Kerpen

Kerpen is a large district town in the Rhein -Erft in North Rhine -Westphalia, Germany. The city is located in the Rhenish lignite mining area and in the Cologne Bay only a few kilometers west of Cologne. Since March 19, 2012 Kerpen leads the official addon Kolping city.

• 3.1 City Council
• 3.2 Town twinning
• 3.3 Coat of Arms, Flag and Banner 3.3.1 Coat of Arms
• 3.3.2 flag

• 4.1 Museums
• 4.2 Structures
• 4.3 parks
• 4.4 Natural Monuments
• 4.5 Sports

• 5.1 Economics
• 5.2 traffic
• 5.3 Public bodies
• 5.4 Other cultural institutions
• 5.5 Education

• Born 6.1 In Kerpen
• 6.2 Connected to Kerpen

• 7.1 Find area code
• 7.2 postcodes

Geography

Geographical location

To the east of the city center Kerpen Erftstraße runs ( from the Eifel coming ) with the Erftauen and divides the community, to the east is the Ville. The Neffelbach runs from Noervenich coming in a northeasterly direction and connects still on Kerpener municipality with the Erft. South of Kerpen protrude a few isolated foothills of the North Eifel in the lowlands. Kerpen is also in the Zuelpicher flare.

Neighboring communities

In the north Kerpen is adjacent to the city Bergheim, in the northwest of the city Sindelsdorf, in the west on the community and on the southwest by Merzenich Noervenich (both in the district of Düren ). In the south Kerpen borders Erftstadt, on the southeast by Hürth and on the east by Frechen.

Boroughs

Here the neighborhoods are listed. The population figures are from December 31, 2012. Come to the districts partially sporadically Weiler added.

History

Kerpen was mentioned in the year 871 the first time under the name " Kerpinna ". After the battle of Worringen 1288 Kerpen Brabant enclave was in the middle of the Electorate of Cologne and the County of Jülich -dominated area, which Kerpen helped to actual independence. The Duchy of Burgundy took over the Brabant heritage, which passed after the death of Charles the Bold in 1477 to the House of Habsburg. When King Charles V in 1522 the kingdom aufteilte among his sons, Kerpen coincided with the Netherlands to the King of Spain. By the Treaty of Utrecht in 1712 Kerpen remained Spanish - even in the 1970s, recalled the now- defunct restaurant " King of Spain " in today's Stiftstraße it.

Subsequently, Kerpen with him herrschaftlich associated Lommersum independent kingdom of County under the Earl of Schaesberg. With the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops Kerpen lost its independence in 1794, but was in 1798 Canton seat ( chef-lieu ). At this canton were the mairies Blatzheim, Buir, Kerpen, Sindorf and Türnich. The Canton Kerpen was assigned to the district of Cologne in Rur Department. 1815 Kerpen became part of the Prussian Rhine Province in the district Bergheim after the Congress of Vienna. Kerpen received city rights in 1941.

The present city of Kerpen was created on 1 January 1975 from the former city of Kerpen and seven previously independent municipalities within the framework of local government reform by the Cologne Act of 1974. The neighborhoods are mostly still separated by vast open spaces and therefore have maintained a degree of independence.

The districts Mödrath and Bottenbroich were resettled in the 1950s due to the lignite mining Frechen. The inhabitants of the old Mödrath got a construction area in the northeast Kerpen assigned, the inhabitants Bottenbroichs a building area in the east Horrems. A remnant of the relocation is the prefix " New " in the name New Bottenbroich.

The district Manheim is about to give way to the 2022 Hambach mine. The inhabitants given in a vote Kerpen thick bush as a resettlement site. The new location thick bush is cultivated since the spring of 2012. It is not yet clear whether " foreign" land can be purchased at the new location.

Policy

City ​​council

The municipal election held on August 30, 2009 led with a voter turnout of 54.3 % ( - 0.3 ) the following result:

* Citizens Alliance Kerpen Kerpen ** UWG citizens list The vote share of the two groups is summarized in the election statistics. Together, they form a faction in the city council.

Twinning

• Belgium Sankt Vith, Belgium, since 1975
• Poland Oswiecim (Auschwitz ), Poland, since 1993

In order relations by clubs, schools and politics of twinning association cares. The partnership with St. Vith is the result of the relations after the Treaty of Versailles from the railway junction of St. Vith to the new node Mödrath relocated (on the railway track for Ahr) servants of the Reichsbahn. Since 1975, the partnership of the city is maintained. The partnership with Oświęcim / Auschwitz in 1993 went forth out of the relations of the respective secondary schools that were recorded after the opening of Poland to the west in 1991.

Coat of arms, banner and flag

Banner

Hissflagge

Coat of arms

Blazon: " Split and divided front, front top in black and a rotbezungter reinforced golden lion; down in a silver rotbezungter, golden crowned and reinforced, doppelschwänziger red lion, back in gold a red tower with a hipped roof and an open, black portcullis. "

The city of Kerpen has been awarded with certificate of the provincial government in Cologne on 10 September 1976, the right to bear a coat of arms, a flag and a banner. The Limburg and Brabant lion are the Kerpener aldermen seal taken from 1306, they have Kerpener territorial history back: since Kerpen since the late 13th century, together with the former Limburg Lommersum belonged to Brabant, near the Brabant and Limburg lion can be seen. Back is displayed in gold as a symbol of the castle Kerpener a red gate tower with an open portcullis.

Flag

As a banner: " gold ( yellow), red and gold (yellow ) in the ratio 1:4:1, striped lengthwise with the over the center shifted upward coat of arms of the city. " When Hissflagge: " gold ( yellow), red and gold ( yellow ) in the ratio 1:4:1, striped lengthwise with the shifted to the rod escutcheon. "

Culture and sights

Museums

• The Adolph Kolping Museum in Kerpen was set up in an outbuilding of the house that Adolf Kolping brother had re- built on the site of Kolping's Birthplace. House and exhibition were thoroughly renovated 200th and rearranged.
• House of Art and History
• Museum H. J. Tree
• The Museum of motor racing history in the villa trips in Kerpen- Horrem dedicated von Trips, especially the memory of the unfortunate racers Graf Berghe.
• The world of Schumacher Racing Museum
• Typewriter Museum QWERTZUIOPÜ in Kerpen- Sindorf
• Tractor Museum of the Brothers cleats work on the Wasserburg Bergerhausen
• Natural History Museum " Martin Reimer " in the city of Kerpen Kerpen- Bruggen

Structures

• Center Collegiate Church: The church of St. Martin, with its 78 m after the Cologne Cathedral and the Bonner Münster is the third highest in the Archdiocese of Cologne. The octagonal spire, which was shortened after a fire caused by lightning in 1817, has been supplemented in 1902 by 12 m to the old height.
• Evangelical Church of St. John in 1853, neuromanisch
• New Mosque at the marketplace
• Castle Loersfeld with remarkable castle park
• At the Old Castle Kerpen remembers only a hill near " Castle Road " and " At the old castle ."
• Castle Mödrath
• The Jewish Cemetery

• Hemmersbach Castle in Kerpen- Horrem
• Clement's Church in Kerpen- Horrem
• The Church of St. Cyriacus in Götz churches
• Castle Bergerhausen in Kerpen- Bergerhausen
• Commander castle in Kerpen- Blatzheim
• Ev. John Bugenhagen Church in Blatzheim
• St. Ulrich in Kerpen- Sindorf, built in 1484
• The Jewish cemetery in Kerpen- Sindorf
• The Jewish cemetery in Kerpen -Brüggen
• Türnich Castle in Kerpen- Türnich
• The Gothic archway of the former castle Brüggen in Kerpen -Brüggen
• The Church of St. Joseph in Kerpen- Bruggen

Parks

• Pope Hill at Marienfeld, venue of the World Youth Day 2005
• Schloss Türnich with the so-called Linde Cathedral
• Castle Park Bergerhausen

Natural Monuments

Kerpen is with the nature reserves Kerpener break / Parrig and thick bush, bush Lörsfelder, Steinheide in Rhineland Nature Park. The new information center for the northern part of the Natural Park, the Gymnicher mill on the Erft, located across the border to Gymnich. Since a few years, the reclamation area of ​​former lignite mining Frechen has become a beautiful natural landscape with several lakes, etc.; it is since the Pope's visit to XX. World Youth Day in 2005 known as the Marienfeld. The largest lake here is the Boisdorf lake.

Sports

The kart track Erftlandring in Manheim is known as Michael Schumacher's home track over the local borders. For young racers there since 1977, the club soapbox racer Nimble. Since its inception in 1977 to 2008, the club has won a second and a third place at the German Championships. The Vierjahreszeitenbad Erftlagune in Sindorf and the Türnicher outdoor pool are facilities for water sports. In Brüggen a mini golf course is operated.

Since 2012, Kerpen may call bike -friendly city

Economy and infrastructure

Economy

Kerpen and its neighborhoods are still dominated by the lying in the vicinity of the Rhenish lignite mining area lignite industry with open pits and briquette factories. The mine Frechen in the east is closed and dismantled - there is a reclamation area with the famous from World Youth Day 2005 Marienfeld - (smaller fields as the pit Louise at Brüggen / Türnich with briquette I and II were in 1952 exhausted ), the new low - Hambach will move towards the hamlet of Manheim. At the Sindorfer Glashütte 1911-1978 only reminder Hüttenstraße with the former company housing. The lignite-fired power plants on the Ville backs are not far away and also offer Kerpenern work. The auto accessories company Visteon has its European headquarters in Sindorf. European importance and the NATO military airfield Noervenich. The airmen stationed there are housed in the Kerpener Boelcke Kaserne barracks and in the Nörvenicher house Hardt. The Boelcke -Kaserne in Kerpen, as has been announced on 26 November 2011, closed in 2015. By the year 2017, the number of workers at the airbase soldiers should be increased from 980 in 2011 to 1,110. In addition, the cable operator Unity Media has its technical center in Sindorf.

Traffic

Kerpen is located at the motorway junction ( Kerpen ) of the federal highways 4 and 61

In Blatzheim the federal highways 264 and 477 intersect Intravilan and with neighboring municipalities and districts by bus lines of the Rhine Erft transport company in the transport association Rhein-Sieg (VRS ) are developed, which are supplemented by a call taxi system. There are a total of three highway exits to the city area and three in the very near distance nearby. The Aachener Straße in Cologne ends directly between Kerpen- Sindorf and Bergheim Ahe.

In Horrem Station, the largest train station in the city area, the railway junction of the railway line between Cologne and Aachen -Brussels branches Erftstraße train from Bedburg about Bergheim. There runs alongside regional trains and S-Bahn, which is running on the Cologne -Düren section.

Overall, the present town of Kerpen has three railway stations; Buir, Horrem and Sindorf. The town of Kerpen has no rail connection. 1913 Bergheim's orbit was nationalized. In the 1950s, had parts of the track (especially the Mödrath station) soft an open pit. The degradation of the route took place gradually in the 1960s.

The city is served by several bike trails:

• The 524 km long water castles route connects more than 130 castles on the edge of the Eifel and in the Cologne Bight.
• The 480 km long Kaiser route runs from Aachen to Paderborn and is named after the Great Emperor Charles, who resided in Aachen. The route is based on the presumed route that took the imperial army in the year 775 on his crusade into the territory of Saxony.
• The Erft cycle path stretches over approximately 110 km to the Erft along. From its source in Nice Home Holzmülheim to the mouth of the Rhine in Neuss.
• The German Football Route NRW leads 800 km across North-Rhine Westphalia. It is the first and only applied under a popular and national overarching theme adventure bike path in NRW. The "Say route of the German football " opens next footballing cult places such as Veltins- Arena in Gelsenkirchen and Dortmund Borusseum in the tourist highlights in NRW.
• The 265 km long network of cycle paths valleys route opens up interesting tourist places in North Rhine -Westphalia on family-friendly route.
• On the initiative of students of the high school of the city of Kerpen and with the support of the bicycle -friendly city of Kerpen (since 2012) and sponsors was the jubilee year 200 years Adolf Kolping posted a 20km (with extension 30 km) circular route that numerous memory stations from the life Kolping results, which are also attractions of the city.

Public institutions

• The district court Kerpen, responsible for Kerpen and Frechen, is located in the city.
• The town of Kerpen maintains its own archive, which is generally accessible.
• The town of Kerpen transferred the responsibilities of the public library supply of the Catholic parish of St. Martin, who carries out the duties of a public library for the city of Kerpen. In addition, the library of the Gymnasium Kerpen with 32,000 volumes is open to the public.

Other cultural institutions

Kerpen has two cinemas, which are also used for cultural events and events of Clubs: the traditional Capitol from the 1950s, modernized, with two halls and the Euromax with five halls.

Education

In Kerpen exist twelve primary schools, spread over all parts of the city, the gymnasium of the city of Kerpen, two middle schools, two vocational schools, two secondary schools, a comprehensive school and a special school.

Personalities

Born in Kerpen

• Adolph Kolping (1813-1865), priest and founder of the Kolping Society, journeyman father
• Hermann Josef Baum (1927-2009), artist with museum named after him in the House of Art and History, Kerpen
• Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007), composer, born in Kerpen- Mödrath
• Kurt Moll ( born 1938 ), classical singer ( bass), who was born in Kerpen- Buir
• Karin von Welck ( b. 1947 ), anthropologist, 2004-2010 Senator for Cultural Affairs of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, born in Kerpen- Buir
• Ady Zehnpfennig ( b. 1949 ), musician
• Franz -Peter Hofmeister ( born 1951 ), track and field athlete and Olympic medal winner
• Joachim Wundrak ( b. 1955 ), Lieutenant General of the Air Force of the Armed Forces
• Marlies Sieburg (* 1959), since 2004, Mayor of Kerpen, born in Kerpen- Buir
• Patrice Bart-Williams ( born 1979 in Kerpen -Brüggen ), reggae musician

Connected to Kerpen

• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), composer, who lived some time in Kerpen, his house was the former business " straw band"
• Peter Hecker (1884-1971) painter
• Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips (1928-1961), Formula 1 racing driver, is buried in Kerpen
• Adolf " Addi " Furler (1933-2000), German sports journalist, lived in Kerpen- Türnich
• Petra Hammes driving ( born 1951 ), novelist and screenwriter, lives in Kerpen
• Dominik Hees (born 3 March 1989) is a German actor and musical performer; grew up in Kerpen
• Timo Pretty (* 1977), actor
• Manuela (1943-2001), German pop singer, lived from 1985 to 1991 in Kerpen- Horrem.
• Günter M. Noris, actually Günter Maier (1935-2007) lived and died in Kerpen; German bandleader ( Bundeswehr big band), pianist, arranger and composer.
• Ralf Paul (born 1971 ), cartoonist, lives in Kerpen
• Michael Schumacher (born 1969 ), Formula 1 racing driver
• Ralf Schumacher ( born 1975 ), Formula 1 racing driver
• Graham Bonney (* 1943 in London), pop singer, in town is domiciled
• Sontje Peplow ( born 1981 ) actress
• Michael Robert Rhein (born 1964 ), singer and founder of the German medieval rock band In Extremo
• Peter Sitt ( b. 1969 ) 1988 Olympic third 4 x 200 -meter freestyle, 1987 European champion 4 x 200 -meter freestyle,

Others

Find area code

In Kerpen there are several dialing codes:

• 02237 for Balkhausen, Brüggen, Kerpen, Langenich and Türnich;
• 02273 for Horrem and Sindorf;
• 02275 for Blatzheim, Buir and Manheim.

Area Code

Kerpen is divided into several zip code areas:

• 50169 for Horrem, Türnich, Brüggen and Balkhausen;
• 50170 for Sindorf, Buir and Manheim;
• 50171 Kerpen -Mitte, Langenich, Mödrath, Blatzheim, Bergerhausen and Niederbolheim.