Tollhausen

Tollhausen City of Elsdorf Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 48 ″  N , 6 ° 31 ′ 34 ″  E
Height :	83 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	241  (Apr 30, 2019)
Incorporation :	1938
Incorporated into:	Esch
Postal code :	50189
Area code :	02274

Tollhausen is a district of the city of Elsdorf in the Rhineland . Elsdorf is a town in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis , North Rhine-Westphalia .

location

Tollhausen is located northwest of Elsdorf. The county road 278 runs through the village. The federal road 55 runs past the northern outskirts .

A conveyor belt ran along the eastern edge of the village , with which overburden was transported from the Hambach opencast mine to backfill the Bergheim opencast mine until 2009. The opencast mine has now been filled and is being recultivated. The old conveyor system is being converted into a riding, hiking and cycling path as part of the Terra Nova project and will be used for leisure activities in the future.

history

Surface finds provided information that people had already settled in and around Tollhausen in the Stone Age . A Roman manor, a villa rustica on 2400 acres of land, stood on today's outskirts. The place was first mentioned in a document in 1322.

Margaret Chapel

The original Margaret Chapel was built in the 18th century and rebuilt several times. In the 17th century Tollhausen belonged to the parish Niederembt, only in 1803 was the place and the Margaret Chapel assigned to the parish of Esch. Inside St. James, beginning of the 16th century, made of wood, framed by Master Tilmann from Cologne.

Tollhausen earthquake

On August 26, 1878, at around 9 a.m., an earthquake hit the region more than ever before, causing general panic among the people. The center of the quake was nine kilometers deep in the earth's crust below the town of Tollhausen. What was still noticeable in Strasbourg, Paris, Hanover and Amsterdam as a slight floor vibration caused high damage in the area. It was one of the strongest recorded earthquakes in Germany in the 19th century. The quake was so strong that it shook the scaffolding on the cathedral towers in Cologne. Gable collapses, wall cracks and chimney damage were the result. A person was killed in the Tollhausen quake.

Affiliation

With the transition to Prussia in 1815, Tollhausen was incorporated into the mayor's office of Esch, but remained an independent municipality. The independence ended when the place was incorporated into Esch in 1938. Tollhausen has been part of the municipality of Elsdorf since the municipal reorganization that came into force on January 1, 1975.

fire Department

An old pump plate with the year 1895 proves that there was already a fire brigade in Tollhausen at that time. According to the fire regulations for the Bergheim district of October 3, 1835, issued by Count Franz Ludwig Beissel, the “Royal District Administrator of the Bergheim District”, each municipality had to take care of fire protection itself. Because Tollhausen was separated from the municipality of Esch in 1849 and was thus an independent municipality, this ordinance also applied here.

Electric light and telephone

Tollhausen was connected to the electrical road network in 1924. First two street lamps were installed, but these were later expanded to four. At the same time, the houses in the village got an electrical connection. In 1930 Tollhausen was connected to the telephone line.

Others

Since December 2002 the place has had a bus connection again after 50 years. Line 988 ( Bedburg –Elsdorf) of the REVG goes to Tollhausen.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Population Elsdorf 2019. City of Elsdorf, accessed on August 12, 2019 . 
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 .

Web links

• Homepage of the city of Elsdorf