Sievernich

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Sievernich
Vettweiß municipality
Sievernich coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 38 "  N , 6 ° 39 ′ 52"  E
Height : 139 m above sea level NHN
Area : 4.93 km²
Residents : 436  (Jun 30, 2020)
Population density : 88 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st July 1969
Incorporated into: Müddersheim
Postal code : 52391
Area code : 02252
The location
The location

Sievernich is a district of the municipality Vettweiß in the district of Düren in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

location

The place is southeast of Vettweiß am Neffelbach in the Zülpicher Börde . Neighboring towns are Disternich , Weiler in der Ebene and Bessenich (town of Zülpich ) and Vettweiß.

history

The oldest evidence of a settlement in Sievernich are fragments of destroyed urn graves and a woman's grave from the Hallstatt period , which was found east of the village in the sand pit Auf dem Berg .

The place name originates from the originally Roman-Uubin name Severiniacum . Extensive finds prove that Sievernich was settled in Roman times , including grave finds and a pottery furnace. Sievernich was at the intersection of two Roman military roads and a trade route. To the south of the village, one meter below today's ground level, remnants of the former Roman road from Cologne to Reims were discovered .

In a goods classification of Prüm Abbey is listed in 893 that Abbot Baldwin in Sievernich two hooves to feud had. At the beginning of the 18th century Sievernich belonged to one half to the Duchy of Jülich and the other half to Kurköln .

On July 1, 1969 Sievernich was incorporated into Müddersheim. The place came on January 1, 1972 together with Müddersheim within the framework of the Aachen law to the new municipality Vettweiß.

traffic

Road connection

The old Roman military road from Zülpich to Neuss leads directly past the village . It was crossed in place by the coronation road Aachen - Frankfurt am Main . The federal highway 477 follows the course of the Heerstrasse today . There is no through traffic in the place.

Public transport

Rurtalbus buses today connect the town to local public transport using lines 208 and SB 8 . From 1908 the small train and tram ran along the site from Düren via Nörvenich to Zülpich and Embken. The traffic was stopped in 1960.

Schools, kindergarten

The primary school children are brought to Müddersheim by school bus. There are secondary schools in Düren and Zülpich.

religion

The church

parish

Following the plans of Vincenz Statz and revision by Heinrich Nagelschmidt and August Carl Lange , the building of the church began in 1869 and was consecrated in 1873. It was built in the neo-Gothic style. Before that there was a chapel at this point .

In 1854 Sievernich was raised to a parish in the Archdiocese of Cologne . Until 1827, the place belonged to the dean's office in Zülpich and then came to the parish of Nideggen .

The pastor Alef Street in Sievernich was on 21 October 1960 after the February 16, 1945 in the concentration camp Dachau concentration camp murdered priest Alexander Heinrich Alef named.

Attractions

See the list of architectural monuments in Vettweiß

Marian apparition

The place and the church of St. Johannes Baptist ( Diocese of Aachen ) has achieved a certain fame because Manuela Strack from Düren is said to have appeared here on the first or second Monday of the month of the Mother of God from June 2000 to October 2005 . The Catholic Church has not yet been able to make any statements about the actual existence of the apparition . The transmitted messages contained essentially the call to prayer , to penance , to peace , to charity and loyalty to the Pope .

The sponsoring association for prayer and meeting place Sievernich would like to build the house Jerusalem for the visitors of the "blue prayer oasis" , which is to be used as a pilgrimage house.

Castle

The moated castle was first mentioned in 1153 under Heinrich von Sievernich. The castle is privately owned as Trakehner - Stud used and is not available for viewings.

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Sievernich  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population figures accessed on July 15, 2020
  2. ↑ The Düren country. Image atlas of the Kreissparkasse Düren. Kreissparkasse, Düren 1971, p. 124: Sievernich.
  3. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 98 .
  4. ↑ 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 .
  5. ↑ https://www.aachener-zeitung.de/lokales/dueren/fuer-das-pilgerhaus-jerusalem-in-sievernich-fehlen-400000-euro_aid-37629133