Wesseling

Wesseling is a town in the Rhein -Erft in southwestern North Rhine -Westphalia and is immediately adjacent to the south of Cologne. Due to the resident within its city limits chemical plants and an oil refinery, it plays a significant role in the international chemical industry.

3.1 City Council
3.2 Town twinning
3.3 Coat of Arms

5.1 Road traffic
5.2 Rail transport
5.3 bus
5.4 Rheinfähre

Geography

Location

Wesseling is located south of Cologne periphery on the left bank of the Rhine and is bordered to the north by the city of Cologne parts Meschenich, Immendorf and Godorf. Other neighboring towns are Brühl in the West, Bornheim in the south and low Kassel on the right side of the Rhine in the east.

Boroughs

Divided Wesseling is in the districts of Mitte, Keldenich, Berzdorf and Urfeld.

As of December 31, 2010

History

The discovery of Roman consecration of altars, the excavation of a Roman villa and Frankish grave fields are early evidence of occupation of the site. The name goes back to the 820 AD to the monastery Montfaucon overridden Gutsherrschaft " Waslicia ". The name " Oberwesseling " first appeared in 1238 as " Weslic superior". The ancient word forms " Waslicia " or " Weslic " emerged as the Latinized " Waslicia ", from the term " Waslic ". This can appear to " What ( i) liacum " lead back, the settlement of a " What ( i) lio ". Thus, it belongs to the ancient place names group with the suffix "- acum " similar " Juliacum " today Jülich, the settlement of " Julius ".

In 1700, consisted in a Wesseling team changing station which Treidelschifffahrt. Until the industrialization of the place but seemed to have remained rather insignificant between Cologne and Bonn. It was only in 1793 indicated a tannery attention to the coming industrial age.

1848, a democratic Workers' Association was founded in Wesseling. This year also saw the rebellion of the Treidler (Rhein Halfen ) on the Wesselinger Treidelstation reached over who saw threatened by the emerging steamship their trade.

Founded in 1880 and Heinrich Franz Zimmermann Chemische Fabrik Wesseling for recovery of the purification of gas as the origin of today's Evonik chemical plants in the north of the city.

1904 began construction of the Rhine railway from Cologne to Bonn via Wesseling. A cross railway connects Wesseling since 1900 with Brühl. This route is used today but mostly to freight.

1932 gave the last free parliamentary elections in Wesseling for the German Centre Party: 45 %, followed by KPD: 24%, SPD: 16%, and the NSDAP: 8%.

In 1937 the Union Rheinische lignite fuel AG was founded in Wesseling (UK ), now located there at the same place the Rhineland refinery of Shell.

During the period of National Socialism approximately 10,000 foreign and forced laborers were from 1939 to 1945 in the Wesselinger industry employs. The city itself counted for comparison only 7,500 inhabitants. The employed largely in the UK and the German Norton forced laborers were in wooden barracks. accommodated. The so-called " South Camp " was located next to the present station in Wesseling -south. Another barracks was right on the Rhine, called the "Rhine camp."

Wesseling was - similar to Cologne - early March 1945 conquered and occupied as part of Operation Lumberjack of the 1st U.S. Army.

At the first municipal elections in 1946 CDU achieved 51.2 %; SPD and KPD 31.1% 17.7%. After Bonn in 1949 the seat of government of the Federal Republic of Germany, was a down Wesselinger Rhine Park building (now the AWO - house ), first a site of the Embassy of Venezuela, then in 1954 the Embassy of Brazil (see also List of diplomatic missions in Bonn).

On August 1, 1969, the district Urfeld the community Hersel was reclassified to Wesseling, while the main part of the municipality Hersel was incorporated into the city Bornheim.

On 1 July 1970, a part of the community Bornheim was reclassified at that time about 125 inhabitants according to Wesseling.

On 3 October 1972, the community received the title of city.

On 1 January 1975 Wesseling was incorporated by § 1 paragraph 1 of the Cologne - law in the city of Cologne, but received after successful suit with effect from July 1, 1976 its independence back. This also meant that Cologne had now become not in spite of incorporations to metropolis; this status reached Cologne in 2010.

Since the local elections in October 2009, sitting next to the CDU, FDP, SPD and B90/Grünen now the Left and the Free Voters / WE in the city Wesseling advice.

Policy

City Council

The municipal election held on August 30, 2009 led with a voter turnout of 54.3 % ( - 0.7 ) the following result:

Twinning

Wesseling is twinned with

Pontivy in France ( since 1972)
West Devon in the United Kingdom ( since 1983)
Traunstein in Bavaria ( since 1984)
Leuna in Saxony -Anhalt (since 1990)

Coat of arms

" In red right labels, is in a silver doppelschwänziger red lion, left a silver lily stalk ( Glaive ) with reduced central cross rung on the two ends of a pair of confronting silver birds. "

The coat of arms was granted by decree of the President of the Upper Rhine Province January 4, 1937. It has been developed with only minor changes from the younger aldermen seal of the 14th century. This doppelschwänzige Bergische Lion, without the blue crown and the blue armor, points to the former rulers. Wesseling belonged to the territorial area of the Counts of Sayn, with its seat of power on the lion castle fell to the Dukes of Berg and thus to the Duchy of Berg as a result of numerous changes of ownership in 1484. Wesseling thus belonged administratively and judicially to the Official Löwenburg. The Tree of Life, an ancient Christian symbol, is found on the seal of the aldermen freedom low - Wesseling from the 14th century.

Economy

In the area of town are several large companies in the chemical industry, so among other things Evonik ( formerly Degussa ), Dow Chemical and LyondellBasell (formerly Rheinische Olefinwerke and Elenac ), and a plant of the Rhineland Shell refinery (formerly DEA and Union fuel Wesseling ). The refinery is connected by a pipeline of Wilhelmshaven and Rotterdam, from which it takes its crude oil.

In the chamber district of the IHK Cologne Wesseling has the largest percentage of commercial space.

Traffic

Road

Wesseling is accessible via the motorways A 555 ( Bonn- Cologne) and A 553 ( Bliesheim -Brühl ). The latter provides the connection to the motorways A 61 and A 1. The A555 was the first released in Germany for public transport carriageway. In urban traffic intersections are replaced by roundabout. The oldest and most generous is since the late 1950s at the intersection Miihlenweg / Hubertusstraße. By horticultural and artistic design of this roundabout their acceptance should be encouraged. At the roundabout Ahrstraße / Seven Mountain Road since 2006 is a metal sculpture made from the adjacent Shell, according to a draft of the Hürther Culture Prize winner Willi Laschet.

Rail transport

The Rhine railway ports and freight Köln ( HGK ) connects with Wesseling Cologne and Bonn. Since 1978 she is navigated by subway line 16 of the Cologne Transport Authority ( KVB) and Stadtwerke Bonn (SWB ), the light rail trains are bound to the Bonn and Cologne Stadtbahn network. Within Wesselings the holding Wesseling North, Wesseling, Wesseling South and Urfeld be served.

The cross- train to Brühl is now significant only in freight transport and it binds the port Cologne - Godorf to the rail network of the Deutsche Bahn. The port Godorf himself had formerly great importance for the sale of the briquettes from the Rhenish lignite mining area.

Bus

The city bus line 721 of Stadtwerke Wesseling opens up the various districts of the city and include them on to the city center. There is connection to the tram line 16 and bus line 930 in the neighboring town of Brühl, however, is operated by the Rhine Erft traffic mbH ( REVG ). June 10, 2012, a link between Wesseling and the Bornheimer district Sechtem was created with the new TaxiBus line 722 for the first time. Wesseling belongs to the tariff zone of the transport association Rhein-Sieg.

Rheinfähre

A passenger and bicycle ferry connects Wesseling with low -Lülsdorf on the opposite side of the Rhine. Wesseling is scheduled dock for passenger ships of the Köln- Düsseldorf Rhine ( KD ) and Cologne Tourist ( KT).

Culture

The city offers an extensive cultural program and could offer the Phoenix Theatre in 2004 for the first time its own premises in the new event hall " Rhein Forum ". Tradition, the Jazz Festival "Live in Lessing ". Since 2005, with the new festival hall in the district Urfeld a generous sports and event facilities available, which is used, among others, the music Urfeld friends. Since 2009 will be held outside the hall every year at Pentecost, the "Day of brass music " instead, the music lovers had held since 1975 to annual audits in the school yard of the Old Rhine Urfeld school. On the last Saturday in November, the annual concert of the HCC Jazz Ensemble will be held at the Garden Street in the auditorium of Lessing school.

In the academic center of the city there is a high school, junior high, main, primary and vocational school and a large sports complex with gymnasium and some thoughtless gyms, since 2009, a refectory.

Outside of the district Urfeld operates at Schloss Eichholz, the Konrad -Adenauer -Stiftung an educational center. The lock is made available to the Wesselinger Music Forum eV for the " Eichholzer Castle Concerts ".

Buildings and monuments

Godorfer yard and Wasserburg in Berzdorf, mentioned in 1173 as a possession of the pen to Schwarzrheindorf. The present castle building dates as an example of the romantic castles from 1871.
Berzdorfer water tower from 1894.
Catholic parish church of St. Germanus on the Rhine, built by Theodore Kremer 1894.
Jewish cemetery with grave stones 81 on the Roman road. After 1945 a memorial stone was erected by the community Wesseling. The cemetery was desecrated in the late 1950s by neo-Nazis, is now in a good condition.
The Mimar Sinan mosque, which was built in 1987.
Dietkirchener court in Urfeld, since 1113 is documentary evidence, residential building from the 19th century, from 1933 to 1939 served the court as a kibbutz Bamaaleh Jewish Palestinian emigrants as a training center.
Kaderhof in Urfeld, above the portal, the chronogram for 1792: Haec Aedes aere Proprio stVXIt Ioannes IosephVs Corman benefICIatVs eX Blintrop (Johann Joseph Corman, a vassal of Blintrop, this home has built from its own assets ).
Bronx rock climbing gym in the industrial area Rheinbogen, largest indoor climbing hall in Germany. Ceiling height up to 16.50 m.
Altes Rathaus Wesseling to see in the opening credits of the RTL series " The Office ".
Railway Museum of the Cologne - Bonn railway - eV

Filmmuseum Romboy with attached museum cinema.
The nature reserve duck catching with an area of over 75,000 square meters is one of the few remnants of the original floodplains in the Cologne-Bonn bay and thus represents a geological monument in the landscape history of the southern Lower Rhine dar. Intelligent botanical afforestation and elaborate extensions of the green space was an additional created great recreational area.

Sons and daughters of the town

Carl von Joest (1858-1942), owner of the manor castle Eichholz
Jean -Paul Schmitz (1899-1970), painter
Paul Nagel ( born 1925 ), sculptor, painter, architect and metalsmith
Alfons Müller (1931-2003), politicians (including the Mayor of Wesseling 1976 to 1994, member of the Bundestag from 1980 to 1994, Chairman of KAB 1971-1991 )
Hans Geulig (1934-2004), painter and graphic artist
Kabir Stori (1942-2006), Pashtun poet and writer
Albert Klütsch ( born 1944 ), Member of Parliament (SPD )
Wolfgang Baumeister ( born 1946 ), a biophysicist
Ursula Knott ( born 1947 ), former member of parliament (CDU )
Jürgen Fassbender ( born 1948 ), former German tennis pro, multiple German champion and Davis Cup participants
Jürgen Nimptsch (* 1954), politician ( SPD) and actor; currently OB of Bonn
Ulrike Meyfarth (* 1956), high jumper and two -time Olympic champion, the 1972 Munich and Los Angeles in 1984
Martin Perscheid (born 1966 ), cartoonist and author
Dominic Reinold (* 1989), German football player

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