Feldhausen (Bottrop)

Feldhausen City of Bottrop Coordinates: 51 ° 36 ′ 17 ″  N , 6 ° 55 ′ 19 ″  E
Area :	5.59 km²
Residents :	1737  (December 31, 2017)
Population density :	311 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	July 1, 1976
Postal code :	46244
Area code :	02045

Feldhausen is a district of today's Bottrop district of Kirchhellen . Until 1976 Feldhausen was part of the independent municipality of Kirchhellen.

location

Feldhausen is located in the extreme northeast of the city of Bottrop and borders the city of Gladbeck in the south and east , the city of Dorsten in the north and the Kirchhellener districts and former farmers Ekel and Overhagen in the west.

history

The earliest traces of settlement from the Iron Age can be found in Feldhausen. In any case, the discovery of a fire pit and garbage pit suggests that. In the 12th century the "Butenhove" was mentioned in Feldhausen. The Xanten register from the 13th century lists 14 farms that can be assigned to Feldhausen. Johan von der Becke and his wife had a chapel built on site around 1460/1470. The earliest certain information is provided by the foundation deed of the Vicarie Feldhausen from 1473. After several renovations, this chapel is today the Feldhausen Church. Around 1600, the von der Becke family founded a school in Feldhausen. In 1660 the Feldhausen chapel was expanded to a church and a gallery was added. In the years 1672–1673, the Feldhausen farms suffered severe war damage as a result of French military campaigns under Louis XIV . In 1751, Baron von Wenge , who was at the time the Beck house, had the Libori Chapel built on the Lippweg , according to the plan of the master builder Johann Conrad Schlaun . In 1766, the construction of the new Beck Castle , which was completed in 1771, began according to Schlaun's plans .

In 1880 the Wanne-Eickel - Winterswijk railway line that ran through Feldhausen was opened, giving the place a railway station. In 1881 the post office was built in the village. In 1885 the church was expanded in the neo-Gothic style and in 1893 Feldhausen received its own cemetery. Until then, the deceased were buried in the Kirchhellen cemetery. In 1908 Feldhausen was raised to a parish rectorate. During the Ruhr uprising in 1921, the church suffered fire damage and a barn in the village burned down. The war memorial on Kapellenstrasse was built in 1928. The Pfarrrektorat Feldhausen was raised to an independent parish in 1938, which it remained until the parish merger with St. John the Baptist Kirchhellen and Holy Family Grafenwald in 2007.

During the Second World War, the Feldhausen volunteer fire brigade was founded on June 10, 1940.

When the war began in 1939, the Reserve Flaka Division 382 moved from Vienna-Schwechat to Feldhausen and set up its command post in Beck Castle. Flak positions were dug up as far as Dorsten and Dinslaken. On March 13, 1945, there was a bomb attack on Feldhausen train station . The explosion pressure from some bombs went to the east side of the church, the choir, and caused great damage to the collapsing masonry there. On March 29, 1945, the 134th US regiment of the 35th US Infantry Division overran the German flak position Overhagener Feld, which ended the war for the population in Feldhausen. The German 16th Panzer Regiment and the 60th Panzer Grenadier Regiment withdrew to Polsum, where the American advance was stopped by shooting down enemy tanks.

The reconstruction of the church was completed in 1951. In 1973 the community celebrated its 500th anniversary.

In 1960 the school in Feldhausen was rebuilt. In 1966 the merchant Karl Kuchenbäcker acquired the ruined Beck Castle and restored it. He built the Schloss Beck amusement park, which still exists today, on the surrounding area. In 1968 the fairy tale forest Feldhausen opened near the castle.

On July 1, 1975, Kirchhellen and thus Feldhausen were merged with the cities of Gladbeck and Bottrop (colloquially Glabotki ). By a court judgment of December 6, 1975, this merger was repealed. On July 1, 1976, Feldhausen became part of the city of Bottrop through the merger of Kirchhellens with Bottrop.

In 1978 the Traumlandpark amusement park was opened in Feldhausen . The Feldhausen fairy tale forest was previously located on the grounds of the park. This park was reopened in 1996 as Warner Brothers Movie World after being used under the name "Bavaria Film Park". Today the amusement park runs under the name " Movie Park Germany "

Attractions

Church of St. Mary of the Assumption

• The church in Feldhausen, built after Johannes Rottmann around 1460, was expanded around 1660 (with a narrow west yoke 3.5 meters long) and 1885. It bears the patronage of the Assumption of Mary (Ascensio Sanctae Mariae, August 15). The stained glass in the choir was created around 1485. Due to severe war damage, it has lost its original appearance. The reconstruction lasted from Pentecost 1950 to 1951. The ship was lengthened by 6 meters to 30 meters. The church functioned as a burial chapel for the owners of Beck Castle, at the beginning of the von der Beke family. The later expansions of the church space away from the choir increased the space available for the faithful. The church has been a listed building since 1983 due to its age and interior.
• Beck Castle (built 1766–1771)
• War memorial (built in 1928)
• Half-timbered houses around the church
• Libori chapel on Lippweg

traffic

The Feldhausen stop connects the town directly with the cities of Essen , Oberhausen , Dortmund , Dorsten and Borken via the RE 14, RB 44 and RB 43 train lines .

literature

• Series of publications by the Association for Local and Local History Kirchhellen, until 2018, 49 volumes.
• Script of the Catholic parish of St. Mariae Himmelfahrt, Feldhausen, church history, parish office, 2019.
• Johannes Rottmann: Brief history of Feldhausen as a time table
• Hans Büning / Johannes Rottmann. Christian customs in Kirchhellen , (= Issue 19 series of publications by the Association for Local and Local History in Kirchhellen), Bottrop 1989, Feldhausen pp. 7-19.
• Johannes Rottmann: Feldhausen and back. Visiting the church , in: Vestischer Kalender 61. Jg. 1990, pp. 133-134.
• Ludger Tewes : Youth at War. From Luftwaffe helpers and soldiers 1939-1945 , Essen 1989 ISBN 3-920460-49-9 .
• Ludger Tewes: Find a fighter plane from the Second World War in Kirchhellen-Feldhausen , in: Vestischer Kalender 69th year 1998, pp. 215–220.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ludger Tewes: The Second World War in the Bottrop area and the surrounding area 1943-1945 , (= Contributions to Bottrop History 8), Bottrop 1985, p. 112.
2. ↑ The Church of St. Mary of the Assumption. Kirchhellen.online, accessed on July 5, 2019 .