Windeck

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Windeck
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Coordinates: 50 ° 48 '  N , 7 ° 34'  E

Basic data
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Cologne
Circle : Rhein-Sieg district
Height : 143 m above sea level NHN
Area : 107.22 km 2
Residents: 18,730 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 175 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 51570
Primaries :
License plate : SU
Community key : 05 3 82 076
LOCODE : DE WNK
Community structure: 66 localities
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Rathausstrasse 12
51570 Windeck
Website : www.windeck-bewegt.de
Mayoress : Alexandra Christine Gauß ( Greens )
Location of the municipality of Windeck in the Rhein-Sieg district
Rheinland-Pfalz Bonn Köln Kreis Euskirchen Oberbergischer Kreis Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis Rhein-Erft-Kreis Alfter Bad Honnef Bornheim (Rheinland) Eitorf Hennef (Sieg) Königswinter Lohmar Meckenheim (Rheinland) Much Neunkirchen-Seelscheid Niederkassel Rheinbach Ruppichteroth Sankt Augustin Siegburg Swisttal Troisdorf Wachtberg Windeckmap
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Windeck is a municipality in the east of the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia . Around 18,730 people live here (as of December 31, 2019) on both sides of the Sieg . The municipality was created in 1969 by amalgamating the municipalities of Herchen , Dattenfeld and Rosbach . It was named after the Windeck castle ruins .

geography

Geographical location

The community is located in the Bergisches Land Nature Park in the triangle Cologne - Bonn - Siegen . Neighboring communities are in the west the community Eitorf and in the north the community Ruppichteroth , both are in the Rhein-Sieg district . In the north, Windeck borders the town of Waldbröl and the municipality of Morsbach , Oberbergischen Kreis , in the east on the Verbandsgemeinde Hamm (Sieg) , in the south on the Verbandsgemeinde Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld in the Altenkirchen district in Rhineland-Palatinate .

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View over Windeck

Community structure

The municipality of Windeck is administratively divided into the districts Dattenfeld , Herchen , Leuscheid , Rosbach, Schladern and Windeck , to which a total of 66, some very small, localities belong.

The most populous localities are (as of December 31, 2011) :

Locality Residents
Rosbach 3,968
Data field 2,347
Leuscheid 1,170
Schladern 1,150
Herchen 1,086

All towns (alphabetically):

Former districts are listed here .

history

Windeck Castle
Panorama of the castle ruins
Dattenfeld Castle , a former rectory
The Herchen " Cologne Cannons "
The Catholic Church in Herchen

The area of ​​the municipality of Windeck was visited by groups of people hunting as early as the Paleolithic , as shown by the discovery of a "retoucher" - a stone that was used to work on other stones - near Windeck- Dreisel , which, based on parallels in the Neuwied basin, shows in the time around 11,000 BC Can be dated BC. The stone contains an animal engraving on both sides, of which the image of a cow elk is still clearly recognizable, while the engraving on the other side is damaged and can no longer be clearly interpreted. The later history of Windeck is linked to the history of Windeck Castle . After the Counts of Thuringia and the Archbishops of Cologne , Windeck went to the Duchy of Berg via the Counts of Sayn and formed the Bergisches Land's own administrative department as the Windeck Office . Desolations such as abandoned and lost are mentioned.

Under Napoleon's rule, the Mairie Dattenfeld and Rosbach were merged into one municipality in the canton of Waldbröl . The municipality worked from Burg Mauel , and there was a military command in Burg Hof . After the Congress of Vienna , the area became part of the State of Prussia , where it belonged to the district of Waldbröl as the municipality of Dattenfeld . Herchen had then been added to the municipality of Eitorf and as a result came to the Uckerath district and with it to the Siegkreis . In 1932 the Waldbröl district was dissolved and the Dattenfeld office came to the Siegkreis as the communities Dattenfeld and Rosbach. On August 1, 1969, the three communities Herchen, Dattenfeld and Rosbach were combined in the community of Windeck. It was planned to reassign Herchen to Eitorf. However, this regulation would have brought too few inhabitants for the community of Windeck and was rejected.

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The greatest destruction took place in the Rosbach area. Adolf Hitler's elite SS troops were probably stationed in Rosbach. This was the reason why Rosbach was attacked by 20 British bombers at around 11:40 a.m. on February 2, 1945. The bombs fell mainly in the churchyard. They destroyed today's mayor's office, which used to be the pharmacy. Owners and temporary workers died. Next to it was a doctor's practice, which at the time served as a primary school. Some students died, even though many parents or teachers sent them home, when they saw an English plane at 9 a.m. and feared the bombing. Furthermore, the houses near the churchyard were completely destroyed, families were wiped out and the houses in the area were no longer habitable. At the beginning of March 1945 the Siegbrücke was destroyed as part of the “Scorched Earth” project. The church in the churchyard was spared, it survived the attack, only the panes cracked during the attack. The church was demolished before the attack. Two of the three bells were melted down from the tower for war material, the third was only spared because it was a listed building. Many shops were destroyed, including the Rosbacher Hof, hairdresser shopkeeper and smaller hotels. The death toll amounted to 42 residents, but doctors and some families were among them. The area was occupied by the Americans after the attack. The SS troops moved on to other areas.

Reconstruction began around 1946. Many men were still prisoners of war, so the women had to start rebuilding the villages. They took the best preserved materials and tried to make houses and apartments habitable again. The Hermes company helped with steel support for the construction of the railway traffic, as the railway bridges had also been completely destroyed. Gradually the soldiers returned from the war and with that a boom in reconstruction began. The Siegbrücke was made crossable again with a footpath so that the other side of the Sieg could be supplied again. When North Rhine-Westphalia was founded on August 23, 1946, the supply was still catastrophic, as the business routes were disrupted by the different occupation areas and the residents could not buy enough food so that the families could be properly fed. Reconstruction was difficult at the time, especially immediately after the attack in Rosbach and Germany's surrender. The population could not buy enough, which could have ensured a targeted and safe construction. The apartments were poorly prepared and many soldiers had to look for their families when they returned because they no longer lived in the same house as before.

There are various reasons why the local government reform took place. After the war there was no longer any connection between the individual small communities as the growing infrastructure and improved mobility enabled the population to move to the cities and towns that met their needs. They found a “space beyond the municipality as their living space” and thus no longer claimed the internal business of the municipality, so that the income was limited to the municipalities outside. Another reason is the increased expectation of the population: “The citizen in the country expects the same offer that the cities have been able to offer their residents for a long time.” Overall, this led to the planning of a regional reform, also for reasons of better administration. One wanted to improve the old borders between the communities, as these were mostly already 200 years old. These borders were no longer wanted, because the old borders could no longer be taken over due to the war and the new economy, especially the industries. The small communities were to be merged with other communities so that they could be administered better, since the very small communities could not afford the administrative act due to insufficient population. The districts in North Rhine-Westphalia were also affected, as many were not able to “guarantee the high and higher level of care for the population.” The independent cities in North Rhine-Westphalia were also associated with great fluctuations, they had between 43,000 and 856,000 inhabitants and 12 km² and 271 km² area.

It was therefore decided to draw up reports that should determine how many inhabitants a municipality has and how the supply is to be handled. Municipalities should have at least 8,000 inhabitants - in exceptional cases 5,000 inhabitants - and the basic services should be accessible within half an hour by public transport. Communities with more than 30,000 inhabitants should also serve as a supply center for the smaller communities. At the time of the municipal territorial reform, the Windecks area comprised the three communities Dattenfeld (4949 inhabitants, 27.2 km² area), Herchen (5313 inhabitants, 46.19 km² area) and Rosbach (6627 inhabitants, 33.83 km² area) . This meant that all three congregations were too small to remain a separate congregation. The regional reform provided for these three municipalities to be merged to form the municipality of Windeck and assigned to the Rhein-Sieg district. But the population resisted. The municipality of Herchen in particular did not want to go to the municipality of Windeck, as it tended to go there due to its proximity to Eitorf. After minor friction between the politicians and the population, an agreement was reached. Thus, on August 1, 1969, the community of Windeck was founded with a population of 17,452 and an area of ​​107.24 km². This reorganization brought about various changes. Among other things, the Windeck fire brigade was founded. Before each municipality had its own fire brigade, these were now called fire fighting groups and administered by the Windeck fire brigade. The first parish director was Mr. Krämer.

Population development

(always on December 31st)

year Residents
1970 16,886
1980 17,549
1990 18,456
1999 20,832
2000 20,811
2001 21,048
2002 21.006
2003 21,100
year Residents
2004 21,137
2005 21,124
2006 21,012
2007 20,870
2008 20,679
2009 20,565
2017 18,937
Population development from Windeck 1970 to 2017 according to the adjacent table

politics

Local election 2014
Turnout: 51.88% (2009: 54.8%)
 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
41.62%
36.67%
10.03%
4.11%
4.38%
3.19%
Gains and losses
compared to 2009
 % p
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
+ 0.32  % p
+0.67  % p.p.
+0.53  % p
-4.89  % p.p.
+ 0.18  % p.p.
+ 3.19  % p.p.

Municipal council

The 32 seats of the municipal council are distributed as follows:

(As of: local elections on May 25, 2014 )

mayor

On November 18, 2018, Alexandra Christine Gauß ( Greens ) was elected mayor with 53.77% of the vote.

Your candidacy was supported by the CDU, FDP and the Greens.

coat of arms

The municipality of Windeck was granted the right to use a coat of arms in a certificate issued by the district president in Cologne on May 4, 1972.

Windeck coat of arms
 Blazon : “The coat of arms shows above in silver (white) a striding, blue crowned, armored and tongued lion; below in blue a silver (white) man in armor, wielding a silver (white) and gold (yellow) -stitched battle hammer. "
Justification of the coat of arms: The coat of arms was taken over from the former Office Dattenfeld / Rosbach and shows, in a slightly modified form, the heraldic animal of the Bergisch sovereign, belonging to the Duchy of Berg , whereby this lion is not double-tailed in contrast to the standing Bergisch lion. The "knight" comes from an old coat of arms that showed a miner with a hammer.

Culture and sights

"Siegtaldom" St. Laurentius in Dattenfeld
The Protestant church Leuscheid on August-Sander- Platz
Basalt quarry blue stone

Buildings

  • Windeck Castle (Castrum novum) - castle ruins
  • The Old Windeck Castle (Castrum vetus) - castle ruins
  • Siegtaldom St. Laurentius - the landmark of Dattenfeld
  • Dattenfeld Castle
  • Mauel Castle
  • Hof Castle near Rosbach
  • Burg (house) Broich near Altwindeck - castle ruins
  • Castle (house) Benzekausen (benzinckhausen, benzinchusin) near Gansau - castle ruins
  • Hang moth Burg Huen zu Stein (Margaretenburg) on ​​the Grengelsberg near Dreisel - castle ruins (plateau and rubble tumulus)
  • Ring walls near Stromberg
  • Altwindeck - awarded several times as the most beautiful village in the Rhein-Sieg district
  • Visitor mine Silberhardt in Oettershagen
  • Memorial "Landjuden an der Sieg" in Rosbach
  • Place of jurisdiction of the Windeck office on the "Alten Straße" on Nutscheid. The delinquents were beheaded there. Two executions are documented, in 1744 a forger and in 1766 a mother who killed her children. This site was already marked on the Mercator map of 1575.
Windeck's court

theatre

  • Windecker Matinée Association
  • Windeck theater group
  • Hobby stage Hurst

Museums

  • Local history museum in Altwindeck
  • Memorial "Landjuden an der Sieg" in Rosbach
  • Visitor mine Silberhardt in Öttershagen

Natural monuments

  • Pedunculate oak Burg-Windeck-Str. 25, Windeck- Schladern , a 500 year old tree next to a nearly 200 year old half-timbered house ("Stranghöhners" house)
  • Pedunculate oak at Alte Brücke 5, Windeck-Herchen, a 200 year old tree with a height of 25 m
  • Pedunculate oak Roth 6, Windeck-Roth
  • 32 Pedunculate oaks An den Eichen and Am Eichenhain, Windeck-Stromberg
  • Sommerlinde Kapellenweg 14, Windeck-Rosbach, a tree that was probably planted when the adjacent chapel was built around 1743/1744
  • Basalt crater Kuchhausen
  • Heilbrunnen Ohmbach
  • Halscheid healing fountain
  • Siegfall in Schladern

Nature reserves

Sports

  • Volleyball : TSV Germania Windeck played in the 2nd Bundesliga North last season. Until the 2005/06 season the club played under the name TuS Schladern. The home games take place in the sports hall of the Bodelschwingh-Gymnasium .
  • Football : TSV Germania Windeck has been playing in the NRW League since the 2008/09 season and competed in the first main round of the DFB club cup of the 2010/11 season against FC Bayern Munich . The game against the German record champions was lost 4-0 in the 1. FC Köln stadium in front of a crowd of 41,100 spectators. This makes it the first-round cup game with the most spectators that an amateur club has ever played.
  • Popular sports: The municipality of Windeck has a large number of gymnastics and sports clubs. The TV Rosbach in 1965 counts with more than 800 members for the most representative of the region. There are other sports clubs in the villages of Herchen and Schladern, among others.
  • In 2008, the Windecker Bogengilde organized the German championship of the German Archery Association in the field and forest arcs around Windeck Castle.

Regular events

The small Herchener village fair
carnival
The Rhenish Carnival is represented in several places in the community. There are carnival societies in Dattenfeld, Herchen, Schladern and Hurst. Meetings and parades take place annually.
Pure victory valley
Common car-free day of the Siegtal communities from Netphen (source) to Siegburg (mouth) on the first Sunday in July with the roads along the Sieg closed for motor vehicle traffic and free travel for cyclists and skaters.
Fair
Small events take place annually in Herchen, Dattenfeld (2nd weekend in August), Leuscheid (1st weekend in October) and Rosbach (1st weekend in September).

Culinary specialties

  • In Windeck-Mauel there is an inn with its own brewery. The Maueler Hofbräu is bottom-fermented, slightly cloudy and has an original wort content of 13%. The beer has been produced since 2003, as a rule the Willmeroth brewer makes 600 l every 10 days.
  • Land's Apfelkraut was previously produced in Herchen-Bahnhof and was later taken over by Grafschafter Apfelkraut . The spread for bread and potato pancakes was also used to enrich sauces.
  • Windecker noble distillates from the village distillery. In addition to fruit distillates, the WIN-GIN (Windecker Gin) is distilled here. In 2017, the first whiskey was produced on Bergstrasse in Rosbach and is now stored in wooden casks.

Religions

Christianity

  • Catholic Church of St. Laurentius
  • Catholic parish of St. Joseph Rosbach
  • Catholic parish of St. Peter Herchen
  • Evangelical parish Rosbach
  • Evangelical parish of Leuscheid
  • Evangelical parish of Herchen
  • Free Church Community Windeck-Imhausen
  • Evangeliums-Christengemeinde Rosbach

Buddhism

  • Wat Pah Analayo - Thai Temple - Windeck-Langenberg
  • Karma Tekchen Yi Ong Ling exam center in Windeck-Halscheid

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

  • WMV Apparatebau GmbH
    The company, founded in Siegburg-Seligenthal in 1970 , first moved to Windeck-Schladern and then expanded in the Maueler Feld industrial area. The production area has now been expanded to 5,000 m², and sales in 2006 amounted to 23 million euros. With 90 employees, WMV was the second largest employer in the municipality.
  • Leina-Werke GmbH
    One of the world's largest manufacturers of all kinds of dressing materials. The company was founded in 1964. The company is the German market leader and, since 1997, the European market leader in the manufacture of warning triangles.
  • G. Wendt GmbH
    The company is one of the largest manufacturers of abrasives, cutting and grinding wheels of all kinds.
  • Hubert von Carnap GmbH & Co. KG
    The company has been producing all kinds of packaging and     cardboard boxes since 1870 . Founded in Cologne, the company was initially active as a cardboard trade and paper cutter. In 1972 a second location was set up in Windeck, which today serves as the headquarters. The company's quality assurance system, which has been in use for many years in the production of hazardous goods packaging, was certified in 1994 by TÜV Rheinland according to DIN EN ISO 9001 .
  • BeckerMedia
    Owner-run advertising agency and software company, active in the field of classic print advertising and the production of digital media (Internet) since 1998; Editor of the advertising and event magazine “Insider”, which is published in two separate editions each for Eitorf, Ruppichteroth and Windeck as well as for Nümbrecht, Waldbröl and Morsbach.
  • Becker Ingenieure
    Engineering office for technical building equipment (TGA). Active in the field of classic TGA engineering since 1990.

schools

  • Comprehensive School Windeck (formerly all-day secondary school Rosbach and formerly secondary school Herchen)
  • Bodelschwingh-Gymnasium Herchen
  • Special school with a special focus on intellectual development Windeck-Rossel
  • as well as 5 primary schools in Rosbach, Leuscheid, Dattenfeld, Schladern and Herchen

traffic

Herchen station reception building

Street

There are motorway connections

In addition to the L 333 and the B 256, the L 312 runs through the municipality.

On January 1, 2018, 14,448 vehicles were registered in the municipality, including 11,638 cars.

rail

Personalities

Born in Windeck

Associated with Windeck

Web links

Commons : Windeck  - Collection of Images

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. ↑ 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 )
  3. ↑ a b Municipality of Windeck , homepage of the municipality of Windeck.
  4. ↑ A cow moose from the Ice Age. In: Archeology in Germany , 2/2006, p. 5.
  5. ^ A b Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first restructuring program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 85 .
  6. ↑ a b Köstering, 1975, p. 1.
  7. ↑ Köstering, 1975, p. 3.
  8. ^ Municipality of Windeck - overall result - council election of May 25, 2014
  9. ↑ Election of the mayor in 2018 in the municipality of Windeck - overall result. Retrieved November 18, 2018 .
  10. ^ Wappen Windeck ( memento from July 15, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) and R. Nagel: Rheinisches Wappenbuch. 1986.
  11. ↑ Windeck municipal coat of arms
  12. ↑ Gottfried Corbach: History of Waldbröl . Scriba-Verlag, Cologne 1973, ISBN 3-921232-03-1 .
  13. ↑ Natural monuments ( memento of August 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), list of the Rhein-Sieg district.
  14. ↑ Nature reserve “Former Siegschleife bei Dreisel” in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia
  15. ^ "Siegaue in the municipalities of Windeck, Eitorf and the city of Hennef" nature reserve in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia
  16. ^ "Rosbachtal" nature reserve in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia
  17. ^ "Imhausen stone quarry" nature reserve in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia
  18. ↑ Nature reserve "Forests on the Leuscheid" in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia
  19. ^ "Silicate rocks on the Sieg" nature reserve in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia
  20. ^ "Hohes Wäldchen I" nature reserve in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia
  21. ^ Windeck-Langenberg: Wat Pah Analayo (Theravada Dhammayut). In: www.templemap.org. Retrieved July 4, 2016 .
  22. ↑ Karma Tekchen Yi Ong Ling. Halscheid Retreat Center, accessed on January 13, 2019 .
  23. ↑ History | Hubert von Carnap GmbH & Co. KG. Retrieved February 9, 2018 .
  24. ↑ 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).
  25. ↑ Conviction of the former parliamentary manager of the SPD Bundestag faction Karl Wienand for acting as an agent for the secret service is final (AZ 3 StR 114/97 BGH) .
  26. ↑ Jürgen Kuhl - Biography ( Memento from August 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive )