Rott (Hennef)

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City of Hennef (Sieg)
Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 46 ″  N , 7 ° 15 ′ 48 ″  E
Height : 200 m above sea level NN
Residents : 776  (Jan 2020)
Postal code : 53773
Area code : 02242
Rott (North Rhine-Westphalia)
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Location of Rott in North Rhine-Westphalia
View of Rott from the southwest

Rott is a district of the city of Hennef (Sieg) in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia . Rott is located south of Hennef on a mountain between Söven and Dambroich and can be reached via Kreisstraße 40. Rott is world-famous in the geosciences as the Rott fossil deposit . Until 1934 Rott belonged to the Geistingen community .

origin

The place name corresponds to the common Roth and comes from a clearing. Accordingly, the emergence of the place can be assigned to the early medieval clearing period. In 1173 the local Rott was mentioned for the first time. The Archbishop of Cologne , Philipp I von Heinsberg , took the Schwarzrheindorf monastery under his protection, naming a farm in Roda and two servants in Suvene (Söven).

Castle

Rott used to be the location of a small castle. In 1256 monastic property was handed over to the Cologne bailiff Rode on a long lease . In 1398 the knights Johann von dem Roide and Heinrich van Roide are in the service of Duke Wilhelm von Jülich and Berg . The manor was auctioned in 1805 and the castle grounds were abandoned shortly afterwards. The manor house is still preserved as Auf dem Komp 1 .

church

Marienkirche
Aerial photograph (2017)
Parish home with library
Cemetery cross

Rott has been its own parish since 1866 with the associated places Dambroich , Blankenbach , Söven , Hofen , Westerhausen and Kurscheid .

A demolished chapel was built in 1735 and expanded in 1791 and 1862. The vicar working here was partly maintained by a foundation of the local castle owner Freiherr von Franken.

The current Marienkirche was built in 1905 and completed the following year. The bricks were burned in the village, the property was donated and a quarter of the construction costs were raised from donations from the parish.

The former parsonage and today's parsonage was built in 1909 using stones from the old chapel and parts of a demolished building in Bonn.

Mining

Coal mining took place at Rott probably from the Middle Ages until 1860. Fossils were discovered as early as 1789.

Fossil deposit

23 to 24 million years ago, in the late Oligocene , there was a large lake at the current location in Rott, in the mud layers of which many remains of plants and animals have been preserved fossilized in the leaf coal and in a silica shale.

The sites and the old mining dumps were built over in several stages until 1986 by creating a golf course. Subsequently, the coal deposits between Rott and Söven were again designated as a ground monument.

Exhibits of the finds can be seen in the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History , which acquired 6,500 items from the Statz Collection in 1954, and in the Goldfuß Museum of the University of Bonn , which in 2003 donated the botanical part of the Statz Collection free of charge from the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History got and in the city ​​museum Siegburg of the city of Siegburg .

Others

At Rott there is a golf course and a children's playground.

literature

Web links

Commons : Rott  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hennef: Housing directory , residents ' registration office of the city of Hennef
  2. ↑ Rotter stories , Bürgergemeinschaft Rott eV