Warden (Alsdorf)

Warden City of Alsdorf Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 36 ″ N , 6 ° 13 ′ 8 ″ E
Height :	148 m
Postal code :	52477
Area code :	02404

St. James (Warden)

Warden is a district of Alsdorf in the Aachen city region . Telephone code is 02404. The postal code from 1961 was 5113 Hoengen , from 1972 to 5110 Alsdorf , from 1993 to 52477 Alsdorf .

history

The first documentary mention dates back to 1223 and 1290, but finds point to a Roman settlement and the crossing of two Roman roads. A list of knights of the Teutonic Order Siersdorf , which is located between Hoengen and Aldenhoven , lists a Heinrich von Warden for 1290. In 1356 Warden is mentioned in a document as a Jülich subordinate with its own court. It has also been proven that a church must have stood on the site of the Warden chapel as early as the 12th or 13th century.

From 1463 comes an arbitration procedure protocol between Warden residents and the Hoengener parish, which settled disputes over rights to the chapel in Warden at the peace court in neighboring Eschweiler under the chairmanship of Cologne Auxiliary Bishop Heinrich von Rübenach. The representatives in those proceedings were on Warden's side the lords of the subordinate Warden, Johann II von Mylendonck and Heinrich Reuschenberg, on Hoengen's side the Heinsberg monastery propst and the Hoengen pastor.

Through leasing and sale, Warden was owned by the von Fürth and von Collenbach families until 1794, whose family coat of arms, together with a lion, has formed the coat of arms of the Hoengen community since 1935.

In 1794, the sub-rule Warden was dissolved by the French and Warden was incorporated into the French Mairie Hoengen in the canton of Eschweiler in the Département de la Roer . In 1815 the Prussians from the Mairie Hoengen together with Warden formed the municipality of Hoengen in the district of Aachen in the administrative district of Aachen . After the Second World War , Hoengen and with it Warden came to the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , in 1972 to Alsdorf in the new district of Aachen in the administrative district of Cologne .

In the middle of the 19th century, the original farming village became a place of residence for miners from the neighboring Alsdorf and Mariadorfer coal mines . The population increased from around 300 at the beginning of the 19th century to around 1000 at the beginning of the 20th century.

In 1966, the “Zukunft-West” open-cast lignite mine came within a few hundred meters of Warden. Some houses on Annastraße (today Am Altengericht ) were demolished and the Merzbach diverted closer to the town. In 1979, the "Warden" waste dump was built in the opencast mine in the area of the city of Eschweiler, which until 1995 collected the household waste from around half a million people from the district and the city of Aachen .

Origin of name

The first written mention speaks of "Become". Further documents from 1391 speak exclusively of "Warden". "Waiting" can only be found between the beginning and the middle of the 19th century, especially during the French period and also on a Prussian map from 1846. The Middle Low German warte (= waiting, guard) or warden (= waiting, spying) is almost unanimously adopted as the origin of the place name. One theory says that Warden was called "weireide" at the beginning of the 16th century.

The place was part of the municipality of Hoengen , which was incorporated into Alsdorf on January 1, 1972.

Parish of St. James

The current parish of St. Jakobus was established in 1924 by separating from the parish of St. Cornelius in Hoengen . On December 4, 1932 , Dean Hugo blesses the new church. The second patron saint of the church is Saint Brigida . 1952 Warden becomes a parish vicarie .

In the arbitration protocol of 1463 a "brotherhood in honor of St. James" is mentioned, which is ascribed a decisive role in the construction of the Warden chapel and that of today's "St. Jakobus Rifle Brotherhood 1869 Warden", the oldest ecclesiastical association of Wardens, as a predecessor and serve as an example. James became the local patron after 1493. The court seal of the subordinate Warden from 1676 shows on the coat of arms James the Elder in a coat, with a pilgrim hat and a shell stick with a ball knob. The Warden court existed until the French dissolved the rule. The "Schöffengericht" building from the 17th century is in the street Am Altengericht .

traffic

Warden is in the immediate vicinity of the "Alsdorf" motorway junction of the A 44 and on a thoroughfare between Hoengen and Kinzweiler .

Public transport

Warden is part of the Herzogenrath / Alsdorf / Würselen main area of the Aachen transport association . Warden is served by the following bus routes:

line	course
28	Alsdorf-Annapark - Schaufenberg - Mariadorf - Hoengen - Warden - Kambach - Kinzweiler - Hehlrath - Eschweiler Bushof - City Hall - Herz-Jesu-Kirche - Weisweiler - Hüüllen (- Langerwehe train station - Langerwehe school center)
AL6	Mariadorf - Begau - Warden - Mariadorf

societies

There are several clubs in Warden. The largest are the sports club VfL Eintracht Warden 1922 e. V. with its football and women's leisure department, the Carnival Committee Wardener Vereine 1957 e. V. (founded by Eintracht Warden, Schützen and Church Choir) and the St. Jakobus Schützenbruderschaft 1869 e. V.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ 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 .

[1] 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 .