Schildgen

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Schildgen is a district of Bergisch Gladbach and belongs with the number 11 to the statistics district 1 of the city.

Surname

Even if the name Schildgen, in other words “Schildchen” , has not been handed down for the Middle Ages, it is etymologically probably derived from the Old High German “scilt / schilt” or the Middle High German “schilt”, since the settlement area is on a hill as well as the Has the shape of a triangle and thus resembles a curved and triangular shield in shape. The triangular shape was emphasized by the fact that the piece of land protruded like a sharp triangle into the corridor of the neighboring municipality of Paffrath . The owners of the land referred to the parcel as "Am Scheldchen" even before the settlement. Accordingly, the place name would have emerged from the previous, older field name.

history

On January 1, 1975, there were extensive new territorial regulations in North Rhine-Westphalia . Large parts of Schildgen previously belonged to the Odenthal community and now came to the city of Bergisch Gladbach. With the merging of the two cities of Bergisch Gladbach and Bensberg to form a new city of Bergisch Gladbach, new structures also had to be organized. The decision was made to introduce residential spaces which in some cases no longer corresponded to the districts or parts of the city previously perceived by the residents . Today, the so-called statistical district 1 is shared with the equal residential areas of Hand , Katterbach , Nussbaum , and Paffrath .

Schildgen arose from various farms and hamlets. The Nittum farm as the oldest settlement center in the Schildgen area developed into a larger village settlement in the early modern period , which already had 129 inhabitants in 1830 and grew slightly to 150 by 1875. As the largest town, Nittum received a school in 1810, which was relocated to Fahn around 1824 and was still referred to as the "School in Nittum" until 1928. The name of the settlement was first mentioned in a document in 1301 in the form of “de Nyitheym” and is also passed down as “Nittumb”, “Nictum”, “Nedderheim” and “Neidheim”.

In 1602 women from Nittum were also burned as "witches" in Bensberg : a woman from the "Bloemengut". In 1612 the victims of the witch hunt were: Agnes Polwirth and Christina Kirschbaum and in 1613 Katharina Güschen , all from Nittum.

The Altenberger-Dom-Strasse is the main thoroughfare through the middle of Schildgen. It is one of the trend-setting street names, as the destination itself is included in the name and goes back to a historical route that is recorded in the original cadastre from 1827 as a connecting route from "Mülheim to Odenthal". The originally unpaved road was expanded as a district road from Dünnwald to Odenthal in 1850 and paved with gravel. The name "Odenthaler Straße" initially existed and was changed in 1953 to its current name.

Today's center was almost uninhabited until the 19th century. The hill on which the Catholic parish church rises today is said to have served the community of Odenthal as a place of execution. The district only grew to its current size with around 6,000 inhabitants after the Second World War, due to strong influx from Leverkusen, among others.

population

According to the EDP population register, Schildgen had a total of 6,222 residents on December 31, 2017. The age group over 65 years with 1,588 inhabitants was significantly stronger than the age group under 18 years with only 944 inhabitants.

geography

The place is on the southern slope of the Dhünntal. The lowest point is at Nittum at 68 m above sea level, the highest point is at the Waldfriedhof Voiswinkeler Straße at approx. 120 m above sea level. The Dhünn , a tributary of the Wupper , in parts of the northwest forms the border with Leverkusen. Upstream, towards Odenthal, the valley narrows, while the heights rise to the right and left. To the south the hill, the “shield”, slides out into the Rhine valley.

traffic

Schildgen is surrounded by the cities of Cologne in the west, Leverkusen in the north and Odenthal in the east. The L 101 running in east-west direction connects Schildgen with Dünnwald and Odenthal. In the town center, Kempener Strasse from Bergisch Gladbach city center and a federal road from Schlebusch meet the L 101. Further east, another road leads to Schlebusch and Alkenrath . The next motorway junction is in Leverkusen on the BAB 3 .

Public transport

Schildgen is served by buses on VRS lines 222, 227 and 434. This means that there is no changeover connection to the three neighboring cities, as well as to the Leverkusen Mitte, Schlebusch and Opladen train stations , as well as to the S-Bahn in Bergisch Gladbach. The bus routes are operated by Kraftverkehr Wupper-Sieg AG . Schildgen is on the direct route between the city centers of Leverkusen and Bergisch Gladbach. Line 434 in Dünnwald connects to KVB line 4 .

Parishes

Catholic Sacred Heart Church
Evangelical St. Andrew's Church

In 1925, the old Catholic church of the Sacred Heart built, first as Rector parish of the parish of St. Pancras in Odenthal, later as an independent parish. In 1965, the Archbishop of Cologne, Josef Cardinal Frings , consecrated the new parish church Herz Jesu , built by Gottfried Böhm and the pastor at the time, Joseph Wirtz . Monsignor Paul Adenauer, son of the first Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer , was pastor here after Joseph Wirtz until 1977.

With the influx of many Protestant Christians after the Second World War, the Evangelical Church Community of Altenberg grew so much that a separate community district of Schildgen was founded. The Protestant St. Andrew's Church was built in 1966.

After the Second Vatican Council, the Catholic and Protestant congregations in Schildgen particularly promoted and intensified ecumenical cooperation. Both churches also work closely together in youth work with events such as the with full church concerts and parish family celebrations.

education

Schildgen has the Schildgen elementary school founded in 1810. It is one of the oldest schools in Bergisch Gladbach. Originally founded as a school in the Nittum school district, it is known as the Concordiaschule and is now the primary school for Schildgen. Since the 2006/2007 school year, the Concordia School in Schildgen has been run as an all-day school for schoolchildren in cooperation with the Evangelical Church Community of Altenberg / Schildgen .

Worth seeing

Sport and club life

The Turn- und Sportverein Schildgen 1932 eV (TuS Schildgen) plays in the sport of korfball in the regional league, the highest German korfball division. The Sankt Sebastianus Schützenbruderschaft Schildgen 1907 eV organizes a big shooting and folk festival every summer. The IG Schildgen village festival has also been organized and carried out together for a number of years .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Andree Schulte Bergisch Gladbach, Stadtgeschichte in Straßenennamen , Bergisch Gladbach 2015, p. 13ff., ISBN 978-3-9813488-4-2 .
  2. ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X .
  3. ^ Andree Schulte Bergisch Gladbach, City history in street names , Bergisch Gladbach 1995, ISBN 3-9804448-0-5 , p. 30 f.
  4. ^ Andree Schulte Bergisch Gladbach, City history in street names , Bergisch Gladbach 1995, ISBN 3-9804448-0-5 , p. 14 f.
  5. ^ Statistics - City of Bergisch Gladbach. Retrieved September 6, 2018 .

literature

  • Maria Frantzen, Klaus Funcke, Lieselotte Heidkamp, ​​Christian Heidkamp, ​​Peter Lützenkirchen, Agnes Vorberg, Edeltraud Zillekens: 175 years of school in Schildgen - a local history school chronicle 1810 - 1985.

Web links

Commons : Bergisch Gladbach-Schildgen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 1 '  N , 7 ° 5'  E