Homberg-Meiersberg

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Homberg-Meiersberg
City of Ratingen
"In silver (white) over a green, corrugated shield base, a red, black armored striding horse."
Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 36 "  N , 6 ° 55 ′ 40"  E
Height : 140 m
Area : 16.18 km²
Residents : 5394  (December 31, 2015)
Population density : 333 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 40882
Area code : 02102

Homberg-Meiersberg has been a district of Ratingen in the Mettmann district since 1975 .

The part of the former municipality of Homberg-Meiersberg that was dissolved in the city of Ratingen now forms a district together with the district of Schwarzbach as the Homberg district .

Homberg's image is shaped by the towers of the two churches on Dorfstrasse, which are popularly known as Wiesnasen , as they protrude from the fields like noses when viewed from the surrounding hills. The historic core of the village is the Catholic Church of St. Jacobus the Elder on Dorfstraße, a Romanesque basilica from the 12th century, which contains sculptures by the Düsseldorf artist Bert Gerresheim . In front of the west tower of St. Jacobus, the village street widens to a smaller square with some picturesque houses, including the half-timbered house In der Meuse (Jacobusgasse 3) , which has been attested since the 16th century . In the part of the village street below this square, the village-like character of the village is still clearly visible today.

history

The first written mention of Homberg dates back to 1067.

In the 12th century the Catholic Church of St. Jacobus the Elder was built.

In the middle of the 14th century, Homberg belonged to the Bergische Amt Angermund and had its own regional court.

In 1684 the first Protestant church was built in Homberg. It was north of the village "in the ground".

In 1685 the Protestant primary school was built opposite the church.

Since the 19th century, the three old monks Homberg, Bracht and Bellscheidt formed the Homberg-Bracht-Bellscheidt community in the Eckamp mayor's office in the Düsseldorf district . Meiersberg , which also emerged from an old sonship, was a municipality in the Hubbelrath mayor's office.

The new Evangelical Christ Church was completed in 1912 according to plans by the architect Moritz Korn .

On July 29, 1929, the municipality Homberg-Bracht-Bellscheidt became part of the new Hubbelrath office in the Düsseldorf-Mettmann district as part of the municipal reorganization .

The new waterworks went into operation on August 14, 1959.

On April 1, 1967, the communities Homberg-Bracht-Bellscheidt and Meiersberg merged to form the new community Homberg-Meiersberg at their own request . It consisted of the village of Homberg, the hamlets of Hofermühle and Oberheide as well as numerous individual farms and belonged to the district court district of Ratingen.

In 1968 the elementary school in Meiersberg was closed. The denominational schools in Homberg were also closed and a community elementary school was founded. The new building with a gym in Alt-Homberg, built a few years earlier for both denominational schools, was used as the school building.

The four municipalities of the Hubbelrath office ( Hasselbeck-Schwarzbach , Homberg-Meiersberg, Hubbelrath, Metzkausen ) planned in 1968 to merge into a single municipality with the name Hubbelrath . The major territorial reform that followed stopped this planning.

In the 1970s, Homberg, south of the Ratingen-Wülfrath ( Meiersberger Strasse ) road , was expanded considerably to include the Homberg-Süd development area , including the area of ​​the former municipality of Meiersberg. The district's only (elementary) school (built 1974-1975), the Christian Morgenstern School , whose former headquarters in Alt-Homberg has now been closed, is also located there.

The municipality of Homberg-Meiersberg only existed for a short time, however, it was dissolved on January 1, 1975 by the law on the reorganization of the communities and districts of the Mönchengladbach / Düsseldorf / Wuppertal area of ​​September 10, 1974. The largest part of the municipality (16.18 km 2 with 4045 inhabitants) was merged with the city of Ratingen, the municipalities of Breitscheid, Eggerscheidt, Hösel and Lintorf ( Angerland office ) to form the new city of Ratingen in the Mettmann district. Hofermühle (3.03 km 2 with 343 inhabitants) was incorporated into the town of Heiligenhaus , some properties east of the hamlet of Oberheide (12 ha with two inhabitants) came to the district town of Mettmann .

traffic

Homberg is connected to Ratingen via the L 422 state road as well as the A 3 (Cologne – Oberhausen) and A 44 (Velbert – Düsseldorf – Mönchengladbach) and Wülfrath motorways, as well as to Heiligenhaus and the district town of Mettmann via the L 156 state road. Homberg is connected to local public transport by bus routes 748 (Wülfrath – Mettmann), 761 (Homberg – Ratingen) and 771 (Velbert – Ratingen).

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  1. ↑ Weidenhaupt / Münster-Schröer, p. 136
  2. ↑ Weidenhaupt, Hugo; Münster-Schröer, Erika; The history of the parish St. Jacobus the Elder in Ratingen-Homberg; Düsseldorf 1997; P. 36
  3. ↑ Mundt, Eckart, Hackstein, Marlies; The Hubbelrath Office - A Historical Study; Opladen 1974
  4. ^ GV. NRW. 1967 p. 38
  5. ^ GV. NRW. 1974 p. 890
  6. ^ 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. 293 .