Hochneukirch

Hochneukirch City of Juchen Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 2 ″ N , 6 ° 27 ′ 19 ″ E
Height :	88 m
Residents :	4964 (Dec. 31, 2013)
Incorporation :	1st January 1975
Postal code :	41363
Area code :	02164
Location of Hochneukirch in North Rhine-Westphalia

Hochneukirch is a district of the town of Jüchen in the Rhine district of Neuss .

location

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Hochneukirch, aerial view from the south, 2017

Hochneukirch borders the town of Hackhausen in the east and the A 46 and A 61 autobahns to the south . To the northeast border the villages of Neu-Holz , Neu-Otzenrath and Neu-Spenrath . The city limits of Mönchengladbach are to the north and west . The former neighboring towns wood , Otzenrath and Spenrath are the brown coal mining Garzweiler II fell victim.

history

Neukirchen and neighboring towns on the Tranchot map around 1806

The first mention of Neukirchen (also written: Nuenkirgen, Neuwenkirchen or Neuenkyrken) comes from 1312, when the Church of St. Pantaleon was first mentioned in the " Liber valoris ". Neukirchen has been part of the Grevenbroich office in the Duchy of Jülich since the Middle Ages . In 1794 the place was occupied by French soldiers. The Mairie Neukirchen was created, which belonged to the canton of Odenkirchen in the Arrondissement of Krefeld in the Département de la Roer . Since 1815, Neukirchen was part of the Kingdom of Prussia and came in 1816 to the county Grevenbroich in the administrative district of Dusseldorf . The village of Spenrath also belonged to the mayor's office in Neukirchen. The place has been called Hochneukirch since 1873. Three years earlier, in 1870, the "namesake", the Catholic. Parish Church “St. Pantaleon “built. Since 1929 Hochneukirch has belonged to the district of Grevenbroich-Neuss and on January 1, 1975 it was incorporated into the municipality of Jüchen (today the city of Jüchen). The last three community directors of the old community Hochneukirch were Robert Müller, Leo Greven and Hans Diekmann.

Population development

year	Residents
1933	5074
1939	4991
1961	6370
1970	6486
2008	5012
2010	4953
2013	4964

Culture and leisure

Windmill

The Hochneukircher mill is a landmark of the place. Its year of construction is not known exactly, but the road that passes by was already called "Mühlenweg" in 1370. The mill is only mentioned in a document at the end of the Thirty Years' War in 1648. The windmill blades were dismantled in 1888. The mill wheels were driven by a 3 hp steam engine, which was replaced by an electric motor in 1936. Hermann Krahwinkel and his son Jakob converted the wagon and flour shed into an inn and in 1956 opened the restaurant "Zur Mühle".

Marketplace

The market square (Kaiserplatz, Friedrich-Ebert-Platz) was the center of the place and the meeting point of the population. In 1895, at the instigation of manufacturer Peter Busch, an approx. 8 meter high riser tower was built in the middle of the market square for the voluntary fire brigade's training purposes. The Steigerturm was demolished again in 1925.

The marketplace is still regularly used as such on Thursdays. The Hochneukircher fair is held there twice a year.

Wilhelm-Helenenstift

In 1890, the late Maria Sybilla Lux bequeathed around 6.5 Prussian acres to the Catholic Church , which were to be used to build a hospital and orphanage. Since the church lacked the financial means, a hospital was not built until 1898, in which a kindergarten, a sewing, ironing and cooking school were set up. It was run by nuns. In 1907 the kindergarten was expanded, and in 1909 there was an additional building that housed factory workers.

In the First World War it served as a hospital . From 1926 it was a retirement home. During the Second World War , it was established as a district hospital for pulmonary tuberculosis . This facility existed until 1950, after which patients with diphtheria and scarlet fever came to Hochneukirch. In 1966, the Wilhelm-Helenenstift was given to the community in exchange for arable land. The Peter-Bamm-Halle (see Peter Bamm ), the secondary school and the kindergarten are located on the site of the monastery .

Public facilities

schools

The first mention of a school comes from the year 1560. At that time, however, there was no compulsory education . Especially with the local rural population, field and manual labor had a much higher priority. The school was completely destroyed by fire in 1642 and rebuilt in 1660. In 1825 compulsory schooling was introduced. In 1840 a new two-class school with a teacher's apartment was built because the old school had become too small. This school was built on what is now Rathausstrasse, and the children from Holz (Jüchen) , Hackhausen, Kamphausen and Dürselen also went there until 1860 .

In 1867 a second school was built on Bahnhofstrasse. In 1900 the building was expanded, and in 1910 today's primary school was built opposite the Peter-Bamm-Halle .

In 1953, another school building was erected on Gartenstraße, which was intended for Protestant students. But it was attached to the secondary school, which was built in 1974. In the same year the sports and multi-purpose hall "Peter-Bamm-Halle" was built and the old school on Schulstrasse 7 (today Rathausstrasse) was demolished.

Post office

The French put up the first mailboxes around 1794. These were taken over by the Prussian state in 1816 and introduced throughout Prussia from 1824 .

The first post office was opened in Hochneukirch in 1840. It was run on a voluntary basis by the church master of the parish of St. Pantaleon, Josef Schnitzler. From 1862 Josef Gieren took over the post office, which was set up in the house on Hochstrasse next to the pastorate, which he had bought. Five years later, Hochneukirch received its first telegraphic connection. In 1890 the population had grown to about 2000 people; the small post office with over 85,000 outgoing mails and 70,000 incoming mails per year was no longer able to cope with the requirements. In 1891, a post office building was built at Hochstrasse 88. In the mid-1920s, the postmen also received bicycles and mail carts. In the early 1960s, the post office was also too small. Because it protruded far into the intersection of Hochstraße, Bahnhofstraße, Poststraße and von-Werth-Straße and posed a threat to the increasing traffic, the Oberpostdirektion decided in 1962 to build a new post office behind the old post office. In 1999, the Hochneukircher post office was closed in the course of rationalization and a private post agency was opened in the Weckauf stationery shop on Bahnhofstrasse 7. She is responsible for the areas of Hochneukirch, Holz, Hackhausen, Spenrath and Otzenrath.

traffic

Hochneukirch station today

In 1873, Hochneukirch was given a rail connection on the eastern edge of the village, which further stimulated the emerging textile industry. The station is connected to the town center by Bahnhofstrasse. The reception building is still preserved today and has contained the Hf signal box since 1964. This signal box was given up when the ESTW technology was introduced in 2007. To the south of the reception building, the former goods shed is still preserved today. On May 30, 1980, passenger traffic on the line to Stolberg was stopped and the tracks on the line to Jülich were removed. In 1987 goods traffic followed. The station is now on the Cologne-Ehrenfeld-Rheydt railway line , the track field is a car park and the reception building is privately owned.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the parish

Max Busch (1865–1941), chemist, rector of the University of Erlangen
Adolf Horion (1888–1977), Roman Catholic clergyman and important entomologist
Peter Bamm , actually Curt Emmrich (1897–1975), writer
Willibert Kremer (1939), football player and coach

literature

Hochneukirch and its citizens - Festschrift - 100 years Heimatverein 1890 eV Hochneukirch, Whitsun 1990.
Jürgen Kiltz: Hochneukirch, Holz, Otzenratz and Spenrath on postcards. (= History of the community of Jüchen. Volume 14). Hundt Druck, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-049507-6 .

Web links

Commons : Hochneukirch - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ 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. 295 .

[1] 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. 295 .