Gohr

Gohr City of Dormagen Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 32 " N , 6 ° 43 ′ 4" E
Residents :	2189 (December 31, 2017)
Incorporation :	1st January 1975
Incorporated into:	Dormagen
Postal code :	41542
Area code :	02182

Gohr is a district of the city of Dormagen in the Rhine district of Neuss in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia with around 2200 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2017).

Geographical location

Gohr is a street village on the federal highway 477 , which runs from Neuss via Rommerskirchen into the Eifel. The village borders in the north on the Neuss district of Rosellerheide , in the east on Ückerath , in the south on Broich (both city of Dormagen) and Anstel and in the west on Widdeshoven and Hoeningen (all municipality of Rommerskirchen). Gohr is the westernmost part of the city of Dormagen and is located on a foothill of the Ville on a break edge to an old meander Rhine. It is the highest district of Dormagen and is located directly on the Knechtstedener Wald , a contiguous forest area that extends to the Cologne city area. The area around the villages of Gohr and Broich is predominantly agricultural.

history

Finds from the Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age can be proven to indicate an early settlement. Several consecration stones from the Roman period have been discovered. In the Middle Ages and in the early modern period, Gohr was a Jülich enclave in the Electoral Cologne area. The name Gohr was originally pronounced with a hard G and is derived from the word choir , which is still used today in the names Chorbusch and Chorweiler and means something like swamp settlement . In 1794 French revolutionary troops occupied the place. The commune Gohr was created, which belonged to the Mairie Nettesheim in the canton of Dormagen in the Arrondissement of Cologne . In the Prussian period, Gohr belonged to the mayor's office of Nettesheim as an independent municipality until 1870 . In 1870 the community moved to the mayor's office in Nievenheim . On January 1, 1975 it was incorporated into the city of Dormagen .

Population development

1933: 0862
1961: 1258
1964: 1341
1970: 1508
1974: 1632
1980: 2072
1983: 2171
1993: 2302
1998: 2270
2000: 2321
2004: 2247
2005: 2217
2007: 2198
2008: 2199
2009: 2204
2015: 2187
2017: 2189

politics

In the last local election in 2014, Peter-Josef Braun (CDU) won the direct mandate for the Gohr electoral district and represents the town on the Dormagen city council.

Culture and leisure

societies

Home and history association Gohr and Broich
Volunteer Fire Department Dormagen, Löschzug Gohr
Carnival society Gohrer and Broicher Turfgrafen from 1951
SuS DJK Gohr 1930
Arche Gohr, interest group groundwater Gohr (since 2001)
Gohr Music Association
St. Sebastianus Rifle Brotherhood

Celebrations and traditions

Every year in January, the Carnival Society organizes two carnival sessions and two children's sessions, which are organized by children from Gohr and Broich alone.
On Rose Monday there is a Rose Monday procession in cooperation with the Kamellezoch Broich, which is widely noticed far beyond the town.
The Schützenbruderschaft organizes the four-day shooting festival in September.

buildings

The Catholic pilgrimage church of St. Odilia was already in the 11./12. Built in the 19th century, it is one of the oldest churches in the Rhine district of Neuss . In the 1950s the church was extensively restored. In 1998/1999 the building was again restored and restored to its authentic state. In 1846 the church received a relic of St. Odilia through the mediation of the Catholic Bishop of Strasbourg.

Economy and Infrastructure

Main industries

The main branch of industry in Gohr is agriculture, in particular asparagus, strawberry and sugar beet cultivation as well as gardening. There are also some local handicraft businesses.

In addition, Gohr has a post office and bank branch, two bakeries, a restaurant, a coffee roastery with a café, a beverage shop and a general practitioner.

traffic

The federal road 477 runs through the town of Gohr, which connects the town to the A 57 motorway. Gohr is approached by both the Dormagen city bus and the BVR .

education

Catholic kindergarten St. Odilia
Primary school: Dormagen Peace School, Astrid Lindgren House
Open all-day school (OGS) "Villa Kunterbunt" at the Astrid-Lindgren-Haus

media

Westdeutsche Zeitung Düsseldorf, local editorial office in the Neuss district - regional daily newspaper, W. Girardet KG publishing house
Neuss-Grevenbroich newspaper - national daily, Neuss newspaper publisher GmbH, the Rheinische Post duly
Shop window - local advertising paper (Tuesday & Saturday), Neusser Druckerei und Verlag GmbH
Rheinischer Anzeiger - local advertising paper (Wednesday), Neusser Druckerei und Verlag GmbH
NEWS89.4 - local radio station, belonging to Neusser Druckerei und Verlag GmbH

literature

Heinz Dohmen: City of Dormagen. In: Rheinische Kunststätten. Issue 217, Neuss 1979.
Simon Kolbecher: Looking back, looking, looking ahead. 700 years of the parish of Sankt Odilia Gohr 1308–2008. Gohr 2008.
Gottfried Neuen: Pulheim through the ages. Pulheim 1966.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c social report. (PDF) City of Dormagen, December 31, 2017, p. 4 , accessed on March 31, 2019 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c 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. 294 .
^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. neuss.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
↑ District profile . (PDF) City of Dormagen, accessed on November 6, 2018 .
↑ 2014 municipal elections in the city of Dormagen - Gohr electoral district. City of Dormagen, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on November 7, 2018 .

Web links

Image of the Sanctuary of St. Odilia

[:0-1] social report. (PDF) City of Dormagen, December 31, 2017, p. 4 , accessed on March 31, 2019 .

[Gemeindeverzeichnis1970bis1982-2] 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. 294 .

[3] Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. neuss.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[4] District profile . (PDF) City of Dormagen, accessed on November 6, 2018 .

[5] 2014 municipal elections in the city of Dormagen - Gohr electoral district. City of Dormagen, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on November 7, 2018 .