Swisttal

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Coat of arms of the municipality of Swisttal
Swisttal
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Swisttal highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′  N , 6 ° 55 ′  E

Basic data
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Cologne
Circle : Rhein-Sieg district
Height : 140 m above sea level NHN
Area : 62.22 km 2
Residents: 18,749 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 301 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 53913
Primaries : 02254, 02226, 02255, 02251
License plate : SU
Community key : 05 3 82 064
LOCODE : DE SWA
Community structure: 10 localities
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Rathausstrasse 115
53913 Swisttal
Website : www.swisttal.de
Mayoress : Petra Kalkbrenner ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Swisttal in the Rhein-Sieg district
Rheinland-Pfalz Bonn Köln Kreis Euskirchen Oberbergischer Kreis Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis Rhein-Erft-Kreis Alfter Bad Honnef Bornheim (Rheinland) Eitorf Hennef (Sieg) Königswinter Lohmar Meckenheim (Rheinland) Much Neunkirchen-Seelscheid Niederkassel Rheinbach Ruppichteroth Sankt Augustin Siegburg Swisttal Troisdorf Wachtberg Windeckmap
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Town hall of the municipality of Swisttal (2013)

Swisttal is a German municipality in the Rhein-Sieg district in the extreme south of North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

Geographical location

The places of the community are in the Voreifel , between the cities of Bonn and Euskirchen , at heights between 126  m above sea level. NHN and 187  m above sea level NHN . The community borders on Euskirchen, Weilerswist , Bornheim , Alfter and Rheinbach . The municipal administration is located in Ludendorf . The eponymous brook Swist , a tributary of the Erft, flows through the municipality .

Statistical

On January 2, 2020, Swisttal had 19,774 inhabitants (632 of them with second homes) and an area of ​​around 63 km². Of this, 10 km² are forest area and 49 km² are agricultural land. The municipality consists of the following localities:

Locality Residents
Heimerzheim 6,615
Odendorf 4.173
Buschhoven 3,344
Morenhoven 1,795
Miel 1.014
Ollheim 773
Ludendorf 588
Dünstekoven 548
Straßfeld 535
vinegar 389
total 19,774

and the hamlets of Hohn, Mömerzheim, Vershoven and Müttinghoven.

history

The community was created on August 1, 1969 as part of the municipal reorganization of North Rhine-Westphalia. The previously independent municipalities of Buschhoven, Essig, Heimerzheim, Ludendorf, Miel, Morenhoven, Odendorf and Ollheim as well as the municipality of Straßfeld from the district of Euskirchen were dissolved and their administration merged into the new municipality of Swisttal. The name "Swisttal" was conceived based on Wuppertal and describes the location of the localities in the catchment area of ​​the eponymous brook.

As an area municipality, one cannot even begin to speak of the place “Swisttal”. On the one hand, the places in the municipality are sometimes many kilometers away from each other without any buildings. On the other hand, there are historically close relationships between some places, but none or only very few between others. In addition, the residents have always oriented themselves to different surrounding cities such as Euskirchen, Rheinbach, Bonn or even Cologne , depending on where they live . This has not changed until today; Except for the municipal administration, the places have retained their independence and their individual character.

politics

Municipal council

Local election 2014
Turnout: 60.03% (2009: 60.09%)
 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
42.84
24.10
15.58
12.06
5.41
Gains and losses
compared to 2009
 % p
 16
 14th
 12
 10
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
-10
-9.42
+3.64
+15.58
-2.60
-7.20

The 42 seats of the municipal council are distributed as follows:

  • CDU 18 seats (−2)
  • SPD 10 seats (+2)
  • Citizens for Swisttal 7 seats (+7)
  • GREEN 5 seats (+0)
  • FDP 2 seats (−3)

(As of: local elections on May 25, 2014 )

Mayoress

In September 2015, the lawyer Petra Kalkbrenner was elected as the new mayor with 52.75% of the vote. Competitor Gisela Hein received 47.25%. The turnout was 50.1%.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipality of Swisttal is the coat of arms of the former Ludendorf office.

Swisttal coat of arms
 Blazon : "In the split shield forward in silver (white) a single black cross back into gold (yellow), two in three rows of red and silver (white) geschachte . Bar"
Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms with the electoral Cologne cross indicates that six places belong to the state rule of the Electorate of Cologne, the slaughtered bars come from the coat of arms of the Lords of Tomberg, who ruled the other places.

The villages in the municipality all have their own historical coats of arms.

Community partnerships

Swisttal's partner municipalities have been Quesnoy-sur-Deûle in northern France since 1990 and Hochkirch in Saxony since 1993 .

Culture and sights

Buildings

The route of the former Eifel aqueduct , a Roman aqueduct to supply Cologne with drinking water from the Eifel , ran right through Buschhoven . You can still see the pipeline in its original position in the ground and excavated sections.

Morenhoven Castle

Also worth mentioning are:

  • The partly medieval castles:

nature

Most of the area is used for agriculture because of the fertile loess soil in the Zülpicher Börde . To the east of Heimerzheim, Dünstekoven and Buschhoven is the extensive Kottenforst forest , part of the Kottenforst-Ville Nature Park and the Rhineland Nature Park . To the northeast of Dünstekoven, a former gravel pit has been converted into a nature reserve. The area can be viewed from three vantage points and visited after registration. Efforts have recently been made to make the Swist closer to nature again.

On the north-western outskirts of Buschhoven to Heimerzheim, the approximately 6 km long Swisttalwanderweg runs along the edge of the Kottenforst as a circular route, partly past the Eifel pipeline up to the Siebenschuss .

Culture

In Swisttal, cultural work takes place on a decentralized basis. The Morenhovener Lupe is awarded annually, a recognized cabaret prize of the local initiative KuSS (culture and spectacle in Swisttal), originally inspired by the Morenhovener creativity school . In the auditorium of the secondary school in Heimerzheim, theater performances and occasional appearances by well-known cabaret artists take place sporadically. Musical performances mainly take place in the lively parishes of the places within the Swisttal parish. In most places, a highlight is the carnival session with an annual carnival parade.

Youth work

Youth work is also done on a decentralized basis and is mainly carried out in the various local associations and in the parishes. In addition, the "Jugendring Swisttal" was founded, which operates youth clubs in the larger towns.

Parishes

St. Kunibert in Heimerzheim
  • Evangelical parish Swisttal
with St. Katharina (Dünstekoven)

Pilgrimage

Buschhoven has been a Catholic pilgrimage site since 1806 with the Rosa mystica , a wandering mother of God , and the annual so-called rose festival in June, which refers to this Romanesque wooden figure. The representation of Rosa mystica originally came from the Premonstratensian monastery Schillingscapellen near Dünstekoven , which was founded in 1197 , when the monastery was closed in the course of secularization. The new pilgrimage church was built in 1975. Buschhoven is also on one of the historic St. James ' Paths, as indicated by the shell on the Church of Reconciliation.

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

The villages of Swisttals are primarily residential areas, there are no larger industrial companies. However, there are extensive industrial areas and various retail stores in Heimerzheim and Odendorf.

traffic

On January 1, 2018, 13,707 motor vehicles were registered in the municipality, including 11,561 cars. Important roads are the Autobahn 61 (junctions 26 Heimerzheim and 27 Miel) and the federal highway 56 .

For public transport :

The moated castle route ( cycle path ) runs through the municipality . It connects over 524 km more than 130 castles on the edge of the Eifel and in the Cologne Bay .

education

There are kindergartens in every village in the municipality, and several in the larger towns. Primary schools exist in Heimerzheim, Odendorf and Buschhoven. The Georg von Boeselager secondary school in Heimerzheim was expanded to include a secondary school branch in the 2006/2007 school year. Gymnasiums are in the surrounding cities of Bonn , Rheinbach , Meckenheim and Euskirchen , comprehensive schools in Weilerswist and Bornheim .

The FH-Bund branch (Department of Public Safety ) in Heimerzheim serves as a training facility for the BND , the BKA and the Office for the Protection of the Constitution . It is in the area of ​​the Federal Police located there.

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Swisttal  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 .  ( Help on this )
  2. ↑ a b General. Municipality of Swisttal, January 2, 2020, accessed on January 15, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 83 .
  4. ↑ Council election 2014
  5. ↑ history. Municipality of Swisttal, accessed on February 16, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Jürgen Wohlfahrt: Hiking through the Kottenforst - Römerblick - Jakobsweg - Roman aqueduct - Siebenschuss. In: GPSies.com. March 22, 2012, accessed February 16, 2017 (private entry).
  7. ↑ Mobility in North Rhine-Westphalia - data and facts 2018/2019. In: Road traffic. Ministry of Building, Housing, Urban Development and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, p. 66 (PDF; 14.2 MB, holdings on January 1, 2018).
  8. ↑ questionnaire . (PDF) (No longer available online.) University of Applied Sciences Frankfurt am Main, p. 8 , archived from the original on October 7, 2009 ; accessed on February 16, 2017 (with list of universities in Germany, from p. 7).