Weilerswist

Weilerswist is a municipality in the district of Euskirchen in the state of North Rhine -Westphalia and is located on the southwestern edge of the Ville.

• 6.1 Structures
• 6.2 Museums

• 7.1 Rail transport
• 7.2 roads
• 7.3 cycle paths

• 8.1 freeman
• 8.2 personalities related to Weilerswist

Geography

Weilerswist located in the northern part of the district Euskirchen, bordered to the north by the town of Brühl and Erftstadt (both in the Rhine -Erft ), to the south by the town of Euskirchen, in the west on the town Zuelpich and on the east by the city of Bornheim and the municipality Swisttal (both in the Rhein-Sieg -Kreis). The community is located west of the promontory.

Weilerswist located on Erft and Swist. From the origin of this word " hamlet on the Swist " is therefore the correct hyphenation Wei | ler | Swist, not Wei | Jewellers | wist.

Community structure

The municipality consists of six statistical villages with a total of 15 districts.

History

The municipality was created Weilerswist 1 July 1969 by the Act on Restructuring of the district Euskirchen, through which the communities Lommersum Metternich, Müggenhausen, Crushing and Weilerswist the Office Weilerswist Lommersum merged to form community Weilerswist.

For centuries people in the fertile beading around Erft and Swist found sufficient food and settled there. Thus, there are traces of settlement of the people of the Upper Paleolithic, the Linear Pottery culture, the urnfield people and settlements from the La Tène period.

Celts and Germans, but mainly Romans left their mark. Numerous settlements and isolated farms ( Villae Rusticae ) passed, refer to the location names like Hamlet, destruction and Metternich and occupy foundations found during excavations, artifacts, row tombs and sarcophagi. A cult center was located on the Swister mountain. In the year 1933 conducted by Peter Anton Tholen excavations the remains of a larger temple district were discovered. There matrons were worshiped, but also the goddess Diana had been set a consecration stone. Also was there on the high road leading from the castle to the fort Bonn Neuss on the mountain Swister a Jupiter column whose upper part was also found.

When the Franks took over the area, new settlements were established. Villages such as Lommersum ( Lommundesheim ) Derkum ( Dedinchheim ), floor home, Ottenheim and Schneppenheim that end in " home ", refer to a foundation by a Frankish tribe leader.

Since Carolingian documents are handed down from places in the municipality of Weilerswist. The first mention of the place Weilerswist as " Wilrezwist " dates of July 9, 1310.

The rule Weilerswist, which had been pledged in 1303 by Dietrich Luf of Cleves, and his wife Lisa at the Cologne archbishop Wikbold of Holte, came after a failure to cashing in the possession of the Archbishopric of Cologne.

Weilerswist belonged to the Electoral Cologne office Brühl, but had its own court without high court rights. These were exercised by the court Brühl. Within the district court Weilerswist several farm organizations were with Hofgerichten. It was the the pin Sankt Andreas in Cologne in Oberswist, pin Sankt Gereon in Cologne in Swist and the house cooling harrows, which included the Kaulenhofesverband. The high court rights, both Sankt Gereon and house possessed cooling harrows, were lost over the centuries. In the 17th century possessed the sovereign, the Elector of Cologne, all the high- court rights in Weilerswist. This legal situation remained unchanged until the reorganization of the areas with the administrative and judicial reform under French rule in 1798.

Lommersum belonged to the rule Kerpen Lommersum and was adopted by Schaesberg in 1710 by Count Friedrich.

In the creation of new administrative districts according to the French model under Napoleon in 1800 Weilerswist and Lommersum mairies were in Canton Lechenich. With the secularization of Church property in 1802 and carried out in the years to sell the ownership in Weilerswist and Lommersum fundamentally changed.

The mairies remained in the Prussian era when mayors and since 1927 as offices even after the establishment of the State of North Rhine -Westphalia exist in 1946. 1951 was the Office Weilerswist Lommersum, which existed until 1969.

Church relationships

The Catholic parish church is dedicated to St. Mauritius. It was first mentioned in the Liber Valoris 1308. The destroyed in the great fire in the village in 1757 and then broken church was replaced by a new building, the tower was completed in 1772 1771. The baroque curly eight-sided dome with a closed lantern and scalloped dome umbrella that carries high baluster ball and cross, is a characteristic feature of Weilerswist.

In the years 1938/39, was an extension of the church, 1964/65 a thorough renovation and another in 1996. Originally Baroque interior, which had been replaced by a late 19th century neo-Gothic, was removed in 1964 and the church was again a baroque interior. The present organ was manufactured in the organ workshop Johannes Klais organ building in Bonn. It replaces the organ from the former Franciscan monastery in Lechenich, which was given to the Church of St. Mary of the Angels in Brühl.

Another church is the Protestant Martin Luther Church. Until the Second World War only a few Protestant Christians lived in Weilerswist. Only after 1945, the number increased by expellees. They were first to the parish Brühl, after 1948 the church congregation Liblar. In 1967, the municipality Weilerswist own church and in 1973 its own pastor.

The Swister tower on the mountain Swister is the tower of a former parish and pilgrimage church of the village Swist or Niederswist. The church, which was dedicated to the Holy Virgins Fides, Spes and Caritas, was built according to studies of the foundation walls, whose stones were associated with lime mortar, by Peter Anton Tholen in the Carolingian period. The 8 m long and 10 m wide building with an initial charge of the choir had only 50 cm wide walls, resulting Tholen closed on a covered with wood construction. The three-storey tower, the mortars from the difference of the Church, Tholen dated to the 11th/12th. Century. Thus, the assumption Clemens was confirmed by the age of the tower. It is assumed that along with the tower a stone church was built, which was named in 1308 in Liber Valoris as a parish church. The heavily damaged in the Sewer War church was not subsequently restored. After she lost her status as a parish church, it remained Sanctuary until the 19th century. 1829, the church was demolished, leaving only the tower standing, of 1853 a new roof and inside a small chapel was, could take place in the church. After 2002, the tower was Swister passes from the civil parish in the possession of the Catholic Church in Weilerswist, the Association of preservation and conservation of Swister tower was founded Swister tower supports. Also find regular events on the Swister mountain instead the pilgrimage on Whit Monday and the Mass in honor of the Three Holy Virgins.

Policy

In the municipal election on August 30, 2009, following distribution of the 34 seats in the municipal council was:

• CDU: 15 seats (-3)
• SPD: 10 seats ( 1)
• FDP: 5 seats ( 1)
• GREEN: 3 seats (± 0)
• LEFT: 1 seat ( 1)

Crest and Banner

Banner

The municipality has been awarded with certificate of the provincial government in Cologne on May 4, 1972, the right to bear a coat of arms and a flag (banner ).

Coat of arms

Blazon: " Split; front in a black with a cross besteckter, zweifenstriger silver (white ) tower, rear in silver ( white), a black eagle. "

The coat of arms combines the symbols of the former mayors Weilerswist and Lommersum. The tower symbolizes the " Swister turrets ", the symbol of Weilerswist, the eagle comes from the Lommersumer court seal of 1675th Since the original colors were no longer to determine, were black and silver, the colors of the Electorate of Cologne used the Weilerswist since 1303 belonged to.

Banner

Description of banner: " White-Black in the ratio 1: 1 vertical stripes with the borough arms slightly above the middle. "

Community partnerships

The community Weilerswist maintains two community partnerships: Since 1978, a partnership with the French community Carqueiranne and since 1989 with the Middle English community Whitnash.

Attractions

Structures

Is already visible from the tower on the Swister Swisterberg, a standing under monument protection tower from the 11-12. Century and landmarks of Weilerswist.

In Weilerswist along the highway the impressive moated castle Burg temperature harrows, formerly owned by the Cologne Jesuits is now the Freiherr von Eltz - Rübenach while in the district of floor home castle of the same, the last surviving noble residence of the former rule Kerpen Lommersum located.

In the district of Metternich Metternich, in turn, are the castle and the remains of the castle of House Velbrück. You are ancestral homes of the families of Metternich. Both houses are probably originally inhabited as early roman, but documented only since the Middle Ages detectable. Between the two houses, limits their courtyards each other, the Roman road runs east -west direction of the Swistbach and in south-north direction from Trier to the Rhine at Wesseling. At Burg Metternich, a double-leaf plant, which received its present form in the 17th century, early 19th century, the social contract of the company Friedrich Krupp was closed to food. The Rhenish- French lawyer and later Prussian State Council Daniels has there the Civil Code, translated into German and so given the basis for the Rheinische civil law. Metternich Castle is now inhabited by the Barons of Spies Büllesheim. In House Velbrück the descendants of Hallbach family reside. In the courtyard is the seat of a bookstore and the publisher Velbrück science.

St. Mauritius in Weilerswist

Wasserburg cooling harrows

Castle Floor Home

Tower Chapel on the Swisterberg, the " Swister turrets "

Museums

Well hidden in the heart of the community, the Eagle Zweiradmuseum Weilerswist be found.

In addition, you can still find the print museum of the publisher Country Press by Ralf love on the main road.

Moreover, there are in the district of wholesale destruction the craft and local history museum, which is maintained by the Village Improvement Society. It is located in the old school in wholesale destruction and is broken down into areas of traditional crafts and daily village life including religious elements and agriculture.

Traffic

Rail transport

The Weilerswist station, which is now a listed building and was built by Hermann Schmalenbach is, on the Eifel circuit (Cologne - Euskirchen - Gerolstein -Trier ), on the rail passenger transport

• The Eifel -Mosel- Express ( RE 12) Cologne - Euskirchen - Gerolstein Trier
• The Eifel -Express ( RE 22) Cologne - Euskirchen - Gerolstein By binding to Trier (RB 83) and
• The Eifel -Bahn (RB 24) Cologne - Euskirchen - Kall, in the HVZ to Gerolstein

Operate.

Another station is located in the district of Ottenheim, however, which bears the name of the neighboring hamlet Derkum. Reason for this is that it at the opening of the railway in 1871 was no place Ottenheim, but only an eponymous commodity. The applicant Derkum is operated by the RB24 (Eifel -Bahn ) daily hourly.

Is performed the rail transport

• By DB Regio West for speeds up to 120 km / h used for the Eifel -Mosel- Express two-part diesel railcar class 628 in A to Triple traction.

Until the timetable change in December 2009, turn trains of five n- wagon with preload diesel locomotive of the DB Class 218 for speeds up to 140 km / h are used.

• By DB Regio NRW, for speeds up to 120 km / h used for the Eifel- Express and the Eifel Railway diesel railcar of the DB - 644 series in one-to three -unit.

For the entire public transport (PT ) the rate of the transport association Rhein-Sieg and collective space border of the NRW rate applies.

Called A second line, the so-called "Ruhr -Mosel- route ", also called " strategic lift", was dismantled in the wake of the Treaty of Versailles before its completion, she cruised in Weilerswist the line between Cologne and Trier, and should lead to the Ahr and discharge into the local railway line. In Weilerswist -Metternich, near " Use the blue stone ", a station was planned. The route of the municipal area is nearly identical to today's Federal Highway 61

There is a connection to the federal highways 1, 61 and 553

Between Weilerswist and destruction, there is a roundabout, which leads to the ring road L163 for new highway access to the A1. About this bypass you can change since 2009 on the K11 Erftstadt.

Cycle paths

The community is connected to 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 265 km long network of cycle paths valleys route opens up interesting tourist places in North Rhine -Westphalia on family-friendly route.
• 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.

Personalities

Freeman

• Armand Conan, born 1920, former mayor of the southern French partner community Carqueiranne.
• Josef Esser, for 24 years, official and community director ( 1922-2009 ).
• Josef Schaeben, longtime mayor of the village core Weilerswist (1898-1966), after whom the community primary school of the village Weilerswist is named.
• Peter Vey, longtime mayor of the districts wholesale destruction, annihilation and small Horchheim, longtime SPD deputy in the district council Euskirchen, (1892-1967), according to him the Peter Vey Street is in the district of Great destroyer named.
• Jacob Brock, Mayor of the local part of Metternich 1945-1969, (1899-1984), after whom the Jacob Brock Street is in the district named Metternich.
• Karl Josef Schmitz, 1924, pastor at Holy Cross in destruction. He is regarded as an honorary citizen of destruction, although there is no Council decision or award document. It seems likely that an event such as an honorary citizen was given by the community of village clubs.
• Friedrich Schmitt, Good Antonitterhof, first mayor of the greater community Weilerswist (1969-1979, CDU). Carrier of the Order of Merit, winner of the Golden Ehrenringsder community Weilerswist and honorary citizen of the French partner community Carqueiranne.

Personalities related to Weilerswist

• Heinrich Gottfried Wilhelm Daniels, translator of the Civil Code to the German, First President of the Appeal Court of Cologne
• Karl Flink, German football player and first coach of the 1st FC Cologne
• Holger Klein, Radio Presenter
• Heinz Küpper, politician ( CDU)
• Ralf love, publisher
• Princes, counts and barons of Metternich
• Count and Baron von Wolff -Metternich
• Helene von Müller born Krupp of Essen. Sister of Friedrich Krupp and co-owner of Friedr. Krupp Essen
• Detlef Seif, a member of the Bundestag (CDU )