Würselen

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Coat of arms of the city of Würselen
Würselen
Map of Germany, position of the city of Würselen highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 49 '  N , 6 ° 8'  E

Basic data
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Cologne
Circle : City region Aachen
Height : 170 m above sea level NHN
Area : 34.39 km 2
Residents: 38,756 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 1127 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 52146
Primaries : 02405, 02406
License plate : AC, MON
Community key : 05 3 34 036
LOCODE : DE WRS

City administration address : 		Morlaixplatz 1
52146 Würselen
Website : www.wuerselen.de
Mayor : Arno Nelles ( SPD )
Location of the city of Würselen in the Aachen city region
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The city of Würselen (also known as the city ​​of the boys' games ) is a medium-sized regional city in the North Rhine-Westphalian city ​​region of Aachen . Würselen is the seat of authorities in the Aachen city region and several large companies.

geography

Würselen is located at the Aachen motorway junction in the immediate vicinity of the border triangle Belgium / Germany / Netherlands . Neighboring cities clockwise are Herzogenrath , Alsdorf , Eschweiler and Aachen . Würselen belongs to the northern district of Aachen and is the only member of the urban region without external borders.

City structure

In the course of the territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia and the associated Aachen law , the area of ​​the then city of Würselen was expanded in 1972 to include large parts of the previously independent communities of Bardenberg and Broichweiden. Since then, Würselen has consisted of the following districts:

These are in turn subdivided into the following districts:

Würselen:

Broich willows:

Bardenberg:

history

Würselen as a district of Aachen
Catholic parish church of St. Sebastian with parts designed by Laurenz Mefferdatis
Gouley mine around 1900

In 870 Würselen was mentioned for the first time under the name Uuormsalt in the Golden Book of the Prüm Abbey . Around 1100 Würselen belonged to the so-called Aachen Empire . From 1265 to 1269, Count Wilhelm IV of Jülich built Wilhelmstein Castle, named after him, on the remains of an older fortress . However, it was only mentioned in writing in 1344. From 1336 to 1798 Würselen was a quarter of the Aachen Empire. In 1616 Würselen appeared in a document as Wurseln , and in the same year as Würselen . From 1794 to 1815 large parts of Würselen (Bardenberg, Broich, Duffesheide, Euchen, Linden-Neusen, Vorweiden) belonged to the French canton of Eschweiler in the Département de la Roer , and from 1816 to the district of Aachen . In 1924 Würselen had about 14,600 inhabitants and received city ​​rights .

In 1944, at the end of the Second World War , Würselen experienced a heavy bombing by the Americans. Almost all buildings were destroyed. During the Battle of Aachen , Würselen was the main battle line for six weeks until the Americans took the rest of Würselen on October 18. With this the Americans closed the ring around Aachen, which fell three days later.

For centuries, the mining of hard coal had determined economic life in Würselen, as some of the pits of the so-called Aachener Revier are located in the western area of ​​today's urban area: The Alte Furth , Gouley and Teut pits were in the Wurmtal . Due to the high risk to the miners in their work which developed in the 19th century Würselen Miners beings - in this period was Knappschaftskrankenhaus in Bardenberg founded. In 1969 the era of coal mining came to an end with the closure of the Gouley mine, which was one of the oldest mines in Aachen.

On January 1, 1972, the municipalities of Bardenberg and Broichweiden were merged with Würselen during the municipal reorganization . This increased the number of residents to around 34,500.

Derivation of the city name

The first name Wormsalt or Uuormsalt is made up of the old Germanic adjective warm for “warm” and the noun sal for “hall”, “church” or “courtyard”. Here sal refers to a Salhof , a Carolingian side courtyard of the Aachen Imperial Palatinate , which primarily served the administration of the scattered lands and the supply of the main courtyard. The site of the main church St. Sebastian in Würselen is assumed to be the location of the Salhof and the associated church . The adjective warm refers to the nearby Grenzbach Wurm , which is fed from Aachen's warm springs.

The term is also found in later mentions as Quartier over Worm , i.e. the region beyond the Wurm. The second Salhof of the Aachen Palatinate with its own church is commonly accepted in Laurensberg .

politics

Local election 2014
Turnout: 53.7% (2009: 56.6%)
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32.6%
8.9%
8.3%
6.6%
3.8%
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+ 3.8  % p.p.

City Councilor and Mayor

The city council was re-elected in the local elections on May 25, 2014 . After that, the distribution of seats is as follows (change in brackets since the 2009 election; the number of seats has decreased from 44 to 38):

SPD : 15 seats (+ 1)
CDU : 13 seats (- 1)
UWG : 03 seats (- 3)
GREEN : 03 seats (- 2)
FDP : 03 seats (- 2)
LEFT : 01 seat (+ 1)

Mayor of the city of Würselen has been the SPD politician Arno Nelles , who was elected in the local elections on August 30, 2009 , since October 21 . In the 2014 local elections he was confirmed in office with 57.3% of the valid votes.

Twin cities

The city of Würselen maintains city ​​partnerships with:

We are also working on a further partnership with Colchester in England .

Coat of arms and banner

The city of Würselen has a city coat of arms, a city flag (banner) and an official seal.

  • coat of arms

  • Coat of arms of the former municipality of Bardenberg

  • Coat of arms of the former municipality of Broichweiden

  • Banner with coat of arms

  • banner

coat of arms

Blazon : “Quartered; 1 in gold (yellow) a red armored and tongued black eagle, 2 in green an obliquely left silver (white) wave bar, 3 in green over a golden (yellow) three-mountain, diagonally crossed a silver (white) mallet and a silver (white) Hammer with golden (yellow) handles, 4 in silver (white) a continuous black cross. The shield is crowned with a three-tower tinned city wall, into which a gate is let under the central tower. "

With the approval of the Prussian State Ministry on July 8, 1922, the rural community of Würselen was granted the right to use the coat of arms applied for. It symbolizes the history of today's city; the eagle refers to the former affiliation of Würselen to the Aachen Empire , the territory of the former imperial city of Aachen, the corrugated bar refers to the Wurmbach, the miners toughness to the formerly operated mining and the electoral cross to the former affiliation to the archdiocese of Cologne. The coat of arms is usually shown without a wall crown.

Description of the banner: “The city colors are green and gold. The city's flag consists of two longitudinal stripes of equal width. ”This imprecise description comes from the main statute; In fact, the following banner is used: "The banner is green-yellow in a ratio of 1: 1 striped lengthways and shows a little above the center the city coat of arms below centered the lettering" STADT "over" WÜRSELEN. "There is also a banner without a coat of arms.

Culture

On Burg Wilhelmstein a nationally prominent, international open-air program is held annually with music cabaret and cabaret.

In addition to numerous cultural initiatives (such as the Kulturforum Würselen), the small art series in the “Altes Rathaus” cultural center and the literary festival Days of Poetry , initiated by Christoph Leisten , offer nationally significant events every year. Further activities and projects are organized by the Würselen Cultural Foundation . The Würselens public library and the cultural archive are also located in the old town hall.

The boys' games are a cultural specialty in Würselen .

Economy and Infrastructure

The Kaninsberg - Aachener Kreuz industrial area is located in Würselen . Important companies based here are Kronenbrot , Metro Cash & Carry , the German branch of Nvidia , the Sahinler Group and Offergeld Logistik . Furthermore, according to the company's own statements, there is the “largest wall and grandfather clock exhibition in the world”, which was registered in the Guinness Book of Records from 2005 to 2009 , operated by Hermann-Josef Kriescher & Ulrich Kriescher GbR . Not far from there, right next to the post office, the Breuer family runs their shop, which also made it into the Guinness Book of Records for ten years with almost 3,000 types of beer and 300 mineral waters.

traffic

Tower of the airfield

The Merzbrück airfield , the “Aachener Kreuz” industrial park (Kaninsberg) and the road traffic office for the Aachen city region are located in Würselen .

In addition to the close integration into the regional cycle path network in North Rhine-Westphalia, the moated castle route leads through the city. It connects over 524 km more than 130 castles on the edge of the Eifel and in the Cologne Bay .

Federal roads and motorways

The federal highways 57 and 264 run through Würselen and Broichweiden . Würselen can be reached from three motorway junctions:

City buses

The city ​​bus line WÜ1 serves Würselen from the Kohlscheid train station (Parkhotel - AQUANA - industrial area - Euchen ). Würselen is also served by several important regional bus routes, which usually run with articulated buses:

  • ASEAG line 11 connects the southern districts of Würselen ( Broichweiden ) with the Aachen center and Alsdorf-Mariadorf . It runs every 15 minutes, every 30 minutes on Saturdays, and every hour in the evening and on Sundays.
  • ASEAG line 31 connects the Aachener Kreuz industrial park with the city of Aachen. The line runs every half hour during rush hour, otherwise very irregularly. It doesn't run at all in the evenings and from Saturday noon to Sunday.
  • ASEAG line 21 serves the city center (Parkhotel - Würselen Markt - church - district hospital) and continues in the direction of Aachen - Haaren to Aachen-Siegel / Waldfriedhof. It runs every half hour, in the evenings and on Sundays every hour.
  • ASEAG line 51 connects Würselen with the Aachen regional center as quickly as possible . It is driven every 15 minutes, in the evenings and on Sundays every 30 minutes. The line operated as a trolleybus until 1974 .

Today's bus lines 11 and 21 replace the tram lines of the Aachen tram , which run roughly on the same route and with the same line numbers .

Railway history

Würselen had a train station and the Würselen Mitte stop. The Kohlscheid – Stolberg railway and the Aachen North – Jülich railway used to cross at Würselen station . The track systems at the station were very diverse and Würselen had a station building, a depot and two signal boxes . The Würselen Mitte stop was in the Markt / Kaiserstraße area and no longer exists today. He owned a bus shelter. In its place there is now a parking lot.

After the railway facilities were demolished in the 1980s and 1990s, a bypass road, the Willy-Brandt-Ring , was built over the station area. A gymnasium and the comprehensive school, which opened in 2019, are located on the former site of the depot. The former reception building is now used as a youth center and a cinema; both facilities are run by independent associations.

education

  • Gymnasiums: Gymnasium of the city of Würselen , Heilig-Geist-Gymnasium
  • Realschule: Realschule Würselen
  • secondary schools
  • comprehensive school
  • Primary schools: Community Primary School (GGS) An Wilhelmstein, GGS Wurmtalschule (network school from GGS Morsbach and GGS Scherberg), KGS Sebastianus School, GGS Mitte, GGS Linden-Neusen, Catholic Primary School Schulstrasse
  • Others: VHS Nordkreis Aachen, EUREGIO-Kolleg

Vocational schools and the vocational college are located in the neighboring cities of Aachen, Alsdorf, Eschweiler and Herzogenrath.

health

The Rhein-Maas Clinic is located in Würselen .

Banks

Würselen is the seat of VR-Bank Würselen eG.

media

Radio Alaaf is located in Würselen. It broadcast on VHF 97.7 MHz until 2003, since 2009 again during the “5th Season "(from January 7th to Ash Wednesday) via the Internet for the Aachen city region .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Associated with Würselen for many years

Honorary citizen

  • 1925: Theodor Genuit (1846–1944), honorary citizen of the Bardenberg community
  • 1951: Wilhelm Bock (1874–1959)
  • 1959: Peter Carduck (1883–1963), honorary citizen of the Broichweiden community
  • 1971: Pastor Josef Thomé (1891–1980)
  • 1981: Wilhelm Gülpen (1911–1984)
  • 2001: Gertrude Herbst (1928–2013)
  • 2001: Bishop Ludwig Herbst (1925-2017)
  • 2006: August Liebenwein (1931-2010)
  • 2015: Martin Schulz (* 1955)

See also

Web links

Commons : Würselen  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Wiktionary: Würselen  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Wikivoyage: Würselen  - travel guide

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 .  ( Help on this )
  2. ^ Günter Breuer: From the Klanten-Moelen to Wormsalt. First mentions of Würselen districts. Documentation and explanations (series of publications by the Würselen cultural archive ), Aachen 2011, p. 122.
  3. ↑ www.aachener-geschichtsverein.de
  4. ^ 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 .
  5. ^ City of Würselen, election results service ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ The coat of arms of Würselen. Archived from the original on March 2, 2014 ; accessed on February 23, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Banner in the council hall. Archived from the original on March 2, 2014 ; accessed on February 23, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Main statute of the city of Würselen, § 2. (PDF; 62 kB) Archived from the original on March 2, 2014 ; accessed on February 23, 2014 .
  9. ↑ http://www.kulturstiftung-wuerselen.de/
  10. ^ Website of the city library ( Memento of December 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), website of the cultural archive
  11. ↑ See the information in the left footer of the company website .
  12. ↑ Jens Höhner: There are more types of beer in Dieter Breuer's shop than anywhere else. A king from Würselen . In: Berliner Zeitung from August 20, 2010.
  13. ^ Website of the Metropolis-Filmtheater, with information about the youth center and the association.
  14. ^ List of honorary citizens on the website of the city of Würselen