Laffeld

Laffeld City of Heinsberg
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 23 ″  N , 6 ° 3 ′ 31 ″  E
Height :	66 m
Postal code :	52525
Area code :	02452

Laffeld is a district of the district town of Heinsberg and is located on the southwestern city limits to the neighboring communities Gangelt and Waldfeucht .

geography

Neighboring places

Aphoven, Scheifendahl, Pütt (town of Heinsberg), Schierwaldenrath (municipality of Gangelt), Selsten and Braunsrath (municipality of Waldfeucht)

history

Laffeld was first mentioned in a document in 1277. The deed listed farms and houses that had existed for at least fifty years, including five in Laffeld. The place has been closely linked to the history of Heinsberg from the very beginning. The Lords of Heinsberg exercised supremacy and jurisdiction over Laffeld. Of the 64 goods in Fronhof Kirchhoven, eight were in Laffeld. In 1282 the knight Gottfried von Heinsberg - called Luscus = der Scheele - and his wife Heilsvindis sold their Laffelder farm with 114 acres of land to the Premonstratensian monastery (the later noble women's monastery) Heinsberg with the permission of the liege Dietrich von Heinsberg. It remained in their possession until the monastery was dissolved in 1803. The Heinsberg gentlemen themselves had two farms in Laffeld, which they gave out as fiefs. The Thorener Hof and the Schlabbertz fiefdom. These three goods - the exact location of which is not known - probably formed the nucleus of today's place. When the rule of Heinsberg passed to the Duchy of Jülich- Berg, Laffeld came to the office of Heinsberg. Together with others, the village formed the Haagbank's jury. The next instance was the Heinsberg City Court.

After the French revolutionary troops marched in and the administration was established, Laffeld, together with Aphoven and Schafhausen, formed the Mairie Aphoven in the canton of Heinsberg until 1815.

After the Congress of Vienna, Laffeld came to Prussia in 1816 and was now part of the Aphoven mayor's office - consisting of the towns of Aphoven, Laffeld, Schafhausen and Schleiden - in the Heinsberg district / Aachen district / Grand Duchy of Lower Rhine (from 1822 Rhine Province ). In 1932/33 the Heinsberg and Geilenkirchen districts were merged. The mayor's office in Aphoven was incorporated into the Waldenrath district association in 1935. On the occasion of the municipal reorganization, the municipality of Aphoven was dissolved on July 1, 1969. Laffeld has belonged to the city of Heinsberg since then.

In the Second World War , Laffeld was badly affected because the place was a frontline area in the winter of 1944/45. The population had received an evacuation order in September 1944.

Name interpretation

The interpretation of the place name is not entirely clear. Laffeld could come from the word "Laak" = water, meaning water field. In 1277 the place name appears as Laifelt - spoken with a long a - Then the name would have originated from "Lágfeld", which is to be interpreted as "lower field". Since the village lies in a hollow that descends in the direction of Aphoven, both explanations would be possible.

Population development

Today Laffeld has 721 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2007).

religion

Laffeld devotional chapel (Maarstrasse 78)

• Catholic parish of St. Josef in Laffeld

In 1530 a Hilligenhuisken is mentioned in Laffeld. 1786 construction of a chapel. For their maintenance, the sovereign Elector Karl Theodor made a certain sum available from the taxes on lands and also donated a weekly mass in the church. In 1826 the village built a vicarie - the later rectory - at its own expense. In 1849 the vicarie was raised to the status of an independent succursal parish and Peter Josef Jansen was appointed the first pastor of Laffeld on July 26th. The previous chapel was previously enlarged by an extension according to plans by the builder Habes. In 1902, the parish council, headed by Pastor Raphael Gonella, decided to rebuild the parish church at another location at the expense of the parish according to plans by the Düsseldorf architect Prof. Josef Kleesattel . The land required for this was acquired through a land swap. The construction was carried out in the Romanesque style. The inauguration took place in 1904, the consecration in 1905. The planned new building of a parsonage was dropped because the community was able to acquire a manor house next to the new church and convert it into a parsonage. The old chapel was sold for demolition. During the First World War , the bells, which were only a few years old, had to be delivered. The same thing happened with the second bell in 1944. During the Second World War , the church suffered severe damage from fire, which was repaired by 1956 at the expense of the parish. In 1953 the third bell for the church was purchased, which consisted of three steel bells from the Bochum association . In 2004 the largest of these bells was replaced by a new bronze bell, which was financed by donations. The company Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock in Gescher (Westphalia) received the order for the casting. A bell weighing 1,004 kg with the strike tone e 'was cast there. However, this cracked after only a few years and had to be re-cast in 2008 for guarantee. The "new" bell now weighed 1,085 kg. The two steel bells weigh 520 and 360 kg and are tuned to tones g 'and a'.

• Devotional chapel (village chapel)

In addition to the Catholic parish church, Laffeld has two small devotional chapels from around 1900. The building, also known as the village chapel , is located at Maarstrasse 78 in a front garden under a cypress tree. The chapel was built around 1900 and is dedicated to the Holy Trinity . It is a simple, small brick building and has a pointed arch-shaped opening with an iron entrance door on the gable side. In the vault-like clinker interior there is a small niche with a representation of the Holy Trinity on the back wall. The neighborhood is responsible for maintaining the chapel. Every year it is also a station of the Corpus Christi procession . A very similar building is located nearby ( Maarstrasse 35 ) and is part of a listed homestead.

• Evangelical parish in Heinsberg

In the oldest consistorial protocols of the Reformed parish of Heinsberg, from 1613, brothers in faith from Laffeld are regularly mentioned. After the then sovereign Wolfgang Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg converted to Catholicism in 1613, the state reprisals continued to increase and after the situation slowly improved after 1624 there is no longer any talk of Reformed people in Laffeld. Protestant Christians have only been living in the village again since the 20th century.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the former municipality of Aphoven. Blazon : In the shield divided by gold and blue, above a black horse's head with a red halter, below a silver (white) unfinished wicker basket with four poles.

The symbols indicate agriculture and wicker processing as the main occupation of the population. The coat of arms was awarded to the municipality of Aphoven with a certificate from the Minister of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia on January 6, 1960.

traffic

• The bus routes 474 Heinsberg – Waldfeucht – Saeffelen – Gangelt and 475 Oberbruch – Heinsberg – Haaren – Waldfeucht run through the town.
• The district road 4 runs through the place. It leads from the state border at Waldfeucht to the federal road 221 at Geilenkirchen-Tripsrath.

Culture

Associations and institutions

• Volunteer Fire Department Fire squad Laffeld
• Church choir St. Cäcilia Laffeld
• Catholic women's community Laffeld
• Rifle Brotherhood St. Josef Laffeld 1921 e. V.
• Drummers and Whistlers Corps Cäcilia Laffeld 1920 e. V.
• SVG Aphoven-Laffeld 1928/31 e. V.
• Pigeon club Laffeld

Architectural monuments

The following buildings are under monument protection

• Parish Church of St. Joseph
• Schmitz farm complex
• Hahnen courtyard
• Crossroads at the corner of Maarstrasse / Genstrasse

see also list of architectural monuments in Heinsberg (location "Laffeld")

literature

• 1904–2004 100 years of St. Josef Laffeld, publisher: Parish of Laffeld

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 101 .
2. ↑ Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Aachen (ed.): Handbuch des Bistums Aachen, B. Kühlen Verlag, Mönchengladbach, 3rd edition 1994, ISBN 3-87448-172-7 , p. 759
3. ↑ http://www.schuetzenbruderschaft-laffeld.de/vereine.htm  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

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

• Website of the city of Heinsberg
• Monuments in the city of Heinsberg
• Churches and chapels in the city of Heinsberg
• Homepage for the village of Laffeld