Veyen House
The Veyen house, often written as Feyen, was found in the beginning church registers of 1626, where the yearly income to the "parish Dollendorf in the 'Eyffel' " was recorded. According to an old church register in the year 1492, the maiden Neisen, ...(more to translate) the titled landowner Wienanden, Veyen house gave to the church the sum of 75 goldgulden to say a Mass from then on, every week on Friday. In Weistum in 1606 Wienand Vey is mentioned as mayor. He held this position since 1577. In the "Hunldigungsprotokoll of 1742" there is also a Johann Feyen listed. With the death of the granddaughter, Anna Katharina, the Veyen family died out in 1818. Apparently in the "Franzosichen Zeit" (when under French rule), the "maire" (french for Burgermeister, or mayor), Peter Mies bought the land and buildings of the Veyen estate for his daughter, Maria Josepha Mies. She was married in 1813 to Johann Peetz who came from the Schäfer house in lower Linden street. Their son Peter Johann Peetz, born in 1822, lived after his marriage to Anna Elizabeth Hutsch in Ramers. The daughter Susanna Peetz, born 1819, stayed in Veyen and married in 1847 to Wilhelm Bongartz from Krämers (house). Of their children, their son Philipp Bongartz, who married Helene Cilligen from Birgel (house) in 1896, remained in the house. The son Wilhelm Bongartz, born in 1852, who spent many years teaching in the teachers college in Linnich and Wittlich, lived in Veyen after his retirement. He died in 1937. In the 2nd World War, on Dec 24, 1944, the Veyen house was destroyed during an aerial bombing and not repaired. On the framework left from the Veyen-hof, the house, stalls and barn, was built the present day Korsen house..