Schönau (Bad Münstereifel)

Schönau City of Bad Münstereifel Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 39 ″  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 36 ″  E
Height :	360 m
Area :	12.41 km²
Residents :	849  (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	68 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st July 1969
Postal code :	53902
Area code :	02253
Location of Schönau in Bad Münstereifel
St. Goar Church

Schönau (the beautiful floodplain) is a district of Bad Münstereifel in the district of Euskirchen , North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

Schönau is located in the northeast of the Eifel , about 5 km south of the center of Bad Münstereifel. The place is embedded in the northern Eifel natural area around 3 km west of the Michelsberg ( 586.1  m above sea  level ) in the valley of the Upper Erft .

climate

Schönau belongs to the rain shadow area of ​​the Eastern Eifel (in the lee of the western Hocheifel and Schneifel) and therefore only has average annual rainfall of 700 to 800 mm. If Schönau is still on the leeward side in south-westerly weather conditions, this changes quickly in north / northeast / east weather conditions. Clouds are pressed against the Eifel by these winds and rain down as uphill rain . Stormy rain or snowfall in winter are the result.

In the village there is an annual average air temperature of 7.0 to 7.5 ° C, a July temperature of approx. 15 ° C. The length of the growing season is 130 to 140 days. The middle beginning of the apple blossom is on May 10th to 20th. The winter rye harvest begins on July 29th to August 8th.

Due to its topographical location in a valley basin, the air over Schönau cools down considerably on clear nights. Because warm air masses radiate on clear nights and the cool, heavy air flows into the valley, the lowest temperatures in North Rhine-Westphalia have often been measured in Schönau.

history

Already in the early days, people were drawn to the nearby Michelsberg, the highest point in the northern Eifel. Numerous artifact finds from there prove that people lived in this area as hunters and gatherers as early as the Mesolithic Age (9,600-5,500 / 4,500 BC). A settlement from the Neolithic Age (5,500 / 4,500-2,000 BC) is on a ridge near Schönau in the district of Op de Pöhle through tools such as blades etc. a. proven from flint. The places of origin of the material reach as far as Belgium (Obourg near Mons) and the Netherlands (Rijckholt). The prehistoric artifacts are in the Hürten Museum in Bad Münstereifel.

Schönau was first mentioned in a document in 893 in the Prümer Urbar . According to Urbar, the Abbey of Prüm 893 in Schönau owned three Mansen and nine Iugera. At that time there was also a manor house in Schönau with an associated manor country. In the still preserved copy of the Prümer Urbar from 1222, it emerges that in 1222 Schönau was a fiefdom of Prüms owned by the Counts of Vianden and Counts of Jülich . Later Schönau completely became the property of the Counts of Jülich and Vianden .

The parish church of St. Goar , which dates from the Middle Ages, was enlarged in 1886 and 1887 by an extension.

The Schönau property of the Counts of Vianden went to the Schönecken branch line, beginning with Friedrich von Schönecken. In 1343 Hartrad von Schönecken transferred this property to Johann von Blankenheim as a fief. In 1507 there were 22 Blankenheim fiefs in Schönau. At that time, Schönau belonged to the Duchy of Jülich (Amt Münstereifel).

Closing verses from the 3rd fire letter from the robber Johann Müller from Schönau

During the French era , the robber Johann Müller from Schönau made the surrounding villages unsafe, injuring a Schönau peasant woman in an attack in 1798 and murdering a French carter. After stealing an ox from the farmer Joseph Pfahl from Esch , he blackmailed the citizens of Esch and Soller with letters of fire threatening to burn their places down. Because of his hatred of the French, he was seen as a new Robin Hood in parts of the population . The verses in his fire letter to the citizens of Soller also testify to him as an occasional poet, provided they are authentic. After nineteen months in prison, Müller was executed on November 18, 1801 in Koblenz .

On July 1, 1969, the previously independent community of Schönau was incorporated into Bad Münstereifel.

Worth seeing

The old half-timbered houses and village streets of Schönau im Altdorf are well worth seeing .

literature

• 1100 years of Schönau 893-1993 , commemorative publication from the Schönau village beautification association, 1993
• Veri Josef Weber, A lifetime on the edge of Germany , Bernardus-Verlag, Langwaden Abbey, 2002, ISBN 3-934551-56-4
• Yearbook Euskirchen District 1988 - Two Mesolithic sites in the Euskirchen district , Edgar Fass, Euskirchen 1988
• Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn, find report no.25 - 58500-5597500 from April 22, 1983

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population figures . Retrieved March 11, 2019 . 
2. ^ Hans Peter Schiffer: Churches and chapels in the urban area of ​​Bad Münstereifel . History - construction - equipment. Verlag Ralf Liebe, Weilerswist 2008, p. 262 f .
3. ↑ Cf. Willibald Alexis, Schinderhannes , in: Der neue Pitaval. A collection of the most interesting crime stories from all countries from earlier and more recent times , Leipzig 1869 and Udo Fleck: “Thieves - robbers - murderers”. Study on the collective delinquency of Rhenish robber gangs at the turn of the 18th to the 19th century , dissertation, Trier 2003, p. 50. ( PDF )
4. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 87 .