Bettenkamp

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Bettenkamp
City of Moers
Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 56 ″  N , 6 ° 36 ′ 35 ″  E
Residents : 301  (December 31, 2015)
Postal code : 47447
Area code : 02841
Bettenkamp (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Bettenkamp

Location of Bettenkamp in North Rhine-Westphalia

Bettenkamp is located in the south-western area of ​​Moers and is one of six districts, officially called residential areas, of Kapellen , a district of the North Rhine-Westphalian city ​​of Moers in the Wesel district . The place, which is located in the south-western area of ​​the city of Moers, has only 301 inhabitants and is one of the small and sparsely populated residential areas.

Residential places in Moers:

location

The town of Neukirchen-Vluyn limits Bettenkamp to the west, while other residential areas in Moers surround the residential area. These are Hülsdonk in the north, Vinn in the east, Holderberg in the south - east and Kapellen-Mitte in the south-west . In terms of traffic, Bettenkamp is on the BAB 40 and BAB 57 motorways. The BAB 40, which runs from west to east, is the border to Hülsdonk in the north with the Moers motorway junction. The BAB 57 motorway runs from north to south and is located in the central area of ​​the local area.

history

There are only a few verifiable traces of the at least temporary stay of people in the area of ​​Bettenkamp until the end of the Roman era on the Lower Rhine. So far there have only been finds in three places in Bettenkamp. One of these places is in the northeast near Vinn am Moersbach with three stone axes from the Stone Age. The second point is in the northwest near the local border to the right of the Moers Canal. Shards and burnt smelter clay were found here, which date from the early Iron Age and are likely to indicate a short-term human settlement. The third evidence is a coin find in the Bettenkamper Moor, which came from the last centuries before the conquest of the Lower Rhine by the Romans, which is an indication of an at least temporary settlement of the local area by Celts and / or Teutons.

Map of the county of Moers by Gerhard Mercator 1591 with "Bettecamp"

Spiritual property in Bettenkamp by Werden Abbey in the early Middle Ages is also verifiable. In the land register of this abbey, which was built around 900, an individual property in "Bettinghem" is listed as property for the Herrenhof Friemersheim. Apart from smaller individual estates, there is no evidence of any major aristocratic residence or manor in the Middle Ages. In a description by the historian C. Hirschberg for the beginning of the 17th century, in addition to Hülsdonk and chapels, the smaller farmers Niepen and Longdonk are also mentioned for this area. However, Bettenkamp is missing from this list because it was probably counted as a chapel at the time.

Since there are almost no documents for simple farms and their inhabitants in the Middle Ages, these are still missing for Bettenkamp. In addition to the note in the written documents from Werden Abbey around 900 for Bettenkamp, ​​the rural hamlet of Bettenkamp is shown on the map from Mercator 1591. From the beginning of the 16th century this belonged to the parish Kapellen, which was the religious center for all surrounding rural hamlets.

Nothing has changed at the moment in the rural structure for Bettenkamp. In a description of the administrative district of Düsseldorf in the Rhine province from 1836, the rural structured hamlet of Bettenkamp belonged to the local mayor's office of Kapellen with four departments. One of these four departments concerned Bettenkamp together with the hamlet of Hülshorst and a water mill. In 1834, a total of 119 residents lived in 20 residential buildings in the hamlet of Bettenkamp. The data for Hülshorst were 73 residents and 10 residential buildings and 7 residents and 1 house in the mill. Except for one person who was Catholic, 198 residents belonged to the Protestant faith. There is also evidence of a Protestant elementary school in Bettenkamp as early as 1841.

The affiliation of Bettenkamp to Kapellen had not changed until the major municipal reform in North Rhine-Westphalia in 1975. On January 1, 1975, chapels, as well as part of the Rheinkamp community, were incorporated into the city of Moers as new districts. Bettenkamp remained in the Kapellen district as a place to live.

Attractions

In the list of architectural monuments in Moers, there is no architectural monument for Bettenkamp .

Web links

Commons : Grafschaft Moers  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population figures according to the city of Moers for chapels, as of December 31, 2015
  2. ↑ Wensky, Margret, in: Moers. The history of the city from the early days to the present . 2000, Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Volume 1, pp. 408 + 425. ISBN 3-412-04600-0
  3. ↑ Schumacher, Karl. In: Settlement and cultural history of the Rhineland from prehistoric times to the Middle Ages . 1921, Mainz, p. [175] 171. Online version
  4. ↑ Wensky, Margret, in: Moers. The history of the city from the early days to the present . 2000, Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Volume 1, p. 76. ISBN 3-412-04600-0
  5. ↑ Hirschberg, Carl. In: History of the County of Moers . 1904, p. [119] 113. Online version
  6. ↑ Vierbahn, Johann Georg von. In: Statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district. Second part . 1836, p. 106.
  7. ^ In: Official Gazette for the Düsseldorf administrative region . 1841, No. 21, p. [189] 164. Online version
  8. ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 40 .

Remarks

  1. ↑ The area indicated with Meerfeld on the map is the Rheinkamp-Mitte residential area . Meerfeld is not an official name for a residential area , but is used as a historical local name by municipal institutions and sports clubs in this area.