Vilich

Vilich City of Bonn Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 10 ″  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 45 ″  E
Height :	60 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	5126  (December 31, 2018)
Incorporation :	1st August 1969
Area code :	0228
Location of the Vilich district in the Beuel district of Bonn

Vilich ['fiːlɪç] is a district of the federal city of Bonn in the Beuel district . Vilich is located south of the Sieg estuary on the Rhine , on federal highway 56 and federal highway 59 , at which a junction has been called Bonn-Vilich since April 2009 . The tram line 66 runs through Vilich .

history

View from Schillerstrasse to St. Peter - in front left the former hospital

Vilich was first mentioned in 942 in a document from Otto I as "Vilicam". 978 donated Megingoz and his wife Gerberga of Lorraine possessions in Auelgau to set up a Women Convention , the 996 by Pope Gregory V in a Benedictine monastery was converted. The first abbess was Adelheid von Vilich ; after her the monastery was later named St.-Adelheidis-Stift . After the death of Adelheidis, her grave in the church belonging to the monastery became a place of pilgrimage .

During the time of the electoral prince, Vilich belonged together with Vilich-Rheindorf , Combahn , Schwarzrheindorf with Gensem, Geislar and Vilich-Müldorf to the " Glory Vilich", which was a subordinate of the Electoral Cologne office of Bonn .

The end of the electorate and the occupation of the Rhineland by Napoleonic troops were of great importance for Vilich . From 1803 to 1806 Vilich was part of the Principality of Nassau-Usingen , then part of the Grand Duchy of Berg , for which a provincial and municipal administration order was issued in 1808 based on the French model. There are municipalities formed, the line took a Munizipaldirektor and Maire. The "Munizipalität Vilich" was formed on March 8, 1809. In addition to the places of the former glory Vilich, the places of the parish Küdinghoven belonged to it. These were Küdinghoven , Beuel , Limperich , Ramersdorf , Pützchen , a part of Bechlinghoven and Nieder- and Oberholtorf.

Due to the agreements made at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 , the region became part of the Kingdom of Prussia . Under the Prussian administration, the municipalities / Mairien continued to exist as mayors . That also applied to Vilich. Friedrich Breuer has been mayor since 1891. During his tenure, Vilich developed into a modern community. A gas and waterworks were built, the residential and factory buildings were connected to the electrical power grid and the expansion of the Rhine promenade began. Since the end of the 19th century at the latest, the center of the community has shifted towards Beuel-Mitte . On September 26, 1896 the official seat was moved from Vilich to Beuel. In 1922, the mayor's office in Vilich was finally renamed the mayor's office in Beuel .

Through the law on the municipal reorganization of the Bonn area in 1969, Vilich became part of the previously independent city of Beuel, part of the new Bonn district of Beuel.

Population development

• 1836: 180
• 1891: 204
• 1916: 550
• 1951: 2.103
• 2013: 5,258

As a result of the population development, it was decided in 2013 to re-densify the approximately three hectare area called Ledenhof , previously owned by the Rhineland Regional Association (LVR), and to demolish the Ledenhof curative educational home (HPH), which has existed since 1988 . The project sponsor is the housing association NCC Germany . Clearing and demolition are planned for spring 2016. The project met with criticism from the citizens.

Attractions

See also : List of architectural monuments in the Vilich district of Bonn

St. Peter

Lede Castle

→ Main article : St. Peter (Vilich)

A distinctive landmark of Vilich from far and wide is the church tower of St. Peter . St. Peter is the Catholic parish church in Vilich. It was a collegiate church until the "free aristocratic secular Vilich monastery" was abolished .

Lede Castle

→ Main article : Lede Castle

Lede Castle was originally a Romanesque residential tower from which a Gothic moated castle developed over time .

Aerial view of the Lede moated castle

Mayor Stroof House

Mayor Stroof House

→ Main article : Mayor Stroof House

The Stroof House was built in several construction phases: before 1500 - around 1700 - around 1800. Remains of a quarry stone building date from the Middle Ages, such as two outer walls of today's ground floor on the south side that protrude over a corner and enclose a well that is still buried. The core of the main house probably comes from the beginning of the 18th century and was initially a three-axis half-timbered building. A century later, Leonard Stroof connected this with the medieval quarry stone building, which was topped up with half-timbering, adding a fourth axis.

“The overall architecture”, according to today's sponsor, “of Stroof's construction phase from 1800 has been authentically preserved to this day.” The authenticity applies not only to the floor plan of the house, but also to its rich furnishings, which were used in the Bonn region for buildings of this time is unusual. An absolute rarity for a Rhenish half-timbered house is the extensive painting in almost all rooms (geometric stencil patterns), which has only been exposed in a few places. The coffered wall panel in the former office is also surprisingly effective. The so-called Cologne ceiling in the small salon on the upper floor, which like all the beamed ceilings in the house, is stuccoed but also decorated with floral tendrils, is undoubtedly the special gem.

Schevasteshof

The Schevasteshof was built around 1603. There, Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Schiller and Maria Magdalena, sister of the then mayor Gabriel von Pfingsten, who resided there from 1825 to 1855, married. Gabriel von Pfingsten was related to the Oppenhoff and de Claer families and knew many respected personalities. He made the Schevasteshof, which was at its most glamorous at that time, the center of intellectual and social life. Many generations preserved the history of the Schevasteshof until it was completely destroyed by bombs on Christmas Eve in 1944. Two women were buried and killed. Otto Schmidt-Bleibtreu, who was living there at the time, and the rest of the family were evacuated.

Over the years, a landscape protection and subsequent development plan procedure by the city of Bonn initiated a new development of the destroyed courtyard. In 1974 the so-called “little temple”, whose six pairs of pillars came from the demolished Heisterbach monastery , was removed from the site. These valuable architectural parts and other remnants of the temple were transferred to the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn .

The courtyard was located between today's Schillerstrasse and the garden of Lede Castle. The parent company was between the end of Schillerstrasse and the railway line .

Archways

Several historic archways have been preserved in the center of Vilich. The oldest is likely to be a Romanesque archway in front of the old school. Younger is a late Gothic archway in front of the pastorate. The archway of the gate housing of the monastery is also worth seeing. All arches are on Adelheidisstraße. In earlier centuries, the archway in front of the old school was the entrance to the former parish church of St. Paul (whose patronage was the parish church of St. Paul on Siegburger Str. Built in the 1960s), which collapsed in 1765 due to flooding. The archway of the gate housing on the corner of Stiftsstraße, which was moved in 1991 due to a building project and re-erected slightly offset in 2000, also belonged to the former immunity wall surrounding the Adelheidis monastery .

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  Romanesque archway in front of the old school

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  late Gothic archway in front of the pastorate

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  Archway of the gate housing of the pen

personality

• Franz Düsterwald (1842–1920), Catholic clergyman and author
• Pitt Müller, (1905–1975), sculptor

See also

• List of architectural monuments in the Vilich district of Bonn
• List of streets in the Vilich district of Bonn
• List of crossroads and wayside shrines in the Vilich district of Bonn

Web links

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

• Vilich website
• Inventory of monastery and monastery in the HStA Düsseldorf

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population in Bonn by districts (according to the main statute) on December 31 , 2018 , Federal City of Bonn - Statistics Office, February 2019
2. ↑ German Hubert Christian Maaßen : History of the parishes of the dean's office in Königswinter , Cologne: Bachem, 1890, p. 125 ( Düsseldorf State Library )
3. ^ Johannes books: Leonard Stroof - The first mayor of Vilich , Bonn 1990, pp. 36-37
4. ^ Beuel - City on the Rhine , published by the Beuel city administration on the day of the city elevation on August 24, 1952, p. 38
5. ^ Archive NRW: Administrative Affiliation Bonn ( Memento from January 26th 2011 in the Internet Archive )
6. ^ Housing association NCC wants to begin demolition in autumn 2015 . In: GA Bonn , April 10, 2014. 
7. ↑ http://www.bonn.de/rat_verwaltung_buergerdienste/presseportal/pressemitteilungen/33658/index.html?lang=de
8. ↑ https://s3.amazonaws.com/stridor-content_management/upload/wahlvw/pdf/2015_expos__ledenhof_final.pdf
9. ↑ A mood of optimism in Ledenhof . In: GA Bonn . 
10. ↑ http://www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de/bonn/beuel/Zu-dicht-zu-hoch-zu-viel-Verkehr-article1293963.html
11. ↑ Monument and History Association Bonn-Rechtsrheinisch e. V .: "The Mayor Stroof House in Vilich"
12. ^ Udo Mainzer : Romanesque choir tower churches around Bonn . In: INSITU. Zeitschrift für Architekturgeschichte 1 (2/2009), pp. 27–40.