Grafenwald (Bottrop)

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Grafenwald
City of Bottrop
Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 30 ″  N , 6 ° 53 ′ 46 ″  E
Height : 60 m
Area : 16.5 km²
Residents : 5707  (Dec. 31, 2017)
Population density : 346 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 46244
Area code : 02045
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Location of Grafenwald in Bottrop
Aerial view of Grafenwald
Aerial view of Grafenwald

Grafenwald is a district of the Kirchhellen district in Bottrop in North Rhine-Westphalia with around 5700 inhabitants.

history

Grafenwald received the first documentary mention in 1163 with the mention of the Deffte farm located there . A Cistercian convent was inaugurated here around 1240, which accommodated up to 25 nuns, but was abandoned seven years later. The exact location of the plant was at a “Marienbach”, but it can no longer be precisely determined today. Later, the mostly forested area belonged to the lands of the Count of Merfeldt zu Lembeck. In loan letters from the years 1733 and 1805, the area is referred to exclusively as "Vosses or Junkeren Sondern". The name "Grafenwald" appears for the first time in an announcement from 1825. Finally, the area became part of the Kirchhellen parish and was part of Vest Recklinghausen. In the time of Napoleon Kirchhellen was a Mairie , later a rural community in the Recklinghausen district.

Around 1825 the place name Grafenwald appears on maps. It was not until 1960 that Grafenwald was mentioned as a district in Kirchhellen's population registers. Grafenwald was previously part of the Holthausen district. During the Second World War there was a double battery of the Luftwaffe flak in Grafenwald with a particularly far-reaching radar device, which oriented the entire area of ​​the associated flak regiment, which occupied the western northern edge of the Ruhr area.

On January 1, 1975, the municipality of Kirchhellen was incorporated into Bottrop next to the city of Gladbeck ( Glabotki ). On December 6th of the same year, this incorporation was legally repealed. Finally, Kirchhellen - and with it Grafenwald - became part of Bottrop on July 1, 1976 through a territorial change agreement between the city of Bottrop and the municipality of Kirchhellen.

Churches

There is both a Catholic (Holy Family) and an Evangelical (Evangelical Community Center Grafenwald) community in Grafenwald. The previously independent parish "Holy Family" was merged on January 1st, 2007 with the St. Johannes Church in Kirchhellen-Mitte and the Church of the Assumption of Mary in Feldhausen to form the new parish of St. Johannes. The last pastor in Grafenwald was Bernhard Fögeling (born in 1932, ordained priest in 1959, pastor from 1967 to 2006, died on May 24, 2019).

economy

1959/60 in the course of the north migration of the mining in Grafenwald with Prosper IV the first colliery in the Kirchhellen area was built.

In 2004, the Grafenwald industrial park with 17 lots was built in the Hegestrasse industrial estate. Companies from a wide variety of industrial and commercial sectors have settled here. A branch mix of manufacturing companies, creative workshops and service companies has emerged on the approximately 1.35 hectare area.

literature

  • Johannes Rottmann: Everything about Grafenwald. In: Series of publications by the Association for Orts- und Heimatkunde Kirchhellen, Volume 5, 1976
  • Elke Dißelbeck-Tewes: The foundation of a medieval women's convent, Sterkrade / Oberhausen district. In: Das Münster am Hellweg 41, 1988, pp. 54–63.
  • Elke Dißelbeck-Tewes: From the order of the Cistercian women: A medieval women's monastery in Kirchhellen in 1240. In: Vestischer Kalender 60th Jg., Recklinghausen 1989, pp. 207-209.
  • Ludger Tewes : Youth at War. From Luftwaffe helpers and soldiers 1939-1945 , Verlag Reimar Hobbing Essen 1989. ISBN 3-920460-49-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistical Yearbook 2017. (PDF) Stadt Bottrop, p. 44 , accessed on July 3, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Elke Dißelbeck-Tewes, Medieval women's monasteries between Lippe and Ruhr, from: Forgotten times. Middle Ages in the Ruhr Area , Vol. 2, ed. v. Ferdinand Seibt, Ludger Tewes, a. a., Verlag Peter Pomp, ISBN 3-89355-052-6 , Essen 1990, pp. 153-156.
  3. ^ Community administration Kirchhellen (ed.): Address book 1958 of the community Kirchhellen . W. Bitter, Recklinghausen, 1957.
  4. ^ Ludger Tewes, anti-aircraft cartillery and radio measurement technology (radar) in the Second World War in Bottrop-Grafenwald , in: Vestische Zeitschrift 1985/86, pp. 381-414.
  5. ↑ 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. 311 .
  6. ↑ Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung Essen, editorial section Bottrop-Kirchhellen from May 25, 2019
  7. ↑ Johannes Rottmann: Everything about Grafenwald . In: Association for Orts- und Heimatkunde Kirchhellen (Hrsg.): Series of publications of the Association for Orts- und Heimatkunde Kirchhellen . No. 5 , 1976.

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