Weidenpesch

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Weidenpesch
district 505 of Cologne
Location of the Weidenpesch district in the Cologne-Nippes district
Coordinates 50 ° 59 '2 "  N , 6 ° 56' 50"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 59 '2 "  N , 6 ° 56' 50"  E
surface 3.911 km²
Residents 14,011 (Dec. 31, 2017)
Population density 3582 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation Apr 1, 1888
Postcodes 50735, 50737
prefix 0221
Borough Trinkets (5)
Transport links
Federal road B9
Light rail lines 12 15th
Bus routes 121 122 140
Source: 2017 residents . (PDF) Cologne district information
Merheim / Weidenpesch 1807/08

Weidenpesch is a district in Cologne on the left bank of the Rhine and part of the city district 5 - Nippes .

location

Weidenpesch borders Niehl in the east, Nippes and Mauenheim in the south, the Cologne-Neuss-Krefeld railway line in the west and Longerich in the north .

history

The name Weidenpesch has its origin in a courtyard of the pin St. Gereon , the pastures Paecherhof (map of 1808 by Jean Joseph Tranchot ). The place to the west of the farm used to be called "Merheim". In the 19th century it was assigned to the Mayor's Office Longerich and was finally incorporated into Cologne on April 1, 1888 as "Merheim (left bank of the Rhine)".

In 1952 the district was renamed "Weidenpesch" because too many letters and other mailings were wrong and ended up in Merheim (on the right bank of the Rhine) or vice versa.

In the 1920s and 1930s new housing developments were built in Weidenpesch, for example in Mollwitzstrasse, Lobositzstrasse and Zorndorfstrasse. A lot was built again in the 1950s, so that the district continued to develop and grow.

Infrastructure and traffic

Weidenpesch, Neusser Strasse (2004)

The center of the village is around Neusser Straße ( B 9 ). With two tram lines running on Neusser Straße, the district has good connections to the rest of the city. The city center can be reached in around 15 minutes.

The headquarters of the Cologne professional fire brigade and the main workshop of the Cologne transport company are located in the village .

The north cemetery is to the west of Weidenpesch .

leisure

In 1897, the Weidenpesch racecourse was established and horse races are held regularly. The racetrack was the very first sports facility in the increasingly expanding city. The Cologne racing club is the most important year-round organizer of horse races in Germany. There have been horse races in Cologne since 1898. The Kölner Renn-Verein 1897 e. V. is still the landlord of the 55 hectare green area of ​​the Weidenpescher Park, in which the racecourse is embedded. The annual racing program includes some of the most important German horse races (" Preis von Europa " since October 1963 with Hein Bollow as the first winner) and important preparatory races for this race (e.g. "Union races"). The latter is the oldest breeding race in German horse racing, as it was first held in Cologne in 1947. In November 2008, the city of Cologne acquired the racetrack grounds for € 15 million from the highly indebted racing club, which used € 10 million of this to repay debt.

The Weidenpescher Rennbahn car park is also used for a regular flea market. In the years before the First World War , a Cologne sports center was built there in Weidenpescher Park , which only had to step back into the second row with the construction of the sports park in Müngersdorf from 1923. In the Weidenpescher Park, next to the racecourse, was one of the largest German football stadiums of its time and the first Cologne golf course.

Cologne's oldest football club, VfL Köln 1899 , has its home in Weidenpesch. Among other things, Leo Wilden ( World Cup participant 1962 ) played for the club.

One of the oldest inns in Cologne can be found in Weidenpesch (on Neusser Strasse at Derfflingerstrasse), the restaurant "Zur Alten Zollbound" (opened in 1698). Even Napoleon is said to have stayed here.

societies

  • North Brigade e. V.
  • Tennis Club Ford Cologne e. V.
  • Cologne Tennis Club (KTC) Weidenpescher Park 1920 e. V.
  • 1. FSV Cologne 1899 e. V. (merger between VfL Cologne 1899 and FSV Cologne North)

Churches

Competition draft of the Holy Cross Church Cologne-Weidenpesch 1930

The parish church of St. Stephanus had stood on Schmiedegasse since the 13th century. In 1860 this church was demolished because it was in disrepair. The new building, also dedicated to Saint Stephen, was completed in 1862 and was a parish church until the 1930s. The successor building, the Holy Cross Church , was built in 1931 based on a design by Heinrich Bartmann .

On the site of the Stefanskirche, Thomas Carl Tromm, the owner of the local wax factory, built the chapel "Madonna im Grünen" from the stones of the demolished parish church according to the plans of his son of the same name and inaugurated on December 4, 1954 by Auxiliary Bishop Wilhelm Cleven .

The Catholic Salvator Church (architect Theodor Kelter ) on Schlesischer Platz was built in 1957/1958.

At the beginning of the 1950s, the Protestant Church of the Redeemer, designed by Gottfried Tucholski , was built and inaugurated - partly from stones from rubble land. The following were active in the community: Pastor Friedrich Schellenburg, Pastor Dr. Max Adolf Wagenführer (until 1971), Pastor Andreas Hellriegel (until 1995) and Pastor Holger Reiprich-Meurer (until 2001). Pastor Susanne Zimmermann and Pastor Markus Zimmermann, who has also been Superintendent of the North Cologne Church District since 2008, have been working in the community since 2002. Pastor Christina Schlarp has also been active in the parish since 2010 to relieve Superintendent Markus Zimmermann of parish tasks.

Worth seeing

Cologne professional fire brigade, Scheibenstrasse

See also

literature

  • Herbert Teutsch: Weidenpesch . In: Franz Irsfeld (Ed.): Nippes yesterday and today. A history of the borough and its neighborhoods. Cologne 1983.

Web links

Commons : Köln-Weidenpesch  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne. List of monuments . 12.5 Cologne, districts 5 and 6 (Nippes and Chorweiler) . JP Bachem Verlag, Cologne 1982, ISBN 3-7616-0644-3 , p. 152.
  2. ↑ Chapel near the Archdiocese of Cologne