Terheeg

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Terheeg
City of Erkelenz
Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 54 ″  N , 6 ° 20 ′ 41 ″  E
Height : 93 m
Residents : 229  (December 31, 2016)
Postal code : 41812
Area code : 02431
Terheeg (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Terheeg

Location of Terheeg in North Rhine-Westphalia

Terheeg is a small, rural district of the city of Erkelenz in the Heinsberg district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

Terheeg is in the fertile Erkelenzer Börde 90 m above sea ​​level .

location

The village is located directly on the A 46 motorway and the Erkelenz-Ost junction . Erkelenz begins on the other side of the motorway, both of which are to the west of Terheeg. In the north lie Neuhaus and Mennekrath , in the northeast Etgenbusch and Venrath , in the east Kaulhausen , in the south Wockerath . To the north of the village there is a bypass from Erkelenz to Kaulhausen, it connects the city center with the villages to the east.

geology

Tertiary lignite seams lie underground . That is why Terheeg was originally supposed to give way to the Garzweiler II opencast mine and relocate.

Type of settlement

Terheeg is a one-line street village . A designation of building areas has not yet taken place.

history

The village was founded in the expansion period of the 12th and 13th centuries. The village of Heghe was first mentioned in a document in 1441.

Terheeg has been part of the Geldrian “glory of Erkelenz” since it was founded. So it has always belonged to the city of Erkelenz.

The Marienstift Aachen - the medieval landlord of Erkelenz - owned farms, so-called manors in the village.

To the neighboring medieval deserted village Grubusch the road reminds On Grubusch .

On February 26, 1945 Terheeg was captured by American soldiers of the 102nd Infantry Division of the 9th US Army in the course of Operation Grenade .

Place names

The place name is made up of two words. Ter is either a preposition and means to , im or is an article ( the ). Heeg means shrubbery , undergrowth or enclosure.

religion

Chapel bell tower

The majority of the population is Catholic . The Terheeg chapel community also includes the villages of Mennekrath, Neuhaus and Wockerath. It has been part of the Christkönig Erkelenz parish since 2015, before it belonged to St. Lambertus in Erkelenz.

In 1676 a new chapel was built in place of a small votive chapel . In 1751 it was consecrated to Saint Lucia .

When the monasteries were dissolved under French rule in 1802, the chapel received inventory from two churches. A baroque altar and pulpit from the inn church in Erkelenz , colored glass windows from Hohenbusch monastery . The Terheeger pulpit is now in the parish church of St. Lambertus.

During the Second World War , the chapel was destroyed by an aerial bomb on February 14, 1945 . An emergency chapel served as a replacement from 1946 to 1956. On November 12, 1956, the construction of a new chapel began. This was inaugurated on June 23, 1957.

Attractions

  • St. Lucia Chapel. The building with its peculiar arched roof was designed by the Aachen architects Friedrich Wilhelm Bertram and Elmar Lang. The altar , ambo and stele for the tabernacle were created in 1970 by the Erkelenz artist Peter Haak.
  • The relief of St. Michael as a dragon slayer is located at the memorial to the fallen of both world wars on the outside wall of the chapel.

Infrastructure

  • A training center of the Heinsberg District Craftsmen's Association is located in the building of the former elementary school.

Personalities

literature

  • Herbert Günter, St. Lucia Terheeg , Kapellengemeinde Terheeg (ed.), Terheeg 1982
  • Hans-Dieter Arntz , Joseph Emonds helps victims of Nazi persecution , in: JUDAICA - Jews in the Voreifel , Euskirchen 1983, p. 456 ff.
  • Hans-Dieter Arntz, A clergyman even saves an SS man, in: End of War 1944/45 between Ardennes and Rhine , Euskirchen 1984, p. 486 ff.
  • Hans-Dieter Arntz Eifeldechant Emonds rescues the Jew H. Barz, in: Persecution of Jews and Fluchthilfe in the German-Belgian border area , Euskirchen 1990, pp. 706 ff.
  • Hans-Dieter Arntz, The painter Otto Pankok as a lifesaver in the Third Reich - A contribution to the persecution of Jews in the Eifel , in: Eifeljahrbuch 2012, Düren, pp. 71–81.
  • Hans-Dieter Arntz: Joseph Emonds - Jewish rescuer and pacifist from Terheeg. The Kirchheim dean Joseph Emonds is posthumously honored by Yad Vashem as “Righteous Among the Nations” , in: From the history of the Erkelenzer Land. With 12 contributions by 10 authors , writings of the Heimatverein der Erkelenzer Lande e. V. No. 30, Erkelenz 2015, ISBN 9783981518283 , pp. 146–167
  • Project group Toni Marcus at the European School Erkelenz: Toni Marcus - A Jewish Catholic in Terheeg , in: From the history of the Erkelenzer Land. With 12 contributions by 10 authors , writings of the Heimatverein der Erkelenzer Lande e. V. No. 30, Erkelenz 2015, ISBN 9783981518283 , pp. 134-145

Web links

Commons : Terheeg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Update of the population on December 31, 2016 (PDF). (No longer available online.) In: Website of the city of Erkelenz. Archived from the original on January 25, 2017 ; Retrieved January 25, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.erkelenz.de
  2. ↑ http://www.rhein-erft-geschichte.de/totenzettel/bilder2/TS40438_a.jpg
  3. ↑ http://www.rhein-erft-geschichte.de/totenzettel/bilder2/TS40503_a.jpg