Wermelskirchen

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Coat of arms of the city of Wermelskirchen
Wermelskirchen
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Coordinates: 51 ° 8 '  N , 7 ° 13'  E

Basic data
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Cologne
Circle : Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis
Height : 345 m above sea level NHN
Area : 74.8 km 2
Residents: 34,719 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 464 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 42929
Primaries : 02196, 02193, 02174
License plate : GL
Community key : 05 3 78 032
LOCODE : DE WEK

City administration address : 		Telegrafenstrasse 29–33
42929 Wermelskirchen
Website : www.wermelskirchen.de
Mayor : Rainer Bleek ( SPD )
Location of the city of Wermelskirchen in the Rheinisch-Bergisch district
Kreis Mettmann Köln Leverkusen Oberbergischer Kreis Remscheid Rhein-Erft-Kreis Rhein-Sieg-Kreis Solingen Wuppertal Bergisch Gladbach Burscheid Kürten Leichlingen (Rheinland) Odenthal Overath Rösrath Wermelskirchenmap
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Wermelskirchen is a medium-sized town in North Rhine-Westphalia southeast of Remscheid in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis with the districts of Dhünn and Dabringhausen in the Bergisches Land nature reserve . The Great Dhünntalsperre , the largest drinking water reservoir in western Germany, is partially located in the Wermelskirchen urban area.

Districts of Wermelskirchen
Wermelskirchen - Ensemble on the Eich

geography

The distance to Cologne is around 35 kilometers and that to Düsseldorf around 45 kilometers. The neighboring municipalities are Remscheid, Hückeswagen , Wipperfürth , Kürten , Odenthal , Burscheid and Solingen . The townscape is characterized by old Bergisch slate and half-timbered houses .

Solingen Remscheid Remscheid, Hückeswagen
Burscheid Neighboring communities Hückeswagen
Odenthal Kürten Wipperfürth

City structure

The urban area of ​​Wermelskirchen (area: 74.74 km²) consists of three districts : the area of ​​the original Wermelskirchen (approx. 34.71 km²) and the two municipalities of Dabringhausen (approx. 23.11 km²) and Dhünn that were added in 1975 and were then still independent (approx. 16.84 km²).

The districts in detail are:

history

Pageant on the occasion of the 1000th anniversary of Wermelskirchen
Historical map by PJ Heinrichs von Wermelskirchen 1883

The history of Wermelskirchen settlement begins with the settlement of the Bergisches Land during the Saxon and Franconian landings from the 7th to 10th centuries. The -inghausen -locations, 19 of which are in the Wermelskirchen city area, are assigned to the Saxon Borchtern . The place was mentioned for the first time in 1150 as Werenboldeskirken . The place name Wermelskirchen has to be derived from a man named "Werinbold". A bearer of the name Werinbold is already mentioned in the years 860 to 880 in the vicinity of the Cologne archbishops Gunthar and Willibert . The Romanesque church of St. Bartholomew with the Michaeliskapelle in the tower was built around 1200 . In the deed of the transfer of the state of Blankenberg to Berg in 1360, the place belonged to the Bornefeld office in the Grafschaft Berg , later the Duchy of Berg , and is the seat of the court. In 1398, Duke Wilhelm II von Berg obtained permission from King Wenzel to set up two new land tariffs - one on Lennep, the other on Wipperfürth. As known from the inquiry made in 1555, Lennep had a beizoll in Wermelskirchen. In the same year, the city of Cologne complained to the duke about the new customs in Wermelskirchen. In 1451 Duke Gerhard transfers customs to Wermelskirchen to a Dietrich von Zweiffel . The von Zweifel family also owned an estate in Wermelskirchen. In 1462, Duke Gerhard von Berg confesses to having borrowed 634 guilders from Wilhelm zur Eyck and at the same time appoints him as a waiter at Burg Castle and assures him of escort. This high sum and the position as a waiter testify to the very good conditions in Wermelskirchen. During the Hanseatic period , Wermelskirchen achieved greater importance in the transport of goods overland, for which the escort was an important prerequisite. In the 18th century, hauliers from Wermelskirchen transported large quantities of goods for the Düsseldorf court.

In the 19th century, the later urban area of ​​Wermelskirchen initially belonged to the three rural communities Dorfhonschaft , Oberhonschaft and Niederhonschaft in the Lennep district . These three communities were merged in 1873 to form the community of Wermelskirchen. Parts of the Niederhonschaft were given to Dhünn and parts of the Oberhonschaft to Remscheid. In the same year, the new municipality of Wermelskirchen was raised to the status of a city and received the Rhenish city code .

In 1885 Wermelskirchen celebrated its millennium. According to the research carried out by his first local chronicle, Peter Josef Heinrichs , a great pageant paid homage to the historicizing zeitgeist. In the vernacular, the Wermelskirchener is also referred to as Dellmann , which goes back to a Wermelskirchen pastor named Gustav Dellmann (* September 20, 1849, † October 28, 1914), who worked in Wermelskirchen from 1881 to 1910.

In 1938 the Wermelskirchen office was formed from the city of Wermelskirchen and the communities of Dabringhausen and Dhünn.

Shortly before the end of the Second World War, Wermelskirchen was declared a hospital town by Mayor Borcherding, in collaboration with the entrepreneurs Flöring, Jürgens and Wellershaus and the local commandant Major Meiser, in order to protect the town from bombing raids. Nevertheless, large parts of the urban area, in particular the district of Hünger , suffered severe damage from a bomber attack on November 4, 1944 because the beacon for the city of Solingen had been driven off. According to other contemporary witnesses, the radio operator unit of the Wehrmacht in the Hünger school was the target, according to a third opinion, the fire needle and grenade factory in the lower castle was the target. Over 80 deaths in the whole of Wermelskirchen were to be mourned. Refugees from surrounding communities found refuge in Wermelskirchen.

After more than 40 years of planning and around five years of construction, the B 51n bypass road was opened on August 22, 2005 to relieve inner-city traffic.

Incorporations

In the course of the local government reform , Dabringhausen and Dhünn were incorporated on January 1, 1975.

Population development

Since 1975 the population of Wermelskirchen has only fluctuated slightly:

year Residents
1975 34,852
1980 34,737
1985 33,860
1990 35,865
1995 37.123
2000 37.016
year Residents
2005 36,588
2010 35,611
2015 34,504
2016 34,638
2017 34,705
2018 34,765
Population development of Wermelskirchen from 1975 to 2018

religion

Denomination statistics

According to the 2011 census , 42.0% of the population in 2011 were Protestant, 22.4% Roman Catholic and 35.6% were non-denominational , belonged to another religious community or did not provide any information. On December 31, 2018, 37.7% (13,359) of the 35,436 inhabitants belonged to the Protestant and 7,708 (21.8%) to the Roman Catholic denomination . 40.5% did not belong to any denomination or any other denomination or religion.

Churches

Evangelical town church Wermelskirchen
Catholic Church of St. Michael
Evangelical Free Church Congregation Wermelskirchen, front view from above. The style of the building is modeled on a tent.

The Protestant parish of Wermelskirchen with its five parishes, which belongs to the parish of Lennep, comprises the city center of Wermelskirchen and the districts of Hünger and Tente . In the area of ​​the city of Wermelskirchen there are also the Protestant parishes of Dabringhausen, Dhünn and Hilgen-Neuenhaus. The common administrative office is the Protestant parish office at the city church. The town church on the market was built in the 11th century in the Romanesque style. In the course of the Reformation she became Protestant. In 1838 the church interior was demolished and rebuilt. The tower from the 12th century with the tower dome from the 18th century was preserved. The Catholic parish of St. Michael and Apollinaris looks after the believers of this denomination. The neo-Gothic church of St. Michael on Kölner Strasse was built in the 19th century and, with the exception of the tower, was torn down and rebuilt in 1952.

A large number of Protestant free churches are also at home in Wermelskirchen. Some of them belong to the Federation of Evangelical Free Churches . The Evangelical Free Church Community of Wermelskirchen, the Christian Assembly of Wermelskirchen and Meeting Point Hope are located in the city area. The Dabringhausen community center and the Evangelical Free Church Forthausen are located in the village of Dabringhausen. The Evangelical Free Church Community of Dhünn is located in the village of Dhünn. The Evangelical Free Church Community of Neuenflügel is located in the village of Neuenflügel. This comparatively high number of evangelical free churches is historically due to the proximity to the city of Wuppertal, which was and still is a center of evangelical free churches in the 19th century.

politics

mayor

On October 10, 2004, Eric Weik (FDP) , a native of Swabia, supported by the Bürgerforum, UWG and WNK as well as the FDP, won the runoff with 70.1% of the votes. In the 2009 election he was confirmed in office. New deputies from 2014 are Stefan Leßenich (CDU) and Theodor Fürsich (SPD). In September 2015, Rainer Bleek (SPD) won the mayoral election.

City Council

Local election 2014
Turnout: 51.72%
 %
40
30th
20th
10
0
35.22%
19.52%
11.40%
9.94%
9.75%
6.47%
4.35%
3.34%

In addition to the full-time mayor, the city council has 54 members from eight parties or groups of voters. The local elections on May 25, 2014 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

coat of arms

Wermelskirchen coat of arms
 Blazon : “In silver a curled red tip, inside on a green shield base a silver church in a gable view with a central bell tower built in front with a clock, a Welscher hood with a top and three black gates, in front a green, rooted oak , behind a striding, red-armored, black swan . On the edge of the shield a golden, black grooved, tinned city wall with a closed portal and growing three round tin towers with two black windows each. "
Justification of the coat of arms: The three parts of the coat of arms stand for the three former courts from which Wermelskirchen arose, the church village, the oak and the swans , symbolized by the black swan (Cygnus atratus). The wall crown is the heraldic expression for the status of a township. The three honors that Wermelskirchen consisted of were Ober-, Dorf- and Niederhonschaft and say nothing about the coat of arms.

Town twinning

Wermelskirchen maintains partnership relationships with the following cities:

Since 1964 there has been a sponsorship for the formerly German

traffic

Viaduct of the A1 in the north of Wermelskirchen

The federal road 51 leads through Wermelskirchen. Since August 2005 the bypass road B 51n has been released on the route of the former railway line from Opladen to Lennep . This street is called Dellmann-Straße, named after the long-time pastor Dellmann. Thus, through traffic, especially heavy goods traffic , has disappeared from the city. Also is Wermelskirchen on the highway A1 to the junction 96, " Schloss Burg / Wermelskirchen". After decades of planning, the A1 has been expanded to six lanes since summer 2007. For this purpose, the roadway is lowered by a few meters in the area of ​​the motorway bridge at junction 96 in order to pass all lanes under this bridge. Furthermore, the driveway in the direction of Dortmund will be moved back about 300 meters in the direction of Burscheid in order to lengthen the acceleration lane. A new noise protection wall is being built between the motorway bridge and Einsiedelstein bridge with heights between 4.5 and 6.0 meters.

On January 1, 2018, 27,992 motor vehicles were registered in Wermelskirchen, 23,485 of which were cars.

The railway connection from Wermelskirchen to Lennep and Opladen went into operation in 1881 and has been closed since 1983. After its electrification at the beginning of the 20th century, the operation of the Kleinbahn Wermelskirchen-Burger Railway , founded in 1888, offered a route network of around 30 kilometers with connections to Remscheid, Lennep and Solingen. After the First World War, the routes in need of renovation due to wear and tear were given to the Remscheid and Solingen municipal utilities and later switched to bus operation.

Since its inauguration on April 22, 2012, a combined foot and cycle path on the former railway line to Opladen has started right at Lennep station . The footpath and cycle path on the former railway line to Marienheide also branches off from here in Bergisch Born . Since July 1, 2017, you can get a direct connection to the Bergischer FahrradBus in the direction of Opladen or Marienheide at the RVK-Niederlassung stop .

Regional and city buses

Public transport is carried out with buses. Today there are connections to Remscheid, Cologne, Solingen-Burg, Remscheid-Lennep, Dabringhausen and Dhünn. There are also transfer options to Gummersbach in Bergisch Born. Wermelskirchen belongs to the tariff area of ​​the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg (VRS) .

The bus station is located directly at the former train station and is the city's most important transport hub. The most central stops, however, are town hall and market or market / Taubengasse in the city center. The nearest train station is Remscheid Hauptbahnhof. The next long-distance buses stop in Lennep.

Numerous bus routes connect the Wermelskirchen bus station with both the Bergisches Land and the Rhine. The cycle times given below refer to the rush hour from Monday to Friday.

line course Tact operator Bus platform
240 Wermelskirchen bus station  - Wermelsk. Markt / Taubengasse  (only in the direction of Lennep)  - Wermelsk. Belten - Wermelsk. Albert-Einstein-Str. - Bergisch Born  Post - RS-Lennep Bismarckplatz (only in the direction of Wermelskirchen)  - Remscheid-Lennep Bf S-Bahn-Logo.svg 60 min Stadtwerke Remscheid , Wiedenhoff C.
260 Remscheid  Friedrich-Ebert-Platz  - Remscheid Hbf / Willy-Brandt-Platz S-Bahn-Logo.svg  - Remscheid central point - Preyersmühle  - Wermelskirchen bus station  - Wermelsk. Town hall  (only in the direction of Cologne)  - Wermelsk. Markt  (only in the direction of Remscheid)  - Wermelsk. Tente - Hilgen  Raiffeisenplatz - Kaltenherberg Ort - Schlebusch  Post - Schlebusch Nittumer Weg  Stadtbahn.svg - K-Mülheim  Wiener Platz Stadtbahn.svg  - Köln-Deutz Bf / Messeplatz   - Köln Hbf / Breslauer PlatzDeutsche Bahn AG-Logo.svg S-Bahn-Logo.svg Deutsche Bahn AG-Logo.svg S-Bahn-Logo.svg Stadtbahn.svg 30 min RVK B
n. Remscheid
E
n. Cologne
261 (Wermelsk. School center east  not always  -) Wermelskirchen Busbf  - Wermelsk. Markt / Taubengasse - Eipringhausen - Dhünn town center - Dhünn Halzenberg (- Scheideweg  - Hückeswagen Bahnhofstrasse) 60 min
Wermelsk. - Dhünn Halzenberg
5 times a day
Dhünn Halzenberg - Hückeswagen 		RVK F.
263 (Wermelsk. School center east  not always  -) Wermelskirchen Busbf  - Wermelsk. Town hall  (only in the direction of Dabringhausen)  - Wermelsk. Markt  (only in the direction of Wermelskirchen)  - Stumpf - Arnzhäuschen - Dabringhausen Mitte (- Emminghausen) 60 min
Wermelsk. - Dabringh.
1 × on school days
Dabringh. - Emmingh. 		RVK H
265 (Wermelsk. School center east  not always  -) Wermelskirchen Busbf  - Wermelsk. Town hall  (only in the direction of Dabringhausen)  - Wermelsk. Markt  (only in the direction of Wermelskirchen)  - Stumpf - Grunewald  - Käfringh. Turnpike - Ketzbergerhöhe - Dabringh. Lido - Dabringhausen center 60 min RVK H
266 (Wermelsk. School center east  not always  -) Wermelskirchen Busbf  - Wermelsk. Town hall  (only in the direction of Burg)  - Wermelsk. Markt  (only in the direction of Wermelskirchen)  - Wermelsk. Pohlhausen - SG-Burg  Castle  - SG-Burg  Burger train station 60 min. RVK D.
268 Vermelsk. Eifgen - Wermelsk. Markt / Taubengasse - Wermelskirchen Bus terminal  - Wermelsk. School Center East - Wermelsk. Belten - Buchholzen - Three trees - Eipringhausen - Wermelsk. Markt / Taubengasse - Wermelskirchen Bus terminal  - Wermelsk. School center east
only in one direction of travel 		4 × on school days RVK G
270 Wermelskirchen bus station  - Wermelsk. City Hall  (only in the direction of the hospital)  - Wermelsk. Markt  (only in the direction of Wermelsk. Busbf)  - Wermelsk hospital 60 min RVK H
271 Wermelskirchen bus station  - Wermelsk. Town hall  (only in the direction of travel on the outskirts)  - Wermelsk. Markt  (only in the direction of Wermelsk. Busbf)  - Wermelsk On the outskirts 60 min RVK H
652 Remscheid Friedrich-Ebert-Platz - Remscheid Hbf / Willy-Brandt-Platz  S-Bahn-Logo.svg - Remscheid central point - Remscheid dam / Mebusmühle - Wermelsk. Belten - Wermelsk. Markt / Taubengasse - Wermelskirchen Busbf
further as route 672 to Remscheid 		30 - 60 min Stadtwerke Remscheid A.
672 Remscheid Friedrich-Ebert-Platz - Remscheid Hbf / Willy-Brandt-Platz  S-Bahn-Logo.svg - Remscheid central point - Remscheid dam / Mebusmühle - Wermelsk. Heinhausstrasse - Wermelskirchen bus station  - Wermelsk. Markt / Taubengasse
continue as line 652 to Remscheid 		30 - 60 min Stadtwerke Remscheid C.
NE12 Remscheid Friedrich-Ebert-Platz - Remscheid Hbf / Willy-Brandt-Platz  S-Bahn-Logo.svg - Remscheid central point - Preyersmühle - Wermelskirchen bus station  - Wermelsk. Belten - Remscheid dam / Mebusmühle - Remscheid central point - Remscheid Hbf / Willy-Brandt-Platz  S-Bahn-Logo.svg - Remscheid Friedrich-Ebert-Platz
Night bus express in one direction only 		60 min Stadtwerke Remscheid C.
N26 Cologne main station / Breslauer Platz   - Cologne-Deutz train station / Messeplatz   - K-Mülheim Wiener Platz   - without stopping on A3 and A1  - Kaltenherberg - Burscheid Busbf - Ösinghausen - Hilgen Raiffeisenplatz - Wermelsk. Tente - Wermelsk. Markt - Wermelskirchen Busbf night bus only in one directionDeutsche Bahn AG-Logo.svg S-Bahn-Logo.svg Stadtbahn.svgDeutsche Bahn AG-Logo.svg S-Bahn-Logo.svgStadtbahn.svg
 At the weekend and on public holidays 60 min RVK A.

Others

In addition to the regular bus offer, Wermelskirchen is also served by a citizens' bus to Hebbinghausen or Höhrath, various leisure buses that are offered during the season on weekends or on public holidays, as well as a shared taxi line to Remscheid-Lennep.

line Line course Tact operator Bus platform
264 Citizen bus:
Wermelsk. Forest cemetery Eickerberg - Wermelsk. City Hall - Vermelsk. Markt / Taubengasse - Wermelskirchen Bus terminal  - Wermelsk. Wirtsmühle - Wermelsk. Carpe Diem - Wermelsk. Belten - Buchholzen - three trees - Hebbinghausen - three trees - Buchholzen - Wermelsk. Belten - Wermelsk. Carpe Diem - Wermelsk. Wirtsmühle - Wermelskirchen Bus terminal  - Wermelsk. City Hall - Vermelsk. In Wolfhagen - Wermelskirchen bus station  - Wermelsk. City Hall - Vermelsk. REWE / Viktoriastraße - Wermelsk. Untersellscheid - Oberburg - Höhrath - Unterwinkelhausen - Stolzenberg - Büschhausen - Oberwinkelhausen - Wermelsk. REWE / Viktoriastraße - Wermelsk. Market / Taubengasse  - Wermelsk. City Hall  - Vermelsk. Waldfriedhof Eickerberg
minibus only in one direction of travel 		120 min RVK A
n. Im Wolfhagen
C
n. Höhrath
G
n. Hebbinghausen
267 Bergischer WanderBus:
Wermelsk. Travel garden Eifgen - Wermelsk. Markt / Taubengasse  (only in the direction of Odenthal)  - Wermelsk. Markt  (only in the direction of Wermelskirchen)  - Wermelsk. Town hall  (only in the direction of Odenthal)  - Emmingh. Ostrich farm - Dabringhausen middle - Limmringhausen - Altenberg  - Odenthal Herzogenfeld (-  Bergisch Gladbach S-Bahn-Logo.svg  - Bensberg Stadtbahn.svg  - Rösrath train station Deutsche Bahn AG-Logo.svg )
Minibus 		At the weekend and on public holidays:
120 min.
Wermelskirchen - Odenthal
1 × on the day
Odenthal - Rösrath 		RVK -
FB Bergischer FahrradBus:
LEV-Opladen bus station Deutsche Bahn AG-Logo.svg  - Pattscheid station  - Burscheid station - Hilgen  Raiffeisenplatz - Wermelskirchen RVK branch  - Wermelsk. Neuenborn (B51) - Hückeswagen Bahnhofstr. - Wipperfürth Leiersmühle - Ohl  - Marienheide  Bus terminal bus with trailerDeutsche Bahn AG-Logo.svg
 On weekends and public holidays 60 - 120 min RVK, OVAG , wupsi -
AST Call collecting taxi:
Wermelskirchen Busbf  - Wermelsk. Market / Taubengasse - Wermelsk. Belten - Service area Bergisch Born  (Bergisch Born, surrounding courtyards or Lennep southern part)  - RS-Lennep Bismarckplatz - Remscheid-Lennep Bf S-Bahn-Logo.svg 		60 min Stadtwerke Remscheid G

economy

Wermelskirchen used to be the center of shoe manufacturing. The entrepreneurs Kattwinkel, Siebel, Pfeiffer and Flöring built large factories whose products and brands (e.g. Roland shoes) became known worldwide. Today the city is a center of metal processing (wheels & rollers ( Tente Rollen , Rhombus Rollen Holding-GmbH, ALFOTEC GmbH Fördertechnik, Interroll , Steinco, Steintex, Rollecenter GbR, HaRo Fördertechnik), screws & bolts (Hugo Dürholt)), as well as the Machine and tool construction.

The DIY chain Obi , which has its headquarters in Wermelskirchen, is the largest local employer. The regional financial institute Stadtsparkasse Wermelskirchen has six branches in the city.

Otherwise, Wermelskirchen is primarily characterized by a classic SME structure . Around 2,500 companies are currently registered in Wermelskirchen. The majority of the resident companies are traditional companies that are run in the second or third generation. In addition, some modern and innovative companies, for example in the fields of IT, laser technology, logistics and medical technology, have settled and consolidated at the location in recent years. With the new industrial area UPA1 (company park A1) in Wermelskirchen-Ostringhausen, the settlement of new and already established companies in Wermelskirchen has been successful for several years.

education

Municipal high school

The city of Wermelskirchen has five primary schools or groups with seven locations:

  • Forest School (formerly Elementary School East)
  • Swan school
  • Catholic elementary school
  • Primary school association Haiderbach with the locations Tente and Hünger as well
  • the primary school association Dhünntalschule with the locations Dabringhausen and Dhünn.

In the area of ​​secondary schools there is the municipal grammar school and, from the start of the 2014/2015 school year, the secondary school. However, the Hauptschule and Realschule have not created any new entry classes since the beginning of the 2014/2015 school year and ended at the end of the 2018/2019 school year. In addition, the city has a vocational college, a special needs school (Pestalozzischule), a music school and the Bergisch Land adult education center . Since September 10, 2007 there is a branch of the Rheinische Fachhochschule Köln in Wermelskirchen .

Culture

The “Kattwinkelsche Fabrik” and the “AJZ Bahndamm” (hardcore, punk, hip-hop, reggae, dancehall, heavy metal, dubstep ) are important places to go for cultural events . The punk rock band Ni Ju San and the rock band Skin of Tears come from Wermelskirchen .

The city library has been housed in the listed building of the Kattwinkel factory since 1991. The media offer comprises over 37,000 media units. In addition to non-fiction, novels and books for children and young people, the city library also offers a selection of audio books, CDs, CD-ROMs, magazines and DVDs. Six internet-enabled computers are available to visitors. The city library records over 160,000 loans per year.

The Bergisches Geschichtsverein, Dept. Wermelskirchen, publishes a series of publications under the title "Wermelskirchen Contributions to Our History". There, local and regional historical aspects are examined and published.

Sports

Well-known sports clubs are the Wermelskirchener TV , whose handball players played for many years in the Handball Regionalliga West and took part in the DHB Cup nine times , as well as the TuS Wermelskirchen , who from 2010 until the voluntary retirement in the 2012/13 season in the 3rd handball League accrued. The women of the judo club Wermelskirchen have been fighting in the 2nd Judo Bundesliga since 2013.

The footballers of Dabringhauser TV fight for points in the district league, the former league club SV 09/35 Wermelskirchen plays in the state league in the 2019/20 season.

Attractions

At the market the Evangelical town church with a Romanesque tower from the 12th century.

On the upper Remscheider Straße there is a giant sequoia tree planted in 1870 , which is 26 meters tall and is decorated every year to become one of the largest living Christmas trees in Europe.

Many half-timbered houses that are under monument protection shape the cityscape. Examples are the house ensemble "Am Markt" near the Protestant town church and the town houses on the Eich , which are mainly used by the music school. There is also a wedding room and a hall in which council or parliamentary groups or music events are occasionally held.

  • Art Association
    Market 9

  • Restaurant Bergischer Löwe
    Markt 10 (built in 1758)

  • Music school
    Eich 8 (built in 1763)


  • Eich Music School 6

  • Hotel zur Eich
    Eich 7


  • Schwanen House 28

In Dhünn-Haarhausen is the oldest half-timbered house in Wermelskirchen, in which oak beams from 1560 were determined by dendrochronological examination. In Dhünn-Krähenbach there is another old half-timbered house in which oak beams from 1583 were determined by dendrochronological examination.

In Dabringhausen- Großeledder there is a baroque house from 1777.

A visit to the dam at the Great Dhünntalsperre in Dabringhausen-Lindscheid is also an option .

Regular events

In the months of May to October, a motorcycle service with an average of 600 participants takes place in the Eipringhausen district on the third Sunday of the month at 10:00 . Since 2009, the motorcycle service season has already started in April.

The big fair in Wermelskirchen takes place regularly on the last weekend in August. Rides and other showmen appear on two fairgrounds. There is also a large junk market. On the following Monday there will be a matinee, where residents and non-residents will meet in the morning to celebrate in the entire city center. Many employers even allow their employees a day off or shortened working hours. The end of the fair is a big fireworks display on Tuesday evening.

Telephone prefixes

The city has the area code 02196. Deviations apply to Dabringhausen (02193) and Bechhausen (02174).

Others

On June 9, 2009, the Bombardier CRJ900 with the registration D-ACNB of the airline Eurowings was christened Wermelskirchen at Düsseldorf Airport .

The plot of the novel Crash in the direction of travel to the right by Jürgen Kasten from 2013 takes place predominantly in Wermelskirchen. The starting point of the action is an arson attack on the AJZ railway embankment.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

The city of Wermelskirchen has granted the following people honorary citizenship:

sons and daughters of the town

Connected to the city

The following people lived in Wermelskirchen for a long time or died here.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 )
  2. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1865, p. 26
  3. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1873, p. 366
  4. ^ 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. 298 .
  5. ↑ Population level based on the 2011 census - municipalities , accessed on August 13, 2019
  6. ^ City of Wermelskirchen Religion , 2011 census
  7. ↑ City of Wermelskirchen City information Figures Data Facts , accessed on January 25, 2020
  8. ↑ Minutes of the city council meeting of October 26, 2009
  9. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from August 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ http://wahlen.citkomm.de/EUKW2014/05378032/index.htm
  11. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from August 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ Mobility in North Rhine-Westphalia - data and facts 2018/2019. In: Road traffic. Ministry of Building, Housing, Urban Development and Transport of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, p. 66 (PDF; 14.2 MB, holdings on January 1, 2018).
  13. ↑ http://www.wermelskirchen.de/leben/kultur/schulen/schulen.php
  14. ↑ http://www.jcwk.istcool.de/
  15. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from April 18, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ↑ Press release of the city of Wermelskirchen on the aircraft christening, seen December 14, 2009
  17. ^ RP ONLINE: Wermelskirchen: Drei Dellmänner - three books. Retrieved September 24, 2019 .
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literature

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  • Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar , yearbook since 1920
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  • Nicolaus J. Breidenbach: Großeledder - from the “Scala” to the “Jusche” to the “Seminar and Leisure Hotel of Bayer Gastronomy”. Wermelskirchen 2009, ISBN 3-9802801-6-0 .
  • Nicolaus J. Breidenbach (Ed.), Dabringhausen Grunewald - Contributions to the history of the parish of St. Apollinaris and the place of residence. Wermelskirchen 2010, ISBN 3-9802801-9-5 .
  • Nicolaus J. Breidenbach: Old farms and houses in the Wupperviereck in Wermelskirchen, Burg Castle, Remscheid, Hückeswagen, Wipperfürth, Kürten, Lindlar, Odenthal, Burscheid . Wermelskirchen 2011, ISBN 978-3-9802801-2-9 .
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