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Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ' N , 6 ° 24' E |
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| Basic data | ||
| State : | North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Administrative region : | Dusseldorf | |
| Circle : | Kleve | |
| Height : | 34 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 58.17 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 12,548 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 216 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 47647 | |
| Area code : | 02833 | |
| License plate : | KLE, GEL | |
| Community key : | 05 1 54 028 | |
| LOCODE : | DE RKE | |
| Community structure: | 4 localities | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Dionysiusplatz 4 47647 Kerken |
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| Mayor : | Dirk Möcking (independent) | |
| Location of the municipality of Kerken in the Kleve district | ||
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The municipality Kerken is located on the lower Lower Rhine in the west of North Rhine-Westphalia and is a kreisangehorige community of Kleve in the administrative district of Dusseldorf .
geography
Spatial location
Kerken is located on the left bank of the Rhine in the Lower Rhine lowlands, an average of 32 m above sea level. NN . The Landwehrbach flows through the municipality. It flows into the Geldern Fleuth , still in the municipality .
Municipal area
The community area has a size of 58 km². The municipality of Kerken is divided into the four localities Aldekerk, Eyll (pronounced: Eil), Nieukerk (pronounced: Neukerk) and Stenden. The village of Stenden is the longest street village in North Rhine-Westphalia at 10.67 km² . The district of Rahm belongs to it. The village of Eyll is divided into Upper and Lower Eyll. The districts of Baersdonk (pronounced Barsdonk) (partly to Kerken, partly to Geldern since 1969), Winternam and Poelyck (pronounced: Pullk) belong to the locality of Nieukerk.
Neighboring municipalities / cities
The municipality of Kerken borders the city of Geldern and the municipality of Issum in the north, the municipality of Rheurdt in the east, the city of Kempen ( Viersen district ) and the municipality of Wachtendonk in the south and the city of Straelen in the west .
history
Middle Ages and Modern Times
The community is named after the churches (Lower Franconian: Kerken). The oldest church in the parish is actually in Nieukerk (nieuwe Kerk = “new church”) and the younger church in Aldekerk (alde Kerk = “old church”). The name comes from the mighty construction of the Romanesque church in Nieukerk around 1150, which was probably built as the parish church of the Bailiwick by the Count of Geldern in today's dimensions. At that time, its location still belonged to the Winternam farmers, the name "new church" then passed on to the new village "Nieuwe Kerk = Nieukerk". The presumed court chapel in Eyll then became the "Alden Kerk = Aldekerk", which was parish off from Nieukerk between 1252 and 1975.
The municipality of Kerken belonged to the Duchy of Geldern until 1713 , then came to Prussia and was under French rule from 1798 to 1814 , until the entire Lower Rhine was added to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna in 1815. Then on April 23, 1816, as part of the Prussian administrative organization, the former municipalities, which today belong to Kerken, came to the district of Geldern as one of over 40 districts in the province of Jülich-Kleve-Berg , which later became part of the Rhine province.
Since the Middle Ages, the Kerken villages have formed the core of the Gelderland Bailiwick in the county or the Duchy of Geldern. The "Ecclesia in Gelre" mentioned in 1067 AD stood in Kerken area. Whether this was the predecessor of the Nieukerker or Aldekerker church has not yet been clearly established. While the old research preferred Aldekerk to clarify the local issue, Nieukerk has established itself in historical research since the end of the 19th century.
In fact, the independent development of the parish St. Peter and Paul in Aldekerk - also documented - began in 1252, when it separated from the mother church in Nieukerk and encompassed the southern part of the Bailiwick with the current locations of Tönisberg , Schaephuysen , Rheurdt and Stenden. The Schietweg (crossroads) became the parish border between Aldekerk and Nieukerk; this border divides to this day the peasantry Eyll in lower and Obereyll.
The Gothic Nieukerker St. Dionysius Church is at least the third in a historical location. It was built around 1421 as a major reconstruction of the Romanesque predecessor church, repeatedly partially destroyed and finally adorned around 1680 with the Nieukerker landmark, the onion dome.
The old farming communities of Stenden, Eyll, Winternam, Baersdonk, Rahm and Poelyck are equally significant for the history of Kerken. The first rural settlers settled here on the edge of the Aldekerker Platte before the turn of the millennium.
Through the law of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia of March 11, 1969 to reorganize the district of Geldern, the communities of Aldekerk and Stenden, which until then belonged to the Aldekerk office, were dissolved and on July 1, 1969, they became one with the communities of Nieukerk and Eyll district belonging to the municipality, which was named Kerken.
Territorial reform
The municipality of Kerken was created in its current form on July 1, 1969 during the first municipal reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . The municipalities of Aldekerk and Stenden of the Aldekerk office and the Nieukerk and Eyll municipalities of the Nieukerk office were merged to form the new municipality of Kerken.
On January 1, 1975, in the course of the 2nd reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Niederrhein Law ), the old Kleve district was merged with the former Geldern district and parts of the Moers and Rees districts to form the new Lower Rhine greater Kleve district.
Population development
The following information relates to the current area of the municipality of Kerken.
- 1975: 10,280 inhabitants
- 1980: 10,277 inhabitants
- 1985: 10,528 inhabitants
- 1990: 11,290 inhabitants
- 1995: 12,060 inhabitants
- 2000: 12,553 inhabitants
- 2005: 12,830 inhabitants
- 2010: 12,650 inhabitants
- 2015: 13,262 inhabitants
- 2017: 12,458 inhabitants
religion
Until May 23, 2010, there were three Catholic parishes in the Kerken parish: In Aldekerk the Catholic parish St. Peter and Paul , in Nieukerk the Catholic parish St. Dionysius and in Stenden the parish St. Thomas. On Pentecost Sunday 2010 these three parishes were merged into one. The name of the new parish with its headquarters in Nieukerk and the parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Aldekerk is St. Dionysius Kerken. The parish belongs to the dean's office Geldern and thus to the diocese of Münster.
The Evangelical Church Congregation Kerken is represented with one church each in Aldekerk and Nieukerk. She belongs to the Evangelical Church District Kleve and the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland .
politics
Municipal council
In addition to the CDU and SPD parties that are represented nationwide, a local voter community is active in local politics in Kerken, the Bürgerervereinigung Kerken (BVK) . A council representative has split off from the BVK. Since April 2019, the FDP council member has also been a member of the BVK parliamentary group. Thus, the FDP is no longer represented in the local council.
The council of the municipality of Kerken, including the mayor, has a total of 27 members. Since the last local election on May 25, 2014 , the
- CDU (50.3%, 14 seats),
- SPD (28.1%, 7 seats),
- BVK (15.9%, 4 seats)
- a non-party member
represented.
The next local election will take place in 2020.
mayor
Dirk Möcking (independent) was elected mayor of the municipality of Kerken in 2015 with 86.3% of the vote. There was no opponent.
The next mayoral election will take place in 2020.
coat of arms
The heraldic description ( blazon ) reads: "Split of red and silver (white), inside each of a medlar flower a church in confused colors."
Explanation: The churches stand for Nieukerk (= new church) and Aldekerk (= old church). The medlar blossoms, also known as Geldrische Rose , are a reminder of Eyll and Stenden and their former affiliation to the old Duchy of Geldern. The coat of arms was designed by Edwin-Arnold Pleiner after the municipal reorganization in 1969.
Culture and sights
Buildings
- St. Dionysius Church in Nieukerk, possibly a forerunner in the 9th century, new building in the middle of the twelfth century, Romanesque , mentioned in 1218 as "nova ecclesia" (new church), eponymous for the village. Gothicization in brick around 1400–1453, walls of the Romanesque predecessor church are partially preserved in the rising masonry, tower burned down in 1591 and 1680, each replaced, in 1680 with the baroque helmet. Two chapels were added in the 19th century.
- St. Peter and Paul in Aldekerk, first mentioned in 1218. The core of the current building was built in the early 15th century. Several modifications followed, the neo-Gothic church was completely renovated from 1863, extended by a yoke in 1880 and given a new tower.
- St. Thomas Church ("Stenden Cathedral")
See also: List of architectural monuments in Kerken
Museums
- The Lawaczeck House has been run by the Historical Association for Geldern and the surrounding area since 1999 as a museum and meeting place. There are changing exhibitions, lectures and concerts. The house was built in 1859 by the Pohl family and later acquired by the Lawaczeck family, who had been running a dye works in Kerken since 1809.
Sports
There are four sports halls and gyms in the municipality (two each in Aldekerk and Nieukerk). The villages of Aldekerk and Nieukerk each have a sports field (FC Aldekerk and TSV Nieukerk) and several football fields, each with a tennis facility and a tennis hall. The village of Nieukerk also has a fitness studio (Body Check), which specializes in physiotherapy and athletic training and is known as a franchise system throughout Germany. The TV Aldekerk is known beyond the Lower Rhine for its handball department. The club has been playing with senior and youth teams in high-class leagues for many years. So was z. B. the female B-youth of the club in 2013 German runner-up and the female A-youth played in the 2013/2014 season in the youth handball league.
The Eyller See forest swimming pool is located in Eyll. It is used by bathers and clubs. The lake and the surrounding area are also the venue for the annual triathlon of the Aldekerker gymnastics club. At the lake (up to 14 meters deep) there is a diving school where disabled people can learn to dive. Dog owners are allowed to bring their animals, as there is a separate meadow for them. For anglers, there is a fishing club on the Eyller See.
Near the village of Aldekerk you will find the Kerken ultralight airfield, which is an attraction for numerous visitors, especially when the weather is good. In addition, there is an airfield for model pilots between the towns of Aldekerk and Nieukerk directly at the Petkens fruit farm.
In the immediate vicinity of the Nieukerker sports field there is a skater facility for children and young people.
dialect
In the Kerken sub-communities, "Platt" is spoken in the respective local form. Kerken is in oral history in the Lower Franconian dialect north of the so-called Benrath line (with the maache-maake distinction), which separates southern Middle Franconian (also called Ripuarian ) from northern Lower Franconian. The Kerken districts are also north of the Uerdinger dialect line , which, coming from the Rhine, runs past Hüls via Kempen to Venlo. This Uerdingen line (also called ek-ech border) separates the southern Lower Franconian (which is spoken in Uerdingen and Krefeld, for example) from the northern Lower Franconian , which z. B. in Hüls (see Hölsch Plott ) and north of it in different nuances from Stenden-Aldekerk-Nieukerk to Geldern and Kleve.
One of the main differences is the pronunciation of the personal pronoun "I", which is spoken as "ech" or "isch" in southern Lower Franconia, but as "ek" in northern Lower Franconia. The word “also” is pronounced differently, namely as “ook” in the north and as “ooch” in the south. The verb “have” is also spoken differently: in the room Kerken one says z. B. "we häbbe". Further south it says “we hant”. Even if the dialect is on the decline, Platt is cultivated at carnival, on dialect evenings and in clubs. There is also a rich vernacular literature.
With their theater performances in Aldekerker and Nieukerker Platt, the Heimatverein Aldekerk and Nieukerk contribute to the preservation of the Lower Rhine dialect.
Economy and Infrastructure
traffic
The Aldekerk and Nieukerk stations are on the left-hand Lower Rhine route , on which the “Niers-Express” (RE 10) runs every half hour on weekdays and every hour on weekends and after around 8 p.m. from Kleve via Krefeld to Düsseldorf . Local rail passenger transport is carried out by the NordWestBahn (NWB), which uses LINT 41 diesel multiple units in single to triple traction.
A number of bus routes operate within the municipality and to the neighboring municipalities .
Kerken is connected to the national road network via the federal highways 9 and 510 and the federal highways 40 ( E 34 ) and 57 ( E 31 ).
The closest airports are Niederrhein Airport in Weeze and Düsseldorf Airport .
education
The St. Petrus School, a Catholic elementary school, and a branch of the Robert Jungk Comprehensive School in Hüls are located in the Aldekerk district. In the district of Nieukerk there is also a Catholic elementary school, the Marienschule.
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Otto Abt (1931-2019), author
- Johannes Ackermanns (1887–1962), local politician
- Michael Buyx (1795–1882), father of the Niederrheinische Heimatkunde
- Hermann op den Graeff (1585–1642), leading figure of the Krefeld Mennonites
- Franz Grobben (1904–1994), CDU politician
- Karl Olie (1915–1987), painter and glass painter
- Philipp Remelé (1844–1883), photographer and Africa explorer
- Johannes Scheifes (1863–1936), auxiliary bishop in Münster
- Hermann-Josef Schüren (* 1954), writer
- Joachim Thomas Cremer (* 1957), surgeon, university professor in Hanover and Kiel, former President of the German Society for Thoracic, Cardiovascular and Vascular Surgery
- Ingrid Kühne (* 1968), cabaret artist
- Guido Winkmann (* 1973), Bundesliga soccer referee
- AEGROR , death / black metal band
Personalities who have worked on site
- Fritz Lewerentz (1878–1945), SPD politician and victim of the Nazi dictatorship
literature
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Paul Clemen : Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz , 1st volume, II department: The district of Geldern : Verlag Schwann, Düsseldorf 1891
- Aldekerk, pp. 7-10
- Eyll, p. 10
- Nieukerk, pp. 56-62
- Stenden, p. 64
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 . ( Help on this )
- ^ Stefan Frankewitz: The monuments of the city of Geldern . Boss Druck und Medien, Kleve 2001, ISBN 3-933969-12-3 , p. 88-89 .
- ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Oedinger: The churches of the archdeaconate Xanten . In: The Archdiocese of Cologne around 1300 . Second issue. Peter Hanstein, Bonn 1969, p. 105-106; 243-244 .
- ↑ Niklas Huth: 1067 in gelre ecclesiam - 950 years of the church in Gelderland - 800 years of Aldekerk and Nieukerk . In: Geldrischer Heimatkalender . tape 2018 . Geldern 2017, p. 153-162 .
- ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 78 .
- ↑ Population of all municipalities in North Rhine-Westphalia from December 31, 1962 at the end of each year according to the current territorial status
- ↑ Results of the municipal elections in 2009, the Lower Rhine municipal computing center
- ^ [1] Ministry of the Interior and Local Affairs
- ^ Rolf Nagel: Rheinisches Wappenbuch, The coats of arms of the communities, cities and districts in the area of the Rhineland Regional Council. Cologne 1986. ISBN 3-7927-0816-7
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ St. Thomas Stenden. Website of the parish of St. Dionysius, Kerken, accessed March 20, 2019.
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