Heiligenhaus
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Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ' N , 6 ° 58' E |
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| State : | North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Administrative region : | Dusseldorf | |
| Circle : | Mettmann | |
| Height : | 187 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 27.52 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 26,345 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 957 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 42579 | |
| Primaries : | 02054, 02056, 02102 | |
| License plate : | ME | |
| Community key : | 05 1 58 012 | |
| LOCODE : | DE HES | |
City administration address : |
Hauptstrasse 157 42579 Heiligenhaus |
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| Mayor : | Michael Beck ( CDU ) | |
| Location of the city of Heiligenhaus in the Mettmann district | ||
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Heiligenhaus is a middle district town in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Mettmann in the administrative district of Düsseldorf . It is located in the triangle between Düsseldorf - Essen - Wuppertal in the Niederbergisches Land .
geography
Geographical location
The city extends on a ridge that runs in a west-east direction, about 160 meters high, which slopes sharply to the north and south to the Vogelsangbachtal and Angertal respectively .
Heiligenhaus has a common city boundary (clockwise) with the independent city of Essen as well as with Velbert , Wülfrath and Ratingen (all districts of Mettmann).
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Duisburg 19 km |
Food 15 km |
Dortmund 41 km |
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Düsseldorf 18 km |
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Velbert 5 km |
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Düsseldorf 19 km |
Cologne 43 km |
Wuppertal 16 km |
All information as straight line distance from city center to city center.
Districts
The city consists of the districts Abtsküche, Beeker Busch, Hasselbeck, Heide, Hetterscheidt , Hofermühle, City Center, Isenbügel , Leubeck, Migua, Nonnenbruch, Oberilp, Oberstadt, Tüschen, Unterilp, Unterstadt, Vogelsang, Waldsiedlung, Werkerwald and lack of water. The Selbeck district was newly created. In terms of structure, Heiligenhaus is a ribbon town , as the most densely built-up area essentially extends through the center along the east-west axis.
The district of Hetterscheidt was mentioned in Harry Bingham's novel "The Sons of Adam". In this a prisoner of war camp for western officers during the First World War is described: "in Hetterscheidt [...] a little way outside Düsseldorf".
The court name Isenbügel was first mentioned in 1250 as Isenbugele . The honor of the same name and thus also the district was named after the Isenbügel farm .
history
Administrative history
The present-day town of Heiligenhaus emerged from the village of Heiligenhaus, which historically belonged to the Leubeck dynasty in the Angermund office of the Duchy of Berg . Since the French era , Heiligenhaus and the surrounding towns have belonged to the mayor's office of Velbert , which received the Rhenish municipal code in 1846 and the Rhenish town code in 1856 . On April 1, 1897, the area of the old honors Hasselbeck , Hetterscheidt , Isenbügel , Leubeck , Oefte and Tüschen was detached from the city of Velbert and combined to form the new rural community of Heiligenhaus, which has since formed its own mayor's office . Oefte was ceded by Heiligenhaus to the city of Kettwig on April 1, 1936 . The community of Heiligenhaus received town charter in 1947.
Population development
Population (as of December 31st):
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Source: State Office for Information and Technology in North Rhine-Westphalia |
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politics
Municipal council
| Party / list | 2014 | 2009 | 2004 | 1999 |
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| CDU | 17th | 16 | 17th | 21st |
| SPD | 10 | 9 | 10 | 12 |
| FDP | 3 | 6th | 5 | 5 |
| Alternative option Heiligenhauser list | 4th | 5 | - | - |
| GREEN | 2 | - | - | - |
mayor
- since 2017: Michael Beck, CDU
- 2004–2017: Jan Heinisch , CDU
- 1994-2004: Peter Ihle , CDU
- 1989–1994: Hermann Schwarze, SPD
- 1984–1989: Ernst Berninghaus, CDU
- 1979–1984: Helga Schniewind , FDP
- 1964–1979: Felix Wittmann , CDU
Coat of arms, seal, flag and logo
The city of Heiligenhaus was last awarded a coat of arms, a seal and a flag on March 20, 1947.
coat of arms
seal
flag
logo
coat of arms
Blazon : “Divided by blue and red by a raised silver (white) rafter; below a silver (white) anvil, crossed above with silver (white) pliers and a silver (white) hammer. "
The community, which was elevated to the status of town in 1947, has housed so-called house smiths since the 17th century, whose tools are supposed to represent the iron industry of that time, especially lock and fittings manufacture. The Düsseldorf heraldist Jupp Held designed the coat of arms in 1937 in the Bergische colors red, silver and blue. The municipality was given the coat of arms by the Oberpräsident in Koblenz on November 27, 1937, and again on March 20, 1947 as a new city by a document from the Minister of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia. In contrast to most of the city and municipal coats of arms in the Bergisches Land, the Heiligenhaus coat of arms does not show the Bergisch lion .
seal
“The city has an official seal with the city coat of arms. Divided by a raised rafter; below an anvil, crossed above with pliers and a hammer. "
flag
"The flag has three stripes in a ratio of 1: 1: 1 from blue to white to red and shows the city coat of arms in the center."
logo
The 2005 competition for a new logo for the city of Heiligenhaus was won by qualified designer Sven Hornscheidt with the following design: A three-part signet in the colors red, green and blue with the accompanying lettering "City of Heiligenhaus" in antiqua script. The blue symbolizes the waters of the Stauteich, Angerbach- and Vogelsangbachtal recreational areas , the green stands for the Bergisches Land and the red shows a white shed roof silhouette below it, symbolizing the economic productivity of the city.
Town twinning
Town partnerships exist for:
Culture and sights
In the cultural area, art exhibitions, theater performances, cabaret and concert evenings take place in the auditorium of the Immanuel-Kant-Gymnasium and in the “Club - Center for Culture and Leisure” of the youth leisure center. There is also a city library, the abbot kitchen - local history collection - with a bakery and the fire brigade museum with devices and equipment from 150 years of fire brigade history.
Buildings
- The Evangelical Lutheran church from 1788/89 on Hauptstrasse was demolished in 1928.
- Ev.-ref. Stadtkirche (old church); simple baroque hall church from 1769.
- Catholic churches St. Suitbertus (called " Dom " because of the high, highly visible, neo-Gothic spire; laying of the foundation stone of the church on July 5, 1896, later war damage) and St. Ludgerus ( consecration 1962); also the catholic chapel St. Jakobus abbot kitchen (completed in 1909 in neo-Romanesque style) in the abbot kitchen / Hetterscheidt opposite the reservoir , there the former summer residence of the abbots of Werden monastery , called Hetterscheidt Castle .
- The former pilgrim hut Otterbeck in Heiligenhaus, where Gerhard Tersteegen worked, is named after the farmers who lived there. Presumably the family Otterbeck is due to a homonymous peasantry in Gescher in Westphalia . The Otterbeek is cartographically called "Uhlandsbach" today .
- Former manor house Rossdelle
- In 2009, the first wagon bridge in Germany was built by Ulrich Diehl.
Sports
In addition to ball sports such as handball, football, badminton, table tennis and volleyball, the sports offer in the city of Heiligenhaus also includes the possibility of (sports) swimming in the city's own outdoor and indoor swimming pool in Heljensbad .
The largest sports club in Heiligenhaus is the SSVg 09/12 Heiligenhaus with over 1100 members. The first men's soccer team plays in the national league.
Over 500 players and approx. 25 teams play handball in the HSG Velbert / Heiligenhaus. The HSG is supported by more than 50 trainers, instructors and supervisors. The youth work is actively promoted by the HFV association.
On the border to Homberg is also the Meiersberg airfield, where both glider and powered flight are operated. The kite and model building festivals that also take place on the airfield and alternate annually are also known beyond the city limits.
In addition, 45 km of marked hiking trails in the vicinity of the “industrial city in the green” lead through the Anger and Vogelsangbach valleys to the Ruhr valley .
Economy and Infrastructure
In 2008, Heiligenhaus had a good 9,000 employees subject to social security contributions, most of them in the medium-sized metal processing industry. The city is important as a location for the supplier industry for German automobile production; locks, fittings and latches are produced. Castle and building hardware industry is traditionally located in Heiligenhaus; the city is located in the key region of Velbert / Heiligenhaus . The best- known industrial company is Kiekert AG as a manufacturer of car locking systems for VW and BMW, among others . In 2000, Kiekert AG was acquired by the financial investor Permira for € 530 million through a debt-financed takeover . Due to the debt burden that was transferred and the poor economic situation on the automotive market, the company threatened to go bankrupt in 2006 . However, the bankruptcy could be averted.
The entire industry in Heiligenhaus had a turnover of 987 million euros in 2008.
Road traffic
A section of the federal motorway 44 runs through the urban area . This begins on the Ratinger Landstrasse between Heiligenhaus and Homberg-Meiersberg and leads from there via Velbert to Essen . At the Velbert-Nord motorway triangle, the 535 federal motorway branches off from this section to Wuppertal . Another section of the A44 is expected to be built between the Heiligenhaus junction and the Ratingen-Ost motorway junction by 2022 , where it will join the A44 section to Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf Airport , Krefeld and Mönchengladbach , as well as the federal motorway 3 crossing at the Ratingen-Ost motorway junction in the north Direction to Duisburg , Oberhausen , the Netherlands , Ruhr area , Hanover , and in a southerly direction to Cologne , Koblenz , the Rhine-Main area ( Frankfurt am Main , Wiesbaden ), Nuremberg , Passau and Austria will connect.
Federal road 227 also runs through the city . In the west it connects to the A3, A52 (Essen – Düsseldorf), A524 at the Breitscheid motorway junction .
Rail and bus transport
There is no longer a railway connection in Heiligenhaus, and passenger transport by rail at Heiligenhaus station was discontinued in 1960. The Niederbergbahn , which is now closed , was built from 1913 to 1926 and ran from Kettwig via Heiligenhaus, Velbert and Wülfrath to Vohwinkel . Its construction resulted in massive debt for the city in the 1920s. After the First World War, the Reichsbahn only wanted to continue building the route if the city would contribute a third of its financing; this was a sum that the city could not raise. Velbert offered to finance the construction if Heiligenhaus could be incorporated, which was refused. Finally, there was support from the city of Kettwig and the Düsseldorf-Mettmann district .
Until the Second World War , freight and passenger traffic were quite low. However, since the industry in Heiligenhaus and Velbert developed into important arms manufacturers and the number of commuters to Velbert increased enormously, the route was busy during the Second World War. When the routes around the big cities were increasingly destroyed by bombing attacks, long-distance trains also ran on the Niederbergbahn. This came to an end when the retreating German troops blew up the Ruhr Bridge near Kettwig in April 1945 ; until 1951 all trains in Kettwig ended in front of the bridge. Passenger traffic was completely stopped as early as 1960, the route to Kettwig was shut down and converted into a cycle path in 1980. On December 28, 1994, the last freight train drove from Heiligenhaus to Velbert.
The railway line runs over two large natural stone viaducts in the Heiligenhaus city area. A reactivation of the Niederbergbahn as part of a so-called Circle Line from Wuppertal via Velbert and Heiligenhaus to Düsseldorf is always under discussion. In order to preserve the band of the route as a whole, however, a pedestrian and bicycle path was first created on the disused route. The Niederbergbahn panorama cycle path was completed in summer 2011 and now offers a continuous connection between Kettwig and Vohwinkel.
On October 11, 1899, the 6.5 km long electric tram line from Velbert to Heiligenhaus was opened. This was shut down in 1952. From 1899 to 1923 a steam-powered small train ran from Heiligenhaus to Hösel . The 770 bus now runs on the entire route of these two former tram lines.
The bus lines 770 to Hösel S and 771 to Ratingen Mitte connect to the S 6 Cologne - Düsseldorf - Ratingen Ost - Essen - line 770 at Hösel station, line 771 at Ratingen Ost station. Hösel is the closest train station. In addition, there are two connections via bus lines 772 and 774 via the Isenbügel district to Kettwig and to the Kettwig Stausee S-Bahn station located there (only accessible with line 772). In an easterly direction, the lines 770 and 771 connect to Velbert Zentraler Omnibusbahnhof and the 774 connect to the Niederberg Clinic . There is also an express bus (SB 19) to Essen via Velbert and the inner-city line O 17.
For the entire public transport system applicable tariff of the transport association Rhein-Ruhr and collective space border of NRW fare .
Economic structure
| Economic structure (December 31, 2005) - Employees subject to social security contributions | |||
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| Agriculture, forestry, fishing, fish farming | 109 | 1.1 | |
| Mining and quarrying of stones and earth | 0 | 0.0 | |
| Manufacturing | 6244 | 64.9 | |
| Energy-and water supply | 72 | 0.7 | |
| construction industry | 394 | 4.1 | |
| Trade; Maintenance and repair of motor vehicles and household goods | 1035 | 10.8 | |
| Hospitality | 101 | 1.0 | |
| Transport and communications | 360 | 3.7 | |
| Banking and insurance | 110 | 1.1 | |
| Real estate and housing | 285 | 3.0 | |
| Public administration, defense; social insurance | 219 | 2.3 | |
| Education and instruction | 67 | 0.7 | |
| Health, veterinary, social work | 477 | 5.0 | |
| Provision of other public and personal services, private households | 151 | 1.6 | |
| Others | 0 | 0.0 | |
| total | 9626 | 100 | |
| Change since 1999 (December 31) | -2685 | -21.8 | |
Public facilities
The town hall , located in the city center, has been a joint home for council and administration since 1989 thanks to a modern extension. In the newly designed council chamber, not only meetings of the council, but also receptions, cabaret events and civic encounters take place.
The Helios clinics in Niederberg in neighboring Velbert are also responsible for Heiligenhaus.
education
Heiligenhaus has 15 kindergartens , six elementary schools , one secondary school , one comprehensive school and one grammar school . The vocational schools are located in the neighboring cities of Velbert and Ratingen . The adult education center Velbert / Heiligenhaus is available for adult education . You can study at the Velbert / Heiligenhaus campus of the Bochum University of Applied Sciences. The music school is a training center for around 625 students.
Civil protection
The logistics center of the Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) is located in Heiligenhaus . Furthermore, the THW regional association North Rhine-Westphalia has its seat in Heiligenhaus.
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- Peter Friedrich Engstfeld (1793–1848), organist and hymn poet
- August Steinbrink (1920–2018), home chronicle
- Alice Thormählen (1928–2020), entrepreneur who has made a name for herself as a patron and founder
- Peter Wensierski (* 1954), Spiegel editor and journalist
- Christopher Mies (* 1989), racing car driver
Personalities associated with the city
- Sebastian Boenisch (* 1987), soccer player, 1992–2000 youth player with SSVG Heiligenhaus, then professional with Schalke 04, Werder Bremen, Bayer Leverkusen and 1860 Munich as well as Polish national team player
- Albie Donnelly (* 1947, Huyton, Liverpool), British saxophonist and founder of the band Supercharge, lives in Heiligenhaus
- Helene Elisabeth Princess von Isenburg (1900–1974), first president of the Silent Aid Society for Prisoners of War and Internees , died in Heiligenhaus
- Ilona Kalmbach (* 1955), film producer, grew up in Heiligenhaus
- Horst Langer (* 1939), table tennis player, German champion in doubles, 1979–2001 TTC Heiligenhaus
- Bernd Liffers (* 1958), church musician and organist, worked in Heiligenhaus from 2001 to 2018
- Hubert Maessen (1947–2015), publicist (including Deutschlandfunk , WDR ) and book author; Honorary Citizen of Little Rock , Arkansas
- Jakob Muth (1927–1993), German professor who became known for his commitment to integrating disabled children into the school system, lived and worked in Heiligenhaus
- Georg Salden (* 1930), typographer, lives in Heiligenhaus
- John Steinbeck (1902–1968), writer, whose grandfather Johann Adolf Großsteinbeck was born in Heiligenhaus
literature
- Helmut Grau, Sven Polkläser: Heiligenhauser Primary School Chronicles: The jubilation is followed by disillusionment - The effects of the First World War in the Spiegel Heiligenhauser Primary School Chronicles . Scala Verlag, Velbert 2015.
- Helmut Grau, Sven Polkläser: Abtskücher primary school chronicle: One seeks to murder the school - The community Hetterscheidt in Heiligenhaus in the mirror of the Abtskücher primary school chronicle 1783 to 1958. Scala Verlag, Velbert 2016.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 )
- ^ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and topography of the government district of Düsseldorf. 1836, p. 39 , accessed on May 5, 2014 (digitized version).
- ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1847, p. 6
- ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1856, p. 839
- ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1897, p. 53
- ↑ kettwig.de: History of Kettwig ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 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.
- ^ Heiligenhaus.de: City history
- ^ Regional Returning Officer NRW: Results of the 2014 local elections for Heiligenhaus. Retrieved November 28, 2015 .
- ↑ Heiligenhauser coat of arms. Retrieved September 7, 2013 .
- ^ Main statute of the city of Heiligenhaus. (PDF; 260 kB) Retrieved September 8, 2013 .
- ↑ City of Heiligenhaus. Retrieved September 7, 2013 .
- ↑ A new face for Heiligenhaus. Retrieved September 8, 2013 .
- ↑ Sports brochure of the city of Heiligenhaus. 2017, accessed February 13, 2018 .
- ↑ http://www.heiligenhaus.de/index.php?id=31#wirtschaftsstruktur Wirtschaftsdaten Heiligenhaus
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