Groin

Groin City of Rees
	Coordinates: 51 ° 46 ′ 37 ″ N , 6 ° 25 ′ 1 ″ E
Area :	2.9 km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1975
Postal code :	46459
Area code :	02851
Location of Groin in North Rhine-Westphalia

Groin is a district of the city of Rees in the Kleve district in North Rhine-Westphalia . Until 1974 Groin was an independent municipality in what was then Rees County .

geography

Groin is located northeast of the Rees core city. In Groin, there are loose buildings on both sides of Groiner Allee and a large part of the commercial area on Empeler Straße and Melatenweg. The former municipality of Groin had an area of 2.9 km².

history

The former manor house Groin today

The nucleus of Groin was the Groin House , an old manor . Groin formed a rural community in the mayor's office of Haldern (from 1928 Amt Haldern ) in the Rees district in the Düsseldorf administrative district since the 19th century . From November 1944 to March 23, 1945, there was a notorious forced labor camp on Melatenweg in Groin .

On January 1, 1975, Groin was incorporated into the city of Rees by the Lower Rhine Act .

Population development

year	Residents	source
1832	143
1861	179
1871	149
1885	132
1910	180
1925	184
1939	168
1971	166

Culture

The local rifle club Rees-Feldmark, Groin and Bergswick is responsible for local customs .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Community dictionary of the Rhine Province 1930
↑ See the list of mayors of Rees , there: 1889–1900 Honorary Mayor of Holland, based in Groin
^ ^A ^b Otto von Mülmann : Statistics of the government district of Düsseldorf. 1865, Retrieved May 5, 2019 .
^ Johann Georg von Viebahn: Statistics and topography of the government district of Düsseldorf. 1836, accessed on May 5, 2019 (digitized version).
↑ 1871 census
↑ Community encyclopedia for the Rhine Province 1885
↑ Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on February 2, 2017 .
^ ^A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. rees.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[g1930-1] Community dictionary of the Rhine Province 1930

[2] See the list of mayors of Rees , there: 1889–1900 Honorary Mayor of Holland, based in Groin

[mulmann-3] A ^b Otto von Mülmann : Statistics of the government district of Düsseldorf. 1865, Retrieved May 5, 2019 .

[viebahn-4] Johann Georg von Viebahn: Statistics and topography of the government district of Düsseldorf. 1836, accessed on May 5, 2019 (digitized version).

[5] 1871 census

[6] Community encyclopedia for the Rhine Province 1885

[7] Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on February 2, 2017 .

[demand-8] A ^b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. rees.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).