Hoengen

This article deals with the Alsdorf district of Hoengen; for places with the spelling Höngen see Höngen ; for the German singer see Elisabeth Höngen .

Hoengen City of Alsdorf
Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 57 "  N , 6 ° 12 ′ 34"  E
Height :	150 m
Area :	9.43 km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1972
Postal code :	52477
Area code :	02404

Hoengen (official spelling 1939: Höngen ) is an eastern district of Alsdorf in the Aachen city region .

history

During the time of the Roman Empire there was a manor near today's Hoengen, which was managed from around 70 to 390.

The first documentary mention as "Hongelo" takes place in 1151 , Hoengen is an allod of the Limburg dukes. Heinrich II. (1139–1167) and his wife Ermesinde donated the estate including the chapel and lands to the Floreffe monastery. In 1756 the St. Sebastianus Schützenbruderschaft Hoengen was mentioned in writing for the first time in the church book of the mother parish of St. Cornelius, and in 1780 a prayer brotherhood to the Sacred Heart of Jesus was established.

In 1153 Reinsuindis, a noble matron, but the wife of Sigbodo von Hoinge + c. 1551, gave the church the tithe of forty-three acres of land that had been plowed from scrub into fields, with the stipulation that if For example, the scrubland with which this land is grown is also plowed up into fields and cultivated, the church receives tithes from this land in the same way. This land and the scrubland are in the area of ​​the church, which is called * Puffendorf, north of Setterich Setterich, so of course that one part is between Setterich and Pophendorp is Siersdorf, east of Baesweiler and the other between Setterich and Sigendorp. * You himself, however, also gave twelve denarii as income from an area near Setterich. Reinsuindis died on May 2nd. 1154 She is buried here in Kloosterrath zu Kerkrade. Regesten Monastery Rolduck.

In 1793 the first battle at Aldenhoven with French artillery positions at Hoengen and Warden on the ridge of the Begau takes place, in 1798 Hoengen belongs to the canton of Eschweiler in the Département de la Roer . To Mairie Hoengen include Hoengen, boring , Laurenzberg , Upper Merz and Warden . The place name is written on a French map from 1802 and a Prussian map from 1846 "Heugen"; Please note that French “eu” is spoken like German “ö”. From 1808 to 1971 Hoengen belonged to the district of the peace and later district court Eschweiler , since 1972 like Alsdorf to the district court district of Aachen.

In 1815 Hoengen fell to Prussia and belongs to the Aachen district . In the 1843 census , Hoengen counted 1,353 inhabitants. At that time, the districts of Hoengen, Mariadorf, Blumenrath, Warden and Begau belonged to the municipality of Hoengen. From 1927 to 1971 the place was part of the Eschweiler employment office.

The history of Hoengen as an independent municipality ends on January 1, 1972 with the merger of the municipalities of Hoengen and Bettendorf and the city of Alsdorf to form the city ​​of Alsdorf due to the Aachen Act . The districts of the former municipality of Hoengen thus became districts of Alsdorf. As the name of the association, Hoengen suggested “Broichtal” instead of “Alsdorf”, but was unable to assert itself.

traffic

Hoengener Bahnhof 2007

The next junction is "Alsdorf" on the A44 . Until the 1990s it was called Alsdorf-Hoengen . From there, a bypass leads directly to the “Eschweiler-West” junction on the A4 . Numerous bus routes connect Hoengen with Alsdorf, Mariadorf, Warden, Würselen, Aachen, Haaren, Eschweiler, Kinzweiler, Hehlrath, Aldenhoven and Jülich.

The next stops since December 2011 have been "Alsdorf-Mariadorf" and "Alsdorf-Poststrasse" on the Euregiobahn . The next DB train stations are Herzogenrath and Eschweiler Hbf . Hoengen no longer has a rail link itself. There used to be a stop at Hoengen. This stop took over the passenger traffic from the Hoengen Ost station, which was closed in 1962 for passenger traffic. The Hoengen stop was at the junction of Jülicher Strasse and Am Müschekamp / Weißstrasse at kilometer 13.7. Before the shutdown and dismantling, the stop had a side platform and a bus shelter. The bus shelter was removed shortly before the shutdown. Today nothing reminds of the breakpoint of yore. The reception building is still preserved today and is used privately.

church

Catholic

The church of St. Cornelius in the middle of the old town center was completely destroyed in the Second World War. A new building was erected in its place from 1949 to 1951 under the direction of the Aachen cathedral master builder Felix Kreusch .

Evangelical

For many centuries Hoengen belonged to the Protestant parish of Lürken and today, together with the neighboring Broichweiden, forms the Protestant parish "Hoengen-Broichweiden". The church responsible is located in the neighboring Mariadorf, although both places have grown together seamlessly.

Mining

In 1848 the coal mine Maria was opened south of Hoengen by the mountain master Eduard Honigmann , the justice of the peace Friedrich Boelling and the textile manufacturer Leopold Schoeller . In addition to the mine, a settlement next to Hoengen was built in the following years, which was initially named Mariagrube , later Mariadorf . The mine was renamed Alsdorf-Hoengener Bergwerke-Aktiengesellschaft in 1863 and flowed to the Association for Hard Coal Construction in the Wurmrevier in 1878 and to the Eschweiler Mining Association (EBV) through a merger in 1907 and was finally closed in 1962.

Hoengen has two mountain heaps called Jaspersberg (formerly Maria I) and Maria Hauptschacht .

societies

Hoengen has a very diverse club life. For the sports sector there is the TTG RS Hoengen ( table tennis ; 1st Bundesliga 1998–2002, TT-Inter-Cup winner 1999, ETTU-European Cup winner 2000), the Hoengener SV (soccer), the swimming club from Deutsche-Lebens -Rettungs-Gesellschaft the local group Hoengen and a swimming club for competition swimmers, the SCAH (swimming club Alsdorf Hoengen) a cycling club and the HTC (gymnastics club). For musicians there is the Drummler- und Pfeif (f) er Korps Vereinte Freunde and Blue Jackets as well as the St. Cornelius church choir and the recorder group of the same name. The St. Sebastianus Schützen are also assigned to the church associations. For the carnival, the Hoengener KG Blaue Funken 1933 e. V. responsible.

rivalry

There is a rivalry between the districts of Mariadorf and Hoengen that is not only visible in sporting competitions.

Venues

A multi-purpose hall for around 600 people is available in the middle of the village for events. The places at the Hermann-Josef elementary school and the church square in Kirchgäßchen are used for outdoor events.

Sons and daughters of the place

• Gustav Kampendonk (born May 30, 1909, † June 29, 1966 in Berlin ), screenwriter.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

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. 305 .