Urft

Urft Municipality of Kall Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 39 ″ N , 6 ° 34 ′ 32 ″ E
Height :	410 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	336 (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation :	1st July 1969
Postal code :	53925
	School camp house Dalbenden (2015)

former Urfter mill

Urft is an eastern part of the municipality of Kall in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Euskirchen . Urft has about 340 inhabitants.

geography

The place is on the Urft in a semicircle around a nameless hill ( 502.3 m above sea level ).

At the edge of the village the Gillesbach flows into the Urft.

The southwestern neighboring town is Steinfeld . To the northwest, Sötenich borders on Urft, to the north Keldenich .

history

The Eifel aqueduct , built by the Romans and operated from around 80 AD, runs on the outskirts with an outcrop with a passage .

The Stolzenburg , already located in the Keldenich district, is a ruin of a hilltop castle enthroned on the northeastern valley slope of the Urft.

The castle Dalbenden is formed in the 12th century as Wasserburg castle.

The nuclear bunker for the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia was built on the outskirts .

On July 1, 1969, Urft was incorporated into Kall.

Sightseeing and tourism

The nuclear bunker ( see above ) can be visited.

Lead through the place

Roman Canal hiking trail with stations 3 to 6, which also leads past Dalbenden Castle and Stolzenburg Castle ,

as well as the long-distance cycle routes

Eifel-Höhen-Route as a circular route around and through the Eifel National Park and

Valley route , it opens up interesting tourist places in North Rhine-Westphalia on a family-friendly route.

The Urft up are the Romans channel source Green Puetz and (right of the river), the Achen hole cave and the man mountain caves .

The Steinfeld Monastery is located on a hill to the southwest of the village .

Economy and Infrastructure

Public facilities

The Hermann-Josef-Haus Urft , a child and youth welfare facility with a special school for social and emotional development, comprises a chapel , school and living facilities for around 100 young people, a sports field and a therapeutic riding facility. The institution is the Catholic Education Association in Cologne.

In Urft there is a youth forest home and two school camps.

At the western end of the town there is a sewage treatment plant on the Urft.

traffic

Train stop

Roads 22 and 204 run through Urft . On the highway 1 Urft is on the motorway junction Nettersheim connected.

The Urft (Steinfeld) stop on the Hürth-Kalscheuren-Ehrang line (Eifel line, KBS 474 ) is served by the following lines:

line	Line course	Tact
RE 22	Eifel-Express : Cologne Messe / Deutz - Cologne Central Station - Cologne West - Cologne South - Erftstadt - Weilerswist - Euskirchen - Mechernich - Kall - Urft (Steinfeld) - Nettersheim - Blankenheim (Wald) - Schmidtheim - Dahlem (Eifel) - Jünkerath - Lissendorf - Oberbettingen - Hillesheim - Gerolstein Status: timetable change December 2016	60 min
RB 24	Eifel Railway : Cologne Messe / Deutz - Cologne Central Station - Cologne West - Cologne South - Hürth-Kalscheuren - Brühl-Kierberg - Erftstadt - Weilerswist - Weilerswist-Derkum - Euskirchen-Großbüllesheim - Euskirchen - Satzvey - Mechernich - Scheven - Kall Status: timetable change December 2016	60 min

If necessary, a TaxiBusPlus (line 886 of the VRS ) drives in Urft .

Rail accidents

As part of the repairs to the war damage, the Eifel line from Urft to Nettersheim was only single-tracked for 5.3 km. A 1.7 km long siding with the Gronrechtsmühle block post (GRM, km 59.4) enabled trains to overtake or meet. There were neither protective switches nor inductive train control (Indusi) as safety devices.

On Sunday, November 27, 1949 at around 1:30 a.m., the staff of the through freight train Dg 7823 traveling in the direction of Cologne overlooked the stop signal. The train weighed around 1,400 tons and was hauled by a class 44 locomotive. The train cut open the following switch and hit an oncoming freight train near the level crossing in Urft. This block train was loaded with coke from Alsdorf . It weighed around 1,800 tons and was pulled by two class 58 locomotives and pushed by one of the 50 series. A train driver of the block train was killed and the other train staff injured. The level crossing was cleared by Sunday lunchtime, and the railway line was opened to traffic again on Tuesday.
On Wednesday, September 24, 1958, a class 23 steam locomotive from the Krefeld depot was on its way to Trier. The locomotive crew overlooked at least three stop signals and crashed into an oncoming passenger train at about 6 a.m. at km 60.8. It was the P 3515 early train from Jünkerath to Cologne, hauled by a class 38 steam locomotive. The locomotive crew and seven passengers were killed. Two of the approximately 25 travelers were seriously injured and five were slightly injured. The 23 staff was also killed.

During the second accident, Schleiden District Administrator Georg Linden recalled that several submissions to the railway for the double-track expansion of the line had not resulted in anything and that the damage caused by the accidents probably exceeded the expansion costs.

Web links

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

www.urft.de - local site

Entry on arable terraces at Urft in the " KuLaDig " database of the Rhineland Regional Association

Individual evidence

↑ Municipality of Kall: residents by district , accessed on February 2, 2017
^ German basic map 1: 5000
↑ ^a ^b ^c Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW (Minimap). Retrieved September 21, 2017.
^ Klaus Grewe : Aqueducts. Water for Rome's cities . The big overview - from the Roman Canal to the aqueduct marble. Regionalia Verlag, Rheinbach 2014, ISBN 978-3-95540-127-6 , pp. 272 f .
↑ Entry on the Roman Eifel aqueduct in Dalbenden in the " KuLaDig " database of the Rhineland Regional Council , accessed on September 27, 2017.

↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 100 .

↑ Klaus Grewe, Manfred Knauff: The long leadership of the Romans. The Römerkanal hiking trail Nettersheim-Cologne . Ed .: Eifelverein eV 1st edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-921805-81-7 , pp. 41 ff., 150 ff .

↑ Query of course book route 474 at Deutsche Bahn.

↑ Block office GRM. Retrieved September 25, 2017 .

^ FA Heinen: The rail accidents in the Urft valley in 1949 and 1958 . In: Geschichtsforum Schleiden e. V. (Ed.): Annual issue 2017 . S. 113 ff .

^ FA Heinen: Urft 1949 . In: Geschichtsforum Schleiden e. V. (Ed.): Annual issue 2017 . S. 97 ff .

^ FA Heinen: Accident Rosental . In: Geschichtsforum Schleiden e. V. (Ed.): Annual issue 2017 . S. 102 ff .

^ FA Heinen: Accident Rosental . In: Geschichtsforum Schleiden e. V. (Ed.): Annual issue 2017 . S. 106 .

[1] Municipality of Kall: residents by district , accessed on February 2, 2017

[DE_DGK5-2] German basic map 1: 5000

[Minimap-3] Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW (Minimap). Retrieved September 21, 2017.

[4] Klaus Grewe : Aqueducts. Water for Rome's cities . The big overview - from the Roman Canal to the aqueduct marble. Regionalia Verlag, Rheinbach 2014, ISBN 978-3-95540-127-6 , pp. 272 f .

[5] Entry on the Roman Eifel aqueduct in Dalbenden in the " KuLaDig " database of the Rhineland Regional Council , accessed on September 27, 2017.

[6] Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 100 .

[7] Klaus Grewe, Manfred Knauff: The long leadership of the Romans. The Römerkanal hiking trail Nettersheim-Cologne . Ed .: Eifelverein eV 1st edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-921805-81-7 , pp. 41 ff., 150 ff .

[Link_474-8] Query of course book route 474 at Deutsche Bahn.

[9] Block office GRM. Retrieved September 25, 2017 .

[10] FA Heinen: The rail accidents in the Urft valley in 1949 and 1958 . In: Geschichtsforum Schleiden e. V. (Ed.): Annual issue 2017 . S. 113 ff .

[11] FA Heinen: Urft 1949 . In: Geschichtsforum Schleiden e. V. (Ed.): Annual issue 2017 . S. 97 ff .

[12] FA Heinen: Accident Rosental . In: Geschichtsforum Schleiden e. V. (Ed.): Annual issue 2017 . S. 102 ff .

[13] FA Heinen: Accident Rosental . In: Geschichtsforum Schleiden e. V. (Ed.): Annual issue 2017 . S. 106 .