Weilerswist
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Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ' N , 6 ° 50' E |
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| State : | North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Administrative region : | Cologne | |
| Circle : | Euskirchen | |
| Height : | 120 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 57.17 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 17,633 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 308 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 53919 | |
| Primaries : | 02254, 02251 | |
| License plate : | EU, SLE | |
| Community key : | 05 3 66 040 | |
| LOCODE : | DE WWI | |
| Community structure: | 15 districts | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Bonner Strasse 29 53919 Weilerswist |
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| Mayoress : | Anna-Katharina Horst (independent) | |
| Location of the community of Weilerswist in the Euskirchen district | ||
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Weilerswist is a municipality in the north of the Euskirchen district in the southwest of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia .
geography
Weilerswist lies between the Zülpicher Börde and the foothills , on the southwestern edge of the Ville , a ridge of the Cologne Bay . The Swist flows through the municipality in the east and the Erft in the west , which are fed by four smaller tributaries in Weilerswist . In the north the municipality borders on the cities of Brühl and Erftstadt (both in the Rhein-Erft district ), in the east on the city of Bornheim and the municipality Swisttal (both in the Rhein-Sieg district ), in the south on the district town of Euskirchen and in the west to the city of Zülpich (also in the Euskirchen district).
structure
The community is subdivided into six localities with their own local mayors and 15 districts .
| Locations (as of 2016) | |
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| Weilerswist | Weilerswist and Neuheim |
| Destroy | Großvernich , Kleinvernich , Horchheim |
| Metternich | Metternich |
| Müggenhausen | Müggenhausen , Schwarzmaar and Neukirchen |
| Lommersum | Lommersum and Bodenheim |
| Hausweiler-Derkum | Hausweiler , Derkum , Ottenheim and Schneppenheim |
history
In the fertile Börde around the Swist and Erft, people have been finding enough food and settling there for centuries. There are traces of settlement of people from the Upper Palaeolithic , the band ceramists , the Urnfield people and settlements from the Latène period in what is now the municipality of Weilerswist. Celts and Teutons , but above all Romans , also left their traces. Numerous settlements and individual farms (see Villae Rusticae ) existed. Place names such as Weiler, Vernich and Metternich indicate this, as do foundations, artefacts , row graves and sarcophagi found during excavations .
A cult center was on the Swister Berg. During the excavations carried out by Peter Anton Tholen in 1933 , the remains of a larger temple area were discovered. There were matrons revered, but also the goddess Diana had been set a consecration stone. There was also a Jupiter column on the military road leading from Fort Bonn to Fort Neuss over Swister Berg , the upper part of which was also found.
When the Franks took over the area, new settlements were established. Villages like Lommersum (Lommundesheim), Derkum (Dedinchheim), Bodenheim, Ottenheim and Schneppenheim, which end in "heim", refer to a foundation by a Franconian clan leader. Documents from places in the community of Weilerswist have been handed down since Carolingian times. Weilerswist was first mentioned as "Wilrezwist" on July 9, 1310. The Weilerswist lordship, which had been pledged in 1303 by Dietrich von Kleve and his wife Lisa to the Archbishop of Cologne, Wikbold von Holte , came into the possession of the after it had not been redeemed Cologne Archdiocese .
Weilerswist belonged to the Electoral Cologne Office Brühl , but had its own court without high court rights . These were exercised by the Brühl court. Several court associations with court courts were located within the judicial district of Weilerswist . They were those of the St. Andreas Abbey in Cologne in Oberswist, the St. Gereon Abbey in Cologne in Swist and those of the House of Kühlseggen, to which the Kaulenhof Association also belonged. The high court rights that both Sankt Gereon and Haus Kühlseggen owned were lost over the centuries. In the 17th century the sovereign, the elector of Cologne, owned all the high court rights in Weilerswist. These legal relationships remained unchanged until the reorganization of the areas with administrative reorganization and judicial reforms under French rule in 1798.
The village of Lommersum also belonged to the Kerpen-Lommersum rule . It was taken over by Count Friedrich von Schaesberg in 1710 . With the creation of new administrative districts based on the French model under Napoleon Bonaparte , Weilerswist and Lommersum became Mairien in the canton of Lechenich in 1800 . Due to the secularization of the church goods in 1802 and the sale in the following years, the ownership structure in Weilerswist and Lommersum changed fundamentally. The Mairien remained in Prussian times as mayor's offices and since 1927 as offices even after the state of North Rhine-Westphalia was founded in 1946. In 1951, the Weilerswist-Lommersum office was established and existed until 1969.
The current community of Weilerswist was created on July 1, 1969 through the law on the reorganization of the district of Euskirchen , which merged the former communities of Lommersum, Metternich, Müggenhausen, Vernich and Weilerswist of the former Weilerswist-Lommersum municipality to form the community of Weilerswist. The correct hyphenation of the community name is "Wei | ler | swist". It results from the historical amalgamation of the former villages of Weiler and Swist.
The German Weather Service placed the hitherto nationwide heißesten day of the year at 36.9 ° C in Weilerswist laid on 31 July 2020th In addition, August 8, 2020 was the hottest day in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia with 37.4 ° C.
politics
Local council and administration
The municipal council is the municipal representative of the community of Weilerswist. The citizens decide on the composition every five years. The last election took place on May 25, 2014.
The municipality is administered by the mayor, who acts as the municipal electoral officer on a temporary basis. In 1999 the full-time mayor in Weilerswist was directly elected by the citizens for a term of six years for the first time. The 2013 Act to Strengthen Local Democracy reduced the term of office from six to five years. From 2020, the mayoral election will take place at the same time as the election of the municipal council.
The mayor of Weilerswist, who has been in office since 2015, Anna-Katharina Horst, had to face a voting procedure on November 27, 2016 initiated by the parliamentary groups of the local CDU, SPD and FDP. Horst, who ran for the CDU before being elected mayor and is now non-party, was confirmed in office by the citizens with a clear majority of 70.7%. On April 12, 2018, however, the aforementioned parliamentary groups succeeded in de facto disempowering Horst through a change in the allocation and jurisdiction rules.
Coat of arms and banner
coat of arms
banner
The municipality was granted the right to carry a coat of arms and a flag (banner) with a certificate issued by the district president in Cologne on May 4, 1972.
coat of arms
Blazon : “Split; in front in black a two-string silver (white) tower decorated with a cross, behind in silver (white) a black eagle. "
The coat of arms connects the symbols of the former mayorries of Weilerswist and Lommersum. The tower symbolizes the "Swister Türmchen", the symbol of Weilerswist, the eagle comes from the Lommersum court seal of 1675. Since the original colors could no longer be determined, black and silver, the colors of the Electorate of Cologne , to which Weilerswist had belonged since 1303, were used .
banner
Description of the banner: "White-black in a ratio of 1: 1 striped lengthways with the municipality's coat of arms slightly above the center."
Community partnerships
The community of Weilerswist maintains two community partnerships . There has been a partnership with the southern French community of Carqueiranne since 1978 and with the central English community of Whitnash since 1989 .
economy
Due to the profitable transport links not far from the Bliesheim motorway junction on the edge of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region and within the Euregio Maas-Rhine , the community has developed into a popular location for companies from the logistics and retail sectors . In addition to an ADAC driving safety center, there is a branch of the DM drugstore chain in Weilerswist , which employs around 2,000 people and is connected to a distribution center for western Germany, which is partly maintained by the Danish logistics provider DSV . Furthermore, Weilerswist is the seat and origin of the Brock Group , one of the largest car wheel manufacturers in Germany.
In addition, the Dutch stainless steel manufacturer Arcus , the software developer edoc , the door operator specialist Hörmann , the conveyor technology provider ITFT , the tank builder Laudon , the packaging manufacturer Multibox , the American industrial property operator Prologis , the French building materials manufacturer Saint-Gobain and the commercial vehicle specialist Trans-Serv each have their own locations in Weilerswist. In the center of Weilerswist, local restaurants , service providers and retail stores shape the appearance. The numerous farms , gravel pits , stud farms and local recreation facilities are also traditionally of great importance .
In the south of Weilerswist there are plans to expand the industrial park on Silberberg , which was originally located in the urban area of Euskirchen, by a further 205 hectares. This “Primesite Rhine Region” is reserved for major industrial projects and is now home to a plant for the American consumer goods group Procter & Gamble . After trying unsuccessfully to bring the automobile manufacturer BMW or the confectionery manufacturer Haribo to Weilerswist, the company is currently relying on a partnership with Deutsche Post .
Sports
Weilerswist currently owns 15 sports facilities and enjoys a wide range of clubs and leisure activities. In football , the community is represented by the two clubs SSV Weilerswist 1924 and TuS Vernich 1927 , which are primarily active in promoting youth. The RTC Weilerswist, founded in 1974, celebrated national successes in cycling and LC Weilerswist , founded in 1983, in running . Since 1970, the community has also owned a tennis club with ten teams, the TC Rot-Weiß Weilerswist , and since 1988, the BC Weilerswist, a boules club . Markus Pröll and Lukas Klünter are among the most famous athletes who played for Weilerswister teams in their youth .
School system
At the suggestion of Christoph Zöpel , a comprehensive school was built in Weilerswist .
Parishes
The Catholic parish church is dedicated to Saint Mauritius . It was first mentioned in 1308 in the book of values of the churches of the diocese of Cologne . The church, which was destroyed in the great village fire in 1757 and then demolished, was replaced by a new building completed in 1772. The baroque curved eight-sided hood with closed lantern and curved dome roof, which carries a ball and cross on a high baluster shaft, is a defining characteristic of Weilerswist.
The church was enlarged between 1938 and 1939 and two thorough renovations were carried out around 1965 and 1996. The original baroque interior, which was replaced by a neo-Gothic one at the end of the 19th century , was removed in 1964 and the church was given a baroque interior again. Today's organ was made in the organ building workshop Johannes-Klais-Orgelbau in Bonn. It replaced the organ from the former Franciscan monastery in Lechenich, which was given to the Church of St. Mary of the Angels in Brühl.
Another church is the Evangelical Martin Luther Church. Only a few Protestant Christians lived in Weilerswist until the Second World War . Only after 1945 did the number increase as a result of displaced persons . They initially belonged to the parish of Brühl, after 1948 to the parish of Liblar. In 1967 the Weilerswister parish received its own church and in 1973 its own pastor.
Attractions
Buildings
Swister tower
The Swister Tower on the Swister Berg, a listed tower from the 11th or 12th century and a landmark of Weilerswist, is visible from afar. The three-storey, 8 m long and 10 m wide building with a choir room was part of a pilgrimage church in the lost village of Swist or Niederswist. The church was dedicated to the holy virgins Fides, Spes and Caritas . The archaeologist Peter Anton Tholen dated it to the Carolingian period after examining the remaining foundation walls made of stones bonded with lime mortar.
The church had walls only 50 cm wide, from which Tholen concluded that it was a wood-covered building, the mortar of which was different from that of the tower. This confirmed Clemens' assumption about the age of the tower. It can be assumed that a stone church was built together with the tower, which was named as a parish church in 1308 in the register of values of the churches of the diocese of Cologne. The church, which was badly damaged in the Truchsessian war , was not restored afterwards. After losing its status as a parish church, it remained a pilgrimage church until the 19th century.
In 1829 the church was torn down, only the tower remained, which was given a new roof in 1853 and a small chapel inside, in which services could take place. After the Swister Tower came from the possession of the community to the Catholic parish in Weilerswist in 2002, the Swister Tower Association was founded, which supports the monument protection and preservation of the tower. There are also regular events on the Swister Berg, such as the pilgrimage on Whit Monday and the mass in honor of the three holy virgins. In 2015, the association erected a statue at the foot of the Swister Mountain, with an image of Jesus Christ carrying the cross .
Castle complexes
At Weilerswist on the other side of the autobahn is the impressive moated castle Burg Kühlseggen , formerly owned by the Cologne Jesuits, now the Barons von Eltz-Rübenach , while the Bodenheim castle of the same name , the last surviving aristocratic seat of the former Kerpen-Lommersum rule, is located in the Bodenheim district .
In the Metternich district are the Metternich Castle of the same name and the remains of the Velbrück castle complex . They are the headquarters of the von Metternich families . Both houses were probably originally inhabited by the Romans, but have only been documented since the Middle Ages. Between the two houses, whose courtyard areas are adjacent, the Swist runs in an east-west direction and the Roman road from Trier to the Rhine near Wesseling in a south-north direction . At Metternich Castle, a two-winged complex that was given its current form in the 17th century, the articles of association of the Friedrich Krupp company in Essen were signed at the beginning of the 19th century . The Rhenish-French lawyer and later Prussian State Councilor Heinrich Daniels translated the Civil Code into German there and thus laid the basis for the Rhenish civil law. Metternich Castle is now inhabited by the Barons Spies von Büllesheim . The descendants of the Hallbach family reside at Haus Velbrück. A bookstore and the Velbrück Wissenschaft publishing house are located in the courtyard .
In the Kleinvernich district is the Antoniterhof , a square courtyard made of brick, which was rebuilt in 1781 after the fire of the courtyard, which was originally surrounded by a moat from 1405. The estate has been owned by the Friedrich Schmitt family, honorary citizens of the Weilerswist community, since the middle of the 19th century. The square courtyard made of brick is one of the oldest listed courtyards in the village and has been included in the list of architectural monuments in Weilerswist .
Milestone on the main road
Saint Mauritius in Weilerswist
Kühlseggen Castle
Bodenheim Castle
Metternich Castle
Gut Antoniterhof in Kleinvernich
Grossvernich Castle ruins
Former synagogue in Lommersum
Swister Tower in winter
Weilerswist station
The Mühlgraben at Gut Kühlseggen
Museums
The Adler-Zweirad-Museum is located on Kölner Straße . In addition to an extensive exhibition of restored and original motorcycles and bicycles, the museum maintains an archive of technical features, operating instructions and accompanying literature from the Adler vehicle brand .
The printing museum of the publisher Ralf Liebe is located on the main street and has been offering an extensive publishing program since 1992.
In addition, there is the old school in the district of Großvernich, the handicraft and local history museum , which is maintained by the village beautification association. It is divided into areas of traditional crafts and daily village life, including religious elements and agriculture.
traffic
Rail transport
The Weilerswist stop , whose entrance building is a listed building and which was built by Hermann Schmalenbach , is on the Eifel route ( Cologne - Euskirchen - Gerolstein - Trier ). Local rail passenger transport operates here
- the Eifel-Mosel-Express (RE 12) Cologne – Euskirchen – Gerolstein – Trier
- the Eifel-Express (RE 22) Cologne – Euskirchen – Gerolstein with a connection to Trier (RB 22) and
- the Eifel-Bahn (RB 24) Cologne – Euskirchen – Kall in the peak hours to Gerolstein.
Another train station is in the Ottenheim district, but bears the name of the neighboring Derkum district. The reason for this is that when the railway line opened in 1871, there was no town in Ottenheim, but only an estate of the same name. The Weilerswist-Derkum station is only served by the RB24 (Eifel-Bahn) every hour.
Local rail passenger transport is carried out by DB Regio NRW . The Eifel route is part of the Cologne diesel network.
The vehicles used are the Coradia Lint diesel multiple units from Alstom, also known as the 620 series or 622 series. Driving is usually with a so-called LINT 81 (620 series) or a double traction at rush hour with a LINT 81 (620 series) and a LINT 54 (series 622). Alstom trains are designed for a top speed of 140 km / h.
For the entire public transport (public transport) the tariff is the transport association Rhein-Sieg and collective space border of NRW fare .
A second railway line, the “Ruhr-Mosel route”, also known as the “ Strategic Railway ”, was dismantled in the course of the Treaty of Versailles before its completion: It crossed the Cologne – Trier route in Weilerswist, was supposed to lead to the Ahr and into the local railway line join. A train station was planned in Weilerswist-Metternich, near “Am Blaue Stein”. The route in the municipality almost completely corresponds to today's federal motorway 61 .
Streets
There are links to the motorways A1 and A61 . The A553 can be reached via both connection points.
There is a roundabout between Weilerswist and Vernich, which leads to the L163 bypass road to the Weilerswist-West (to A1) and Weilerswist (to A61) junctions. Since 2009, it has also been possible to change to the K11 to Erftstadt via this bypass .
Bike paths
The community is connected to several cycle paths :
- The 524 km long moated castle route connects more than 130 castles on the edge of the Eifel and in the Cologne Bay .
- The 265 km long cycle path network of the valley route opens up interesting tourist spots in North Rhine-Westphalia on a family-friendly route.
- The Erft cycle path runs along the Erft for around 110 kilometers . From the source in Nettersheim - Holzmülheim to the confluence with the Rhine in Neuss .
Air traffic
A few kilometers south-east of Weilerswist in the Müggenhausen district is an airfield for microlight aircraft operated by the “Nordeifel” e. V. is operated.
Personalities
Sons and daughters
- Karl Flink (1895–1958), soccer player and first coach of 1. FC Cologne
- Richard Stern (1899–1967), entrepreneur who emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1939 due to the persecution of Jews, lives in the Villa Stern (today Haus Heskamp)
- Heinz Küpper (* 1935), politician (CDU)
- Hans Jander (* 1930), concert pianist and university professor
Honorary citizen
- Jakob Brock (1899–1984), former mayor of the Metternich district (1945–1969) and resistance fighter in World War II, Jakob-Brock-Strasse is named after him.
- Armand Conan (* 1920), former mayor of the southern French partner municipality Carqueiranne, Armand-Conan-Platz is named after him.
- Josef Esser (1922–2009), former office and community director (1922–2009).
- Josef Schaeben (1898–1966), long-time mayor of the core town of Weilerswist, the Josef Schaeben elementary school is named after him.
- Friedrich Schmitt (1923–2015), first mayor of today's community of Weilerswist (1969–1979, CDU), holder of the Cross of Merit on ribbon, the golden ring of honor of the community of Weilerswist and honorary citizen of the French partner community Carqueiranne.
- Karl Josef Schmitz († 1924), pastor at Heilig Kreuz in the Vernich district. He is considered an honorary citizen of Vernich, although there is neither a council resolution nor an award document. It can be assumed that at a public event, the honorary citizenship was awarded by the community of village associations.
- Peter Vey (1892–1967), long-time mayor of the districts of Großvernich, Kleinvernich and Horchheim as well as long-time SPD member of the Euskirchen district, Peter-Vey-Straße is named after him.
Personalities related to Weilerswist
- Heinrich Daniels (1754–1827), translator of the Civil Code into German, first president of the Cologne Court of Appeal
- Helene von Müller , sister of Friedrich Krupp and co-owner of Friedrich Krupp AG in Essen
- Gerda Hirth (* 1938), doctor, holder of the Federal Cross of Merit
- Holger Czukay (1938–2017), musician, lived in Weilerswist during the last part of his life
- Pierre Littbarski (* 1960), soccer player and world champion 1990
- Detlef Seif (* 1962), politician (CDU) and member of the Bundestag
- Hansi Flick (* 1965), soccer player and coach
- Ralf Liebe (* 1966), publisher, is based in Weilerswist
- Holger Klein (* 1969), radio presenter, grew up in Weilerswist
- Robert Meyer , radio presenter
- Markus Pröll (* 1979), soccer player and trainer
- Lukas Klünter (* 1996), soccer player
- Ismail Jakobs (* 1999), soccer player
- Neele Marie Nickel (* 2000), actress
Others
- The princes , counts and barons of Metternich as well as Wolff-Metternich are closely connected with today's Metternich district, which is named after them.
- The influential rock band Can ran their rehearsal and recording studio in a former cinema on Hauptstrasse (now Kölner Strasse). In 1978 the producer René Tinner took over the studio and produced there for artists such as Marius Müller-Westernhagen , Trio , Joachim Witt and Fury in the Slaughterhouse . In 2007 the studio was dismantled and rebuilt in the Rock'n'pop Museum in Gronau .
literature
- Paul Clemen : The art monuments of the Euskirchen district , Düsseldorf 1900
- Peter Simons : Weilerswist. History of the glory of the Electorate of Cologne from the oldest times to the present , Euskirchen 1939 (reprint in: Weilerswister Heimatblätter 12/1993)
- Weilerswist village community (ed.): 700 years of Weilerswist (1310–2010) , Ralf Liebe publisher, ISBN 978-3-941037-53-3
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 . ( Help on this )
- ^ Community of Weilerswist - Living in Weilerswist - General. (No longer available online.) In: www.weilerswist.de. Archived from the original on December 22, 2016 ; accessed on December 17, 2016 .
- ↑ mayor , weilerswist.de
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ a b c d Peter Kraut: Weilerswist. 700 years 1310-2010. Weilerswist 2010. pp. 22–42 Illustration of the certificate from the St. Gereon Abbey in Cologne with further information on p. 30, pp. 70–84 and pp. 222–230.
- ↑ The historical development ( Memento of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 88 .
- ↑ The risk of forest fires increases: Saturday it could be up to 38 degrees . aachener-zeitung.de, August 6, 2020 (accessed August 7, 2020)
- ↑ 37.4 degrees in Weilerswist: That was the hottest day of the year so far in North Rhine-Westphalia , rp-online from August 8, 2020 (accessed on August 8, 2020)
- ↑ Weilerswist community. European / Local elections 2014. May 25, 2014, accessed on November 4, 2014 .
- ↑ Voting process against the mayor after a long trench war. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . November 20, 2016. Retrieved November 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Christoph Heup: Mayor Horst celebrates her clear victory. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . November 27, 2016, accessed November 27, 2016 .
- ↑ https://www.rundschau-online.de/region/kreis-euskirchen/weilerswist/weilerswist-buergermeisterin-anna-katharina-horst-von-stadtrat-quasi-entmachten-30013484
- ↑ This is how SPD boss Ramers wants to lure the post into the Euskirchen district. April 26, 2017. Retrieved April 26, 2017 .
- ↑ "25 years of Weilerswist comprehensive school. Much opposition to founding - contemporary witnesses report on Jost Zimmermann in ksta.de on August 25, 2017, accessed on September 5, 2017
- ^ Paul Clemen in: Die Kunstdenkmäler des Kreis Euskirchen. Düsseldorf 1900. Pages 730-732
- ↑ Peter Simons: Weilerswist. History of the glory of the Electorate of Cologne from the oldest times to the present. Euskirchen 1939. Reprint in: Weilerswister Heimatblätter 12/1993. Pp. 55-60
- ↑ Our airfield. Ultralight flight group "Nordeifel" e. V., accessed on October 6, 2015 .
- ↑ The community of Weilerswist says goodbye in deep sorrow ( memento of December 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). In: Weilerswist in dialogue. Weilerswist community, June 24, 2009, accessed November 4, 2014 (PDF).
- ↑ List of mayors that can be completely verified for the community
- ^ Original - award certificate "The Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany", from July 7, 1978 by Federal President Scheel
- ↑ Original - award plate on the occasion of the award of the golden ring of honor of the community of Weilerswist in December 1982
- ↑ Original document from the municipality of Carqueiranne "Diplome conferent le titre de Citoyen d'Honneur" dated October 6, 1998
- ^ Robert Meyer: The voices of 1LIVE - moderators - team - 1LIVE - radio - WDR . April 25, 2016 ( wdr.de [accessed October 27, 2016]).
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