Udenbreth

Udenbreth Community Hellenthal Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 13 ″  N , 6 ° 23 ′ 34 ″  E
Height :	620–690 m above sea level NHN
Area :	14.15 km²
Residents :	425  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	30 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st July 1969
Postal code :	53940
Area code :	02448
The cusp line of the west wall near Udenbreth

Udenbreth is a district of the municipality of Hellenthal in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Euskirchen . There is a winter sports area near the village .

Geographical location

Udenbreth is located in the Eifel on the German - Belgian border in the Hohes Venn-Eifel nature park on both sides of the border . It is located on the plateau of the Zitterwald on the White Stone (approx.  692  m ), where a sacrificial stone of the same name from the Celtic period is located. With their altitude of 620 to 690  m above sea level. NHN , the village is the highest church village in the Eifel and the Rhineland . The Belgian municipality of Büllingen lies across the state border .

history

Origins

Where the Neuhof district of Udenbreth is today, two Roman roads could have crossed in antiquity . It is likely that the trunk road from Tongeren to the Neuwied basin ran along here. It followed the Rhine-Maas watershed and ran via Baraque Michel , Sourbrodt and Elsenborn , north of the White Stone to Udenbreth-Neuhof, then on via Neuhaus , Dahlem and the Heidenkopf to the Roman road Trier-Cologne . It is presumed that a branch of this connection branched off from Sourbrodt and moved via Mürringen to Neuhof and here again merged into the main route. It is not known whether this intersection was already settled at that time. Towards the end of the 17th century, the historian Masenius claims to have seen the remains of Roman fortifications on a mountain near Udenbreth.

The name of the settlement "Udenbreth" could be of Celtic-Roman origin. It is derived from the personal name Udo and the Latin qualifier pratum for "pasture". The name "Neuhof" probably came about after 1300.

Around 1308 the village was listed under the name "Unberg" in Liber valoris , a tax directory of the Archbishops of Cologne. Udenbreth belonged to the then Eifel deanship and already owned a chapel. The village was first mentioned on March 12, 1479 in a bond. A Johann von Udenbreth and his wife Ylegitte von Merode forego their pension from the Steumpfelshof zu Baasem in favor of Franziska von Rodemachern, Countess of Virneburg . In the 16th century the village formed a court in the Kronenburg rule .

Failure of the Reformation

In the 16th century, Count Dietrich VI tried . von Manderscheid-Schleiden to spread the Reformation in his rule. In Udenbreth he occupied the parish of the village with the Lutheran preacher Reiner von Kall, who had previously been a monk in the Mariawald monastery . Reiner was married to a Jewish convert named Agnes Groen, who is said to have been the count's housekeeper or lover. The Lutheran doctrine seems to have been rejected by the Udenbrethers: the sacrifices flowed tenaciously, and the tithe was also bad. When Dietrich died in 1593, Reiner lost his support. Meanwhile, the marriage to Agnes had produced so many children that the preacher became impoverished. Together with his sons, he had to earn his living as a farmer and charcoal maker. In 1595 he left Udenbreth. In the hospital files in the Catholic parish archive Schleiden from the same year it says:

"Mr. Reiner, when he moved from Udenbreth with his wife and children and has two carters with him, left a cart ice, nine pairs of shoes, and a pound of bacon [...] item, we gave Mr. Reiner to the tax of his poverty seven guilders. "

Reiner died in 1619 and is said to have become Catholic again before the end of his life. In the 19th century, a piece of land in the village was called "Pfaffen-Eidams-Garten" because Reiner is said to have given it to his son-in-law from the pastorate.

Modern times

Place view

In the middle of the 17th century Udenbreth broke away from the mother parish of Kronenburg and became an independent pastoral care district.

Towards the end of the Holy Roman Empire , Udenbreth belonged to the Duchy of Luxembourg . In 1794 the area was occupied by France during the First Coalition War and a year later it was incorporated into the French Republic as part of the Ourthe department. In the new administrative structure, Udenbreth formed its own mayor's office. After the end of French rule and the reorganization of Europe by the Congress of Vienna in 1815, Udenbreth belonged to an exclave of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz for a few years . In 1819 the Kingdom of Prussia came into being .

On July 1, 1969, Udenbreth was incorporated into Hellenthal.

Catholic parish church

St. Hubertus (Udenbreth)

The patron saint of the Udenbrether Church is the popular saint Hubertus . This suggests that the village's first church was built in the late Middle Ages .

The church appears in the documents for the first time in the 16th century; around 1730 it was repaired. In 1828 it gave way to a classical hall building; only the old tower remained standing. In 1910 the church was completely rebuilt according to plans by the Cologne architect Franz Statz in the neo-Romanesque style . Towards the end of the Second World War, it was destroyed and rebuilt from 1948 to 1951 in a simplified form and with a lower tower.

The interior is from the 1960s, when the church was redesigned according to the specifications of the Second Vatican Council . The ringing consists of three bells : The oldest was probably cast around 1500 by Gregor I of Trier in Aachen. The two younger ones from 1776 and 1902 are loaned bells from Kolzig and Kittlitztreben in Lower Silesia . A 1512 cast, dedicated to St. The bell consecrated to Hubertus came to Herhahn as an exchange bell during the Second World War .

See also : St. Hubertus (Udenbreth)

tourism

Winter sports

There is a winter sports area near Udenbreth . On the Weißen Stein there is a 550 m long ski slope with an anchor tow lift, as well as an approximately 350 m long toboggan slope with a lift. There are also two approximately 2 km long snow hiking trails. The starting point in Udenbreth is the parking lot Weißer Stein . Two groomed trails are offered for cross-country fans:

• Udenbreth Weißer Stein , 6.3 km long circuit
• Udenbreth Zum Wilsamtal , circuit 5.6 km in length

Exhibition weather, climate, people

The exhibition Wetter, Klima, Mensch , which opened in 2010 at Udenbreth, has a phenological garden, which is part of the phenological programs GPM (Global Phenological Monitoring), in addition to an indoor exhibition that changes several times a year on the topics of weather and climate with its own weather station. and IPG (International Phenological Gardens). The Federal Office for Radiation Protection also maintains a measuring probe here.

Bike paths

The cycle paths Eifel-Höhen-Route , which runs as a circuit around the Eifel National Park , and the valley route , which opens up interesting tourist places in North Rhine-Westphalia on a family-friendly route, lead through Udenbreth .

Traffic and walking

RVK line bus in Udenbreth-Unterdorf

The federal road 265 runs on the western outskirts of Udenbreth , from which the state road 110 branches off through Udenbreth past Schnorrenberg to Dahlem .

The RVK bus line 839 runs from Udenbreth to Hellenthal bus station. The line runs every hour from Monday to Saturday, but the majority of the journeys are only available as a taxi bus , which means that you can make an appointment by telephone. During school time, there are also some trips made by schoolchildren, in the evenings and on Sundays only the shared taxi Hellenthal runs.

Web links

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

• Hellenthal community

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.hellenthal.de/rathaus-politik/portrait/einwohnerzahlen/
2. ^ Josef Hagen: Roman roads of the Rhine province. Bonn and Leipzig 1923, p. 158ff.
3. ^ Harm-Eckart Beier: Investigation of the design of the Roman road network in the area of ​​Eifel, Hunsrück and Palatinate from the perspective of the road construction engineer. Braunschweig 1971, p. 118 f.
4. ^ ^{A b} Johann Friedrich Schannat : Eiflia illustrata or geographical and historical description of the Eifel. Ed .: Georg Bärsch. Volume 3, Cologne 1824.
5. ^ ^{A b} Karl Guthausen: The settlement names of the Schleiden district. Bonn 1967.
6. ^ Anton Joseph Binterim , Joseph Hubert Mooren : The old and new archdiocese of Cologne divided into deaneries. Volume 1, Mainz 1828, p. 157.
7. ↑ Document in the state main archive Koblenz, inventory 34 (Reichsgrafschaft Virneburg), document 252.
8. ↑ ^{a b} Walter Hanf: Hellenthal in old pictures. Meinzerzhagen, 1982, p. 224.
9. ↑ Quoted from Heinrich Klein: Pastor Nikolaus Reinartz. Volume 2: Publications 1940-1944. Norderstedt n.d., p. 154.
10. ^ Leonard Ennen: History of the Reformation in the area of ​​the old Archdiocese of Cologne. Cologne and Neuss 1849, p. 302 f.
11. ↑ Walter Hanf: History. French occupation - transition to Prussia. Municipality of Hellenthal, accessed on April 12, 2014 (administrative affiliation of the municipality of Hellenthal).  
12. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 100 .
13. ↑ Ernst Wackenroder: The art monuments of the Schleiden district. Düsseldorf 1932, p. 567 f.
14. ^ Norbert Jachmann: Bells in the Eifel region. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 21, 2014 ; accessed on October 15, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
15. ↑ Ruth Schmitz-Ehmke, Barbara Fischer: City of Schleiden (= The architectural and art monuments of the Euskirchen district. Volume 9). Berlin 1996, p. 177.