Hasenfeld

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Hasenfeld
City of Heimbach
Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 18 ″  N , 6 ° 27 ′ 32 ″  E
Height : 258 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 1172  (Jul 31, 2017)
Postal code : 52396
Area code : 02446
The place
The place

With around 1,200 inhabitants, Hasenfeld is the largest district of the city ​​of Heimbach in the Düren district .

location

Hasenfeld is located above the Rur valley in the Rureifel in the far north of the Eifel National Park . In the west the district borders on the Rursee , in the south it extends to the Heimbach power plant , which is located directly on the Rur. In the east, Hasenfeld passes directly into the city center of Heimbach.

history

The city of Heimbach and all its districts came from the Schleiden district to the Düren district on January 1, 1972 and merged with the city ​​of Nideggen . On August 4, 1972, the Higher Administrative Court in Münster decided that Heimbach should become an independent municipality again.

church

The 1754 built and dedicated to St. The chapel, consecrated to Johannes Nepomuk , was almost completely destroyed by the effects of the Second World War . Today's chapel, which has now been enlarged six times, was consecrated on November 28, 1952.

traffic

Landesstraße 15 leads through Hasenfeld from Heimbach city center to Rursee. After Hasenfeld, Landesstraße 218 branches off to Schmidt . Local public transport is ensured by BVR buses with line 231. "Mäxchen" is the name of a double-decker bus on the Düren district railway , which runs with tour guides through the town and over the Eifel heights on certain days in summer.

Between 1922 and 1926 the Eifelrennen , a motorsport competition, ran through Hasenfeld.

economy

The inhabitants live mainly from tourism . A campsite is directly adjacent to the village . The RWE industrial museum in the Heimbach power plant is located below Hasenfeld . Most of the visitors come to the surrounding cities of Aachen , Cologne and Bonn as well as from Belgium and the Netherlands .

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register 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. 306 f .

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