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Hürth

January 07, 2023

"Hurth" redirects here. Not to be confused with Peter Joseph Hurth.

Hürth is a town in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Hürth shares borders with the city of Cologne and is about 6 km to the southwest of Cologne city centre, at the northeastern slope of the natural preserve Kottenforst-Ville. The town consists of thirteen districts, once independent villages, and is distributed over a relatively large area. The municipal area is interspersed with lakes and stretches of forest.

Hürth
Town
Saint Catherine parish church
Coat of arms
Location of Hürth within Rhein-Erft-Kreis district
Mettmann (district)Rhein-Erft-KreisNorth Rhine-WestphaliaHeinsberg (district)Rhein-Kreis NeussCologneWesselingRhein-Sieg-KreisDüren (district)Euskirchen (district)PulheimBergheimErftstadtHürthKerpenBedburgBrühlFrechenElsdorf
Hürth
Hürth
Coordinates: 50°52′39″N 6°52′34″E / 50.87750°N 6.87611°E / 50.87750; 6.87611Coordinates: 50°52′39″N 6°52′34″E / 50.87750°N 6.87611°E / 50.87750; 6.87611
CountryGermany
StateNorth Rhine-Westphalia
Admin. regionKöln
DistrictRhein-Erft-Kreis
Subdivisions12
Government
 • Mayor (2020–25) Dirk Breuer[1] (CDU)
Area
 • Total51.173 km2 (19.758 sq mi)
Highest elevation
154 m (505 ft)
Lowest elevation
54 m (177 ft)
Population
 (2021-12-31)[2]
 • Total60,034
 • Density1,200/km2 (3,000/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
50354
Dialling codes02233
Vehicle registrationBM
Websitewww.huerth.de

In former times, the Eifel Aqueduct, a Roman aqueduct which supplied the city of Cologne with drinking water, went through Hürth. Remnants of various aqueducts can still be found underground. It is also famous as the birthplace of Michael Schumacher.

Geography

Hürth is situated about 6 km to the southwest of Cologne city centre, at the northeastern slope of the Kottenforst-Ville nature reserve.

The town, consisting of thirteen formerly independent villages, is essentially made up of numerous subdivisions and commercial centres distributed over a relatively large area. The municipal area is interspersed with lakes and stretches of forest.

Coat of arms

Hürth's coat of arms shows an eagle from the family coat of arms belonging to the knight Hurth von Schönecken, the cross of Cologne and a cogwheel that refers to the heavy industry. It was awarded to the community on October 26, 1934, by a verdict of the Prussian Ministry of State.

Districts

  • Alstädten/Burbach
  • Alt-Hürth
  • Berrenrath
  • Efferen
  • Fischenich
  • Gleuel
  • Hermülheim
  • Hürth-Mitte
  • Kalscheuren
  • Kendenich
  • Knapsack
  • Sielsdorf
  • Stotzheim

History

 
Burg Kendenich

On April 1, 1930, the rural communities of Hürth (with Alstädten and Knapsack), Berrenrath, Fischenich, Gleuel (with Sielsdorf and Burbach), Hermülheim and Kendenich (with Kalscheuren) were united into a new country community called Hürth. After the same year's failed attempt by the city of Cologne, with its then-mayor Konrad Adenauer, to incorporate Efferen, Efferen was associated to Hürth in 1933, in tandem with Stotzheim. This made Hürth the largest rural community of Germany until 1978, when Hürth ceased being a rural community and became a suburb of Cologne as new developments in Efferen closed the gap between the city of Cologne and Hürth.

The country administration of the rural district Cologne was seated in Hürth on November 22, 1963. From 1816, it had been seated in the city of Cologne itself. The administration moved to Bergheim on September 3, 1993.

Hürth is home to the Bundessprachenamt, which was founded on July 4, 1969.

Alstädten

Alstädten was first mentioned documentarily in 1185.

Burbach

Burbach was first mentioned documentarily in 1233. Nowadays, Alstädten and Burbach are one district named Alstädten-Burbach.

Berrenrath

Berrenrath was first mentioned documentarily in 922. The resettlement of Berrenrath onto a now-abandoned brown coal mine was decided on February 27, 1952. This was necessary due to mining plans of the Roddergrube AG. The resettlement was completed in the September 1995.

Efferen

The Efferen district had its first documentary mention as a pastoral town in 1189. The Catholics first humbled themselves with a plain wooden church. On June 6, 1869, this church was replaced with a solid building, consecrated by auxiliary bishop Baudri.

On October 31, 1944, large parts of Efferen, including the church and the hospital, were destroyed in an air raid; thirty-six people died.

On December 20, 1953, Boue, a member of the church assembly, consecrated the newly built Evangelic church, designed by architect Jürgen Körber. Two years later, on November 25, 1956, a new Roman Catholic church, which was designed by the Cologne architects Wolfram Borgard and Fritz Volmer, was consecrated by auxiliary bishop Wilhem Cleven.

Fischenich

Fischenich was first mentioned documentarily in 1189.

Gleuel

Gleuel was first mentioned documentarily in 898.

Hermülheim

Hermülheim was first mentioned documentarily in 943.

In Hermülheim the town's two grammar schools are located: the Ernst-Mach-Gymnasium and the Albert-Schweizer-Gymnasium.

Hürth (Alt-Hürth)

Hürth was first mentioned documentarily in 1185.

Hürth-Mitte

The building of the residential area Hürth-Mitte, that was begun in 1964 according to a decision by the municipal council in 1960, had the aim of establishing a "city centre" in the approximate geographic centre of Hürth. The decision was evidently benefitted by the constantly raising population in those times. This was partially completed by 1985, with the new town hall and community centre having been erected. Hürth-Mitte is also the site of the Hürth Park, a shopping mall, which serves as the town's economic and social centre. Hürth-Mitte is not a district for itself, but officially belongs to Hermülheim.

Kalscheuren

Kalscheuren was first mentioned documentarily in 1305.

Kendenich

Kendenich was first mentioned documentarily in 941.

Knapsack

Knapsack, its first documentary mention in 1566, started to emerge into a notable town after 1900 due to establishment and development of industry (1906 the Knapsack-Griesheim AG, later known as the Hoechst AG; 1913 construction of the brown coal power plant Goldenberg-Werk)

Due to environmental constraints, 4,000 citizens had to be resettled between the years 1969 and 1979.

Sielsdorf

Sielsdorf was first mentioned documentarily in 898.

Stotzheim

Stotzheim was first mentioned documentarily in 1223.

Sights

In former times, the Eifel Aqueduct, a Roman aqueduct which supplied the city of Cologne with drinking water, went through Hürth. A couple of springs and streams in today's municipal area were used for that purpose before the Eifel aqueduct was built. Remnants of the aqueducts can still be found in the underground of the city.

Facility 4101, Tower 93

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    Facility 4101, Tower 93 with observation platform in 2005

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    The concrete plate between the feet of the pylon, on which once stood the scaffold with the staircase to the observation deck

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    Upper part of Facility 4101, Tower 93. At the place where one can see the lattice structure in the shape of an inverted "v" in the body of the pylon, there was once the observation deck

Tower 93 of Facility 4101, situated north of Bleibtreusee at 50°50′52.57″N 6°51′32.54″E / 50.8479361°N 6.8590389°E / 50.8479361; 6.8590389, is a 74.84 metres tall electricity pylon, capable of carrying four 380 kV-circuits, which was built in 1975 as strainer for the double-circuit 380 kV-line Oberzier-Sechtem. In 1977 a covered public observation deck, accessible by a staircase in the centre of the pylon, was installed at a height of 27 metres on this tower, which was in all probability the only observation deck ever installed on an electricity pylon. In 2002 two single-phase AC circuits of the 110 kV-line Cologne-Sindorf used by the German railway company, DB AG, were installed on its lowest crossbar.

In 2010 the observation platform, including the staircase, was removed, after repeated vandalism, which concerned also parts important for the integrity of the pylon. Today only a concrete plate between its legs and a pattern in the form of an inverted "v" in its lattice structure remember to the former observation deck.

External links

Notable people

From Hürth

Other

  • Anne Will, (born 1966), television journalist and moderator, went to school in Hürth
  • Karl-Josef Assenmacher, former football referee
  • André Greipel, German cyclist, winner of several Tour de France stages and German champions 2013 and 2014
  • Ralf Grabsch, cyclist
  • Sarah Engels, second place in the 8th season of "Deutschland sucht den Superstar (Germany seeks the superstar)", currently resides in Hürth
  • Dennis from Hürth (Deutsch: Dennis aus Hürth), is a comedian who often describes himself as son of efferen and adds his origin in his performances

Public transport

Since September 29, 1997, Hürth has a bus network that covers most of the city's area. There are six bus lines, labelled 711 through 720, by the city's public transport corporation,[3] and another five lines that are not associated with the SVH, having only a number of bus stops in Hürth.

Hürth-Kalscheuren station is located in Kalscheuren and operated by Deutsche Bahn. Two Regionalbahn services stop each hour, connecting to Cologne, Bonn and Euskirchen, while other Intercity and Regional-Express pass through without stopping.

Additionally, Hürth is connected to Cologne and Bonn via the Stadtbahn line 18 of the Cologne Stadtbahn.

All local public transport, including that of the Deutsche Bahn, is subject to the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg, which is a combine of public transport organizations, setting unified prices for the whole of the combine.

Twin towns – sister cities

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany

Hürth is twinned with:[4]

Literature

  • Clemens Klug: "Hürth - wie es war, wie es wurde" (1961)
  • Herbert Sinz: "Auf der grünen Wiese"
  • Herbert Sinz, Heinrich Schnitzler: "Hürth in alten Bildern" (1980), ISBN 3-88265-052-4
  • Heinrich Schnitzler: "50 Jahre Ortsgemeinschaft Hürth-Gleuel" (1985)
  • Helmut Neßeler: "Hürth wie es früher war" (1999), ISBN 3-86134-585-4
  • Manfred Faust: "Geschichte der Stadt Hürth" (2009), ISBN 978-3-7616-2282-7
  • Raymund Gottschalk: "Römer und Franken in Hürth" (2014), ISBN 978-3-7749-3928-8

References

  1. ^ Wahlergebnisse in NRW Kommunalwahlen 2020, Land Nordrhein-Westfalen, accessed 29 June 2021.
  2. ^ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden Nordrhein-Westfalens am 31. Dezember 2021" (in German). Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW. Retrieved June 20, 2022.
  3. ^ Stadtverkehr Hürth
  4. ^ "Städtepartnerschaften". huerth.de (in German). Hürth. Retrieved February 15, 2021.

External links

  Media related to Hürth at Wikimedia Commons

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87611 E 50 87750 6 87611 Coordinates 50 52 39 N 6 52 34 E 50 87750 N 6 87611 E 50 87750 6 87611CountryGermanyStateNorth Rhine WestphaliaAdmin regionKolnDistrictRhein Erft KreisSubdivisions12Government Mayor 2020 25 Dirk Breuer 1 CDU Area Total51 173 km2 19 758 sq mi Highest elevation154 m 505 ft Lowest elevation54 m 177 ft Population 2021 12 31 2 Total60 034 Density1 200 km2 3 000 sq mi Time zoneUTC 01 00 CET Summer DST UTC 02 00 CEST Postal codes50354Dialling codes02233Vehicle registrationBMWebsitewww huerth deIn former times the Eifel Aqueduct a Roman aqueduct which supplied the city of Cologne with drinking water went through Hurth Remnants of various aqueducts can still be found underground It is also famous as the birthplace of Michael Schumacher Contents 1 Geography 2 Coat of arms 3 Districts 4 History 4 1 Alstadten 4 2 Burbach 4 3 Berrenrath 4 4 Efferen 4 5 Fischenich 4 6 Gleuel 4 7 Hermulheim 4 8 Hurth Alt Hurth 4 9 Hurth Mitte 4 10 Kalscheuren 4 11 Kendenich 4 12 Knapsack 4 13 Sielsdorf 4 14 Stotzheim 5 Sights 6 Facility 4101 Tower 93 6 1 External links 7 Notable people 7 1 From Hurth 7 2 Other 8 Public transport 9 Twin towns sister cities 10 Literature 11 References 12 External linksGeography EditHurth is situated about 6 km to the southwest of Cologne city centre at the northeastern slope of the Kottenforst Ville nature reserve The town consisting of thirteen formerly independent villages is essentially made up of numerous subdivisions and commercial centres distributed over a relatively large area The municipal area is interspersed with lakes and stretches of forest Coat of arms EditHurth s coat of arms shows an eagle from the family coat of arms belonging to the knight Hurth von Schonecken the cross of Cologne and a cogwheel that refers to the heavy industry It was awarded to the community on October 26 1934 by a verdict of the Prussian Ministry of State Districts EditAlstadten Burbach Alt Hurth Berrenrath Efferen Fischenich Gleuel Hermulheim Hurth Mitte Kalscheuren Kendenich Knapsack Sielsdorf StotzheimHistory Edit Burg Kendenich On April 1 1930 the rural communities of Hurth with Alstadten and Knapsack Berrenrath Fischenich Gleuel with Sielsdorf and Burbach Hermulheim and Kendenich with Kalscheuren were united into a new country community called Hurth After the same year s failed attempt by the city of Cologne with its then mayor Konrad Adenauer to incorporate Efferen Efferen was associated to Hurth in 1933 in tandem with Stotzheim This made Hurth the largest rural community of Germany until 1978 when Hurth ceased being a rural community and became a suburb of Cologne as new developments in Efferen closed the gap between the city of Cologne and Hurth The country administration of the rural district Cologne was seated in Hurth on November 22 1963 From 1816 it had been seated in the city of Cologne itself The administration moved to Bergheim on September 3 1993 Hurth is home to the Bundessprachenamt which was founded on July 4 1969 Alstadten Edit Alstadten was first mentioned documentarily in 1185 Burbach Edit Burbach was first mentioned documentarily in 1233 Nowadays Alstadten and Burbach are one district named Alstadten Burbach Berrenrath Edit Berrenrath was first mentioned documentarily in 922 The resettlement of Berrenrath onto a now abandoned brown coal mine was decided on February 27 1952 This was necessary due to mining plans of the Roddergrube AG The resettlement was completed in the September 1995 Efferen Edit The Efferen district had its first documentary mention as a pastoral town in 1189 The Catholics first humbled themselves with a plain wooden church On June 6 1869 this church was replaced with a solid building consecrated by auxiliary bishop Baudri On October 31 1944 large parts of Efferen including the church and the hospital were destroyed in an air raid thirty six people died On December 20 1953 Boue a member of the church assembly consecrated the newly built Evangelic church designed by architect Jurgen Korber Two years later on November 25 1956 a new Roman Catholic church which was designed by the Cologne architects Wolfram Borgard and Fritz Volmer was consecrated by auxiliary bishop Wilhem Cleven Fischenich Edit Fischenich was first mentioned documentarily in 1189 Gleuel Edit Gleuel was first mentioned documentarily in 898 Hermulheim Edit Hermulheim was first mentioned documentarily in 943 In Hermulheim the town s two grammar schools are located the Ernst Mach Gymnasium and the Albert Schweizer Gymnasium Hurth Alt Hurth Edit Hurth was first mentioned documentarily in 1185 Hurth Mitte Edit The building of the residential area Hurth Mitte that was begun in 1964 according to a decision by the municipal council in 1960 had the aim of establishing a city centre in the approximate geographic centre of Hurth The decision was evidently benefitted by the constantly raising population in those times This was partially completed by 1985 with the new town hall and community centre having been erected Hurth Mitte is also the site of the Hurth Park a shopping mall which serves as the town s economic and social centre Hurth Mitte is not a district for itself but officially belongs to Hermulheim Kalscheuren Edit Kalscheuren was first mentioned documentarily in 1305 Kendenich Edit Kendenich was first mentioned documentarily in 941 Knapsack Edit Knapsack its first documentary mention in 1566 started to emerge into a notable town after 1900 due to establishment and development of industry 1906 the Knapsack Griesheim AG later known as the Hoechst AG 1913 construction of the brown coal power plant Goldenberg Werk Due to environmental constraints 4 000 citizens had to be resettled between the years 1969 and 1979 Sielsdorf Edit Sielsdorf was first mentioned documentarily in 898 Stotzheim Edit Stotzheim was first mentioned documentarily in 1223 Sights EditIn former times the Eifel Aqueduct a Roman aqueduct which supplied the city of Cologne with drinking water went through Hurth A couple of springs and streams in today s municipal area were used for that purpose before the Eifel aqueduct was built Remnants of the aqueducts can still be found in the underground of the city Facility 4101 Tower 93 Edit Facility 4101 Tower 93 with observation platform in 2005 The concrete plate between the feet of the pylon on which once stood the scaffold with the staircase to the observation deck Upper part of Facility 4101 Tower 93 At the place where one can see the lattice structure in the shape of an inverted v in the body of the pylon there was once the observation deckTower 93 of Facility 4101 situated north of Bleibtreusee at 50 50 52 57 N 6 51 32 54 E 50 8479361 N 6 8590389 E 50 8479361 6 8590389 is a 74 84 metres tall electricity pylon capable of carrying four 380 kV circuits which was built in 1975 as strainer for the double circuit 380 kV line Oberzier Sechtem In 1977 a covered public observation deck accessible by a staircase in the centre of the pylon was installed at a height of 27 metres on this tower which was in all probability the only observation deck ever installed on an electricity pylon In 2002 two single phase AC circuits of the 110 kV line Cologne Sindorf used by the German railway company DB AG were installed on its lowest crossbar In 2010 the observation platform including the staircase was removed after repeated vandalism which concerned also parts important for the integrity of the pylon Today only a concrete plate between its legs and a pattern in the form of an inverted v in its lattice structure remember to the former observation deck External links Edit http skyscraperpage com diagrams buildingID 120476 Emporis comNotable people EditFrom Hurth Edit Michael Schumacher born 1969 Formula One driver Ralf Schumacher born 1975 Formula One driver brother of Michael Schumacher uncle of Mick Schumacher Ferdinand von Luninck 1755 1825 Prince Bishop of Corvey and Bishop of Munster Paul Henckels 1885 1967 actor Josef Metternich 1915 2005 opera singer music and singing teacher Wolfgang von Trips 1928 1961 Formula One driver Jean Breuer born 1951 cyclist World Championship 1972 Reinhard Kleist born 1970 comic artist and graphic designerOther Edit Anne Will born 1966 television journalist and moderator went to school in Hurth Karl Josef Assenmacher former football referee Andre Greipel German cyclist winner of several Tour de France stages and German champions 2013 and 2014 Ralf Grabsch cyclist Sarah Engels second place in the 8th season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar Germany seeks the superstar currently resides in Hurth Dennis from Hurth Deutsch Dennis aus Hurth is a comedian who often describes himself as son of efferen and adds his origin in his performancesPublic transport EditSince September 29 1997 Hurth has a bus network that covers most of the city s area There are six bus lines labelled 711 through 720 by the city s public transport corporation 3 and another five lines that are not associated with the SVH having only a number of bus stops in Hurth Hurth Kalscheuren station is located in Kalscheuren and operated by Deutsche Bahn Two Regionalbahn services stop each hour connecting to Cologne Bonn and Euskirchen while other Intercity and Regional Express pass through without stopping Additionally Hurth is connected to Cologne and Bonn via the Stadtbahn line 18 of the Cologne Stadtbahn All local public transport including that of the Deutsche Bahn is subject to the Verkehrsverbund Rhein Sieg which is a combine of public transport organizations setting unified prices for the whole of the combine Twin towns sister cities EditSee also List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany Hurth is twinned with 4 Nissewaard Netherlands 1966 Thetford England United Kingdom 1966 Argeles sur Mer France 1988 Kabarnet Kenya 1988 Skawina Poland 1996 Burhaniye Turkey 2011 Literature EditClemens Klug Hurth wie es war wie es wurde 1961 Herbert Sinz Auf der grunen Wiese Herbert Sinz Heinrich Schnitzler Hurth in alten Bildern 1980 ISBN 3 88265 052 4 Heinrich Schnitzler 50 Jahre Ortsgemeinschaft Hurth Gleuel 1985 Helmut Nesseler Hurth wie es fruher war 1999 ISBN 3 86134 585 4 Manfred Faust Geschichte der Stadt Hurth 2009 ISBN 978 3 7616 2282 7 Raymund Gottschalk Romer und Franken in Hurth 2014 ISBN 978 3 7749 3928 8References Edit Wahlergebnisse in NRW Kommunalwahlen 2020 Land Nordrhein Westfalen accessed 29 June 2021 Bevolkerung der Gemeinden Nordrhein Westfalens am 31 Dezember 2021 in German Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW Retrieved June 20 2022 Stadtverkehr Hurth Stadtepartnerschaften huerth de in German Hurth Retrieved February 15 2021 External links Edit Media related to Hurth at Wikimedia Commons Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Hurth amp oldid 1111021873, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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