Friesdorf (Bonn)

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Location of Friesendorf in Bonn

Friesendorf is a district of the city of Bonn on the northern edge of the district of Bad Godesberg. To the north frieze village is limited by the undeveloped route for no longer possible extension of the A562, to the east by the B 9, to the south of the district ends about 150 meters behind the High Cross Avenue, west on Rheinhöhenweg.

History

In Roman times there was a villa in the Frisian village, whose remains were discovered in 1954. The discovery of an altar stone of the Roman Emperor Gordian III. dates from the 3rd century AD were also found in 1969 and 2010, a Frankish burial ground dating from the 9th century and possible settlement remains of the Celts.

A chapel is mentioned in documents in 1274, a little later, the first parish church.

See also: Klufterhof

Origin of the place name

The origin of the place name " Friesendorf " is controversial. He finds himself in the Carolingian period in the form of " Fritigestorp " (village of Fritigiso ). 1174 it is called " Fritisdorf ". Liber Valoris 1200 " Vryetsdorp ", " Frederisdorp ". Heinrich Merck, pastor in Friesendorf 1836 to 1853, after a street in the Frisian village is named today, reported in his writings: "The name of the village Friesendorf probably originates from a former Roman military Supreme Frisius. "

The Godesberg local historian and professor of Egyptology at the University of Bonn, Alfred Wiedemann, on the other hand leads in its history Godesberg and its surroundings (1920 ) the name Friesendorf to a Frankish personal names back, where he refers to documents of Münster chapter to Bonn 819-842 in which the place name " Fritigiso villa " appears. Fritigiso is just as Rinnigiso, after Rüngsdorf got its name, a Frankish personal name.

In The Bonn documents of the early Middle Ages Wilhelm Levison cited to Friesendorf: "In pago Bonnensis in villa quae dicitur Fritigesdorp " ( documents from the years 722/23, 794/95 and 873 ).

A document of the Bonn Cassiusstifts, the tithe in Friesendorf state, from the years 819-841 is " ego in Dei nomine Alvard ( et ) c. dono ad ecclesiam sive ad Reliquias santi Remidii, quae est constructa in Villa Basilica, et ubi praeesse Hathabaldus primae sedis episcopus Agrippinensium civatis, vineam in pago Bonnensis in marca, cognominatur Fristorp. " ( In the name of God I give, Alvard, the Church, which in the villa basilica is built and in the Cologne bishop Hathabaldus is chief, as well as the relics of St. Remigius a vineyard in the district Friesendorf ).

Modern Times

1670 included Friesendorf 69 houses. In 1900 Friesendorf was a poor place with underdeveloped infrastructure between Bonn and Godesberg. Along with the growth of both cities Friesendorf should be incorporated into one of the two, while they resisted because of the cost involved initially. On July 1, 1904 Friesendorf was finally incorporated with an area of ​​510 hectares to Bad Godesberg and 1969 by the amalgamation of the district of Bad Godesberg to Bonn. The district Friesendorf in the borders of the former municipality is today.

The baroque church with its Romanesque tower was replaced late 19th century by a neo-Gothic church. This was destroyed in an air raid in 1944, rebuilt in 1949 and extended. The independent parish of St. Servatius initiated 1981-2010 Indian Fathers of the Order of Carmelites of Mary Immaculate.

1880, the first cooperative bank was founded in the district of Bonn in Friesendorf.

In Friesendorf 1949/50, was the first and only joint housing project (101 units ) of the Allied High Commission for the accommodation of their employees. Today, about 8300 inhabitants live in Friesendorf. The proportion of children and young people is above average. More than 65 % of the population is younger than 60 years. The village has many shops and service providers.

Public institutions

  • An outdoor swimming pool, called "the Frisian " and the "Am Weckhasen " a large playground with urban playhouse and an educator
  • Two all-day primary schools (OGS ), two kindergartens and two childcare centers
  • An old people's meeting with lunch, this is also used as a community center
  • Servatiusstraße Hall as a multi -purpose hall
  • A large square in the center ( Klufterplatz ) with fountain and outdoor seating ( ice cream parlor )

Monuments in the district

Tower House

The tower house dating from the 12th century. It is one of the oldest houses in the Rhineland and its walls are basalt foundation up to 2 m thick. It was probably the beginning of the noble seat of the Knights of Friesendorf that were first mentioned in a document in 1139 and most recently in 1328. The tower house was called Turmhof because to the house belonged outbuildings. The old church Fries village stood there until 1888 and was next to the cemetery. In the 14th century, the tower house was the property of the Benedictine Abbey of Siegburg. The manager was one of the so-called four men who supervised the Kottenforst. The abbey of Siegburg awarded the Turmhof as a fief. The fief was sought because it was connected to the Ritterhof a seat in parliament Electoral Cologne. End of 1944, the tower house was badly damaged by a land mine and built as a private residence again.

Friesdorfer Park

In 1917, Max Hermann Loebner ( 1869-1947 ) here his " Horticulture Research Institute ". Botanists sighted ranges and bred through selection and crossing of commercial plant new crops. In 1931 the " gardener educational institution " added; also called " Horticulture Winter School". In 1967, the last major reorganization of the school garden was held, which was incorporated in 1979 in the exhibition concept of the Federal Garden Show. The particular plant population from foreign habitats was intended as a counterpoint to the Rheinaustrasse landscape.

After 1986, the Teaching and Research Institute Friesendorf had moved to Cologne Auweiler, the garden overgrown rapidly. Even from looting is reported. In 1994, the landscape architect Raderschall, Möhrer and Peters before the " park maintenance Friesendorf ". On its basis the garden space could be prepared with a focus on the planting again. Originally, the central axis oriented to the entrance building. Today, the park is entered from the Heinemann road from where the visitors receive transparent trellis pavilions and information boards.

The biggest festival in Friesendorf

The church festival or carnival Friesdorfer

Every year in mid-May the Friesdorfer fair is celebrated. The origin of today's carnival is the church festival, in Friesendorf on May 13, the feast of St. Servatius. Already in 1378, in the Liber Valoris, the directory of church property, the chapel of St.. Servatius to Erucht mentioned ( near the Klufterhofes ). 1789 relocated, after termination of the ruinous Klufterkapelle, Archbishop of Cologne Maximilian Franz, the pilgrimage feast of St. Servatius in the parish church. On the feast of St.. Servatius, on 13 May 1886, the foundation stone for the new church on the Annabergerstraße was laid. The wooden statue of St.. Servatius from the old parish church on the tower house was rediscovered in 1926 in the memory of the new parish church, she survived the war years and has been restored in the old splendor. The reliquary of St.. Servatius is issued at the parish fair in the parish church for worship.

The connection between secular and church festival funfair was dissolved after 1961. Until that time, a solemn High Mass was celebrated at the Fun Fair Sunday with the participation of Friesdorfer clubs in the parish church. The parish clergy was picked up at the rectory with music and led into the church. After High Mass were invited to the pastor, the board members of the clubs involved in the rectory to have a drink one. After the High Mass, at 11 clock the fair hubbub was on the " Waasem ", today Klufterplatz opened. On Monday morning was a fair hl. Read Mass for the living and deceased the clubs, then subjected to parish clergy and club members with flags and brass bands in the ballroom, where the musical brunch was opened. The Zacheies, of Zacchaeus the publican ( a stuffed straw man), was hung at the Fun Fair Saturday night at the club catering to a maypole (birch) and burned in a ceremony on Wednesday after fair. Last year, the successful attempt was made to incorporate the old traditions. ( is from 1998 to 2009 very successfully been carried out by the Friends Committee Fries local village and KG Kleffbotze Friesendorf and since 2010 by local committee Friesendorf 1929 eV and the Friesdorfer clubs organized ).

Coat of arms

Blazon: In red over green Dreienberg a golden (yellow ) house with a pointed roof and windows 6 (3:2). Law a mounted golden (yellow ) Archway with keystone. In entire width of the Electorate of Cologne Cross in black on a white background. Three green surveys Klufterberg, Anna and Kahlenberg, the Friesdorfer mountains.

The tower house on the Annabergerstraße 216 is one of the oldest permanent homes in the Rhineland. Maybe first charter of 1139th The tower house as the seat of Friesdorfer knight to remember the possible namesake of the place. The large arch in the enclosure through which one passes from the Annabergerstraße on the property, was built in 1777. The arch is not sealed and should be a symbol of the openness of the place. The Electorate of Cologne cross stands for the original membership of the place to the Electorate of Cologne. Yellow and red are the colors of Bad Godesberg.

Personalities

  • Johannes B. Kerner, presenter, born in the Frisian village and went to school
  • Max Hermann Loebner (1869-1947), founder of the (former ) Horticultural College and Research Institute Friesendorf of 1917
  • Born Hans Riegel, founder of HARIBO in Friesendorf
  • Hans Karl Rosenberg, Professor, from 1935 the parish council of Friesdorfer parish
  • Joseph Roth, teacher and politician who served from 1935 until his death, a teacher at the Friesdorfer Elementary School, since 2000 Martyrs of the Catholic Church

Transport links

Fries village can be reached by the following transport links: Buses 612 and 614 run from Hindenburgplatz up to Mehlem, the bus line 631 and the rail lines 63 and 16 (stop Max Löbner Street).

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