Hager (Munster)
The peasantry Haeger is a district of Münster district Nienberge . Häger is about 9 km as the crow flies from Münster city center in a north-west direction, or 3 km north of the center of Nienberge, around the Münster-Häger stop of the Euregio-Bahn Münster - Steinfurt - Gronau - Enschede . In 2005 around 1200 people lived in Häger.
History of the Häger farmers
The name Häger is probably derived from the word Hagen , the name for a long wall. It is unclear why the village was named that way. According to one interpretation, the Farwick zum Hagen farm was the original farm and namesake of the farmers; According to a further interpretation, the name results from the fact that Häger was the place behind (seen from Münster) or in front of (seen from Greven ) the Hagen. Or else the Kotten Häger was surrounded by a wide wooden belt that formed a wall (Hagen).
The Häger farmers were first mentioned in a document around 1200. It arose from the Schmidthaus, Vorberg, Relau, Issingholt and Langenhorst farms. Settlement groups formed around these courtyards, which together gave rise to the Häger farmers.
In 1872 the construction of a railway from Münster to Enschede began. However, Häger did not receive a stopping point, but only a "guard shack" (the guard shack 7). It was not until 1878 that Häger got his break on the initiative of some farmers and landowners who wanted to bring their products to the weekly market in Münster. In 1903 a goods loading point was added to the stop. A photo from the 1920s shows a now demolished “Nienberge station” with a waiting and signal box and eight employees in front of it.
The farmers in Häger received a primary school in 1899. In 1961, it was converted into a tenement house (today Hanseller Str. 100) and replaced by a new school on Plantstaken street, which was later rededicated as today's kindergarten. Since then, von Häger's primary school students have been attending the Nienberg primary school again.
The construction of the A1 in the 1960s cut through the easternmost part of the peasantry. Some farms had to give way to the motorway and the settlement group around Hof Relau has since been separated from the rest of Häger by the A1 and is no longer perceived as part of the peasantry.
In the 1970s, a new housing estate was built here, which significantly increased the population. Since then, a number of new buildings have been added to the existing buildings.
Infrastructure
Häger is connected to the city center and the North Center by the above-mentioned railway line (every hour or every half hour in the afternoon). The clock connection has been improved in recent years after the restart in 2001 of the Gronau – Enschede section, which was closed in 1981. In September 2006, the breakpoint itself was also expanded. A bus line runs between Häger and Nienberge (and further to the city center) twice a day and approximately five times a day to Borghorst via Altenberge and Nordwalde . There is a special school bus connection to the Nienberg elementary school. For cyclists, Häger is connected to the city by the Gasselstiege , a small, asphalted but traffic-reduced road in the city area that turns into a forest path over the last few kilometers before Häger.
There is also a kindergarten , a day care center , an agricultural trade, a sawmill, a volunteer fire brigade , a football field and two rifle clubs .
What is no longer available here:
- a beverage market (was closed and is only used as a beverage store)
- a primary school (was converted into a residential building in the 1960s)
- a pub ("Gasthaus Neumann" was closed in 2003, demolished in 2005)
- a small grocery store (closed in 1996)
- acute plans to build a new building area with hundreds of residential units here: the planning is no longer entered in the zoning plan of the city of Münster.
Häger is separated from Nienberge by the Vorbergshügel (height: 99.4 m), i.e. by the beginning of the Altenberg ridge .
Origins of the street names in Häger
The main street from Häger is Hägerstrasse, which merges into Hanseller Strasse, i.e. the road to Hansell , north of the level crossing . Schmitthausweg, Hölkenbusch, Leiferdingweg, Wellingweg and Langenhorster Stiege are named after the farms or estates there, Lütke Ladbergen after a family from Ladbergen who settled there, the Plantstaken after a family from Münster who owned the Plantstakenbusch in Häger. The street Grienkenswell is out of the ordinary here: While “well” means source, “Grienken” refers to the legendary “ Grinkenschmied ”, a mostly good-natured giant who is on the edge of Häger at the “Grienkenswell” slope of the Mühlenberg or at nearby Rösteberg is said to have lived.
literature
- Karl Moritz (Hrsg.): Chronicle of Nienberge . Publishing house of the Heimatverein Nienberge, 1983.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ N , 7 ° 34 ′ E