Adenau

Adenau is a city in the High Eifel. It belongs to the district of Ahrweiler, in Rhineland -Palatinate, and is the administrative center of the municipality Adenau, which it also belongs. Adenau is a nationally recognized tourist and reported as a secondary center in accordance with state planning.

Adenau is dubbed "the city of St. John ," because since the Middle Ages, it was one of the oldest St. John's to come.

• 2.1 Middle Ages
• 2.2 16th to 18th century
• 2.3 19th to 20th century

• 3.1 City Council
• 3.2 Coat of Arms
• 3.3 Town twinning

• 4.1 Historical Market Square with fountain
• 4.2 Eifel Farmhouse Museum
• 4.3 home and guild Museum
• 4.4 St John Commandery
• 4.5 butter market
• 4.6 Church of St. John the Baptist
• 4.7 Evangelical Church of the Redeemer Adenau
• 4.8 Lady Chapel
• 4.9 Way of the Cross Adenau

• 7.1 people born in Adenau
• 7.2 Persons who are in connection with the city

Geography

Location

Adenau lies in the valley of the Adenauer Bach, a right tributary of the Ahr, the near Adenau with the Eßbach, the Mittelbach, the Näßbach and the Krekelbach in turn receives some tributaries. Side of the valleys of these waters rise around Adenau northwest of the Hüstert ( 406.4 m), north of Kirchberg ( 446.8 m ) and width Heide ( 496.3 m ) and the south Kallenhard (471 m). The municipality comprises the state forest Adenau and the nature reserve " Rhein- Ahr -Eifel " and reached in the outer north-east on the Hohe Acht with 746.9 meters high at its highest point on the ground. The district Breidscheid lies within the North Loop of the Nürburgring, which runs close to the district Adenau between the sections Adenauer Forst and Exmühle.

Boroughs

To Adenau include residential places on Schwallenberg, Breidscheider yard, Exmühle and hunting lodge in the Leihwiese.

History

Middle Ages

992 Adenau was in a charter of Emperor Otto III for the first time. mentioned in documents under the Middle High German name " Adenova ". In the High Middle Ages Adenau belonged to the territory of the Counts of Are- Nürburg, after mediation of the Archbishop of Cologne, Konrad von Hochstaden the Archbishopric of Cologne gave their county in 1246. After the extinction of the Counts of Are Adenau belonged to the Electoral Cologne office Nürburg.

In 1162, Count Ulrich von Are his manor in Adenau the Hospitallers. This Adenau is to Duisburg and Advertise / Elbe 's third oldest establishment of this Order in Germany. Under her head ( Commendatore ), the monks initially tried to nurse and care for the sick and pilgrims. Until 1518 the commander was at the same time pastor of the Catholic parish church in Adenau St. John the Baptist.

1490 sealed the aldermen of the Court Adenau, who were among the total of 28 aldermen in office Nürburg, already with today's coat of arms.

Probably led the 1389-1535 detectable noble family of Adenau its name from the eponymous site, since 1389 a Peter Adenau Steward and Burgmann is on the Nürburg. 1535, the family acquired the noble residence " to Mills " in Adenau.

16th to 18th century

To promote prosperity Adenau received a market privilege already before 1600. In addition to four large fairs and weekly markets were allowed to be performed. This privilege was confirmed in 1602 by Elector Ernst of Cologne and in 1647 by Elector Ferdinand of Cologne. Was also before 1600 as the first Adenauer guild the leather guild founded. 1700 followed the wool guild of weavers in the 18th century then the hammer guild of blacksmiths, locksmiths, carpenters and joiners.

These privileges and the city-like constitution with Mayor and Council ( aft ) Adenau recorded at the beginning of the 17th century from other locations. Therefore Adenau was designated as stain or freedom.

1689 Adenau was after the destruction of Nürburg by the French seat of the Office Nürburg.

19th to 20th century

After the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine by the French revolutionary army Adenau was from 1798 to 1814 the seat of the mayor (mayor) of the Mairie in Canton Adenau Adenau, who belonged to the Département de Rhin -et -Moselle. After the annexation of the Rhineland to the Kingdom of Prussia it was (also called " high Eifelkreis " ) 1816, home to the district administrator and the administration of the circle Adenau. Since 1816 Adenau had a municipal constitution with its own town council, which in 1820 the Prussian government in Koblenz its resolution sought to be classified in a lower tax bracket. The motion was approved until 1833,

The circle Adenau was one of the poorest counties in Prussia. Through costly infrastructure, the government tried to counteract the. So Adenau 1888 connected by the Ahrtalbahn about Dümpelfeld, Altenahr and Ahrweiler with Remagen on the Rhine, 1912 In the 1920s, followed by another railway line with Juenkerath .. on the initiative of the then District Administrator Dr. Creutz, with the support of the former district administrator Erich Klausener the construction of the Nürburgring, which was opened in 1927.

1932 Adenau lost its function as the county seat since the county Adenau was dissolved and merged with the district of Ahrweiler to the new district of Ahrweiler. Adenau was now a municipality in the district of Ahrweiler related to " Amtsbürgermeisterei Adenau ", an administrative merger of 24 municipalities.

Prime Minister Peter Altmeier said on May 11, 1952 on behalf of the state government of Rhineland -Palatinate the church Adenau to the city. On 1 October 1952, the inclusion of the neighboring community Breidscheid took place in the town of Adenau.

Policy

City ​​council

The council consists of 20 Adenau council members, who were elected at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009 of personalized proportional representation, and the honorary mayor as chairman city.

Allocation of seats in the elected City Council:

Coat of arms

The blazon is: "Divided by silver and red, above a continuous black faceted Balkenkreuz, sprinkled with silver down shingles, a silver, blue gezungter Lion".

The coat of arms was used as a seal image, in the 15th century. It combines the black cross of the Electorate of Cologne with the Lion of the Lords of Nürburg. Since 1831 the label image is used crest default. The actually false coloring of the coat of arms of Nürburg ( " sprinkled in red with golden shingles, a golden lion " ) goes back to the heraldist Otto Hupp.

Twinning

Adenau is twinned with the French community Sillery in Champagne and to Mellieha in Malta. This twinning be based on the shared history of St. John and Malta, which connects these communities. In 2002 came a further partnership with the community Presolana added in the Italian region of Lombardy.

Attractions

Historical Market Square with fountain

Eifel Farmhouse Museum

Home and guild Museum

St. John Commandery

Butter market

Parish Church of St John the Baptist

Evangelical Church of the Redeemer Adenau

Lady chapel

Stations of the Cross Adenau

Education

The Erich Klausener school Adenau goes back to a private school founded in 1914, and since 1966 Erich Klausener school is called. The best-known graduate is the ARD journalist Marion of hair.

Excursions in the vicinity

• The Nürburg

• The Hohe Acht

• The Nürburgring

Personalities

Born in Adenau people

• Johann Nicola Baur (1808-1874), businessman and longtime Prussian deputies
• Heribert Boeder (1928-2013), philosopher
• Bernhard Müller- Feyen (1931-2004), artist, sculptor and teacher
• Wild Erich von Droste zu Hulshoff (* 1948), German jurist, author and Chairman
• Sabine Schmitz ( * 1969 ), auto racing driver and television presenter
• Torsten " Toto " Jansen (born 1976 ), handball player
• Fabian Giefer (* 1990), football goalkeeper

Those associated with the city

• Clemens de Lassaulx (* 1809 in Diez, † 1906 in Adenau ), forest official in Adenau, "Father of the Eifel Forest"
• Erich Klausener (1885-1934), District Administrator of Adenau (1917-1919), was shot and killed by the Nazis because of his work as a Secretary in the Prussian Ministry of the Interior and head of the Berlin Catholic Action in 1934
• Wemper Otto (1894-1969), forester, pioneer of land reclamation of lignite opencast mine, headed from 1925 to 1940, the Forestry Office Adenau
• Max Funke (1895-1980), entrepreneur and inventor, founded in 1951 in Adenau the Max Funke KG
• Claude Hettier de Bois Lambert (1906-1986), military governor of Rhineland, then Rhineland -Palatinate from 1945 to 1951, took advantage of the Forestry Office Adenau as " hunting reservoir ".
• Marion of hair ( * 1957 in Kiel), European correspondent for the ARD, went in Adenau to High, High School 1977
• This Helmut (* 1962 in Neuwied ), Suffragan Bishop of the Diocese of Trier, 2004-2011 Pastor of Adenau