Würselen around 1800
Once upon a time ...
If you are interested, for example, the names of the boys' games 'Markt-Preck' or 'Dobach-St. Jobs', or why in Bardenberg the Grindelstraße crosses the road Landgraben, then you have come to the right place.
It goes back to the years around 1800. At that time there were the first scale maps of Würselen and the surrounding area. On this tranchot map the germ cells of today's Würselen can be recognized. At that time, the village of Würselen had just 192 inhabitants. Scherberg was much larger and had 316 inhabitants. Even in the village of Haal lived one more, namely 193.
Aachen-Frankfurter Heerstraße
The Route
The ‘Aachen-Frankfurter Heerstraße’ is one of the most important military roads in the Middle Ages. It runs 252 km from Aachen via Würselen, Düren through the Eifel to Sinzig on the Rhine, from where it follows Roman roads to Frankfurt.
Würselen 1950
This page is dedicated to an arial photograph of Würselen (in the context of today this is the center of Würselen and the Bardenberg district in the background). The arial image dates back to the 1950ties or a litte bit later. The postcard has a size of 13 cm x 10 cm. Without a mganifier, it is nearly impossible to find details.
The postcard was scanned with the highest resolution available. The following figures shows different display windows and zooms. To ease orientation, there is a copy of the arial photograph with keys on it. These keys indicate certain landmarks listed in table.
Pictures on a map
Key
 monument |
 building |
 nature |
 city |
 church |
 historical |
 landscape |
 ctiy limit |
 arial |
Clicking at one of the symbols popuops the picture. Clicking at the pictures open a new windows with a higher resolution of the picture. Clicking elswhere at the map closes the popup.