Uedelhoven (Blankenheim)

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Uedelhoven
Municipality Blankenheim
Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′ 32 "  N , 6 ° 45 ′ 32"  E
Height : 413  (333-477.6)  m above sea level NHN
Area : 6.86 km²
Residents : 325
Population density : 47 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st July 1969
Postal code : 53945
Area code : 02697
Uedelhoven (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Uedelhoven

Location of Uedelhoven in North Rhine-Westphalia
former rectory (2014)

Uedelhoven is a district of the municipality of Blankenheim in the Euskirchen district in North Rhine-Westphalia . As mayor officiated Thomas Pick ( UWV ). The agriculturally dominated village is about 80 meters altitude above the Ahr settled just before the transition from North Rhine-Westphalia to the Rhineland-Palatinate . 197 of about 686  ha comprehensive total area of the district Uedelhoven are with forest covered, extending mainly in private estate is located.

location

The district is located in the southeast of the municipality of Blankenheim on the Ahrdorfer Kalkmulde ( 270.70 ) in the immediate vicinity of the state border to Rhineland-Palatinate, which is about 1900 m away to the south and east. The Ahr flows around the town center from north to east at a distance of around 800 to 1000 m. The highest point is at 477.6  m above sea level. NHN the Michelsberg (also trigonometric point ) ( location ), which allows a good view to the east in the direction of the Ahr and Hocheifel . To the northwest of its highest point is a telecommunication converter ( 466  m above sea level ) ( location ).

To the north and northeast, the Ahr forms the boundary between Uedelhoven and the neighboring Blankenheim districts of Lommersdorf (with Neuhof) and Ahrdorf . To the east, the border then partly follows the county road 46 , before it is led along several agricultural roads in the southeast to the Ahbach and at the same time the state border of Rhineland-Palatinate. It follows this in the south for around four kilometers along the local community of Üxheim to the source area of ​​the Michelsbach , which to the west to the Dollendorf district represents the border to the confluence with the Ahr. In addition to the named Michelsbach as the right tributary of the Ahr, the Göttersbach (rises south of the town center) and Willemsbach (north of the town center), as well as the Ahbach tributaries Kalbsbach and Klausbach, are located and swell in the area of ​​the former local community Uedelhoven. The latter with its tributaries Menzinger Bach (two spring arms) and Fensterbach.
The nature reserve "Michelsbach, Ahbach and Aulbach with tributaries" (EU-096) surrounds large parts of this brook landscape. The section of the Ahr floodplains belonging to Uedelhoven is part of the nature reserve "Obere Ahr with Mülheimer Bach, Reetzer Bach and Mühlenbachsystem" (EU-095). Except for the actual location, the rest of the district is covered by the landscape protection areas 5505–0009 and 5606–0001.

Surname

The place name Uedelhoven comes from an interpretation of a possible earlier spelling Edelhoven , which refers to the then owner (Edel). Becker saw a derivation from the Central German uodil , udal , odhil corresponding to Gut , Erbgut as more likely . The Alemannic ending "hoven" (court, possession), which is synonymous, was added as a pleonasm . For the year 1136 (first mention of the place and church) the place name is recorded in the spelling Udelhoven , before 1316 in liber valoris as Odelhoven and 1481 as Udelhoiven . According to Guthausen, Uedelhoven means "'at the courtyards of Udilo, Odilo'".

history

The region was first settled in Roman times , as evidenced by individual finds of building remains and coins in the Uedelhoven district in 1901 and 1902, as well as the Roman estate south of Unkental , which was found beyond the Rhineland-Palatinate border (not far from the Beuerhof ( Location )).

As part of the Kerpen rulership , Uedelhoven came to the Manderscheid-Blankenheim family in 1506 and, through a legal dispute, came into the possession of the Dukes of Arenberg in 1674 , where it remained until 1794.

After the occupation of the Left Bank of the Rhine (1794) by French revolutionary troops in the First Coalition War , Uedelhoven belonged to the French Mairie Lommersdorf in the canton of Blankenheim in the Saar Department from 1798 to 1814 . France did not officially take possession of the areas on the left bank of the Rhine until 1801 as a result of the Peace of Lunéville . After the Eifel fell to the Kingdom of Prussia in accordance with the resolutions passed at the Congress of Vienna in 1814/1815 , the community of Uedelhoven was assigned to the mayor's office of Lommersdorf , which emerged from the Mairie of the same name, as part of the establishment of the now Prussian administrative structure . The mayor's office was part of the Blankenheim district from 1816 to 1818 and then, until 1971, of the Gemünd district (renamed Schleiden district in 1829 ) in the Aachen administrative district . After the mayor's office of Lommersdorf was run in a personal union with the mayor's office of Blankenheim from 1826 to 1835 , this situation existed from 1889 until the office of Blankenheim was formed in 1934 by amalgamating the mayor's offices of Blankenheim, Dollendorf and Lommersdorf. On July 1, 1969, Uedelhoven was incorporated into Blankenheim when the office of Blankenheim was dissolved. The community of Blankenheim finally came to the district of Euskirchen , administrative district of Cologne on January 1, 1972, with the simultaneous dissolution of the Schleiden district .

The former political municipality of Uedelhoven was identical to the existing cadastral classification as a district Uedelhoven (4376). This in turn is divided into ten corridors (26 and 28 to 36).

On September 17, 1793, many of the farmsteads, the church, the rectory and the school in Uedelhoven fell victim to a conflagration , which has since been commemorated in a fire procession.

A first bridge on the Ahr, in the 1710 licensing a water mill mentioned. It was between the confluences of the Michelsbach and the Aulbach. With the expansion of the road from Uedelhoven to Lommersdorf (via Neuhof), a new bridge was built in 1901/02. Due to the increased loads caused by increasing individual traffic, this had to be replaced in 1976/77. Until 1989 this connection from Uedelhoven to Ahrtalstraße operated as Kreisstraße 46 . With the expansion and clearance (June 16, 1989) of a new access road as Kreisstraße 46 new, in the area of ​​the boundary to Ahrdorf, which also included the construction of a new Ahr bridge (construction started December 1985), the old connection lost its importance and became one Farm road downgraded.

During the 20th century, civilizational innovations made their way into the hilltop village. Last but not least, two land consolidations (1904 to 1911 and 1962 to 1986) should help farmers to use their land more economically. The connection to the public electricity (1923) and water supply (1924) followed a few years after the First World War . After the Second World War, then from 1950 to 1969 the construction of the local sewerage system . 1968 the construction of a separate morgue and 1985 the legal force of a development plan . In 1938 several community residents bought the first tug . A grain and binding machine ( self- binding ) followed in 1940 and a combine harvester in 1958 . In 1924 the Uedelhoven eG savings and loan association was founded, which despite the small number of members was able to purchase various tools to facilitate agricultural work. In 1969 it merged with the savings and loan fund and later Volksbank Blankenheim.

Apart from the impairments and damage to property as a result of the numerous billeting , the place did not suffer any major damage even during the Second World War. However, quite a few Uedelhovens lost their lives as soldiers during the two world wars of the 20th century. In the First World War, for example, out of 40 men advancing to the front, the chroniclers recorded 17 dead and missing. About 40% of the then total population of the place took part in the Second World War with 120 men. 47 of them did not return after the end of the war (35 dead and 12 missing). The war memorial, inaugurated on November 19, 1933 to commemorate the victims of World War I, has been a listed building since 1998 .

In addition to the main town, there are also several Aussiedlerhöfe to Uedelhoven. These are, in particular, the close circuit road 46 in the direction Leudersdorf, at an altitude of about 425  m above sea level. NHN and only about 250 m formed adjacent courtyards Andreashof (before border lying in the 1960 position ) and Wacholderhof ( location ) and the location above the calf Bach settlement Unkental ( 385  m above sea level. NHN ) ( location ). In 1924/25 Heinrich Beiten and his son Arthur set up a silver fox farm there, which existed until the 1950s. The grandson Horst Beiten subsequently ran a local textile company, partly from home .

Statistics on population development

Evidently 34 residents emigrated from Uedelhoven to the United States of North America between 1840 and 1914. These moves, but also the emigration to the industrial regions on the Rhine and Ruhr, ensured a lasting stagnation in the population and local development of the place in the course of the 19th century.

year Residents
1826 188
1852 270
1864 296
1867 280
1871 300
year Residents
1885 315
1895 267
1905 273
1925 340
1939 317
year Residents
1952 399
1968 330
1978 290
2003 315

Municipal council

Until it was incorporated into Blankenheim on July 1, 1969, the municipality of Uedelhoven had its own municipal council , which during the period from 1910 until its dissolution usually consisted of five council members in addition to the mayor ( municipality chairman ). The following are documented as community head (GV) and mayor (BM): 1910/1914 Hubert Hellendahl (GV), 1914/28 March 1933 Josef Eich (GV), 31 August 1933 Schröder (provisional GV), 28 July 1941 Johann Daniels (BM), February 15, 1946 to November 20, 1952 Johann Schröder (BM), November 20, 1952 to March 5, 1954 Johann Daniels (BM), March 5, 1954 to April 22, 1966 (death) Josef Kau ( BM) and finally from May 5, 1966 Helmut Nelles (BM).

In the last election to the Blankenheim municipality on May 25, 2014, 167 (77.31%) of 216 eligible voters in Uedelhoven (district 010.3) cast their votes (164 valid votes). 64 went to the UWV (39.02%), 61 to the CDU (37.2%), 19 to the SPD , 12 to the Greens and eight to the FDP .

Club life

Anne Frank Baum and Anne Frank Sculpture (2019)

Numerous clubs were founded during the 20th century and some still exist. Including the bachelor club (1921), the sports club (1927), the Uedelhoven volunteer fire department (1930), the Uedelhoven music club (1956) and the carnival club (1982). A local group Uedelhoven of the Eifelverein existed from 1989 to 2007.

The Heimatverein Uedelhoven was founded in 2019 and initiated the campaign “Signs against Racism and Anti-Semitism ”. As part of this, an Anne Frank memorial tree was planted in autumn 2019 .

Attractions

War memorial (2014)

In addition to the Catholic parish church of St. Mary of the Assumption, the chapels in the semicircle around the place are particularly worth mentioning. Starting in the south on the road to Ahrdorf with the Marienkapelle, over the Antoniuskapelle in the west on the old road to Leudersdorf (Kreuzstrasse), up to the Trinity Chapel north of the village. To the latter pulls on Trinity Sunday a procession from the village church. In addition to several listed farms along Kreuzstrasse, the former rectory and the former elementary school, which are mostly converted today , the war memorial and other small memorials are also entered in the list of monuments.

Not far from the village and only around 150 to 300 meters south of the state border with Rhineland-Palatinate is 20  meters above the L  70, which was built on the former railway line of the Dümpelfeld – Lissendorf railway line , the Neublankenheim Castle ( Lage ).

Neublankenheim castle ruins (2017)

Parish of St. Mary of the Assumption

Parish Church (2014)
Pulpit (2014)

The church in Uedelhoven was first mentioned in 1136, when Count Berthold von Hamm gave it as a gift together with the town of Prüm Abbey . The abbey subsequently also held the patronage of the church and appointed canons as pastors. Pastors have been identified by name from 1441. In 1595 a Lutheran preacher is named in Peter Besslingh , but this was probably only a short episode. From 1711 to (presumably) 1714, the side walls and vaults of the church underwent a major change (25 March 1715 consecration ). There is no information about its previous appearance. In the conflagration of 1793, the church was largely destroyed except for the sacristy ( roof truss and bell tower ) and the rectory. While the rectory, which was rebuilt in 1807, suffered another fire damage (roof structure) in 1827 and the thatched roof was not replaced by a slate roof until 1869 (repair in 1958), the Prüm Abbey left the church until 1797 by Karl Gerstenmeyer from Dorsel and Balthasar Friedel restore from Hillesheim . The tower was built by the municipality in 1798. Repeated repairs and smaller extensions were made: in 1939 a transept and choir (designed by Karl Schmitz and Carl Hermes , Aachen) were added, in 1947 in the repainting by Josef Marx , Cologne and Uedelhoven and in 1983 in the form of a Redesign of the choir (designed by Paul and Hans Rumpf, Andernach). The altar consecration after completion of this work took place on March 11, 1984. The most recent extensive renovation from 2001 and 2002 involved painting the exterior and interior, the new roofing of the nave and sacristy (slate) and the draining of the foundations along with the installation of an insulating plaster in the base . The single-nave , plastered quarry stone building offers space for 275 parishioners (175 seats and 100 standing places). Two bells are from 1793, a third from 1962, the organ , which was repaired in 1960, from 1891.

Regular pilgrimages are carried out to Barweiler . As further processions that are maintained on site, in addition to the named fire and Trinity processions , the St. Mark's procession and the Corpus Christi procession should be mentioned .

The parish belonged to the Diocese of Trier from the ages until 1803 , then came to the Archdiocese of Cologne as part of the Blankenheim dean's office and to this with the re-establishment of the Aachen diocese in 1930. Ahrdorf has been a subsidiary of Uedelhoven since 1803 , after previously belonging to Üxheim.

In 1987 members of the parish initiated the Peru-Aid, which has supported numerous aid projects since then. The relief campaign, initiated by the teacher Johanna Schröder from Uedelhoven and living in Peru , has now generated around 25 million euros in donations.

Economy and Infrastructure

Uedelhoven is characterized by agriculture. The handicraft of the oven bricklayer, which was more strongly represented in Uedelhoven in the past , as well as iron stone mining to supply the local iron-producing industry such as the Ahr or steel works. The few commercial operations (restaurant, craftsmen, etc.) only employ a few people. In the Ahr valley, the Ahr cycle path runs at around 1750 m and mainly uses the former route of the Ahrdorf – Blankenheim railway line in the Uedelhoven district, but tourism is not of any great importance. Parts of the circular hiking trails 28, 29, 30 and 32 open up the district.

The Uedelhovener Mühle, the only such facility, only existed for about a century in the area where the Michelsbach flows into the Ahr, not far from the railway overpass . In 1710 permission was given to build it, and it was abandoned between 1808 ( Tranchotkarte ) and 1826. Other nearby water-powered mills existed in Ahrdorf (Blums- and Jakobsmühle), Ahrhütte (Lommersdorfer Mühle), Nohn (Hammermühle) and Üxheim (Wolferbacher-Mühle).

School and kindergarten

former school (2014)

In Uedelhoven itself there is no kindergarten or elementary school . The former one -class elementary school was looked after by the sexton in earlier times and later by a permanent teacher. A second teaching post was only temporarily set up during the first half of the 20th century. The original school building from 1704 burned down in 1793 and was replaced by a new building around 1800. In 1926 a new two-story building with six axes was built . School operations were stopped at Easter 1968 at the beginning of the school year 1968/69. The school-age children from Uedelhoven have been attending primary school in Dollendorf and then secondary schools in Blankenheim (secondary school or, since 2013, comprehensive school Blankenheim-Nettersheim), Steinfeld, Schleiden, Bad Münstereifel and elsewhere.

Transport links

Uedelhoven is connected to federal highway 258 via district road 46 . The latter, however, does not go through the Uedelhoven district, so that the connection is not far from the Ahr at an altitude of 333  m above sea level. NHN takes place in the area of ​​the district of Ahrdorf. ( Location ) The K 46 leads south to the state border, from where it continues as the K 74 into the neighboring town of Leudersdorf (4 km). In addition to the K 46, there is the possibility of the Blankenheim districts of Ahrdorf (to the east, about 2 km), Dollendorf (to the west, 4 km) and to the north via the former main road Neuhof as part of Lommersdorf (2.5 km). . As well as the neighboring village of Üxheim in Rhineland-Palatinate via Üxheimer Straße. There is a motorway connection via the B 258 and the state road 115 to the A 1 (AS Blankenheim).

When the Ahr Valley Railway was in operation , Uedelhoven did not have an independent train station. The nearest train station was from 1912 Ahrdorf on the Dümpelfeld – Lissendorf railway line (closed in 1973), where the railway line to Blankenheim-Wald began in 1913 . The connection to the railway network has existed again since 1973, just like before the opening of the Ahrtalbahn, in Blankenheim-Wald to the Eifelbahn .

On the part of the public transport Uedelhoven is mainly served by dial-a-bus (taxi), which deny the timetable of  the RVK bus route 832 .

literature

  • Village community Uedelhoven (Ed.): 850 years of Uedelhoven. Chronicle of an Eifel village. 1136-1986. Graphic company I. + F. Schloemer, Düren 1986, without ISBN.
  • Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen. 3rd edition, published by the Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Aachen, Aachen 1994, ISBN 3-87448-172-7 , pp. 526-528.
  • Johannes Becker: History of the parishes of the deanery Blankenheim. (= History of the parishes of the Archdiocese of Cologne. IV. Deanery Blankenheim) Bachem, Cologne 1893, pp. 641–656.
  • Christoph Bungartz , Ralf Gier, Peter Scheulen: From the Eifel to America. Emigration to North America 1840–1914. (= History in the district of Euskirchen. Volume 18/19 2004/2005) Ed. History Association of the District of Euskirchen eV, Handpresse Buchmanufaktur Weilerswist, Euskirchen 2005, ISBN 3-935221-55-X .
  • Ernst Wackenroder (arrangement): The art monuments of the Schleiden district. (= Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz . Volume 11, II.) L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1932, pp. 428–431 (reprint, Pädagogischer Verlag Schwann-Bagel, Düsseldorf 1982, ISBN 3-590-32116-4 ).
  • Herbert Weffer: Family book Uedelhoven. The inhabitants of the Eifel village in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. Edited by the parish of St. Mariä Himmelfahrt, self-published, Blankenheim-Uedelhoven 1995.

Web links

Commons : Uedelhoven  - Collection of Images
  • Uedelhoven at blankenheim.de, accessed on December 5, 2014.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The head of the 17 localities. Uedelhoven. ( Memento of the original from August 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. Retrieved December 9, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.blankenheim.de
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Dorfgemeinschaft Uedelhoven (Ed.): 850 years of Uedelhoven. Chronicle of an Eifel village. 1136-1986. Graphic company I. + F. Schloemer, Düren 1986, without ISBN.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Position, coordinates and heights from tim-online.nrw.de , accessed on December 8, 2014.
  4. ↑ Nature reserve "Michelsbach, Ahbach and Aulbach with tributaries" in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia
  5. ↑ Nature reserve "Obere Ahr with Mülheimer Bach, Reetzer Bach and Mühlenbachsystem" in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia
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  8. ^ Karl Guthausen: The settlement names of the (former) Schleiden district. (at the same time reprint Rheinisches Archiv 63 , publications by the Institute for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland at the University of Bonn) Ludwig Röhrscheid, Bonn 1967, p. 67.
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  11. ↑ a b c Erwin Stein: From the "life" of a bridge. In: Üllewer Weckepeller, 11th year 2001, No. 2 from June 2001, pp. 50–54.
  12. ↑ a b The administrative district of Aachen described topographically with a collection of the most interesting statistical news in overviews arranged in circles. JB Mayer, Aachen 1827, p. 58.
  13. ↑ The administrative district of Aachen presented topographically and statistically. In addition to distance tables. Ed. Royal Government Aachen, JJ Beaufort Aachen, Aachen 1852, p. 202 f.
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  18. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Free State of Prussia. Volume XIII: Rhine Province. According to the final result of the census of June 16, 1925 and other official sources based on the territorial status of December 1, 1930, processed by the Prussian State Statistical Office. Publishing house of the Prussian State Statistical Office, Berlin 1930, p. 119, no. 63.
  19. ↑ Blankenheim community. Council election May 25, 2014. Compilation of the results by voting district on kdvz-frechen, accessed on December 10, 2014.
  20. ^ Eifelverein dissolved in: Uedelhoven Youth Group (ed.): Ülleweer Weckepeller, Village Yearbook 2007 (17th year), Uedelhoven 2007, pp. 14-16.
  21. ^ Anne Frank Baum Uedelhoven - Signs against anti-Semitism. Retrieved July 28, 2019 .
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  23. ↑ Ramona Hammes and Franz Küpper: Allow everyone to live in dignity. Kölnische Rundschau of August 5, 2013, accessed on December 10, 2014.