Holzweiler

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Holzweiler
City of Erkelenz
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 52 ″  N , 6 ° 24 ′ 20 ″  E
Height : 93 m
Area : 11.79 km²
Residents : 1392  (June 30, 2020)
Population density : 118 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1972
Postal code : 41812
Area code : 02164
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Location of Holzweiler in the Rhenish lignite district

Holzweiler is a village in the eastern part of the city of Erkelenz ( Heinsberg district ). It has been part of Erkelenz since 1972. Since there were several rope mills here , Holzweiler is also called rope village . The village is located in the planned mining area for the Garzweiler II open-cast lignite mine and should therefore be relocated. According to a decision by the North Rhine-Westphalian state government on March 28, 2014, however, the mining area is to be significantly reduced and Holzweiler is to be retained.

The village also has three listed farms, the Roitzerhof, the Eggerather Hof and the Weyerhof. According to current plans, all three are to give way to open-cast lignite mining.

Protest sign at the entrance to Holzweiler

geography

Holzweiler and the surrounding area, 1806

The village is located in the fertile Erkelenzer Börde , a landscape that is characterized by loess soil . The relief is flat, wavy in the south. The terrain rises from northwest to southeast. The village boundary is 1047 hectares. A bypass road , the L19, which connects Erkelenz with the Jackerath motorway junction , runs around the village to the west and south .

location

The three individual farms are located in the northwest of the village. North of Holzweiler are Berverath , Unterwestrich and Oberwestrich , the Westricher mill and Keyenberg . In the northeast the hamlet of Lützerath and in the east Immerath . The municipality of Titz ( Düren district ) begins in the south , here is Jackerath to the south- east and the hamlet of Dackweiler and some individual courtyards to the south. To the west are the Hauerhof, the Eichhof and Katzem .

Place names

The village belongs to the group of places on -weiler . The place name means settlement in or near the forest.

Village shape

Holzweiler is a multi-line street village.

geology

Sand and gravel

The quaternary Rhein - Maas - main terrace with its sands and gravels below the loess soil and has a thickness of 20-40 m. These raw materials are extracted from a pit to the west of the village.

Brown coal

Three tertiary lignite seams lie in the depths : the Garzweiler seam , the Frimmersdorf seam and the Morken seam . But already in the underground area.

The Holzweiler Sprung, a fault line of tectonics, runs underground . The geological Jackerather Horst begins in the south .

history

Holzweiler Hof

The village was founded at the time of the Merovingians , in the time of the conquest and early expansion . This ended in the early 9th century.

In the year 898 gave King Zwentibold of Lorraine where women stick food Holtvilare . Since then, the monastery has ruled for over 900 years until the French secularized the monasteries and monasteries around 1802 .

In the Middle Ages and the early modern period Holzweiler belonged to the Office Kaster in the Duchy of Jülich . The village formed a judicial district ( Dingstuhl ) for the places Immerath, Pesch, Spenrath, Lützerath and the field farms.

In 1816 the place was added to the mayor's office in Immerath, in 1847 Holzweiler became an individual municipality ( special municipality), but remained in the collective municipality of Immerath. In 1938 the mayor offices of Immerath and Keyenberg were merged to form the new Holzweiler office . 1972 the office was dissolved and the communities part of the city of Erkelenz.

In 1844 a new school was built.

In 1856 the "Communal-Chaussee" between Erkelenz and Jackerath was completed.

In 1879 Adam Hurtz founded a forge. A small agricultural machinery workshop later developed from this. After the Second World War, they developed a bunker harvester for sugar beet. In 1963 the company was stopped.

1891 The windmill burns down and is built on a new site near Immerath.

The Holzweiler dairy cooperative was founded in 1896 and existed until 1968.

1909 The village is connected to the electricity grid.

1920 The "cabbage factory" for beet and apple cabbage is founded; it was closed in 1961.

On February 27, 1945, American soldiers from the 2nd Battalion of the 175th Regiment of the 29th Infantry Division of the 9th US Army took the village during Operation Grenade .

On January 1, 1972, Holzweiler was incorporated into Erkelenz.

Population development

year 1885 1925 1933 1939 1961 1970 2008 2010 2014 2016
Residents 1319 1124 1157 1152 1429 1395 1551 1533 1493 1458

The data for the years 1961 and 1970 are census results. Source:

Eggerather Hof

The farms

The Eggerather Hof was first mentioned in 1197 as Eckenrode and is a listed building. At that time it was probably a hamlet , as it is called uilla (villa = village). In the 14th century a noble family named itself after the court. Various noble families have owned the farm over the centuries. In the 18th century it was listed as a knight's seat. In the 19th century the farm came into civil ownership.

The Roitzer Hof appears as the Roydholdts in a document from 1341. In 1470 it is a free manor, in 1520 it is called Roytz . This farm was also owned by the nobility. In 1823 the court was declared a knight's seat by the Prussian king. In 1850 the farm was sold to a commoner.

The Weyerhof is the youngest of the three farms. The name Weyers appears in a wisdom written around 1550 . In contrast to the first two farms, the sequence of owners is not known here. In 1746 he belonged to a middle-class family.

All three farms were managed by Halfen for centuries .

religion

View of the church

The majority of the population is Catholic. The Catholic Church has the patronage of St. Cosmas and Damian . After the medieval church was demolished, the new church was consecrated in 1861. The steeple was built between 1914 and 1923. On January 1st, 2010 the parish was merged with ten other parishes to form the parish of St. Maria and Elisabeth Erkelenz.

The Gothic inn chapel, the chapel of the hospital , was converted into a school building in the 19th century and later a residential building.

From 1890 to 1960 religious sisters from the cooperative of the Franciscan Sisters from Olpe lived in the Maria Hilf monastery, which was built in 1870 . The small community was dedicated to nursing and kindergarten .

Holzweiler is located in the area of ​​the Protestant community of Lövenich.

Infrastructure

There is a parish home and a kindergarten in Holzweiler. The Erkelenz volunteer fire brigade is represented by the Holzweiler fire fighting group. There is also a police station in an area on the first floor of the old school, which is manned at certain times of the week. The DRK OV Holzweiler can also be found in the old school.

  • Branch of the Raiffeisenbank Erkelenz
  • Gas station
  • Inn with bowling alley
  • Kitchen studio
  • Event hall
  • gym
  • Old school with communal and club rooms

Culture and sights

Regular events

  • New year ball of the volunteer fire brigade Holzweiler
  • Children's carnival meeting of the Holzweiler village community
  • Women's meeting of the Holzweiler village community
  • Carnival meeting of the Holzweiler village community
  • Rose Monday parade
  • Dance in May of the Holzweiler village community
  • Shooting festival of the St. Sebastianus shooting society Holzweiler
  • Artists' market in the parish hall
  • Summer party of the youth department of SV Holzweiler
  • St. Martin's parade with St. Martin's bonfire and graduation ceremonies in the old schoolyard
  • Oktoberfest Holzweiler

Attractions

Permanent exhibition

  • Home window (in the old school)

  • Catholic parish church of St. Cosmas and Damian

  • The war memorial 1914-18 next to the church

  • The hail cross near Holzweiler

literature

  • Paul Blaesen, Holzweiler - A Contribution to History up to the Beginning of the 19th Century , Cologne 1981
  • Paul Blaesen, Holzweiler - A Rhenish village in Prussian times 1815–1947 , Mönchengladbach 1988

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Update of the population on June 30, 2020 (PDF). In: Website of the city of Erkelenz. Retrieved July 15, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Rhein-Erft-Rundschau, accessed on March 29, 2014 http://www.rundschau-online.de/rhein-erft/garzweiler-ii-holzweiler-bleibt,15185500,26690554.html
  3. ↑ Deutschlandfunk, January 17, 2017 https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/holzweiler-dorf-am-abbruch.1001.de.html?dram:article_id=376495
  4. ↑ a b Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality register 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. ↑ 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).

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