Wadenheim

Wadenheim City of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler Coordinates: 50 ° 32 ′ 41 ″  N , 7 ° 8 ′ 21 ″  E
Height :	90 m above sea level NHN
Incorporation :	7th June 1969
Postal code :	53474
Area code :	02641
Location of Wadenheim in Rhineland-Palatinate

Along with Beul and Hemmessen, Wadenheim is one of the three historical districts of Bad Neuenahr , which today belongs to Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler in northern Rhineland-Palatinate as a district and local district .

The Beul district is located on the right-hand side of the Ahr and is accessible via the Amseltalbrücke, Maria-Hilf-Brücke, Kurgartenbrücke, Casinobrücke and Landgrafenbrücke. In the west, the district is bounded by Hemmessen , another district. A brook used to be used as a demarcation, but it now runs underground along Hemmesser Straße.

history

The name Wadenheim is derived from the farm that was formerly in this district and belonged to a family called Wada. On May 19, 992, the place and an associated Ahrbrücke in a document of Emperor Otto III. First mentioned in which the two brothers Sigebodo and Richwin a wild spell on the right river Ahr in Vuadenheim is awarded. In 1019 the Archbishop Heribert of Cologne transferred a court in Wadenheim to the Deutz Abbey . In 1131 the Wadenheim church and its tithes were recorded as the property of the Cassius Foundation in Bonn .

In 1858 the first spa was founded in Wadenheim. In 1875 the community of Wadenheim, which also included Beul and Hemmessen, was renamed Neuenahr .

In 1901 the synagogue was built in the alley that was then named Tempelstrasse, today Wadenheimer Strasse 8, which was devastated and burned down during the pogrom on November 10, 1938 .

Today the names of the former three districts are being forgotten more and more, as there is no official name for the former areas. However, there are different street names and places (e.g. Wadenheimer Platz) that are reminiscent of the original places.

literature

• Johann Christian von Stramberg , Anton Joseph Weidenbach : Memorable and useful Rhenish antiquarian ... , Dept. 3, Volume 9, Rudolph Friedrich Christian Hergt, Coblenz 1862 , p. 514ff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Monumenta Germaniae Historica: Ottonis II. Et III. Diplomata (documents from Otto II. And III.), No. 93 (p. 504), Hanover 1893
2. ^ Rheinischer Antiquarius , Section 3, Vol. 9, pp. 514f.
3. ^ Synagogue Bad Neuenahr. alemannia-judaica.de, accessed on October 10, 2015 .