Bucholtwelmen
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Bucholtwelmen
municipality Hünxe
Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ′ 33 ″ N , 6 ° 42 ′ 19 ″ E
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| Height : | 22.5–63 m above sea level NN |
| Area : | 12.5 km² |
| Residents : | 474 (December 31, 2016) |
| Population density : | 38 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | September 1, 1960 |
| Postal code : | 46569 |
| Primaries : | 02858, 02855 |
Bucholtwelmen is a district in the west of the municipality of Hünxe in the Wesel district in North Rhine-Westphalia with 474 inhabitants and is located on the Lippe and Wesel-Datteln Canal . The place consists of the villages Bucholt and Welmen, whose centers are 3 km apart.
In the village, the state road 463 and the district road 12 meet . In the vicinity of the town, in the city of Voerde , the state road 463 meets the federal road 8. In the east it borders the A3 motorway with the Hünxe exit.
Next to the forest school is the fire station of the Bucholtwelmen fire department of the Hünxe volunteer fire department .
history
Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of houses in Bucholtwelmen that were built around 2500 years ago. The place used to belong to the Duchy of Kleve , most recently the formerly independent municipality was part of the Gahlen office , Dinslaken district to which the old municipality of Hünxe also belonged.
On September 1, 1960, Bucholtwelmen and Bruckhausen became part of the community of Hünxe in the course of the construction of the new oil refinery on the site of the former military training area.
Population development
- 1910: 256
- 1931: 474
- 2009: 468
youth
The local forest school is a special school with a focus on mental development , a special school for mentally handicapped children.
In 2018 goals and a football field were created on the sports field.
Infrastructure
The contrast between nature reserves and commercial areas couldn't be greater than in this small town on the Lippe. In Bucholtwelmen there is the largest above-ground product tank farm in Germany with a total capacity of 868,000 m³ in 52 tanks that does not belong to a refinery. The refinery , which was closed in 1985, made way for various modern commercial operations west of the tank farm, which settled in the Bucholtwelmen industrial and commercial park.
The village is connected to the local transport network by bus routes 75, 80 and the Hünxe citizen bus operated by the Niederrhein transport association.
There is a gym and a sports field in the Waldheidesiedlung as well as a riding hall and a riding arena. The headquarters of the rescue dog squadron is located in the Tester Mountains (the highest point is the 63 m high Ochsenberg). The nature reserve Speller Heide with the up to 28 m high rabbit mountains and the wet meadows Bucholter Bruch are well-known local recreation areas . There is a model airfield southwest of the Testerberge .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hünxe.de with population statistics reference date December 31, 2016
- ↑ 100 years old district Dinslaken ( Memento from December 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 94 kB) Speech on the 100th anniversary of the old district Dinslaken by Horst Griese, senior district director a. D., p. 13
- ^ [1] Municipal directory 1900, Ruhrort district
- ↑ [2] The Gahlen Office on Gen-Wiki
- ↑ [3] structural data in Hünxe
- ↑ The forest school's website .
- ↑ [4] Data from the Bucholtwelmen tank farm
- ^ The on-site timetables ( Memento of February 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) The on-site timetables - Hünxe
- ^ Family and summer party on September 1st in the Anita-Thyssen-Heim: “In close contact with the rescue dogs” and the important work of the BRH Federal Association. Retrieved April 19, 2020 .
