Refrath

Refrath City of Bergisch Gladbach Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 24 ″  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 59 ″  E
Height :	at 76 m above sea level NN
Residents :	9131  (2017)
Postal code :	51427
Area code :	02204
Location of Refrath in Bergisch Gladbach
The church square with the church of St. Johann-Baptist is located with the village of Siebenmorgen in the center of Refrath.

Refrath is a district of Bergisch Gladbach and belongs to the statistics district 6 of the city under No. 61.

Location and surroundings

When the two cities of Bergisch Gladbach and Bensberg were merged to form the new city of Bergisch Gladbach in 1975, the old Bensberg district of Refrath was divided into the new districts of Refrath, Alt Refrath , Kippekausen and Lustheide . Together with the previously independent district of Frankenforst , these districts form the so-called statistical district 6 of the city of Bergisch Gladbach and the zip code area 51427 . The name Refrath is made up of the part of the name Ref, which means something like "shore" and rath, which translates as "clearing".

The Frankenforstbach flows in the south of Refrath. Coming from Bensberg it first passes the districts of Frankenforst and Lustheide and then flows through Refrath and crosses the city limits to Cologne . There his name changes to Bruchbach . North of Cologne-Merheim , it joins the Flehbach to form the Faulbach .

history

The opinion held by Gerd Müller that the history of Refrath began in 855 with a clearing permit from Emperor Lothar I to son-in-law Count Giselbert II can be ruled out according to recent research. The first reliable written evidence can only be found in the 12th century.

Peter-Buerling-Platz

Steinbreche House

In the year 1586 140 to 150 people lived in Refrath, after the Thirty Years' War 29 goods can be proven in the Refrath area for the years 1648 to 1660. The quarry work on the Steinbreche for the Bensberg Castle began around 1700, and the Steinbreche House was built in 1712 .

The Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies , Blatt Amt Porz , proves that the residential area was categorized as a church village in 1715 and was named Rafrath .

Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking names the court on his charter of the Duchy of Berg in 1789 as Raefrath . It shows that Refrath was part of the Refrath honor in the parish of Bensberg at that time .

Under the French administration between 1806 and 1813, the Porz office was dissolved and Refrath was politically assigned to Mairie Bensberg in the canton of Bensberg . In 1816 the Prussians converted the Mairie to the mayor's office in Bensberg in the Mülheim am Rhein district .

The place is recorded on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 and on the Prussian first survey of 1840 as Refrath . From the Prussian new admission in 1892, it is regularly recorded on measuring table sheets .

Due to the Cologne Act , the city of Bensberg was merged with Bergisch Gladbach to form the city of Bergisch Gladbach with effect from January 1, 1975. Refrath also became part of Bergisch Gladbach.

Population development

year	Residents	Residential building	category	Political / Church affiliation
1822	181		Village	Bensberg mayor's office, Bensberg parish
1830	247		Village	Bensberg Mayor's Office, Bensberg Parish
1845	38	6th	Church Village	Bensberg mayor's office, Bensberg parish
1871	93	11	Village	Bensberg mayor, Refrath parish
1885	111	16	Locality	Bensberg mayor, Refrath parish
1895	89	15th	Locality	Bensberg mayor, Refrath parish
1905	93	15th	Locality	Bensberg mayor, Refrath parish

The vicarie was built in 1734 and from 1758 served as the permanent residence of a vicar and the town's first school. In 1846 Refrath became an independent Catholic parish again , the first pastor was called Dolman . Between 1864 and 1872 the church was built on the seven morning St. Johann Baptist.

In 1892 the entire parish of Refrath had 1693 inhabitants. In 1899 the Refrath volunteer fire department was founded by Mayor Bausch and 14 years later the Brück-Bensberg tram line was completed. Refrath was electrified after the First World War in 1921.

From 1947 the old parish village of Refrath had become a district of Bensberg, which itself had only been elevated to a town that year. In 1955 Refrath was divided into the districts Refrath and Frankenforst. The construction of the park settlement Kippekausen started in 1959.

population

According to the EDP population register, Refrath had 9,131 residents on June 30, 2017, 572 of them foreigners , making it one of the most populous districts of the city of Bergisch Gladbach . The age group over 65 with 2,482 inhabitants (including 82 foreigners) was significantly larger than the age group under 18 with only 1,350 inhabitants (including 66 foreigners).

Churches

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  Interior of St. Johann-Baptist

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  Altar by St. Johann-Baptist

The church of St. Johann Baptist has stood in the center of Refrath (church square) since 1871 . The three-aisled hall church was built from 1864 according to a design and under the direction of Vincenz Statz . On August 20, 1865, the tower collapsed due to defects in the workmanship of the entrepreneur Rosenbaum from Mülheim . In 1963 the nave was extended according to a design by Karl Band . St. Johann Baptist is the parish church of the Catholic parish of St. Johann Baptist Refrath / Frankenforst . The branch churches of the parish include St. Elisabeth (Refrath, In der Auen; built in 1963, architect Bernhard Rotterdam ), the old Catholic parish church Refrath in Alt Refrath and St. Maria Königin in the neighboring district of Frankenforst.

The Evangelical Church in Refrath (Vürels) was built in 1953 and expanded in 1981 and 1993. It is part of the Evangelical Church Community of Bensberg .

Mining

Since 1856, the Alemannia mine in Refrath in the area of ​​Immanuel-Kant-Strasse / Adalbert-Stifter-Strasse had been awarded for the extraction of iron ore .

Infrastructure

Refrath is located close to the highway A 4 and can be very low over the two connection points no. 18 "Refrath" and no. 19 "Bensberg" can be achieved.  You can take the Cologne tram line 1 in short intervals towards Bensberg or Cologne .

The city center of Bergisch Gladbach is accessed by the wupsi bus routes 451 and 452 (450 in non-peak times).

In addition, an express bus (SB40) connects Refrath with Cologne Central Station via the motorway .

line	course	Tact
1	Weiden West   - Junkersdorf  - Rheinenergiestadion  - Müngersdorf  - Braunsfeld  - Aachener Str./Gürtel - Moltkestrasse  - Rudolfplatz  - Neumarkt  - Heumarkt  - Deutz / Messe Station  - Deutz Technical University  - Kalk Post  - Kalk Kapelle  - Fuldaer Strasse  - Höhenberg, Frankfurter Strasse  - Merheim  - Brück  - Lustheide  - Refrath  - Kippekausen  - Frankenforst  - Neuenweg - Kölner Str. - Im Hoppenkamp - Bensberg	10 min

sports clubs

• The Turn-Verein Refrath eV (TVR) has existed since 1893. Its badminton department in particular is also of national importance, the 1st team has been playing in the 1st Bundesliga since the 2009/2010 season . In the past, u. a. Successes at the U19 European Championship 2005 can be achieved in the form of two medals.
• The Refrath / Frankenforst eV sports club has also been in existence since 1926. This sports club focuses on football, tennis and sailing.
• The cycling club Staubwolke Refrath eV, founded in 1956, organizes the Rund in Refrath cycling race every year .

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Andree Schulte: Bergisch Gladbach, Stadtgeschichte in Straßenennamen , Bergisch Gladbach 1995, p. 237ff., ISBN 3-9804448-0-5
2. ^ Gerd Müller: Refrath. History of the districts of Bensberg-Refrath and -Frankenforst. Neustadt / Aisch 1974, p. 23ff.
3. ^ Albert Eßer: Bergisch Gladbach city history. City archive Bergisch Gladbach 2006. ISBN 3-9804448-6-4 , p. 64 ff.
4. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius  : Explanations for the Historical Atlas of the Rhine Province ; Second volume: The map of 1789. Division and development of the territories from 1600 to 1794 ; Bonn; 1898
5. ↑ Alexander A. Mützell: New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . tape 1 . Karl August Künnel, Halle 1821.
6. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff :  Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
7. ↑ Overview of the components and list of all the localities and individually named properties of the government district of Cologne: by districts, mayor's offices and parishes, with information on the number of people and the residential buildings, as well as the Confessions, Jurisdictions, Military and former state conditions. / ed. from the Royal Government of Cologne [Cologne], [1845]
8. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
9. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1888.
10. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1895 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1897.
11. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Issue XII), Berlin 1909.
12. ^ Statistics - City of Bergisch Gladbach. Retrieved July 27, 2017 . 
13. ^ Hans Vogts: Vincenz Statz (1819–1898). Life picture and life's work of a Cologne builder. B. Kühlen Verlag. Mönchengladbach 1960. pp. 48, 58 and 125.
14. ^ Website of the Catholic parish of St. Johann Baptist Refrath / Frankenforst
15. ^ Website of the Evangelical Church Community of Bensberg

literature

• Johann Bendel : Heimatbuch des Landkreis Mülheim am Rhein, history and description, legends and tales , Cologne-Mülheim 1925
• Hans Leonhard Brenner : The history of the lime distillery in Bergisch Gladbach , Bergisch Gladbach 1992, ISBN 3-88265-171-7
• Hans Peter Müller (editor) and others: Refrath yesterday and today , Volume 1, Ed. Bürger-u. Heimatverein Refrath, Bergisch Gladbach 2006.
• Hans Peter Müller: Refrath yesterday and today, Refrath as an excursion destination , Volume 2, Ed. Bürger-u. Heimatverein Refrath, Bergisch Gladbach 2009.
• Hannelore Kuhn, Konrad Büscher and Hans Peter Müller: Refrath yesterday and today, When the Pfennig was still picked up , Volume 4, published by the Citizens' Association Refrath, 2013
• Hans Peter Müller: Refrath yesterday and today, vol. 3 / I, large estates and small courtyards, ed. Bürger-u. Heimatverein Refrath, Bergisch Gladbach 2014
• Hans Peter Müller: Refrath yesterday and today, Vol. 3 / II, Large estates and small courtyards, publisher Citizens and Local History Association Refrath, Bergisch Gladbach 2015
• Hans Peter Müller, Our Refrath for small and large children, publisher Citizens and Homeland Association Refrath, Bergisch Gladbach 2019

Web links

Commons : Refrath  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• www.kirchen-in-refrath.de - website of the Catholic parish of St. Johann Baptist Refrath / Frankenforst