Bötzlöh

Bötzlöh City of Viersen Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 15 ″ N , 6 ° 23 ′ 45 ″ E
Height :	60–72 m above sea level NN
Incorporated into:	Viersen
Postal code :	41748
Area code :	02162
Location of Bötzlöh in Viersen

Bötzlöh is a hamlet in the rural outskirts of the North Rhine-Westphalian district town of Viersen . Within the city of Viersen, Bötzlöh is located in the south of the Alt-Viersen district , approx. 300–400 m north of the city limits to Mönchengladbach . Within North Rhine-Westphalia, Bötzlöh also belongs to the Lower Rhine region and, as a district of Viersen, also belongs to the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region . Earlier names for the settlement were at gen Batzloyen , Butzloe , Butzlöhn , Bötzlöhe , Bützlöhe or Bötzloe .
As far as was narrated Bötzlöh is already since the Middle Ages, a district of Viersen, from any local political independence is not known, Bötzlöh was part of Altviersener Honnschaft Ummer . In terms of the church, Bötzlöh was not independent either, but instead belonged to the parish " St. Helena " of Helenabrunn, about 2 km away .

Settlement structure and traffic

Bötzlöh is a hamlet with a strong agricultural character and essentially consists of just one road, the " Omperter Weg " leading up from Ompert .

A rarity in the heavily urbanized area : the
pig meadow in Bötzlöh.

The Omperter Weg in Bötzlöh.

Road traffic

The Omperter Weg is an inner-city street in Viersen, which branches off the state road L71 (" Gladbacher Straße ") in Ummer and runs via Ompert to Bötzlöh. Although there are several paved farm roads leading from Bötzlöh (including to Mönchengladbach), these agricultural roads are closed to general vehicle traffic (" local traffic free "), so Bötzlöh de jure is a dead end and only across the in Ummer from the Gladbacher Straße (L71) branching Omperter Weg can be reached.

Rail transport

Rail transport of any kind does not exist in Bötzlöh and has never existed. The closest train stations to Bötzlöh are Viersen train station and Mönchengladbach main train station .

Bus transport

As a district of Viersen, Bötzlöh theoretically belongs to the tariff area of the Rhein-Ruhr transport association , but is not served by local public transport. The nearest bus stops are in Ummer and Helenabrunn as well as in the neighboring Mönchengladbach districts of Großheide , Venn or Rasseln .

Bike trails

Two officially designated cycle routes cross the village of Bötzlöh on the same road:

The Mispelroute , marked by a white loquat on a blue background.

The circular route through the town of Viersen , marked with a green " [V] ".

Both routes run from the Bockerter Heide on a common road past Haus Waldfrieden to Bötzlöh and then on via Helenabrunn towards Niers .

The Bötzlöh Mission Cross from 1864.

Johann Götzke's memorial cross in Botzlöh from 1785.

Stable house at Omperter Weg 193.

Attractions

Mission Cross Bötzlöh

The Bötzlöh Mission Cross was built in 1864 and is located on the southwest side of the Omperter Weg . It bears the inscription " Save your soul! Memory of the Mission 1864 ".

Johan Götzke's memorial cross

At the northeastern end of the village, right by the flood retention basin of the water and soil association of the Middle Niers , there is the Johan Götzke memorial cross . The small cross made of basalt lava commemorates the fate of Johan Götzkes, a man who was killed by his own vehicle on September 22, 1785 on the way from Ompert to Bötzlöh. The cross bears the inscription "1785 THE HONORABLE JOHAN GÖTZKES DIED ON THE 22nd SEPTEMBER". The memorial cross was restored in 1989 and has been listed under the list number 250 since 1991.

Bötzlöh stable house

Approximately in the middle of the hamlet of Bötzlöh on the northwest side of Omperter Weg with the house number 193 there is a so-called stable house , a rather rare variant of a Lower Rhine farmhouse of the Viersener type. The stable house itself dates from the 18th century, and there are outbuildings grouped together from the 19th century. Among other things, for architectural and local history, but also for reasons of folklore, the building complex has been a listed building under the list number 271 since 1991.

The closer environment

Bockert	Oberbeberich	Ummer Ompert
Bockerter Heide machine gun rattles		Helenabrunn
MG angles	MG-Venn	MG-Großheide

View of Bötzlöh from the outer Viersener Landwehr .

View of Bötzlöh from the north-west .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Topographic map 1: 25000, sheet 4704 (Viersen) (published by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 23, 2019)

↑ Topographic map 1: 100000, sheet C4702 (Krefeld) ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (4th edition, published in 1989 by the Land Survey Office of North Rhine-Westphalia (now: Cologne District Government), accessed on October 31, 2013)

↑ Wikipedia: Niederrhein (Region) (accessed on April 9, 2011)

↑ Wikipedia: Metropolitan Region Rhine-Ruhr (accessed April 9, 2011)

↑ ^a ^b Monuments: Wohnstallhaus Omperter Weg 193 (official website of the city of Viersen, accessed on April 10, 2011)

↑ Map of the Rhineland 1: 25000 by Tranchot and v. Müffling (1803–1820), sheet 42 (Viersen) ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Reprinted in 1966 by the Land Surveying Office of North Rhine-Westphalia, Bonn-Bad Godesberg (now: Cologne District Government), accessed on October 31, 2013)

↑ Prussian map recording 1: 25000 - first recording (1844) -, sheet 4704 (Viersen) (reprinted in 1991 by the state survey office of North Rhine-Westphalia, Bonn-Bad Godesberg (now: Cologne district government), accessed on March 23, 2019)

^ ^A ^b ^c Peter Norrenberg : From the Viersener Bannbuch , Viersen 1886
(online presentation of the university library of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf , accessed on April 10, 2011)

↑ Ferdinand Dohr: Die Viersener Landwehren , published in the Heimatbuch des Kreis Kempen-Krefeld 1972
(now: Heimatbuch des Kreis Viersen , ISSN 0948-6631 , accessed on October 30, 2013)

↑ Monuments: Johan Götzkes Memorial Cross (official website of the city of Viersen, accessed on April 10, 2011)

[TK25Dig4704-1] Topographic map 1: 25000, sheet 4704 (Viersen) (published by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 23, 2019)

[TK100C4702-2] Topographic map 1: 100000, sheet C4702 (Krefeld) ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (4th edition, published in 1989 by the Land Survey Office of North Rhine-Westphalia (now: Cologne District Government), accessed on October 31, 2013) @1@ 2

[WIKINDRH-3] Wikipedia: Niederrhein (Region) (accessed on April 9, 2011)

[WIKIMRRR-4] Wikipedia: Metropolitan Region Rhine-Ruhr (accessed April 9, 2011)

[WOHNSTALLHAUS-5] Monuments: Wohnstallhaus Omperter Weg 193 (official website of the city of Viersen, accessed on April 10, 2011)

[TM42-6] Map of the Rhineland 1: 25000 by Tranchot and v. Müffling (1803–1820), sheet 42 (Viersen) ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Reprinted in 1966 by the Land Surveying Office of North Rhine-Westphalia, Bonn-Bad Godesberg (now: Cologne District Government), accessed on October 31, 2013) @1@ 2

[TK25UR4704-7] Prussian map recording 1: 25000 - first recording (1844) -, sheet 4704 (Viersen) (reprinted in 1991 by the state survey office of North Rhine-Westphalia, Bonn-Bad Godesberg (now: Cologne district government), accessed on March 23, 2019)