Troisdorf

Troisdorf ( [ tro ː sdɔrf ]? / I with strain i) is the largest city in the Rhein- Sieg district, in North Rhine -Westphalia and is located east of the Rhine between Cologne and Bonn. The city is located in the south- east of Cologne bay from the southern foothills of the Bergisch land in the north and in the south Siegauen.

• 2.1 industrialization
• 2.2 City rights
• 2.3 Amalgamations
• 2.4 Population development

• 3.1 City Council
• 3.2 Mayor
• 3.3 Coat of Arms
• 3.4 New Logo
• 3.5 twinning and sponsorships

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

• 5.1 traffic 5.1.1 Road Traffic
• 5.1.2 Rail Transport
• 5.1.3 bus
• 5.1.4 Air Traffic

• 6.1 Born In today's city people
• 6.2 associated with the city people

Geography

Troisdorf is located on the victory, a tributary of the Rhine, and at the Agger, which is a tributary of the victory and in turn, forms the border with the neighboring town of town of Siegburg. In the Troisdorf Agger joins the victory.

In parallel with the course of the victory of the mill stream flows, which served until the end of the 20th century, among other things, driving two grain mills on Troisdorf city. The water is discharged from the military on Agger Agger and fed back to the victory at Bergheim.

Boroughs

Troisdorf consists of twelve districts, which are villages with a village head at the same time:

State of the specified number of inhabitants (including second homes ) 30 June 2012

Neighboring communities

In the north, adjacent to Cologne Troisdorf and Rösrath, to the east by Lohmar and Siegburg, in the southeast on Sankt Augustin, to the south of Bonn and to the west by low- Kassel.

Climate

History

Troisdorf originally referred in a document Siegburger Benedictine abbey Michael Berg from the year 1064 Truhtesdorf.

But the oldest recorded settlements in the present area are Eschmar and Sieglar, have already been mentioned 832. For an early settlement also speaks of the former knight's seat Burg Wissem, which is close to the city center on the edge of the woods today.

The community Troisdorf belonged from 1816 to 1899 for mayor Siegburg.

Industrialization

The actual recovery of the present town began with the industrialization in the 19th century. 1825 founded the former head of the Mining Office in Bonn, wind lanes, an iron melt at the mill ditch near the agger victory estuary. This took over in 1843 Emil Langen and called the settlement Friedrich- Wilhelms-Hütte ( since 1913 Mannstaedt works).

The location on the right bank railway line, on the victory track and the freight line Speldorf made ​​Troisdorf interesting for industrial companies in the second half of the 19th century. In 1887 Emil Müller founded the Rhenish-Westphalian explosive works, a primer and detonator factory which later Dynamit Nobel AG.

From 1951 to 2002 there were in the districts of Spich and Altenrath ever a Belgian barracks

City ​​rights

1952 Troisdorf received city rights.

Incorporations

As part of local government reform in the villages in the municipality Sieglar ( Bergheim, Eschmar, Kriegsdorf Müllekoven, Oberlar, Sieglar and Spich) and the localities Friedrich- Wilhelms-Hütte were on August 1, 1969 ( previously Office Menden ) and Altenrath (previously Office Lohmar ) new localities of the town of Troisdorf. 1999 caused by divisions nor the neighborhoods Troisdorf- West and Rotter lake.

Population Development

Until the 19th century Troisdorf had only a few hundred inhabitants. It was only with the industrialization in the 20th century, accelerated population growth. Lived in 1895 only 2,825 people in the place, so there were already 18,000 in 1968. Through numerous incorporations on August 1, 1969, the population rose to 48,837. On 30 June 2005, the Government Population Troisdorf was after updating the State Office for Data Processing and Statistics of North Rhine- Westphalia 74 613 (only primary residences and after comparing it with the other country offices ).

The following overview shows the numbers of inhabitants by the respective territorial status. This is to census results (¹) or official updates by the State Statistical Office. The data refer to 1871, "Spatial Present population," from 1925 to the resident population and since 1987 the "population at the main place of residence ". The population was calculated using non-uniform collection procedures Before 1871.

¹ census results

For the current population includes people who have their second home in Troisdorf. Troisdorf has 8,652 foreign residents an immigrant share of 11 % of the total population. In Troisdorf there is still a surplus of women with 39,123 women compared with 37,864 men.

Policy

City ​​council

Since January 2011, the political council majority in Troisdorf is composed of a coalition of CDU and Greens. The municipal election held on 30 August 2009 had the following result:

* In September 2011, exchanged a member of the party and the group of The Left in the SPD. The Left thereby lost their faction status. In spring 2012, a retired member of the Group of the Alliance 90/The Greens.

Mayor

Full-time:

Coat of arms

" Argent, two floating interconnected black bars in the form of the capital letter T, at the ends of the cross bar are red, the longitudinal bar ever a blue ball. "

The coat of arms was redesigned after the municipal reform. It represents the initial T of the city represents the four balls are available for the communities from which the present Troisdorf arose. The T is reminiscent of a molecule based on the chemical industry of the city.

New Logo

Meanwhile Troisdorf has a new logo, which replaced the coat of arms partially. It consists of several balls that are supposed to symbolize the situation of the districts and their size.

Twinning and sponsorships

• Evry in France since 1972
• Genk in Belgium since 1990
• Heidenau Saxony since 1991
• Redcar & Cleveland in the United Kingdom since 1991
• Kerkyra Corfu in Greece since 1996
• Nantong in China since 1997
• Mushtisht in Kosovo since 2001
• Özdere in Turkey since 2004

Culture and sights

Museums

• Picture Book Museum in the Burg Wissem. The only picture book museum in Europe.
• Fishing in Bergheim. A 2010 Bergheim built from the fishing brotherhood to the victory museum which presents the history of the guild and the town.
• Plastic Museum Troisdorf on the HT site. History of plastic region Troisdorf, in which the plastic window and the first PVC flooring have been developed.
• Museum of Urban and industrial history ( Musit ) at the Burg Wissem in Troisdorf.
• The portal to the Wahner Heide at Burg Wissem.

Structures

• Burg Wissem

Since 1982 is on Burg Wissem the picture book museum. After the conversion, under the Local 2010, the establishment is home to the portal to the Wahner Heide, the Museum of Urban and industrial history Troisdorf ( MUSIT ), the learing getting to know the environment ( KLU), the registry office, the creative workshop, the Local History Association, the Heinz Müller Foundation and tourist information.

• Kaiserbauruine

This unfinished hotel was from 1973 until the accidental detonation on May 13, 2001 landmark of Troisdorf on the A 59

• Troisdorf city gates

Two of Joachim Bandau and Victor Bonato 1984 designed stainless steel constructions with transparent, reflective and water- crowded glass surfaces, which are located at the beginning and end of the pedestrian zone.

Parks

The city has over its entire surface a number of protected or natural areas that are used by the citizens of Troisdorf and other cities in the area as recreational areas.

• The Siegaue is located at the mouth of victory. During floods, the floodplain water to a landscape of immense proportions. In dry times the Siegaue home to many species of birds that use it as a breeding area. But also for the recreation will be provided. In addition to many biking and hiking trails that invite you to explore the Siegaue and the near bank of the Rhine, is nearing victory mouth the restaurant to victory ferry along with the eponymous ferry. This place is known far beyond the borders of Troisdorf.
• Also in the district Spich there is a spacious holiday park, on the edge of the Wahner Heide. At the edge of the park is the home Broich and Spicher Mansion.
• The forest park is located in Troisdorf Center. To a pond, lived in the once magnificent goldfish are hiking trails and animal enclosures.
• Another park is located at the Friedrich- Wilhelms-Hütte district. It includes not only green spaces different games, a skate park and a hard place which is used for flea markets and circus tents. Adjacent is the one the district house where the youth welfare office provides various counseling services, on the other hand a small garden of local residents, as well as a pedagogically supervised adventure playground.
• In the nature reserve Wahner Heide of shooting madness, last training area for the Belgian Armed Forces who were stationed for many years in Troisdorf was. In some cases it is still the practice site of the Bundeswehr, but for the most part to freely use for hikers. On the paved paths you can explore the Wahner Heide wonderful. Never leave the trails, however, is forbidden both because of the ammunition load and also to protect the landscape. The heathland is home to a variety of rare plants and animals.

Natural Monuments

• Yew in the district Sieglar ( Larstraße 120-130 )
• Hollow stone in the hollow stone road in Spich district.
• Boxhohn oak in Altenrath.

Sports

In Troisdorf there are numerous sports clubs. Among the best known are:

• The American football club Troisdorf Jets, who plays in the GFL2,
• Hockey league club EHC Dynamite Troisdorf,
• Football Oberliga Sportfreunde Troisdorf 05, the A- and B- Youth 2013/2014 in the respective middle Rhine League ( second- highest division of the Junior ) play, the first team of seniors playing in the season 2013/2014 also in the Middle Rhine League,
• Football - country division side FC 1 Spich 1911 e.V.,
• Table Tennis - Club Troisdorf 1969 eV,

Other sports clubs are:

• The boxing club Troisdorf 48 eV
• The German Life Saving Society, local chapter Troisdorf eV
• Guard dance sports clubs such as: TC Altenrather sand Hare 1992 eV
• TC Blau-Weiss Troisdorf 1971 eV
• TC Castle Guard Spich eV
• TC Fiedele sand rabbits Oberlar
• De Höppebeenche the KG Green and White Bergheim
• TSC Rhein-Sieg Guard 1994 eV

Specialty

A culinary specialty is brewed in the town brewery Troisdorf Troilsch (based on Kölsch ), as well as the locally brewed Tropi ( Pils ) and also a Troisdorfer wheat beer.

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Road

Troisdorf is connected via the federal highway 59 as well as feeder to the Federal Highway 3 to the road network. Through the urban area the highway runs 8

The decades planned extension of the L 332 as a bypass road for part of Sieglar or Eschmar, long time there was only plans. Already in the 1980s was the plan approval process, shortly before its completion because of procedural errors, annulled, so that this procedure had to go through all the stages again. In the new edition of the method, the position of the route was changed to reflect amended claims for noise protection bill; specifically the path was clearly moved north to Eschmarer garden city. Since the path was set aside for the construction for decades, can be immediately started construction after completion and legal validity of the proceedings; the necessary financial resources available to the State Street building NRW available. In November 2010 the Cologne District Government explained that the planning approval process for the first phase of the bypass between the old route of the L 332 can be completed up to 29 K n immediately. This Planning Permit is given.

In the town of 44,338 licensed motor vehicles, including 37 510 cars

Railway

In Troisdorf is coming from Cologne railway lines separate in the victory line after victories and the rights Rhine route to Neuwied. In addition to various Regionalzuglinien Troisdorf is served by the S 12 and S 13, keep the addition at the breakpoint Spich in the urban area. Both lines go towards Cologne in staggered 20 -minute intervals, so that alone with the S-Bahn, a 10 - minute cycle is offered in the direction of Cologne. In addition to the Troisdorf Train Station and the breakpoint in Spich there at the Friedrich- Wilhelms-Hütte district another breakpoint, which lies on the right Rhine line. This stop is served by regional rail and regional express trains. The high-speed line Cologne-Rhine/Main also passes through Troisdorf, but without possibility for the exchange of passengers.

During the construction of the high-speed line, the three platforms were renewed and increased. Renovation or new construction of the station building is being planned.

Bus

Most important is the bus line 501/164, which runs in a 20 -minute intervals. In the district of Cologne she runs a line 164

• Line 501: Siegburg Bf - Bf Troisdorf - Low Kassel - Lülsdorf; Line 164: Langel - Zuendorf - delusion Bf

• In the public transport of Troisdorf tariff of the transport association Rhein-Sieg applies (VRS ).

Traffic

The Cologne / Bonn airport is partially in Troisdorf city. By car, it can be reached via the A59 in about 15 minutes via train and with the lines RE 8 and S 13, the need from Troisdorf Train Station to the airport 8 to 10 minutes. Being close to the airport parts of Troisdorf are impacted by aircraft noise. The pros and cons of a night flight ban has not only the Troisdorfer bodies for several years.

The Airbus A320 -200 of Lufthansa with the registration D- AIPM named Troisdorf.

Established businesses

In Troisdorf both companies in the chemical industry such as HT Troplast, Degussa GmbH (formerly Hüls Troisdorf ), Orica Mining Services and the thermoform plastic packaging manufacturer silver plastics, as well as from the steel industry as the special profile manufacturer Mannstaedt plants are located. Another area is mechanical engineering with the company tire group of houses. Due to the short distance to the Cologne / Bonn airport, several logistics companies have settled in Troisdorf; so is the mail center 53 of Deutsche Post AG in Troisdorf Spich district. The "Service Center" HappyDigits also had its headquarters in Spich. The logistics company DHL has also settled with its development center (DHL Innovation Center ) in Troisdorf. Formula D is an international service provider to the automotive and supplier industry, which has its headquarters here.

In Troisdorf there are the following commercial areas:

• Airport Business Park Junkersring
• Commercial Park Camp Spich
• Industrial Park Troisdorf Center
• Belgian avenue
• Biberweg
• Langbaurghstraße / Redcarstraße
• Luxemburger Straße / Rotter Viehtrieft
• On the Schellerod
• Josef Fawn Str. / Speestraße
• Bergheim - Glockenstraße

Education

In Troisdorf there are thirteen elementary schools, two primary schools, two middle schools, two high schools, two urban comprehensive schools, including the European School Troisdorf, and two special schools. The main school Scholl school that Korczak Realschule and the Heinrich-Böll -Gymnasium form the secondary center in Sieglar and partial use of all-day. A cafeteria is integrated in the building of elementary and secondary school. The primary and junior high school classes do not form new entrance and more are transformed into a comprehensive school.

In Georg- Kerschensteiner Berufskolleg the Rhein- Sieg district, which is also included in the school center Sieglar, vocational training students from different branches are taught. Here you will find specialized secondary schools and higher vocational schools, both technical and social disciplines. On the technical schools in addition to social workers and technicians in mechanical engineering and plastics and rubber technology are trained in full-and part-time. At the College of Social and the general higher education entrance qualification (AHR ) can be purchased since 2007.

Troisdorf operates a music school and together with low- Kassel as a folk high school.

Also located in Troisdorf a training center of DB Training.

Personalities

Babies born in the today's city people

• Johann Lair (1476-1554), also called John Siberch ( derived from his residence Siegburg ), founded in 1520 the university's in Cambridge (England)
• Gerhard Romilian of Kalcheim, called Leuchtmar (1589-1644), lawyer and diplomat
• Mühlens Wilhelm (1762-1841), perfumer and founder of 4711
• Walther August Langen (1857-1912) banker and industrialist
• William Hamacher (1883-1951), politician ( Centre Party ), Member of Parliament, representatives of the Rhineland in the Imperial Parliament, Minister of Culture of North Rhine -Westphalia, party chairman
• Josef Hoegen (1898-1973) was a Gestapo officer in Cologne.
• Heinz Lohmar (1900-1976) painter and printmaker.
• Karl Johannes Heyer (1904-1995), Catholic priest and author
• Franz Ronig (* 1927), Roman Catholic priest, theologian and art historian.
• Günter Nöfer (1928-2000), politician and Member of Parliament (CDU ); 1964-1970 Deputy judge constitution of North Rhine -Westphalia
• Paul Heuser ( born 1929 ), musician, choral and orchestral conductor.
• Hans Jaax (1933-2000), politician and Member of Parliament (SPD )
• Wilhelm G. Jacobs ( born 1935 ), philosopher
• Siegfried Hinterkausen (* 1938 in Altenrath ), writer
• Wilfried Kohlars ( b. 1939 ), football player.
• Uwe Gollner ( born 1945 ), member of the Bundestag (SPD ) (February 12, 1996 to September 18, 2005 ) and former ( Honorary ) Mayor Troisdorf ( 1993-1998 )
• Walter Bieber ( born 1948 ), politician of the SPD, last honorary mayor of the city
• Hermann -Josef ringing (* 1950), diplomat and ambassador since 2010 in Iceland
• Günter Assenmacher (* 1952 in Sieglar ), ex officio proceedings of the Archdiocese of Cologne
• Norbert Stöbe (* 1953), translator and science fiction writer
• Jürgen Becker ( born 1953 ), lawyer and since November 2009 State Secretary
• Robert Theodor Betz ( b. 1953 ) Psychologist and author
• Udo Hesse ( b. 1955 ), photographer
• Heinz -Peter Behr ( b. 1955 ) diplomat and ambassador to the Netherlands since 2010.
• Josef Esch ( born 1956 ), operators of real estate funds in cooperation with the private bank Sal Oppenheim
• Joachim igniter ( * 1956 ), writer
• Hans -Jürgen Petrauschke (* 1956), politician (CDU ) since 2009, District of Rhein-Kreis Neuss, previously director of the district of Rhein-Kreis Neuss
• Hermann -Josef Scheidgen (* 1957), theologian and historian
• Stefan Demary (1958-2010), conceptual artist
• Tom Buhrow (* 1958), journalist
• Michael Bodden Berg ( born 1959 ), Hessian since February 5, 2009 Minister for Federal Affairs
• Achim Tüttenberg (* 1959), MP for the Social Democrats in the state parliament of North Rhine -Westphalia
• Jörg Bendix (* 1961), physical geographer and professor at the University of Marburg
• Udo Kragl (* 1961), chemist and biotechnologist, Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Rostock
• Elisabeth Meier angle -Becker (* 1962), politician of the CDU and since September 18, 2005 Member of the German Bundestag
• Jürgen Peiffer ( born 1963 ), jazz drummer and composer
• Frank Baquet (* 1964 in Troisdorf- Sieglar ), contemporary, freelance photographers
• Klaus Pipke ( b. 1964 ), mayor of the city of Hennef (Sieg)
• Christoph Brüske (born 1965 ) comedian and presenter
• Michael Strempel ( journalist) (born 1965 ), journalist, foreign editor of the WDR TV
• Michael Rathmann ( born 1968 ), historian
• Michael Dorth (born 1971 ) musician, producer and songwriter
• Rouven Costanza ( b. 1975 ), actor and theater director
• Malte Sebastian Pufpaff (* 1976), comedian, presenter and entertainer
• Dennis Rödder (* 1979), biologist and head of the herpetological section of the Museum Alexander Koenig.
• Benjamin Ball ( born 1979 ), fitness trainer
• Sven Lehmann ( * 1979 in Sieglar ), politicians, state chairman of the Greens NRW, to 2002 living in Troisdorf- Spich
• Shirvan - Latifah Çakıcı (* 1980), politician of Kurdish origin
• Max Hoff, (* 1982 ), canoeists, both whitewater and flatwater moves
• Saša Kekez (* 1983), actor
• Christian Seel ( b. 1983 ), chess player
• Sophie Moser ( born 1984 ), violinist and actress
• Matthias Hummel ( born 1984 ), football player
• Jessica Richter ( born 1985 ), actress
• Anne Menden ( born 1985 ), actress
• Lena Schöneborn ( born 1986 ), Olympic champion in 2008 in Modern Pentathlon
• Sabine Lisicki (* 1989), tennis player
• Maik Blankart (* 1992), ice hockey player
• Mitchell Weiser (* 1994), football player

Associated with the city people

• Emil Langen ( * 1824 in Solingen, † 1870 in Salzgitter), 1846-1867 Director of the Friedrich- Wilhelms-Hütte, today Mannstaedt plants
• William Stricker (* 1905 in Neuwied, † 1992 in Troisdorf ) was a local politician (CDU ) in Troisdorf and two-time winner of the Federal Cross of Merit
• Hermann Richarz (* 1907 in Köln- Poll, † 1985 in Troisdorf ) was a staunch opponent of National Socialism and after his release from the concentration camp Dachau pastor in Troisdorf.
• Tonino Guerra ( * 1920, † 2012 ) was an Italian poet and screenwriter. He was from 1944 until the war forced laborers at the Dynamit AG.
• Marie -Luise balances (* 1939 in Elbing, West Prussia) is a contemporary artist and museum educator.
• Rupert Neudeck ( born 1939 in Danzig), journalist, founder of the Cap Anamur / German Emergency Doctors eV and Chairman of the Peace Corps Grünhelme eV
• Frieder Doering (* 1942 in Dattenfeld ), physician and writer, lived and practiced since 1974 as a dermatologist in Troisdorf and is a member of its literary cafés Troisdorf since 1990.
• Günter Ollenschläger (* 1951 in city of Bonn ), grew up in Troisdorf ( resident 1951-1971 ), science journalist, university teacher at the University Hospital of Cologne and from 1995 to 2014 Head of the Medical Centre for Quality in Medicine
• Robert Kloos (* 1958 in Dörrebach ), State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection, lives in Troisdorf
• Andreas Fischer ( * 1961 in Bonn), filmmaker and photographer who grew up in Troisdorf
• Lusja Shatalova ( b. 1963 in Fergana, Uzbekistan ) is an Uzbek designer and illustrator for children's books.
• Matthias Praxenthaler (* 1971), writer, grew up in Troisdorf
• Marcus Dahm ( born in 1977 in Trier ), composer, church musician and musicologist
• Max Löffler (* 1988 in Halle an der Saale), politician, former Speaker of the Young Greens, lived in his youth in Troisdorf.
• Roman Lob (* 1990 in Dusseldorf ), musicians, participants in the Euro Vision Song Contest in Baku in 2012, works in Troisdorf