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City of Wesel
Coat of arms from Flüren
Coordinates: 51 ° 40 ′ 51 ″  N , 6 ° 34 ′ 14 ″  E
Height : 25 m above sea level NN
Area : 9.15 km²
Residents : 4792  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 524 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st July 1969
Postal code : 46487
Area code : 0281

Flüren is a district of the Hanseatic city of Wesel on the Lower Rhine. On December 31, 2019, Flüren had 4,792 residents (main and secondary residence).

Geographical location

Flüren is located 2.3 km north of the Rhine and 4.3 km northwest of Wesel city center. It is located between the Feldmark in the east, Blumenkamp in the northeast, Diersfordt in the northwest and Bislich in the west, all of which belong to Wesel. The Leygraben flows south-east past the village , beyond it lies the Auesee , and a little to the south-west extends the Flürener Old Rhine, which is fed by the Leygraben and flows into the Rhine . The nature reserve Weseler Aue and Leygraben near Flüren is located between Flüren and the Auesee .

history

Flüren lies in the presumed area of ​​the Lippeham settlement, which was abandoned in the 9th century, at the mouth of the Lippe into the Rhine . It is from here that Emperor Charlemagne is said to have launched campaigns against Saxons and Danes around 800 . In the 80s a Roman camp was found in the area between Flüren and Bislich on the Old Rhine . However, after a short emergency excavation, this fell victim to gravel dredging .

Around 1300 the place Flüren was first mentioned as " Vlorne ". In 1417 , Duke Adolf von Kleve had a monastery built on the Gravinsel, which is part of the municipality , which was later to house his burial site. Only two years later, on February 2, 1419, did he donate the monastery to the Carthusian Order , which only agreed to take over the monastery by increasing the amount of the foundation from 10,000 to 15,000 gold shields (scuta aurea). In the letter of foundation, the naming of the island as “insula reginae caeli” (German: “Our women's ward” ) was specified. During the Eighty Years' War the island was occupied several times and the monastery was badly damaged; In 1590 it was finally torn down by citizens of Wesel for strategic reasons. After a short stay in Wesel, the Carthusians found refuge in Xanten , where they established the Xanten Charterhouse .

At the end of the 18th century, Flüren had just 83 inhabitants on an area of ​​892 hectares. After secularization in 1802, the last Carthusians moved from Xanten, which at that time belonged to France, to the " Wardtmannshaus " on the Gravinsel, which still belonged to Prussia , where the last member of the Carthusian monastery died in 1835.

In the middle of the 19th century, besides agriculture, work in the brickworks became the main occupation for many Flüren citizens. Around 1900 two denominational schools were founded in Flüren and a prayer room was set up in the Protestant school for the Protestant community. Lively construction activity began as early as the mid-1950s. In 1957 the Catholic Church of St. Mary and in 1965 the Evangelical Church of Christ was consecrated.

In the course of the first municipal reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia on July 1, 1969, the municipality of Flüren , which at that time had 919 hectares and 3973 inhabitants and belonged to the Ringenberg district, was incorporated into the city of Wesel.

Tourism and leisure

In the summer months, the Grav-Insel campsite and the Auesee in particular attract tourists to Flüren.

The sports club BSV Grün-Weiß Flüren based in Flüren comprises the four departments of football, athletics, table tennis and gymnastics. His home is the Waldstadion on the outskirts of Flüren, which is also the starting point of the Flüren half marathon , which has been held since 1976 . With the TC Blau-Weiß Wesel-Flüren there is also a tennis club in town, whose men's 30 team played in the 1st Bundesliga for one year.

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population figures on wesel.de
  2. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 104 .

Web links

  • Corridors , with information on local history, on wesel.de