Ammeloe

Ammeloe City of Vreden Coordinates: 52 ° 4 ′ 51 ″  N , 6 ° 47 ′ 35 ″  E
Residents :	900
Incorporation :	1st July 1969
Postal code :	48691
Area code :	02564

Ammeloe is a parish of Vreden in the Westphalian Westmünsterland ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) and has around 900 inhabitants.

geography

The village of Ammeloe is located near the Dutch border, around six kilometers northwest of Vreden . The Huningbach, which flows into the Berkel west of Ammeloe, flows near the village center .

history

Ammeloe

The location of Ammeloe in North Rhine-Westphalia.

In 1369 a chapel was built in the area of ​​what is now the village of Ammeloe, around which houses were settled. The houses form a largely closed circle ( Low German "Kring"). This circular development is unique in the region and is a listed building . The village was founded under Abbess Adelheid from the Vreden monastery . A cemetery was laid out at the same time as the church, but until the beginning of the 20th century it was only allowed to be used for the burial of children up to 10 years of age, while older deceased were buried in Vreden.

The first chapel from 1369 was dedicated to St. Alexander. It was replaced by a new chapel in 1444, which is now dedicated to St. Anthony was consecrated. This chapel in turn gave way to the church built in 1858 , which, like its predecessors, stands in the center of the kring. The first chapel already had a tower and the chapel from 1444 received a bell, which is now on display in the Hamaland Museum . Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock cast two bells for today's church in Gescher in 1883 .

Over the years another row of buildings was built around the Kring in the narrower sense. The village did not grow beyond these limits for a long time. Only in the period after the Second World War were new development areas designated to a significant extent, which made the village significantly larger.

To the west of the village, near the Berkel, a small industrial area was built on the road from Vreden to Oldenkott .

Ammeloe, the Catholic rectorate church Sankt Antonius Abt

Office Ammeloe

Ammeloe is the oldest of Vredener Kirchdörfer and was in the 19th century namesake of the severed from Vreden rural municipality office Ammeloe whose area all villages and farming communities comprised Vredens. Until the 1930s, this also included the Hörsteloe farmers , who were then incorporated into Ottenstein (now Ahaus ).

The town hall of the Ammeloe District was in the center of Vreden. This made it easier to reach for most of the community's residents.

Through the law on the reorganization of municipalities in the district of Ahaus , the municipality of Ammeloe and the city of Vreden were merged into the new city of Vreden with effect from July 1, 1969. The municipal reform in the form of the Münster / Hamm Act of 1975 no longer had any direct effects on Ammeloe and Vreden. The (rural) district of Ahaus , to which the Ammeloe office had belonged during its independence, was merged into the new Borken district .

Culture and sights

The “Heimathaus Noldes” is located in the Kring. This is a former tavern and bakery with a shop, whose inventory from the early 20th century is still present today. The business was given up in the 1970s. The Heimatverein Ammeloe took over the building years later in largely unchanged condition and today uses it for regular exhibitions.

The Huning water mill from 1811 was dismantled after the Huningbach was relocated in 1978 as part of the land consolidation and the mill was without a drive. In 1998 the watermill in the Vreden city park was rebuilt as part of the farmhouse museum , where it can now be viewed in working order - fed by the water from the city moat.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ population information on the website of the city of Vreden ; accessed on January 14, 2014.
2. ↑ See Hermann Terhalle: Vreden at the turn of the millennium. Vreden 1999, ISBN 3-926627-30-1 , p. 93.
3. ↑ Vreden - a city worth seeing ; Reisetravel.eu; accessed on January 13, 2014.
4. ↑ St. Antonius-Abbot Vreden-Ammeloe on the parish website of St. Georg Vreden ( Memento of the original from January 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; accessed on January 14, 2014.  
5. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, DNB  456219528 , p. 95 .
6. ↑ Huning'sche Watermill - The rescue of the last mill. on NRW-Stiftung.de; accessed on January 14, 2014.

Web links

• Ammeloe on the website of the city of Vreden
• Ammeloe in the Westphalia Culture Atlas