Rolandseck
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Location of Upper Winter in Rhineland- Palatinate
Upper Winter is one of six local districts and also one of eight districts of the city of Remagen free association in the district of Ahrweiler in the north of Rhineland- Palatinate. The local district is divided into the districts of Upper Winter, Rolandseck Birgel, Forest Heath and Bandorf ( with the living space Schmelzmühle ). On 31 December 2013, the population of the local District 3693, which the district was top winter 2489 (without secondary residences ).
Geography
Upper Winter is on the northern Middle Rhine on the left bank opposite the local church Rheinbreitbach. The area of the local district is largely natural area in the Honnefer valley widening, the left bank is characterized by a 100 m high steep bank, the right bank opposite to a much wider, crescent -like widened valley. The Upper Rhine Winterer Bay, site of a port, can clearly withdraw the shore for a distance of one kilometer. At the pier is the historic site of the gravel Oberwinter reason. In the north of the village district at the height of winter Rolandseck has upper portion of the southern tip of the island Nonnenwerth. The residential development of the suburb Upper Winter extends to heights of 100 m above sea level. NN, which the district Waldheide up to 160 m above sea level. NN.
History
In the year 886 the village was first mentioned. 1131 carried out the first-time documentary mention of the parish church of St. Lawrence Oberwinter. 1166 Birgel is first mentioned. 1318 Viscount Gerhard von Landskron received the glory of top winter together with the parish Birgel fief. 1366 was the domination of the place as a dowry of Cunegonde, the heiress Gerhards, the viscount of Landskron transmitted to the Lords of Tomburg. ( The two arms of Landskron and Tomburg are located under the vine in the coat of arms of Upper winter. ) 1441 the glory Upper Winter was divided. One half went as a dowry to the Lords of Saffenburg, the other half to the men of Quadt Landskron.
On November 27, 1565, the birth of the Reformation struck in Upper winter. The Catholic cult was officially lifted. Soon after ( 1593) but dropped both halves of the top winter glory by exchange of territory to the Duke Johann Wilhelm of Jülich -Cleves -Berg. The parishes in Upper Winter and Birgel were Catholic again. 1721-1723, the Protestant church was built. On February 28, 1784 Top Winter has been haunted by the hitherto worst Rhine flood.
By the end of the 18th century Upper Winter belonged to the Duchy of Jülich and glorious country was under the rule of Upper Winter ( with Bandorf and Birgel ) the office administration ( Sinzig ) Remagen. After the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine by French revolutionary troops (1794 ) and the acquisition of the French administrative structures (1798 ) Upper Winter Mairie Remagen Remagen was assigned in Canton. The community of Upper Winter counted together with Bandorf and Birgel against 1800 133 houses with 762 inhabitants, including three Jewish families. Agriculture and viticulture were the only commercial. 1815, the Rhineland was awarded the Kingdom of Prussia and Upper Winter 1816 the mayor's newly formed Remagen assigned in the district of Ahrweiler.
In 1887 the decision was taken to build a winter shelter harbor in Upper winter. The main reason was the chief reason Winterer, a wide gravel bar, which had formed in the middle of the stream. In the years 1888-1891 the Upper Bay of winter by a 800 meter long dam was completed, whereby an approximately 5 -acre, state security port was created. Today, the port has mainly a function as flood protection for upper winter, not so much. Than safe haven for shipping Since 1956 he is home port for the Bonn Yacht Club in 1911, and since 1957 for the Yacht Club Middle Rhine Bad Godesberg.
In 1885, belonged to the municipality of Upper winter habitations Bandorf with 145 Birgel with 83 mill hole 9, Rolandseck 125, melting mill with 9 and Unkelstein with 9 residents. 1910, the municipality in the former Prussian Rhine province 1522 inhabitants.
In December 1995 1994/Januar top winter location of the Embassy of Ukraine in the Federal Republic of Germany after they had bought the former restaurant "Zur Heide forest " on the Rhine heights and rebuilt. On the occasion of the state visit of the Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma was officially opened on 4 July 1995. After the transfer of the government to Berlin in 1999, the Ukraine where she taught the outpost Bonn embassy, their only branch as well as the only remaining outside of Bonn diplomatic representation (→ List of diplomatic missions ).
Residents with second homes, community before 1969 Upper Winter
Policy
The local district of Upper Winter is represented by a town council consisting of twelve members and a mayor.
Up until integration into the city Remagen on June 7, 1969 Upper winter was a separate municipality.
Attractions
At the end of the promontory of the marina of Upper Winter is the 2001 realized most visible sculpture " rain catcher " by Eberhard Bosslet consisting of equipment in the construction industry. It is one of eight works of art of the sculptures along the banks of the Rhine at Remagen to the railway station Rolandsecks.
Among the attractions of the district include the Catholic parish church of St. Lawrence ( first mention 1131, today's construction 1865/66 ), the Schwanen 1671, the house Wirtz from the 18th century, the Zettelmeiersche house from the 17th century and the Evangelical Church from the years 1721 to 1722. As a landmark of Upper Winter true " De ahl Pump", a water pump in 1780.
In the district Rolandseck is the built in 1856-58 Rolandseck railway station, on its premises and in a new building, the Arp Museum Bahnhof is Rolandseck since 29 September 2007. In the same district is also the wildlife park Rolandseck.
Economy, Infrastructure and Transportation
On the northern edge of the upper Winterer harbor is the center shipyard Middle Rhine, based on the 1947, founded by the French occupation forces in 1952 and privatized shipyard upper winter as well as the 1977 resident there Shipyard Schmidt back. Another shipyard in Upper Winter was the shipyard Clausen, which established ferries and passenger ships especially.
The main road in Upper Winter is the running at the Rhine Federal Highway 9
About the Station Upper winter consisting Following the Ahrtalbahn that MittelrheinBahn and the Rhein- Express. This made through connections to Koblenz Hbf, Bonn Hbf, Cologne Hbf and Dusseldorf Hbf
In the district Rolandseck is the jetty for ferries between Bad Honnef and Rolandseck. This goes back to an earlier greed cable ferry at the same place. Between Rolandseck and Rolandswerth there is also still the investors of the ferry to the island Nonnenwerth.
Personalities
- Adolf Galland (1912-1996), a famous fighter pilot in World War II, lived and died in Upper Winter
- Annemarie Renger (1919-2008), President of the German Bundestag (SPD ), lived and died in Upper Winter Birgel
- Hermann Scheer (1944-2010), Member of the German Bundestag (SPD ), lived in Upper Winter
- Erwin Wickert (1915-2008), writer and ambassador, lived and died in Upper Winter
- Eugen Gerstenmaier (1906-1986), a resistance fighter, President of the German Bundestag (CDU ) lived, and died in Upper Winter
- Erich Topp (1914-2005), Rear Admiral of the German Navy, lived above the Rhine in Upper Winter Birgel
- Horst Walter Endriss ( * 1938 ), tax advisors and auditors, lives high above the Rhine in Upper Winter Birgel
- Ralf Schmitz ( * 1957), pioneer of the Deaf Pastoral Care, founder and first pastor of the first Catholic Deaf Community in Germany
- Robert Landfermann (* 1982 ), jazz musician