Rommerskirchen

Rommerskirchen is a municipality in the Rhein-Kreis Neuss in southwestern North Rhine- Westphalia.

• 2.1 Prehistory to the Middle Ages
• 2.2 Modern Times
• 2.3 Amalgamations
• 2.4 Population development

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Mayors since 1975
• 3.3 municipality of Directors 1975-1999
• 3.4 Coat of Arms
• 3.5 Town twinning

• 4.1 Museums
• 4.2 Structures
• 4.3 personalities
• 4.4 Media

• 5.1 traffic
• 5.2 Public bodies

Geography

Geographical location

Rommerskirchen is the southernmost municipality in the Rhein- Kreis Neuss and in the district of Dusseldorf in North Rhine -Westphalia. By Rommerskirchen flows Gillbach. He is the fertile lands in the municipality also named " The Gilbach ". Inside the circle has Rommerskirchen of all municipalities with the lowest population density.

The following municipalities border on Rommerskirchen (distance from center to center ):

Districts

• Appointing
• Butzheim
• Deelen
• Eckum
• Evinghoven
• Frixheim
• Gill
• Höningen
• Ikoven

• Nettesheim
• Oekoven
• Ramrath
• Sinsteden
• Ueckinghoven
• Vanikum
• Villau
• Widdeshoven

History

Prehistory to the Middle Ages

The oldest finds in the village date from the excavations in the church; the pieces are evidence of a settlement of the Linear Pottery culture (ca. 5300-4900 BC).

In Rommerskirchen still exist many remains of Roman culture. These include numerous Roman estates ( Villae Rusticae ) and the Jupiter pillar of Rommerskirchen.

Also from the Frankish period (6th - 7th century) are remains of settlements and tombs. Noteworthy are the tombs in 1950 under the parish church of St. Peter came to light during excavations by Peter Joseph Tholen. They date to the period 700-740 AD, including an exceptionally rich woman's grave. The arrangement of these tombs can open up that they were laid down in a then existing, three - aisled wooden church of at least 7.5 × 15 m in size. From this church, the church was destroyed in 1945 developed in many intermediate stages.

Written Rommerskirchen is mentioned in 1106 as Rumeschirche. Several villages in the municipality Rommerskirchen have at their core still trains with medieval Romanesque and Gothic churches, such as the Lambert chapel in the district Ramrath with an approximately 1100 -year history and a castle.

Rommerskirchen was surrounded in the 15th century with a rampart and a ditch, and received in 1437 the market rights. Politically formed Rommerskirchen a thing of the same chair ( seat of a lower court ) in the Official Hülchrath in the Electorate of Cologne.

Near Rommerskirchen there was the village Gorchheim. In 1260 she was named Goegheim 1321 Goyrcheim. Where was this place is not known.

Modern Times

1794 Occupied French revolutionary troops Rommerskirchen. 1796 the Mairie Rommerskirchen was formed. She belonged to the canton in the Arrondissement Cologne Dormagen in the Département de la Roer. Many buildings date from the early modern period and the time of the Napoleonic occupation. 1815, the Prussian community Rommerskirchen was formed. It consisted of the villages Rommerskirchen, Eckum, Vanikum, Sinsteden and Gill and belonged to the district of Neuss. In 1929 Rommerskirchen to the county Grevenbroich- Neuss. In 1966 the Office Rommerskirchen - Nettesheim. At this office included the community Rommerskirchen and the two municipalities of the former Office Nettesheim, Nettesheim - Butzheim and Frixheim - appointing.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1975, the Office Rommerskirchen - Nettesheim was dissolved. The communities Nettesheim - Butzheim and Frixheim - Anstel were incorporated into the new church Rommerskirchen. Were also incorporated municipalities in the Office Evinghoven. These were Höningen with the villages Höningen, Widdeshoven, Ramrath and Villau and Oekoven with the villages Oekoven, Deelen, Ueckinghoven and Evinghoven.

Population Development

• December 31, 1975: 11,095
• December 31, 1980: 11,170 ( 75 )
• December 31, 1985: 11,069 ( -101 )
• 31 December 1990: 11,414 ( 345 )
• December 31, 1995: 12,151 ( 737 )
• December 31, 2000: 12,382 ( 231 )
• 31 December 2005: 12,611 ( 229 )
• March 18, 2010: 13,000 ( 389 )

Policy

Parish council

Distribution of the 32 seats in the municipal council after the local elections of 30 August 2009:

The SPD governed at a traffic light coalition with the Greens and the FDP. The UWG closes with most decisions to the "Government Camp" by Mayor Albert Hunchback.

Mayor since 1975

Municipality Directors 1975-1999

Coat of arms

The coat of arms shows in green three (2:1) golden eagle under a fünflätzigen golden collar tournament. This coat of arms was created after the municipal reorganization in 1975 and approved by the President of the Government Dusseldorf on October 4, 1979. It goes back to an old aldermen Seal of the Lords of appointing known to have been conducted in 1355 of these. Originally dreilätzige Tournament collar of the seal has been expanded to five bibs; these symbolize the five former municipalities Höningen, Frixheim - appointing, Nettesheim - Butzheim, Oekoven and Rommerskirchen, which showed the community in restructuring. The tincture symbolizes the natural landscape on Gillbach (green) and agriculture - in particular the cultivation of grain - in the community (gold).

Twinning

• Karstädt Brandenburg (Brandenburg)
• France Mouilleron -le- Captif (France)

Culture and sights

Museums

• Cultural Sinsteden with the Agricultural Museum and the sculpture halls Rückriem
• Gillbachbahn, field and industrial railway museum Oekoven
• Virtual community museum

See also: List of museums in Rhein-Kreis Neuss

Structures

• Church of St. Peter in Rommerskirchen
• St. Martin's Church in Rommerskirchen - Nettesheim
• St. Lambertus Chapel in Rommerskirchen - Ramrath
• Romanesque pillar basilica St. Briktius in Rommerskirchen - Oekoven
• Church of St. Anthony in Rommerskirchen - Evinghoven
• St. Stephen in Rommerskirchen - Höningen

See also List of monuments in Rommerskirchen

Personalities

• Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim (1486-1535), late medieval German polymath, physician, theologian, jurist, philosopher, and magician. Comes from the noble family of Nettesheim (†) from Rommerskirchen - Nettesheim.
• Hermann Spies (1865-1950), German composer and music researcher in Salzburg.
• Norbert Prangenberg (1949-2012), German painter and sculptor.
• Willi Abbot (1942-2002), German politician ( SPD). Alderman and social department in Mainz Rommerskirchen - Vanikum.
• Wolfgang Niersbach ( born November 30, 1950 in Rommerskirchen - Nettesheim ) President of the German Football Association from Rommerskirchen - Widdeshoven.
• Horst Lichter ( born January 15, 1962 in Rommerskirchen - Nettesheim ) German TV chef from Rommerskirchen -Gill.

Media

• Instead sheet, Free, regional monthly magazine that also appears in the neighboring cities Grevenbroich and Bedburg.
• Moenchengladbach Newspapers - regional newspaper, newspaper publisher Neuss GmbH

Economy and infrastructure

After Rommerskirchen a large 380 -kV substation of the RWE was named. Between the substation and the substation Rommerskirchen Ludwigsburg- Hoheneck went on 5 October 1957, the first 380 - kV line in operation in Germany.

However, the substation is located on the territory of the town of Bergheim in the district Rheidt - Hüchelhoven.

Traffic

The Rommmerskirchener railway station is on the main line between Cologne and Grevenbroich- Mönchengladbach. Here branches off a freight train route to Niederaußem from the local pit station. By 2007 the station had a T-shaped interlocking, also begins here, the Strategic embankment.

At the national road network Rommerskirchen is connected by the intersecting highways 59 and 477 here. The B 59 has been expanded to the south of Rommerskirchen to the Federal Highway 1 in Cologne -Bocklemünd crossing-free ( starting December 2006). The expansion of the B 59 towards the north is created as a bypass to the hamlet Sinsteden ( opened to traffic on May 18, 2009). North of Rommerskirchen it is expanded as Highway 540.

Public institutions

• Community youth ring Rommerskirchen