Heimer (Viersen)

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Heimer
City of Viersen
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 0 ″  N , 6 ° 25 ′ 40 ″  E
Height : 36–46 m above sea level NN
Incorporated into: Viersen
Postal code : 41748
Area code : 02162
Heimer (Viersen)
Heimer

Location of Heimer in Viersen

Heimer is a district of the North Rhine-Westphalian district town of Viersen . Heimer is located in the Viersen urban area in the south of the Alt-Viersen district , in the immediate vicinity of the city limits of Mönchengladbach .
In older sources the place is also called Heymenrade , Heimerath or Heymer .

Entrance to the Heimer district of Viersen (coming from Helenabrunn)
The Spanish Netherlands and the republic of the seven united Dutch provinces at the end of the 16th century.
This old map from 1696 by the French cartographer Hubert Jaillot shows the political-geographic location of Alt-Viersen ("Viersen DE GUELDRE") as an exclave of the Geldrischen Oberquartier, which was dominated by Spain at the time (yellow-framed area)

history

Heimer has been a district of Alt-Viersen for centuries without its own municipal administration and is therefore closely intertwined with the history of Alt-Viersen. Also with regard to the church administration, Heimer did not and still does not see any independence, the place is part of the Catholic parish of St. Helena, whose parish church is in the immediately neighboring Helenabrunn . In addition to Helenabrunn and Heimer, this parish also includes other localities in the south of Alt-Viersen, such as B. Ummer , Ompert or Bötzlöh .

Some important dates from the local history:

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From 1340 the area of ​​Alt-Viersen became part of the former Duchy of Geldern as an exclave of the Krickenbeck office . Heimer was first mentioned in a document as "Heymenrade" in 1381.

In 1543 the Duchy of Geldern finally lost its independence and, as part of the Burgundian Netherlands, came under the direct rule of the Habsburg Emperor Charles V , who was also Duke of Burgundy . After Charles V abdicated in 1556, rule over the Netherlands passed to his son Philip, who was King of Spain as Philip II . Heimer was now part of the now Spanish Netherlands . With the Dutch War of Independence , which began in 1568, Spanish rule over the Geldrische Oberquartier , to which Viersen belonged, remained for the time being. As part of the Thirty Years' War , the Dutch War of Independence, which continues meanwhile, became the Eighty Years War . In this context, in 1629 in neighboring Helenabrunn the rifle brotherhood was established as a kind of vigilante group. In the Peace of Westphalia , which ended the Thirty Years War, the northern Netherlands finally gained independence in 1648 . The Geldrische Oberquartier with Viersen and Heimer remained part of the Spanish Netherlands .

After King Charles II, the last Habsburg ruler, died on the Spanish throne in 1700 , the War of the Spanish Succession began in 1701 , as a result of which the Geldrische Oberquartier was divided between Austria , Prussia , the northern Netherlands and the Duchy of Jülich in the Peace of Utrecht . The area of ​​Alt-Viersen including Heimer, again as an exclave, fell to Prussia from 1713. In 1795, Alt-Viersen was occupied by French revolutionary troops and finally annexed by France . Since France then took over the entire area on the left bank of the Rhine , the centuries-old Viersen exclave status was ended, and the Alt-Viersener area was now again connected to its surrounding area under a single rule: the French .

In 1800 the parish of St. Helena was founded in neighboring Helenabrunn and Heimer was incorporated into the new parish. After the French era came to an end with the defeat of Napoléon in the Battle of Waterloo , Viersen, like the entire Rhineland , came under Prussian administration from 1815 and in 1816 was incorporated into the then newly created Gladbach district. Railway traffic between Viersen Mönchengladbach was opened in 1851, as was the “Helenabrunn” stop on the western outskirts of Heimer.

The industrialization that began in the course of the 19th century led to increasing urbanization of the region, which prompted the Prussian administration to reform the area in 1929. The previous district of Gladbach was finally dissolved and Alt-Viersen (with Helenabrunn) raised to the status of an independent city . It stayed that way until 1970, when Alt-Viersen was incorporated into the neighboring district of Kempen-Krefeld and lost its status as an independent city. At the same time, the previous urban area was greatly enlarged by incorporating the previous neighboring towns of Süchteln and Dülken and the municipality of Boisheim , with the total population roughly doubling to around 85,000 at that time. As now by far the largest municipality in the district and also to compensate for the loss of district freedom, the new city of Viersen was elevated to a district town in 1975 (instead of Kempen ) and the previous district of Kempen-Krefeld was renamed to Viersen .

Infrastructure

Road traffic

  • The Mönchengladbach-Nord motorway junction on the A 52 is only about one kilometer south of Heimer, immediately behind the city limits .
  • On the western edge of the village, the four-lane state road 116 (Kölnische Strasse) from Mönchengladbach to Viersen leads directly past Heimer.
  • The Neuwerker road connects Heimer in the north with the district of Viersen Ummer and to the southeast as a county road 5 to the district Mönchengladbach Lockhütte .
  • In addition, Heimerstrasse leads west to the neighboring Helenabrunn district of Viersen.

railroad

In 1851 the last section of the railway line from Duisburg to Mönchengladbach was completed with the section from Viersen to Mönchengladbach . The route was initially at ground level in the city of Viersen and followed the current route of Freiheitstrasse or Kölnische Strasse between Bahnhofstrasse in Viersen and roughly today's Mönchengladbach-Nord motorway junction, which did not exist at the time. A stop was also set up in Helenabrunn, which was roughly where a pedestrian bridge swings over the four-lane Kölnische Straße from Helenabrunn to Heimer today.
Because of the large number of level crossings, the route through the Viersen urban area was finally relocated to a railway embankment from 1917, which runs a little east of the original route. As a result, the railway no longer ran directly past Helenabrunn, but instead about a kilometer further east at the other (eastern) end of the neighboring village of Heimer. This is exactly where the Helenabrunn train station was relocated, for example on the border between Heimer and Lockhütte, while retaining its old name, although it was no longer in Helenabrunn. In 1965, passenger traffic finally ended at Helenabrunn station.
The former railway line was converted into a country road after 1917, which is known as Kölnische Straße in the south of the Viersen urban area . The four-lane expansion of Kölnische Strasse then took place in the early 1970s.

The closest train stations to Heimer that are still in operation are now Viersen train station and Mönchengladbach main train station .

Bus transport

The final stop Viersen-Heimer on line 007

As a district of Viersen, Heimer is part of the Rhein-Ruhr transport association and is served by a total of three bus routes (as of January 2018):

line route Hints
CE 89 Dülken  - Viersen bus station - Viersen station  - Hamm  - Heimer  - Helenabrunn , signpost / Mönchengladbach main station from Viersen-Heimer alternately to Helenabrunn signpost or Mönchengladbach Hbf
007 Viersen-Heimer  - Mönchengladbach-Lockhütte  - Bettrath  - Neuwerk  - Uedding  - Lürrip  - Mönchengladbach Hbf - Alter Markt - Holt  - Rheindahlen
084 Helenabrunn, signpost - Helenabrunn - Heimer  - Hamm - Viersen train station - Gereonsplatz → / Casinogarten ← Viersen bus station - Noppdorf - Stadtgarten - Dülken bus station - Dülken town hall - Dülken, Brandenburger Straße The line is only used in school traffic.

Bike trails

The village of Heimer is touched by two officially designated cycle paths :

  • Coming on the same road from the Bockerter Heide and Helenabrunn via Heimer, continue in the direction of Ummer and Niers :
    • The medlar route (Alt-Viersen circular route)
    • The [V] route (circular route in the Groß-Viersen area)

In addition, the international cycling route Fietsallee leads past the North Canal approx. 1.5 km north of Heimer .

Association and social life

Heimer does not actually have its own shooting club; instead, the St. Mathias shooting association from neighboring Helenabrunn has set up three special groups for the people of Heimer:

  • the Heimer officers
  • the Heemer Jonges
  • the Heimer hunter train

Attractions

Helenabrunn station

The former reception building of the Viersen-Helenabrunn train station between Viersen-Heimer and Mönchengladbach-Lockhütte
The Heimer wayside cross on the corner of Heimerstrasse and Neuwerker Strasse

The original Helenabrunn station was opened in the 1880s on the Duisburg-Ruhrort-Mönchengladbach railway line, which at that time still ran on today's Kölnische Straße to Viersen. The station was where today Helenenstrasse and Ummerkirchweg meet Kölnische Strasse. After the nationalization of the railway companies, the line was relocated and the old Helenabrunn station closed in 1917. It was replaced by a station of the same name further east on the new route, which was renamed Viersen-Helenabrunn in the 1940s .

The station building of today's Viersen-Helenabrunn train station was built in 1915. It was founded in 1993 under the list number 334 as a monument under monument protection provided. The building is quite well preserved for its age and is considered representative of the architectural style of its time. Since it is a train station building, there is also a general public interest in maintaining this property. Since the end of passenger traffic in Helenabrunn in 1965, the property has been used as a residential building.

Mission cross from Heimer

Another attraction is Heimer's Mission Cross, which is located on the corner of Heimerstrasse and Neuwerker Strasse. The cross is shown in the picture on the right, which also shows parts of the small decorative green space that surrounds the cross. It was built in 1864 and has been a listed building since 2007.
Similar systems can also be found in other places in the Viersen city area, and show how strongly Catholic the area was, especially in the past. T. still is today.

Closer surroundings


Sub-section  Hamm
Ummer 		Anrath
Vennheide
Düpp  VIE-Donk 		Neersen
MG-Donk
Helenabrunn Neighboring communities MG Lockhütte
MG-Großheide MG-Eicken MG Bedtrath

Web links

Commons : Heimer  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Topographic map 1: 25000, sheet 4704 (Viersen) ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2012 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. (Published 2010 by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 12, 2011)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bezreg-koeln.nrw.de
  2. ↑ a b Schellershof (official website of the city of Viersen, accessed on March 11, 2011)
  3. ↑ Merbeckshof (official website of the city of Viersen, accessed on March 11, 2011)
  4. ↑ Map of the Rhineland 1: 25000 by Tranchot and v. Müffling (1803-1820), sheet 42 (Viersen)  ( 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. (Reprinted in 1966 by the Land Survey Office of North Rhine-Westphalia, Bonn-Bad Godesberg (now: Cologne District Government), accessed on March 12, 2011)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bezreg-koeln.nrw.de  
  5. ↑ Wikipedia: Hubert Jaillot (French, accessed on March 13, 2011)
  6. ↑ a b c Viersen's story  ( 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. (official website of the city of Viersen, accessed on March 12, 2011)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.viersen.de  
  7. ↑ a b Wikipedia: Duchy of Geldern (accessed on March 12, 2011)
  8. ↑ a b History of the St. Mathias Rifle Brotherhood Viersen-Helenabrunn (accessed on March 12, 2011)
  9. ↑ a b Wikipedia: Obergeldern (accessed on March 12, 2011)
  10. ↑ a b Wikipedia: Gladbach district (accessed on March 12, 2011)
  11. ↑ a b Wikipedia: Duisburg-Ruhrort – Mönchengladbach railway line (accessed on March 12, 2011)
  12. ↑ a b Wikipedia: District of Viersen (accessed on March 11, 2011)
  13. ↑ Prussian map recording 1: 25000 - Neuaufnahme (1892) -, sheet 4704 (Viersen) ( Memento of the original from May 11, 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. (Copy, Internet presentation of the University of Greifswald, accessed on March 11, 2011)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / greif.uni-greifswald.de
  14. ↑ Course book section 425 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. (Homepage of Christian Kotschi, accessed on March 12, 2011) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.christian-kotschi.de
  15. ↑ St.Mathias Schützenbruderschaft Viersen-Helenabrunn / Groupings (accessed on March 12, 2011)
  16. ↑ Reception building at Helenabrunn station (official website of the city of Viersen, accessed on March 12, 2011)
  17. ↑ Monuments: Missionskreuz Heimerstraße (official website of the city of Viersen, accessed on March 29, 2011)