Walberberg

Walberberg City of Bornheim Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 52 ″ N , 6 ° 54 ′ 44 ″ E
Height :	90 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	4730 (Aug 2, 2019)
Postal code :	53332
Area code :	02227
	Walberberg - Hexenturm and parish church

Walberberg is a district of Bornheim in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is located in the foothills between Cologne and Bonn , each around 13 kilometers as the crow flies to their centers, and is well connected to them by the 553 motorway and the foothills railway.

geography

Walberberg is the most north-westerly district of Bornheim on the border with the city of Brühl and its district of Eckdorf on an area between 70 and 140 m above sea level that rises from east to west to the foothills . NHN , whereby the lower part of Walberberg can naturally be assigned within the Cologne Bay to the Brühler Lössplatte - a loess-covered middle terrace plate between the north-west of Bonn and the north of Hürth . Immediately to the northeast is the Schwadorf district of Brühl . The Rheindorfer Bach runs along the northern outskirts . The Bornheim district of Trippelsdorf follows south of Walberberg .

history

Old inscription
Court linden tree

The place name Walberberg was first mentioned as mons sanctae walburgis in 1118 AD in the Annales Rodenses . Here it went u. a. about the donation of a vineyard on Sankt Walburgisberg (Walberberg) to the Klosterrath Abbey.

But as early as 962, the Archbishop of Cologne, Brun, bequeathed, among other things, two Hufen in Berge to the monastery of St. Caecilia in Cologne. It can be assumed that today's Walberberg was meant by Berge (or Rech), since the relics of St. Walburga , which according to tradition are said to have given the church and the mountain its name, did not exist until around 1069 at the instigation of Archbishop Anno II. Were transferred from Eichstätt to Walberberg. This is said to have been the skull and the stick of the holy Walburgis.

Furthermore, “Walberberg” is still popularly referred to as “Rech” today. But the information from the deed of donation from 962 also suggests that Berche was the settlement from which today's Walberberg developed over the years. In Walberberg there is an old linden tree known as the judicial linden tree. The first documented mention of a linden tree at this place can be found in a contract from 1478: "This happened in the village of Walberberg op dem Kirchhoff against the linden tree".

Wonderfully country belonged Walberberg by the end of the 18th century the cathedral chapter ( Electorate of Cologne ) and was named the glory Walberberg in the Electoral Cologne office Brühl , which in addition to the Walberberg Kitzburg and Rheindorfer castle belonged.

Attractions

	Bornheim-Walberberg from NW, landmark Hexenturm and parish church St. Walburga.
	Parish Church of St. Walburga with Romanesque baptismal font from the 13th century, oldest parts from the early 11th century, successor to the independent church of a Franconian manor from the 8th century. This hall church was one of the rare rural sacred buildings that were built from stone and not from wood at this time. In the Middle Ages, the church was the monastery church for the Cistercians, who shaped life in Walberberg for 250 years (from 1197 to 1447). In the parish garden there are still remnants of the walls of the former monastery, which was probably destroyed in the turmoil of the Truchsess War (1583 to 1588) or during the Thirty Years' War (1618 to 1648).
	Witch tower five-storey round tower north of the parish church, was built at the end of the 12th and beginning of the 13th century and served the owners as a residential tower. The name Hexenturm first appeared in 1817. The circular tower shows a total height of 21 m. The outer diameter of the tower is 8.60 m across all floors. The massive surrounding wall has a thickness of 2.20 m on the ground floor, which tapers down to a thickness of 0.90 m on the top floor of the tower. The recesses of the inner wall form the support for the floor slabs.
	Roman Canal Relict on Walburgisstrasse (at the primary school across from the parish church), the clear height is approx. 120 cm, the clear width approx. 80 cm. The Roman aqueduct (built between 70 and 90 AD) is 95.4 km long (from the “Green Pütz” in Rosenthal between Nettersheim and Urft to the Cologne city wall), the largest archaeological monument north of the Alps and the second longest Aqueduct worldwide.
	Aldeburg (from Latin "altus" - high), also called the Keltenring, a ring wall, the time of its origin is still unclear. The former refugee castle has the shape of an ellipse (pointed to the south). The large semi-axis (in NNE-SSW direction) is approx. 55 m, the small semi-axis approx. 33 m, the area therefore measures approx. 0.6 ha. The facility is located in a beech forest southwest of the Kitzburger Mühle (approx m away from her).
	Rheindorf Castle medieval castle from 1140, on the northern outskirts of Walberberg. In 1925 the Dominican Order founded the Dominican Monastery of St. Albert there after buying and renovating the castle , which until 1975 was the seat of the Philosophical-Theological College of the Dominicans in Germany. During the war, the monastery was confiscated by the German armed forces and used as a hospital. After the decision of the provincial chapter of the Dominicans in October 2004, the monastery was given up at the end of 2007. On November 25, 2007, the Walberberg Dominicans celebrated the last service in the monastery church together with the Provincial Father Hans-Albert Gunk and brothers from all branches of the Dominican province of Teutonia and with the participation of many believers. In a letter dated December 31, 2007, the highest superior of the Dominicans, Master of the Order Carlos Azpiroz Costa, abolished the monastery according to the Dominican statutes. On March 1, 2008, the monastery complex was sold to a private group of companies that operates facilities in the areas of assisted living, care, hotels and restaurants.
	Kitzburg Located on the southern outskirts of Walberberg, mansion (18th century) on medieval foundation walls (13th century), former moated castle (15th century), now owned by the von Canstein family .

Schools / education

Thomas von Quentel School

Thomas von Quentel School, elementary school in Walberberg

Walberberg Youth Academy Founded
in the 1960s (first construction phase 1964–1967 by Felix Stalder and Harald Schmuck) by the Dominican women's community. There, teenagers and young adults visit the offers of the youth academy Walberberg. The academy is located on a meadow slope above Walberberg. It consists of several components designed as a unit, which are grouped around a three-story main building, including stepped residential wings. It is a rectangular reinforced concrete skeleton structure .

Walberberger Museumstube
The Walberberger Heimatmuseum in the "House in the Garden" of the Catholic parish of St. Walburga is run by the Förderkreis Historisches Walberberg eV. With its archaeological collection and interesting exhibits, it provides a vivid insight into the early history of Walberberg, from the Stone Age to modern times.

Others

Show 360-degree panorama of the place with Hexenturm and parish church
as spherical panorama

The fourth season of the TV series Stromberg ( ProSieben ) was partially filmed in the village . It served as the backdrop for the fictional Finsdorf. The (fictional) insurance office of Bernd Stromberg was located on Walberberger Hauptstrasse. The village flair was also used for the ARD crime series Murder with a View .

literature

Paul Clemen : The art monuments of the Rhine province . Volume 5. In: The art monuments of the city and the district of Bonn . Verlag Schwann, Düsseldorf 1905, reprint 1981, ISBN 3-590-32113-X .
Hermann Schmitz , city and empire. Cologne in Roman times . First volume: The beginnings of the city of Cologne and the Ubier . Cologne University Press Balduin Pick, Cologne 1948.
Heinz Günter Horn , Hansgerd Hellenkemper (eds.), Harald Koschik: In: Location North Rhine-Westphalia. Millions of years of history (writings on the preservation of monuments in North Rhine-Westphalia; vol. 5). von Zabern, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-8053-2698-X (catalog of the national exhibition of the same name , Roman-Germanic Museum, March 17 to August 27, 2000).

Web links

Commons : Walberberg - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

↑ residents in the individual localities. Retrieved March 25, 2020 (population figures: August 2, 2019).
↑ Federal Research Institute for Regional Studies and Regional Planning (ed.); Ewald Glässer (arrangement): The natural spatial units on sheet 122/123 . Self-published, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1978, ISBN 3-87994-328-1 , p. 32. (= Geographical Land Survey 1: 200,000. Natural division of Germany )
^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, 2nd volume: The map of 1789. Bonn 1898, p. 63/92.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Bernhard Gondorf: The castles of the Eifel and their peripheral areas. A lexicon of the "permanent houses" . J. P. Bachem, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-7616-0723-7 , p. 51 .
^ Bernhard Gondorf: The castles of the Eifel and their peripheral areas. A lexicon of the "permanent houses" . J. P. Bachem, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-7616-0723-7 , p. 50 (Motte Aldeburg).
↑ 3.14 × 55 × 33 m²
↑ Rufus Keller, Heribert Dietz , Gerfried A. Bramlage: Dominicans in Walberberg. Dominican Province Teutonia, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-046593-2 .
↑ Ursel and Jürgen Zänker: Building in Bonn room 49-69. Attempt to take stock . In: Landschaftsverband Rheinland (Hrsg.): Art and antiquity on the Rhine . Guide to the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn . No. 21 . Rheinland-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1969, p. 82/83 .
^ Homepage Walberberg Museum

[1] residents in the individual localities. Retrieved March 25, 2020 (population figures: August 2, 2019).

[2] Federal Research Institute for Regional Studies and Regional Planning (ed.); Ewald Glässer (arrangement): The natural spatial units on sheet 122/123 . Self-published, Bonn-Bad Godesberg 1978, ISBN 3-87994-328-1 , p. 32. (= Geographical Land Survey 1: 200,000. Natural division of Germany )

[3] Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, 2nd volume: The map of 1789. Bonn 1898, p. 63/92.

[Gondorf-4] Bernhard Gondorf: The castles of the Eifel and their peripheral areas. A lexicon of the "permanent houses" . J. P. Bachem, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-7616-0723-7 , p. 51 .

[5] Bernhard Gondorf: The castles of the Eifel and their peripheral areas. A lexicon of the "permanent houses" . J. P. Bachem, Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-7616-0723-7 , p. 50 (Motte Aldeburg).

[6] 3.14 × 55 × 33 m²

[7] Rufus Keller, Heribert Dietz , Gerfried A. Bramlage: Dominicans in Walberberg. Dominican Province Teutonia, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-046593-2 .

[8] Ursel and Jürgen Zänker: Building in Bonn room 49-69. Attempt to take stock . In: Landschaftsverband Rheinland (Hrsg.): Art and antiquity on the Rhine . Guide to the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn . No. 21 . Rheinland-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1969, p. 82/83 .

[9] Homepage Walberberg Museum