Großwehrhagen

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Großwehrhagen
Selfkant municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 16 ″  N , 5 ° 57 ′ 12 ″  E
Height : 54  (52-54)  m
Residents : 137  (Jun. 30, 2016)
Postal code : 52538
Area code : 02456
map
Location of Großwehrhagen in Selfkant
Map of the municipality of Selfkant
Map of the municipality of Selfkant
chapel
Wayside cross
information sign
Place-name sign
Listed courtyard
Großwehrhagen on the new recording from 1912
Großwehrhagen on the original cadastral map from 1846
Großwehrhagen on the Tranchot map 1803–1820

Großwehrhagen is a small village in the municipality of Selfkant in the district of Heinsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia in the far west of Germany .

geography

location

Großwehrhagen is located in the eastern part of the municipality of Selfkant on the former transit road, state road 410 , which leads from Koningsbosch to Brunssum.

Waters

In heavy rain and when snowmelts , the surface water flows from the Großwehrhagen area over the Saeffeler Bach into the Rodebach (GEWKZ 281822) and then further into the Maas . The Rodebach has a length of 28.918 km with a total catchment area of ​​173.385 km².

Neighboring places

Heilder Saeffelen Broichhoven
Höngen Neighboring communities Schümm
Tüddern Süsterseel Kleinwehrhagen

Type of settlement

Großwehrhagen is a loosely built hamlet .

history

Place name

  • 1313 Dwerhagen
  • 1476 Twerhagen
  • 1522 Weirhagen
  • 1570 Dwerhagen
  • 1846 Großwehrhagen

Local history

Großwehrhagen belonged to the Jülich office of Millen. A definite differentiation from Kleinwehrhagen is only possible from the 16th century. A court in Weirhagen has been published since 1476 as a fief the man chamber Heinsberg, a little later than other likely fief of the man chamber Millen. The place belonged to the parish of Höngen.

Großwehrhagen had a total of 149 inhabitants in 1828 and, together with Biesen, Dieck and Kleinwehrhagen, formed the municipality of Höngen, which belonged to the Selfkant district.

From April 23, 1949 to July 31, 1963, the Selfkant and thus also the municipality of Höngen with Großwehrhagen were under Dutch contract management. The repatriation took place on August 1, 1963 after payment of 280 million D-Marks .

With the law on the reorganization of municipalities in the Selfkantkreis Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg of June 24, 1969, the following change of area came into force on July 1, 1969.

§ 1 (1) The municipalities of Havert, Hillensberg , Höngen , Millen , Süsterseel , Tüddern , Wehr (Selfkant office) and the Saeffelen municipality (Waldfeucht office) will be merged to form a new municipal municipality. The community is given the name Selfkant.

§ 1 (2) The Office Selfkant is dissolved. The legal successor is the municipality of Selfkant.

Church history

The parish of St. Lambertus Höngen was an independent parish with Bruch, Groß- and Kleinwehrhagen. The majority of the population consists of Catholics . Already at the turn of the millennium there was a chapel in Höngen that was under the control of the Gangelt parish. In 1227 Höngen received the right to a parish church. The present church was consecrated in 1952 after it was destroyed by the war.

There is a small chapel in the village . It is dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The chapel dates from 1883. Inside there is a rococo altar from an already demolished church. The only bell in this church hangs in the chapel and is still rung today, but only when someone from the village has died. If you want to see the chapel from the inside, you have to visit it on Sunday, because only then is it open all day.

In the course of the parish reforms in the Diocese of Aachen, the formerly independent Catholic parish of St. Lambertus Höngen was incorporated into the Community of Parishes (GdG) St. Servatius Selfkant .

politics

According to § 3 (1) of the main statute of the Selfkant municipality, the municipality is divided into localities. Großwehrhagen forms a locality with Höngen and is represented by a local mayor in the municipal council according to Section 3 (2) . Ruth Deckers is the head of the village of Höngen. (Stand 2013)

Infrastructure

Attractions

societies

Regular events

  • Birdshot of the brotherhood in Höngen
  • Patronage festival and fair in Höngen

traffic

Motorway connection

BAB Route section Junction distance
A 46 Heinsberg - Düsseldorf AS Heinsberg 15 km
A 44 Aachen - Mönchengladbach AS Aldenhoven 30 km
A 4 Aachen - Cologne AS Weisweiler 40 km

Rail connection

From Geilenkirchen train station (approx. 15 km away)

line Line designation Line course
RE 4 Wupper Express Aachen - Mönchengladbach - Düsseldorf - Dortmund
RB 33 Rhine-Niers Railway Aachen - Mönchengladbach - Krefeld - Duisburg
RB 20 Euregiobahn Aachen - Geilenkirchen

Street names

Kapellenstrasse, Kreisstrasse, Schützenpfad

literature

  • Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen. 3. Edition. Kühlen, Mönchengladbach 1994, ISBN 3-87448-172-7 , pp. 687-690
  • Leo Gillessen: The localities of the district of Heinsberg , ISBN 3-925620-13-3 , p. 244
  • Leo Gillessen: On place names and settlement studies of the southern Selfkant district , in: Heimatkalender 1971, pp. 41–50
  • Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province . Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830

Web links

Commons : Großwehrhagen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German basic map 1: 5000
  2. ↑ http://www.selfkant.de/component/content/article/80-buergerservice/93-zahlen-ffekten.html
  3. ↑ http://www.lanuv.nrw.de/fileadmin/lanuv/wasser/pdf/Gewaesserverzeichnis%20GSK3C.xls
  4. ^ Area directory ( Memento from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ http://www.aachener-zeitung.de/lokales/heinsberg/1-august-ist-ein-markanter-tag-fuer-den-selfkant-1.509059#857515890
  6. ↑ https://recht.nrw.de/lmi/owa/br_bes_text?print=1&anw_nr=2&gld_nr=%202&ugl_nr=2020&val=4036&ver=0&sg=0&menu=1&aufgehoben=N&keyword=&bes_id=4036
  7. ↑ St. Lambertus, Höngen ( Memento from July 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive )