Doubt

Doubt City of Stolberg (Rhld.) Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 5 ″ N , 6 ° 15 ′ 25 ″ E
Height :	253 m above sea level NHN
Area :	20.37 km²
Residents :	1980 (2017)
Population density :	97 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st July 1969
Incorporated into:	Roetgen
Postal code :	52224
Area code :	02402
Location of Zweifall in North Rhine-Westphalia
	Aerial view of Zweifall

Catholic parish church of St. Rochus

Sawmill in Zweifall

Since 1972, Zweifall has been the southernmost district of the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Stolberg (Rhld.) In the city region of Aachen in the administrative district of Cologne .

Origin of name

The origin of the place name is controversial. A popular theory is that it stems from the meeting of the Vicht and Hassel streams . However, this interpretation can not be held etymologically . It is more likely that the word "doubt" gave it its name. The ironworks, which was built there due to the abundance of wood and the streams, was located on the border between the Jülich and the Münsterländchen (the street leading out of the town is still called "Münsterau" ), so that one was "in doubt" as to what it was for newly emerging place was to be counted. But even this interpretation of the naming has not been clearly proven.

geography

Zweifall lies in a basin at the confluence of the Vicht and Hasselbach rivers. Naturally in the High Fens (Northern Venn roof, order number 283.1) and is part of the North Eifel Nature Park . Neighboring towns are Breinig in the west, Vicht in the north and Roetgen- Mulartshütte in the south-west. Between Zweifall and Vicht there are many timber shops and equestrian workshops such as Junkershammer , Platenhammer and Neuenhammer .

Finsterau is a southern district of Zweifalls near the city limits of Roetgen with the Vichtbach flowing to the west .

history

Zweifall is documented for the first time in the 13th century. A smelter is said to have built his ironworks where the Vicht and the Hassel coincide. The name Zweifall could be derived from the fall of the two streams. Another opinion is that the smelter in question did not know whose territory this area belonged to and that he therefore called his property Zwiefall .

In 1548 there was the first Lutheran service in Zweifall, and in 1675 the evangelical congregation emerged from it. Its church, built after the Peace of Westphalia from 1683/84, is one of the oldest originally Protestant churches in the region.

Until the end of the 18th century, Zweifall belonged to the part that was east of the Hasselbach and the Vicht to the Wehrmeisterei office and the other part to the Monschau (Montjoie) office in the Duchy of Jülich . Under the Prussian administration, the place belonged from 1816 to the mayor's office of Roetgen in the Monschau district .

Until 1969, Zweifall belonged as an independent municipality to the also dissolved district of Monschau and this to the also dissolved administrative district of Aachen . On July 1, 1969, the place was incorporated into the municipality of Roetgen , but was reclassified into the city of Stolberg (Rhld.) On January 1, 1972.

Attractions

Carmelite monastery "Maria Königin"

The interior of the Protestant church.

Interesting that was former Carmelite of Mary Queen of the year 1954/55, the host bakery parts of the Aachen diocese with communion wafers supplied. The monastery was founded because so many nuns came to the local monastery in Düren that the space became too narrow. In two cases, eight nuns from Düren were resident. On January 10, 2006, the Congregation of the Vatican Order dissolved the monastery. Evangelical Church Zweifall

The Protestant church dates from 1683. The pulpit altar made of white marble and dark blue painted wood and the trumpet angel on the tower are worth seeing.

Forest nature trails and natural monuments The forest nature trail in Solchbachtal, the nature trail Roggenläger and the viewing point "Zur Fernsicht", which offers a view of the entire valley, are worthwhile for hikers. It is worth mentioning the large cross and the memorial stone for the war victims in the village.

Natural monuments in and around Zweifall are an ash tree in the Protestant cemetery and a group of spruce trees on the banks of the Hasselbach (Im Jagen 113).

Museum sawmill On the outskirts there has been a museum sawmill since March 2009. It shows historical tools from forest work and demonstrates historical sawmill technology to the public .

traffic

The AVV bus routes

line	course
8th	Zweifall - Vicht - Bernardshammer - Binsfeldhammer - Stolberg Mühlener Bf - Velau - Steinfurt - Pump-Stich - Talbahnhof / Raiffeisenplatz - Hospital - Eschweiler Busof
42	( Schevenhütte -) Gressenich Chapel - Krewinkel - Mausbach - / ( Zweifall -) Vicht - Breinigerberg - Breinig - Dorff - Büsbach - Münsterbusch - Zinkhütter Hof - Stolberg Mühlener Bf - ( Velau - Stolberg Hbf ) / Birkengang - Stolberg Hans-Böckler-Straße

connect Zweifall with Stolberg and beyond.

The next motorway junction is Aachen-Brand on the A 44 .

societies

The St. Sebastianus Schützenbruderschaft 1824 Zweifall eV exists

In 2008 VfL 08 Vichttal 1927/1937 eV emerged from the merger of VfL Zweifall with the neighboring VfB Vicht. Since the summer of 2011, VfL 08 Vichttal has had the first artificial turf pitch and a small artificial turf field in the Stolberg urban area on its club premises, the Dörenberg sports park . In the 2012/13 season the club had 19 youth teams and 5 senior teams as well as a representative of the "old men".

In 1977 the tennis club "TC Zweifall eV" was founded, which has had its sporting home in the Finsterau district since 1981. The area in the forest has 4 ash places.

Personalities

Walter Plata , graphic designer , typesetter and typographer , lived in Zweifall for a few years and is buried in the local cemetery.
Dietrich Tzwyvel , mathematician , astronomer , music theorist and printer . 16th century humanist who lived and worked in Münster . When he was abroad, he chose his last name after his hometown in the spelling of the time. In the coat of arms he had an onion that is only phonetically, not meaningfully, related to the name.

literature

Mätschke, Dieter: Stolberger walks. Vol. 2: In the Nordeifel Nature Park , Meyer & Meyer Verlag, Aachen 1991. ISBN 3-89124-105-4
Zweifall - forest and border village in the Vichttal. Second extended edition of the Zweifaller Heimatbuch by Johannes Bendel on behalf of the municipality of Zweifall, revised by Dr. Heinrich Koch with the collaboration of Dr. Ella Bieroth, Günther Hörnig, Werner Kleingarn, Werner Nerlich and Max Premer. Monschau 1968.
Ewald Berninghaus: Speech at the consecration of the bell given by Sr. Majesty to the German Emperor Wilhelm I of the Evangelical Parish zu Zweifall in memory of its three hundredth anniversary on October 29, 1876 in the Evangelical Church of Zweifall . Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1877 ( digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf )

Web links

Commons : Zweifall - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Sonja Essers: More births, but fewer inhabitants in Stolberg. In: Stolberger Zeitung. Retrieved February 2, 2019 .
^ Ewald Gläßer: The natural space units on sheet 122/123 Cologne Aachen . In: Bundesforschungsanstalt für Landeskunde und Raumordnung (Ed.): Geographische Landesaufnahme 1: 200000 Natural Spatial Structure Germany . Self-published, Bad Godesberg 1978 ( online, PDF [accessed on February 16, 2016] high Venn, German share, map of geographic land survey, natural spatial structure, see here parts 283.0 and 283.1).
↑ On the history of the Protestants in the Aachen area. Church district Aachen
↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 78 .
^ 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. 305 .
↑ Get out of the monastery! , Die Zeit , 44th week 2006
↑ St Sebastianus Schützenbruderschaft 1824 Zweifall e. V. Accessed July 26, 2020 .

[1] Sonja Essers: More births, but fewer inhabitants in Stolberg. In: Stolberger Zeitung. Retrieved February 2, 2019 .

[2] Ewald Gläßer: The natural space units on sheet 122/123 Cologne Aachen . In: Bundesforschungsanstalt für Landeskunde und Raumordnung (Ed.): Geographische Landesaufnahme 1: 200000 Natural Spatial Structure Germany . Self-published, Bad Godesberg 1978 ( online, PDF [accessed on February 16, 2016] high Venn, German share, map of geographic land survey, natural spatial structure, see here parts 283.0 and 283.1).

[3] On the history of the Protestants in the Aachen area. Church district Aachen

[4] Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 78 .

[5] 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. 305 .

[6] Get out of the monastery! , Die Zeit , 44th week 2006

[7] St Sebastianus Schützenbruderschaft 1824 Zweifall e. V. Accessed July 26, 2020 .