Bad Münstereifel

Bad Münster Eifel is a town in the district of Euskirchen in the south of North Rhine -Westphalia ( Germany ).

Bad Münstereifel regarded as medieval gem with almost completely preserved restored city wall. In addition to the approximately 6,000 inhabitants in the nucleus further approximately 13,000 inhabitants live in the corresponding 51 districts and hamlets. Bad Münster Eifel resort, especially for the residents of the metropolises of Cologne, Bonn, Dusseldorf and the Ruhr Area. Since 1974, Bad Münster Eifel " nationally recognized Kneipp spa ".

The city is the first in which a so-called outlet centers in an inner city and no longer to be built outside usual or at the edge of the village. Along the pedestrian zone are about 30 to 40 brand shops will be located in the historic district. The project is called City Outlet Bad Münstereifel.

  • 2.1 Amalgamations
  • 3.1 City Council
  • 3.2 Coat of Arms
  • 3.3 Town twinning
  • 4.1 Structures
  • 4.2 Archaeological monuments
  • 4.3 Museums
  • 4.4 Concerts
  • 7.1 Public Transport
  • 7.2 street
  • 8.1 freeman
  • 8.2 Sons and daughters of the town
  • 8.3 Other personalities who are associated with the city

Geography

Geographical location

Bad Münstereifel is located about 30 kilometers southwest of Bonn and ten (each crow flies) south of Euskirchen in Münstereifeler Forest, a part of the Eifel, and is traversed by a portion of the Erft. It covers approximately 151 km ² area over altitudes from 200 to 586.1 m above sea level. NN. The latter is the height of Michel mountain that rises the highest elevation of the municipal area in the northwest part of the Ahrgebirges ( Another part of the Eifel).

The city area is wooded to about 60 percent, a number of forest plots are shown as so-called forest plots. Over 200 km of hiking trails open up the low mountain range, which lies about 25 kilometers from the national park Eifel.

Climate

Bad Münstereifel part of the rain shadow area of the Eifel region ( in the lee of the Western High Eifel and Schneifel ) and has therefore only average annual precipitation of 700-750 mm. In the town itself there is an average annual air temperature of 7.5-8.0 ° C and a July temperature of about 15-16 ° C. The length of the vegetation period is 130-140 days. The mean onset of apple blossom on May 10 to 20 The winter rye harvest begins on July 29 to August 8.

Districts

Arloff, Bergrath, Berresheim, Effelsberg, oaks, Eicherscheid, Elle Home, Esch, Eschweiler, Gilsdorf, Hilterscheid, scorn, Holzem, Honerath, Houverath, Hummerzheim, Hünkhoven, Iversheim, Kalkar, core city of Bad Münster Eifel, Kirspenich, Kolvenbach, Kop Nück, cross- cutting, Lanzerath, Lethert, Limbach, Lingscheiderhof, Mahlberg, Maulsbach, Mutscheid, Neichen, Nitterscheid, Nöthen, Odesheim, Ohlerath, Reckerscheid, Rodert, Rupperath, Sasserath, scouring Heck, Scheurenstraße, Schönau, Soller, Vollmert, Forest, Willerscheid, Witscheiderhof (links see below in the navigation bar )

Neighboring communities

The following municipalities border on the city Bad Münstereifel; they are clockwise from the southwest, called: Cute home, Mechernich, Euskirchen, Rhine river (all North Rhine-Westphalia ) and Altenahr and Adenau (both Rhineland -Palatinate )

History

To 830 founded the third Abbot of Prüm, Mark Ward, a daughter monastery, which he called " novelty Monasterium ". 844 Pope Sergius II gave the abbot the remains of the Roman martyrs couple Chrysanthus and Daria. After that, the monastery gained through active pilgrimage activity in importance and became ecclesiastical center of the Eifel Deanery. King Zwentibold of Lorraine gave 898 the monastery market, coin and customs law. To the monastery walls around was a settlement before the monastery, a market was created. In the 12th century a new name prevailed for the settlement Monasterium in Eiflia. The monastery was converted into a pen. By 1300, built by the Count of Jülich, the castle and built the town's fortifications. 1356 was Münstereifel seat of a court and the town council. It originated woolen mills, tanneries and breweries. 1454 was the Duke of Jülich a city council constitution. The Council consisted of seven aldermen and seven council relatives, from the middle of the mayor was elected annually. After 1600, Münstereifel has been transformed into a city of the Counter-Reformation. 1618, the Capuchins came to Münster Eifel, who erected a cloth manufactory on their monastery district and thus created new jobs for the ailing wool weaver. In 1625 the Jesuits took on the teaching of St. Michael's High School. Your office in 1649 elevated to the College; the establishment of the monastery building was 1652-1674, the church of the Jesuits from 1659 to 1668; the high school building was erected in 1724-1727. From 1657 the Carmelites in Münster Eifel settled. Their monastery complex was built in 1769/70. Built by the Jesuits, St. Michael's High School was the only secondary school between Cologne and Trier. The secularization of the monasteries and the pin to 1802 by Napoleon meant a serious setback to the economic life of the city, which was marked by last seven monasteries and churches with a total of about 100 priests, sisters and lay brothers. 1815 was the later Rhine province of Prussia, Münstereifel lost politically and economically important. Only towards the end of the 19th century, tourism brought a re-invigoration of the economy. 1926 Münstereifel was Kneippkurort, since 1967 it is called " Bad" Münstereifel. The last Catholic Order of 2008 settled the Legionaries of Christ ( LC) in Bad Münster Eifel and took over the former Ursuline boarding school as a minor seminary and novitiate.

From 1901 to 1965 was on the road to Iversheim the company Hettner that made ​​industrial drills. Such a machine is set up as a memorial center of the roundabout on the B51.

During the Second World War, Adolf Hitler used from May 10 to June 6, 1940, the previously developed Führerhauptquartier " aerie " in Münster - Eifel Rodert. Was the supreme commander of the Army ( OKH ) his quarters in a bunker and barracks to the forester's house Hülloch.

Incorporations

On 1 July 1969, the following communities were incorporated:

Arloff, Effelsberg, Eschweiler, scorn, Houverath, Iversheim, Kalkar, Mahlberg, Mutscheid, Nöthen, Rupperath and Schönau. The communities scorn and Nöthen previously belonged to the county of Schleiden.

Parts of the territory of the former municipalities Holzmülheim ( also previously in the district Schleiden ) also were added and Kirchheim.

Policy

City ​​council

The 34 seats ( -4) of the City Council are distributed as follows:

  • CDU: 15 seats (-2)
  • SPD: 7 seats ( -2)
  • FDP: 5 seats ( 1)
  • UWV: 4 seats (-1)
  • GREEN: 3 seats (± 0)

(As at municipal election held on August 30, 2009 )

Coat of arms

Coat Description: " Shared by gold and red, above a growing, red reinforced and bezungter black lion, down a golden five-pointed star. "

Coat of arms meaning: Münstereifel was one of the four capitals of the Duchy of Jülich, Jülich whereupon the lion still points on the emblem today. The star is a symbol of the jurisdiction. Since 1171 a trial by jury is mentioned in documents, the 1197 market jurisdiction was transferred. For this trial by jury, the City Council developed. For the first time witnessed the Münstereifeler coat of arms is in the seal of the Münstereifeler alderman of the 14th century.

Twinning

Twinned with:

  • Ashford, Kent (United Kingdom ), since 1964 ( Youth Exchange since 1952)
  • Fougeres, Brittany (France), since 1967

Culture and sights

Structures

  • Bad Münstereifel 1299 was first called " oppidum " Monasterium in Eiflia, ie " fortified place ". Almost completely preserved the Stadtumwehrung from the beginning of the 13th century with a total of four city gates. They were provided until the 18th century, with a drawbridge, portcullis and gate leaves, are all rectangular gate tower with a pitched roof. The highest is the Werther gate with surrounding ledge at the upper wall edge of his slender gate tower. The Werther of the north gate, named after an earlier Frankish settlement called values ​​.
  • The Johannistor at the eastern exit of the town, named after the parish church of St. John above the door.
  • The Orchheimer goal as Southern Gate, named after the medieval district of Münster Eifel.
  • The Heisterbacher gate in the west of the city wall.
  • Chapel on the Mountain Michel
  • Castle Kirspenich
  • Jewish Cemetery ( Bad Münster Eifel), in addition also the defunct Jewish cemetery ( Bad Münstereifel ( Hardt forest ) )

Archaeological monuments

  • Old Castle, Ringwallanlage from the 9th century
  • List of archaeological monuments in Bad Münster Eifel

Museums

  • Hürten Homeland Museum ( in Roman house ), founded in 1912, fossil collection, weaving workshop, bourgeois living room
  • Roman Kalkbrennerei Iversheim, six lime kilns, about 150 to 300 AD
  • Pharmacy Museum, opened in 1997, documents and images on the history of pharmacy, pharmacies original equipment from the 19th century and early 20th century.
  • Handwebmuseum, opened in 1961, original equipment and pictures of 5000 -year history of weaving
  • Nature and landscape museum, walk-in diorama, in which nature is represented by Bad Münstereifel
  • Museum of dolls and toys, dolls and other toys from various eras and variations
  • Wooden Toys Museum in Bad Münster Eifel, wooden toys mainly from the Erzgebirge

See also: List of museums in North Rhine -Westphalia, German museums to theme list

Concerts

The classical " concerts on the moat " are known far beyond the borders of the city. The " House of Culture theater 1 " as a cultural space. There you will find theater performances for both children and adults. The internationally -known jazz musician and professor of music Hans Peter Salentin concerts there regularly.

Leisure and Activities

In the immediate vicinity of the city there are approximately 200 km of well- marked trails for skiers and hikers. The Erft cycle path runs over 110 km from the source of the Erft up to its confluence with the Rhine. The Eifelbad has swimming and lap pool, play and fun pool, children's play and fun pool, outdoor pool ( in winter ), jacuzzi ( outdoor and indoor), wallow, a 66 m giant slide, a sauna, solarium and a large lawn.

The DJH Hostel in Bad Münster - Eifel Rodert provides 164 beds in dormitories for four, six and eight people, also ten group leaders rooms and seven lounges.

There are several tours in the city and the surrounding area offered, including:

  • A tour of the European ecological Bad Münstereifeler forest. The forest trail has a length of 6 km, it starts and ends in the park Schleid and provides information about the local flora and fauna.
  • A guided tour of the historic city center with its numerous monuments and the perfectly preserved city wall of 1.6 km in length with 18 military and defense towers, four city gates, the castle ruins and the partially accessible battlement.

Since October 2007 there is in Bad Münster Eifel culture house theater 1, which offers an ever-changing cultural program in the fields of theater, puppet theater, concert, dance and literature.

Education

Bad Münstereifel is the seat of SIGNO Innovation Society Eifel eV, the greatest inventors association in Germany. SIGNO is a project of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. Attached to the club is a youth and children's department in which children and young people in a club's workshop the basic knowledge to acquire in technology.

In Bad Münstereifel there is next to four primary schools in the districts Arloff, Mutscheid and Houverath a main and a secondary school and two high schools: the city's St. Michael's High School and the Archbishop of St. Angela Gymnasium. Since 2008, in Bad Münsteifel an apostolic school of the Legionaries of Christ, which leads a boarding high school in the seventh grade through high school.

The city is the site started in 1976, College of Justice of North Rhine -Westphalia and also has its own City Community College. With among others, the Kurt -Schumacher- Academy of the Friedrich -Ebert -Stiftung and the House of Occupational Safety of the professional association for electrical and precision engineering, the city is home to several private training centers. There are also the home of the Youth Red Cross as an educational facility for the National Association of North Rhine.

Bad Münstereifel has a public library with a stock of 16,000 media.

Traffic

Public transport

The breakpoint Bad Münster Eifel is an endpoint of Erft Valley Railway, the regional train runs on the rail passenger transport ( regional rail ) 23 daily every hour to Euskirchen.

Will be conducted of rail transport by DB Regio NRW, for speeds up to 120 km / h used for the Voreifelbahn diesel railcar of the DB 644 series in one-to two -traction. On the Erft rollercoaster but only a maximum speed of 60 km / h can be driven as it is a single-track branch line with many poor visibility, unguarded level crossings.

Furthermore approached Bad Münstereifel of the bus lines of the RVK. There are several bus lines in different directions. All journeys performed with normal buses, as well as the utilization is correspondingly high here - Due to the relatively weak demand, however, only on the bus route 801 ( Bad Münster Eifel Euskirchen ). On the other lines, the trips outside the rush hour usually only with taxi buses ( TaxiBusPlus, nominal fee ) be carried out.

For the local rail and bus services to the tariff of the transport association Rhein-Sieg (VRS ) and collective space border of the NRW rate applies.

Road

  • A 1 motorway, exit Bad Münstereifel / Mechernich
  • B 51

Personalities

Freeman

  • District Gottfried Josef Wolff on September 9, 1876 25 - years of service as District Administrator of the Rhine river ( Münstereifel belonged at that time to the circle of the Rhine river )
  • Prince Otto von Bismarck on April 2, 1895
  • Baron Friedrich von AYX on November 18, 1897
  • District Rudolf von Groote, promoter of the city, on April 24, 1902
  • Franz Ferdinand Maria Stephinsky on June 22, 1912
  • John A. Wiles, former mayor of the English twin town Ashford, on August 8, 1961
  • Emile ( Mimi ) Renno from the French twin town of Fougères / Brittany in recognition of his services to the twinning Fougères / Bad Münstereifel July 5, 1977

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Peter William Joseph de Gynetti, (1735-1804) physician
  • Friedrich Joseph Haass (1780-1853) the "holy Doctor of Moscow"
  • Hermann Löher, (1595-1678) author
  • Renate Mahlberg (* 1949), writer
  • Franz Ferdinand Maria Stephinsky (1823-1917) pharmacist, local politicians, Keeper of the Münstereifeler cityscape.
  • Hubertus Sturmius (c. 1550) professor of theology at the University of Leiden from 1579 to 1584
  • Michael Wink (* 1951 in Esch) biologist and professor at the University of Heidelberg
  • Ralf Zimmer ( b. 1961 ), Professor of Practical computer science with a focus on bioinformatics, LMU Munich

Other personalities who are associated with the city

  • The painter and graphic artist Konrad Schaefer (1915-1991) lived since 1966 in Bad Münster Eifel.
  • The writer Heinz Küpper (1930-2005) was history and German teacher in Bad Münster Eifel. He lived in the urban core.
  • Former Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and National Chairman of the FDP Otto Graf Lambsdorff (1926-2009) lived in Bad Münster Eifel ( - Eschweiler ).
  • The children and youth writer Nina Rauprich lives in Bad Münster Eifel.
  • The linguist and author Wilma Ruth Albrecht was 1989-1999 honorary city councilor in Bad Münster Eifel.
  • The jazz trumpeter and composer Hans -Peter Salentin lives in Münster Eifel.
  • In Bad Münstereifel the singer Heino Kramm, who has operated from 1996 to 2012 a café in the city lives. The café has moved to Historic spa since 2012.
  • In Bad Münstereifel lived television Judge Barbara Salesch.
  • The writer and editor Jochen Arlt lives in Houverath.
  • The writer and biographer Jürgen Trimborn (1971-2012) lived since the summer of 2007 in Bad Münster Eifel.
  • The religious scholars Monika Tworuschka and Udo Tworuschka live in the district Arloff.
  • Chancellor Willy Brandt and the SPD parliamentary leader Herbert Wehner led in the night of 4 to 5 May 1974, a conversation that should have led to Brandt's resignation a few days later.
  • The Portuguese Partido Socialista was founded on 19 April 1973 in Bad Münster Eifel.
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