Hünxe
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Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ' N , 6 ° 46' E |
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| State : | North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Administrative region : | Dusseldorf | |
| Circle : | Wesel | |
| Height : | 35 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 106.86 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 13,598 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 127 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 46569 | |
| Primaries : | 02858, 02064, 0281, 02853, 02855, 02856 | |
| License plate : | WES, DIN, MO | |
| Community key : | 05 1 70 016 | |
| LOCODE : | DE HXE | |
| Community structure: | 6 districts | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Dorstener Strasse 24 46569 Hünxe |
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| Mayor : | Dirk Buschmann ( non-party ) | |
| Location of the community of Hünxe in the Wesel district | ||
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The municipality Hünxe is located on the lip in the northwest of the Ruhr area in North Rhine-Westphalia and is a kreisangehorige community of Wesel in the administrative district of Dusseldorf . It is a member of the Euregio Rhine-Waal .
geography
Spatial location
The community of Hünxe is about 10 km east of Wesel , 9 km north of Dinslaken , and 14 km northwest of Bottrop. Most of the municipality belongs to the Hohe Mark Nature Park , in the west of which there is also the Rabbit Mountains Nature Reserve . Both the Lippe and the Wesel-Datteln-Canal cross the municipality for around 12 km each.
Municipal area
The community of Hünxe has a total area of 106.80 km². It is divided into the six districts of Hünxe (5314 inhabitants), Bruckhausen (4040 inhabitants), Bucholtwelmen (474 inhabitants), Drevenack (3350 inhabitants), Gartrop-Bühl (679 inhabitants) and Krudenburg (305 inhabitants).
Neighboring municipalities / cities
| City of Hamminkeln | Schermbeck community | |
| City of Wesel |
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| City of Voerde | City of Dinslaken | City of Bottrop |
history
Hünxe was first mentioned in a document in 1092 under the name " de Hungese ".
Regional reform in 1975
On January 1, 1975, as part of the second reorganization program, the previously independent municipalities Gartrop-Bühl and Hünxe of the former Gahlen office (based in Hünxe) in the former Dinslaken district and the Drevenack and Krudenburg municipalities of the former Schermbeck office in the former Rees district became the new ones Hünxe community merged.
At the same time, essential parts of the former districts of Dinslaken , Moers and Rees were merged with parts of the districts of Borken and Recklinghausen to form the new Wesel district. Since then, Hünxe has been a municipality in the Wesel district.
Arson attack in 1991
On the night of October 2nd to 3rd, 1991 there was an arson attack on the asylum seekers' home in Hünxe. After a party, three teenagers threw incendiary devices into the apartment of a Lebanese family, where their eight-year-old daughter Zeinab was particularly badly hit. For a long time she had to be treated in a special clinic in Hamburg . The offenders were sentenced to imprisonment by the Duisburg Regional Court . One of the perpetrators took his own life after the crime.
politics
Municipal council
Dirk Buschmann has been the full-time mayor of the municipality of Hünxe since October 21, 2015 .
According to the results of the 2014 local elections, the 26 seats in the municipal council are distributed among the individual parties , constituencies and individual applicants :
Political party |
Seats
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| Christian Democratic Union |
9
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| Social Democratic Party of Germany |
8th
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| Committed citizens of Hünxe |
3
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| Alliance 90 / The Greens |
2
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| Free Democratic Party |
1
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| Independent voter community Hünxe |
2
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| Schüring ( independent ) |
1
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Coat of arms, banner, flag and logo
The municipality of Hünxe was granted the right to use a coat of arms, a seal, a banner and a flag in a certificate from the District President in Düsseldorf dated June 9, 1976. The community also uses a logo.
coat of arms
Coat of arms of the former municipality of Drevenack
Coat of arms of the former Gartrop-Bühl community
Coat of arms of the former office of Gahlen
banner
flag
logo
Blazon : “In the divided shield at the top in blue a lying left-facing golden (yellow) arrow, elevated by an eight-pointed golden (yellow) star; below in red half a silver (white) label on the dividing line, overlaid with half a golden (yellow) lily reel. "
In its upper half, the shield of the coat of arms combines the attributes of the holy figures of the late medieval aldermen's seals of the communities of Hünxe and Drevenack. The Hünxer Schöffensiegel from 1456 shows the seated figure of Saint Suitbertus in the bishop's robe, in the left a bishop's staff, in the right a star with eight rays. Drevenack's jury seal shows the bust of St. Sebastianus with a bow and arrow on the divided shield above. Instead of the figures of the saints, their attributes are included in the coat of arms. The eight-pointed star symbolizes Saint Suitbertus and the arrow Saint Sebastianus. The two saints are the patrons of the parish churches of Hünxe and Drevenack. The lower half of the shield contains half of the old Klevian coat of arms and is also modeled on the previous official coat of arms of the Gahlen office and the previous coat of arms of the Drevenack community.
Banner: red-yellow-red in a ratio of 1: 4: 1 striped lengthways with the coat of arms of the municipality in the first third on the yellow track.
Hoisted flag: red-yellow-red in a ratio of 1: 4: 1 striped lengthways (this means cross-striped) with the community's coat of arms on the yellow track, which is shifted towards the pole.
Culture and sights
- Evangelical Church Hünxe
- Otto Pankok Museum in the Esselt house
- Local museum
- Gartrop Castle
- Ruhrpott Rodeo , one of the largest punk rock music festivals in Germany, takes place every year in midsummer
Ev. church
town hall
Local history museum "Old Mountain School"
Marketplace
Lock on the Wesel-Datteln Canal
The lip at Hünxe-Krudenburg
The landscape in the north of the municipality
In the listed village center of Krudenburg
Transport infrastructure
The Hamburg-Venloer Bahn ran through Hünxe-Drevenack and had a train station in Drevenack .
Today Huenxe is in rail transport from the northern municipal area to the station Wesel and from the southeastern municipality to the station Dinslaken connected. Both train stations can be reached by road with the express bus line SB 3 from Wesel via Hünxe to Dinslaken , Dinslaken train station with route 71 and Wesel train station with express bus route SB 21 from Wesel via Hünxe to Schermbeck. The tariff of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR) applies to all local public transport and the NRW tariff applies to all tariff areas .
Hünxe is connected to the trunk road network by the A 3 ( E 35 ) and the B 58 . The Hünxe motorway service station is on the A3.
The Dinslaken / Schwarze Heide airfield is also within the municipality .
Regular events
The Rock and Bike Festival in Hünxe has existed since 2003. This is organized by "Freeway" Verein zur Kulturförderung Niederrhein e. V. In addition to a large biker meeting and the dealer mile, a two-day music program takes place on a stage. A band contest for young musicians is also part of the party.
From 2007 to 2011, a death metal festival called Death Feast Open Air took place on the meadows surrounding the Schwarze Heide airfield . The organizer was the Blast Corpse Promotion . Famous bands from the death metal and grindcore scene, such as Krisiun , Napalm Death and Aborted , performed. With around 1000 visitors, the festival was not very well attended (5000 would have had space), but in 2008 the influx of visitors rose sharply, and even a second campsite had to be opened. In 2009 the DFOA took place again in Hünxe. In 2010 the DFOA 2000 welcomed visitors.
Since 2008 there has been a punk rock festival called Ruhrpott Rodeo every year at Whitsun on the surrounding meadows of the Dinslaken / Schwarze Heide airfield. Every year punk rock bands from home and abroad perform there. WIZO , SLIME , Bad Religion , Millencolin , Turbonegro and Die Kassierer have played there so far . The Ruhrpott Rodeo saw a sharp increase in visitors in 2010, with 7500 visitors this year.
Personalities
Born in Hünxe
- Heinrich Niem (1906–1944), politician (NSDAP)
- Reimar Gilsenbach (1925–2001), writer, environmental and human rights activist
- Gabriele Cirener (* 1966), judge at the German Federal Court of Justice
Associated with Hünxe
- Erich Bockemühl (1885–1968), teacher and organist in Drevenack
- Alfred Grimm (* 1943), object artist, painter and draftsman from Bruckhausen
- Johann Heinrich Christian Nonne (1785–1853), poet, theologian and 1808–1815 pastor in Drevenack
- August Oppenberg (1896–1971), painter, lived in Drevenack during the Second World War
- Hulda Pankok (1895–1985), journalist and publisher, married to Otto Pankok
- Otto Pankok (1893–1966), painter, graphic artist and sculptor (Pankok Museum in Drevenack)
- Jessica Kürten (* 1969 in Cullybackey, Northern Ireland), show jumper with international success
- Esther Stahl (* 1980), national volleyball player, Bundesliga volleyball player at Alemannia Aachen
- Linda Dallmann (* 1994), player in the Bundesliga soccer club SC Essen-Schönebeck, multiple youth national player
- Ernst Arnolds (1910–1981), pastor (1937–1977) and superintendent in Hünxe, founder of the "Evgl. Kirchenchor" in Hünxe, founder of the "Evgl. Frauenhilfe" in Hünxe, holder of the "Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany "(December 9, 1975)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 . ( Help on this )
- ↑ Hünxe.de with population statistics reference date December 31, 2016
- ^ 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. 292 .
- ↑ The Hünxe arson attack 20 years ago
- ↑ 20th anniversary of the Hünxe arson attack: A lot happened on September 30, 2011
- ↑ Committed Citizens Hünxe
- ↑ Main Statute ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 32 kB) of the municipality of Hünxe, § 2, paragraph 1 (offline)
- ↑ Brochure for new citizens ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the community of Hünxe, p. 7 (offline)
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 32 kB) Main statutes of the municipality of Hünxe, § 2, paragraph 3 (offline)
Web links
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