Benrad

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Benrad is an area within the city of Krefeld . It is based on an old Honschaft , the clearing area until the 11th / 12th Century. Benrad was split up several times; In the part that has belonged to Krefeld since 1929, around 14,500 people lived in 2012.

geography

In the north-west Benrad borders on Hüls in the north and east on the district of Kempener Feld / Baackeshof , further in the east on Dießem , in the south-east on Fischeln and in the south-west on the forest . To the west is the city of Tönisvorst .

Left: Location and extent of the historical Benrad community with farmers. Right: Today's districts of Benrad-Süd and -Nord in the urban area of ​​Krefeld

history

The present-day Krefeld districts of Benrad North and Benrad South show only part of the extent of the historical Benrad area.

The old Honschaft Benrad was created as an elongated clearing area (Binnenrode) probably in the 11th / 12th. Century, which was settled by scattered individual farms. The honor belonged to Kurköln and was administered by the Electoral Cologne Office of Kempen. The surrounding forest was used as a common land, u. a. for pig fattening. Apart from services in kind (tension service, the result of the chime of the bell = military service) and payments to be made as a Kurmud , personal gain and treasure, the settlers were relatively free - by 1400 a settlement density had already been reached from which five peasant communities emerged, the different parishes belonged - from north to south:

  • Steeg: primarily to Parish (Parish) of the glory sleeve counting
  • Velthusen: mainly part of the parish of Hüls, parts of St. Tönis
  • Weiden (Wyden): mainly belonging to the parish of Kempen
  • Widderath: belonging to the parish of St. Tönis
  • Bennert: the southernmost part; predominantly belonging to the parish of St. Tönis
  • there was also a quarry in the Kliedbruch east of today's Krefeld-Hüls, belonging to Benrad

In the year 1726 there were some border corrections in the east, as a result of which peripheral zones came to Krefeld (belonging to the county of Moers / Oranien). In Prussian times there was another change of area in 1819; the main area of ​​Benrad was merged with Hüls to form a joint mayor's office.

A census for the year 1895 in the municipality of Benrad resulted in 1,404 people, in 1928 there were 1,681 people.

Although most of the residents of Benrad spoke out against a reorganization, the southern part of the Benrad community was incorporated into Krefeld in 1929, the northern part came to Hüls, at that time in the Kempen district , some western peripheral zones went to the city of Kempen and St. . Toenis .

That was the end of the historical Benrad honors. Most of the farmers in Weiden came to Kempen, the farmers in Steeg and the greater part of Velthusen were now part of Hüls, parts of Widderath came to St. Tönis and Krefeld, the entire south - the farmers of Bennert - came to Krefeld.

In the course of the incorporation of Hüls into Krefeld, the farmers Steeg and Velthusen zu Krefeld, which meanwhile belong to Hüls, came to Krefeld in 1975, but not under the generic term “Benrad” - this term is only used today for part of the former Widderath and for the Bennert farmers , now called Benrad North and Benrad South.

structure

Benrad comprises two districts of Krefeld, the Benrad-Nord district and the Benrad-Süd district .

Benrad North

Benrad-Nord had 7,072 inhabitants in June 2011. It is not a homogeneous district. In the north, the district is densely built with housing developments, in the middle there is loose development and in the south is the new development area Schicksbaum .

Benrad South

Benrad-Süd had 7,274 inhabitants in June 2011. This district consists of the districts Gatherhof , Lindental and Tackheide .

The district of Lindental extends to the west and east of the forest forest road, which is designed here as an avenue with linden trees. The name "Lindental" can already be found on old maps from the early 19th century. In particular to the west of the forest road there are typical settlement houses of a “ garden city ”: single-family houses with large gardens that used to (also) serve for agricultural self-sufficiency. Larger areas were planned and built in 1938 by Thyssen for employees.

Architectural monuments

References and literature

  1. ^ A b c Hans Kaiser: Formation of territories in ... Kempen, Oedt, Linn / Honschaften . Verlagshaus Lapp, Mönchengladbach 1979 / p. 239f
  2. ↑ a b Joachim Lilla: Benrad - Reconstruction of a community in: Hülser Heimatblätter Heft 49 , Verlag H. Kaltenmeier Söhne, Krefeld-Hüls, 2002, p. 671
  3. ^ Josef Lichtenberg: Farms of the Steeg Farmers - in Hülser Mitteilungen No. 22 / Page 128f . Publisher H. Kaltenmeier Sons, Krefeld-Hüls, 1975.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 20 '  N , 6 ° 32'  E