Zündorf (Cologne)

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Zündorf
district 714 of Cologne
Location of the Zündorf district in the Porz district
Coordinates 50 ° 52 '8 "  N , 7 ° 2' 37"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 52 '8 "  N , 7 ° 2' 37"  E
surface 8.12 km²
Residents 11,879 (Dec. 31, 2017)
Population density 1463 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation Jan. 1, 1975
Post Code 51143
prefix 02203
Borough Porz (7)
Transport links
Light rail line 7th
Bus route 164
Source: 2017 residents . (PDF) Cologne district information

Zündorf is a district of Cologne in the Porz district in the south of the city on the right bank of the Rhine.

Location and surroundings

Zündorf is located in the south of Cologne, directly on the Rhine . To the east, the district of Zündorf borders on Elsdorf and Wahn , in the south-east on Libur , in the south on Niederkassel-Ranzel , in the south-west on Langel and in the west on the Rhine. The Cologne districts of Weiß and Sürth are located on the opposite, western side of the Rhine .

Today's Zündorf originally consisted of two districts, Niederündorf and Oberündorf, with Oberündorf initially being the more important. In particular, the Cologne stacking law (1259) gave the port in an old arm of the Rhine in Niederündorf a special significance for centuries and Niederündorf flourished, with businesses and trading houses settling in the streets leading to the market square at the port.

The market square was fundamentally rebuilt in 1972 as part of the redesign of the Groov and raised towards the Rhine. As part of the flood protection concept of the city of Cologne, foundations for a mobile flood protection wall were later set and most recently in 2006 u. a. a further increase of 30 to 90 cm was made so that the surrounding buildings are protected up to a flood of 10.70 m Cologne level.

Groov

The groov in spring

The Groov recreation area is located on the banks of the Rhine in Zündorf. A former arm of the Rhine, previously separated from the Rhine by an island, called Mittelwerth or Groov . It was always threatened with silting up - especially after it was less used from 1831 onwards due to the abolition of the Cologne stacking law . In 1849 the island was connected to the bank upstream by a dam. In 1862 the "island" was extended by the creation of groynes on the Rhine side, which led to an island widening. The lower arm of the Rhine could still be approached by ships with a shallow draft until the middle of the 20th century - in the end only during floods.

The arm of the Rhine is now divided into two lakes, which are connected by two canal pipes. After a direct fresh water supply was no longer available, the lake threatened to tip over. To prevent this, oxygen is fed into the water of the lower lake via a floating fountain in summer. The upper part of the lake is temporarily supplied with fresh well water. There is also a rental station for rowing boats and pedal boats. A marina was built at the northern end of the Groov, which is used in particular by the adjacent water sports clubs.

The KroKoLino ferry runs from Zündorf across the Rhine to the Weiss district opposite. In summer, when the weather is good, there is a lot of traffic there from many excursionists. The varied outdoor catering at the Groov also benefits from this. The term Groov has been used as a recreational area for this entire area up to the bank since the redesign of the island, the harbor and the adjacent properties.

history

Finds, especially at the church of St. Michael in Niederündorf, prove the Roman presence within the right bank of the Rhine on the border of the Imperium Romanum . There was a kind of free zone here, because the Rhine on the right bank of the Rhine was under military observation and control by the Romans. From the old parish church of St. Martinus von Niederündorf there is also a Carolingian barrier fragment and tombstones from the 10th to 12th centuries. In 1008, Archbishop Heribert of Cologne transferred properties in Zündorf to the Deutz Abbey he had founded . In 1155 two pastors are already mentioned in Udendorp, so that two places of worship and a correspondingly important settlement can be assumed.

Until 1806, Zündorf belonged to the Duchy of Berg , according to the Bergisch office division, the former place was already administered by the Porz office. In 1795 the Porz office with the Zündorf district was occupied by French troops. In the following years, the place belonged to Mairie Wahn in the canton of Mülheim in the arrondissement of Mülheim in the Rhin department in the Grand Duchy of Berg. Porz came to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815 and became part of the Heumar mayor. In 1875 the official seat of Heumar was moved to Porz. In 1910 a town hall was built in Porz for the Heumar mayor. In 1928 it was renamed Amt Porz and merged with Amt Wahn in 1929. From 1932 the Porz office belonged to the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis. In September 1951, the municipality of Porz received city rights. On January 1, 1975, the city of Porz and the other districts of Porz, u. a. Zündorf, incorporated by the city of Cologne.

The Zündorf defense tower

In 1259 the city of Cologne was granted the stacking right, which the merchants tried to circumvent; As a result, Zündorf became a port and trading center for goods traffic with the Duchy of Berg. The arm of the Rhine between the Groov, an old Rhine island and the banks of the Rhine served as the port. The goods shipped on the Rhine were loaded onto wagons in Zündorf and transported overland around the city of Cologne to beyond Mülheim am Rhein . However, this was not without risk. If it was proven that he wanted to circumvent the stacking right by land, his goods could be expropriated. The village of Zündorf served as a loading station upstream, which enabled it to prosper.

Not only the people of Cologne were dependent on customs duties or customs revenue, but also the Duke von Berg. Since the 15th century he raised the Rhine toll in Zündorf as a receipt. The customs tower may still be a reminder of this today , the Zündorf fortified tower was a residential tower in earlier times , and it probably dates from the second half of the 13th century. After a fire, it was rebuilt as a storage room in 1864 and converted from 1975–1980 according to plans by Gottfried Böhm . The tower is used by the Heimatverein, which also shows exhibitions there.

Numerous historical buildings can be seen in Zündorf: In “Oberündorf” the old church of St. Martin and the Börschhof (formerly Abtshof), a closed courtyard from 1780/81. The two-storey mansion and the single-storey farm buildings are made of brick. Half-timbered houses , old trading houses, the synagogue used as a residential building , the parish church of St. Mariae Birth, the old church of St. Michael, the former monastery chapel and the tower courtyard from the 14th century are particularly worth seeing in "Niederündorf" . The historic building attached to the tower was used as a restaurant for a long time at the end of the 20th century, but is now used for residential purposes again. The present mansion was built in 1771. The churches of St. Martin and St. Michael are among the smaller Romanesque churches in Cologne.

Demographic statistics

Structure of the population of Cologne-Zündorf:

  • Proportion of under 18-year-olds: 16.3% (2015)
  • Share of people over 64 years of age: 23.1% (2015)
  • Proportion of foreigners: 13.3% (2015)
  • Unemployment rate: 7.1% (2014)

Incorporation

The city of Cologne tried since 1923 to incorporate the city of Porz with the suburb of Zündorf. As part of the local reorganization , it was incorporated into Cologne on January 1, 1975 . Later attempts to reverse this, for example via the Kettwig Circle, failed.

Jewish community

In Zündorf there was a Jewish community with a synagogue on the main street. The Salomon family operated in Marktstr. 7 a popular butcher shop. The Jews were expelled during the Hitler era and some were murdered. The synagogue was converted into a residential building. Today the Jewish cemetery on Gartenweg still reminds of this time. Funerals took place there between 1930 and 1940.

  • Chapel of St Michael

  • St. Martinus

  • Catholic Church of St. Mary's Birth

  • former monastery chapel

  • Tower courtyard

  • Abts or Börschhof

Ferries, shipping

Since Zündorf was on the Rhine, it is likely that the river has been crossed by boats there for centuries. However, until the 17th century, no dutiable goods, vehicles or cattle were allowed to cross the Rhine between Mondorf and Cologne-Deutz . In 1317 a "ferry connection from Zündorf to Weiß" is described for the first time. The first ferryman mentioned seems to have been a Johannem Gilles.

In 1869 Matthias Weber from Zündorf created the first connection to Cologne with a screw steamer, from which the "Weberschiff" company, which still exists in Cologne today, developed. In 1909 and 1911 respectively, Balthasar Platz applied for ferry connections from the old arm of the Rhine to Porz and Weiß from the restoration "Zur Rheinlust" (today Groov-Terrassen). There was also a "market shipping" from Zündorf to Cologne.

The Zündorf - Weiß ferry service was discontinued around 1953. In 1987 Heiko Dietrich received the approval to set up a ferry service between Zündorf and Weiß. In September he started ferry operations with a converted small Dutch ship, the “Frika”, followed later by the smaller boats “Krokodil” and “Krokolino”, which he uses depending on the company. Today (2010) it drives daily in summer, there is a break in winter and only on Sundays and public holidays in the transition periods.

schools

societies

The churches of St. Michael (front) and St. Mary's Birth (back)

Sports

One of the largest clubs in Zündorf is the gymnastics and sports club TV Rheingold Zündorf, founded in 1914 . He offers various popular sports, gymnastics, athletics, volleyball, badminton and other ball games. The soccer club FC Germania Zündorf was founded in 1913 and, in addition to the men's soccer team, has a women's gymnastics group and an inclusion team. A well-known player from this club is Jupp Röhrig , a national soccer player from the 1950s, who began his career at Germania Zündorf in the 1930s. The minigolf club 1. Porzer MGC Grün-Weiß 1969 eV regularly sends players of different classes to German championships.

In the area of ​​water sports, the club for water sports (rowing, sailing, motorboat) and the canoe club Zugvogel with around 170 members are active in Zündorf, which is also involved in school sports.

Youth work

In the field of youth work, the parish youth community Zündorf e. V. (short: PJG ), which organizes weekly group lessons with its voluntary leader groups as well as a common tent camp with more than 100 participants.

Culture

The cultural association Zündorfer Klosterkapelle , founded in 1987, endeavors to preserve the neo-Gothic chapel of the former monastery in Niederündorf as a location for cultural events. The two carnival associations based in Zündorf are KG Fidele Grön-Wieße Rezag Porzer Ehrengarde eV and the 1st Guard Corps Cologne / KG Blau-Weiß-Zündorf from 1928

The choir community Cäcilia Zündorf , newly founded in 1985, emerged from the parish choral society Cäcilia Zündorf from 1870. The approximately 80 singers give concerts in the Cologne Philharmonic. The mixed gospel choir Spirit of Change of the parish of St. Mariae Birth, which also performs regionally and nationally, was founded in 1998 and has around 80 members (as of May 2015) as well as its own band.

nature

The association Die Groov-Paten , with around 100 members, is committed to the preservation, maintenance and improvement of the Zündorfer Groov landscape protection area, the protection of monuments and youth interests as well as heritage and customs.

Regular events

At the market square on the Groov

Every year from Ascension Day , the CDU organizes the four-day Porzer Inselfest at the Groov. In addition to a folk festival with rides , there is a historic craft market and a children's flea market and, at the end, a fireworks display.

The Ädäppelsdag ( Kölsch : Potato Day ) is a festival organized by the local association of the SPD at which local craft businesses can present themselves. The highlight of this festival is the competition for the thickest potato .

traffic

  • End of tram line 7

  • Marina

  • KroKoLino passenger ferry

economy

Today, in contrast to earlier centuries, there are no larger or supraregional important companies based in Zündorf. However, an agricultural tradition with a few farms has survived. As a result of the Cologne stacking law (1259), businesses and trading houses settled in Nieder-Zündorf in particular. From 1831 onwards, the companies moved mainly because of the abolition of the Cologne stacking right .

Of particular importance were:

  • Trading houses
    • Judenduck
    • Boullé
    • Huth
    • Pelletier
  • Breweries
  • Adelenhütte
  • fishing
  • Ferry and shipping companies

In addition to the usual craft businesses and shops, there were smaller businesses whose tradition in Zündorf was lost:

  • Glassmaker
  • Soap-making
  • Cloth merchant
  • Wine trade
  • Cooper
  • Katun and blue dyeing
  • Wool mill
  • Horn turning
  • Tobacco moth
  • presumably also sound processing

See also

literature

  • Johann Bendel : home book of the district of Mülheim am Rhein, history and description, sagas and stories. Cologne-Mülheim 1925.
  • Stefan Pohl / Georg Mölich: Cologne on the right bank of the Rhine: Its history from antiquity to the present. Winand, Cologne 1994.

Web links

Commons : Köln-Zündorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Huck, Heimatverein Porz (ed.): The location of Porz am Rhein , In Unser Porz , vol. 14.
  2. ↑ Jürgen Huck, Heimatverein Porz (ed.): Zündorfer Handelshäuser , in Unser Porz , vol. 14.
  3. ↑ Cologne flood protection concept
  4. ↑ Structural flood protection ( Memento from February 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), planning approval section 14 Zündorf - Marktplatz.
  5. ↑ Jürgen Huck, Heimatverein Porz (ed.): The Rhine and its banks ... , in Our Porz , vol. 14.
  6. ↑ Information page for the districts of Porz-Zündorf, Langel and Libur, Groov
  7. ↑ Porz am Rhein, Die Groov ( Memento from June 22, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ^ Romanesque churches in Cologne
  9. ↑ Inhabitants according to selected age groups - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de
  10. ↑ Inhabitants according to selected age groups - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de
  11. ↑ Inhabitants by type of migration background - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de
  12. ↑ Employed and unemployed part of the city - data source: City of Cologne - offenedaten-koeln.de
  13. ^ Frank Schwalm: The Cologne incorporation plans for the Porz area in the years 1919 to 1951. In: Rechtsrheinisches Köln - Jahrbuch für Geschichte und Landeskunde, Vol. 24, Cologne 1998. Geschichts- und Heimatverein Rechtsrheinisches Köln, accessed on June 12, 2015 .
  14. ↑ Bürgerwille Kettwig campaign ( memento of the original from June 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hbv-wat.de
  15. ↑ Defense tower, Die Zündorfer Judengemeinde
  16. ^ Jewish cemeteries
  17. ↑ Hubert Becker, Heimatverein Porz (ed.): Rhine ferries in the Porz area , In Unser Porz , vol. 14.
  18. ↑ a b c Jürgen Huck, Heimatverein Porz (ed.): Shipping and trade , In Unser Porz , vol. 14.
  19. ^ Village community Weiss, history
  20. ↑ Ferry Crocodile
  21. ^ TV Rheingold Zündorf. TV Rheingold Zündorf, accessed on November 24, 2018 .
  22. ↑ Flyer May 2018 (TV Rheingold Zündorf). In: tv-rheingold-zuendorf.de. Retrieved November 24, 2018 .
  23. ↑ History - Years 1932 - 1946. In: teamlr.de. Retrieved November 24, 2018 .
  24. ^ Chronicle of the 1st Porzer Mini Golf Club Grün-Weiß from 1969 eV In: mgc-porz.jimdo.com. Retrieved November 24, 2018 .
  25. ↑ About us - club history. In: cfwp.de. Retrieved November 26, 2018 .
  26. ^ Kanuclub Zugvogel - The association. In: kczugvogel.de. Retrieved November 26, 2018 .
  27. ↑ PJG - About us. In: pjg.de. Retrieved November 26, 2018 .
  28. ^ Monastery Chapel Association. In: klosterkapelle.de. Retrieved November 26, 2018 .
  29. ↑ 1st Guard Corps Cologne
  30. ^ Chronicle of the Cäcilia Zündorf choir community. In: caeciliazuendorf.de. Retrieved November 26, 2018 .
  31. ↑ The gospel choir. In: spirit-of-change.de. May 23, 2015, accessed November 26, 2018 .
  32. ↑ The Groov-Paten eV welcome you warmly. In: die-groov-paten.de. Retrieved November 26, 2018 .