Gey
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Gey
community Hürtgenwald
Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 58 ″ N , 6 ° 25 ′ 8 ″ E
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| Height : | 233 m above sea level NHN |
| Area : | 11.61 km² |
| Residents : | 1825 (Dec. 31, 2019) |
| Population density : | 157 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | 1st July 1969 |
| Postal code : | 52393 |
| Area code : | 02429 |
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Gey is a district of Hürtgenwald in the Düren district in North Rhine-Westphalia .
location
Gey is located on the border with the Eifel National Park and the German-Belgian Nature Park Hohes Venn-Eifel south of Düren . The neighboring villages are Straß (Hürtgenwald) in the southeast, Großhau in the southwest and Birgel (Düren) in the northeast. The federal highway 399 ran through Gey until December 2009 , which was replaced by a bypass that has since been led around the town to the east.
history
The first Roman settlements appeared in the vicinity of today's forester's house and in the Hormer area during Roman times. The reason for this was probably the large lead and slate deposits, which formed the livelihood for many.
origin of the name
There are different interpretations of the origin of the place name:
On the one hand, there is said to have been a hunting reserve there at the time of Charlemagne, which was called "Gehagon" or "Gahagon" in Old High German. The name "Gey" should later have developed from this.
Another theory is that the name can be traced back to the Old High German “gahi” = “suddenly”, as the mountains above and below Gey drop off sharply.
The name appeared for the first time in 1387 in a jury record in which a Düren jury named Johann von der Geyen is mentioned. From 1476 the place is named in written documents "in den Geyen".
The Ardbinna stone
Today a copy of the Ardbinna stone stands rather inconspicuously near the village square. This was found in 1859 when clearing the Beybusch in the rise from today's Beytal. Since Gey still belonged to the area of the Ardennes in Roman times, the Roman Julius T. Aequalis placed him in memory of the Ardennes goddess Ardbinna , who had guided him protectively through the mountain forest. The inscription translates as “Julius T. Aequalis set this stone for the goddess Ardbinna. He was happy to fulfill the vows made with pleasure and for a fee ” . The original stone is now in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn.
In autumn 2007 the Heimat-Wander- und Verkehrsverein Gey-Straß e. V. the stone the so-called Ardbinna hiking trail, on which one can discover numerous testimonies from the past of the places Gey, Straß and Horm.
Second World War
As part of the battle in the Hürtgenwald , Gey was completely destroyed in the All Souls' Battle from November 2 to 8, 1944, most of the houses to the ground. The parish church was in ruins: there were only two posts about 1.80 to 2 m high in the large door under the rose window. The village and the surrounding area were contaminated by mines, duds and remains of ammunition. Nothing of this can be seen in Gey and the immediate vicinity today.
After the battle, many fallen soldiers lay in the village. They were rescued by the first geysers who came back from the evacuation , as well as by soldiers involved in the fighting. Most of the dead were buried in the local cemetery and after the war reburied in the Hürtgen cemetery of honor .
Jewish Cemetery
synagogue
church
Reorganization
On July 1, 1969, the formerly independent municipalities of Bergstein, Brandenberg, Gey, Großhau, Hürtgen, Kleinhau and Straß, administered by the Straß-Bergstein District Association, voluntarily merged to form the Hürtgenwald municipality. As part of the municipal reorganization (Aachen law), the municipality of Hürtgenwald was created in its current size through the incorporation of Vossenack on January 1, 1972. Until the new town hall in Kleinhau was built, the municipal administration still had its headquarters on Dürener Straße in Gey.
politics
The head of the village is Paul Bolz (as of November 2017).
nature
At the beginning of the 21st century, Gey, as a border village of the Hohes Venn-Eifel nature park, is keen to attract tourists. Nature lovers will find here a starting point for hiking trails that are still less frequented through the high forest around the forester's lodge Gey and Geyer Kreuz. At the same time, Gey is a border community of the Eifel National Park.
economy
Around 1900 the inhabitants lived mainly from agriculture and slate mining near the Wehebachtalsperre .
restructuring
In 2009, the bypass B 399n was built around Gey, which has reduced traffic congestion for the town. For this reason, there are plans to make the place more attractive in the future. For this purpose, the former route of the B 399 is to be converted into a village street.
Village car
At the beginning of 2015, a village car was introduced in Gey as one of the first car sharing offers in the country.
Personalities
- Arnold Poll (1925-2016), Roman Catholic priest
- Ansgar Graw (born 1961), journalist and publicist, grew up in Gey
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.huertgenwald.de
- ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 98 .
- ^ 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 .
- ↑ http://www.aachener-zeitung.de/lokales/dueren/gilbert-hall-ist-neuer-zweiter-buergermeister-im-huertgenwald-1.1760270
- ↑ Booking portal Gey - vehicles. Retrieved March 29, 2016 .
- ↑ How Gey got his village car: squeaky green and lots of advertising. Retrieved March 29, 2016 .
Bergstein | Brandenberg | Gey | Großhau | Hormone | Huertgen | Kleinhau | Raffelsbrand | Schafberg | Simonskall | Strass | Vossenack | Zerkall