Bellinghoven (Erkelenz)

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Bellinghoven
City of Erkelenz
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 53 ″  N , 6 ° 19 ′ 39 ″  E
Height : 93 m
Residents : 363  (December 31, 2016)
Postal code : 41812
Area code : 02431
Bellinghoven (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Bellinghoven

Location of Bellinghoven in North Rhine-Westphalia

Bellinghoven is a village in the urban area of Erkelenz , district of Heinsberg , in North Rhine-Westphalia and is located in the Erkelenzer Börde .

geography

Geographical location

In the north, Bellinghoven borders on the core town of Erkelenz , in the northeast on Wockerath , in the east on Kückhoven , in the southeast on Neu-Immerath , in the southwest on Tenholt and in the west on the industrial and commercial park Commerden. The Wahnenbusch , a forest area, is located in the south of Bellinghoven.

The new district of Neu-Immerath was built between Bellinghoven and Kückhoven in 2006; this village was displaced from its old location by the Garzweiler open- cast lignite mine .

Type of settlement

Bellinghoven is a square village . In this type of village , the houses and farms are laid out around a central square. This determines the layout of the village. In Bellinghoven, the pond recognizable in the panorama photo is located on this open space .

Residents

year 1801 1822 1861 1905 1925 1935 1950 1967 1986 1990 2005 2007 2008 2009 2010 2016
Residents 162 187 195 260 313 290 304 391 366 430 359 385 381 384 374 363

history

In the field around Bellinghoven, there are three sites where Roman bricks and ceramics were found, the remains of Roman farms, the villae rusticae .

Bellinghoven was founded at the time of the Late Merovingians or Early Carolingians , as the suffix -ing in the place name indicates.

The place was first mentioned in writing on March 18, 1309 in a document . The village had belonged to the nearby town of Erkelenz, which was in the Duchy of Geldern , since the Middle Ages . The farms were originally owned by the Aachen Marienstift . Erkelenz aldermen from the Middelman, Udmann and Haen families were enfeoffed with some of these farms. In 1537, according to the fief register, Mathias Baux Secretaris to Erkelentz was enfeoffed with a court.

In 1566 neighbor Frens van Bellinghoven denounced as a witch to the Vogt von Erkelenz . Her innocence was proven after she twice withstood torture and embarrassing interrogation . The Erkelenzer Schöffengericht and the next higher court in Roermond recognized their claim for damages, which their neighbors had to pay.

In 1655 French soldiers burned down a house during the Franco-Spanish War .

In 1723 Bellinghoven, located in the office of Erkelenz, was shown schematically on the Codex Welser map .

During the French period under Napoleon , Heinrich Jansen had to take part in the campaign in Spain in 1810 and Franz Wilhelm Henrich in the Russian campaign in 1812 , the latter was killed in the process.

In 1907 the village was connected to the waterworks and in 1911 to the electricity network.

During the First World War , five soldiers “fell” from the village.

Villagers created an island in the maar in 1927.

In 1931, the post office set up a post office with a public telephone , this post office was closed in 1970.

On February 26, 1945 at 3:00 p.m. American soldiers of the 1st Battalion of the 407th Regiment of the 102nd Infantry Division of the 9th US Army took the village as part of Operation Grenade . During the Second World War , the number of war dead from Bellinghoven amounted to 18 people, soldiers and civilians, including one woman.

The maar was drained and desludged in 1959/1960. The island with the funeral was removed.

Between 1965 and 1971 Bellinghoven took part in the competition Our village should become more beautiful and won first place several times at the district level.

In 1988/1989 the village was renewed , the village was connected to the sewer system and the maar was desludged, deepened and an island was created.

In 2009 the exhibition 700 years of Bellinghoven was presented in the village .

In 2015, Bellinghoven was connected to fiber optics .

school

From 1828, after the introduction of compulsory schooling in Prussia , the children from Bellinghoven attended school in Tenholt. It was not until 1865 that the village received its own school, for which a residential building was initially rented. In 1869 a school building and a house for the teacher were built on the outskirts. The school was inaugurated in 1870. For all classes the lessons took place in one room and were led by only one teacher. This elementary school existed until 1968. The village now belonged to the elementary school district of Kückhoven. The older classes of the Bellinghovener School switched to the secondary school in Erkelenz.

Today there is a training center for the district craftsmen in the school building . During elections, it serves as a polling station for the population .

Attractions

The maar

The almost circular pond, called the maar , and its island shape the townscape. The earliest written mention of the Mair comes from 1494.

In the past, such maars were often to be found in the villages of the Erkelenzer Land - even the city of Erkelenz had one where Franziskanerplatz is today - such a body of water now only exists in Bellinghoven. In the neighboring Jülich region, Hottorf also has a maar. Unlike the Eifel maars, they are not of volcanic origin.

These bodies of water had different functions; they were a fire water pond , cattle trough and horse pond , fish pond and were used to keep domestic ducks and geese. When they were frozen over in winter, ice cutters saw the ice into blocks and used it in ice cellars for cooling. Use as flax roasting can be excluded because of the putrefaction gases that occur there.

The maar in Bellinghoven has always been used for leisure activities, for ice skating in winter and for punting in summer . The clubs use the lawn on the Maar as a fairground . The village youth's maypole is also set up here every year. Numerous seats invite you to linger. A historical water pump reminds of the time before the introduction of the water pipe and a medlar , the Geldernsche Rose , of the 700th anniversary of the village.

societies

  • Bellinghovener Carnival Association (BKG)
  • Böllerclub Bellinghoven, the village youth club, used to be a bachelor club
  • Borussia Bellinghoven, a football club
  • Bellinghoven village community, formerly Bellinghoven chapel association

Events

  • Carnival session (BKG)
  • Maypole setting (firecrackers club)
  • Summer party (club community)
    • The organizers have taken up the traditional summer leisure opportunities offered by the Maar and expanded them into two variants. They are the main attractions of the summer festival.
      • In the water vehicle race , first held in 1984, the participants have to use self-built, muscle-powered vehicles that are as unlike a boat as possible . These vehicles are partly built in the style of pedal boats or amphibious bicycles . Some are decorated and designed with a motif like the floats at the carnival or flower parade , some also consist of a bathtub or are a raft . The water vehicle race is a further development of the bathtub race . The award is based on beauty and speed.
      • The water games , first held in 1988, are carried out in the style of Games without Borders or Takeshi's Castle . In the competition on the maar, as few participants as possible should stay dry.
  • Saint Martin (Committee)
  • Senior afternoon during Advent (Kapellenverein)

Infrastructure

economy

The hotel and restaurant Schwanenhof is located directly at the pond . There are three riding stables in the village . A farm shop offers regional products. The village has only two farms on the full-time, in 1963 there was, however, eleven yards.

traffic

bicycle

A cycle path leads from Lövenich via Bellinghoven, but ends shortly before Erkelenz. The medlar tree tour runs through the village, it connects all the Erkelenz villages that belonged to the Duchy of Geldern.

train

The Erkelenz train station on the Aachen – Mönchengladbach line can be reached within 20 minutes on foot.

Public transport

The place is approached by the AVV line EK 3 Keyenberg – Erkelenz.

Highway

The federal motorway 46 can be reached via the two interchanges Erkelenz Ost and Erkelenz Süd .

Others

The southern city ​​gate of the city of Erkelenz was called Kölner Tor and also Bellinghover Tor .

The Bellinghover Mill was formerly located beyond the city ​​walls towards Wockerath . A windmill that existed before 1558, it was demolished in 1910.

In the competition “ Our village should become more beautiful ” , Bellinghoven has won the title four times at the district level and in 1967 a special prize at the state level.

literature

  • The Bellinghovener Kapellengemeinde , in the parish church and parish of St. Lambertus in Erkelenz , writings of the Heimatverein der Erkelenzer Lande, Volume 23, Erkelenz 2009, pp. 338–342

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Update of the population on December 31, 2016 (PDF). (No longer available online.) In: Website of the city of Erkelenz. Archived from the original on January 25, 2017 ; Retrieved January 25, 2017 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.erkelenz.de
  2. ^ Duisburg, Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dept. Rhineland, Aachen, St. Marien, files no. 17, fol. 35v.
  3. ↑ Gerard Venner: The Roermond main judgments for the Erkelenz city court, (= studies on the history of the city of Erkelenz from the Middle Ages to the early modern period, published by the city administration on the occasion of the 650th anniversary of the city of Erkelenz (series of publications by the city of Erkelenz 1), Cologne 1976)
  4. ↑ Jakob Werth, The War Between Linnich and Erkelenz - 1655 on October 14th and 15th, in: Rur-Blumen, Jg. 1924, No. 27
  5. ^ Allan H. Mick: With the 102nd Infantry Division Through Germany. Infantry Journal Press, Washington April 1947, ISBN 978-0898390452 , Czechoslovakia 1945.
  6. ↑ Hubert Rütten: The end of the war in the Erkelenzer Land from an American perspective. In: From the history of the Erkelenzer Land. Writings of the Heimatverein der Erkelenzer Lande, No. 24, Erkelenz 2010
  7. ↑ http://www.aachener-zeitung.de/lokales/kreis-heinsberg/seit-700-jahren-belceckhoven-1.325478
  8. ^ Bellinghovener Schulchronik 1948–1968, written down by teacher Johannes Maßen