Venwegen

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Venwegen
Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 48 ″  N , 6 ° 12 ′ 53 ″  E
Height : 279 m above sea level NHN
Area : 17.25 km² (with Breinig)
Residents : 1438  (2017)
Population density : 83 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 52224
Area code : 02408

Venwegen is a district of Stolberg (Rhld.) In the Aachen region in nature Nordeifel with about 1,438 inhabitants (2017). Because of its proximity to Aachen, Venwegen is a popular place to live. Before it was incorporated into Stolberg, the population was only 900.

geography

Venwegen has a street village that extends north-south along the L 12 between the Hönigerhof (280 m above sea level) and the Birkenhof (320 m above sea level) over a length of 1.7 km. In the north lies the Stolberg district of Breinig , in the south Mulartshütte . Venwegen is separated from Zweifall in the east by the Münsterwald. The Hahn district of Aachen is to the west .

history

The place owes its name, the spellings of which are also Venewegen, Vinwegen, Vienwegen and Venweghe, an ancient path from Kornelimünster into the High Fens . The name of the place is mentioned for the first time in 1303 in connection with a Franco von Venweghe. According to the wisdom of the Monschauer Reichswald, Venwegen had the right to graze cattle and fatten acorns in this forest. The place belonged to the Reichsabtei Kornelimünster until 1794 , whose rights in the Reichswald (logging and charcoal burning) were exercised by a forester who lived in Venwegen, after which it belonged to the Kornelimünster community in the Aachen district until it was incorporated into Stolberg on January 1, 1972 . Only from September 1944 to March 1945 did the place have its own administration under US occupation.

religion

The parish church of St. Brigida was built in 1782 thanks to a benefit that the Venwegen Anton Heller (Haller) had donated in Zülpich in 1757 . In 1784 it was consecrated and in 1804 it was elevated to a parish church.

education

In 1819 school operations began in a house with a stable and barn on today's Vennstrasse, which the Kornelimünster community had acquired in accordance with Prussian school legislation. The village school teacher was Mathias Wilhelm Klein until 1897, then his son Karl Hubert Alois Klein. A school built next to the old school in 1870 soon became too small again. The new primary school was built in 1936 on Mulartshütter Strasse. This is no longer a primary school. It was converted into a youth club, which is also used by the Venwegen scouts.

Attractions

The parish church of St. Brigida from 1782 and some of the 50 houses on the main street, some of the Winkelhof facilities, from the 16th to 19th centuries, whose gables are mostly facing the street, are listed as historical monuments . The tabernacle of the parish church is a high altar made in 1729 for the parish church of St. Jakob in Aachen, acquired by the parish in 1888 and restored in the 1980s.

The Haus Maria im Venn monastery complex run by the Christian Sisters is located in the south of the village on the edge of the forest and includes a kindergarten and a home for the elderly.

There are three natural monuments in Venwegen: a field maple 300 m north of the Hönigerhof, a linden tree in Vennstrasse and a group of linden trees in the cemetery.

societies

  • VfR Venwegen (sports club)
  • Civic Association Venwegen
  • PSG (St. Georg Scouts) tribe Venwegen
  • St. Sebastianus Schützenbruderschaft 1872 Venwegen eV
  • KV de Vennkatze 1949 eV (Carnival Association)
  • Hiking Club Tourist Association 1910 Venwegen "Funny Brothers" eV
  • Venwegen Rooster Committee
  • Drummers and Pfeifercorps Venwegen 1923 eV
  • Brotherhood of Goreme and Zelve 1987
  • Old School Venwegen eV

Personalities

literature

  • Dieter Mätschke: Stolberger walks. Volume 2: In the North Eifel Nature Park. Meyer & Meyer, Aachen 1991, ISBN 3-89124-105-4 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sonja Essers: More births, but fewer inhabitants in Stolberg. In: Stolberger Zeitung. Retrieved February 2, 2019 .
  2. ^ 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. 305 .