Niederpleis
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Niederpleis
City of Sankt Augustin
Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 19 ″ N , 7 ° 12 ′ 36 ″ E
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| Residents : | 13,000 |
| Incorporation : | 1st August 1969 |
| Postal code : | 53757 |
| Area code : | 02241 |
 Niederpleis Castle
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Niederpleis is a district of the city of Sankt Augustin in the Rhein-Sieg district of North Rhine-Westphalia with around 13,000 inhabitants. The Schmerbroich settlement in the south of the city district belongs to Niederpleis. René Puffe is the head of the district.
geography
Niederpleis is 65 m above sea level. NHN , eight kilometers northeast of the city of Bonn and two kilometers south of the district town of Siegburg . The village extends on the edge of the Bonn agglomeration in the Siegniederung and at the transition to the Pleiser hill country rising to the south . In the north, the development flows smoothly into the Mülldorf district and extends up to a few hundred meters from the Sieg. To the south-east the closes at altitudes up to 95 m above sea level. Settlement Schmerbroich reaching the NHN . The west of Niederpleis houses part of the center of the city of Sankt Augustin, which was built in the 1970s. Most of the city center is located in the Sankt Augustin-Ort district to the west of Niederpleis . The Pleisbach , which rises in the Pleiser Hügelland and flows north of Niederpleis into the Sieg, runs on the eastern edge of the village .
history
The area of Niederpleis was probably first settled in the Younger Stone Age (3000–2000 BC) and is one of the oldest settlements in today's town of Sankt Augustin, along with Menden. Lively settlement activity in and around Niederpleis is documented for the following millennia. Around 500 BC The Celts in the Siegtal were displaced by a Frankish tribe of the Germanic tribes. The place was first mentioned in documents in the 9th century when it appeared as Pleisa inferior (the Pleis located on the lower stream) together with Oberpleis (Pleisa superiore) in the documents of the Bonn Chatular . The word “-pleis” goes back to the Indo-European “Pleu”, which means “flowing, river”.
During the time under the influence of the Frankish ruling dynasty of the Carolingians , Niederpleis belonged to the Auelgau until it came under the jurisdiction of the Siegburg abbot by means of a document dated October 4, 1071 by Emperor Heinrich IV . The Niederpleis Church was previously owned by St. Cassius in Bonn. Two medieval castle mounds were found in Niederpleis. A knight Heinrich von Niederpleis is mentioned as early as 1218. After years of pressure from the Dukes of Berg , the rights of the Siegburg abbots were curtailed by making Niederpleis a parish of the Bergisch Amte Blankenberg . Together with the Rhineland, it finally came to Prussia in 1815 and as a municipality belonged to the newly founded mayor's office of Menden (later Menden (Rhld.)) Within the Siegburg district . In 1885 the Deichhaus, Niederpleiser Burg, Niederpleiser Mühle, Plato and Schmerbroich residential areas belonged to Niederpleis . In 1910 the community had 1,111 inhabitants.
As a result of the construction of the Bröltalbahn , Niederpleis experienced an economic boom at the end of the 19th century. In the last decade of the century, routes from Niederpleis to Oberpleis (1893) and from Niederpleis to Siegburg (1899) were opened. As the hub station of the Bröltalbahn, Niederpleis also gained regional importance for traffic. In the 1950s and 1960s, all sections of the railway were closed due to competition from road traffic. In the 19th and 20th centuries Niederpleis was an important location for the clay industry. The ruins of the Platowerke on Pleistalstraße in the direction of Birlinghoven and the Niederpleis clay pit, which is partly used as a waste dump, are evidence of this , from which the Mauelshagen clay works obtained raw materials and clay continues to be extracted for landfill sealing.
A turning point in Niederpleis history, as for the entire region, was the appointment of Bonn to the federal capital in 1949. As a result of the settlement pressure created by the presence of the federal government, Niederpleis experienced extensive population growth and rapid urbanization . In the course of the North Rhine-Westphalian territorial reform on August 1, 1969 with the Bonn Act , the majority of the Menden office became the new municipality (now the city) of Sankt Augustin, to which Niederpleis belongs as the largest district with a local mayor. In the 1970s, the new center of the city of Sankt Augustin was built, of which Niederpleis in the west has a small share, as well as the “Rügerwohnpark” high-rise complex that characterizes the townscape. Since 2000, the center of Niederpleis has been crossed by the Siegauen Tunnel , which is part of the high-speed line Cologne – Rhine / Main , which opened at the end of 2002 .
see also Niederungsmotte Niederpleis
Population development
| year | Residents |
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| 1816 | 310 |
| 1843 | 513 |
| 1871 | 689 |
| 1905 | 1047 |
| 1961 | 2381 |
traffic
Public transport
Niederpleis is connected to the local and national bus network. There are around 13 bus stops in the village itself. The following bus lines run through Niederpleis:
| line | Line course |
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| 512 | Siegburg Bhf - Niederpleis - Birlinghoven - Ittenbach |
| 513 | Siegburg Bhf - Niederpleis - Birlinghoven - Oberpleis |
| 517 | St. Augustin bus : Meindorf - Menden - center - Niederpleis - Hangelar |
| 529 | Bonn - Sankt Augustin - Hennef |
| 535 | Siegburg Bhf - Center - Oberpleis |
Until the 1960s, Niederpleis was also connected to the Bröltalbahn network. In Niederpleis there was a multi-track station.
Streets
Federal motorway
Niederpleis is located on the A560 federal motorway with the Niederpleis junction; the A3 federal motorway runs on the outskirts .
Main streets
Niederpleis is on the L 121, which leads from Menden via Sankt-Augustin Ort via Niederpleis to Buisdorf .
From this L121 branches off at the old market square (no longer available since the 1960s), the L 143 towards Birlinghoven .
Public facilities
Educational institutions
- Community primary school in Pleiser Wald
- Niederpleis secondary school
- Niederpleis secondary school
- Albert Einstein High School
- 8 day care centers
Religious institutions
- Parish Church of Saint Martinus
- Evangelical Community Center Niederpleis
- Anthony's Chapel
Culture and sights
Attractions
The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Martinus was built in parts in the 12th century and is thus the oldest building in the urban area of Sankt Augustin. It is outside the village center and initially functioned as the knights of Niederpleis' own church until it was demolished Castle was appointed parish church in 1268.
Niederpleis Castle, which was demolished in its original substance in 1872 and replaced by a new building complex that still exists today, is also worth seeing and characterizing the townscape. Niederpleis Castle is the venue for a large ecumenical harvest festival of the surrounding parishes every year . Strawberries and asparagus are also sold there in summer. There is also the possibility of picking strawberries yourself. Christmas trees are sold there during the run-up to Christmas. The castle itself is privately owned.
The Niederpleiser Mühle is located on the Pleisbach, is the location of a branch office of the registry office and houses offices and a restaurant. The "Zeche Plato" (also Pleistalwerk ) is an industrial monument that reminds of the former Niederpleis clay industry. Clay tubes were manufactured in it until production was discontinued in 1972.
The Antonius Chapel on Bönnschen Weg was built on this site in the 1960s. It is erected in memory of St. Anthony who was supposed to protect Niederpleis from the plague.
The old primary school building on Bönnscher Weg is a listed building and is an architecturally valuable school building from the beginning of the 20th century.
The Siegauen and the Pleisbachtal are also worth seeing.
Regular events
Every year on Carnival Sunday the carnival procession takes place, after the procession there is a party in the pubs.
The fire brigade festival also takes place every year on a weekend in August. For several years this has been converted into a beach party and is called "Plees Beach Party".
The maypole has Niederpleis has always been tradition. The bachelor association “Pleeser Murre” puts the village tree on Jakob-Fußhöller-Platz on the night of May 1st. The May Festival takes place on the third Saturday in May.
Personalities
- Albert Falderbaum , stunt pilot
- Gabriel Saal , politician (NSDAP)
- Franz Huhn , Mayor of Siegburg
- Klaus Kinkel , Federal Minister and Vice Chancellor, lived in Schmerbroich
- Karl Lennartz , sports historian, lived in Schmerbroich
- Wilfried Wessel , Mayor
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The Rhein-Sieg-Kreis . Publisher: Senior District Director Paul Kieras. Stuttgart 1983, p. 263.
- ^ Province of Rhineland (= Publishing House of the Royal Statistical Bureau [Hrsg.]: Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia . Volume XII ). 1888, p. 118 ( uni-koeln.de [PDF; accessed on February 9, 2018]).
- ↑ Municipal directory 1900 - Siegkreis
- ↑ Brick and Tile Industry International - Tongrube Niederpleis / St. Augustine
- ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 85 .
- ↑ Census results from 1816 to 1970 of the cities and municipalities (= contributions to the statistics of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis . Volume 17 ). Siegburg 1980, p. 138-139 .
- ^ Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg GmbH: Home. Retrieved April 18, 2016 .
