Scheuren (Unkel)
Scheuren ( lat. Scuren : Beil) is a district of Unkel in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Neuwied . With around 2000 inhabitants, Scheuren is the second largest and largest district in terms of area.
geography
Scheuren is located northeast and above the old town of Unkel at about 65 m above sea level. NHN . The municipal area of the district extends from the northern parts of Unkel bank of the Rhine on the East Rhine Railway and the national highway 42 to 190 m above sea level. NHN high plateau on the so-called Bruchhauser Heide and to the forest areas north of Bruchhausen . To the north there is an almost smooth transition to Rheinbreitbach on the main road . The southeastern foothills of the residential development of Scheuren rise to 180 m above sea level. NHN high Leidenberg . In the northeast, the district extends as far as the valley of the Breitbach brook that runs through it .
The Hohenunkel farms (since 1906) and Gut Haanhof (since 1837), the latter location of a settlement of weekend houses, are located on the Bruchhausen Heath .
history
For a long time Scheuren was very sparsely populated. Since 1816 Scheuren formed a community in the Linz district (from 1822 Neuwied district), which was administered by the mayor's office of Unkel . It had an area of 244 hectares . In 1843 Scheuren was called a village and had 285 inhabitants. In 1885 the community Scheuren had 280 inhabitants with the residential areas Haanhof (8 inhabitants) and Schmelze (2 inhabitants), the latter located on the northern boundary of the district and partly belonging to Rheinbreitbach. In 1905 the previously independent municipality was incorporated into the city of Unkel.
Scheuren consists for the most part of new development areas, which were mainly identified and developed within the second half of the 20th century. In the past, these areas were mainly used as cultivation areas for wine and other agricultural products. It served as the main cultivation area for the Unkel fruit and wine growers , but over time the demand for agricultural products from the region decreased. The competitive market , which developed strongly as a result of mechanization and concentration, made it difficult for the small winemakers and farmers in Unkel to survive, so that many changed their occupations and the agricultural land finally lay idle. In the course of time, the areas were converted into residential areas. Today Scheuren is an almost purely residential area with a kindergarten , a nursing home , a chapel and an inn.
Around 1980–1985 the office of the embassy of Chad in the Federal Republic of Germany was located in Scheuren at the seat of government in Bonn (→ entry in embassy list ).
Events
Historic cathedral festival Scheuren
The Scheuren Cathedral Festival took place every year on the second weekend in May. Here knight fights , jugglers , musicians and much more could be observed. Scheuren also became known nationwide through the cathedral festival. However, the event was held for the last time in 2011.
Scheurener fair
The citizens' association and the bachelor association organize the annual fair in Scheuren on the first weekend in July.
Attractions
Scheurener Chapel
The Scheuren Chapel of St. Joseph was first mentioned in 1552, but was probably built around 1500 and fell victim to the Truchsessian War in 1583 . In 1683 it was rebuilt under the vicar Gottfried Eschenbrender (1645–1723). Inside the chapel houses a massive baroque altar from the end of the 17th century. According to the patronage, it shows the Visitation of Mary (1st Sunday in July = fair). The chapel is not only the spiritual center of the place, but also represents the geographical center of the old town center. During the US occupation at the end of the Second World War, women and children were held in the chapel by the occupying forces. During those dire days, the vow was made - should one come out alive - to make a cross, which is now on the outside of the chapel. During this difficult time, the Scheurenern was supported by the Unkeler vicar and Redemptorist Father Wilhelm Lueger (1911–1971), who also coined the term “Scheurener Dom”. To this day, the tradition of " Beiern " with the two small bells has been preserved here.
- organ
To accompany the regular church services (Sundays and public holidays at 11 a.m.), the Scheureners have had a pedal positive (series positive) from the workshop of the Kevelaer organ builder Romanus Seifert available since 1986 . It comes from the former St. Anno monastery in Bad Honnef and was installed in the chapel when the former pastor Bruno Wegener tried to close it. The single-manual instrument has 6 registers.
- Bells
In 1950 the chapel received two bronze bells from the Otto bell foundry in Bremen-Hemelingen. They are consecrated to St. Joseph and the Blessed Mother. The strike tone sequence is a 2 and h 2 .
Schröter Cross
The Schröterkreuz is in Unkel-Scheuren on the corner of Am Schröter Kreuz and Scheurener Straße. The wine transporters were called Schröter. They erected the cross out of gratitude. The reason for this was in 1636 an accident during a wine transport that resulted in no personal injury. The baroque cross is made of local basalt and is around four meters high, the square base has a skull at each corner, the body of Christ is also made of basalt. In front of the cross is a sacrificial table and next to it a notch (stone bench) from 1739.
Medieval town center
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province . Volume 2: The map of 1789. Bonn 1898, p. 70.
- ^ Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Coblenz, Neuwied district . Coblenz 1843, p. 63
- ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia . Volume XII: Province of Rhineland . Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau (ed.), 1888, p. 44
- ↑ Federal Ministry of the Interior (ed.): The Federal Republic of Germany. State Handbook. Partial edition of the federal government . Heymanns Verlag, Cologne 1983, p. 526.
- ↑ http://www.domfest.de/ ( Memento from August 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, especially page 548 .
- ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, especially p. 505 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at the Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
- ↑ [1]
- ^ Home calendar for the Neuwied district. The Schröter Cross in Scheuren 1959, p. 110
Coordinates: 50 ° 36 ' N , 7 ° 13' E