Hassum

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Hassum
City of Goch
Coordinates: 51 ° 40 ′ 44 ″  N , 6 ° 4 ′ 9 ″  E
Height : 12 m above sea level NN
Area : 9.35 km²
Residents : 1125  (June 30, 2015)
Population density : 120 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st July 1969
Postal code : 47574
Area code : 02827
Willibrordus Church in Hassum
Windmill
Hassum station, goods handling

Hassum is a district of the city of Goch in the Kleve district on the Lower Rhine in North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

Hassum was first mentioned in a document in 1144. A chapel already existed around 1300. After the destruction in World War II , the Catholic Church , which originated in the 16th century, was not rebuilt. Instead, a hall church was built as an emergency church in 1948 , which was expanded in 1968 and a free-standing bell tower was added in 1978. It is under the patronage of St. Willibrordus .

In the nearby Klever Reichswald and in the vicinity of today's village of Hassum, the so-called battle in the Reichswald took place in February 1945 during the Second World War . After this battle, the Allies were able to build a bridgehead over the Rhine near Wesel and thus take the Ruhr area.

On July 1, 1969, the municipality Hassum was in the city Goch incorporated .

traffic

The state road 177 runs through the village. On the outskirts there is the federal motorway 57 , which runs as European route 31 from Rotterdam to Cologne .

In 1873 a railway line was opened, the Boxteler Bahn , which connected London with Berlin , but no longer exists today. The reception building of the former Hassum train station , built in 1908, is now used as a residential building.

Associations and groups

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 79 .

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