Urfeld (Wesseling)

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Urfeld
City of Wesseling
Urfeld coat of arms
Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 29 ″  N , 7 ° 1 ′ 25 ″  E
Height : 51 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 4153  (2018)
Incorporation : July 1, 1935
Incorporated into: Hersel
Postal code : 50389
Area code : 02236
Urfeld stop on the Rheinuferbahn

Urfeld is a district of the city of Wesseling in the Rhein-Erft district of North Rhine-Westphalia . There are currently 4,153 people in the village (as of December 31, 2018).

geography

Urfeld covers an area of ​​5.76 km² and is located southeast of the Wesselingen city center, on the left bank of the Rhine, which is geographically referred to as the Lower Rhine . Neighboring towns are the Wesseling- Keldenich district in the west, Bornheim- Sechtem in the southwest, Bornheim- Widdig in the south and the town of Niederkassel in the east across the Rhine. The closest larger cities are Cologne , 14 km north, and Bonn , 11 km south.

The Rheinuferbahn and Landesstraße 300 (formerly Bundesstraße 9 ) run through the town, as well as the Bundesautobahn 555 on the western edge of the town , which connects Cologne and Bonn. Urfeld can be reached from this motorway via the Wesseling junction . Coming from Wesseling, it is also possible to take the 721 city bus to reach the Urfeld district.

Urfeld lies at the mouth of an Ice Age oxbow, the Gumme , in the Rhine.

history

From the 5th millennium BC BC ( Latène Age, Younger Iron Age) finds in the area of ​​the former UK , now the Rhineland refinery .

Young axes from the 4th millennium BC Were found in Urfeld in the area of ​​the Rodderweg.

In the 5th century AD, the Franks crossed the Rhine and conquered the areas on the left bank of the Rhine. At that time they called this place "Oruare", which means something like a place where you run over . So there was probably a ferry station in Urfeld in the past that crossed the Rhine.

The Frohnhof zu Urfeld was first mentioned in 1107. A knight Ludovicus de Urvere lived in Urfeld in 1200. Urfeld and the surrounding villages were burned to the ground in 1376 during a jury war. In 1449 Urfeld consisted of 28 houses. A major fire destroyed most of the village in 1590. In 1620, during the Thirty Years' War , the Dutch and Spanish robbed and ravaged the village. In 1659, Urfeld consisted of 50 houses, six farms and two farms. Pastor Hermann Reuter founded a school in Urfeld in 1681.

In 1798, Urfeld belonged to the canton of Brühl in the Arrondissement de Cologne and Département de la Roer , and since 1800 to Mairie Hersel .

In 1815 the Rhineland and with it Urfeld fell to Prussia . The place was assigned to the district of Bonn (from 1887 district of Bonn) in the administrative district of Cologne to the province of Jülich-Kleve-Berg , which was united with the province of Grand Duchy of Lower Rhine to form the Rhine province in 1822 . Urfeld was one of six parishes belonging to the mayor's office in Hersel.

In 1906 Urfeld received a rail connection through the newly built Rheinuferbahn . The water tower was built in 1907. At the census on December 1, 1910, the community had 827 inhabitants.

In 1935 the municipality of Urfeld was merged with the municipalities of Hersel, Uedorf and Widdig, which also belong to the Hersel office, to form the (new) municipality of Hersel. The previous office of Hersel was dissolved and the new municipality was assigned to the Bornheim office. 1937 moved the Hydrierwerk Union Rheinische brown coal fuel AG , or "UK" called, near the outskirts of Urfeld on.

The reclassification of Urfeld from Hersel to Wesseling took place on August 1, 1969 through the law on the municipal reorganization of the Bonn area ( Bonn law ). From January 1, 1975 until the city of Wesseling was reestablished on July 1, 1976, Urfeld belonged to the city of Cologne.

In 1982 the water tower from 1907 was demolished. The Dietkirchener Hof , located on the banks of the Rhine, was the residence of the Royal Dutch Embassy from the 1950s and the residence of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Sweden from 1972 to 1999 .

politics

Mayor

The council of the city of Wesseling has elected Manfred Rothermund ( CDU ) as the mayor of Urfeld. He bears the designation "local mayor".

Economy and industry

On the outskirts of Urfeld, the Wesselingen plant borders the Rhineland refinery and is operated by Shell-Deutschland Oil GmbH (formerly DEA and before that Union Rheinische Braunkohlen fuel AG ). The refinery is connected by a pipeline with Wilhelmshaven and Rotterdam , from where it gets its crude oil .

Public facilities

  • Multipurpose hall with numerous club rooms
  • Catholic parish of St. Thomas the Apostle
  • Evangelical Dankeskirche, Waldsiedlung, Waldstrasse
  • Municipal day care center Weidenweg
  • Catholic day care center St. Thomas I
  • Catholic day care center St. Thomas II
  • Soccer field for teenagers
  • several public playgrounds
  • Rhine School
  • sports ground
  • Village square

Attractions

Dietkirchener Hof (2014)

Culture and leisure

Festivals and customs

  • Annual carnival parade with the child prince
  • Annual May Festival (May Night) with the coronation of a May couple
  • Annual wine festival with a crowning wine queen
  • Annual coronation of a fishing king on the "Eel Night"
  • Annual brass music day
  • Annual Christmas market on the village square
  • Annual foundation festival of the volunteer fire brigade

Tourism

  • Passenger ship "Anja" on the banks of the Rhine in Urfeld
  • Cycling tour path on the towpath on the Rhine

Web links

Commons : Urfeld  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Summa Summarum 2019 - Wesseling in numbers. Stadt Wesseling - The Mayor, May 2019, accessed on February 17, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970.
  3. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 299 f .
  4. ↑ http://www.eventschiff-anja.de/ , passenger ship Anja on the banks of the Rhine in Urfeld