Weierstrasse (Düren)

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Partial view of Weierstrasse towards the market
The street as seen from the market
Memorial plaque on the house at Weierstrasse 11

The Weierstraße is a historical street name in the city of Düren ( Nordrhein-Westfalen ).

The street is in the city center within the old city ​​wall . It connects August-Klotz-Strasse with the market . Wallstrasse , Altenteich , Günther-Peill-Strasse, Victor-Gollancz-Strasse and Wilhelmstrasse flow into the street (from west to east) . The street used to extend from the wooden gate on the corner of Wallstraße, which was broken off in 1822, to the Kornmarkt. That is why the section from Wallstrasse to Altenteich was called Am Holztor until September 16, 1896 .

In the area between Victor-Gollancz-Strasse and Wilhelmstrasse, Weierstrasse is a one-way street , and between Wilhelmstrasse and the market, it is a dead end .

The name is a very old name, attested as early as 1368, which can be traced back to the pond in the Palatinate District .

There are the mill ponds, which are classified as monuments and whose history goes back to the Franconian times.

A house in Weierstrasse in Düren was mentioned as early as 1426 by the prioress of the monastery Ellen before judges and lay judges from Düren.

In the 18th century there was a pharmacy at Weierstrasse 15, which was run by Everhard Heinrich Brauweiler (1736–1799) from Cologne.

At the corner of Weierstrasse and Altenteich is the listed Anna column . The house at Weierstraße 11 bears a plaque with the following inscription: The mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet was born on February 13, 1805 in the house that stood on this property before the destruction of the city of Düren on November 16, 1944 . See plaques and monuments on houses in Düren . In the 19th century, the Harmonie clubhouse was located in Weierstrasse , where the singer Peter Nolden, the dialect poet Joseph van der Giese and the composer and organist Joseph Hüttener met for a song table in 1839 .

See also

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from August 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Christian Quix: Contributions to the history of the city of Aachen and its surroundings , Volume 2; 1838, p. 7/8 online
  3. ^ Johann Georg Müller, Sabine Graumann: The district of Cologne around 1825: Prussian inventory of the country and its population, Böhlau Verlag , 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-37505-8 , p. 10 online
  4. ^ Paul Leo Butzer, Manfred Jansen, Hubert Zilles: Johann Peter Gustav Dirichlet (1805-1859): Genealogy and career: on the admission of the Düren mathematician to the Berlin Academy of Sciences 150 years ago , Verlag des Dürener Geschichtevereins eV, 1982, p. 31 online
  5. ↑ Hildegard von Radzibor: Investigations on the music history of the city of Düren, 1969, p. 33 online

Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 4.8 ″  N , 6 ° 28 ′ 52.7 ″  E