Winden (Kreuzau)
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Winches
community Kreuzau
Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 8 ″ N , 6 ° 28 ′ 51 ″ E
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| Height : | 150 m above sea level NHN |
| Area : | 3.62 km² |
| Residents : | 2027 (Jul 31, 2018) |
| Population density : | 560 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | 1st July 1969 |
| Postal code : | 52372 |
| Area code : | 02422 |
 St. Urbanus Church
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Winden is a district of the municipality of Kreuzau in the Düren district , North Rhine-Westphalia .
location
Winches located at Eifel northern edge of the Roer in Rureifel in the North Eifel Nature Park on the edge of the Eifel National Park . Neighboring towns are Untermaubach with Bilstein , Bergheim , Üdingen and Kreuzau.
history
Winden is an ancient settlement area. Archaeological finds suggest a Celto-Roman settlement. It must have been the Celtic tribe of the Eburones . At the time, on the "Hochkoppel" hill, a high plateau near the Windener Hemgenberg, there was a fortified Celtic refuge , which was built there at the turn of the ages shortly before the Roman conquest of the Rhineland.
The name of the place Winden can be traced back to the Latin vinum = wine. The artificially created terraces on the heights immediately to the west (foothills of the northern Eifel) are still visible evidence of earlier viticulture.
The Rur crossing at the Üdinger bridge in the immediate vicinity of the neighboring village of Üdingen (about 1 km from the center of Winden) was also used by the Romans. There were massive Roman buildings on both sides of the river.
Until the beginning of the 20th century, Winden was an almost pure wine-growing village. The last harvest took place in 1911. Count Henry VII of Luxembourg is enfeoffed with vineyards in Winden by knight Godefridus de Pomerio in 1301. It is conceivable that the Count's vineyards passed into the possession of the Duke of Jülich, documented in 1381, by a treasurer de Pomerio at the court of the Duke of Jülich . According to the certificate, they were "behind the Dorpe Wynden". That was on the sunny slope south of Winden in front of the Hochkoppel.
The place has a different name on the map of the Rhineland by Tranchot and von Müffling (1803–1820), where it is registered as “Weiden”, which is most likely due to an error.
In 1720, the copper master Martin Jung built a copper smelter in Winden around the same spot where the J.H. Kayser paper mill was built in 1805 . This company was shut down in 1980 and the buildings were demolished in autumn 2008. In its place, a local supply center with around 3,550 m² of retail space was built, which was opened in April 2009.
During the Second World War , Winden suffered relatively little damage, but the old quarry stone arch bridge between Winden and Üdingen was destroyed and the connection to the other side of the Rur was interrupted. The arch bridge was built from quarry material by the Winderer Frankenberg. The Rur bridge between Winden and Kreuzau was also destroyed. At the end of the war, a temporary wooden bridge made of thick tree trunks was built on the stumps of the arches.
In addition to other works of local literature, the former main teacher Rosa Schubert (1891–1981) produced an extensive chronicle of Winden, which has not yet been published. A new street in the building area near the Rur was named "Rosa-Schubert-Straße".
Reorganization
As early as the beginning of the 20th century, the citizens of Winden had spoken out in favor of incorporation into the city of Düren . As early as 1937, Rölsdorf was incorporated into the district town. However, the Windenern did not succeed in incorporating it into Düren.
On July 1, 1969, the municipality of Winden was incorporated into the municipality of Kreuzau with six other places. Until then, Bergheim was part of the independent municipality of Winden. Now both places became part of the Kreuzau community. With this reorganization, the will of the Winden citizens was again not complied with.
As a result of the reorganization of the Aachen area ( Aachen law ), the municipalities of Obermaubach-Schlagstein and Untermaubach, the district of Langenbroich from the municipality of Hürtgenwald and the districts of Schneidhausen and Welk from the municipality of Lendersdorf were incorporated into the municipality of Kreuzau with effect from January 1, 1972 - the Niederau community came to Düren. Today's municipality of Kreuzau consists of the districts Bogheim, Boich, Drove, Kreuzau, Leversbach, Obermaubach with Schlagstein, Stockheim, Thum, Üdingen, Untermaubach with Bilstein and Winden with Bergheim and Langenbroich.
church
The parish church of Winden is dedicated to St. Urbanus. It was built in 1889. The mountain cemetery was laid out ten years earlier. The first church was built in 1784 and was also dedicated to St. Urbanus. One of the prominent visitors to the services in the 1970s was Heinrich Böll, a world-famous writer and Nobel Prize winner for literature who lived in Langenbroich at the time .
traffic
The roads from Kreuzau to Untermaubach / Obermaubach reservoir and Bergheim lead through the village. Buses of the Dürener Kreisbahn take the lines 201 and 221 through the town.
Local public transport is based on a long tradition in Winden. As early as 1910, the construction of a tram from Düren to Winden was put up for discussion. Two variants were discussed for this: First, the extension of the tram from Kreuzau to Winden, whereby the Rur should have been crossed. On the other hand, the extension of the Ringbahn beyond Schneidhausen on the left of the Rur to Winden. In this case, the tram would have continued from Düren via Lendersdorf to Winden. In the meantime, politicians have even called for both lines to be built according to Winden. In the district council meeting on April 4, 1912, it was decided not to pursue the project any further.
Citizens have recently suggested setting up an additional stop on the Rur Valley Railway for winds across the Rur at the level of the footbridge "Zum Alten Wehr / An den Drei Erken", but so far without success.
School, kindergarten
In Winden there was the Catholic primary school St. Urbanus until 2007 . For the 2006/2007 school year, the St. Urbanus elementary school built a branch in Obermaubach after the Obermaubach primary school was closed. At the beginning of 2007 the primary school with locations in Winden and Obermaubach was renamed the Catholic primary school on the Rur. The parish runs a two-group kindergarten for 50 children in the village .
Association
In Winden there are several associations that take part in the village's cultural events. These are the shock club winches , the Maijugend winches, the working group adjacent winds of the billiard -Club, der Horst winds the German Waldjugend , a local group winds of Eifelverein , the fishing association for the nearby Rur, the poultry and Kaninchenzuchtverein that Karnevalsgesellschaft , the Church choir , the fair society , the fruit and horticultural association , the table tennis club and the football club, the VfVuJ 1902 Winden (association for popular and youth games).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.kreuzau.de/ug/zadafa/index5.php
- ^ Bonner Jahrbuch 145 , 1940, 298-301 (Winden).
- ^ Yearbook of the district of Düren - Count of Luxembourg as a vineyard owner in Winden by Rosa Schubert.
- ^ Original map in the State Archives of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation , Berlin.
- ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 98 .
- ^ 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. 307 .
- ^ Anton Gülden: Manuscript for the commemorative publication '70 Years of the Dürener Kreisbahn ' . City Archives Düren, 1977, p. 41 .
- ^ Anton Gülden: Manuscript for the commemorative publication '70 Years of the Dürener Kreisbahn ' . City Archives Düren, 1977, p. 47 .
Bogheim | Boich | Drove | Kreuzau including Schneidhausen | Leversbach | Obermaubach incl. Striking stone | Stockheim | Thum | Üdingen | Untermaubach incl. Bilstein | Winches including Bergheim and Langenbroich