Düren (district)

The district of Düren is a circle in the west of North Rhine -Westphalia in the district of Cologne.

• 4.1 District Administrators
• 4.2 Oberkreisdirektor Directors
• 4.3 Results of the local elections
• 4.4 Coat of Arms

• 7.1 Public transport
• 7.2 private transport

• 9.1 Museums
• 9.2 Jewish Cemeteries

Geography

Spatial location

The district of Düren in the Rhineland lies and extends to parts of the North Eifel in the south of the district and the Jülich flaring in the north. Through the circle flows from south to north the Rur. The southwestern corner of the county area is part of the Eifel National Park.

Neighboring districts or urban -

The Düren district is bordered to the north by the county Heinberg, in the north -east of the Rhein-Kreis Neuss, on the east by the Rhine -Erft, to the south by the district of Euskirchen and to the west by the cities of Aachen region.

History, regional reforms

In the spring of 1816, the circles were formed. The then district of Düren originated from the cantons Düren and Froitzheim and parts of the cantons Eschweiler Kerpen, Linnich and Monschau. It included except the city of Düren communities Langerwehe and Weisweiler and the 22 mayors Arnoldsweiler, Bins field Birgel, Birkesdorf, Bürvenich, Drove, Echtz, Froitzheim, Füssenich, Kelz, Lamersdorf, Memory, Merzenich, Nideggen, Lower Trim, Noervenich, Nothberg, Pier, Sievernich, road - Bergstein, stock Home and Wollersheim.

1932 came from the district of Düren Nothberg together with Bohl, Hastenrath, Scherpenseel and Volkenrath the town of Eschweiler in the former district Aachen. The " Hastenrath tip " fell on the town of Stolberg.

1 January 1972 came a large municipal reform in the area of ​​Aachen in force. It was a part of the previous counties, such as circles Jülich, Monschau and Schleiden, dissolved. At the same time the government district Aachen was dissolved and the district of Düren came to Cologne Region.

Although the district of Düren lost by the local government reform in some places, such as Weis hamlet, which went to the town of Eschweiler in the former district of Aachen along with Hücheln and Wilhelm height, but these were small losses large gains against. The circle Jülich was merged with the old district of Düren to the new district of Düren. Also Heimbach from the then district Schleiden was combined to form a municipality with Schmidt from the then district Monschau and Nideggen from the district of Düren and as well as the community Vossenack from the then district Monschau beaten to Düren. Vossenack was part of the municipality newly formed Hurtgenwald.

On August 4, 1972, the Supreme Administrative Court ruled that Heimbach again an independent municipality is. Schmidt remains in Nideggen. Membership in the district of Düren it remained unaffected.

On January 1, 1975, the municipal government reform for the Cologne - Bonn area came into force. This Wissersheim, Pingsheim and Dorweiler came from the then Erftkreis the district of Düren

On 25 May 2009 the District received the loaned by the federal government entitled " City of Diversity".

Cities and Towns

The district of Düren is composed of fifteen communities. Five of them had the title of " city ". Of these five, the city of Jülich Medium is district town, as their population is 25000-60000. The city of Düren is Large district town, as their population is about 60,000.

In parentheses are the population figures at 31 December 2012

Cities

Communities

Policy

District administrators

Senior district directors

Results of the local elections

Notes:

• JÜL = Independent voters Community Jülichs bipartisan list
• In November 2007, a district council deputy of the FDP as well as one of the PDS left their respective faction and joined the group " Free List " together. The PDS thus losing their faction status.

Coat of arms

The Arms of Düren shows in the upper half of a growing lion, which was taken from the coat of arms of the Dukes of Jülich, the earlier mitregierten the town of Düren. The lower half of the coat of arms is blue. Then you can see a white sheet of paper, suggesting the long tradition of paper making in Düren, which is handed back to the 16th century. On the white sheet of the letter " D" is shown, which stands for Düren.

Partnership

• The Dorchester County, Maryland ( USA) is a partner in county since 6 June 2005.
• The Raion ( municipal district ) Mytischi in the Moscow Oblast (RUS ) is a partner in county since 13 April 2011.

Economy

Largest company in the district of Düren is the company SIG Combibloc in Linnich. It is with your beverage carton manufacture just one example of the paper industry in the district. In Düren find classic paper mills and paper processing companies, as well as in and around Jülich corrugated carton manufacturers.

In Düren district are also open-cast mines of the company RWE Power (formerly Rhein Braun), where brown coal is extracted, mainly for electricity generation in three of the four nearby coal-fired power plants. The largest brown coal mine in the world is the Hambach mine is considerably smaller open pit indene.

In the Voreifel is very much tourism to find.

In Jülich Nuclear Research Establishment was founded in 1956. It developed into the largest research institution in Germany. In 1990 it was renamed the Research Center Jülich.

The FH Aachen has a location in Jülich, Jülich campus. With the motto " the world needs engineers .......... we will make it out! " engineers are trained here for 40 years.

The built in 1956 by the British Nörvenich is the largest military installation in the district.

The district of Düren is an option municipality and operates as such the job center for basic provision for jobseekers ( unemployment benefit II ) in sole ownership, as an official job -com of the district administration.

Traffic

Public transport

Throughout the district and beyond the Duerener circular path ( DKB) operates a network of bus routes. The district of Düren is a member of the Aachen Transport Association ( AVV). However, apply on some routes, the fare rules of the adjacent traffic Rhine-Sieg (VRS ).

In 1993, the DKB the Railroads Jülich - Düren and Düren - Heimbach along the so-called Rurschiene by the Federal Railways. They were among the first lines of the Federal Railroad, which were privatized. 2003, the railway line of Jülich was reactivated to Linnich for passenger traffic. These two routes meet Rurtalbahn each other in the county town of Düren, where there are connections to Cologne and Aachen. The end of 2009 Euregiobahn of Eschweiler - Weisweiler was tied up to Düren. In the medium term, the flare path of Düren and Euskirchen Zuelpich by DKB be reactivated.

Since early 2010, the Düren station is serviced again by individual long-distance trains.

Private transport

• The A44 from Aachen to Mönchengladbach and Dusseldorf, crosses the northern district near Jülich.
• The A4 from Cologne to Aachen traverses the district of Düren in the amount of the district town
• The motorway junction Jackerath (including departure) is also situated on the A61 still in the district.

Through both motorways, A 4 and A 44, the circle has direct connections to the cities of Cologne, Dusseldorf and Aachen as well as connections to Belgium and the Netherlands.

The following major roads run through the county area:

• B 55
• B 56
• B 57
• B 264
• B 265
• B 399
• B 477

Media

The local newspaper market is served by publications of newspaper publishers Aachen. The local editions divide the circle area is still in its two predecessors circles: while in the southern part, the old district of Düren, rather the " Düren newspaper" ( as a local edition of the Aachener Zeitung ) and the " Düren News " (as local edition of Aachen messages) reads, so are in the northern former district Jülich the " Jülich newspaper " and " Jülich News " widespread.

The West German Radio (WDR) reported from the region responsible for the WDR Studio Local Aachen, both in its " local time " of the WDR television as well as in the regional section of his second radio WDR 2 program about current events.

Radio Rur is the local private radio station for the district of Düren.

Culture

Museums

• Aldenhoven Mining Museum
• Protect Museum Aldenhoven

• Düren Carnival Museum
• Leopold -Hoesch Museum
• Paper Museum Düren
• City Museum Düren
• Fire Museum

• Citadel Museum
• City History Museum Jülich

• RWE Industrie Museum

• Museum Hurtgenwald 1944

• Local History Museum indene

• Töpfereimuseum Langerwehe

• German Stained Glass Museum
• Heritage Museum Linnich

• Heritage Museum Merzenich

• Castle Museum ( Nideggen )

• Heritage Museum House Horn

• Museum of European Art

Jewish Cemeteries

24 Jewish cemeteries have been documented for the district of Düren in Aldenhoven ( 2), in Duren ( 3), Hurtgenwald ( 1), indene ( 2) in Jülich ( 1), in Kreuzau ( 2), in Langerwehe (1 ), in Linnich ( 3), Merzenich ( 1), in Nideggen ( 2), Titz (2) and in Vettweiß (4). There are worth protecting cultural monuments - stone witnesses for previously existing Jewish communities and a lively Jewish community life until the 1930s.

• See also: List of Jewish cemeteries in the district of Düren

Others

• On the circle area still are numerous ruins of the former West Wall.
• Heimbach is a health resort.
• Vossenack and Simonskall are recognized resorts.
• Since 2006 there has been a hobby league for leisure players in the district of Düren. There, the so-called " Wolfgang Spelthahn Cup" is played in a season from March to November.