Heimbach (Eifel)

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Coat of arms of the city of Heimbach
Heimbach (Eifel)
Map of Germany, position of the city Heimbach highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 38 '  N , 6 ° 29'  E

Basic data
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Cologne
Circle : Düren
Height : 227 m above sea level NHN
Area : 64.96 km 2
Residents: 4328 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 67 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 52396
Primaries : 02446, 02425
License plate : DN, JÜL, MON, SLE
Community key : 05 3 58 012
City structure: 7 districts

City administration address : 		Hengebachstrasse 14
52396 Heimbach
Website : www.heimbach-eifel.de
Mayor : Peter Cremer (independent)
Location of the town of Heimbach in the Düren district
Kreis Düren Nordrhein-Westfalen Rhein-Erft-Kreis Kreis Euskirchen Rhein-Kreis Neuss Kreis Heinsberg Stadt Aachen Städteregion Aachen Belgien Heimbach Kreuzau Nideggen Vettweiß Düren Jülich Langerwehe Titz Merzenich Aldenhoven Hürtgenwald Nörvenich Inden Niederzier Linnichmap
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Cityscape

Heimbach is a town in the Rureifel . It belongs to the district of Düren and is the smallest town and the second smallest municipality in North Rhine-Westphalia in terms of population . Its town center had a total of 1083 inhabitants on July 31, 2017 and is a popular destination in the Eifel National Park .

geography

Geographical location

Heimbach is located in the Rur valley below the Schwammenauel dam on the Heimbach reservoir . The Sonnenberg is located in the city center . The city in the Eifel is developed for tourism and is often visited by day trippers from the nearby cities of Aachen , Cologne and Bonn as well as Belgium and the Netherlands . The city has been a state-approved climatic health resort since September 13, 1974 .

Neighboring communities

District of Düren City region Aachen District of Euskirchen

City structure

Heimbach consists of the districts

There are also several smaller settlements, including the Fischbachtal , Walbig , Schwammenauel and the Buschfelder Hof .

history

Heimbach was first mentioned in a document in 673 in deeds of donation from the Frankish King Theodorich I , Vlatten and Hergarten were first mentioned in the 9th century. In the 10th century, the royal court of Vlatten was relocated to Hengebach Castle .

Lothar II acquired the village of Hergarten from the Prüm monastery in 864 . In 1288 Heimbach became the center of a Jülich office and Hengebach Castle became the seat of a Jülich burgrave . Around 1300 Heimbach was given a town-like character after the settlement was fortified.

Since 1602 in Heimbach are fairs held, the market for hard Visitation held on the occasion of the pilgrimage oktav still held today. In 1614 Heimbach moved to Wolfgang Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg with the end of the Jülich-Klevischen succession dispute , from 1815 it belonged to Prussia . In 1903 the city was connected to the railway network and in 1904 the Urfttalsperre was completed. Due to the new local recreation area, tourism in the place increased sharply. On April 8, 1959, Heimbach was reassigned its city ​​rights due to its historical past and in recognition of Heimbach as a center of tourism.

Heimbacher chair

From the 17th century to the present day, Heimbacher chairs are made in the village. These little chairs were previously turned from beech wood in the winter months. There was even a factory that operated on the site of today's building yard. Today the small chairs are only made in small numbers as souvenirs. In the past, wooden bowls and wooden spoons were also made and sold as far as Maastricht .

religion

"Painful Mother of Heimbach" in the Antwerp reredos
Catholic parish and pilgrimage church Heimbach
old building St. Clemens (r.) And new building Salvatorkirche with Pietà and Antwerp reredos (l.)

Heimbach is a well-known place of pilgrimage. Since 1804, believers have made a pilgrimage to the Sorrowful Mother of Heimbach , a Pietà in the parish church of Heimbach . In the course of secularization , the Pietà from the 15th century was transferred from the Trappist monastery in Mariawald to the Heimbach parish church of St. Clemens on June 22nd, 1804 together with an Antwerp reredos from the 16th century . Today the Pietà and reredos can be seen in the Heimbach Salvator Church, consecrated on May 24, 1981. The Catholic parishes in Heimbach belong to the diocese of Aachen . The Christians of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland in Heimbach belong to the Evangelical Trinity Parish in the Schleidener Tal .

Reorganization

On July 1, 1968 Hausen was incorporated. Hergarten and Vlatten followed on July 1, 1969. The town of Heimbach came from the Schleiden district to the Düren district on January 1, 1972 and was merged with the town of Nideggen. On August 4, 1972, the constitutional court for the state of North Rhine-Westphalia ruled that Heimbach should become an independent municipality again.

politics

City council

Allocation of seats in the city council
     
A total of 22 seats
Local election 2014
Turnout: 66.42% (2009: 67.07%)
 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
47.02%
22.83%
12.46%
11.85%
5.84%
Gains and losses
compared to 2009
 % p
 12
 10
   8th
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
-10
-9.26  % p
+ 10.35  % p.p.
-1.42  % p
+1.08  % p
-0.75  % p

The result of the local elections on May 25, 2014 can be seen in the adjacent graphics.

Coat of arms, flag and banner

  • Coat of arms of the city of Heimbach

  • Heimbach city flag

  • Banner of the city of Heimbach

  • Blazon : "In black, a seven-pinned, black-jointed silver tower with a projecting base and a pointed arched gate with half-drawn portcullis, behind the battlements a red-tiled pointed roof with a silver tower ball and a rear battlement covered with red tiles, each end in a red weir bay window with a machicolation. the base covered with a leaning label, in it a red-armored and red-tongued black lion in gold. "
  • Declaration of coat of arms: The tower stands for the early (1300) fortification of the place, the leaning shield shows the Jülich lion, which indicates that it belongs to the Duchy of Jülich. The coat of arms of Heimbach is similar to the coat of arms of Hof an der Saale : silver pinnacle tower or pinnacle towers with leaning lion shield (Jülich or Wittelsbach lion). The reason is that in Schmidt , a former village of Hengebach Castle, until 1749 a branch of the knightly family von Schmidt auf Altenstadt, now living in the Netherlands, was resident, whose ancestral home was the manor Schloss Gattendorf, built by them around 1700, in Kirchgattendorf near Hof in Upper Franconia lies.

Description of flag and banner: “The flag of the city of Heimbach shows the colors white-black-white in longitudinal stripes in a ratio of 1: 2: 1 with the city coat of arms in the middle. It can also be used as a banner. "

Culture and sights

Hengebach Castle in Heimbach
Heimbach Art Nouveau power plant
Heimbach outdoor swimming pool

free time activities

In the 1880s, the Belgian Queen Marie Henriette repeatedly visited the Eifel. During one of her trips in 1881, she paid a visit to the Mariawald monastery, accompanied by the Heimbach pastor Karl Kalff. On this occasion she also reached the Griesberg above Heimbach, from which one has a beautiful view of Heimbach and the Rur valley. Queen Marie Henriette was so enthusiastic about this view that she had a lookout and picnic area with stone benches built here that same year. In 1904 the place was repaired by the Eifelverein. In 1936, the Rhineland Regional Council was rebuilt, and in 1963 some parking areas were created. In 1978 the picnic area was redesigned by the Belgian administration of Burg Vogelsang and the city of Heimbach.

Entrance building of the station with National Park gate

The Heimbach National Park Gate with the exhibition “Secrets in the beech forest” and important information about the Eifel National Park is located in Heimbach train station. In a ceremony on September 18, 2011, the station was recognized as the 2011 NRW hiking station. From there, many hiking trails lead to the near and far. The Eifel can also be explored from here by bike or mountain bike. The long-distance cycle paths lead through the village:

There is also a mini golf course in Heimbach and a spacious outdoor pool with a beach volleyball court.

museum

The RWE industrial museum with everyday electrical devices is located in the Heimbach power station . The DKB Time Travel Museum was opened in the train station in October 2009.

music

The concerts “Tensions” with the artistic director and pianist Lars Vogt , which have been taking place in the Kraftwerk since 1998, are known far beyond the country's borders .

Buildings

Ascent to Hengebach Castle, Burgtor

The former Mariawald Abbey , the only male Trappist monastery in Germany, is located in Heimbach . The monastery was closed in 2018. The Heimbach war cemetery is located southwest of the abbey . It was created in the 1950s on the initiative of the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge and was inaugurated on September 20, 1953. There are a total of 414 fallen from the Second World War .

Heimbach, with its own small Protestant church, belongs to the Protestant parish of Gemünd.

The Heimbach power plant is located below the Urft dam , an Art Nouveau hydropower plant built in 1904 to generate electrical energy .

The town of Heimbach is dominated by Hengebach Castle, which was first mentioned in 1106. After the first groundbreaking on November 20, 2008 for the renovation, it became the seat of the "International Art Academy Heimbach".

traffic

Rail transport

Heimbach station, end of the Rurtalbahn
Alstom Coradia iLINT at Heimbach (Eifel) train station in February 2020
  • Heimbach is the terminus of the Linnich – Düren – Heimbach railway into the Eifel. The station is of touristic importance as a gateway to the national park and as an information center for hikers and tourists.
line Line course Tact
RB 21 Rur Valley Railway :
Düren  - Annakirmesplatz  - Kuhbrücke  - Lendersdorf  - Renkerstr / Hospital  - Tuchmühle  - Kreuzau  - Kreuzau, Eifelstraße  - Üdingen  - Untermaubach-Schlagstein  - Obermaubach  - Zerkall  - Nideggen-Brück  - Evenings  - Blens  - Hausen  - Heimbach
Status: timetable change December 2015 		30/60 ( SVZ ) min (Düren - Untermaubach)
60 min (Untermaubach - Heimbach)

Bus transport

  • Heimbach is connected to the public transport network of the Aachen transport association with line 231 .
  • "Mäxchen" is the name of a bus on the Düren district railway , which runs over the Eifel heights on weekends and public holidays between May and October / November, sometimes with a guide.
  • Bürgerbus (BBH) is the name of the city bus and runs in the Heimbach area.
line course
231 Düren Bf / ZOB  - StadtCenter  - Kaiserplatz  - Josefskirche  - Stockheim  - Froitzheim  - Ginnick  - Embken  - ( Muldenau  ←) Wollersheim  - Vlatten  - Hergarten  - Heimbach  Bf - ( Hasenfeld  - Schwammenauel  - Kermeter  - Urfttalsperre / Hastenbach  - / Mariawald Abbey  -) Wolfgarten  - Gemünd  - Nierfeld  - Olef  - Schleiden
BBH Citizen bus Heimbach:
( Blens ) - Hasenfeld  - Heimbach train station  - Hilbach - Vlatten  / ( Hergarten  - Düttling )
Mäxchen Heimbach  Bf → ( Mariawald Abbey  → Kermeter  → / Hasenfeld  →) Schwammenauel (dam)  → ( Schmidt Wildpark  → Schwammenauel (dam)  →) Hasenfeld  → Heimbach  Bf

Others

In a study by the University of Trier in 2008, in which 158 climatic health resorts in six federal states were assessed, Heimbach took first place.

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Personalities who have worked in this city

literature

  • Josef Daheim: Heimbach and its districts - the past in words and pictures . Horb am Neckar 1990.
  • Fassbender: Heimbach Castle and the Counts and Lords of Hengebach . Bochum 1868, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 1-64942 .
  • Christian Quix : The Counts of Hengebach. The castles and towns of Heimbach and Niedeggen . The former monasteries Marienwald and Bürvenich and the Collegiatstift later Minoriten monastery before Niedeggen; represented historically. Ed .: Hensen. Aachen 1839 ( google.de [accessed on August 8, 2017]).
  • Norbert Saupp: Heimbach - Blens, Düttling, Hausen, Hasenfeld, Hergarten, Vlatten . Heimbach 1993.
  • Hans Peter Schiffer: Churches, chapels and crosses in the Heimbach urban area . History - construction - equipment. Verlag Ralf Liebe, Weilerswist 2008.
  • Heimbach . In: The beautiful Eifel . History - natural landscape - the climatic health resort / guide through the city, hiking suggestions. Düren 1987.

Web links

Commons : Heimbach  - Collection of Images
Wikisource: Heimbach in the Topographia Westphaliae (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts
Wikivoyage: Heimbach (Eifel)  - travel guide

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 )
  2. ↑ Gudrun Klinkhammer: Heimbacher Stühlchen: Created in the shadow of the castle. In: Aachener Zeitung. January 9, 2017. Retrieved August 8, 2017 .
  3. ^ A b Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first restructuring program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 65 and 100 .
  4. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory 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 .
  5. ↑ Judgment of August 4, 1972 - VerfGH 13/71 - GV. NRW. 1972 p. 258 = OVGE 28, 304
  6. ^ City of Heimbach. Overall result. May 25, 2014, accessed October 20, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Main statute of the city of Heimbach, § 2 paragraph 1 and 2. (PDF; 478 kB) Retrieved on December 20, 2012 .
  8. ↑ Heimbach is NRW hiking station 2011. Accessed on April 4, 2013 .
  9. ^ Hengebach Castle. Burgenwelt, accessed on April 10, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Rursee shipping. Welcome on board. Rursee-Schifffahrt KG, accessed on April 10, 2016 .
  11. ↑ https://www.dkb-dn.de/fileadmin/downloads/PDF/Maexchen_2017_1.pdf
  12. ↑ Study by the ETI at the University of Trier, 2008 ( Memento of the original from December 6, 2008 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. (PDF; 432 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thueringen.de
  13. ^ Horst Wallraff: Franz Binz (1896–1965), district leader of the NSDAP. In: Portal Rhenish History. Landschaftsverband Rheinland, accessed on August 8, 2017 .