Hönnepel

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Hönnepel is a district of the city of Kalkar in the Kleve district , North Rhine-Westphalia . The place had 903 inhabitants in 2018.

history

St. Regenfledis Church
House Hönnepel
Duffel mill
Kalkar wonderland
Kalkar wonderland

Originally located on an island on the Rhine, Hönnepel was first mentioned around 1100 and belonged to the Land Aspel , which in 1392 came from the Cologne archbishopric to the county of Kleve . For a while there was a branch of the Denain Abbey in Hönnepel , which sold its Hönnepel farm to the Xanten Abbey in 1240 . The Regenfledis Church became an independent parish in 1437; its current structure dates from the 15th century and was heavily rebuilt in the 19th century. Hönnepel was the seat of the Lords of Hönnepel, of whose castle little remains have been preserved.

In the nearby Reichswald and in the vicinity of today's town, the so-called battle in the Reichswald raged in spring 1945 . In this battle for the Lower Rhine, the place was badly affected.

On July 1, 1969, Hönnepel was incorporated into Kalkar.

The Kalkar nuclear power plant (SNR-300) is located near Hönnepel. Construction began in 1972, but was never connected to the grid due to massive protests. The resistance was led by Josef Maas ("Bauer Maas"), whose country had been chosen as the location for the breeder reactor. Today the area is used as the Wunderland Kalkar amusement park .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ City portrait. City of Kalkar, accessed October 27, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 79 .

literature

  • Hans Peter Hilger: The monuments of the Rhineland , 1954.
  • Robert Scholten : The story of Hönnepel and Niedermörmter . In: Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine , 1891.
  • Gregor Hövelmann : West Franconian monastery property on the lower Lower Rhine . In: Gaesdoncker Blätter , 1963.
  • Werner Völling (headmaster in Hönnepel 1956–1968): From the history of Hönnepel , 1966.

Web links

Commons : Hönnepel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 45 ′ 17 ″  N , 6 ° 19 ′ 51 ″  E