Munsterland
The Münsterländchen is a landscape in the border area between the cities of Aachen and Stolberg in the North Rhine-Westphalian city region of Aachen . It includes the former territory of the imperial abbey Kornelimünster , which was dissolved under Napoleon in 1802 .
geography
location
The Münsterländchen is bounded roughly by today's border in the west and by the Münsterwald and the Vichtbach in the east. It is located at about 200 to 280 m above sea level. NHN . It is traversed in a north-south direction by the Inde , which in Stolberg is also called "Münsterbach" from the confluence of the Vicht upstream. The Münsterbachtal, the Münsterbachstrasse and the Münsterbusch nature reserve are named after them. It is also crossed by the federal highway 258 in a north-south direction . The southern part belongs to the German - Belgian nature park Hohes Venn-Eifel .
Localities
Are localities in the Münsterländchen
history
Since the year 817 the Münsterländchen belonged as a so-called crown property to the imperial abbey Kornelimünster , which gave it and the Münsterwald its name. In 881, Normans attacked the Münsterland and its abbey.
At the beginning of the 1970s, the localities - above all Kornelimünster and Walheim - pleaded without success for an independent municipality together with Roetgen in the new district of Aachen with the name Münsterland or Münsterländchen .
