Asperden
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Asperden
City of Goch
Coordinates: 51 ° 41 ′ 33 " N , 6 ° 6 ′ 58" E
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| Height : | 16 m |
| Area : | 18.86 km² |
| Residents : | 2340 (June 30, 2016) |
| Population density : | 124 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | 1st July 1969 |
| Postal code : | 47574 |
| Area code : | 02823 |
Asperden is a district of the city of Goch in the Kleve district ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) with 2,340 inhabitants (June 30, 2016) .
history
The place Asperden was first mentioned around 1100. The place name Asperden (Espenrodung), a clearing name , can be traced back to the clearing time of the forests. Asperden lies on the edge of the Klever Reichswald .
St. Vincentius
The St. The Catholic parish church St. Vincentius , consecrated to Vincent of Valencia , can be traced back to 1255. At the beginning of the 14th century the church was incorporated into the Graefenthal monastery . The new building, erected in the 15th century, was completely demolished in 1893 after a new church in neo-Romanesque style was built on the opposite side of the street. Today the parish of St. Vincentius still has a kindergarten, a youth home and the Don Bosco elementary school.
On April 27, 2008, Günter Leuken, the last pastor of the community for the time being, was adopted. He worked in Asperden for 34 years and retired at the age of 75. The path next to the church is named after him today. With Pastor Leuken, the long line of local pastors for St. Vincentius breaks off because a successor is not planned.
Graefenthal Monastery
The Graefenthal estate is located northwest of Asperden an der Niers . The former Cistercian convent is a foundation of Count Otto II (Geldern) . In 1251 Otto's wife was buried in the church choir. The remaining monastery and farm buildings were completed around 1258. After the abbey was destroyed in 1474 and extensive renovations in 1711, the monastery was demolished after secularization in 1802. The abbey buildings still preserved are located within an extensive walled area.
Sunken monastery
A little further north, on the other side of the Niers, there used to be a Roman Burgus with a smaller commercial settlement next to the field name "Sunken Monastery" . The Burgus Asperden can no longer be seen in the area today.
Asperden in World War II
In the nearby Klever Reichswald and in the vicinity of today's town Asperden, the so-called battle in the Reichswald took place in February 1945 of the Second World War . After this battle, the Allies were able to build a bridgehead over the Rhine near Wesel and thus take the Ruhr area.
After 1945
On June 28, 1946, the Asperden administration, consisting of the municipalities of Kessel , Asperden, Hassum and Hommersum, became independent again from Goch with the approval of the military government . The settlement community of Nierswalde, which arose on the Reichswald area of the office, was incorporated into the Asperden office by government decree in 1953. The final end for the Asperden office came with the reorganization law of March 11, 1969. It was dissolved and the independent communities, including Asperden, have been districts of the city of Goch since July 1, 1969.
economy
Small and medium-sized family businesses such as carpentry , interior design, sales of garden furniture and accessories, gastronomy, riding stables, agriculture and horticulture are based in Asperden .
The Reichswaldklinik, a private clinic for plastic and cosmetic surgery since 1983, was dissolved in 2019 and removed from the commercial register.
Clubs (selection)
- The sports club SV Asperden 1946 was founded in 1946 and with about 300 members (2008) is the largest club in the village. In 1955, 1980 and 1989 SV Asperden was champion of the district league B, in 1993 and 1996 champion of the district league C and in 1998 the club received the DFB youth promotion award. In addition to soccer, there is also women's gymnastics, children's gymnastics and cheerleading .
- The Tambourcorps Asperden was founded in 1954.
- The AKV Vallis Comitis is the local carnival club
- The Luftsportverein Goch is based at the Asperden glider airfield.
- The KLJB Asperden was founded in 1959 and is a local group of the nationwide active Catholic rural youth movement .
Personalities
- Barbara Kisseler (1949–2016), honorary professor and Senator for Culture in the Hamburg Senate
- Willi Girmes (* 1956), singer, entertainer and party artist
- Georg Peters (1951–2018), Professor of Microbiology at the University of Münster
- Ilse Härter (1912–2012), first woman in Germany to be ordained a Protestant pastor
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.goch.de/de/inhalt-3/asperden/&nid1=21953
- ↑ settlements have their origin in the grubbing of forests, can be recognized by the ending: the so z. B. Asperden (aspen clearing) → cf. Friedrich Gorissen: From Roman rule in Land am Niederrhein , Kleve 1949, p. 75 ff.
- ^ Peter Burggraaff, Astrid Schuhmann, Theo Voss: Cultural landscape on the Niers. The former Cistercian monastery Graefenthal . In: Calendar for the Klever Land on the year 1992 , pp. 189–195.
- ^ Hermann Hinz , Ilse Hömberg: Excavation of a late Roman Burgus in Asperden, Kleve district in contributions to the archeology of the Roman Rhineland III, Düsseldorf 1968, pp. 167-212
- ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 79 .
- ↑ Excerpt from the commercial register of the Reichswaldklinik
- ↑ Press release from the University of Münster: WWU mourns the loss of Prof. Dr. Georg Peters. Director of the Institute for Medical Microbiology died in an accident , August 13, 2018, accessed on October 10, 2018.
