Geneiken

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Geneiken
City of Erkelenz
Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 0 ″  N , 6 ° 16 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : approx. 80 m
Residents : 286  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation : January 1, 1972
Postal code : 41812
Area code : 02431
Geneiken (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Geneiken

Location of Geneiken in North Rhine-Westphalia

The village of Geneiken is a district of the city of Erkelenz in the district of Heinsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia . Gendyk and the Dyker Hof also belong to the place.

location

Geneiken is on the Schwanenberg - Tüschenbroich road . To the north of the village lies the municipal boundary with the city of Wegberg . Dyker Hof is on the eastern side of the village.

To the north of the village, the Tüschenbroich forest and the headwaters of the Schwalm begin in the Erkelenz area .

history

Geneiken is a street village . In a document from 1561 the place is named pleasant Eicken . The place name means "settlement on the oaks".

The village belonged to the Wassenberg office in the Duchy of Jülich and the Tüschenbroich dominion.

The Dycker Hof also belonged to the Tüschenbroich glory as a feudal estate . Located south of the village, it formed a closed, rectangular defense system with a residential house, barns and stables and with its old closed defense tower ( Berfes ). “In October 1794 the French revolutionary army occupied the Erkelenzer Land. Under her direction, the nobility was expropriated and all privileges were revoked. Therefore, around 1798 of Dyckerhoff AG is buying the Barons of Spiering to his former Halfen have passed Peter II. Gackels so that his descendants (descendants) landlords and not hereditary tenants were. "

“The village of Geneiken is 3.8 km south of Wegberg on the municipal road from Tüschenbroich to Grambusch-Schwanenberg. It counts 47 households, 47 inhabited, 12 uninhabited houses and 104 male, 109 female, altogether 213 inhabitants, half of whom belong to the Catholic and Protestant denominations. When the number of Protestant school children from Geneiken and Genfeld had reached 48 and the Schwanenberg school they had previously attended was no longer sufficient to accept them, the royal government in Aachen demanded the establishment of a new Protestant school in Geneiken by order of January 13, 1857. Despite the fact that the community refused, they had to temporarily accommodate the school in a rented room from Easter 1858 until a school hall was built. Seeing the useless further resistance, the municipal council then decided on July 12, 1858 to take out a loan of 2300 thalers. to build a new school, which was built in 1860. The number of Protestant school children is constantly falling, today it is only 17. An application by the local community to unite the Protestant school in Geneiken with the schools of the Schwanenberg community into a joint school association was unfortunately rejected in 1909, but Schwanenberg declared itself to be full Incorporation of the places Geneiken and Genfeld ready, which Wegberg could not go into. "

According to the “Resident Address Book for the Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg and Erkelenz Districts” of 1935, Geneiken had 266 residents in 1935; In this address book, teacher Otto Fischer, who also managed the post office in the village, is named as the head of the Protestant elementary school in Geneiken. In this address book all adult or working residents of Geneiken (status 1935) are listed with job details and exact address (so you can see, among other things, that in addition to the numerous farmers at that time there were some self-employed in the village - e.g. cattle dealers, coffee dealers, egg dealers , Butter merchants, landowners [Dieker Hof] etc.).

On January 1, 1972, Geneiken was separated from the community of Wegberg and incorporated into the city of Erkelenz.

religion

The population is partly Protestant , partly Catholic , ecclesiastically the place belongs to the Protestant community of Schwanenberg and the Catholic parish of Tüschenbroich.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Update of the population on December 31, 2016 (PDF). (No longer available online.) In: Website of the city of Erkelenz. Archived from the original on January 25, 2017 ; Retrieved January 25, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.erkelenz.de
  2. ↑ H. Joachim ENGELS, Der Dyckerhof bei Geneiken 1550-1850, in: Heimatkalender der Erkelenzer Lande 1955, S. 60f.
  3. ^ History of the community of Wegberg based on documentary material edited by Adolf Vollmer, mayor of Wegberg, together with an appendix containing the local statutory and local police regulations, Cologne 1912. Printed and published by Th. Quo
  4. ↑ http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Kreis_Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg_und_Erkelenz/Adressbuch_1935 , especially pp. 389–390
  5. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 307 .
  6. ↑ http://evkg-schwanenberg.de/

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