Horrem (Dormagen)

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Horror
City of Dormagen
Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 54 ″  N , 6 ° 48 ′ 38 ″  E
Residents : 9171  (Dec. 31, 2017)
Postcodes : 41539, 41540
Area code : 02133

Horrem is a district of Dormagen in the Rhine district of Neuss in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Geographical location

The Horrem district is geographically located between Cologne and Düsseldorf . To the east of Horrem is Dormagen, south of Horrem is Chempark , and southwest of Dormagen is the Delhoven district . The motorway connection ( A 57 ) and the “Dormagen” train station border on Horrem.

history

middle Ages

Already in 1005 Horrem was mentioned as an estate of the Knechtsteden monastery . The place was called Horchem . This can probably be derived from the old German Horo , which means something like swamp . Another interpretation of the name suggests that Horrem is derived from the Roman HORREUM , which means something like memory.

In 1155 there was another documentary mention of Horrem. There you can read:

“ At the request of Archbishop Arnold of Cologne and Albert, provost of Aachen and cathedral dean of Cologne, Emperor Friedrich I takes the Beatae Mariae Virginis monastery in Knechtsteden, the brothers there and their possessions under his special protection and confirms their current possession: the Farm in Knechtsteden with its fields, forests, meadows, pastures and a mill, in Straberg two farms, in Nievenheim one farm, in Balghem, Panhusen, Diborgehoue, Horheim, Turremagen, Pelkenhusen, Hackhusen, Bollenberg, Wencenrode, Beddinghusen, Capella, Louenichheim , Senstede and Anstela each have a farm and further farms and fields. "

In another document from 1232 was the name "Horchheim". The spelling of the place name varied over the decades.

The current name Horrem was first recorded by the Abbot Gottschalk von Knechtsteden: In 1239 a certain Alveradis left 12 acres of land near Horrem to the abbey with the obligation to hold a solemn Aniversar for her and her husband Herman every year.

In the Middle Ages, Horrem was an important border town between the Rhenish Kurköln and the Rhenish Duchy of Jülich . The border ran right through Horrem, even right through a farm . This was due to the fact that the former area of ​​the Fronhof belonging to the Knechtsteden monastery had fallen to the Electoral Cologne office of Zons . The other half of Horrem belonged to Dormagen.

Modern times

Since 1570–1580 the population of Horrem had to build the gallows of the Zons court near their place. In 1663 the Zonser and Kurkölniche part of Horrems consisted of seven peasant dwellings, the noble Limburg court, which was owned by the Lords of Mülheim, and the court of the Knechtsteden monastery. Of the noble court of the Lords of Plittersdorf, only the land belonged to the Zons district, the court itself was on Dormagen territory. After the Thirty Years War , relations between the residents of Horrem and Zons were rather tense. Again and again there were complaints about billeting too much, especially in 1671. In 1674 , the Cologne cathedral chapter ordered six soldiers to protect the castle in Zons . Two soldiers had to feed and reward the people of Horrem. When French soldiers occupied Zons in 1679, Horrem was not spared and plundered. In 1753 Horrem had a village chief. In October 1794 French revolutionary troops occupied the village. Horrem came first to the canton of Zons in the municipality of Zons, later to the canton of Dormagen.

19th and 20th centuries

In 1815 Horrem became Prussian and a place of both the community and the mayor's office of Dormagen in the Neuss district . The first school was built in 1843. The Dormagen station was built in 1855 on the Cologne-Neuss railway line just east of the village of Horrem. In 1905 a new one-class elementary school was built in Horrem on Knechtstedener Strasse. In March 1945 American troops occupied Horrem. At the beginning of the 1950s, Horrem was agriculturally oriented with around 15 farms. 1953 was born in Horrem with Josef Brüggen, the ten thousandth inhabitant of Dormagens. In 1957 the farms Kluth and Vassen were relocated. In 1962, Anita Fliege was the 20,000 citizen in the Dormagen district when she was born in Horrem. In the same year a new kindergarten was opened. In 1966, the Dormagen federal motorway connection, north of the village of Horrems, was opened. A year later, the expansion of the Horrem elementary school was completed. In 1972 the Lindenhof was demolished. An apartment building, a restaurant, a grocery store and a dance school were built in its place. In the same year the farm buildings of the Coenenhof were demolished and the house is still in use today. By 1975 the barn and cattle sheds of the former Horremer Hof had been demolished. The farm's house is now the seat of the non-profit building cooperative Dormagen. In 1992 Horrem received a community center with considerable financial support from Bayer AG . In 2005, Horrem celebrated the 850th anniversary with a big party from August 26th to 28th, 2005. On December 31st, 2017 the population was 9,171 and the proportion of foreigners was 23.29% and, after Hackenbroich, it was the highest in a district in Dormagen. The proportion of residents with multiple nationalities is 17.16%, making it the highest in the city.

Population development

Population development
year population   year population   year population
1939 712   1974 6,835   1980 6,829
1990 6,479   1995 5,790   2000 6.112
2004 5,955   2007 8,315   2010 8,155
2013 8.097   2016 8,925   2017 9,171

religion

Horrem is predominantly Roman Catholic and the Catholics belong to the Archdiocese of Cologne . In 1897, the Chapel of the Holy Family on Knechtstedener Strasse in Horrem was designated by the canon of honor Dechant Heimbach. In 1941, the then Catholic pastor Gottfried Schmitz noted that 665 Catholics and 56 non-Catholics lived in Horrem. In 1949 the Breuer couple bequeathed the Knechtstedender Hof to the Catholic parish of Dormagen-Horrem. The rectory was built in 1953 in place of the old barn. In 1957 the foundation stone for a new church was laid on the property. In 1958 the new parish church of the Holy Family in Horrem was consecrated by Auxiliary Bishop Cleven. As a result, the first Catholic church in Horrem was demolished in 1969. Also in 2006 the Catholics were the largest religious community in Horrem:

New Apostolic Church Community Dormagen
  • 2,404 Catholics
  • 1,285 Evangelical
  • 1 Reformed
  • 18 Lutheran
  • 18 Jewish
  • 2,209 others

In the middle of Horrem there is also the church of the New Apostolic Church in Dormagen. It was consecrated in 1972 and offers space for around 250 people. A total of 268 New Apostolic Christians live in Dormagen.

Culture and leisure

societies

The community life in Horrem is also shaped by the club life . The following associations have their headquarters and association center in Horrem:

Economy and Infrastructure

Horrem was long shaped by agriculture. Grain was milled in Horrem for exactly 100 years until 1971. After the war in 1870/71, Peter Rosendahl built a mechanical steam mill. This was then always modernized. This made the Horremers not only the first, but also those who could grind the longest. It was not until the 1960s, at the time of the economic miracle, that the townscape changed significantly. The Bayer AG Dormagen much-needed manpower, and this needed housing. Horrem, which was rural at the time, got a new face. The village of almost 1000 inhabitants, which was still rural until the post-war period, became a district characterized by high-rise housing estates of around 9100 inhabitants (2017).

The largest commercial area in the city of Dormagen is in Horrem: TOP-West.

media

  • Westdeutsche Zeitung Düsseldorf, local editorial office in the Neuss district - regional daily newspaper, W. Girardet KG publishing house
  • Neuss-Grevenbroicher-Zeitung - regional daily newspaper, Neusser Zeitungsverlag GmbH, part of Rheinische Post
  • Shop window - local advertising paper (Tuesday & Saturday), Neusser Druckerei und Verlag GmbH
  • Rheinischer Anzeiger - local advertising paper (Wednesday), Neusser Druckerei und Verlag GmbH
  • NEWS89.4 - local radio station, belonging to Neusser Druckerei und Verlag GmbH

Others

Since the gallows of Dormagen was located near the village of Horrem, the people of Horrem were dubbed the "gallows guards" for a long time. The Horremers liked to call themselves "Republicans".

literature

  • KH Engler: Dormagen, sketches from a young city , Dormagen, 1969.
  • KH Engler: From one economy to another, Dormagen, 1996.
  • Aenne Hansmann: History of the city and office of Zons . Düsseldorf 1973.
  • Historical yearbook of the city of Dormagen 1982, Cologne, 1982.
  • Arno Janzen and Paul Wierich: Dormagen city between water and forest, Duisburg 1969.
  • Walter Lorenz: Gohr, Nievenheim, Straberg , Rheinland-Verlag, 1973.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Social report. (PDF) City of Dormagen, December 31, 2017, p. 3 , accessed on April 2, 2019 .
  2. ^ Social report. (PDF) City of Dormagen, December 31, 2017, p. 36 , accessed on April 2, 2019 .