A landslide during the 2021 European floods led to the collapse of several houses.[3]
Coat of arms
In green are one silver/white left flank bar and on the right border of the shield two golden/yellow squares.
The green ground expresses the nature and the health. The silver flank bar represents the river Erft. The right side looks like an "E" for Erftstadt. The yellow squares represent the biggest villages Lechenich and Liblar.
The coat of arms was designed by Josef Günterberg from Berlin. The town got it as an official coat of arms on 15 March 1974.
Geography
Erftstadt is located 25 km north-west of Bonn. Its height ranges from 81 to 151 metres above sea level.
The following towns and municipalities border on Erftstadt:
In Erftstadt are five further schools: two gymnasiums, two Realschulen and one Hauptschule. In Lechenich are the Theodor-Heuss-Schule, the only Hauptschule in Erftstadt. There also are the Realschule Lechenich and the Gymnasium Lechenich. The Realschule "Gottfried-Kinkel-Realschule" and the Gymnasium Ville-Gymnasium are located in Liblar. The only private school in Erftstadt, the Freie Waldorfschule Erftstadt, can be found in Liblar too. It is a primary and a secondary school.
There are seven primary schools in Erftstadt:
Donatus-Schule Liblar
Erich-Kästner-Schule Bliesheim
Nordschule Lechenich
Südschule Lechenich
Grundschule Gymnich
St. Barbara-Concordia-Schule Kierdorf
Janusz-Korczak-Schule Erp
The TH Köln plans to have a new faculty for Spatial development and infrastructure systems in Erftstadt.
There is one music school called Bernd-Alois-Zimmermann-Musikschule in Liblar.
Most of the town administration is in Liblar, the most populous Stadtbezirk. The second-most populous Stadtbezirk is Lechenich.
Notable people
Coat of arms of the family Wolff von Metternich
Adolph Wolff von Metternich zur Gracht (1553–1619), cathedral dean in Speyer and steward of the duke Wilhelm V. of Bavaria
Wilhelm Wolff von Metternich zur Gracht (1563–1636), Jesuit Father and Rector of the Colleges of Speyer, Trier and Cologne
Johann Adolf Wolff Metternich zur Gracht (1592–1669), high official at multiple princely courts, Baron, Lord to Liblar, Odenthal and Flehingen
Anna Adriana Wolff von Metternich zur Gracht (1621–1698), Canoness and Abbess of St. Maria in the Kapitol, Cologne
St. Alban
Hermann Werner Wolff-Metternich zur Gracht (1625–1704), prince bishop of Paderborn. He funded and equipped the church St. Alban in Liblar
Franz Arnold Wolff-Metternich zur Gracht (1658–1718, born in Liblar), later prince bishop of Paderborn and Münster
Carl Schurz
Carl Schurz (1829–1906), politician and first German-born cabinet secretary (Secretary of the Interior 1877–1881) in the US
Carl Brendgen (1841–1916), owner of three briquette factories in the area of Erftstadt and pioneer of the industrial use of brown coal in the Rhineland
Jean Bungartz (1854–1934), animal artist, specialist author, photographer, breeder, lived from 1886 to 1913 in Lechenich
Anna Reitler (1894 – 1948, born in Liblar), politician (KPD), Reichtags deputy
Dietrich Schulz-Köhn (28 December 1912 – 7 December 1999, born in Sonneberg, Thuringia) was a music author, radio host and jazz expert, lived and died in Liblar
^Wahlergebnisse in NRW Kommunalwahlen 2020, Land Nordrhein-Westfalen, accessed 29 June 2021.
^ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden Nordrhein-Westfalens am 31. Dezember 2023 – Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes auf Basis des Zensus vom 9. Mai 2011" (in German). Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
^"Death toll rises above 100 in German floods — as it happened | DW | 17.07.2021". Deutsche Welle.
^"Städtepartnerschaften". erftstadt.de (in German). Erftstadt. Retrieved 30 November 2019.
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