Altkalkar

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Altkalkar
City of Kalkar
Coordinates: 51 ° 43 ′ 0 ″  N , 6 ° 17 ′ 0 ″  E
Area : 9.61 km²
Residents : 4449  (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 463 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st July 1969
Postal code : 47546
Area code : 02824

Altkalkar is a district of Kalkar . It flows smoothly into the development of the town center of Kalkar.

Altkalkar is the oldest and most populous district of Kalkar, settlement began in the 7th century AD. The foundation of the medieval city of Kalkar took place in 1230 east of this old settlement on an agriculturally poorly usable area.

The parish church of Altkalkars - St. Pankratius - was first mentioned in 1281. The building was completely destroyed in 1640, rebuilt in the same place from 1689 and rebuilt in the neo-Gothic style after renewed destruction in 1892 .

In the Middle Ages, a castle was built by the Counts of Kleve on the Monreberg, a little to the south, but it was destroyed in the Thirty Years War .

On July 1, 1969, Altkalkar was incorporated into Kalkar.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ City portrait. City of Kalkar, accessed October 27, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Bonner Jahrbücher 166, 1966, 583 with fig. 15. - Frank Siegmund: Merovingian time on the Lower Rhine. Rhenish excavations 34. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1998, 273 with plate 56.
  3. ↑ On the early topography: Friedrich Gorissen: Niederrheinischer Städteatlas 2: Kalkar. Kleve 1953.
  4. ↑ Peter Weiler: Document book of the Xanten monastery. Volume 1: (before 590) - 1359.Bonn 1935, p. 59, No. 72.
  5. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 79 .

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