is said to have been used to complete the Cologne Cathedral . In over 60 blocks on the Rüdenet, signs of Roman mining activities have been preserved, especially as traces of wedge splitting.

House Rüdenet (1917)

By 1811 at the latest, a winery of the same name had been built on Rüdenet , which included extensive vineyard terraces and an orchard . The main building of Haus Rüdenet was a massive quarry stone building , it also had a stable building. In 1843 the residential area had five residents under the spelling Rüdennet , and in 1885 with the current name four residents. In 1913 the property was extensively rebuilt. In the post-war period , the winery was a popular place for excursions due to the exposed view over the Rhine Valley. At the end of the 1970s, the vineyard terraces on Rüdenet were demolished in the course of land consolidation . In addition to road construction, this led to a destabilization of the slope, as a result of which after 1981 landslides and damage to the Rüdenet house, which for this reason had become dilapidated in 1984 and was demolished in 1985.

The block stream or the trachyte rock sea of the Rüdenets are a protected ground monument .

literature

• Margitta Blinde: Lost treasure on a slope (PDF; 1.8 MB). In: rheinkiesel. Magazine for the Rhine and Siebengebirge , Volume 16, October 2012, p. 4/5.
• Heimatverein Siebengebirge (ed.); Winfried Leischner: The Rüdenet block stream: an important geotope in the Siebengebirge , ISBN 978-3-932436-14-7 .

Web links

Commons : Haus Rüdenet  - collection of images

• Vineyard / house Rüdenet on weinort-koenigswinter.blogspot.de , Wine Brotherhood Middle Rhine-Siebengebirge

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans-Eckart Joachim : Under our feet: New traces of old settlement . In: Bruno P. Kremer (Ed.): The Siebengebirge . Wienand Verlag, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-87909-770-4 , pp. 37–43 (here: p. 39).
2. ↑ Royal Government of Cologne (Ed.): Overview of the constituent parts and list of all the localities and individually named properties of the government district of Cologne, according to districts, mayorships and parishes, with information on the number of people and the residential buildings, as well as the Confessions, Jurisdictions , Military and earlier country conditions. Cologne 1845, p. 87 ( digitized version ).
3. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia (PDF; 1.5 MB), Volume XII Provinz Rheinland, Verlag des Königlich Statistischen Bureaus (publisher), 1888, p. 116.
4. ^ Geological State Office North Rhine-Westphalia (ed.); Gangolf Knapp, Klaus Vieten: Geological map of North Rhine-Westphalia 1: 25,000. Explanations for sheet 5309 Königswinter . 3rd, revised edition, Krefeld 1995, p. 10.

Coordinates: 50 ° 39 '59.3 "  N , 7 ° 12' 18.3"  E