Heilder

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Heilder
Selfkant municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 47 "  N , 5 ° 56 ′ 26"  E
Height : 52  (46-52)  m
Residents : 267  (Jun 30, 2016)
Postal code : 52538
Area code : 02456
map
Location of Heilder in Selfkant
Map of the municipality of Selfkant
Map of the municipality of Selfkant
chapel
Crossroads at Heilder
Thatched cottage
Street name
Place-name sign
Heilder on the new recording from 1912
Heilder on the original cadastral map from 1846
Heilder on the tranchot card 1803–1820
Transit road 410 in Heilder

Heilder is a district of the municipality Selfkant , the westernmost municipality in Germany in the district of Heinsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

Geographical location

The village of Heilder is located between the villages of Saeffelen and Höngen in the municipality of Selfkant. In the southwest, the border with the village of Höngen is given by the Saeffelbach. In the west, the L 410 (formerly N274 transit road) is the border to the village of Saeffelen. The border with the Netherlands is only a few hundred meters away in the north.

Nature reserves

  • Höngener and Saeffeler Bruch. The nature reserve Hoengener and Saeffeler Bruch (HS-011)

Waters

In heavy rain and when snowmelts , the surface water flows from the Heilder area over the Saeffeler Bach into the Rodebach (GEWKZ 281822) and then further into the Maas . The Rodebach has a length of 28.918 km with a total catchment area of ​​173.385 km².

Neighboring places

Havert Aan Reijans (NL) Koningsbosch (NL)
stone Neighboring communities Saeffelen
Höngen Großwehrhagen Kievelberg

Type of settlement

Heilder is a loosely built hamlet on the Saeffelbach.

history

Place name

  • 14th century Heylair
  • 15th century heylare
  • 1803 Heilder

Local history

Until 1282 Heilder belonged to Millen, the seat of the family of the Lords of Millen, which was incorporated into the Heinsberg rule in 1282 . In 1499, the Duke of Jülich acquired the rule of Heinsberg and Millen and became the seat of a ducal-Jülich bailiff .

From 1794 to 1815 Heilder belonged to the French canton of Sittard . After the Congress of Vienna in 1815 , Heilder came to the Prussian Rhine Province .

After the end of the Second World War, the Netherlands demanded compensation for the war damage suffered in the form of a territorial claim. For this purpose, the Selfkant was placed under Dutch order management since April 23, 1949, in accordance with the final declaration of the London Germany Conference.

In the post-war years, the border with Saeffelen and thus with Germany ran within what is now Saeffelen. After the return of the area on August 1, 1963, the Selfkant area including Heilder again belongs to the Federal Republic of Germany . The barriers were dismantled and the customs control houses were converted into residential buildings. These wooden structures still exist today and are popularly known as 'Kamissebuud'. The part of the village Heilder, which lies east of the L 410, was separated around 1970 and added to the village Saeffelen. This part of Saeffelen is still popularly referred to as 'Op de Helder'.

After the Second World War, all German properties on Dutch soil were expropriated by the Dutch authorities. The German government promised a compensation payment that has not yet been paid out to private individuals (Traktatland compensation). The land owned by the church was returned a short time later.

Heilder is mentioned as Heylare in the 15th century . It is not certain whether the epithet refers to heather. The basic word -lar could mean pasture or swamp

Religions

The denomination is predominantly Catholic; Heilder is affiliated with the Saeffelen parish.

In the village of Heilder there is also a Catholic chapel , in the old part of the village (now Saeffelen) there was a Protestant church that is currently used as a residential building.

In the course of the parish reforms in the Diocese of Aachen, the formerly independent Catholic parish of St. Lucia Saeffelen was incorporated into the Community of Parishes (GdG) St. Servatius Selfkant .

Culture and sights

Buildings

  • The chapel contains a consecrated stone; it is used for weddings and baptisms.
  • There is also an old dairy .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

Road connection

Motorway connection

BAB Route section Junction distance
A 46 Heinsberg - Düsseldorf AS Heinsberg 15 km
A 44 Aachen - Mönchengladbach AS Aldenhoven 30 km
A 4 Aachen - Cologne AS Weisweiler 40 km

Rail connection

From Geilenkirchen train station (approx. 15 km away)

line Line designation Line course
RE 4 Wupper Express Aachen - Mönchengladbach - Düsseldorf - Dortmund
RB 33 Rhine-Niers Railway Aachen - Mönchengladbach - Krefeld - Duisburg
RB 20 Euregiobahn Aachen - Geilenkirchen

Agriculture

Agriculture in Heilder is characterized in the south by broken land, brook bottoms and forests . In the north, sugar beet , grain and strawberries are grown .

societies

Regular events

  • Birdshot of the brotherhood in Saeffelen
  • Patronage party and fair in Saeffelen

Street names

Am Saeffelbach, Am Sportplatz, An der Mühle, Selfkantstraße

literature

  • Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen. 3. Edition. Kühlen, Mönchengladbach 1994, ISBN 3-87448-172-7 , pp. 693-694
  • Leo Gillessen: The localities of the district of Heinsberg , ISBN 3-925620-13-3 , p. 247
  • Leo Gillessen: About place names and settlement studies of the southern Selfkant district , In: Heimatkalender 1971, pp. 41–50
  • Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province . Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German basic map 1: 5000
  2. ↑ http://www.selfkant.de/component/content/article/80-buergerservice/93-zahlen-ffekten.html
  3. ↑ http://www.naturschutz-fachinformationssysteme-nrw.de/nsg/de/fachinfo/ regions/ overall/ HS_011
  4. ↑ http://www.lanuv.nrw.de/fileadmin/lanuv/wasser/pdf/Gewaesserverzeichnis%20GSK3C.xls
  5. ^ Area directory ( Memento from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ St. Lucia, Saeffelen ( Memento from July 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive )