Issum
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Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ' N , 6 ° 25' E |
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| Basic data | ||
| State : | North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Administrative region : | Dusseldorf | |
| Circle : | Kleve | |
| Height : | 24 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 54.74 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 11,977 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 219 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 47661 | |
| Area code : | 02835 | |
| License plate : | KLE, GEL | |
| Community key : | 05 1 54 020 | |
| LOCODE : | DE ISU | |
| Community structure: | 2 localities | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Glory 7–9 47661 Issum |
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| Mayor : | Clemens Brüx (independent) | |
| Location of the municipality of Issum in the Kleve district | ||
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The municipality Issum is located on the lower Lower Rhine in the west of North Rhine-Westphalia and is a kreisangehorige community of Kleve in the administrative district of Dusseldorf .
geography
Spatial location
Issum is located on the left bank of the Rhine in the Lower Rhine lowlands. Issum is on average 24 m above sea level. The Issumer Fleuth flows through the municipality . The Nenneper Fleuth flows into the Issumer Fleuth in Issum.
Municipal area
The community area has a size of 54 km². The municipality of Issum is divided into the two localities Issum and Sevelen . The districts of Bönninghardt, Hamsfeld, Hochwald, Lamerong and Niederwald as well as parts of Aengenesch belong to the village of Issum. The districts of Oermten, Vorst, Vrasselt, Groß- and Kleinholthuysen belong to the locality of Sevelen.
Neighboring municipalities / cities
The municipality of Issum borders the municipality of Sonsbeck in the north, the municipality of Alpen in the northeast, the city of Kamp-Lintfort (all Wesel district ) in the east, the municipalities of Kerken and Rheurdt in the south and the city of Geldern in the west .
history
A disc brooch and a belt buckle from the early 7th century, which are kept in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn under the location “Sevelen”, suggest that today's Sevelen district was built in the early Middle Ages . In a list of acquisitions of goods by Archbishop Philip I of Heinsberg from Cologne from 1190, a place Cevele is mentioned, which is probably identical to Sevelen.
Today's main town Issum was first mentioned in a document in 1338, when the “glory and the property that is in Issum and the surrounding area” was returned by Vogt Gerardus de Belle to Duke Rainald II of Geldern . The Issum Castle was a moated castle, which was located on the Fleuth and today, as Haus Issum, houses parts of the municipal administration and the local history museum "His-Törchen". In the following centuries the rulership changed hands continuously through sale, pledging and marriage. So Issum u. a. the Elector of Cologne , the Count of Moers, the Geldrian Hereditary Marshal von Boedberg and the Klevian Hereditary Marshal von Pallant.
The district of Issum belonged to the Electorate of Cologne until 1798. The Sevelen district belonged to the Duchy of Geldern until 1713 , when it became part of Prussia . From 1798 to 1814 both districts were under French rule until the entire Lower Rhine was added to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna in 1814 . Thereupon, on April 23, 1816, Issum came to the district of Geldern as one of over 40 districts of the province of Jülich-Kleve-Berg , the later Rhine province, as part of the Prussian administrative organization .
The localities of the community Issum belonged after their establishment to the area of the Archdiocese of Cologne . With the reorganization of the Dutch dioceses by King Philip II in 1559, the village of Sevelen fell to the diocese of Roermond . Under French rule in 1802 both localities were assigned to the newly founded diocese of Aachen . The now still valid membership of the diocese of Münster was established in 1821 at the request of the Kingdom of Prussia.
In the community of Issum there has been a Catholic parish of St. Anna since February 12, 2005 with the parish church of St. Antonius in Sevelen and the branch church of St. Nicholas in Issum. The Catholic parish of St. Anna consists of the two formerly independent parishes of these districts.
There is a Protestant parish in the Issum district. In the Sevelen district a parish hall of the Protestant parish of Hoerstgen. Therefore Issum belongs to the evangelical church district Kleve and Sevelen to the evangelical church district Moers. Both church districts belong to the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland .
In the community of Issum there is a New Apostolic and the free Christian community in Issum.
From 1764 to the Second World War there was a Jewish community in Issum . In 1855 she bought a piece of land with a barn and built a synagogue , which was inaugurated on December 16, 1865. At that time the Jewish community numbered 50 members. In 1900 the Issum synagogue became the property of the synagogue community of Geldern. In the following years, more and more Jews moved from Issum and around 1930 it was no longer possible to hold a church service because the required number of ten religiously responsible male Jews no longer came about. In 1935, the synagogue was sold to a citizen of Issum who used it as a storage room. It therefore escaped the fate of the Geldern synagogue on the night of the pogrom and remained in place. The members of the Jewish community in Issum died during the Holocaust . The synagogue was bought in 1987 by the community of Issum, listed as a historical monument and restored. It is one of the few remaining old synagogues in North Rhine-Westphalia .
Territorial reform
The municipality of Issum was established in its current form on July 1, 1969 during the first municipal reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . The communities of Issum and Sevelen were merged to form the new community of Issum.
On January 1, 1975, in the course of the second reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia, the old Kleve district was merged with the former Geldern district and parts of the Moers and Rees districts to form the new Greater Kleve district on the Lower Rhine.
Population development
The following information relates to what is today the area of the municipality of Issum.
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Denomination statistics
According to the 2011 census , in 2011 26.1% of the population were Protestant , 53.0% were predominantly Roman Catholic and 20.8% were non-denominational , belonged to another religious community or did not provide any information. The number of Protestants and Catholics has fallen since then. Currently (as of December 31, 2019) of the 12,236 inhabitants, 2,938 (24.0%) are Protestant, 30 are Evangelical-Lutheran, 5,991 (49.0%) are Roman-Catholic, 36 Orthodox, 17 New Apostolic and 3,224 residents are with or without others religion
politics
Municipal council
The council of the community of Issum consists of a total of 30 members. Since the last local election on May 25, 2014, the CDU (46.8%, 14 seats), SPD (39.3%, 12 seats) and FDP (13.8%, 4 seats) have been represented in the local council.
The next local election will take place in 2020.
mayor
In the mayoral election in 2015, Clemens Brüx was elected as a candidate of the SPD and FDP with 60.8% of the votes to succeed Gerhard Kawaters. His opponents were Stefan Vester (CDU) with 29.9% as well as Bernd Deckers (non-party) with 4.8% and Hans-Theo Deckers (non-party) with 4.5% of the votes.
coat of arms
The heraldic description reads: "In a silver (white) / red halved field, above a red growing stag with raised forelegs, below a silver (white) medlar flower between three 2: 1 set Antonius crosses, the foot ends of which are directed towards the medlar flower."
The coat of arms was designed by Walther Bergmann after the municipal reorganization in 1969 and approved by the Düsseldorf District President on June 27, 1973. It contains elements of the two old municipal coats of arms of Issum and Sevelen. The former municipality of Issum had the leaping stag in its coat of arms since 1937 . This coat of arms shows this coat of arms as early as the 16th century, when the Lords of Issum exercised jurisdiction in Issum. The old coat of arms of Sevelen was not created until 1959, but it dates back to the 13th century: it pointed to the booming pottery trade in Sevelen and the church patron St. Antonius with four crosses and a medlar flower .
flag
Description of the banner: Red-white-red in a ratio of 1: 5: 1, striped lengthways with the municipal coat of arms shifted slightly upwards over the middle.
Partner communities
Since 1958 there has been a community partnership between the community of Issum - Sevelen and Sevelen in the canton of St. Gallen in Switzerland . This partnership is lived in mutual visits at folk festivals such as B. Shooting festivals or fair .
There has been a youth exchange with the French village of Courdemanche since 1959 .
Culture and sights
Museums
The documentation and exhibition “Jewish Life on the Lower Rhine” is now located in the former synagogue with mikvah and Jewish school.
In the local museum His-Törchen , works of art by local artists are shown. In addition to ceramics by Agnes Wetzling-Lenders , sculptures and tools by the sculptor and painter Clemens Pasch are on display.
The Herrlichkeitsmühle , built in 1768 , a drive-through Dutch mill made of oak wood covered with wooden shingles, was renovated from 2004 to 2005 and on September 25, 2005 by the Förderverein Herrlichkeitsmühle Issum e. V. put it back into operation and has been grinding grain again since then. The mill can be visited after registration.
Buildings
The Dahlenmühle is located in Sevelen , a Dutch tower windmill built in 1868. The building became the property of the Dahlen family in 1915 and was used as an oil and fruit mill until the Second World War. The listed mill is now owned by the Museum Association Dahlenmühle e. V. supervised. Extensive renovations have taken place since 2000. The mill can be visited after registration.
The moated castle Haus Issum is a brick building from the second half of the 16th century. Used for a long time as the town hall, it was fundamentally renovated in the 1980s and today houses the His-Törchen museum in the former outer bailey and the communal meeting room, the wedding room and some offices in the manor house . An 80 meter long arcade made of hornbeam in the associated park is one of the great rarities on the Lower Rhine.
Parks
The Oermter Berg is located south of the Oermten district, on the border with Rheurdt . The 68 meter high mountain is a tourist attraction in the region with around 150,000 visitors annually. In addition to fallow deer and red deer enclosures, there is also a community meeting place where the "Lower Rhine Natural History Collection" is exhibited.
The Bürgermeister-Bühner-Park, named after the former mayor Wilhelm Bühner, is located on the northern edge of the village of Sevelen. The former Kaiser-Wilhelm-Park is characterized by old trees of common beech and English oak as well as diverse vegetation in the undergrowth area.
Sports
There are four gymnasiums and sports halls in the municipality. On August 25, 2007, the first sports hall in North Rhine-Westphalia was inaugurated in the village of Sevelen, which was built according to the passive house standard. Each village has a riding arena, a skateboard facility, an artificial and natural turf sports field and a tennis facility. The 18-hole golf course, founded in 1973, and the Landgut Steeg riding facility are located in the south of Issum. In the Sevelen area there are shooting ranges of the St. Antonius, St. Hubertus brotherhoods and the St. Sebastianus brotherhoods. The Hexenland water park is also part of the village of Sevelen.
economy
By Josef Diebels brewery founded in Issum Diebels brewing there since 1878 beer. It is the largest Altbier brewery in Germany and was family-owned until 2001. Today it is owned by the Anheuser-Busch InBev Group .
The frozen food distributor Bofrost was founded in 1966 by Josef H. Boquoi in Issum and today supplies its customers from 115 locations in Germany .
The tradition of baking and confectionery at Mathias Fronhoffs GmbH & Co. KG can be traced back over five generations until 1857. The family company has been active in the frozen cakes market since 1972. In 2009, 50% of the company was taken over by the Danish Givesco Bakery A / S, Give, Denmark.
Overall, the municipality has a large number of small and medium-sized companies, including Voortmann and Fastems. In addition, there are many opportunities to practice riding and equestrian sports in Issum. The largest commercial riding facility - measured in terms of area - is the Steeg estate.
The newly developed industrial area “Am Schankweiler”, which is located on Bundesstraße 58 in a water protection area, is often viewed critically.
traffic
Issum was on the Haltern – Wesel – Geldern – Venlo line . Passenger traffic to Issum ceased on May 29, 1960. Freight trains still ran to Issum until February 28, 1967. Since then, the closest train stations have been in Geldern and in the Alps .
A number of bus routes operate within the municipality and to the neighboring municipalities .
Issum is connected to the trunk road network via the federal highway 57 (junction Issum / Alpen; E 31 ) and the federal highway 58 .
The closest airports are Düsseldorf Airport and Niederrhein Airport in Weeze .
education
schools
The St. Nikolaus School, a Catholic elementary school, and the Brothers Grimm School, a community elementary school, are located in the Issum district. Both primary schools are run by local authorities. Since August 1, 2016, the free comprehensive school Facettenreich has been privately owned in the Sevelen district. It is housed in the premises of the former Käthe-Kollwitz-Hauptschule.
Public facilities
Within the community of Issum there is one youth home in Issum and one in Sevelen. Until 2010 there was a youth parliament, which was elected every two years.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the church
- Wilhelm Rütter (1812–1887), organ builder
- Hendrina Stenmanns (1852–1903), nun and founder of the order
- Franz Stappers (1884–1945), Catholic clergyman and Nazi victim in the Lüttringhausen prison
- Martin Schieren (1886–1956), District Administrator and Member of Parliament
- Clemens Pasch (1910–1985), sculptor and painter
- Helmut Tervooren (* 1935), Germanist, Medievalist, expert on the vernacular literature of the Lower Rhine
- Margret Voßeler (* 1957), politician
- Isabell Werth (* 1969), rider
- MC Smook (* 1992), German rapper
Personalities who have worked on site
- Helmut Linssen (* 1942), CDU politician, 2005–2010 Finance Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 . ( Help on this )
- ^ Fritz Geschwendt: District of Geldern. Cologne 1960 ( Archaeological Finds and Monuments . Volume 1), pp. 53 and 225 No. 7h. - Frank Siegmund: Merovingian period on the Lower Rhine. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1998 ( Rheinische Ausgrabungen . No. 34), p. 402.
- ↑ Oediger: Regesten II , 277 ff., No. 1368 (33).
- ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 79 .
- ↑ Population of all municipalities in North Rhine-Westphalia from December 31, 1962 at the end of each year according to the current territorial status
- ^ Issum Religion , 2011 census
- ↑ Municipality of Issum residents' registration office statistics Status of the data: December 31, 2019 , accessed on May 13, 2020
- ↑ a b Election results municipal elections 2014 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Council election May 25, 2014
- ^ Rolf Nagel: Rheinisches Wappenbuch . Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-7927-0816-7 , p. 65 .
- ↑ Main statutes of the community of Issum ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The Dahl mill on the site of the village , access on August 10 of 2010.
- ^ Haus Issum on the community website , accessed on August 10, 2010.
- ↑ http://www.backwelt.de/newsview/items/news_arch_10626.html
- ^ The somewhat different comprehensive school, accessed on July 30, 2016
literature
- Paul Clemen (ed.): The art monuments of the district of Geldern . L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1891 ( Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz . Volume 1, Section II), pp. 35–36 ( online ).
- Municipality of Issum (ed.): Issum and its districts . 1st edition. Sutton, Erfurt 2005, ISBN 3-89702-901-4 .
- Günther Voelz: Issum. Two hundred years of German history. From the French Revolution to the local reorganization . Keuck, Geldern 1988, ISBN 3-9800421-8-9 .
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