Hoeningen

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Hoeningen is a district of the municipality of Rommerskirchen in the Rhine district of Neuss in North Rhine-Westphalia .

location

Hoeningen borders the village of Widdeshoven in the south and the village of Ramrath in the northwest . The strategic embankment runs in the northeast .

St. Stephen of Hoeningen

history

The place was probably built in the 6th / 7th. Century. At least the Hoeninger House was already a knight's seat, which originally consisted of a castle with a moat. Even today, the courtyard complex at this location is surrounded by a moat. The Hoeningen family owned the Hoeningen house. One of their descendants was Otto von Hoeningen, who was abbot of Altenberg Abbey from 1276 to 1280 . In the 10th century, Hoeningen was first mentioned in a document as Hoangi. However, this certificate can no longer be found. During this time the settlement was described as belonging to the Kölngau . Since 1195 the "Hoingen" was also the parish with the parish church of St. Stephanus . The oldest part of the parish church is Romanesque. In Ramrath, the Lambertus Chapel was built on an artificial hill above the Gillbach in the 12th century. The Knights of Hoengen were first mentioned in 1227. Their castle was an open house in the Electorate of Cologne since 1387. Until 1794 Hoeningen belonged to the Dingstuhl Rommerskirchen in the Electoral Cologne district of Hülchrath .

After the French invaded in 1794, the area on the left bank of the Rhine became French. In 1798 the French divided the Rhineland into four departments (Rur / Roer, Rhine-Mosel, Saar and Donnersberg). Departments were subdivided into arrondissements / roughly administrative districts, these in turn into cantons / roughly districts and these again into mairies / mayor's offices. The lowest administrative unit in this area was the Mairie Evinghoven with the Commune Hoeningen. This belonged to the canton of Elsen in the Arrondissement of Cologne in the Département de la Roer . After the withdrawal of the French occupation troops as a result of the collapse of the Napoleonic Empire in 1814, the Catholic Rhineland was awarded to Protestant Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. At first, Hoeningen only belonged as a place to the mayor's office of Evinghoven and from 1839 the municipality of Hoeningen was formed. She belonged to the district of Neuss . It consisted of the four localities Hoeningen, Widdeshoven, Ramrath and Villau. Between 1840 and 1882, at least 235 people from the Hoeningen community emigrated to the United States . Since 1906 Hoeningen was connected to the public electrical network. In 1945 American troops occupied the area around Hoeningen. On January 1, 1975, the Hoeningen community was dissolved. It became part of the Rommerskirchen community.

Community leader

  • 1846–1850 Christian Wilhelm Grund - also mayor of Evinghoven until 1847
  • 1850–1851 Heinrich Weihsdorf
  • 1851–1852 Reiner Heusgen
  • 1852–1856 Moritz Wermelskirchen - also mayor of Evinghoven
  • 1856–1862 Johann Peter Hoffmann
  • 1893-1894 Adam Hesemann
  • 1894–1918 Franz von Meer
  • 1920–1933 Josef Hansen

mayor

  • 1946–1949 Jakob Schmitz
  • 1949–1956 Franz Helten
  • 1956–1961 Jakob Schmitz
  • 1961–1974 Heinz Faller

leisure

Sports

The local soccer club DJK Eintracht Hoeningen 1927 managed to get promoted in the 2006/2007 season and played in the district league B until the 2014/2015 season. In 2008, a clubhouse with cabins was built in-house. In 2009 the club was the first club in the Neuss district to build an artificial turf pitch (small pitch) under its own responsibility. In the 2018/2019 season they made it again.

societies

  • Gilbach musicians
  • St. Sebastianus Rifle Brotherhood Hoeningen
  • Drum corps Widdeshoven-Hoeningen
  • KjG St. Stephanus Hoeningen
  • Obstlerfreunde Hoeningen eV

Public facilities

  • Youth meeting step

Economy and Infrastructure

Although the place is very small, it can be seen as the center of the surrounding villages Ramrath, Villau and Widdeshoven, as the church, kindergarten and school are located in Hoeningen. Apart from a bank and a pub - the Hoeninger Hof - there is no retail store in Hoeningen. This is increasingly concentrated in the neighboring towns. In addition to the companies mentioned, there is also an agricultural trading company with grain silo systems on site. Before that there was a windmill that collapsed during World War II.

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. 295 .
  2. ↑ Address of the youth club on the Rhein-Kreis-Neuss website

literature

  • Josef Schmitz: Life at Gillbach II municipality Hoeningen with the villages Widdeshoven, Hoeningen, Ramrath and Villau 1800-1974. Neuss, 1993.

Web links

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 '  N , 6 ° 41'  E