Alder (Raesfeld)

alder municipality Raesfeld
Coordinates: 51 ° 44 ′ 46 ″  N , 6 ° 51 ′ 56 ″  E
Height :	59 m above sea level NN
Area :	22.67 km²
Residents :	3602  (Sep. 30, 2019)
Population density :	159 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1975
Postcodes :	46348, old: 4285; 4270
Primaries :	02865, 02866
Alder village center

Alder is a part of the municipality of Raesfeld in the district of Borken in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany . Alder, which is located in the Hohe Mark-Westmünsterland Nature Park , is known nationwide , also because of the so-called "1500-year-old" Femeiche , the Pius- Oak and the 200-year-old Kastanien-Allee. Erle has 3602 inhabitants (main residence), of which 1816 are male and 1786 female; 2327 inhabitants belong to the Catholic , 580 to the Protestant faith and 695 are different or not at all religious. (As of September 30, 2019) In Erle, in addition to High German (with Westphalian language coloring), Erler Sandplatt, a language belonging to the West Munsterland dialects , is also spoken. The Borkener Zeitung as well as the Dorstener Zeitung are distributed as daily newspapers in the village.

Around 30 kilometers from Erle there is another alder , now part of Gelsenkirchen . The sports clubs are both called "Eintracht Erle" and both have yellow and black club colors.

Geographical location

Alder lies on the edge of Westmünsterland . It was conveniently located on the intersection of the circle Recklinghausen , Wesel and Borken and thus on the intersection of the Münsterland , the Lower Rhine and Ruhr . In the south is the next largest city Dorsten , in the west it is Wesel , in the north is Borken . The immediate larger neighboring villages are Raesfeld , Homer , Marbeck , Heiden , Rhade , Schermbeck and Marienthal . Alder lies in a typical heather landscape , hence the nickname "Heededoerpken", "Heidedörfchen" on Erler Sandplatt. Alder consists of the village center, the farming communities Östrich and Westrich and parts of the village of Overbeck, which has not been independent since 1975 . In its entirety, it is part of the Hohe Mark-Westmünsterland nature park , the historical “Herrlichkeit Lembeck ”, and is located on the “ Hamaland route”. In addition to your own, there are other tourist highlights in the area that can be reached by bike. a. the Carmelites - Marienthal monastery , the moated castle Raesfeld , which Lembeck Castle , the Dämmerwald that Burg Schermbeck that Issel source in Raesfeld, and the water mill in Rhade . Since October 1, 2018, alder has been part of the Schermbeck wolf area, one of the two designated wolf areas in North Rhine-Westphalia.

traffic

The B 224 runs through Alder . In addition, the place is not far from the A 31 and its Lembeck and Wulfen junctions . State road  607 begins in the village and district road  13 crosses the B 224 . The village is connected to the NRW cycling network and the Münsterland cycling region , and the themed routes “ 100 Castles Route ”, “agri cultura”, “3 River Route” and “Hohe Mark Nature Park” are close by or directly affect the village . The permanent route (RTF) "Through the Hohe Mark-Westmünsterland Nature Park", which is particularly suitable for racing bikes, is run by the North Westphalia cycling district. V. runs through alder. The "Hohe Mark" section of the Münsterland riding route leads through the Erler farming community Östrich and touches the "Erler Heide" riding stables.

Alder is integrated in the bus lines R21 of the Münsterland transport association ( VGM ) and 71, 293, 294, 295 of the Rhein-Ruhr transport association . The so-called “swimming bus” regularly drives to the swimming pools in Borken and Heiden free of charge .

The village is also integrated into the collective call taxi network.

The next train station is in Rhade . The RE 14 of the NordWestBahn , also known as “Der Borkener” ( Borken (Westf) - Dorsten - Bottrop Hbf - Essen Hbf ) , runs regularly at Rhade station .

economy

In Erle there is a branch of the Sparkasse Westmünsterland and the Volksbank Erle e. G. von 1887. In and around Erle and in the two industrial areas there are predominantly medium-sized service providers and manufacturing businesses . Traditionally, the wood craft is represented several times in the village , but there are also two car dealerships and workshops, a gas station, a bus company, a window manufacturer, a heating and plumbing specialist company, etc., in total there are over fifty companies. In the village itself there are still a few retail shops, such as B. a bakery, a supermarket , a liquor store and a grain distillery. In the village itself there are still several working farms, the others are in the farming communities of Östrich and Westrich.

Many farms in the Erler farming communities offer a wide range of products in the direct marketing , z. B. in their own farm shop or in the markets of the surrounding cities.

Education, health and social issues

The New Year's Eve Primary School Erle is a two-tier, Catholic primary school and open all-day school . In 2011, 173 children attended grades 1 to 4.

There are a total of two kindergartens and one daycare center in Erle. The two catholic kindergartens St. Silvester and St. Nikolaus together form the family center Erle, the day care center Holzwurm is run by its own support association .

The youth center is open to young people with many offers.

A gym and a dual sports hall are available for sporting and cultural activities . The local sports club is the "Eintracht Erle 69 e. V. ". The association offers u. a. Basketball , soccer , tennis and recreational sports . There is a sports facility with a grass and an ash sports field and four tennis courts and the above-mentioned halls available to club members.

Two resident country doctors , a dentist and a pharmacy make up the health system in the village. There is an automated external defibrillator (AED) at the Volksbank in the entrance area of ​​the Volksbank in the center of the village and in the "Adelheids Spargelhaus" inn in the Östrich farm .

Tourism and gastronomy

The tower of St. Silvester dominates the village

Excursion destination: The Femeiche in Alder

The location of the village and the Erler area on the border triangle " Niederrhein - Münsterland - Ruhrgebiet ", the many sights, the regular festivities and the well-developed, but still well-preserved village character make alder interesting for tourism . The flat Münsterland park landscape, which merges smoothly into the typical landscape of the Lower Rhine and the connection to various cycle networks as well as the integration into the nature park Hohe Mark-Westmünsterland and the nearby natural recreation area Dämmerwald makes alder the ideal starting, end or intermediate point of every cycle tour . There is a public charging station for electric bicycles right in the village center.

The local history museum in the Heimathaus can be visited by arrangement with the local history association, the grain distillery offers tours by arrangement.

In addition to a home-style inn with beer garden and Saalbetrieb and hotel rooms can still be found in an Italian village restaurant with a beer garden and a snack bar and a kebab snack, all each outside in the summer with seats. In the peasantry Östrich you can on a riding holiday to do with the horse and in the peasantry Westrich one offers Farm "sleeping on straw" to. There is also a specialty restaurant in the middle of the Erler asparagus and strawberry fields in the Östrich .

Climatic conditions

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for alder Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Temperature ( ° C ) 1.9 2.4 5.0 8.2 12.7 15.7 17.2 16.8 13.9 10.3 5.7 2.9 O 9.4 Precipitation ( mm ) 61.3 44.9 60.8 48.3 62.5 75.4 75.0 66.1 60.7 56.5 66.9 74.1 Σ 752.5 Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 1.53 2.49 3.63 5.23 6.82 6.47 6.44 6.38 4.63 3.64 1.89 1.32 O 4.2 Source: German Weather Service

Associations and groups

• General Citizens' Protection Association Erle e. V.
• Erler Motor Club e. V.
• Fan club Schalker Falken Raesfeld / Erle e. V.
• Friends of the New Year's Eve School Erle e. V.
• Raesfeld Volunteer Fire Brigade Erle (with youth fire brigade )
• Heimatverein Erle e. V.
• kfd Catholic women's community Erle
• Children's and teenage choir St. New Year's Eve
• Church choir St. New Year's
• KLJB Catholic rural youth movement Erle-Rhade
• Kolping family Erle
• Musikverein Erler Jäger e. V.
• Riding and Driving Association Raesfeld-Erle e. V.
• Chess Society Turm Raesfeld / Erle
• St. New Year's Eve community
• Sports club Eintracht Erle 69 e. V.
• Association for German Shepherds Local association Raesfeld-Erle e. V.

history

Information on the history of the village of Erle on a display board of the Heimatverein (2008)

Prehistory and early history

The barrows in the peasantry Östrich, which were erected in the late Bronze Age , and grave finds from the Neolithic Age prove that people lived in Erler area thousands of years ago. Further finds show that Franconians and Saxons settled here in the early Middle Ages and, at least initially, were hostile to each other.

1000 to 1299

Alder was first mentioned in 1017 as "Horlon" on the occasion of a donation from Emperor Heinrich II . In the 12th century, a large, free-standing Drostenhof is said to have stood in the area of ​​today's village , the male line of which died out and the female heirs therefore gave the entire estate away to the Freiherr zu Raesfeld . Josef Böckenhoff names ten parent farms in the local calendar of Herrlichkeit Lembeck from 1960: Erlar in the middle of the Hofgemeinschaft, Wissing in the west, Tygard in the east, Barkendal in the northwest, Westrick in the southwest, Ordendorp in the northeast, Sudendorp in the southeast, the Lütke, the Grote Hag in Werlo and on the southern edge of Huxlo. The abandoned Tygard farm was located in the "ollen Garden" on the Teufelstein .

In lifting registers of Werden Abbey Erle of the 12th century in the center as "Erlore" in another register in which the income of the church is benefices of the diocese of Muenster be estimated, alder named in 1313 as "Herlere". The Knights of Alder, who were first mentioned in a document in 1201 and were called "von Ichorne", i.e. squirrel = squirrel , are considered the founders of the parish of St. Silvester, which was separated from Raesfeld in the 12th century (after Pope Silvester ) Hence the three squirrels in the village coat of arms. It is possible that the knight Fredericus de Herlon mentioned in a document in 1201 is identical to Friedrich von Erlo, who appeared in 1193 and 1207, and that he and the Henricus de mentioned in 1246, 1256, 1259, 1270, 1281 and 1285 Erlo (also Erler), Anoldus de Erler, Liudgerus de Erlo and Bernhardus de Erlo belong to the same family and that all of them derive their names from the village of Erle. If this is correct, then the knight dynasty of that name, which died out early, is to be regarded as the founder of the Church of Alder. It is mentioned in a document that the right of patronage over the church was inherited from a family with this or a similar name to the von Willich family.

1300 to 1499

In the course of time, alder was often gambled away, sold and pledged by the mighty. From 1317 the knight Menco dictus Heydene received the Free County of Heiden , to which the parishes of Heiden , Ramsdorf , Reken , Lembeck , Wulfen , Lippramsdorf , Hervest , Schermbeck , Erle, Raesfeld and the farmers of Marbeck belonged. In 1335 Menco dictus Heydene u. a. the free county and the court seat to Erle (Erler) for six years to Count Johann von Cleve. 1336 was Hermann Wykinck Freigraf of Erler free chair. In 1364 Wenemar von Heiden transferred the free chair to Erle ("The open bank at the church of Erler") to Count Johann von Kleve. Until 1374, Dietrich van der Weldegerhoeve was free count of the Erler free chair. In 1374 the southern part of the Free County with the parishes of Lembeck, Schermbeck, Raesfeld, Erle, Wulfen and Hervest went permanently to the von Raesfeld family (Bytter von Raesfeld), while the northern part remained to the Lords of Heiden. Probably the von Heiden and the von Raesfeld then made use of one and the same free count, who led the common name "the von Heiden". It remained in the possession of the von Raesfeld zu Ostendorf family until the end of the old empire . Around 1400 August Wernerus de Bekehusen owned the episcopal feudal estates in Rode (Rhade) in the parish of Erler (Erle). In 1404/1405 Heinrich von Lette was freeman of the free chair in Alder, in 1405 Werner Leveking took over and Bernt de Duiker from 1426–1450. In the 15th century the Lords of Lembeck, its own jurisdiction in that time was created by the efforts Office to establish Ahaus, the glory Lembeck, this term was first mentioned in 1467. The glory consisted of the villages of Altschermbeck , Erle, Hervest, Holsterhausen, Lembeck, Rhade, Wulfen and initially also from Raesfeld and Lippramsdorf.

A so-called Schultenhof has existed since the Middle Ages . A school yard is the main yard of a community of taxable yards that belonged to a landlord . To this association belonged the farms Bente, Oendorp, Budde, the Stroerhof, Telman and Stegerhoff, from which it is assumed that he was owned by a noble family called "van Erler". In 1370 a Gherd van Erler is mentioned in a document. (A Arnt van Erler 1394 a woman Kunne van Erler, widow of Hinriches van Erler and mother of Gherd, Metter and Heyleke van Erler is 1484 mentioned. It's widow bought a farm in Ksp. Loen up the Huntwyck, which probably Stadtlohn is meant.) These courtyards were fortified with earth walls and ditches. The open land around it was called (and is still called today) Erler Mark and belonged jointly to the farms. These also had their own legislation and jurisdiction, the so-called market courts, wooden courts or Höltings. The van Erler family sold this farm to the foreign landlord Döring, who had it administered by a so-called Schulte . This Schulte was first mentioned in writing in 1372. According to local tradition, the Hof zu Erle is said to have been located between the pastorate and the Tellmann court in the Passweide, on a property that still belonged to the then innkeeper Böckenhoff called Bente around 1895 and which was then called "Der Schultenhof" and where it was called also wanted to have found the old Solstätte . In 1645 the Schultenhof Erle was sold to Baron Burkhard Wilhelm von Westerholt, Herr zu Lembeck. From the 16th century, the farm association slowly dissolved and the land was leased to the farmers. The Vote Court of 1441, presided over by the ex-Count Bernt de Duker (also called Bernt de Duiker), is one of the few surviving court cases. Bernt de Duiker also called himself “vrygreve der vrygravscapp van Heiden” at this free court. With the participation of around 100 men and free men and women . a. Hugo van Osterwyk "free Greve in the veste of Rekelinchusen" and Wenemar of Heiden and Johan of Rasvelde, was according to the law of the Holy Roman Empire at that time Gerhard and the Secret Eight of Diepenbrock and two of his servants ostracized because they four against the wicked brother Evert seized and mistreated free judges sent by Diepenbrock and murdered two of them; all free aldermen it was king's ban made mandatory that at the first opportunity outlaws to take and unbutton to the nearest tree "ys than the heymelyken eighth right." At that time the Freistuhl led after the abutting the parsonage court Askamp the term "the Vryenstoel th Hassenkampe by Erler. ”The oldest known bell casting for the parish church in Erle happened in 1469. The bell had the inscription:“ de levenden rop ick, de todden complaint ick, hagel and thunder breke ick, Catharina hete ick ”MCCCCXXXXXXIX. From 1452 to 1458 Johann Selter, and from 1481 to 1485 Hinrick van Ryngenberghe, was the freeman of the Erler free chair.

The news seems to be traced back to a document that as early as 1488 the Klevian part of the municipality of Erle came under the jurisdiction of the House of Lembeck through an agreement between Drosten Johann von der Horst zu Schermbeck and Johann von Lembeck; The latter had undertaken to keep the Altschermbeck, Erle and Raesfeld dishes as in the old days and to protect the Klevian goods and subjects like his own. In 1487 Bernt Remmer was freed of the Erler free chair.

1500 to 1599

Alder within the glory Lembeck

A Deryck van Wijk is mentioned by name as Pastor von Erle in an old document as a witness when Johann von Raesfeld was drafting his will on November 23, 1500. It was determined that his wife Friedericke von Rede u. a. should receive “de olde Hanenborg” for their retirement. This means the Erler Turmhügelburg in the Erler Mark (Pötters Wiese), the Erler counterpart to the better known Raesfeld Castle Kretier. Hermann Nyels was from 1505 to 1518, Wessel then Slaede 1527-1543 and Berendt Tylken 1547-1573 Freigraf of Erler free chair .

Between 1533 and 1622, Calvinist pastors had the say in the village. The last Catholic pastor in Alder before the chaos of the Reformation was Jakob Brabander. He died in 1533. His obvious service to the community was the new building of the “Little Church”, the predecessor of today's church. His half-Catholic, half- Protestant successor was named Johannes Bernadi. In its time, the church building at that time was probably destroyed by fire. He was pastor in Erle until 1555.

In 1532 and 1560 , Johann Duke von Kleve and Count von Ravensberg enfeoffed Adolf von Raesfeld a. a. with the parish of Erle. 1543 uncertificated Wessel th Slaede, Freigraf of Johann von Raesfeld to Raesfeld, a front of his free chair ther accomplished sales of the village in the parish of alder heritage "the Huerue" Hermann Hueren. In the 16th century the poor fund was founded in Erle. Instead of a poor house , this poor fund took over the livelihood of the needy for centuries. This poor box was by the treasure duty and u citizens Erles. a. financed by foundations .

From 1555 to 1559 a vicarius from Dorsten, whose name is unknown today, assumed the office of village pastor, also not as a Catholic but as a Reformation pastor. He left Alder for unknown reasons to make room for a Johann Bocholt, called Buchholz, who ran the community from 1559 to 1566 more badly than right. He cleared the way for what was probably the worst Reformation pastor in Erle, the embittered Calvinist Philippus Raßfelt, also known as Raesfeld. His work between 1566 and 1586 existed u. a. completely destroying the interior of the church at that time. After 20 years he was expelled from the country. In 1587, 1598 and 1599 the plague raged in Dorsten . Erle and Raesfeld were hit particularly badly in 1617 and 1635 to 1637 .

During the Eighty Years' War between Spain and the United Netherlands , both troops attacked the Münsterland . At the end of the 16th century, over 24,000 Spanish and 7,000 Dutch troops crossed the Rhine and invaded German lands, which had been almost untouched by the war. In the Erler Östrich, Don Alfonso Davilos, who was under the command of Francisco de Mendoza , built an army camp fortified with earth walls and moats and for years (until 1629) covered the glory of Lembeck with robbery, murder, pillage and extortion. This job was then taken over by Duke Georg von Braunschweig-Lüneburg and Landgrave Wilhelm von Hessen-Kassel with their troops during the Thirty Years' War , who finally also occupied Lembeck Castle and with it the glory of Lembeck and used the custom of taking everything that was not nailed down with them . They didn't stop until 1648. One consequence of the Thirty Years' War was the shortage of wood in the Erler Mark. It started on the still rather then widespread heathland the heath humus to harvest and use this not only as agricultural fertilizer, but also as fuel.

Philippus Raßfelt was followed by Jakob Funke for a short interlude from Dorsten from 1586 to 1590, and then between 1590 and 1622 to hand over the keys to the church to another bad Calvinist: Conradus Storrich. This had caused so much harm that he had to leave the community on a decree from the Münster prince-bishop Ferdinand . He and his wife died in Schermbeck , and the legend tells that his ghost and that of his wife have to bypass on the way to the Ludgerus Chapel because of their shameful misconduct .

The right of patronage over the church in Erle passed in 1569 from the Lords of Wylich zu Diersfordt to the younger line of this family, who named themselves after the good Winnendall near Xanten . In 1571 "Wilich Hoiffmeister" was named as patron .

1600 to 1799

In 1622 the Klevische Landdroste Adolf Hermann von Wylich zu Winnendall introduced the new pastor Michael Spanier zu Erle, who managed to lead the community of Erle back onto the Catholic path after all the years of the Reformation turmoil and to restore the church building. In documents from 1623, 1626 and 1632, the widow of the above-mentioned Landdrosten Katharina, née Pallandt, called herself “Hereditary judge of the Erler brands and Collatrix of the church there.” The patronage law was therefore an annex to the hereditary judge's office of Erler Mark , and this is passed on to the Lords of Wylich have come because the same drosten and hereditary stewards were the Counts of Cleve, the original feudal lords of the Free County of Heiden , so the chair was too Alder. The Lords of Lembeck already had the right of patronage to Alder in 1643. A teacher in Alder was also mentioned in 1643. In the Erler church accounts of 1644, it is said that the two new church masters were appointed "took him to our synod at lembeck, because at this time our collection funnel among the churches became Erlle collator and thus became senior church master." the patronage right of the church in Erle already in the possession of the family Westerholt zu Lembeck, from which it then passed to the count of Merveldt in 1702. In 1651 the New Year's Eve bell was cast in alder on the "words", it had u. a. the inscriptions: “De Lebendigen rope ick, de Doden beweine ick, Hagel undt Donder breicke ick, Ao 1651”, “Michael Spannier Pastor in Erle me fieri euravit Joannes Formica me fecit”, “Dem woll noble and born Heren Heren Borchardt Freiher von Westerholt Her zu Lembeck Erbholtrichter undt Colator der Kirchen zu Erle "as well as" Mathias Brandes Bernard Averhagen Kirchmeistre. "The oldest teacher and sexton known by name was Henrich Richters; In 1649 he took up his post and held the same office until 1690. He taught in his own house, which was located on the square. His successor in office was Dietrich Jürgen Quickstert. After Quickstert's death in 1772 , Ortwin Rave, who was born in Ramsdorf , was employed as a teacher and sexton.

In 1672 the French troops of King Ludwig occupied the village and the glory and destroyed the buildings, which had just been rebuilt after the Spaniards had left in 1648. Pastors Heinrich Korte (1659 to 1678) and Hermann Quickstert (1678 to 1727) followed Michael Spanier and continued his arduous development work. It is thanks to Hermann Quickstert that the darkness about the Erler past has cleared a little more; he began with the first regular and detailed records during his tenure. Pastor Joseph Cumann (1727–1769) continued these records and expanded them. In 1734 the Cologne elector Clemens August von Bayern refused his Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm I his troops to settle the dispute with the French over the succession to the Polish throne . On December 23, 1734, Prussian troops then marched through Erle to punish the population with compulsory levies instead of the elector for his disobedience, wisely ignoring the fact that Erle was not under the electoral sovereignty of Cologne, but belonged to the glory of Lembeck and thus to the episcopal monastery in Münster .

The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) also had consequences for the village. At the beginning, supplies had to be delivered to the magazine in Wulfen on a regular basis . When endless treks of refugees passed through the village, it was occupied by French troops for some time from 1757. They also set up a warehouse in Wulfen and compelled all the people in the glory of Lembeck to deliver everything that was unnecessary there. On May 15, 1757, the French army with 35 battalions and 24 squadrons set up an army camp near Altschermbeck and also devastated the fields and fruit trees in Alder. These were then expelled in 1758 by the advancing allied Prussian, Hanoverian and Hessian troops, which of course also sold the animals and crops of the Erler. In 1760 the French came back and confiscated the rest of the draft animals . This time, however, the Erler had learned from it and hid their animals in the nearby forests. On June 22nd, 1762, another French army camped under Prince Louis V. Joseph de Bourbon, prince de Condé and General Dupichon in Altschermbeck and had the surrounding parishes, including Alder, subject to compulsory levies, thus completing the work of destruction of the Seven Years' War. This was followed by streams of refugees from France during the French Revolution from 1789 to 1799, this time consisting of priests, monks and nobles.

The wall facing Heiden, also known as Werl (today the street Werlo runs through it), had new borders in 1786 and was therefore no longer authorized in the Erler Mark , rather it belonged to Baron von Wylich zu Diersfort. The former family Schäper had it by the centuries to lease . (1605: "Johan Olthuss, sunsten called de Scheipffer auff werlle", 1614: "Jan Oldthoeff sunst genandt Jan Scheffer auf Werlle"). At the beginning of the 19th century, the Schäper aufm Werl farm ("the little Werl") belonged to Mrs. Baeßen, born Wydenbruck zu Borken; In 1811 the latter sold the actual farm to the family who were seated, while they gave them the associated land and rights, including the Schaftrift on the large Werl, on a leasehold . The current owner is called Brömmel. In 1772 the first small school building was built. It leaned on the side of the tower of the little church and stopped at the first buttress . In 1792 the big bell , about the origin of which nothing is known, was cast, its inscription read: "Henricus Petit me fecit anno 1792".

1800 to 1889

In 1803 Erle came to the Principality of Salm with the glory of Lembeck. When the Third Napoleonic War came to an end with the Peace of Tilsit in 1807 , u. a. Alder also officially part of France . Napoleon divided the country into departmental provinces, these into arrondissement districts, these again split up into cantons = districts, these into mairies or mayorships. Our village belonged to the Lippedepartement and the Arrondissement Rees , the canton Ringenberg and the Mairie Altschermbeck . In October 1806 the "anxious day" went down in history. The entire male population of Rhades and Erles stormed into the twilight forest , fleeing from the aggressive recruiting of the defeated Prussian troops of Friedrich Wilhelm I. In 1812 the parish Erle became a political municipality. In May 1812 the area was divided into two mairies, Lembeck and Altschermbeck, with the parishes being elevated to political parishes. The municipalities Lembeck, Hervest and Wulfen now belonged to the Lembeck mayor and the municipalities Altschermbeck, Holsterhausen , Erle and Rhade belonged to the Altschermbeck mayor . In 1812 French regiments passed through alder in the direction of Russia . Eventually the French began to raise soldiers in Alder and the surrounding area. H. forcibly recruited. After Napoleon's troops were defeated in the Leipzig Battle of the Nations , the whole thing started all over again, only backwards towards the Wesel Fortress . On November 7, 1813, the last French infantrymen passed through Alder. They were followed a few days later by a group of Russian Cossacks , who were allied with the Prussians at the time , to besiege and storm the Wesel fortress. Between November 14, 1813 and March 4, 1814, countless Cossacks marched through Alder and also took up positions in the village and the peasantry . In contrast to the French, the Cossacks lived like animals and took whatever they wanted for cattle, food, shelter and women. This terrible time went down in the history of the Erler area as the "Cossack winter". On March 4, the Cossacks were replaced by Prussian troops under General Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Otto Gans Edler Herr zu Putlitz and by the Landsturm , in which Erler men also took part. The French finally drove them back across the Rhine in May 1814 .

The Erler parish was led through these difficult times by Pastor Joseph Anton de Weldige-Cremer, who held the parish office from 1770 to 1814. It was also he who had the diseased heartwood freed from the distant oak and thus enabled the tree to survive. The village also owes the old pastorate to this pastor to this day . He had it built in 1790 according to the design of the Velen master builder Tinnewald and rebuilt in 1797 after fire and storm damage. In 1803 the Essen - Borken postal route was set up and in the Erler Östrich the house of the farmer Grewing, formerly Suendarp, built in 1797, became a post office until 1850 . In 1813 both mayorships were subordinated to the government of Münster and thus also Prussian, in 1816 they were then assigned to the Recklinghausen district . In 1825 both administrations were subordinated to the mayor in Wulfen . In 1844 the mayor's offices were converted into offices.

Pastor de Weldige-Cremer's successor, Franz Lohede (1814 to 1843), was characterized by three different things in his time: The new construction of an urgently needed schoolhouse (This was the building built in 1816, which was used as a school until 1892 and then until the 1980s it was known as "Kempers Scheune", it was the last house before Kastanienallee at Eckhornsloh), through the beautification and repair of the church house, which was neglected by the recent war past, and through the trials that he took against the Erler farmers who did not even think of resuming the compulsory and levy services to the respective pastor that Napoleon had abolished . The first chaplain of the parish was introduced under Lohede , Anton Schwarze, who was succeeded by Heinrich Neuwöhner in 1841. He was followed in Erle in 1843 by Heinrich Schmitz from Laer , in 1846 by Heinrich Besseling from Südlohn , in 1858 by Bernhard Wittgen from Münster , and in 1859 by Frid. Ristemper from Warendorf , 1863 Philipp Vorwich from Ottmarsbocholt , 1865 Bernhard Segbers from Legden , 1887 Peter Karthaus, 1913 Anton Berning from Holthausen, 1927 Richard Schwering from Billerbeck , 1928 Theodor Tombrink from Holtwick, 1930 Georg Ording from Cappeln and Hugo Johannismann from Dortmund , 1941 / 42 Heinrich Lohmann from Dülmen , 1947 Pater Liers and 1951 Bernhard Pieper from Stadtlohn . On August 26, 1819, the then King Friedrich Wilhelm IV visited the village and its then famous oak. In 1827 part of the Overbeck peasantry belonging to the Rees district was transferred to the Erle parish.

After that, Anton Nonhoff was pastor of St. Silvester (1843–1891) for around 48 years . Particularly noteworthy is the fact that during this time he celebrated his silver, gold and diamond jubilees as a priest in the community of Erle. The village owes it to him for the most extensive records of church and contemporary events in the village at that time. In 1840 the Erler Mark was divided. Instead of communal property, it was now divided into small property plots. The messenger mail route Borken- Erle was also put into operation from 1840 . In August 1849, contributions for a crucifix were collected from the farmers in Östrich , which was erected on the site of the old hail cross ; the latter found a new place on the country road to Dorsten . This was completed around 1850 and from April 1st the personal mail line Bork- Raesfeld- Erle-Dorsten was inaugurated. From 1841 the farmer Heinrich Hesseling acted as the Erler community leader , his deputy was the blacksmith Franz Kock. In 1843 the first family member was buried in the Jewish family cemetery of the Cahn family. In 1846 Josef Schwane completed the Erler tower windmill . From 1848 to 1859 Albert Tellmann was the community leader. The old Katharinenbell from 1469 was re-cast in 1851 after a crack. This new bell had the inscription: “Salve regina, mater misericordiae Vita, dulcedor, et spes nostra, Ego nominor Maria Ferdinandus & Frat. Edelbrock ex Gescher me fearunt, 1851 ". Heinrich Lammersmann was born on March 1, 1865. From 1876 to 1882, master blacksmith Franz Kock held the office of mayor. On June 16, 1871, the day of the 25th anniversary of the Pope, Pastor Nonhoff and the congregation planted the Pius Oak, which is still standing today, and let the bells ring in an act of civil disobedience precisely for the occasion instead of that of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck "Peace Day" also ordered on this day. The resentment of the Catholic priest and his community against the Bismarck culture war was still too deep . Anton Nonhoff spent a large part of his term of office collecting capital for the urgently needed new building of the church.In 1864 he had plans and cost estimates made by the Münster architect and diocesan builder Hilger Hertel the Elder . In 1875 the time had come. This lasted until 1879, in fact the church was not completed until April 1881. In the meantime, a barn was used as an emergency church . In 1881, innkeeper Josef Böckenhoff became the manager of the first Erler post agency on May 1st . He was followed by Johann Brand and then for decades by Friedrich Meiner. From 1882 to 1891, master blacksmith Johann Brand was the community leader.

1890 to 1899

In November 1890, a predecessor association of the Heimatbund Herrlichkeit Lembeck was founded. The church choir is first mentioned in the Erler parish chronicle in 1887 . On April 15, 1891, a "new kind" post agency was set up in Erle in what would later become the Schneemann inn, and on June 10 the girls' school (now the Heimathaus) was opened. In the period between 1870 and 1880, the area of ​​the former Spanish army camp was archaeologically examined by Hosius , followed by further examinations in 1884, 1901 and 1907. On January 25, 1875 Heinrich Lammersmann began the school chronicle. On September 8, 1890, the Erler Mothers' Association was founded by a Jesuit priest. A new flag is donated to the Erler Allgemeine Bürgererschützenverein Erle. Peter Karthaus, born in Surabaya on the island of Java , chaplain in Erle from 1887 to 1891, finally became a priest of the community and held this office from 1891 to 1927. In the same year, farmer Hermann Klaus was also head of the community (1891-1892) and the savings and loan association and Fritz Sagemüller was born. Just like Pastor Nonhoff, Peter Karthaus went down in church history as a pastor because of his selfless and extremely humble character . It is thanks to him that the new church was also given a dignified interior by continuing the tireless work of Pastor Nonhoff. In 1892 he also had the rectory, which was then over 100 years old, thoroughly renovated. From 1892 to 1898 the owner of the distillery Heinrich Böckenhoff held the office of mayor. The new boys' school was also completed in 1892 (today the Spangemacher bakery). In 1893 Dechant Karthaus traveled to Rome and brought a relic from Pope Silvester with him, which was set into the altar cross . In the period from 1898 to 1904, the farmer Heinrich Schneemann was the village leader. From 1897 to 1899 diphtheria was rampant in Alder, a total of 17 children died. In 1899 Pastor Karthaus celebrated his silver jubilee as a priest.

1900 to 1909

Schermbecker Strasse around 1910 after it was "fortified". The road was not asphalted back then.

The fortification of Rhader Straße, decided in 1900, was completed in 1901. The Erler Volksbücherei was also founded in 1900. The expansion of Schermbecker Strasse, decided in 1903, began in 1905; it was completed in December 1906 after a year of construction. The costs were shared by the communities of Erle and Schermbeck and the Recklinghausen district. Many villagers found work as day laborers during this construction work, tools and wheelbarrows they had to provide themselves. The village streets were still in a precarious state afterwards. Due to the lack of sewer systems, floods often occurred, the unpaved roads were softened and the water ran through the front doors into the houses. On March 16, 1909, the so-called "High School" was inaugurated. From 1904 to 1911, the community leader of Erle was the farmer Hermann Brömmel.

1910 to 1919

The community leader from 1911 to 1923 was master mason Anton Nienhaus. Country dean Peter Karthaus fell seriously ill in 1913 and had to undergo an operation in Münster. From the beginning of the 20th century until 1926, 22 graves were found in the Frankish - Merovingian burial ground in Westrich. a. excavated by the teachers Heinrich Lammersmann and Fritz Sagemüller. In 1914 the chaplaincy was built on Schermbecker Straße. In 1914 the volunteer fire brigade Erle was founded, the syringe house stood on the school grounds until 1966, where the gym of the New Year's Eve school is today. 38 Erler did not come back from the First World War ; their names can be read on the war memorial erected in 1930 . Already at the end of 1914 it was no longer allowed to feed the cattle grain, from 1915 economic coercive measures were taken. The Erler farmers had horses, grain, milk, etc. a. submit. In 1915 the shortage of men was noticeable during the harvest, but the residents could still help each other out. Consumer prices rose by more than half in 1915. The years from 1916 to 1918 were already shortage years due to the circumstances of the war. After a few crop failures, self-sufficiency also became difficult. In Erle, too, the infamous turnip winter of 1916/17 was the low point of the food shortage. Because of the proximity to the Ruhr area , townspeople came to the village every day to “visit hamsters ”. On June 21, 1917, the Erler Church had to deliver the “little Regina” and the “Big Bell” to the Wulfen office for the purpose of melting down for weapons production . Only the New Year's Eve bell remained in the bell room until 1923 . In 1918 the Spanish flu was rampant , despite the school closings, 61% of all school children fell ill, four of them died. After the armistice , front troops marched back from the Rhine through Alder. On November 26th, Hessians from Fulda were quartered in the vacated school buildings. Every day until December 13th, the German military went through the village and harassed the villagers. Also effects of wartime hyperinflation began to appear in 1919, when the offices Altschermbeck and Wulfen the first own Token in the form of 5- and 10- cent - coins embossed; In 1920 the 50-pfennig piece was added. All three coins show the Erler Femeiche on the reverse . It was not until 1924 that the emergency money lost its validity with the introduction of the Rentenmark .

1920 to 1929

The coat of arms of the glory Lembeck.

After the end of the war, the Herrlichkeit Lembeck set up an armed vigilante group in the places that starving residents of the Ruhr area were still going to to take action against looting and field theft. These vigilante groups were dissolved again in the summer of 1920. The political unrest in Berlin also had consequences for the village. After the Kapp Putsch Lüttwitz and then erupting Ruhr uprising of the miners of the Ruhr admitted Reichswehr the city on March 19, 1920 Dorsten and retreated after heavy fighting in the Walsum and Dinslaken into the fortress Wesel back. On March 21, the so-called Red Ruhr Army , also known as the “Spartakists”, moved into Erle and took up quarters there . One of the orders was to disarm resident groups and prevent military support, which led to great public insecurity in and around the village. On 26 March 1920 the moved naval brigade of Loewenfeld , a party in the Kapp Putsch, notorious for his brutality volunteer corps of members of the former Imperial Navy, of Münster Billerbeck and Borken coming against the Spartacists before and found in alder three Red Army soldiers before who were shot dead. On March 27, Erle was thoroughly searched by Reichswehr troops for dispersed Red Army soldiers. Five Red Army soldiers were on the run to Dorsten at the inn Heßling Platz (known today as Tenk-Heßling) and wounded on the run to the Östrich on Rhader Strasse and then shot in the head. The dead were left lying around, and in the evening Erler citizens buried them on the Lechtenbrink property, which is now a small, vacant property in front of the Wewers farm.

In July 1922 the Heimatbund der Herrlichkeit Lembeck was founded. Its local group Erle was the first homeland club in Erle; the small local history museum with the excavation pieces was housed in one of the school buildings. After the currency reform , the situation in Alder normalized somewhat as early as 1924. The farmer Johann Pass was appointed mayor of the community. Pastor Karthaus tried to get new bells for the church. The New Year's Eve bell was given to finance three bells. The largest of the bells delivered on December 21, 1923 was named St. Silvester and the inscription: “St. New Year's Eve cartridge noster conforta nos in fide “; the middle one was consecrated to the Mother of God and was dedicated: "Nos cum prole pia benedicta Virga Maria"; and the smallest bell was dedicated to the Guardian Angels : “Sancti Angeli Custodes, illuminate, regite, custodite nos”. In 1924 the golden jubilee of Peter Karthaus was celebrated for two days in the village. In 1926 Pastor Karthaus had the new cemetery built. The popular pastor died on November 4, 1927 after half a year of serious illness. Eberhard Grosfeld was introduced as the new pastor in 1928.

In the course of the municipal reorganization (Prussian law for the municipal reorganization of the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area), the two offices of Altschermbeck and Lembeck were merged in 1929 and merged to form the office of Hervest-Dorsten . For the time being, the administrative seat remained in Wulfen .

1930 to 1939

War memorial in alder

In 1930 the church received the sacristy cellar and warm air heating , and the renovation work initiated by Pastor Karthaus was also completed. The Erler war memorial was also inaugurated on August 31, 1930; it was created by the sculptor Dirks from Billerbeck . Heinrich Lammersmann died on October 23, 1931. The majority of the population of Erles has always voted for the Catholic Center Party . Nevertheless, from 1930 onwards, the election results showed growing support for the NSDAP , which recorded sustained gains in votes in the period before the seizure of power , albeit at a comparatively low level well below the Reich average. From March 1, 1933, Erle had its own NSDAP base. On July 23, 1933 it was arranged that the previous community leader Johann Pass was replaced by the NSDAP member Franz Meiners. In 1933 the NSDAP base leader , master painter Bernhard Stegerhoff, and his deputy Fritz Sagemüller applied for participation in the closed municipal council meetings; In 1935 the Erler municipal council consisted only of party members. Erle received an independent NSDAP local group on January 1, 1935, Stegerhoff rose to local group leader and remained so until the end of the war. The head of propaganda for the local Erler group was the teacher Fritz Sagemüller. The Nazi women's group was headed by the teacher Mathilde Aldiek. Overall, the NSDAP in the Münsterland did not have the necessary influx to fill all party offices with proven people. In Raesfeld and Erle there was therefore more recourse to teachers , some of whom held up to five party offices at the same time, without necessarily being deeply convinced National Socialists. Local group leader Stegerhoff was also described by Pastor Grosfeld as relatively harmless after the war and exonerated, according to Ingrid Sönnert "... probably because the local group leader was a very Catholic man". However, the behavior of some villagers towards the Jewish Cahn family and their friends in the village during the Nazi era shows that the Nazi ideology had quite active supporters and helped shape the climate in the village.

The office "Hervest-Dorsten" moved after the inclusion of the city of Dorsten on April 1, 1937 in the office association in Dorsten. In 1938, without the knowledge of the headmaster Fritz Sagemüller, a so-called “ striker showcase ” from the Nazi newspaper of the same name was set up in the Erler schoolyard . He complained about it successfully. After the beginning of the Second World War , in December 1939, soldiers from the " Goslar Jäger" and then Pomeranian Landwehr troops were quartered in the Östrich . After their withdrawal, over 1000 soldiers of the fully motorized Waffen-SS from Austria were quartered, who left for the Holland, Belgium and France campaigns in the spring of 1940 .

1940 to 1949

In 1940 two POW camps were set up in the village and in the Östrich and u. a. occupied with Polish prisoners of war. In the same year, English bombers began to fly over the village at night on their way to the Ruhr area. Also in 1940 the Jewish Cahn family, who had lived in Erle since 1824, left the village. In 1941 part of the family was deported to Riga. In 1942 the first dummy systems were installed in Erler Heide in order to induce Allied bombers to unload their bombs shortly before the Ruhr area. On January 22, 1942, the community had to replace the new bells “St. New Year's Eve ”and“ Maria Mother of God ”to melt down. Emma and Jettchen Cahn, who came from Erle, were deported to Theresienstadt concentration camp on January 21, 1942 and to the Treblinka extermination camp on September 21, 1942 , where they were murdered. In 1942 and 1943 a flak position and an air watch post were set up in Erler Östrich . In the summer of 1944 a large supply unit for ammunition and fuel was quartered in the village again. From 1944 the Allies also flew over Alder during the day. From this point on, protective ditches and holes were increasingly dug in Alder to protect against low-flying aircraft. During the entire period since 1940, Erle has been bombarded with bombs and air mines at irregular intervals, and there have been deaths and destruction, including attacks by low-level aircraft. But compared to Raesfeld , which was 40% destroyed, and Rhade , which was even more severely destroyed because of its train station, the damage was up to March 1945, when the Allied troops crossed the Rhine as part of " Operation Varsity " and built a bridgehead to the northwest formed by Wesel, low. On 23/24 In March 1945, this time Erle was deliberately hit by heavy bomber and low-flying attacks aimed at the military observation and radio post on the church tower. High explosive and incendiary bombs destroyed most of the houses in the village around the church tower, which, when first set on fire, later collapsed. The little "Guardian Angel" bell was also lost. The Östrich was also the target of bomb attacks. After the flak position had been bombed, individual courtyards were also targeted, in which the commander of the German 1st Parachute Army , General Alfred Schlemm , was suspected. On March 26th there were again heavy air strikes on the village. On March 27, 1945, the main teacher Fritz Sagemüller died in a bomb attack. It is thanks to his wife that many of the excavated pieces from the Frankish burial ground survived the attack. On the same day, the German units stationed in and around Erle began to withdraw in the direction of Rhade and Lembeck , so that the advancing British paratroopers under Brigadier James Hill could occupy the village on March 28th after three local skirmishes with remaining Wehrmacht units . The English were later replaced by US troops.

A total of at least 35 soldiers fell in Erle in these days: 26 Germans, 6 British, 2 Russians and one American. The Erler civilian population suffered 8 deaths. In the Second World War, a total of 104 Erler died or are considered missing. The fact that the occupation of Erles was relatively bloodless is thanks to the Rhader Robert Komberg and the Erler Volkssturm adjutant Nienhaus. Komberg persuaded Nienhaus to hide weapons and ammunition stored for the Volkssturm in a bomb crater on the edge of the Hohe Mark .

Up until the end of 1945 there were several attacks and looting by former forced laborers in Erle . The center member Johann Hussmann was appointed mayor under the British occupation authorities . Hussmann was also confirmed by the voters in the first local election . In 1948 he was followed by his deputy Bernhard Lammersmann, who remained Mayor of Erle until 1956.

Immediately after the end of the war, construction began on an emergency church in Erle , which was inaugurated on October 28, 1945. The reconstruction of the main church was immediately prepared. As early as 1945, the mothers' association, which had been banned since 1939, resumed its work. A census in 1946 counted the 991 native Erlern 220 war refugees living in the village, in 1950 there were 123. In 1946 the church choir was re-established, this time with female members. In the summer of 1948, the reconstruction of the church began according to plans by the architect Otto Bongartz from Cologne . The Kolping Family Erle was founded on November 14, 1948 . Pastor Grosfeld died in 1949. His successor was Theodor Vortmann. In the same year the Erler group of rural youth was founded . On October 15, 1949, the rebuilt parish church was consecrated by Auxiliary Bishop Heinrich Roleff .

1950 to 1959

In May 9, 1951 Heinrich Limberg brought the three new bells from the Bochum cast steelworks to the village. The inscriptions for the big bell read: “I call the living, I mourn the dead, I break lightning and thunder” and “St. New Year's Eve, our patron, strengthen us in faithfulness ”, for the middle one“ Bless us and our children Virgin Mary ”and on the little bell it says“ May the Guardian Angels enlighten, guide and protect us ”. On July 12, 1953, the new church organ with 20 registers was handed over to its destination. 1954–1955 the rural youth became the Catholic rural youth , 1959/60 Rhader youths joined and since then they have been called KLJB Erle / Rhade. In 1955 / '56 Schwanes mill was renovated for the first time and the wind blades replaced. Hubert Menting was elected mayor in 1956. In 1957 a youth home was set up in the back of the pastorate . The new memorial commissioned by the municipality of Erle was inaugurated on June 10, 1957. The bypass road (B224) was opened to traffic on December 16, 1958.

1960 to 1969

The new building of the cath. Elementary school , the New Year's Eve School, was inaugurated on May 20, 1960 and was expanded in 1961. The "Erler Jäger" band was founded in 1961. From 1961, master carpenter Fritz Heidermann held the office of mayor. The cath. Kindergarten St. Silvester was inaugurated on July 16, 1964 and the construction of the new sacristy began in the same year . In 1964/65 the Erler parish church got its new colored choir windows . The arborist Michael Maurer completely renovated the remote oak in 1965 . In 1965 Dutch NATO troops moved into the Erler NATO base. The haulier Tünte found the Erler giant cup in the Östricher Bruch in autumn 1965 . The extension building and the gym of the New Year's Eve School celebrated the topping-out ceremony on December 17, 1965 . Pastor Theodor Vortmann died on January 26, 1966 . His term of office focused entirely on the reconstruction and modernization of the parish . Pastor Hermann Schürmann followed him into office on May 19 . The "high school" was demolished during the 1966 summer vacation. The Volksbank moved into its new domicile on October 5, 1966 (today the Spangemacher bakery.) On July 23, 1967, the Erler kath. public library new premises in the old pastorate . In the same year the new gym and the third construction phase of the New Year's Eve School were completed. On October 15, 1967, the old cemetery was finally closed and leveled, later a football field was built on the spot (today youth center .) On October 22, 1967, the new fire station was inaugurated. The police post in today's home building was closed in 1968. Since 1968 the mothers' association has been called the “ Catholic Women's Community in Germany ”. On October 1, 1968, a potato community GmbH was founded in Östrich on Hof Böckenhoff and in Westrich on Hof Stegerhoff . From October 1968 the windmill was restored with the help of the state conservator . In 1969 the Erler library moved into premises in the old pastorate. The farmer and businessman Bernhard Böckenhoff was the last mayor of the independent municipality of Erle from 1969 to 1974. In 1969 the sports club Eintracht Erle 1969 e. V. founded.

1970 to 1979

In June 1970, work began on redesigning and modernizing the interior of the church based on designs by Manfred Ludes . On June 19, 1971, Mayor Böckenhoff presented a small local history collection with finds from the Franconian-Merovingian burial ground to the public . The exhibition location was showcases in the New Year's Eve School. In 1971, the Erler municipal council unanimously decided to join the Erle municipality to the city of Dorsten during the upcoming municipal reorganization . The new choir room was erected at Easter 1971: the altar (consecrated on December 9, 1971), ambo , cross with tabernacle and eternal light were designed by the Raesfeld sculptor Hermann Kunkler . In 1973 the Erler Kolping Family celebrated its 25th anniversary. From this point on, women were also accepted into the family. In 1974 the new cemetery hall was completed and inaugurated. In 1974, grain was ground in Schwane's mill for the last time. The " Praise of God " was introduced in 1975 in Alder. On 1 January 1975. Erle lost its political independence and was in the course of municipal reorganization against the will of the municipal council Erler by fusing a community part of the new overall community Raesfeld . The Dutch NATO troops left Erle. In 1975 the old-style elementary school became the primary school and from July 1st the Erler parish belonged to the deanery of Borken. On June 18, 1976, the Erler athletes were given a field at the Westerlandwehr that met the regulations. In 1977 Belgian NATO troops brought the positions back to full operational readiness. On January 26th 1978 Pastor Schürmann moved into the new pastorate, also built according to plans by Manfred Ludes. Pastor Schürmann celebrated his silver jubilee as a priest on December 17, 1978. After renovations, on November 26, 1978 the old pastorate was given its new purpose as a meeting place for all Erler citizens and associations. Also known as the parish hall, it was the cultural center of Erles until well into the 1980s. In the same year the Catholic public library had to move to smaller premises within the pastorate. In 1979 the 100th anniversary of the Erler parish church was celebrated. In the same year the windmill blades were replaced again.

1980 to 1989

Eighty housing units were handed over to the Belgian troops on February 29, 1980. A maneuver by the British Army of the Rhine on July 14, 1980 caused severe damage to the fields in Westrich . With many volunteers, St. New Year's Eve got a new floor on March 21, 1983, the wooden floor was removed. On July 28, 1983, the Belgian NATO troops left Erle. The NATO maneuver "Atlantic Lion" was noticed by massive tank passages on September 19, 1983 through the village in Alder. In 1984 the windmill was completely renovated under monument protection regulations . In 1985 the Erler parish church received a new, red tile roof and the blunt tower was covered with copper . The femeiche was treated again on August 21, 1986 and 1987. On May 23, 1987 the new Volksbank Erle building celebrated its topping-out ceremony. In 1987 the organ stage was enlarged and the interior of the church repainted. Another extension of the New Year's Eve School was inaugurated on June 24, 1988. On August 28, 1988, Volksbank Erle celebrated its 100th anniversary. In 1988 new windows were installed in the nave and tower. The Erler art blacksmith Hermann Buning made the new chandelier and the wall candle holder. On May 8, 1989 ethnic German repatriates were housed in the former NATO buildings on Holten. After three weeks of renovation, the post office on Kirchplatz was reopened on June 10, 1989.

1990 to 1999

In 1991 a hurricane damaged the Erler windmill considerably. Today's Heimathaus was completely renovated in 1992 and the Erler Heimatverein moved into the upper floor on October 11, 1992. In 1992 Pastor Hermann Schürmann retired , his successor was Franz-Josef Barlage. On July 1, 1992, the empty NATO buildings on Holten were converted into an asylum seeker center. On March 26, 1993 the Erlerin Maria Honvehlmann became mayor of the municipality of Raesfeld. The WDR radio program " Hallo OB-Wagen " broadcast live on February 2, 1994 from the Femeiche . Pastor Barlage was appointed dean of the Borken deanery in 1994. The Erler youth center celebrates its renovation on October 9th, 1994. On October 13th, 1995 the vacant NATO buildings on Holten are converted into a repatriation center. On February 17 and April 30, 1995, two missile halls of the former NATO base in the Östrich were destroyed by arson . June 9-12, 1995: 100 years of the Erle General Shooting Club. The new Erler youth center was inaugurated on May 31, 1997. The Femeiche was fenced again in 1994. The extended fire station was inaugurated on April 13, 1996 . In 1998 the Erler Kolping Family celebrated its 50th anniversary. The new Erler church tower had its topping-out ceremony on June 20, 1998 and was inaugurated on November 29, 1998. A new cross was erected on June 3, 1999 in memory of the old cemetery at the Pius-Eiche.

2000 to 2009

A storm in May 2000 severely damaged the crown of the Femeiche. The New Year's sports hall in Erle was inaugurated on January 24, 2004. The Erler Heimatverein set up its first history station at the Pius-Eiche. The Erler Bücherei (formerly Catholic public library) moved into new rooms in the former Sebastian butcher shop on September 17, 2004. After Anni Dickers moved away, the entire current home building went to the Heimatverein in 2005. The Münsterland snow chaos of the storm "Thorsten" on November 26th and 27th, 2005 also hit Erle. 1200 years of Christianity was in Erle on 5./6. Celebrated June 2005. On June 18, 2006, a sculpture was placed on the Femeiche in memory of the Freigericht . In 2007 hurricane Kyrill robbed the windmill of its wings. The third prominent tree in Alder, the imposing horse chestnut at the intersection of Schermbecker- / Silvesterstrasse, has been removed. In 2008 the Femeiche was renovated again by the specialist Jürgen Busch. The topping-out ceremony for the new changing building at Erler Sportplatz was celebrated on November 26, 2009. On September 1, 2009, the KLJB Erle / Rhade was re-established. Also in September 2009, the stand tree was set up in Alder . In 2009 the barracks of the NATO base were demolished. The Erler Andreas Grotendorst became full-time mayor of the Raesfeld community on August 30, 2009 .

Since 2010

On March 7, 2010, Pastor Barlage retired . He was the last real pastor in the parish of St. Silvester Alder. In 2011 the “Erler Jäger” celebrated their golden anniversary. Pastor Barlage celebrated his golden jubilee as a priest on February 2nd, 2011. In 2011 the Femeiche got new supports. In November 2011, the two Erler kindergartens, St. Silvester and St. Nikolaus, received the “ Family Center NRW” seal of approval . The Erler parish council decided on March 21, 2012 to dissolve the parish of St. Silvester and to join the parish of St. Martin in Raesfeld. In this way, Erle involuntarily gives up not only political, but also ecclesiastical independence. The decision on the funds from the village renewal program for the procurement of new blades for the historic windmill was available on September 10, 2012. On September 25, 2012, Volksbank Erle eG celebrated a large anniversary general meeting in the marquee on the Erler festival square on the occasion of its 125th anniversary. On December 9, 2012, a photo documentation about the Erler parish church of St. Silvester was opened in the Heimatmuseum. Pastor Hermann Schürmann, long-time pastor in Erle, died on December 14, 2012 in Heiden. In the parliament of the municipality of Raesfeld it was announced on December 16, 2012 that the last funding approval for the Erler Mühle had arrived. The “Philatelic School” award was given to the New Year's Eve School's stamp working group on January 15, 2013 by the Association of German Philatelists . On May 24, 2013, the Erler tower windmill received its wings, which had been destroyed by a storm. The largely unwanted merger on the Erler side with the Raesfeld parish of St. Martin was celebrated on June 9, 2013 on the Erler sports field. The last pastor of the parish of St. Silvester, Franz-Josef Barlage, died on December 21, 2013. On December 27, 2013 the “Raesfeld-Erle-Homer Civic Foundation” was founded. On January 21, 2013, interested citizens met to talk about the future of the old pastorate put up for sale by the church. 26 horse chestnuts were felled on February 25, 2013 due to bacterial attack on Friedholt and Schermbecker Strasse. The proceeds of the Easter bazaar held on April 5 and 6, 2013 in the Heimathaus were donated to the preservation of the old pastorate. The Raesfeld town council rejected the SPD's application on April 7, 2014 to buy the Erler Alte Pastorat. Representatives of the initiative group for the preservation of the Erler old pastorate presented the mayor Grotendorst with a list of signatures with 1277 signatures (approx. 1/3 of the Erler population) on May 5th, 2014. The Erler Silverster Kindergarten celebrated its 50th anniversary on May 18, 2014. The striking wooden silo on the Böckenhoff farm in the village had to give way to a carport on August 4, 2014 after around 50 years of standing. On New Year's Eve, a deacon announces to the Erler population from the pulpit that the old pastorate of the parish of St. Silvester has been sold to private individuals. The “Small Department Store” (also popularly known as “Kocks”), the last general store in Erler, was closed on November 24, 2015 when the owner Elisabeth Grundmann died. On January 3, 2015, the “Upen Plass / Lechten Brink” neighborhood celebrated its 150th anniversary. The former Brand and Heidermann farms and the former “Schneemann / Rüb” restaurant, which had been located at the Erler Church for a long time, were demolished on January 5, 2015. On April 16, 2015, the company "Deutsche Glasfaser" presented its plans for expanding the Internet broadband. Although it was first reported that Erler had not reached the 40% hurdle in the main and subsequent stages for the expansion of the fiber optic network, it was announced on September 25, 2015 that this mark had been reached. On October 29th, the construction of the fiber optic network in the village began in Erler Schulstrasse with the erection of a distribution house. The new parish hall “St. New Year's Eve House ”was inaugurated on December 13, 2015. After moving, the Erler library celebrated the opening in the St. Silvester House. After more than 25 years, Bernd Honsel hands over the traditional Erler snack bar “Imbiss Honsel” to Ingolf Rissel and on February 4, 2016 “Ingolfs Futterstube” opens. The 25th anniversary of the Holzwurm day care center was celebrated on June 25, 2016. The St. New Year's Church Choir turned 70 as a mixed choir on June 16, 2016. In August 2016, the renovation and expansion of the St. Silvester Kindergarten was completed. The new school sign, designed by the artist Fritz Pietz and others, was installed on December 19, 2016 at the New Year's Eve School. On June 9, 2020, WDR television reported on the local time program in Münsterland on the shooting festival, which was celebrated in the drive- in cinema because of the Covid 19 pandemic .

Today the village of Erle has developed into a popular, small regional excursion destination because of the many sights and the surrounding nature, which is inviting for cycling and walking.

Many street names in Erle are reminiscent of the history of the village: Ekhornsloh, Freienstuhl, Ridderspaß, Upen Plass, Schultenwurt, Höltingswall, Pohlhoff, Hilgenstuhl, Orendarper Weg. Many long-established families also have a “village name” next to the actual surname, which indicates the family's previous activities. For example, the ancestors of the "Imken" family (pronounced with an extended I) were beekeepers, but the normal house name is Horstmann.

Culture, sights, special features

Early finds and barrows

One of 17 formerly known burial mounds in Alder

Already the learning local historian Heinrich Lammers man was using many archaeological finds and by the tradition of old corridor conclude that Erle already in the farm names and Neolithic was settled. This first collection of dwellings, also known as the original settlement, can still be seen today, it is the farms that still exist today on the line from “Bente aufm Huck” to “Schulte Huckels”. In the peasantry Östrich beginning were the 20th century propagated at field and yard work finds such as in the area stone axes , hand axes , flint knives , arrowheads and also found grave vessels. Of course, are particularly striking cairns . A total of 17 barrows are known in the area of ​​Alder . These were partially so destroyed by soil removal and land consolidation that they can no longer be recognized as such. Of the 17, only 11 are left today. The most famous barrow is the hill no. 7 on the road "Werlo", 19 m in diameter and an average height of 1.80 m. No finds were made in this grave, however, robber excavations are known of many others in the Erler grave mounds and the main teacher Fritz Sagemüller also made assumptions as to where their contents could be.

Franconian-Merovingian burial ground

While more and more Stone Age finds were made in today's Östrich peasantry and Bronze Age barrows were and are to be seen, in the other Erler peasantry, the Westrich, a burial ground from the Franconian - Merovingian period was discovered and completely excavated and carefully cataloged. About 700 m as the crow flies west of the Femeiche , numerous artefacts were found on the Nienhaus-Krampe farm by the farm workers and the farming family themselves at the beginning of the 19th century . All of these finds were lost before they could be handed over to the future official curator and chairman for soil antiquities, Bernhard Lammersmann.

A few years later, other objects were found during floor work, this time being brought to the museum there by the senior teacher Schulz from Dorsten . On this occasion Bernhard Lammersmann was able to identify the finds as "Franconian-Merovingian" through a direct comparison.

In 1910 the first grave was found at Pentecost with the dimensions approx. 2.0 m × 1.0 × 0.95 m, arranged from west to east. In this grave, in addition to bronze parts of clothing, two lance tips with long spouts , a grave vessel, various urn shards , a silver cross , pearls and a spindle whorl . A second grave followed a little later.

A pause followed, excavations resumed in 1912, but no further graves were found. When it became known in 1924 that the farmer wanted to carry out major earthworks, Lammersmann and his colleague, teacher Fritz Sagemüller, were given permission to examine the area designated for this beforehand. By 1926 a total of 22 graves were found and carefully uncovered. Here, various pieces of jewelry were (u. A. Glass, glazed ceramic and glazed porcelain beads , studs, buckles , amber chunks , bronze rings , whorl ), weapons (knives, different sized swords , spearheads , axes verschiedenster sizes arrowheads with barbs Saxe , Skramasaxe ) , Fittings and shield bosses of wooden shields, various clay vessels with decorations, keys, Christian crosses, various coins, etc. a. made of gold and, to everyone's surprise, a rare, decorated glass vessel with a height of 15.5 centimeters. The remains of those buried there were not found in any of the graves, and apart from a piece of cloth, no piece of clothing or other material was found. Each grave had at least one grave vessel, many decorated and all made on a turntable . All graves could easily be identified as men's and women's graves on the basis of the grave goods. It is also noteworthy that vast amounts of much older, Germanic, urn shards and numerous pieces of coal in all sizes have been found in the graves . Bernhard Lammersmann was able to reassemble a Germanic urn and identify it as such. The assumption is that the burial ground was used as a burial place by the Saxons before the Merovingians . Based on two Franconian bronze coins found, it is assumed that the burial ground was used from the 6th and at least until the 7th, perhaps 8th century AD.

Today nothing can be seen of the burial ground, the area is used again for agriculture. A memorial plaque with the history of the excavations, donated by the Erler Heimatverein, reminds of the significant history on site. Most of the grave finds have been taken to various museums, but some can also be viewed in the Erler Heimathaus.

The giant mug from Erler

The so-called "Erler Riesenbecher " is a very special find from the early Bronze Age . It is one of only four other comparable finds, three of them in Germany ( Borken in Westphalia, Pavenstädt , Gütersloh district, Höven , Coesfeld district) and one in the Netherlands ( Arnhem .) The ceramic beaker (also known as a trumpet beaker because of its characteristic shape) is approx. 43 cm high and is decorated throughout from the foot to the edge. Four zones with bead-like, smooth bands with circumferential grooves, which are intended to imitate the imprint of the cord, alternate with three zones of regular plastic ornamentation, which consists of pinched out rows of bumps arranged in extremely regular fashion. Named in professional circles as finger pinch and winding cord decorations. At the top of the cup there is a row of small, irregularly staggered holes.

The Erler giant beaker was found at the end of 1965 by a local haulier. He found a decorated shard on a pile of sand in the Östricher Bruch, part of the Erler peasantry Östrich. Now such a find was nothing special in this area, many such mineral resources were destroyed undetected over time by land exploitation and agriculture. But the finder reported his find to the Raesfelder local historian John Löchteken. He sifted through the dune ridge in days of work and found not only the lower part of the cup standing upright in the sand dune, but also four fifths of the remaining material. The Erler giant beaker was then restored in what was then the State Museum of Münster and a replica was made. The original of the late Neolithic beaker is in the LWL Museum for Archeology in Herne , the replica can be viewed in the Erler Heimatmuseum.

This special archaeological find was assigned to the so-called cup culture, which is classified from the end of the Neolithic to the early Bronze Age . The big question that can never be solved is what this cup was used for and why it was buried exactly where it was found an estimated 4,000 years later. The interpretation as a storage vessel is obvious, but no traces of an associated settlement were found in the vicinity. There are also no clear traces of cultic acts in the form of burn marks or charcoal. Since barrows were found near the site, an interpretation in this regard cannot be ruled out.

The old army camp in the Östrich

Francisco Hurtado de Mendoza

In addition to the grave hills and the Urn Fields Erler holds peasantry Östrich yet another mystery. For centuries, the inhabitants have been puzzling over the function of the man-made walls and holes in the ground , which were still found sporadically at the time and can still be seen in a few remains today. In many cases they were viewed as simple remnants of military forces and hiding places for cattle during the many wars. It was only between 1870 and 1880 that these earthworks were inspected using archaeological search digs. 1884, 1901 and 1907 these search excavations were carried on by different people, and composed as one the fragmentary results, it was realized that the walls were no single country weirs, but the remains of a large fortified ramparts, the one about 50 to 60 hectares large former military camp enclosed. Through various cut excavations in the ramparts, a trench was found in front of the ramparts, which was filled in in earlier times. Many filled-in pits were found within the complex, so-called " Mardellen ", which had a solid clay or gravel bottom, earthen hearth fires and ceramic shards from the so-called Koblenz goods, so that the camp could be dated around 1550 to 1600 for the first time. However, this also ruled out that this was a Roman camp, as the first archaeological campaign published as a likely result. It was not until the 1990s that local history researcher Ingrid Sönnert succeeded in assigning the camp to the Spanish troops who crossed the Rhine during the Spanish-Dutch War in 1598 under the command of Francisco de Mendoza in order to a. to plunder the Münsterland . The Erler military camp housed the troops of Don Alfonso Davilos, who led a reign of terror in the glory of Lembeck until the Peace of Westphalia in Münster . After various land consolidations at the beginning of the 20th century, only small remains of the former ramparts can be seen today.

Home house

Heimathaus / Heimatmuseum

The current domicile of the Erler Heimatverein e. V. and the local history museum is one of the oldest, still standing buildings in Alder. Built in 1893, it has seen many different types of uses over time. At first the house was used as the fourth school building in the village. The ground floor at that time consisted of a hall and a classroom by m² to approximately 68 to 100 students in grades were taught 1 to 8. Only boys according to the times. In 1908 another school building, the so-called "high school" was built and the boys' school was converted into a dormitory for the teachers. The house served this purpose until the end of the Second World War, when it was damaged by bombardment while the British were preparing to cross the Rhine. After the war it served as a police station until 1968 and as a residential building until 2005. It was not until 1992 that the house was brought up to modern standards, until then every room was heated with coal and wood stoves. Even after the renovation, the house had not lost its old character, it was known for its old door handle sets and that it was always pleasantly cool inside even in the hottest summer. Today the Heimatverein Erle e. V. uses the house for its activities and also runs the small local museum there with exhibits from the early past of the village.

Tower windmill

Tower windmill swan in alder

After the prussian reforms at the beginning of the 19th century, the landlords of the nobility and clergy also lost their exclusive wind and stowage rights, ordinary citizens were also able to work as millers . The miller Josef Schwane, who came from Schermbeck , then built the well-known Erler tower windmill in the Dutch style between 1843 and 1846 . This means that the mill was given a circumferential wall and a passage, which allowed the farmers to drive their horse-drawn vehicles into the front of the plant and back out again. The mill was able to offer a total of three grinding courses: feed grain, bread grain and buckwheat

Like many other buildings in Alder, the tower of the mill is made of field fire bricks from local production. For a long time the mill tower stood completely free in the field, the parts of the building still standing today ( steam mill , warehouse and residential building) were only built between 1894 and 1955.

Until 1937 the mill was still ground with wind, but since 1894 with the support of a steam mill. The steam engine was then replaced by a diesel engine in 1925, which was replaced by an electric motor shortly after the Second World War . Flour was still produced in the mill until 1974.

The monument value of this old mill was recognized as early as the 1950s, and it was renovated and renovated from 1955 to 1956. The owner Josef Schwane changed the wings for new ones in 1956 and 1979. The new owner completely renovated the mill and the outbuildings and made them habitable in 1984 after the purchase under the conditions of the monument authority , which was repeated again and again in the following years, especially when the building was damaged by a hurricane in 1991. Storm Kyrill then damaged the wings so badly in 2007 that they had to be dismantled. However, this condition was remedied on April 24, 2013 through the financial efforts of the Erler villagers.

Femeiche

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Erler Femeiche

The Femeiche is an approx. 600 to 850 year old pedunculate oak that is now registered as a natural monument. It is about eleven meters high, has a trunk circumference of twelve and a crown diameter of about eight meters. The trunk is hollow up to a height of about four meters.

The Femeiche is considered to be the oldest central European court tree . It is located next to the old pastorate southwest of the center of Erles.

Pius oak

The Pius oak at the old cemetery in Alder

In addition to the well-known Femeiche, another striking example of this tree species can be found in Alder, the Pius Oak, also popularly known as the Peace Oak . It stands next to the fire station , near the youth center and marks the southern end of the old Erler cemetery .

The history of this oak dates back to 1871. On June 16 of this year, the then Erler pastor Nonhoff and the Erler citizens celebrated the 25th papal jubilee of Pius IX by planting the tree . celebrated. The whole village was with flags and May- decorated, and decorated with a horse and cart the shoot was from the peasantry brought Östrich and a procession with gun salutes drove through the village and planted at its current location. In addition, a time capsule was buried in the pit containing a document with the inscription “On June 16, 1871, on the feast of the 25th anniversary of our St. Father Pius IX, this oak is planted here in the churchyard, in memory of this Pope's jubilee ”.

On the same day, however, the so-called "Peace Day" was proclaimed by Chancellor Otto von Bismarck . A peace demonstration was held in the capital of the Reich, Berlin, and the bells for the peal of peace were to ring all over Germany . Pastor Nonhoff took the opportunity to present his position as a Catholic priest in Bismarck's culture war . In any case, the bells in Alder did not ring on the order of the Chancellor, and the oak was without a doubt planted in honor of the Pope.

Even in the “imperial times”, the citizens of Pohl left church when there was prayer for the emperor - no matter how loyal to the emperor one was. The Kulturkampf under Bismarck against the Catholic Church continued to have an effect in the Münsterland for a long time.

Today the tree is around 25 meters high, has a trunk circumference of 370 centimeters and has been listed as a natural monument by the Lower Landscape Authority since July 1996 due to an ordinance of the Borken district with the designation "Pius-Eiche" and the number IJ2 .

The old pastorate

The old pastorate next to the Femeiche

The old pastorate , also called the parish hall in the recent past, is the oldest building still standing in the Erler village. Its predecessor, the vicarage , was demonstrably protected in early times by a moat around the house and could only be reached via a bridge , which was torn down in 1787 and replaced by a mobile dam . It was not until the beginning of 1900 that the pastor at the time had the graves filled up. In 1790, a one-story brick building with a gable roof was built according to the design of the Velen master builder Tinnewald . As is customary in Erle, the around 80,000 bricks required for this were produced directly in Alder and installed in the new building using the demolition material from the old building. History tells that it only took five days to make the new bricks . The new pastorate was not lucky; As early as 1797 there was great damage from fire, and a short time later the house lost its roof structure in a storm . A construction plan from 1847 shows how the pastorate was structurally divided and used at that time: the larger part was occupied by the living area, the smaller by the economic area. As the pastor wished for the new building in 1787, both areas were strictly separated from each other. The living area could be entered through the front door, which is still used today as the main entrance. From there the guest rooms, the dining room, the priest's bedroom, the large kitchen with an open hearth fire , the garden room , the hall and the housekeeper's room could be reached. The external oven eventually disappeared. In the course of time the house was rebuilt several times and adapted to the needs. After the pastorate, i.e. the pastor's house and the pastor's office, were moved into a new building, parts of the old pastorate are being completely renovated and are still used extensively by many church organizations and in the 1970s and 80s it was the meeting point for many young people because there was one there Youth House was maintained and the youth leader had his apartment there. The Catholic public library also had its premises there. Today the old pastorate belongs to the ensemble around the old Kastanienallee, the new pastorate, the parish garden and the Femeiche . The door frame of the main entrance of the pastorate consists of the split grave slab made of light Baumberger sandstone of the former pastor Michael Spanier, which until 1876 had covered his grave in the small church between the altar and the communion bench .

The Church of St. New Years

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St. New Year's to Alder

The history of the Church of St. Silvester goes back to the 10th century. It is believed that even then a wooden church stood on the spot where the current church building stands. The St. New Year's Eve patronage indicates that this wooden church was built around the turn of the millennium, 999–1000. Erle first belonged to the parish of Raesfeld St. Martin, was then separated from Raesfeld in the 12th century and raised to a separate parish of St. Silvester.

The first stone church was destroyed by fire in 1560. From the ruins of this church a new one was built, which was enlarged in the 17th century. At the end of the 19th century this church had become too small and dilapidated. At the instigation of Pastor Nonhoff, it was demolished in 1875 and replaced by a neo-Gothic building .

On December 4, 1879 was the inauguration of the new church. The later dean Peter Karthaus, who is still well known in Erle today, has continued to decorate the church over the years. This church was completely destroyed by an air raid on March 23, 1945 when the Allies switched off a Wehrmacht observation and radio post in the church tower .

After the war, the laborious reconstruction began in a simplified form. When the "Blunt Tower" was the landmark of Alder for over 40 years , the church tower was replaced by the current high church tower shortly after the renovation of the Blunt Tower with a copper roof in 1998. Its appearance essentially corresponds to that of the tower destroyed in the war. The restoration goes back to the initiative of the pastor of St. Silvester Erle, Dean Franz-Josef Barlage, and was financed to a large extent from donations from the population and economy of Erle .

The special features of the church include a. also the choir, designed in 1974 by the well-known artist Hermann Kunkler , and the large nativity scene for Advent and Christmas .

Burial mound

Barrow in Alder in West Munsterland with an information board from the Erler Heimatverein

There is an old burial mound in the Erler peasantry Östrich . The hill has a height of around 180 cm, a diameter of 19 m and is completely overgrown by trees and undergrowth , so that in summer it can hardly be seen from the "Werlo" road, on the immediate edge of which it is located ( shortly before the junction with "Rhader Straße"). It belongs to a group of burial mounds, seven of which are still preserved today. These burial mounds, also popularly known as barrows, have been designated as ground monuments and are protected.

No finds were made in the burial mound during archaeological excavations that give an indication of who and how the burial mound was used. However, by using other archaeological findings, the following can be assumed: At the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC Cattle breeding groups invaded Westphalia from the east and mingled with the local peasant culture, who buried some of their dead in large stone graves ( barrows ) or stone boxes. The intruders, also called battle ax people or string ceramists , buried in individual graves or under large, circular burial mounds with a diameter of around 20 m. The dead were placed in a tree coffin . The burial mounds were often used as burial places for centuries. In the Iron Age , flat graves replaced the custom of the burial mound.

In addition to the barrows and stone boxes, the grave mounds, which are up to 4,000 years old, are among the largest tombs in Westphalia. Most of these facilities were destroyed while the soil was being cultivated into pasture and arable land. What was left was destroyed by robbery excavations in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Devil stone

The so-called Teufelstein in the Östrich farmers in Alder in the west of Münsterland

The Östrich Teufelstein can be found around 100 meters in an oak grove on the “Baklo” path, near “Rhader Straße”. Today the Heimatverein put up an information board at the edge of the forest and it is now quite easy to find the inconspicuous stone .

The Teufelstein is located on the edge of an ancient drubbel , a small rural settlement. It is believed that this anger (village complex) served the residents of the Drubbels and then the entire peasantry as a meeting place for secular and pagan activities. The legends of the white horse (which served the gods and goddesses as a mount) and the black hare (Germanic disease demon) are also associated with the devil's stone and its surroundings. Anyone who got lost in the area around the Teufelstein would see a headless white horse, and a short time later the hiker found the right path again.

The Devil's Stone is a medium-grained biotite - granite cm with an area size of 140 × 55 kg estimated weight of about 1800's. The stone is more than 2 billion years old and was most likely transported from Sweden to Alder by an Ice Age glacier 260,000 to 200,000 years ago . The maximum ice thickness at that time was around 200 m.

Historic post office in Suendarp

Rest area and information board next to the historic post office

The house of the farmer Grewing, formerly Suendarp, built in 1797 , served from 1803 to 1850 as a post office for the Essen - Dorsten -Alttüshaus-Erle (Östrich, Suendarp) - Borken postal service . The Suendarp Post Station served as a rest area for the carriage passengers, and the carriage horses were also changed there. The post route (the street name "Alter Postweg" reminds of it) ran from the Suendarp post station south through the Erler Heide , and anyone familiar with this area can guess how arduous this route must have been for horses and people, partly through deep, loose ones Sand , then partly through mud . In 1845 the post route was relocated around two kilometers west of the route of today's B 224 , which then ended the days of the "Poststation Suendarp". Today, again raced on the site, in a beautiful nature invites there in the summer a cozy sitting area to hikers and cyclists one to let a little while relax.

Alder NATO site

During the Cold War, the village of Erle was located within the NATO Air Defense Belt and was the location of a NIKE / Hercules FlaRak anti-aircraft missile battery from 1965 to 1983 . From 1965 to 1978, Squadron 221 B, 2nd Groep Geleide Wapens of the Dutch Air Force and the B-Team, 508th US Army Artillery Detachement and from 1975 to 1983 the D-Battery 9th MSL Btn Belgium SQN57 of the Belgian Army were stationed in the battery . The battery consisted of three structurally separate areas, which were laid out at different locations around the village: In the northeast was the IFC (Integrated Fire Control) fire control area, in the southeast the launch area LA (Launcher Area) and in the south the command and staff area as well the barracks and houses for the soldiers and officers. The fire control area housed a number of mobile containers with the radar and target tracking and control electronics, generators, various radar systems and a quadruple anti-aircraft gun. The self-protection was carried out by guard dogs and guard soldiers. After a long vacancy, the area was largely dismantled and is now used again as an agricultural area and as a dog sports area. Hardly anything can be seen of the development today. In addition to various above-ground buildings, bunkers and helicopter landing pads, the launch area contained three launch sections (Alpha, Bravo and Charly). Each section consisted of a launch site, which was surrounded on three sides by an earth wall and a warehouse for storing the assembled rockets. These were driven on a high rail system from the hall to the starting places. On the site there was an additional area secured by the US Army, in which nuclear warheads of the W31 type were stored. The US soldiers were also responsible for assembling and launching nuclear-armed missiles. A total of nine rockets could be set up ready to launch, but the computer technology of the time only allowed serial launch, i.e. one after the other. Self-protection was also ensured by guard dogs and fortified machine-gun positions. After the battery was abandoned, the launcher area was used a few more times for NATO maneuvers. Today the area is privately owned and was placed under nature protection in 1995. In the staff area were the offices of the command staff of the battery as well as barracks, social buildings such as officers , NCOs and crew canteens, a small shop and various other buildings. Outside the fenced area, terraced houses and apartment buildings were built for the soldiers, as well as a school and a soldiers' home. The Belgian troops later got a reinforced concrete television tower so that they could u. a. could receive domestic television and radio. After a long vacancy, the area was in 1989 as a transit camp for ethnic German repatriates from 1992 to 1995 as a refugee center for Yugoslav war refugees and from 1994 as DRC - migration center used for repatriates. In 2009 the area was completely dismantled and designated as building land in 2014. It was also thanks to the FlaRak battery that Alder was located in a deep flight zone in which military aircraft were allowed to fly at supersonic up to 75 m above the ground. Among other things, the radar systems and their operators were tested and trained. Because of the radar systems, the buildings in Alder could not be higher than two storeys. There was another espionage case at the end of the 1960s. A Dutch patrol picked up a truck driver in a nearby gravel pit with photos of the facility. The commander was then demoted and transferred to a sentence.

"Hanenborg" - the Erler tower hill castle

A moth stood on the border with Raesfeld , in the Erler Mark . Moths are called a certain type of castle . Characteristic for this type of castle is an artificially raised, mostly circular but also partly oval mound with a mostly wooden residential and defense tower on top. The whole thing was fortified by moats , earth walls and palisades .

Hanenborg is located around two kilometers south of Raesfeld Castle in the Erler Mark. Coming from Erle, located behind the contractor "Wachtmeister". Formerly a forest meadow , this meadow is now on the edge of the forest, on the side facing the field only framed by a thin strip of trees and bushes. The forest kettle Nienpötter had settled there around 1800 , which is why this meadow is also known under the name "Pötters-Wiese". The name “Pötter” can still be found today as a street and field name in the vicinity.

When the tower hill castle was built is still unknown today. We know from other finds throughout Germany, however, that the wedding of the tower hill castles was around 1100 AD. Some of the hill towers were expanded and over the centuries became the magnificent moated castles that have survived to this day. Also Raesfeld Castle originated from a moth. The well-known Raesfeld tower hill castle "Kretier" succeeded just as little as the Erler "Hanenborg". Kretier Castle went up in flames in 1152. It is not known whether this fate was also destined for Hanenborg.

Nothing above ground has been preserved from the castle; The fact that one finally knows about this building is thanks to some parchment documents from the State Archives in Münster . There you can read that on November 23, 1500, at the sickbed of the castle lord Johann von Raesfeld, his brother Heinrich, Rutger von Diepenbrock zu Tenking, Johann Osterwijk, the Erler pastor Deryck van Wijk, the Augustinian monk Hinrich Seveker from Marienthal, the Raesfeld pastor Bernardus Sengenhorst and Hinrich Debynck stood to witness the last will of the dying lord of the castle. His wife Friedericke von Rede should u. a. received “de olde Hanenborg” for their retirement. The tower hill castle was named after the Raesfeld Burgmann Rotger tor Hanenborg, who was named in a document from 1482. This was given up by Rotger tor Hanenborg at the end of the 15th and beginning of the 16th century, as can also be seen from old documents. His descendants can still be found today in the old church registers of the parish of St. Martin zu Raesfeld .

After Raesfeld homeland researchers had searched in vain for the remains in Raesfeld area, a map from 1842 finally gave the all-important clue. On it, designated by the field name “Hamburghök”, the aforementioned “Pötters Wiese” could be seen, and within it was an area which was surrounded by a horseshoe-shaped wall . With the original cadastral map from 1822, which was then requested , it was no longer difficult to locate both the old carriage way and the old graves outlet. Only an insignificant remnant of the wall was not affected by the leveling of the site carried out at the beginning of the 20th century.

During the search excavations that were then carried out, the course of the forces that can be recognized on the original cadastral map was confirmed. Otherwise only incoherent stone settings and a heavily rusted iron chain were found. It was not until 1973 when the owner of part of the meadow worked it with a modern, deep plow , that further evidence from the old days was brought to light, e.g. a. half a hand mill stone 0.70 m in diameter and a pile of potsherds. The latter could be the local pot bakery from the 11th / 12th. Century, some even as fine, white Siegburg merchandise. With this find, the location of the Hanenborg was finally confirmed.

Today nothing can be seen of the Hanenborg. Everything that was left of her is still undetected and invisible in the earth under “Pötters Wiese” in the Erler Mark .

History stations

History station “St. New Year's Eve ”in front of the Erler Church with information about its history

The Erler Heimatverein e. For some years now, V. has been setting up information boards, the so-called history stations, at prominent sights and historically relevant places. On these boards, all those interested can find out in words and pictures the key data, facts and the history of the respective sight. Twelve stations had already been set up by 2012.

station	North latitude	Eastern length
Tower windmill	51 ° 44'21 "	06 ° 52'00 "
Overbeck	51 ° 44'25 "	06 ° 50'44 "
Pius oak	51 ° 44'42 "	06 ° 52'01 "
Femeiche	51 ° 44'43 "	06 ° 51'44 "
Devil stone	51 ° 45'07 "	06 ° 52'56 "
Historic post office	51 ° 44'56 "	06 ° 53'31 "
Tumulus	51 ° 45'30 "	06 ° 53'54 "
Jewish Cemetery	51 ° 44'26 "	06 ° 51'57 "
Burial ground	51 ° 44'37 "	06 ° 51'10 "
Story of alder	51 ° 44'45 "	06 ° 51'45 "
St. New Years Eve	51 ° 44'48 "	06 ° 51'51 "
Home house	51 ° 44'46 "	06 ° 51'56 "
NATO	51 ° 45'01 "	06 ° 52'38 "
Spartakist struggles	51 ° 44'57 "	6 ° 52'20 "
Old dairy	51 ° 44'30 "	06 ° 51'04 "
Old pastorate	51 ° 74'53 "	06 ° 86'19 "

Regular public events, festivals and customs

• Carol singers. On January 6th, on the Three Kings Day, the carol singers go from house to house, sing, distribute the blessings and collect money and natural products for a good cause.
• Traditional Easter and Whit Monday races of the Erler Motor Club e. V. on the club's own go-kart track.
• Official Easter bonfire on Easter Sunday and many small Easter bonfires in the farmers.
• Every April 30th: raising the May wreath on the Erler stand tree, with dancing in May in the village center.
• "Pingsterbrut", at Pentecost the "Pingsterbrut" goes from house to house and collects for a good cause.
• Three-day shooting festival of the General Citizens' Rifle Club Erle e. V. with an attached fair. Always a week after Pentecost.
• Summer festival of the Erler clubs and groups under the leadership of the Erler Kolping Family. Always on the first weekend after the summer vacation.
• Farmer's market on the Stegerhoff farm, always on the last Sunday in September.
• Thanksgiving parade (every four years) for Thanksgiving.
• "Oktoberfest" of the general citizen shooting association Erle e. V.
• Big St. Nicholas Parade, Fridays around December 6th.
• Christmas market on the Schulte-Kellinghaus farm, every two years on the third Sunday in Advent.

Personalities

• Heinrich Lammersmann (born March 1, 1865; † October 23, 1931), teacher and later principal teacher at the Erler elementary school, co-founder of the Catholic teachers' association in Dorsten and the surrounding area, head of the church choir, organist, local researcher, amateur archaeologist, official curator and chairman for soil antiquities in Area of ​​glory Lembeck, author and author of numerous scientific and local history articles and essays in the Dorstener Volkszeitung, in the local calendar of Herrlichkeit Lembeck and in the reader for rural advanced training schools in the province of Westphalia. He discovered and uncovered the Franconian-Merovingian burial ground in the Westrich farmers' community in Erler and, in his capacity as a hobby botanist, planted over 15,000 fruit trees in the village and the farmers. In his memory, Lammersmannstrasse in Erle bears his name.
• Fritz Sagemüller (born November 10, 1891; † March 23, 1945), teacher and later principal teacher at the Erler elementary school, local researcher, hobby archaeologist, chairman of the fruit and horticultural association and the local association, organist, supervisor of the first Erler Heimatmuseum, collector of old writings , Nature photographer, illustrator & a. for the home calendar of Herrlichkeit Lembeck and officially appointed caretaker for historical finds in the area of ​​Herrlichkeit Lembeck. Sagemüller-Strasse bears his name in his memory.
• Josef Böckenhoff , (* March 14, 1900; † 1968), qualified farmer, agricultural scientist and author.
• Bernhard Lammersmann (* April 27, 1901; † April 20, 1980), holder of the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, council member, multiple deputy mayor, mayor, registrar and arbitrator of the formerly independent municipality of Erle, member of the official representation of the Office of Hervest -Dorsten and member of the district council of the Recklinghausen district.
• Maria Honvehlmann (born March 25, 1953; † June 15, 1995), first woman in the mayor's office of Raesfeld, first resident of Erler in the mayor's office of Raesfeld.
• Friedel Sebastian (* 1948), holder of the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, member of the Borken district council, deputy mayor of the Raesfeld community, member of the Raesfeld community council.
• Gerhard Kirchner (* 1940), holder of the Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, holder of the golden badge of honor of the North Westphalia Chamber of Industry and Commerce, holder of the golden badge of honor of the Football and Athletics Association of Westphalia, award from the German Football Association for the exemplary Commitment.
• Hans-Jürgen Heursen (* 1944), holder of the Medal of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• Thomas Rommelspacher , (born March 5, 1947), MdL NRW from June 2, 2000 to June 2, 2005 for the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group.
• Christoph Cluse (* 1964), historian and author of medieval history.
• Jörg Heidermann (* 1973) was a radio presenter and news anchor for Radio WMW , 104.6 RTL, Radio Fritz ( RBB ), RadioBerlin and now works as a meteorologist in front of and behind the camera on the MDR television program .

Individual evidence

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3. ^ Heinrich Lammersmann: The design of our home . Home calendar of glory Lembeck, 1925, p. 17 ff.
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5. ^ Heinrich Lammersmann: New finds from old times . Home calendar of glory Lembeck, 1931, p. 84 ff.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Heinrich Lammersmann: The Östrich, the original settlement of alder . Home calendar of the glory Lembeck, 1926.
7. ↑ ^{a b} Heinrich Lammersmann: The Merovingian graves - building blocks for their history. Home calendar of the glory Lembeck, 1928.
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49. ↑ In terms of news about alder from older times, there is also an indication of the feudal register of the Count of Solmisse zu Ottenstein from the 14th century about taxes from the large and small Hach located in the parish. (See Tibus p. 1066.)
50. ↑ ^{a b c} Without naming the author: Founding of the Heimatbund and its development. Home calendar of the glory Lembeck, 1925.
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58. ↑ ^{a b} Klaus Werner: The Pius oak in alder. Home calendar of glory Lembeck, 2005, p. 199 ff.
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132. ↑ Borkener Zeitung, 3rd January 2015 edition, local section Raesfeld, article "Neighborhood celebrates anniversary", author Frank Liebetanz.
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145. ↑ https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/video/sendung/lokalzeit-muensterland/video-schuetzenverein-raesfeld-erle-feiert-im-autokino-100.html
146. ↑ Kurt Kibbert: The axes and hatchets in central West Germany I CH Beck'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung Munich, 1980, ISBN 3-406-00777-5 , p. 206.
147. ^ Heinrich Lammersmann: Barrows of Glory. Home calendar of glory Lembeck, 1934, p. 18 ff.
148. ^ U. Nahrendorf: Westphalia in the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age. Investigations into the settlement history of the north-west German landscape between the Lower Rhine and Middle Weser. Volume II Diss. Münster, 1989, p. 145.
149. ^ K. Günther: Stone Age and Older Bronze Age in the State Museum for Pre- and Early History Münster. Introduction to the prehistory and early history of Westphalia 1st 2nd edition. Münster, 1971.
150. ↑ ^{a b} August Heselhaus, Soil Research in the Borken District - Volume IV. Borken District, 1974, ISBN 3-927851-15-9 .
151. ↑ D. Bérenger (author), Society for the Promotion of Archeology in Ostwestfalen: "Archeology in Ostwestfalen Volume 5", Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, Gütersloh 2000, ISBN 3-89534-367-6 , pp. 19-28.
152. ↑ Klaus Werner: If the giant cup could tell about alder. Home calendar of glory Lembeck, 1999, p. 85 ff.
153. ↑ Otto Kreuter: From the history of the Erler schools. Home calendar of glory Lembeck, 1952, p. 68 ff.
154. ↑ Johannes Kempken: 10 years of Heimatverein Erle. Home calendar of glory Lembeck, 1999, p. 75 ff.
155. ↑ Piuseiche natural monument  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .  In: Geodata Atlas of the Borken district. Lower landscape authority district Borken. Retrieved June 8, 2012.
156. ^ Hermann-Josef Buning: The old rectory in Erle. Home calendar of glory Lembeck, 1981, p. 81 ff.
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158. ↑ Heinrich Lammersmann: The old church of alder. Home calendar of glory Lembeck, 1928, p. 74 ff.
159. ↑ Festschrift of the parish of St. Silvester for the 100th anniversary of the new church, p. 86 ff.
160. ^ Fritz Sagemüller: Barrows in glory. Home calendar of glory Lembeck, 1934, p. 18 ff.
161. ↑ Jakobine Spangemacher: The Devil's Stone on the Bakenhofe near Alder. Local calendar Herrlichkeit Lembeck, 1925, p. 23 ff.
162. ↑ Joseph Kellner: Der Teufelshase in der Östrich , Heimatkalender der Herrlichkeit Lembeck, 1931, p. 73.
163. ↑ Joseph Kellner: The Devil's Stone at Alder. Home calendar of glory Lembeck, 1930, p. 92.
164. ↑ Borkener Zeitung of December 31, 2014, article "Atomic warheads were in alder", author: Frank Liebetanz.
165. ↑ Dorstener Zeitung of January 10, 2015, article "Commandant was transferred after espionage", author: Berthold Femer.
166. ↑ Johannes Kempken: "Atombomben in Erle", Heimatkalender der Herrlichkeit Lembeck, 1996, p. 151 ff.
167. ↑ Borkener Zeitung of December 31, 2014, article "Earth walls covered the view", author: Frank Liebetanz.
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literature

• Hubert Punsmann, Hans Schleuning, Gabriele Süsskind: The Borken district. 2nd revised edition. Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-8062-0262-1 .
• Wilhelm Kohl: Germania Sacra - New Series 31.1 Diocese of Münster 7 The Diocese 1. Verlag de Gruyter, 1999, ISBN 3-11-016470-1 .
• Erle Heimatverein: Erle - 1945. Lünenborg, Borken-Weseke 1995.
• Ingrid Sönnert: Back then ... people and stories from Raesfeld, Erle and Homer. Raesfeld municipality 1997, ISBN 3-9804028-1-9 .
• Ingrid Sönnert: About farmers , spinners and craftsmen. Raesfeld municipality 1994, ISBN 3-9804028-0-0 .
• Ingrid Sönnert: The field names of the Raesfeld community - atlas and name register. Raesfeld municipality 1992, ISBN 3-927851-59-0 .
• Heimatverein Erle e. V .: Querbeet - Alder in stories and pictures. Self-published 2007.
• Yearbook for Westphalian Church History. Volume 90, Kommissionsverlag F. Klinker, 1996.
• Our homeland: Yearbook of the Borken district 1977. Westmünsterland 1977.
• Our home: Yearbook of the district of Borken 1978. Westmünsterland 1978.
• Our home: Yearbook of the district of Borken 1980. Westmünsterland 1980.
• Our home: Yearbook of the Borken district 1984. Westmünsterland 1984.
• Our home: Yearbook of the district of Borken 1990. Westmünsterland 1990.
• Our home: Yearbook of the Borken district 1994. Westmünsterland 1994.
• Heimatbund Herrlichkeit Lembeck and Stadt Dorsten e. V .: Heimatkalender digital born 1925 to 2010. In- house production, DVD.
• Albert Weskamp: History of the village of alder and its oak. Münster [approx. 1895] ( ULB Münster ).
• Daniel Bérenger, Christoph Grünewald (Hrsg.): Westphalia in the bronze age. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-8053-3932-2 .
• Society for the promotion of archeology in Ostwestfalen (Hrsg.): Archeology in Ostwestfalen. Volume 5. Society for the Promotion of Archeology in Ostwestfalen e. V., Saerbeck 2000, ISBN 3-89534-367-6 .
• Parish of St. Silvester zu Erle (Ed.): 100 years of St. New Year's. Self-published, Erle 1979.
• August Heselhaus, Bernhard Siepe: The Borken area in the early and prehistoric times. Borken district 1972.
• August Heselhaus: Soil research in the Borken district. Borken district 1974.

Web links

Commons : Raesfeld-Erle  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• www.dorf-erle.de - The homepage from and about alder
• Heimatverein Erle e. V.
• Alder in the Westphalia Culture Atlas