Elmpt

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Elmpt
municipality Niederkrüchten
Coat of arms of the former municipality of Elmpt
Coordinates: 51 ° 12 '46 "  N , 6 ° 9' 47"  E
Height : 29-75 m
Incorporation : January 1, 1972
Incorporated into: Niederkrüchten
Postal code : 41372
Area code : 02163
map
Location of Elmpt in the
municipality of Niederkrüchten in the Viersen district
The Catholic Church of St. Laurentius, on the left Haus Hansen (the "Hanse Hüske") and on the right part of the town hall
The Catholic Church of St. Laurentius, on the left Haus Hansen (the "Hanse Hüske") and on the right part of the town hall

Elmpt is a district of the community of Niederkrüchten in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Viersen . Between the village and the German- Dutch border lies the Elmpter Forest, which makes up almost half of the Niederkrüchten municipality. To the north is the Overhetfeld district.

The place has an Evangelical Church and the Catholic Church of St. Laurentius, the tower of which dates from the 13th century. Also worth seeing are the Elmpt House , a manor house from the 15th century with a baroque gate tower from 1750, as well as the white Hansen House (popularly "Hanse Hüske") from the 19th century.

history

Haus Elmpt and in the background the church tower of St. Laurentius

Since the 12th century, life in the community was closely linked to the noble lords of Brempt , the lords of Elmpt and their successors. The coat of arms of the community of Niederkrüchten, with the half-red lily, whose sepal is decorated with a green parrot pointing towards the calyx, reminds of the landlords of Elmpt. The three blue bars on a silver background indicate the emblem of the noble lords of Brempt, who exercised landlord rights in Niederkrüchten in the 13th century.

Until the reorganization of the administrative facilities in Niederkrüchten in the 19th century by Napoleon , the territorial lords determined the situation in today's municipality. After Napoleon's defeat, King Friedrich Wilhelm III. of Prussia on May 15, 1815 possession of the Lower Rhine areas.

The Pfeddersheimer miraculous image from Overhetfeld

Elmpt and Niederkrüchten were initially merged into the district of Erkelenz in the administrative district of Aachen , then through the new municipal structure on January 1, 1972 on the basis of Section 34 of the Aachen Act to form the new municipality of Niederkrüchten and assigned to the district of Heinsberg in the administrative district of Cologne . Since the reorganization of the districts in 1975, the new community of Niederkrüchten has been part of the Viersen district in the Düsseldorf administrative district .

For the execution of 14 men from the city of Roermond by a firing squad of the German Wehrmacht , executed in the Lüsekamp area of ​​the Elmpter Forest on 26/27. December 1944, see the main article Lüsekamp memorial .

The baroque miraculous image “Maria Schutz zu Pfeddersheim” , in the Catholic parish church of the Assumption of Mary , Worms-Pfeddersheim , Rhineland-Palatinate, comes from the nearby “Elmpter Chapel” in the Niederkrüchten district of Overhetfeld . It survived a fire there unscathed in 1869 and then came to its present location as a gift, where it has been venerated since 1927.

traffic

Elmpt is located between Niederkrüchten and Maalbroek in the Netherlands , which belongs to Maasniel . The next junction is Elmpt on the A 52 . The Dalheim Bahnhof is in the near Wegberg - Dalheim the former cross-crossing the Iron Rhine , the connection Mönchengladbach-Roermond.

Elmpt Airport

The last British military aircraft were withdrawn in 2008 from the former airfield of the RAF Brüggen (then called Javelin Barracks / Elmpt Station ), which served as the base for some helicopters until 2009. The place is now used by a glider club founded in 1995. In 2011, a total of 683 departures were made with six aircraft.

As of December 11, 2015, the former Javelin Barracks will be used to accommodate 2,500 refugees. The facilities are intended as emergency shelters until June 30, 2016. Thereafter, an initial reception facility for 1,000 people at a time is planned for a further five years. The accommodations are not operated by the community of Niederkrüchten, but by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Personalities

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the responsible parish for the Pfeddersheimer Gnadenbild
  2. ↑ Elmpt is preparing for refugees . Rheinische Post Online. Retrieved November 18, 2015.