Hetzerath (Erkelenz)

Hetzerath City of Erkelenz Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 29 ″  N , 6 ° 16 ′ 21 ″  E
Height :	90 m
Residents :	1521  (December 31, 2016)
Postal code :	41812
Area code :	02433
Location of Hetzerath in North Rhine-Westphalia

Hetzerath is a village in the urban area of Erkelenz ( Heinsberg district ) in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Town center with parish church

geography

The village is in the Erkelenzer Börde , to the west is the Baaler Riedelland , the transition to the Rurniederung . Occasionally there are small forest plots around the place.

location

To the north of the village is the former Kreuzherrenkloster Haus Hohenbusch , the Autobahn 46 and Matzerath , in the northeast Erkelenz , in the east Granterath .

The following places belong to the city of Hückelhoven . In the south are the isolated Marienhof and Baal , in the southwest Doverhahn and Doveren , in the west Hückelhoven and the individual courtyard Kühlerhof.

Type of settlement

Hetzerath was a street village around 1820 .

The so-called settlement was built between 1938 and 1940 for the purpose of settling mining workers' families.

history

In 1454 the place was mentioned as Hetzelroide, 1554 as Hetzenraidt. The village was probably founded by a Hetzo, Hezzo or Hetzel during the high medieval clearing phase .

In the 18th century the village belonged to the Wassenberg district in the Duchy of Jülich . Since the 19th century, Hetzerath formed a municipality that belonged to the Mayorry of Doveren in the district of Erkelenz . In 1935 Hetzerath was incorporated into Granterath . As part of Granterath, the village was incorporated into the city of Erkelenz on January 1, 1972.

Church history

Until 1913 the Catholic residents attended the church in Doveren. In 1913, a chapel for holding church services was inaugurated in Hetzerath . In 1923 the place got its own pastor, in 1927 a parsonage. In 1931 Hetzerath became an independent rectorate community.

At the end of the Second World War , in February 1945, the church was badly damaged. In 1952/53 the church building was expanded. The south wall was opened in four pointed arches and a new nave was built across the width of the old nave , so that the old church now forms a kind of narthex of the new one. In 1957, the glass painter Hubert Spierling from Krefeld designed a plaster mosaic on the choir wall , it shows motifs from the Revelation of John . In 1970 the place was separated from the parish of Doveren and its own parish of St. Joseph was set up. The local painter Wolfgang Fröde designed six new church windows in 1994/95.

On January 1st, 2010 the parish was merged with ten other parishes to form the parish of St. Maria and Elisabeth Erkelenz.

Spiess yard

Originally the farm was called Hetzerather Hof . It was owned by the neighboring Hohenbusch monastery.

From 1802 to 1812, when Hetzerath belonged to France and the monastery property was secularized , the French Marshal Louis-Alexandre Berthier was the owner. He had received the farm from Napoleon as a gift of honor.

The farm was owned by the Spiess family from 1845 to 1959. This came from the former French officer and later administrator of the French domains Johann Josef Spiess, who settled in Erkelenz around 1800 and built the famous Spiess house in the city .

On April 1, 1941, the Jews of the district of Erkelenz were admitted to the residential building at Spiess-Hof . They had to remain in this ghetto and Jewish house until March 31, 1942. They were then deported to the Izbica ghetto near Lublin . From there they were finally deported to the Belzec or Sobibor extermination camps and murdered. Some elderly people were transferred to the "Judenhaus" Villa Buth near Jülich and some men to the Rhenaniastraße labor camp in Stolberg .

As a reminder, one was in 1990 opposite the church where the fallen soldiers memorial is, stele erected. As part of the Erkelenz " Route Against Forgetting ", a station with a bronze plaque directly at the Spiess-Hof has been commemorating this forced ghetto since 2010.

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  Spiess farm in Hetzerath

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  Hetzerath memorial stele for 36 deported Jews

The village in 1945

American soldiers of the 334th Regiment of the 84th Infantry Division of the 9th US Army captured the village on February 25, 1945 in the course of Operation Grenade after crossing the Rur. The few remaining inhabitants of Hetzerath were now evacuated to the surrounding places, especially to Granterath. Liberated Soviet forced laborers were sent to the empty village . Most of them were since the fall of 1944 to dig trenches on the Western Wall abducted in the circle Erkelenz. Up to 7000 people, men, women and children lived in the small village. The supply situation was catastrophic for the two population groups, native Germans and displaced persons . An American guard was stationed in the nearby Hohenbusch house, but looting and armed robbery took place in the surrounding villages, and some German civilians were shot. At the beginning of May 1945 the camp was closed.

Culture and sights

Regular events include a. the annual concert of the Musikverein St. Josef Hetzerath 1965 eV on the second Saturday of Advent and the shooting festival of the St. Josef Schützenbruderschaft on the first weekend in September (every two years).

The club life takes place z. B. in the game and gymnastics club Hertha Hetzerath (TuS Hertha Hetzerath 1920 eV) and TTC 1979 Hetzerath e. V, as well as in the Musikverein St. Josef Hetzerath 1965 eV and the choir community Tenholt-Granterath-Hetzerath. Furthermore, the St. Josef Schützenbruderschaft zu Hetzerath eV and the carrier pigeon club 03807 Hetzerath are located.

The noteworthy sights include the Hohenbusch house, the memorial stele (see Spieß house), and the St. Joseph Church with its plastered mosaic and church windows.

The village community has set up a small archive on two floors in the church tower.

Infrastructure

• Municipal kindergarten
• Community elementary school
• Parish home
• Multipurpose hall
• Sports field "Am Pappelstadion"
• Schützenhalle
• Erkelenz volunteer fire brigade , Hetzerath fire fighting group

As part of the fiber optic expansion in the Heinsberg district, the place was connected to a fiber optic network.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Update of the population on December 31, 2016 (PDF). (No longer available online.) In: Website of the city of Erkelenz. Archived from the original on January 25, 2017 ; Retrieved January 25, 2017 . 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.  
2. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland (PDF; 1.3 MB), Berlin: Verlag des Königlichen Statistischen Bureaus, 1888, page 198
3. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. erkelenz.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
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. 307 .
5. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 13, 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. 

literature

• Mathias Siemes: Who was Marshal Luis Alexander Berthier, owner of the Hetzerather Hof (Spiess-Hof) from 1802 to 1812? In: Courtyards - Churches - Current Affairs. Erkelenz 1985 ( Writings of the Heimatverein der Erkelenzer Lande eV No. 6)

Web links

• Website of the city of Erkelenz
• Monuments in the city of Erkelenz
• Churches and chapels in the city of Erkelenz
• Website Hetzerath