Wülscheid

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Wülscheid, Reichenhardt with a view of the Siebengebirge

Wülscheid is an eastern part of Aegidienberg , a district of Bad Honnef in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

Wülscheid is to the east of the Siebengebirge and the federal motorway 3 on a flat, elongated mountain ridge that runs in a north-south direction and slopes slightly to the north. The upper village is about 275 m above sea level and the lower village about 250 m above sea level. To the east, the right source brook of the Pleisbach is the Quirrenbach , which rises on the border with Rhineland-Palatinate at an altitude of approx. 283 m. The Erlenbach , a tributary of the Quirrenbach, flows south of the village through Wülscheid . In the immediate vicinity of Wülscheid there are two forest areas, in the northeast the Siegburg state forest and in the south the Aegidienberger forest with its highest point on the ground, the Dachsberg ( 362.2  m ). The closest localities are in the north of Oberhau , including Eudenbach , Rostingen , Faulenbitze and Gratzfeld , in the southeast the village of Stockhausen, which belongs to Windhagen (Rhineland-Palatinate), and in the southwest, Orscheid .

history

The village was mentioned in 1348 in a document about the property of the Merten monastery in Wülscheid. 1541 was another mention as "Wultscheid". The place name component “Wül” in its earlier forms “Wu (h) l / Wühl” can generally be interpreted as a lake or morass . A parcel with corresponding topographical features is located in the Wülscheider Unterdorf, in the original cadastre (1824/25) it was named "zu Wülscheid". The Wülscheider Oberdorf was settled much later than the Unterdorf. In 1673 Wülscheid had at least fourteen taxable residents. In 1803 the place comprised 23 houses or house numbers. Wülscheid is one of the eight honors that made up the parish of Aegidienberg at the latest from the middle of the 18th century until the dissolution of the Duchy of Berg in 1806.

In 1862 a connecting road was built from Wülscheid to today's Landesstraße 247, which leads in the direction of Bad Honnef and Asbach . From December 1863 until the opening of the former Orscheid school in December 1866, school lessons for the children from Wülscheid and Orscheid took place in the former Wülscheid restaurant, Zum Jägerheim . In 1885 there were 62 houses and 255 residents in Wülscheid (then Wüllscheid ). On August 26, 1902, the "Wülscheider Wasserleitungsgesellschaft" was founded, which within a few months built a water pipe from a spring in the Wülscheider Bruch to Wülscheid. It was the first closed water supply within Aegidienberg. In 1967 Wülscheid was connected to the Aegidienberger group water supply and the company was dissolved.

The Quirrenbach near Wülscheid with a former railway overpass

Basalt ( columnar basalt ) has been mined on the Dachsberg since the middle of the 19th century , first by tenants from the area and, from 1877, on a larger scale by Louis Weinstock from Linz . In 1895 Weinstock founded the “Basaltgewerkschaft Honnef” together with Wilhelm Sonnenschein from Werden / Ruhr and leased further quarries on the Dachsberg and Himberg . Many Wülscheid found work here. In this context, a railway line ( narrow-gauge railway ) from the Bröltaler Eisenbahn AG station in Rostingen along the Quirrenbach past Gratzfeld, Wülscheid and Orscheid to Rottbitze was built in 1905 to transport the mined basalt . South of Wülscheid there was a siding with a reservoir for water, where the locomotives could replenish their water supply. Basalt mining flourished until 1929/30. The dismantling was then suspended and only resumed in 1937. The transport was now carried out by truck and the railway line lost its importance.

From 1940 a field ammunition depot was built in the forest south of Wülscheid , where ammunition for war use in the west was assembled. It was on the lower part of the railway line (the route had been interrupted since the autobahn was built in 1937) from Rostingen to the former forester's house Orscheid, which was therefore used by the Wehrmacht for ammunition transports during the Second World War . On March 10, 1945, German soldiers blew up a parked wagon full of ammunition while retreating. The resulting crater ran full of water and can still be seen today. After the Second World War, different tenants mined basalt on the Dachsberg until 1968, since then operations have been stopped there and a lake has been created there. The track systems of the railway line were removed in the early 1950s. The old route has been preserved as a hiking trail over large sections of the route - south of Wülscheid it corresponds to the course of today's streets In dem Hagen and Waldstraße .

In the summer of 1951, construction of the district road 6 from Himberg via Orscheid to Wülscheid began. Until then, the traffic between Orscheid and Wülscheid ran on the street In der Dornhecke on a no longer existing route to the street Am Holzpütz . At the instigation of the citizens of Wülscheid and Orscheid, the so-called Dachsberg Chapel was built in 1955 on the Dachsberg to the south instead of a small chapel from the 19th century . An equestrian school has existed in the Unterdorf since 1996 .

Population development
year Residents
1816 140
1843 260
1871 249
1905 237
1961 242

coat of arms

Chalkboard as the town's coat of arms

In 2005 the artist Richard Lenzgen made the Wülscheider coat of arms designed by Helmut Großhenrich as a slate . At the top left it shows the Dachsberg chapel and the Dachsberg with a goods cart as an indication of the earlier importance of the local quarry operation and, at the bottom right, a spring that symbolizes the abundance of water in the place (various sources and tributaries of the Quirrenbach and Cookingbach). The trees indicate the forest areas near Wülscheid. A green-white-red striped band runs diagonally through the coat of arms, referring to the North Rhine-Westphalian flag . Wülscheid was the first of the 13 districts of Aegidienberg to receive a coat of arms.

traffic

Junction 34 ( Bad Honnef / Linz ) on federal motorway 3 is located about two kilometers southwest of Wülscheid. District road 6 (Himberg via Orscheid, Wülscheid, Gratzfeld, Eudenbach to Hennef - Dahlhausen ) connects Wülscheid with the nearest towns.

Wülscheid belongs to the tariff area of ​​the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg (VRS). A bus line from Bad Honnef via Windhagen to Asbach and Neustadt (Wied) has three stops in Wülscheid. It is operated by the Rhein-Sieg-Verkehrsgesellschaft (RSVG) in cooperation with Martin Becker GmbH . Outside the main traffic times, it is supplemented by a shared call taxi line (AST), a joint offer by the city of Bad Honnef, the RSVG, the Rhein-Sieg district and the taxi company Trommeschläger.

Culture and sights

Crossroads in the lower village

Sights
The following are listed as architectural monuments in the city's list of monuments :

Club life
The association Dorfgemeinschaft Wülscheid eV , which has existed since 2004, is committed to the preservation of customs, culture and local maintenance. The local carnival club is called the Wülscheider Jecken eV

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Wülscheid  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

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  3. ^ A b Otmar Falkner: The Quirrenbacher Mühle. In: Heimatblätter des Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, 75th year 2007. pp. 138, 140.
  4. ^ West German Society for Family Studies (ed.); Johannes Jansen: Aegidienberger Familienbuch 1666-1875. Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-933364-57-4 , p. XVIII.
  5. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, 2nd volume: The map of 1789. Bonn 1898, p. 315.
  6. ^ Otmar Falkner: Peter Kallenbach (1805–1877). A contribution to the local history of Aegidienberg. In: Heimatblätter des Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, 72nd year 2004. , pp. 117 ff.
  7. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, XII. Rhineland Province. Berlin 1888, pp. 114/115 digitalis.uni-koeln.de (PDF; 1.5 MB).
  8. ↑ a b D. Großhenrich: 100 years of the Wülscheid water supply company. Festschrift, 2002.
  9. ↑ Wilbert Fuhr: The history of the Eudenbach airfield on the Musser Heide (= Königswinter in past and present. Issue 10), Königswinter 2007, ISBN 978-3-932436-11-6 , p. 48.
  10. ↑ Carsten Gussmann, Wolfgang Clössner: The Heisterbacher Valley Railway and industrial railways in the Seven Mountains. Freiburg im Breisgau 2006, ISBN 978-3-88255-456-4 , pp. 40-59.
  11. ↑ Karl Gast: Aegidienberg through the ages. Aegidienberg 1964, p. 196.
  12. ^ The censuses of 1816 and 1843: Overview ... of the government district of Cologne. 1871 u. 1905: Community encyclopedia Prussia and 1961: Contributions to the statistics of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , special series of the population census 1961. Issue 2b.
  13. ↑ Rundblick Siebengebirge, March 11, 2005
  14. ↑ Christina Notarius: The Backhaus in Wülscheid. In: Preservation of monuments in the Rhineland. 17th year 2000 No. 1, pp. 42–44.

Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 7 ″  N , 7 ° 20 ′ 15 ″  E