Weyer (Mechernich)

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Weyer
City of Mechernich
Coordinates: 50 ° 32 ′ 16 ″  N , 6 ° 39 ′ 5 ″  E
Height : 421 m above sea level NHN
Area : 11.86 km²
Residents : 807
Population density : 68 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st July 1969
Postal code : 53894
Area code : 02484
Parish Church of St. Cyriacus
Parish Church of St. Cyriacus

Weyer is a district of Mechernich in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Euskirchen .

The Altebach rises in the village. The remains of the Weyer castle and the Kakushöhle on the edge of the neighboring village of Dreimühlen are well worth seeing .

history

Traces from prehistoric times can be found in and around the Kakushöhle and z. B. in the "Hovenzeley" corridor, where Iron Age burial mounds have been preserved. In Weyer there was probably a refuge castle already used by the Celts on the Kartstein plateau .

Around Weyer there are spring taps of the Eifel aqueduct from the Roman period , for example in Urfey and the headwaters "Hausener Benden" east of the village. Traces of Roman settlement were also discovered in the district.

Grave fields have been preserved from the Franconian period, one is in the immediate vicinity of the parish church. Weyer is mentioned for the first time in a document dated October 20, 871, which was drawn up under King Ludwig the German . The celebration of the 1125th anniversary in 1996 was based on this.

In addition, the place is again mentioned in 893 as “wiere” in the property register of the Prüm Abbey .

In the Middle Ages and modern times until the occupation by the French army in 1794, the ownership structure in Weyer was also determined by the manor. Since the beginning of the late Middle Ages , the Archbishopric of Cologne had court and sovereign rights in Weyer.

From 1794 Weyer belonged to the canton of Gemünd in the arrondissement d'Aix-la-Chapelle ( Aachen ) of the Rur department . After the Rhineland was taken over by Prussia , Weyer became part of the Gemünd district ( Schleiden district after 1829 ) in the newly formed Aachen administrative district of the Rhine Province .

On July 1, 1969, Weyer was incorporated into Mechernich. The Schleiden district was then almost completely merged with the old to form the new Euskirchen district on January 1, 1972.

Parish church

Weyer has the Catholic parish church of St. Cyriacus, which is located on a hill on the outskirts of the village. It was mentioned for the first time in 1187. Around 1500 the church was converted into a three-aisled hall church.

traffic

State road 115 runs through the village .

Due to the connection point Nettersheim Weyer is connected to the A 1 attached.

literature

  • Hans-Eckart Joachim , Wighart v. Koenigswald , Wilhelm Meyer : Kartstein and Katzensteine ​​near Mechernich in the Eifel. (= Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz (Hrsg.): Rheinische Kunststätten, Issue 435). 1st edition 1998. Druck und Kommissions-Verlag: Neusser Druckerei und Verlag GmbH, Neuss, ISBN 3-88094-839-9 , p. 21 f and p. 25.
  • Anton Könen: 1125 years of Weyer (871-1996) . Publisher: Mechernich-Weyer Association Cartel. 1996.
  • Anton Könen: Weyer: Settlement by the fish ponds . In: Yearbook of the district of Euskirchen 1996. Editor: District of Euskirchen. P. 115 ff.
  • Hans Peter Schiffer: Churches and chapels in the Mechernich deanery. History, design, equipment . Kall 2003, p. 213 ff.
  • Ernst Wackenroder : The art monuments of the Schleiden district. (= Paul Clemen [Hrsg.]: Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz , Volume 11, Section II). Verlag von L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1932, p. 447 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Beyer : Document book for the history of the Middle Rhine territories, now the Prussian administrative districts of Coblenz and Trier. Edited from the sources by Heinrich Beyer. First volume: From the oldest times up to the year 1169. Hölscher, Coblenz 1860, p. 177 .
  2. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 100 .