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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.
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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,
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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
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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
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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).
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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
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which supplied the city of
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first humbled themselves with a plain wooden church. On June 6, 1869, this church was replaced with a solid building, consecrated by
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Burbach are one district named Alstädten-Burbach.
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AG. The resettlement was completed in the September 1995.
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Clemens Klug: "Hürth - wie es war, wie es wurde" (1961)
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Location of Hürth within Rhein-Erft-Kreis district
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Manfred Faust: "Geschichte der Stadt Hürth" (2009),
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Kendenich was first mentioned documentarily in 941.
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1354:, Land Nordrhein-Westfalen, accessed 29 June 2021.
1308:Helmut Neßeler: "Hürth wie es früher war" (1999),
819:Hürth was first mentioned documentarily in 1185.
800:Gleuel was first mentioned documentarily in 898.
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16:"Hurth" redirects here. Not to be confused with
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