Hoven (Geilenkirchen)

Hoven City of Geilenkirchen Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 21 ″ N , 6 ° 9 ′ 12 ″ E
Height :	76 (75-77) m
Residents :	36 (December 31, 2015)
Postal code :	52511
Area code :	02453
	Location of Hoven in Geilenkirchen
	View of the town of Hoven

chapel

Place-name sign

Hoven on the tranchot card 1803–1820

Hoven is a district of the middle town of Geilenkirchen in the district of Heinsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

location

Hoven is located northeast of Geilenkirchen, about 700 m away from the state road 42 , which leads from Randerath via Geilenkirchen to Heerlen (Netherlands). The place is above the valley of the worm at a height of approx. 77 m above sea level and about 20 m higher than the water level of the worm. Hoven is located directly on the city limits to the city of Heinsberg . The Hover Bush joins in to the southwest.

Waters

The worm supplied numerous mills with water over a river length of 53 km . The source of the worm is south of Aachen at 265 m above sea level. The confluence with the Rur is in the town of Kempen in the town of Heinsberg at 32 m above sea level. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, worm straightening was carried out. The curving, now and then meandering course of the river disappeared in favor of a simple route . The river length shortened and the flow speed increased. Hoven never had a problem with floods. By straightening the river , however, the management of the meadows and rivers in the Wurm valley has been significantly improved.

Neighboring places

Uetterath	Dremming	Randerath
Straeten		Nirm
Tripsrath	Süggerath	Kraudorf

Type of settlement

Hoven is a loosely built hamlet on both sides with several farms in a rural setting.

history

Place name

1387 Hoven
1452 Hoyve
1540 Hoeven
1820 Hoven

Local history

Hoven used to belong to the Jülich Randerath office . In 1387 Arnold von Randerath named Johannes von der Hoven among the lay judges there . Very little is known about the small settlement in the Randerath court , northwest of Kraudorf. However, the location on the district in the high field directly on the Hover Busch forest area makes it very likely that it is a high medieval clearing settlement . The place is located at an old fork in the road, which can still be seen on the Tranchot map. Presumably the old town of Hoven lay behind the forest on a rubble spot. It probably went under with the towns of Forst and Hölkerath in the Thirty Years' War .

In 1828 Hoven had a total of 43 inhabitants, in 1852 there were 37 inhabitants and the place belonged to the mayor's office of Randerath. In the course of the regional reform on January 1, 1972, the towns of Hoven, Kogenbroich, Kraudorf and Nirm were taken over by the mayor's office of Randerath in the city of Geilenkirchen. Legal successor is the city of Geilenkirchen according to Section 29 of the Aachen Act .

Church history

The parish of St. Gertrud Kraudorf is made up of the towns of Kraudorf, Kogenbroich, Nirm, Hoven, Leerodt and Zumdahl . The majority of the population consists of Catholics .

In 1451 a Kyrche zo Kruytdorp was mentioned for the first time . In 1521 the priest Hubert Hutmann († 1563) was presented by the duke of Jülich , the dean of Susteren, as pastor for Kraudorf. He was also vicar of the Johannes Altar in Randerath. When the diocese of Aachen was established in 1804, the parish came from the diocese of Liège to the new diocese and was assigned to the canton of Geilenkirchen. When the re-established Archdiocese of Cologne undertook a reorganization in 1827, the canton became the Deanery of Geilenkirchen. Since then the parish has belonged to this deanery.

In the course of the parish reforms in the Diocese of Aachen, the formerly independent Catholic parish of St. Gertrud Kraudorf was incorporated into the Community of Parishes (GdG) St. Bonifatius Geilenkirchen .

politics

According to § 3 (1) e) of the main statute of the city of Geilenkirchen, the places Kraudorf, Nirm, Kogenbroich and Hoven form a city district. He is represented by a local mayor in the city council of Geilenkirchen.

Attractions

Catholic parish church St. Gertrud as monument no.7
Stained glass in the Catholic Parish Church
Catholic rectory in Kraudorf
Chapel of the Sorrowful Mother Maria, between Kraudorf and Nirm
Zumdahl house, rectangular courtyard with tower and moat as monument no.41
Gut Leerodt, former water system as monument no.46
Footfall stations between Randerath and Nirm as monument no.44

Infrastructure

In December 2015, 36 people lived in Hoven.
There are several farms with animal husbandry .
There is a bus stop in the AVV , served by line 493 Lindern- Uetterath-Heinsberg and back.
There is a playground for Hoven at the sports field in Kraudorf.
The place has a connection to the cycling network NRW .

School system

Kraudorf primary school also for Hoven in 1925: 1 class, 1 level, 1 teacher, 58 children
Kraudorf-Nirm primary school also for Hoven 1965: 2 classes, 2 teaching positions, 56 children

societies

Interest group of the parish Kraudorf eV
Nirm extinguishing unit also responsible for Hoven
St. Antonius Rifle Brotherhood Kraudorf-Nirm from 1912
Drummers and Pfeiffer Corps Kraudorf-Nirm
FSV Kraudorf-Uetterath eV
Church choir St. Cäcilia from 1874 (merged with the church choir Würm in 1998; dissolved in 2003)

Regular events

Patronage feast and coronation ceremony of the majesties
Fair weekend in the parish from Friday to Sunday
Birdshot by the Rifle Society one week after the fair
St. Martin parade in the area of the parish
Summer party of the FSV Kraudorf-Uetterath eV
Every two years the Kraudorf-Nirm Drummers and Pfeiffer Corps' summer festival
In the year in which the drum and Pfeiffer corps has no event, the Lantern Festival of the Nirm fire fighting unit

Street names

In Hoven there are no street names, only house numbers that residents, postmen, vendors and visitors have to use for orientation.

literature

Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen. 3. Edition. Kühlen, Mönchengladbach 1994, ISBN 3-87448-172-7 , p. 712
Wilhelm Piepers: Archeology in the Heinsber district , pp. 391–401
Leo Gillessen: The localities of the district of Heinsberg , p. 124
Leo Gillessen: On place names and settlement studies of the southern Selfkant district , in: Home calendar of the Selfkant district Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg 1970, pp. 38–49
Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province . Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
Helmut Krause: The pastors of the parish St. Gertrud in Kraudorf , 1991

Web links

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

Individual evidence

^ German basic map 1: 5000
↑ Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )
^ Main statute of the city of Geilenkirchen
↑ http://www.glasmalerei-ev.net/pages/b2979/b2979.shtml

[DGK5-1] German basic map 1: 5000

[DE-NW_TIM-2] Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )

[3] Main statute of the city of Geilenkirchen

[4] ttp://www.glasmalerei-ev.net/pages/b2979/b2979.shtml