Alstätte

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Alstätte
City of Ahaus
Alstätte coat of arms
Coordinates: 52 ° 7 ′ 35 ″  N , 6 ° 54 ′ 57 ″  E
Height : 41 m above sea level NN
Area : 34.97 km²
Residents : 5121  (2011)
Population density : 146 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 48683
Area code : 02567
map
Location of Alstätte in the city of Ahaus
The Kirchstrasse with the Catholic Church of St. Mary of the Assumption in Alstätte
Haarmühle , watermill on the Alstätter Aa
Alstatt railway station

Alstätte is a village in the municipality of Ahaus in the western Münsterland , in the district of Borken , administrative district of Münster in the northwest of North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

Alstätte is located on the Alstätter Aa , a tributary of the Issel , about ten kilometers northwest of Ahaus directly on the Dutch border. In addition to the village itself, Alstätte also includes the six farmers Besslinghook, Brinkerhook, Alstätter Brook , Gerwinghook, Schmäinghook and Schwiepinghook.

Neighboring communities are Lünten , Ottenstein , Wessum , Graes and Epe , as well as Haaksbergen (with its district Buurse ) and Enschede in the Netherlands .

history

The village was first mentioned in 1151 as Alstede ; in a sales deed of July 12, 1297, the parish Alstätte is mentioned for the first time . The place name Alstätte was interpreted by Frenker-Hackfort as a combination of Old Saxon alah 'sanctuary' and stedi 'place, place' and thus as a possible reference to a Germanic place of gods. At the beginning of the 20th century, barrows were still explored and the finds exhibited in Münster; these were lost in World War II . The Haarmühle building on the Dutch border, which can still be visited today and is a listed building, dates from 1619; a previous building is first documented in 1331. Many historic buildings were destroyed in a bomb attack on March 22, 1945 . Buildings not totally destroyed, e.g. B. Railway station and church (whose late Gothic tower dates from the 15th century) were restored after the war. In the Münster administrative district, based on the Münster / Hamm Act of July 9, 1974, the municipal territorial reform took place . The law came into force on January 1, 1975. The Wessum office (with the communities Alstätte, Dorf Ottenstein and Wessum) was dissolved and merged with the city of Ahaus. Alstätte was, despite a large resistance, a district of the town of Ahaus that its function as the same county seat at the town of Borken lost.

Economy and Infrastructure

The area around the village has been dominated by agriculture for many centuries. Traditionally, there are craft businesses and farms. From around 1890 u. a. With the emergence of two brick factories, a dairy, the rural purchasing and sales cooperative and the Ahaus-Enschede railway line , which was dismantled in 2008, new jobs were created. Around 1950 the first German " French fries " factory was opened in Alstätte , securing a job for many Alstatters and the farmers in the area a secure sale of their potato harvest. Companies in the main and ancillary construction trades were also founded, which experienced a boom after the Second World War during reconstruction and then in the era of the economic miracle. Furthermore, in the 1960s, many women from Alstatt were employed in the textile industry, either in the textile factories in Twente or in the factories in Gronau and Ahaus with an Alstatt subsidiary. After the decline of the textile industry, no major industry could relocate. The lost jobs in brickworks, the textile industry, the dairy and a number of construction companies could be absorbed by setting up new companies and by expanding what were previously small family businesses into medium-sized companies. Nowadays the village is surrounded by various commercial areas.

While sewage and rainwater sewers have been laid in the local area, the sewage from the peasantry is mainly disposed of by means of pressure drainage. All wastewater is pumped to the central sewage treatment plant in Ahaus. Waste disposal is also ensured across the board. There are some landfills around Alstätte, the last of which is now being closed. Almost 100% of the residents in the outdoor areas are also served by the municipal water supply.

Alstätte is connected to local public transport via a bus line: buses run to Ahaus every hour, even during vacation times and on Sundays and public holidays (after ordering by telephone).

The local self-sufficiency is given by food markets and other shops. By designating new construction and industrial areas, the situation and the planned development of the economic structure as a basis for life and income are to be expanded. For this purpose, z. B. Rainwater clarifier in planning.

Solar and photovoltaic systems were installed by various owners on their buildings, as well as on the changing building of the sports facilities. Several farmers operate block-type thermal power stations or a wind turbine.

education

In Alstätte there are three kindergartens (two church and one municipal) and a primary school. There are also local offers from the Catholic Education Center and the VHS Ahaus. High schools and secondary schools are attended in Ahaus as well as in Gronau and Epe . There are good bus connections to all secondary schools (grammar schools, secondary schools, vocational schools) in the neighboring towns.

Personalities

literature

  • Jubilee Association "850 Years Alstätte eV" (Ed.): Alsteer - Alstätte, village on the border . 2001
  • Peter Holzwig: Basics of a parish history of Alstätte . 1992
  • Franz Brüggemann: The hair mill in Ahaus-Alstätte. History and stories . 1992
  • Renate Brockpähler (Ed.): From the life of a farmer in the Münsterland. Gertrude Rolfes reports . 1981 ( full text as PDF )

Web links

Commons : Alstätte  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ B. Frenker-Hackfort, About old god places , in: From old time. Organ of the Association for Historical Research of the Ahaus District, Volume 7 (Issue 6, 1909). See the place names Alfeld and Alladorf , Wolf-Armin Freiherr von Reitzenstein , Lexicon of Franconian place names: origin and meaning. Upper Franconia, Middle Franconia, Lower Franconia , Munich 2009, p. 21 . Spelling variants: Alstedi , Alstädde, Alstedde , Altstätte , Altstätten .
  2. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 311 .
  3. ^ Article in the Westfälische Nachrichten
  4. ↑ State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
  5. ↑ Homepage of the author