Druids

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Druids
Municipality of the Alps
Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 12 ″  N , 6 ° 32 ′ 7 ″  E
Height : 22.5 m
Area : 3.12 km²
Residents : 637  (December 31, 2011)
Population density : 204 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : April 1, 1939
Postal code : 46519
Area code : 02802
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Location of Drüpt in Alpen

Drüpt is a district of the municipality of Alpen in the Wesel district in North Rhine-Westphalia . Administratively, the place belongs to the center of the Alps.

location

Drüpt is 2 km northeast of the heart of the Alps. The federal highway 57 runs south in a distance of 4 km.

history

The first traces of settlement show a post of XXX in Drüpt . roman legion . There are suspicions that the name Drüpt goes back to the ancient place name " Trepitia ". After the fall of the western Roman Rhine border in the early 5th century, the settlement was abandoned. Archaeological finds, however, indicate a resettlement of Drüpt from the 6th century.

Documented Drüpt was first mentioned in 1260, as a patrician family of the von Drüpt which until the 16th century in the council and aldermen directories of Rheinberg were found. The Drüpstein customs office from 1579, which was a good source of income for the Lords of the Alps, has also been handed down. 1662 was the peasantry Drüpt from 17 yards and castles .

From 1923 to 1929 there was a boarding school (" Konvikt ") of the Pallottines in Drüpt . There taught - with other Fathers - Father Richard Henkes .

On April 1, 1939, Drüpt was incorporated into the Alps. On July 1, 1969, as part of the first phase of the reorganization in North Rhine-Westphalia, the municipalities of Alpen, Menzelen and Veen came together to form the municipality of Alpen.

Population development

  • 1830: 121
  • 1910: 198
  • 1931: 293
  • 2011: 637

Education and sport

In Drüpt there has been a citizens' rifle club that has existed since 1683. In addition, the riding and driving club "St. Georg" Alpen has set up its club premises in Drüpt.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich Wilhelm Schmidt, Ernst Schmidt (Ed.): Research on the Roman roads etc. in the Rhineland. In: Bonner Jahrbücher 31, 1861, p. 98.
  2. ↑ Martin Friedenthal: To Trepitia - Drüpt. In: Bonner Jahrbücher 59, 1959, pp. 189f.
  3. ^ Frank Siegmund : Merovingian time on the Lower Rhine. The early medieval finds from the Düsseldorf administrative district and the Heinsberg district . Rhenish excavations 34. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1998, p. 285 with plate 62.
  4. ^ Astrid Maria Gerhardt: A life for charity: Father Richard Henkes - carer in the Dachau concentration camp . Tectum Verlag, Baden-Baden 2017, ISBN 978-3-8288-3909-0 , pp. 158–159.
  5. ^ Astrid Maria Gerhardt: A life for charity: Father Richard Henkes - carer in the Dachau concentration camp . Tectum Verlag, Baden-Baden 2017, p. 80.
  6. ^ History of the municipality of the Alps. Retrieved April 14, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 103 .
  8. ^ The Rhine Province of the Prussian Monarchy, Düsseldorf 1833, p. 156. Accessed April 15, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Municipal directory 1910, Moers district. Retrieved April 15, 2013 .
  10. ↑ GenWiki Office for the Alps. Retrieved April 14, 2013 .
  11. ↑ Municipality of Alpen, population statistics according to localities according to the residents' registration office. (PDF; 156 kB) Retrieved April 15, 2013 .

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