Hamminkeln

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Hamminkeln
Map of Germany, location of the city of Hamminkeln highlighted

Coordinates: 51 ° 44 '  N , 6 ° 35'  E

Basic data
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Dusseldorf
Circle : Wesel
Height : 21 m above sea level NHN
Area : 164.53 km 2
Residents: 26,858 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 163 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 46499
Primaries : 02852, 0281, 02850, 02856, 02857, 02865, 02871, 02872, 02873
License plate : WES, DIN, MO
Community key : 05 1 70 012
City structure: 7 districts

City administration address :
Brüner Strasse 9
46493 Hamminkeln
Website : www.hamminkeln.de
Mayor : Bernd Romanski ( SPD )
Location of the city of Hamminkeln in the Wesel district
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The city of Hamminkeln is located on the Lower Rhine in the northwest of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and is a central city in the Wesel district in the administrative district of Düsseldorf . It is the youngest and with 164.54 km² also the largest city in the Wesel district (28th place in North Rhine-Westphalia).

It is a member of the Euregio Rhine-Waal and is the responsibility of the Rhineland Regional Association and the Ruhr Regional Association .

geography

Spatial location

Hamminkeln is located between Bocholt in the north (approx. 15 kilometers) and Wesel in the south (approx. 10 km). The Issel flows from Raesfeld coming the city area up to the city limits Wesel to thence north-west running in Wertherbruch the urban area of Isselburg exit. The Rhine is about 12 km west of the Hamminkeln district. It's about 16 km from Hamminkeln to the Dutch border. Around two thirds of the urban area is in the Hohe Mark-Westmünsterland Nature Park . The nature reserve Diersfordter Forst / Großes Veen lies on the city limits to Wesel .

City structure

Districts of Hamminkeln

The city of Hamminkeln is divided into seven districts, of which the districts of Hamminkeln (approx. 6700 inhabitants) and Ringenberg (approx. 1800 inhabitants) form the geographical center of the urban area. Further settlement focuses are the districts of Dingden (approx. 7100 inhabitants) and Mehrhoog (approx. 6300 inhabitants). The remaining districts are Brünen (approx. 4,100 inhabitants), Marienthal (approx. 600 inhabitants), Loikum (approx. 800 inhabitants) and Wertherbruch (approx. 1050 inhabitants).

Neighboring municipalities / cities

City of Isselburg
( Borken district )
City of Bocholt ,
Borken district
City of Rhede
( Borken district )
City of Rees
( Kleve district )
Wind rose small.svg Raesfeld community
( Borken district ),
Schermbeck community
( Wesel district )
City of Wesel
( Wesel district )
Hünxe community
( Wesel district )

history

Antiquity

The Hamminkelner Issel was already considered a natural border in times of the ancient Romans. The Romans also erected border walls here that were congruent with the Klever Landwehr . At the time of the Great Migration around 350 the Issel formed the border between the Christian Franks in the west and the Saxons in the east. The river thus formed the border between the denominations.

middle Ages

In 779 Charlemagne crossed the Issel lowlands with his army in the area of ​​today's “Römerrast”, located between the Hamminkelner districts of Dingden and Loikum. In 843 the Carolingian Empire was divided by the Treaty of Verdun along the Issel as a border river into the Eastern Empire of Ludwig the German and the Middle Empire of Emperor Lothar. In 946 Hamminkeln was first mentioned in a document as "Hamwinkile".

Early modern age

Hamminkeln became Protestant in the 16th century. There is evidence that the previously Catholic pastor Georg Hagedorn became Protestant with his congregation in 1555, the year of the Augsburg religious peace . From 1568 an eighty year war raged between Spain and its Dutch provinces in Hamminkeln . The Dutch made Calvinism effective on the Lower Rhine and the church structures changed; in 1642 there were five influential families in the village. For example, Alexander von Spaen only leased his farms in Hamminkeln to Reformed people from Brünen . Especially in Wesel, but also in Hamminkeln, the further influx of Dutch religious refugees led to the fact that originally Lutheran congregations switched to Calvinism. While the area was temporarily under Spanish rule, Catholicism gained in importance. This change of rulers and religions was mostly violent. Although they were in the minority, the Reformed formed the community of Hamminkeln until it was united with the Lutherans in 1817/1818, which later became the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union throughout Prussia .

In the district of Ringenberg, the moated castle of the same name, built by Sueder von Dingden, served as a border fortress. In the Thirty Years' War destroyed the castle was a castle in the style of the Dutch Baroque through the kurbrandenburgischen rebuilt Field Marshal Alexander von Spaen. During the Seven Years' War , the Brunswick Lieutenant General Philipp von Imhoff defeated the French troops under General François de Chevert on August 5, 1758 in the Battle of Meer (French Affaire de Meer, today Hamminkeln-Mehrhoog).

British soldiers at the Hamminkeln sign during Operation Varsity , March 25, 1945

Contemporary history

On March 24, 1945, as part of Operation Varsity, large areas of Hamminkeln were used by the Allies as a landing zone for gliders and parachutists. Their goal was to build a bridgehead over the Rhine near Wesel after the Rhine crossing in Arnheim / NL had failed. Operation Varsity was the largest Allied airborne operation during World War II.

On January 1, 1975, as part of the second restructuring program, the previously independent municipalities of Hamminkeln and Ringenberg of the former Ringenberg office , the municipalities of Loikum and Wertherbruch and the village of Mehrhoog (from the municipalities of Haffen-Mehr and Haldern) of the former Haldern office and the municipality Brünen of the former office of Schermbeck (all in the former Rees district ) and the Westphalian municipality of Dingden in the Borken district have merged to form a new municipality. At the same time, significant 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. Hamminkeln has held the title of town since 1995 after crossing the limit of 25,000 inhabitants .

Population development

(always on December 31st)

year 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018
Residents 22.607 23,880 25,380 27,330 27,722 27,895 27,899 27,380 27,618 27,836 27,792

politics

Local election 2014
Turnout: 58.0% (2009: 61.4%)
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50
40
30th
20th
10
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44.9%
27.8%
7.8%
9.4%
10.1%
USD e
Gains and losses
compared to 2009
 % p
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
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  -2
  -4
  -6
-2.2  % p
+ 6.5  % p
-4.2  % p
-0.7  % p
+ 0.6  % p
USD e
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Remarks:
e Independent Social Democrats

City Councilor and Mayor

The 38 seats in the city ​​council are distributed among the parties as follows after the result of the local elections on May 25, 2014 :

Party / list Seats G / V
CDU 17th - 1
SPD 10 + 2
FDP 3 - 1
GREEN 4th ± 0
USD 4th ± 0

Bernd Romanski (SPD) has been the mayor of Hamminkeln since October 21, 2015 . The Deputy Mayors: Anneliese Große-Holtforth (CDU), Bernd Störmer (SPD), Gisela Dahmen (Alliance 90 / the Greens).

Coat of arms, official seal and flag

The district president in Düsseldorf granted the city of Hamminkeln the right to use a coat of arms and official seal with a document dated November 11, 1977 and the right to use a flag in the form of a banner with a document dated August 6, 1978 .

Description of coat of arms
"In green - above a silver wave bar - a silver round shield, covered with an eight-pointed black lily reel, seven small round shields in alternating colors on the edge of the shield."
meaning

The green symbolizes the Lower Rhine landscape as the basic color , while the large circular area represents the town of Hamminkeln and the seven small circular areas represent the formerly independent municipalities and parts of the municipality. The lily reel indicates the historical affiliation of all earlier municipalities (except for Dingden) to the Duchy of Cleves , the wave bar symbolizes the Issel flowing through the city .

Official seal

The seal shows the emblems of the coat of arms in black and white tinging.

Flag description

The banner shows the emblems of the coat of arms on a green flag.

Town twinning

The city of Hamminkeln has twinned cities with the English city ​​of Sedgefield in County Durham since 1982 and with the Polish community of Chmielno since 1999. Contacts have existed with the Brandenburg community of Neuhardenberg since 1990 through the administrative assistance provided in the course of German reunification .

Economy, culture & infrastructure

economy

Thunderbike motorcycle at the 2006 World Championship in the USA

Hamminkeln is a medium-sized town with a rural character. The district of Dingden is the focus of the textile industry throughout Germany.

Major employers in the city are just off the A3 lying German clothing chain Bonita , the Johann Borgers KG , Gerhard van Clewe GmbH & Co. KG, which SETEX Textil GmbH, H. u. W. Schmänk (biberna) GmbH & Co. KG, Maibom GmbH Textilvertrieb, Akademie Klausenhof, Elektrotechnik Eimers GmbH, Max Bögl Fertigteilwerke GmbH & Co. KG, GTA Maschinensysteme GmbH, WAT Wärmeaustauschtechnik GMBH and the internationally known motorcycle manufacturer Thunderbike .

Peter van Nahmen (2014)

The Feldschlösschen brewery , which was founded in 1852 and is increasingly specializing in malt beers , is located in the hamlet of Hamminkeln . The van Nahmen fruit press is also located there. Bovenkerck GmbH is the last of the former seven schnapps distilleries in the Ringenberg district. The only winemaker on the Lower Rhine can be found in the Wertherbruch district. The Weinkontor Kloster-Kraul operates an open-air wine museum here.

In addition to the “Jokerfest” biker festival, which has many thousands of visitors and where well-known bands have already performed, there are numerous classical events such as the renowned concert series at Gut Rodehorst or the Marienthaler evenings.

Hamminkeln is affiliated with Niederrhein Tourismus GmbH in Viersen, but also cooperates with Ruhr Tourismus GmbH.

Sports

The women's volleyball team of SV Blau-Weiß Dingden played its 5th season in the 2nd Bundesliga North in 2017/2018. The female volleyball youth teams took part in German championships a total of 43 times up to 2018. The 2nd women's volleyball team made it into the 5th highest German division, the Oberliga, for the first time in 2018.

Attractions

Transport infrastructure

Rail and bus transport

Hamminkeln train station (with a former reception building)

The city ​​of Hamminkeln can be reached via three train stations for local rail passenger transport .

Local rail passenger transport (SPNV) is carried out by Abellio Rail NRW .

In terms of local road transport , the city area is served by five bus routes , a collective call taxi (AST) and a citizen bus route.

The tariff of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (VRR) applies to all local public transport and the NRW tariff applies to all tariff areas .

Streets

Hamminkeln is connected to the trunk road network by the federal motorway 3 ( E 35 ) and the federal highways 8 , 70 and 473 .

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Hamminkeln  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Hamminkeln  - travel guide

Individual evidence

  1. 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 )
  2. Gemeindeverband Maria Frieden , on the ecumenical movement in town, pp. 6 - 11: detailed description of the regional wars of religion (2 articles)
  3. ^ 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. 297 .
  4. ^ City of Hamminkeln: Development of the population since 1980
  5. State Returning Officer NRW: Municipal elections 2014 Municipal elections 2009 - Final result for Hamminkeln
  6. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf, 1977, p. 414
  7. Official Journal for the Düsseldorf administrative region, 1978. p. 281
  8. a b c d § 2 of the main statute of the city of Hamminkeln
  9. Slade-rocks-bei-Thunderbike ( Memento of May 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  10. Culture. City of Hamminkeln, archived from the original on April 4, 2015 ; accessed on March 12, 2017 .