Hoerstgen

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Hoerstgen is the westernmost district of Kamp-Lintfort . It is a typical street village with a Protestant church in the center. This is very famous for its well-preserved Thomas Weidtman - organ from the year 1731. The Hoerstgener church records have survived from the 1,632th The evangelical community came into being in the middle of catholic territory when the imperial baroness Hoerstgen joined the Reformation in 1557 . This led to centuries of conflict with which to electoral Koln belonging Klosterkamp . The small rule of Frohnenbruch-Hoerstgen was partly financed by the settlement of protective Jews from the 18th century. At the beginning of the 19th century, their share made up around 25% of the village population. The only witness of the percentage largest Jewish community on the Lower Rhine is today the Jewish cemetery on the outskirts towards Sevelen . The synagogue on Dorfstrasse was demolished in 1931.

The Free Evangelical Community of Hoerstgen has existed since Ascension Day in 1861. Child and youth work has been one of the main tasks for a long time. Special mention should be made of the Hoerstival, the largest Christian music festival on the Lower Rhine. FeG Hoerstgen is a member of the Federation of Free Protestant Congregations in Germany .

Another attraction is the former manor house Frohnenbruch on the border with Sevelen. The silhouette of Hoerstgen is also shaped by a shaft in the West mine .

Sons and daughters of Hoerstgen

  • Johannes Ewich (1525–1588), reformer in Hoerstgen, first graduate doctor in Duisburg and later city physician in Bremen
  • Jacob Wiener (1815–1899), Jewish engraver
  • Ako Haarbeck (1932–2017), pastor and former regional superintendent of the Lippe regional church

literature

  • Julius Meyer: A poem about the Reformation in Hörstgen . In: Zeitschrift des Bergisches Geschichtsverein 9 (1873), p. 234 ff. ( Archive.org ), accessed on October 3, 2011
  • Ernst von Oidtman : The gentlemen of Milendonk from the family of the von Mirlaer . In: Zeitschrift des Aachener Geschichtsverein , 11 (1889), p. 8 ff.
  • Robert Cleff: History of the Protestant church community in Hörstgen. Festschrift for the inauguration of the rebuilt church on November 4, 1897 . Hörstgen 1897.
  • Adolf Müller: Documents from the history of the Hörstgen community in the 17th and 18th centuries . In: Theological works from the Rhenish Scientific Preachers' Association, New Series 7 (1904), p. 104 ff.
  • Mathias Dicks: The Abbey Camp on the Lower Rhine . Kempen 1913, p. 17 ff.
  • Julius Fomm: Hoerstgen, a Rhenish Gretna Green in the 18th century . In: Monthly Issues for Rhenish Church History 32 (1938), p. 206 ff.
  • Paul Mast: The "war" between Hörstgen and Kamp . In: Heimatkalender Kreis Moers 1938, p. 90 ff = monthly books for Rhenish church history 33 (1939), p. 241 ff.
  • Wilhelm Munzert: The village of Hoerstgen and its church . In: Heimatkalender Kreis Moers 1955, p. 94 ff.
  • Wilhelm Ricken: Hoerstgen, a Lower Rhine village . In: Heimatkalender Kreis Moers 1969, p. 20 ff.
  • E. Günther Piecha: Mylendonk, Kamp and Hoerstgen. Trials, looting, invasions . In: Heimatkalender Kreis Wesel 1981, p. 24 ff.
  • Rolf Günther Pistor: Refuge houses on Frohnenbruch house. From the building history of a mansion on the Lower Rhine . In: Heimatkalender Kreis Wesel 1983, p. 54 ff.
  • Wolfgang Dassel: The historic gate building to the middle house of the Frohnenbruch house . In: Geldrischer Heimatkalender 1984, p. 100 ff.
  • E. Günther Piecha: The "Reichsfrei glory Hoerstgen and Frohnenbruch". The sex of the von Mylendonk . In: Der Niederrhein 52 (1985) 1, p. 18 ff.
  • Jürgen Buschmann: The Weidtman organ of the Protestant church in Hoerstgen . In: Heimatkalender Kreis Wesel 1990, p. 159 ff.
  • Friedhelm Lenz: Hanc campanam reparandam. The bells of the Hoerstgener Church; Hermann Bornheim on his 80th birthday . o. O., o. J. (2000)
  • Bernhard Keuck, Albert Spitzner-Jahn: "There are also quite a few Jews living in it who make a lot of entries". On the history of the Hoerstgen Jews from the 18th to the 20th century . In: Gerd Halmanns, Bernhard Keuck (ed.): Jews in the history of the Gelderland . Geldern 2002, p. 133 ff.
  • Ulrike Anhamm, Friedhelm Lenz, Wolfgang Lietzow: Christ Lux Nostra. 450 years of the Evangelical Church in Hoerstgen . Goch 2007.
  • Albert Spitzner-Jahn: Inventory. The damage during the occupation of the Frohnenbruch house by Kamp Abbey in 1692/97 . In: Yearbook District Wesel 2009, p. 54 ff.
  • Paul-Gerhard Buyken: A journey through the history of FeG Hoerstgen, 150 years FeG Hoerstgen, May 2011 [1]

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '  N , 6 ° 28'  E