Houverath (Erkelenz)

Houverath City of Erkelenz Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 9 ″  N , 6 ° 14 ′ 58 ″  E
Height :	approx. 89 m
Residents :	646  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1972
Postal code :	41812
Area code :	02433
Location of Houverath in North Rhine-Westphalia

Houverath town center

Houverath is a district of the city of Erkelenz in the district of Heinsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia . To the west of the village is the hamlet of Houverather Heide.

geography

Eastern local access

Houverath is on the western edge of the Erkelenzer Börde . In the east, the Baaler - Wassenberger Riedelland extends as a narrow band between the Börde and the Rurtal .

location

In the north lies Golkrath , in the northeast Matzerath , in the east Haus Hohenbusch , in the southeast Hetzerath , in the south Doveren , in the southwest Hückelhoven and in the west Kleingladbach . The last three places belong to the city of Hückelhoven.

In the south of Houverath the road Erkelenz-Hückelhoven leads past the village. The A 46 motorway runs parallel to this, with the Hückelhoven Ost junction to the south .

Type of settlement

Houverath was a street village in the 19th century . The settlement stretched along today's street "In Houverath". Individual farmsteads stood along the “In der Vore” street.

Noteworthy is a farmstead surrounded by a moat, which is still marked on the Tranchot map and corresponds to the approximate location of today's “Püllenhof”.

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1262. However, since noble lords of the Middle Ages used to name themselves after their ancestral seat, one can assume that Houverath is even older. In a document from 1259, which comes from the former Wassenberger Stift, is the note:

1259, mense Augusto. Waleramus dux Lemburgensis gives the cleric Heinrich, son of Sibertus de Hugenrode, who renounces 20 acres of land near Ursbec, the Wassenberg fiefdom, and 16 other acres near Wassenberg. - Perg. Or. 3 p. (From).

It follows that the above-mentioned cleric Heinrich de Hugenrode is the son of Sibertus de Hugenrode and therefore Houverath was the ancestral seat of this family well before 1259.

In the Middle Ages and in the early modern period, Houverath was part of the Kleingladbach court, which belonged to the Wassenberg office of the Duchy of Jülich . During the French occupation from 1794 to 1814, Houverath was assigned to Mairie Kleingladbach in the canton of Erkelenz. From 1815 under Prussian rule, the village remained in the mayor's office of Kleingladbach in the district of Erkelenz . On October 1, 1935, Houverath and Houverather Heide ( 51 ° 4 ′ 24 ″  N , 6 ° 14 ′ 30 ″  E ) were added to the newly founded community of Golkrath. This community belonged to the office of Erkelenz-Land.

On January 1, 1972, the community of Golkrath, to which Houverath belonged until then, was incorporated into the city of Erkelenz.

Houverather parish church

Place names

In 1262 the place was first mentioned as "(de) Hugenrode"; 1312/50 as "Hougenroide"; 1453 as "Huegenroide"; 1554 as "Huffenraidt"; In 1669 the village appears as "Huveradt".

religion

The population is predominantly Catholic . Houverath, which originally belonged to the parish of Kleingladbach, became the parish rectorate in 1913 , and the cemetery was laid out in the same year. The Church of St. Laurentius was consecrated in 1887.

Culture

Attractions

• Parish Church of St. Laurentius
• Lady Chapel from 1922

See also : List of architectural monuments in Houverath (Erkelenz)

societies

• Leisure community Rheingold Houverath 1977
• Drummer and Whistler Corps 1960 Houverath e. V.
• St. Laurentius-Schützenbruderschaft Houverath e. V. from 1929

Infrastructure

• Catholic primary school Houverath in the school network Franziskus-Schule Erkelenz & Houverath. The school has been participating in the Comenius program of the European Union since 2010 and received the “European School in North Rhine-Westphalia” certificate on May 4, 2014 .

Personalities

• Arnold Poll (1925–2016) was a pastor in Houverath from 1966 to 2016 . He built up the children's ministry and the carol-singing campaign. The prelate was an honorary citizen of the city of Erkelenz.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Update of the population on December 31, 2016 (PDF). (No longer available online.) In: Website of the city of Erkelenz. Archived from the original on January 25, 2017 ; Retrieved January 25, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ http://www.archive.org/stream/bersichtberdeni00tillgoog/bersichtberdeni00tillgoog_djvu.txt
3. ^ 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. 307 .
4. ↑ Document book for the history of the Lower Rhine by Theodor Joseph Lacomblet - 1846 -

literature

• Aloys P. Wilms: The Marienkapelle in Houverath . In: From the history of the Erkelenzer Land, Erkelenz 1989

Web links

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

• Website of the city of Erkelenz
• Monuments in the city of Erkelenz
• Churches and chapels in the city of Erkelenz
• PDF at www.bellinghoven-dorfarchiv.de (392 kB)
• Private website for Houverath