Donk (Viersen)

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Donk
City of Viersen
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 51 ″  N , 6 ° 26 ′ 38 ″  E
Height : 34–38 m above sea level NN
Incorporated into: Viersen
Postal code : 41748
Area code : 02162
Donk (Viersen)
Donk

Location of Donk in Viersen

The Donk is a rural outskirts of the North Rhine-Westphalian district town of Viersen . Within the city of Viersen, the Donk lies in the east of the Alt-Viersen district , immediately northwest of the city limits of Mönchengladbach near the Donk village that belongs to Mönchengladbach . Within North Rhine-Westphalia, the Viersener Donk also belongs to the Lower Rhine region and, as a district of Viersen, is part of the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region . Earlier names for the area were u. a. Dunk , Viersen Donc , Doncq or Donck . From a postal point of view, the Donk is one of the southern and eastern outer areas of Alt-Viersen and therefore has the postal code 41748.

View of the Viersener Donk from the west. At the back right you can see Haus Donkholt, a luxurious mansion.
Courtyard complex at the intersection of Donker Weg and Schanzweg .
The stump track between Düpp and the Viersen Donk is a remnant of the former railway line from Viersen to Neuss .
Cycle touring resting place with information board on Fietsallee on the north canal in the Viersener Donk. Remnants of the track of the former railway line can still be seen here.
Haus Donkholt or Haus Bergendonk, the little castle of the Viersener Donk, is located directly on the city limits of Mönchengladbach and has been a listed building since 1985.
The Viersen-Mönchengladbach city and district border, which separates the Viersen and the Neuwerker Donk from each other, runs on the right edge of this field path right next to the Donkholt house .

Etymology, settlement structure and history

The name Donk indicates a comparatively dry elevation in an otherwise swampy or humid environment. There are various theories about the origin of the word Donk , according to which the term is derived either from Old High German , Old Dutch or, even further back in time, from Celtic .

The Viersener Donk is a small, sparsely populated agricultural area, which is slightly elevated compared to the neighboring Niers lowlands , and thus offered its residents a certain protection from the earlier frequent floods and the resulting shifting of the Niers riverbed . The settlement of the Donk and the fact that the area belongs to Alt-Viersen go back at least to the Middle Ages . Up until the French era , i.e. before 1800, the Donk enjoyed a special status as an allod with its own jurisdiction within the Altviersen area compared to the other districts.
The development of the Viersener Donk today consists of a few individual farmsteads and the Donkholt house.

traffic

Road traffic

The main traffic artery of the Donk is the Donker Weg coming from the neighboring Düpp , the Kreisstraße 6 , which becomes Donker Straße beyond the Mönchengladbach city limits and continues to Neuwerk-Donk .

Rail transport

The Neuss – Viersen railway used to run on the southern edge of the Donk , with passenger traffic between Viersen and Kaarst initially being discontinued in 1968 and freight traffic from 1984 onwards. The line was then largely dismantled. The route of the former railway line is still clearly visible, however, in the Viersener Donk there is both a cycle path and a bridle path on both sides of the former railway line. In the area of ​​the information point and rest area on Fietsallee on the north canal, there are still remains of track that cross an asphalt farm road, the Schanzweg . Even before, the Donk did not have its own train station. The train stations closest to the Viersener Donk are now the Viersen train station , the Mönchengladbach central train station and the Anrath train station .

Bus transport

As a district of Viersen, the Donk theoretically belongs to the tariff area of ​​the Rhine-Ruhr transport association , but is not served by local public transport. The closest bus stops are in Düpp, Ummer and Heimer as well as in the neighboring Mönchengladbach districts of Donk and Lockhütte , or on the other side of the Niers in Neersen .

Bike trails

The Viersener Donk is extremely well developed by cycle paths, a total of five officially designated cycle paths lead through the area on two axes:

  • On the same route from east to west (or vice versa), along the former railway line:
  • On the common road from south to north (or vice versa), along Schanzweg :
    • The medlar route (Alt-Viersen circular route).
    • The [V] route (circular route in the city of Viersen).

At the intersection of the two cycle path axes there is a small rest area with seating and an information board for Fietsallee on the north canal .

Attractions

House Donkholt

On the eastern edge of the Viersen Donk, just before the city limits to Mönchengladbach, there is Haus Donkholt, which, according to the city of Viersen, is also called Haus Bergendonk . It is a representative mansion with an associated courtyard. The manor house itself was rebuilt in the so-called country house style in the 1920s to its present form. The building complex with the list number 062 has been a listed building since 1985.

Viersener Donk and Neuwerker Donk

The Neuwerker Donk, which belongs to Mönchengladbach and the street village of Donk , joins the Viersener Donk in the southeast beyond the city limits . In contrast to other rural villages in the area, such as Holterhöfe or Clörath , which were both split up and divided between two or three towns as part of the local reorganization at the time, the separation between the Viersener and the Neuwerker Donk is not the result of one Recent local government reform. The border between Alt-Viersen on the one hand and Mönchengladbach or Neuwerk on the other hand is rather an ancient territorial border that has remained almost unchanged in its course for centuries since the Middle Ages. The current city and district border between Alt-Viersen and the northern Mönchengladbach districts still largely corresponds to the former state border between the Duchy of Geldern (Alt-Viersen) and the Duchy of Jülich (Mönchengladbach) from the 15th century . Therefore, the division into a Viersener and a Neuwerker Donk goes back at least to that era.

The closer environment

Rahser  Clörath
Hülsdonk 		Anrath
Vennheide
Robend  Düpp
Hamm 		Neighboring communities Neersen
Ummer
Heimer 		MG Lockhütte MG-Neuwerk-Donk

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Topographic map 1: 25000, sheet 4704 (Viersen) ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2012 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. (Published 2010 by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on May 10, 2011)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bezreg-koeln.nrw.de
  2. ↑ District map NRW 1: 50000, No. 34 (District Viersen / City of Krefeld) ( Memento of the original dated May 6, 2011 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. (12th edition, published in 2008 by the Land Survey Office North Rhine-Westphalia, Bonn-Bad Godesberg (now: Cologne District Government), accessed on May 14, 2011)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bezreg-koeln.nrw.de
  3. ↑ Wikipedia: Niederrhein (Region) (accessed on May 10, 2011)
  4. ↑ Wikipedia: Metropolitan Region Rhine-Ruhr (accessed on May 10, 2011)
  5. ↑ Map of the Rhineland 1: 25000 by Tranchot and v. Müffling (1803-1820), sheet 42 (Viersen)  ( 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. (Reprint, published in 1966 by the Land Survey Office of North Rhine-Westphalia, Bonn-Bad Godesberg (now: Cologne District Government), accessed on May 10, 2011)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bezreg-koeln.nrw.de  
  6. ↑ Prussian map recording 1: 25000 -Uraaufaufnahme (1844) -, sheet 4704 (Viersen)  ( 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. (Reprint, published in 1991 by the Land Survey Office North Rhine-Westphalia, Bonn-Bad Godesberg (now: Cologne District Government), accessed on May 10, 2011)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bezreg-koeln.nrw.de  
  7. ↑ a b c Peter Norrenberg : From the Viersener Bannbuch, Viersen 1886
    (online presentation of the university     library of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf , accessed on May 10, 2011)
  8. ^ Deutsche Post: Postcode search (online service of Deutsche Post AG , accessed on May 10, 2011)
  9. ^ Hans Georg Kirchhoff: Office Korschenbroich . History of the municipality of Korschenbroich and Pesch. B. Kühlen, Mönchengladbach 1974, p. 20 .
  10. ↑ Wikipedia: Donk (accessed May 10, 2011)
  11. ↑ Lowlands Talk: Dutch (German, accessed May 10, 2011)
  12. ↑ Clörath History ( Memento of the original from August 4, 2012 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. (Web site of the Slickers family, accessed May 10, 2011)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.familie-slickers.de
  13. ↑ Wikipedia: Neuss – Viersen railway line (accessed on May 11, 2011)
  14. ↑ a b c d e Cycling in the district of Viersen , cycling map 1: 50,000, 4th edition 2009
    (published by Bielefelder Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Bielefeld and Wirtschaftsförderungsgesellschaft für die Kreis Viersen mbH, Viersen , ISBN 978-3-87073-122 -9 )
  15. ↑ a b c d e ADFC regional map: Niederrhein-Süd , 1: 75,000, Bielefelder Verlag, ISBN 978-3-87073-318-6
  16. ↑ Monuments: Horster Hof, later Haus Bergendonk (official website of the city of Viersen, accessed on May 12, 2011)
  17. ↑ Donkholt House ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Website of the owner, accessed on May 12, 2011)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.diedonk.de
  18. ↑ Ferdinand Dohr: Die Viersener Landwehren , published in the Heimatbuch des Kreis Kempen-Krefeld 1972 (accessed on October 29, 2013)