Saint Jöris

St. Jöris City of Eschweiler Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 9 ″  N , 6 ° 12 ′ 45 ″  E
Height :	approx. 180 m
Residents :	824  (December 31, 2016)
Postal code :	52249
Area code :	02403

Monastery church cultural center

St. Jöris Monastery

Parish Church of St. George

St. Jöris is a north-western part of Eschweiler in the Aachen city region . The Haus Kambach golf course extends directly on the eastern edge of the village . The place is traversed by the Merzbach .

history

The story of St. Jöris is closely linked to the monastery. In earlier times, St. Jöris was part of the Kinzweiler rule . At the corner of Neusener Strasse and Merzbrücker Strasse there is a wayside shrine from 1734 that bears the oldest inscription in the town. The small town with 800 to 900 inhabitants today has belonged to Eschweiler since 1800, was disunited in 1858, formed the independent municipality of Kinzweiler in the Aachen district together with Hehlrath and Kinzweiler until 1972 and has belonged again to Eschweiler together with Kinzweiler and Hehlrath since January 1, 1972 . From 1858 to 1901, the new Kinzweiler structure was co-administered by Eschweiler. In the French times at the beginning of the 19th century it was called "Saint George", and on a Prussian map from 1846 it was written "St. Jörris". The postal code from 1961 to 1972 was 5181 Sankt Jöris (via Eschweiler) .

Population development

development	year	Residents
	2013	802
	2014	818
	2015	819
	2016	824
	Source: . Values ​​as of December 31 of each year.

Attractions

• Remains of the former Cistercian monastery with a monastery pond
• Village church of St. George with skull relic . After the St. Jöriser had to go to the parish church of Kinzweiler for a whole century after the monastery church was closed, they received their own church in 1906, the patron of which was the patron saint of the former monastery and the Kinzweiler knights, Saint George . The greatest treasures of this church are the few objects that have been preserved from the furnishings of the monastery church: the sacrificial table from the altar plate, a monastery bell from 1786, the triumphal cross from the Rhenish "Cruzifixi dolorosi" series from the 14th century and a skull bone relic .

traffic

Road traffic

St. Jöris is located on a side road between Eschweiler-Merzbrück on the L223 (formerly B264) and Eschweiler-Kinzweiler. The next autobahn connections are 5a " Broichweiden " on the A 44 and 5a " Eschweiler-West " on the A 4 .

St. Jöris has the bus stops "Am Klosterweiher", "St. Jöris Church", "St. Jöris Friedhof" and "St. Jöris School" on the EW 4 city ​​bus , which continues via Röhe , "Eschweiler Bushof" and Eschweiler- Aue wrong.

The EW 6 bus also runs through St. Jöris, from the train station in St. Jöris via Kinzweiler to Eschweiler-Helrath (Schwarzwaldstraße stop). The "ALT" concept exists on line EW 6 .

Rail transport

St. Jöris train station

St. Jöris has a train station on the Stolberg – Herzogenrath railway line . Originally opened in 1949 as a holding point and decommissioned in 1981, it was established in June 2014 the EVS Euregio transport rail network rebuilt and run by the railcar of Euregiobahn served.

The next station on the high-speed line Cologne – Aachen is Eschweiler main station . See also the list of train stations in the Aachen region .

line	Line designation	Line course
RB 20	Euregiobahn : Stolberg (Rheinl) Hbf  - Eschweiler-St. Jöris  - Alsdorf-Poststraße  - Alsdorf-Mariadorf  - Alsdorf-Kellersberg  - Alsdorf-Annapark  - Alsdorf-Busch  - Herzogenrath August-Schmidt-Platz  - Herzogenrath-Alt-Merkstein  - Herzogenrath  - Kohlscheid  - Aachen West  - Aachen Schanz  - Aachen Hbf  - Aachen- Rothe Erde  - Eilendorf  - Stolberg (Rheinl) Hbf  here wing ; Train part 1: - Eschweiler-West  - Eschweiler Talbahnhof / Raiffeisenplatz  - Eschweiler-Nothberg  - Eschweiler-Weisweiler  - Langerwehe  - Düren  Train part 2: - Stolberg (Rheinl) Hbf (track 27)  - Stolberg-Schneidmühle  - Stolberg Mühlen train station  - Stolberg-Rathaus  - Stolberg Old Town Status: timetable change June 2016	60 min (Stolberg Hbf - Alsdorf-Annapark) 30 min 60 min (Langerwehe - Düren)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Annual statistical report  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 305 .
3. ↑ Timetable EW 6. In: Timetable Book Aachen 2016. AVV (Aachener Verkehrsverbund), June 12, 2016, accessed on November 19, 2016 (German). 

Web links

Commons : Sankt Jöris  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Site of the monastery association