Bite (Wegberg)

bite City of Wegberg Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 10 ″ N , 6 ° 16 ′ 6 ″ E
Height :	65-77 m above sea level NN
Residents :	309 (Jun 30, 2012)
Postal code :	41844
Area code :	02434

Wegekreuz, on the Nachtigallenweg in Bissen

Courtyard in Bissen

Brick courtyard in Bissen

Bissen is a district of the Mittelstadt Wegberg in the district of Heinsberg in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

Bissen bei Wegberg is located southwest of Wegberg outside of the Grenzlandring.

Neighboring places

	Harbeck	Wegberg
Clinic		Beeck
Tüschenbroich	Watern	Uevekoven

history

The stone cross from 1865 is an old testimony to the village of Bissen near Wegberg. In the small hamlet not far from the border area ring the Lohmühle is situated on the Schwalm that the here Grenzlandring crosses under. The mill burned down in 1964. It was built in the French times around 1800 as a rammed earth mill. Here Eschenlohe was tamped for tanneries . In the following period it was converted into an oil and bone pounding mill, with the official requirement that it could not be operated as an oil press and a bone pounding mill at the same time. It was only after the currency reform that edible oil production was stopped.

Infrastructure

In June 2011, 323 people lived in Bissen near Wegberg. There is a farm as well as a horse farm, a restaurant and several small businesses. A bus and school bus stop provides connections to the schools as well as to the cities of Wegberg, Erkelenz and Mönchengladbach .

Attractions

Wegekreuz, on Nachtigallenweg as monument no.27
Hofanlage, In Bissen 43 as memorial no.26

societies

Bissen village community

Wegberg volunteer fire brigade , also responsible for the village of Bissen

literature

Wegberg cultural guide. City Marketing Team of the City of Wegberg, Wegberg 2007, p. 61.