Wisskirchen

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Wisskirchen
City of Euskirchen
Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 0 ″  N , 6 ° 44 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 193 m above sea level NHN
Area : 3.88 km²
Residents : 859  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 221 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st July 1969
Postal code : 53881
Area code : 02251
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Location of Wißkirchen in Euskirchen

Wißkirchen is a district in the west of Euskirchen in the district of the same name , North Rhine-Westphalia . The Veybach flows through the place, whose name is derived from the white church .

Wißkirchen, aerial photo (2015)

history

From 1079 to 1089 the Michaelsberg Abbey near Siegburg was acquired by the Archbishop of Cologne Sigewin von Are u. a. in possession of the goods in Wißkirchen and Euenheim .

In 1181 the Siegburg Abbey was confirmed to be owned by the church in Wisskirchen and was called Wizenkirchen = White Church and was incorporated in 1255 by Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden . The Church of St. Medardus was subordinate to the Benedictine Abbey of Siegburg. In contrast to the current patron, the Designatio pastoratum of 1676 names St. Martin .

Incidentally, as far as the secular part was concerned, the village was divided into two parts. While the southern half formed part of the Euenheim rule, the village north of the Veybach was part of the Jülich office of Nideggen . The ownership of the "island" between the Veybach and the mill pond was in dispute.

In the 16th century the pastorate was occupied by the dukes of Jülich. The rule of Euenheim-Wißkirchen was sold by exchange to the Baron Johann Wilhelm von Lüning. From 1756 it came to the Pfeil von Scharfenstein and in 1778 to the barons von Zumpütz. From 1752 the patronage of the church remained in dispute.

→ Jewish cemetery (Wißkirchen)

When the Rhineland passed to Prussia in 1815, Wißkirchen was added to the mayor's office of Satzvey . This division remained in place until the congregation was incorporated into Euskirchen on July 1, 1969. As a result of the reorganization of the district, Veynau Castle , one of the most imposing moated castles in the Rhineland, was added to Wißkirchen.

Euskirchen-Wißkirchen, St. Medardus

Development of the place name Wißkirchen

Verifiably "Villa que dictunow" (1056-1065)

Wißkirchen was then called: 1166 Wi (y) zinkirchen and is confirmed in the document from 1181 by Pope Lucius II as the church in Wizenkirken of the Siegburg Abbey. In the Liber valoris before 1300 the place was called Witzenkirgen . In the document from 1279, in which the abbey sells its property in Ollheim , Gartzen as well as Euenheim and Wißkirchen, the place is now called Wissenkirchen . In later times the place is occasionally called Weißkirchen in the High German form . A corridor in the municipality of Elsig-Euenheim is still called “on the Weisskircher Heide” today. Wisskirchen contains as a defining word (Old High German) “wiz” in (Low German) “wit” = white and therefore means “to the white church” in the dative form.

Then the place names alternate:

  • Wyzenkyrchen
  • Wizinkirchen
  • Wizenschircken
  • Wizzenchircken
  • Weiskirchen
  • Wiskirchen
  • Wisskirchen
  • Wisskirchen

Infrastructure

Wißkirchen is located directly on the A 1 with the junction of the same name and the B 266 . In recent years, an industrial area has been created between the town and the motorway , which in the land use plan of the city of Euskirchen extends on both sides of the B 266 to the motorway. Wisskirchen is also served by buses, for example line 878.

Web links

Commons : Wißkirchen  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population figures for districts. City of Euskirchen, December 31, 2017, accessed on July 7, 2018 (main residences).
  2. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 86 .
  3. ^ Wisplinghoff: Rhine. Document Book 1, 1972, No. 139, p. 203 ff.