Rheinkassel
Rheinkassel is a town in the north of Cologne and belongs administratively to the Cologne district of Merkenich in the borough of Chorweiler .
location
Rheinkassel lies on the western bank of the Rhine , opposite the mouth of the Wupper . In the south, Rheinkassel borders on the Kasselberg settlement and in the north on the village of Langel , both of which also belong administratively to the Merkenich district. In the west, Rheinkassel borders on the Feldkassel industrial area , behind which the Fühlinger See extends. The Alte Römerstraße leads through Rheinkassel , which already connected the CCAA (Cologne) with Novesia (Neuss) in Roman times .
history
Ancient and Middle Ages
The place name Rheinkassel (formerly rincasele , Rinkassel or Rhein-Kastell , Latin rhenocastellanorum ) suggests that there was a fort here in Roman times . The discovery of two Roman sarcophagi next to the Catholic Church of St. Amandus underlines this assumption. The strategically important location opposite the mouth of the Wupper also speaks for this.
Rheinkassel was first mentioned in writing in the Chronicle of Merheim, today Weidenpesch in 670 AD. The founding building of the Romanesque Catholic parish church of St. Amandus dates from the 9th or 10th century. In 1156 the collegiate monastery Sankt Gereon in Cologne was the landlord of Rheinkassel. The Sankt-Hubertus-Schützenbruderschaft Rheinkassel-Langel-Kasselberg was mentioned for the first time in 1468 in a chronicle of the Catholic parish Reusrath. Politically, Rheinkassel and Langel have been administered as a condominium by the Electorate of Cologne and the Duchy of Jülich-Berg since the Middle Ages .
Modern times
The oldest church book in Rheinkassel began in 1560, it was destroyed in 1945 during acts of war during the Second World War. The village was repeatedly hit by bad floods, for example in 1684 and in the winter of 1783/84 . In 1794 French revolutionary troops occupied Rheinkassel, making it part of the Mairie von Worringen in the canton of Dormagen in the arrondissement of Cologne in the Département de la Roer . In 1797 the French soldiers burned the rectory with the village chronicle of the place. In 1815 Rheinkassel came to the Worringen mayor in the Cologne district . In 1849 the cemetery was opened in its current location, he was also responsible for Fühlingen . In 1857 Rheinkassel received a school. During the floods of 1882, the Rhine broke through the dam between the Rheinkassel and Langel.
On April 1, 1922, the mayor's office of Worringen was incorporated into the city of Cologne with Rheinkassel, Langel and Kasselberg. On January 1, 1926, Rheinkassel was hit again by floods. During the Second World War, the Saint Hubert Rifle Brotherhood was banned. Rheinkassel became a war zone in March 1945, and American troops occupied the village on March 5, 1945. The rectory was destroyed by German artillery fire from the right bank of the Rhine. On July 15, 1954, Rheinkassel, Langel, Kasselberg and Feldkassel were assigned to the Fühlingen district because they were too small for their own district. However, the fellowship with Feelings was only temporary. Rheinkassel, Langel, Kasselberg and Feldkassel have belonged to the Merkenich district since October 7, 1963 . Rheinkassel, Langel, Kasselberg and Feldkassel have been part of the Chorweiler borough since 1975. On April 4, 1976, the foundation stone of the new, today's parish hall was laid. In 1978 the Amandus settlement was built, a row house settlement with 52 houses in today's village center based on plans by Gottfried Böhm .
Population development
- December 31, 2000: 1,000 inhabitants
- December 31, 2006: 1,069 inhabitants
Culture and leisure
societies
- Rheinkassel-Langel-Kasselberg Citizens' Association
- Rheinkassel village community
- Saint Hubert Rifle Brotherhood
- Cologne volunteer fire brigade (Langel-Rheinkassel fire fighting group)
- Youth fire brigade Langel-Rheinkassel
- Carnival society Schloppkrade
- German Scouting Association Sankt Georg (Gilwell tribe)
buildings
Catholic Parish Church of St. Amandus
The single-nave hall church dates from the 10th century and has been converted into a three-nave basilica . The church was built to a relatively high quality, as it was subordinate to the wealthy St. Gereon Abbey in Cologne. A square tower the width of the central nave has been placed in front of the church on the west side. The square tower of the church was built around 1200. The upper floor of the tower was demolished in the 17th century. As a result, the church tower looks very compact today and resembles a defensive tower and wears a Gothic buckled helmet . The Hohenstaufen vault of the central nave was felt to be too heavy and was replaced by a Gothic ribbed vault in the 17th century.
Barbara Chapel
This small chapel was built around 1880. The brick building contains a memorial to the fallen.
graveyard
In 1849 the cemetery on Alte Römerstrasse was opened as a successor to the old churchyard at the Catholic Church of St. Amandus. It initially served not only the three Rhine villages of Langel, Rheinkassel and Kasselberg, but also the village of Fühlingen. In the cemetery there are also four graves for those who died in the Second World War. There is also the grave of the former mayor of Worringen, Heinrich W. Bender (1796–1883) and his wife, Gertrud nee Simon (1806–1863), who lived in Fühlingen all their lives.
Infrastructure
Facilities
- Elementary school, branch of the Merkenich elementary school, only from the 1st to the 4th school year
- Voluntary fire brigade Cologne - extinguishing group Langel-Rheinkassel
- Mailbox on Amandusstrasse
- Farm shop
traffic
South of Rheinkassel is the Leverkusen motorway bridge on federal motorway 1 , which can be reached quickly via a driveway either in Merkenich or through the Feldkassel industrial park. You can also drive through the Feldkassel industrial park on federal road 9 , which runs to Cologne city center or Dormagen .
Public transport
Line 121 of the Kölner Verkehrs-Betriebe runs through Rheinkassel .
literature
- Heinrich Löcherbach: Directory of the Church Books of the Rhine Province , Cologne 1934.
- Toni Jägers: Cologne-Worringen in history and stories , Dormagen, 1985
- Paul Clemen: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz Vol. 4, Der Landkreis Köln , Düsseldorf 1897, Reprint Düsseldorf 1983, ISBN 3-590-32118-0 , pp. 168-173.
- Hans Erich Kubach, Albert Verbeek: Romanesque churches on the Rhine and Maas , Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege Jahrbuch 1970/1971, Neuss 1971, p. 354 and Fig. 137
Web links
- Local side Rheinkassel
- Rheinkassel-Langel-Kasselberg village community
- Rheinkassel-Langel-Kasselberg Rheinkassel Citizens' Association
- Rheinkassel-Langel-Kasselberg Rifle Brotherhood
- Rheinkassel-Langel-Kasselberg volunteer fire department
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ N , 6 ° 56 ′ E