Swisttal-Essig

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Location of vinegar in North Rhine- Westphalia

Vinegar is a town in the municipality Swisttal in the North Rhine-Westphalian Rhein- Sieg-Kreis. Until 1969, vinegar was a separate municipality.

Geography

Vinegar is on the left bank of the Rhine on the B 56, approximately midway between the Rhine river and Euskirchen. About the B 56 can be reached in just over 14 kilometers of the city limits of Bonn. Vinegar is with about 430 inhabitants, the smallest of the ten villages in the municipality Swisttal. In the immediate vicinity of vinegar lie south and north Odendorf Ludendorf.

History

Once situated on the Roman road from Castra Belgica (cheap ) over cake home after Buschhoven, this place was already at the time of the Roman legions in the Rhineland touched by a major traffic route and mentioned in documents of the 9th century under the name " Hesengahova ". The history of vinegar is closely related to the monastery Stella Mary ( Marie Star) connected. The wind vane of the monastery, the siebenstrahlige star, was the inspiration for the later coat of arms and is still to be admired on the roof of the property of the brewing family in the hamlet of Star Road.

Kloster Maria Stern is not one of the old foundations, which have existed since the early Middle Ages and can look back on an illustrious history. Its foundation owes Mary star of those wave pre-Reformation, intra- ecclesial renewal, starting in the 15th century, Germany recorded from the Lower Rhine and Holland. The great age of religious brotherhoods had come, attracted crowds of pilgrims across Europe. Just then, the importance of the Aachen- Frankfurter Straße grew extraordinarily as commercial, military and pilgrimage. The pilgrims who made ​​their way to the great highway, the Foundation should preferably be used. In 1432 led Nicholas Sasse, Harnischmacher to Münstereifel, the couple precious Lord John of Schleiden and Anna von Blankenheim, owner of Blankenheim courtyard next to the old church in Odendorf, a plot called " on the vinegar " to bestow, so a monastery here would be built. That same year was when the then vicar of Odendorf, Heinrich Wobel, his consent to the establishment of a pilgrim hospital along with paupers' cemetery and a small chapel. Later, the building should be extended to a monastery. Once the permission of the pastor was present, Nicholas Sasse founded with the help of other donors, the planned facilities. The chapel was built in 1437 in honor of Our Lady, St.. Ordained Apostle Jacobus and the holy of Cologne marshals.

The monastery was later managed at the beginning of Birgitt indoor and Augustinians until 1802, the secularization meant the end of the Essiger monastery. With a Konsularbeschluss from June 8, 1802 monasteries and convents were expropriated in the entire left bank of the Rhine and transferred their possessions in worldly property. The monastery of Maria Stern were auctioned off and canceled the church in 1804.

After changing times under French and Prussian rule, the Weimar Republic and National Socialism, occurred after the end of World War II on the basis of the Basic Law on 28 October 1952 Municipal Code and in March 1953 an official order for all municipalities in North Rhine -Westphalia in force. After that, at that office Ollheim belonging communities received their own municipal councils and mayors and their own official representation, the transmitted public administration tasks. The Office Ollheim, belonged to the vinegar, existed until 1961 and was then renamed to the municipal reorganization in 1969 in the Official Ludendorf. The Act on the local reorganization of the space Bonn, which became effective on August 1, 1969, also hit the birth of the municipality Swisttal with vinegar as the smallest village.

Policy

Mayor of vinegar is Michael Bienentreu (as of 2012).