Sotenich

Sotenich Municipality of Kall Coordinates: 50 ° 31 ′ 28 ″  N , 6 ° 33 ′ 25 ″  E
Height :	approx. 400-420 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	978  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation :	1st July 1969
Postal code :	53925
Area code :	02441
Fritz von Wille : Sötenich , 1895

Sötenich is a district of the municipality of Kall in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Euskirchen .

The Urft flows through the place . Sötenich has a kindergarten and the Catholic Church of St. Matthias. With around 980 inhabitants, Sötenich is the second largest district in the municipality of Kall. Sötenich is known for its limestone quarries and cement works and gives the Sötenich limestone basin its name.

The rest of the Roman Eifel aqueduct runs north and south of the village . The place is therefore also affected by the Roman Canal hiking trail .

Sötenich, aerial photo (2015)

Sötenich with cement works, aerial photo (2015)

history

The place was founded in Roman times as "Suetoniacum". In the 16th century it was called "Sötrich". In 1405 a "Johann von Sötenich", a Jülich Burgmann from Münstereifel , is mentioned.

Since the 19th century the place Sötenich was divided into two political communities with the name Sötenich, one of which belonged to the mayor's office of Kall and the other to the mayor's office of Keldenich of the Schleiden district . In the 1930s, the two Sötenich municipalities were merged with the municipality of Rinnen to form a municipality of Sötenich.

During the Second World War there was great destruction, so that the church, built in 1872, had to be rebuilt from 1951 to 1952.

On July 1, 1969, Sötenich was incorporated into Kall.

In October 2012, the judgment of the Aachen Regional Court in the so-called "Eifelmord" trial established that a malicious murder had taken place in Sötenich. Due to the support that the murderer received from a few people in the village and from the surrounding towns after the crime, tabloids about Sötenich headlined "The Eifel village with the deadly secret", "Half the village covered up the crime" and "This is the one." murderous village community ”.

coat of arms

Blazon : "In red over a golden three-mountain, a slanted silver, gold-handled ax."

Declaration of the coat of arms: The golden Dreiberg indicates the location of Sötenich as a mountain village, the gold-stemmed ax in red is the attribute of the local and parish patron, the holy apostle Matthias , who was beheaded with the ax, the color red stands for his martyrdom.

traffic

In the center of the village, Landesstraße 203 meets Landesstraße 204 . The nearest motorway junction is Nettersheim on the A1 .

The DB train stations in Kall (2 km) and Urft (3 km) are nearby .

Web links

• Sötenich's coat of arms
• www.soetenich.de - District page with coat of arms, photos, etc.
• History of Sötenich

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Municipality of Kall: residents by district , accessed on February 2, 2017
2. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia . Volume XII. Rhineland Province. Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau, Berlin 1888, p. 222–223 ( digitized version [PDF; 1,3 MB ; accessed on November 29, 2016]).
3. ↑ Municipal directory Schleiden district 1930
4. ↑ Municipal directory Kreis Schleiden 1939 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 100 .
6. ^ Christian Schwerdtfeger: When a village covers the murderer. In: RP online. October 23, 2012, accessed February 27, 2014 .  
7. ↑ Ronald Larmann: Murder in Sötenich. “Lifelong” for Ralf Schiesberg. In: Kölnische Rundschau. October 22, 2012, accessed February 27, 2014 .  
8. ↑ Ronald Larmann: Murder Trial . "Take it and flex it through". In: Kölnische Rundschau. October 1, 2012, accessed February 27, 2014 .  
9. ↑ Iris Klingelhöfer: Kall-Sötenich: The Eifel village with the deadly secret. In: Express (Bonn). October 5, 2012, accessed February 27, 2014 .  
10. ↑ Half the village hushed up the act. "Eifelmord" judgment - life sentence for Ralf S.! In: bild.de. October 22, 2012, accessed February 27, 2014 .  
11. ↑ Birgit Begass: That is the murderous village community. In: bild.de. October 23, 2012, accessed February 27, 2014 .