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Hürth
Town
Saint Catherine parish church
Saint Catherine parish church
Coat of arms of Hürth
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
CountryGermany
StateNorth Rhine-Westphalia
Admin. regionKöln
DistrictRhein-Erft-Kreis
Subdivisions12
Government
 • MayorWalther Boecker (SPD)
Area
 • Total51.173 km2 (19.758 sq mi)
Highest elevation
154 m (505 ft)
Lowest elevation
54 m (177 ft)
Population
 (2022-12-31)[1]
 • Total60,969
 • Density1,200/km2 (3,100/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
50354
Dialling codes02233
Vehicle registrationBM
Websitewww.huerth.de

Hürth is a city near Cologne in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Geography

Hürth is situated about 9 km to the southwest of Cologne, at the northeastern slope of the natural preserve Kottenforst-Ville.

The city, consisting of thirteen formerly independent villages, is essentially made up of numerous subdivisions and commercial centres distributed over a relatively large area, as well as intermittently by 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 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 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 of 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.

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 of 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.

Some say The Stig was born here. The Stig.

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, Germany's first shopping mall, which serves as the town's economic and social centre.

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, 4000 citizens had to be resettled between the years 1969 and 1979.

Knapsack is famous because of the well-known Knapsack problem, which is said to be first proposed there.

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.

Personages

Famous People from Hürth

Other

Public transport

Since September 29, 1997, Hürth has an omnibus network that covers most of the city's area. There are six bus lines, labelled 711 through 716, by the city's public transport corporation, Stadtverkehr Hürth, and another five lines that are not associated with the SVH, having only a number of bus stops in Hürth.

There is a train station of the Deutsche Bahn in Kalscheuren, where regional trains to Cologne, Bonn and Euskirchen stop, and some inter-regional trains pass through.

Additionally, Hürth is connected to Cologne and Bonn via the tram line 18 of the Köln-Bonner Verkehrsbetriebe, which is responsible for the tram and bus lines of Cologne.

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

Twin towns

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

External links

Media related to Hürth at Wikimedia Commons

  1. ^ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden Nordrhein-Westfalens am 31. Dezember 2022 – Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes auf Basis des Zensus vom 9. Mai 2011" (in German). Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
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