Juchen

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Coat of arms of the city of Jüchen
Juchen
Map of Germany, position of the city of Jüchen highlighted

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′  N , 6 ° 30 ′  E

Basic data
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Dusseldorf
Circle : Rhine district of Neuss
Height : 81 m above sea level NHN
Area : 71.87 km 2
Residents: 23,294 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 324 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 41363
Primaries : 02164, 02165, 02166, 02181, 02182
License plate : NE, GV
Community key : 05 1 62 012
LOCODE : DE JHN
City structure: 27 districts

City administration address : 		Am Rathaus 5
41363 Jüchen
Website : www.juechen.de
Mayor : Harald Zillikens ( CDU )
Location of the city of Jüchen in the Rhine district of Neuss
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Market square with Protestant court church

Juchen is a medium-sized district town in the Rhine district of Neuss in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is located between Mönchengladbach in the northwest and Grevenbroich in the southeast . The Garzweiler opencast mine is in the immediate vicinity south of Jüchen.

geography

Expansion of the urban area

The north-south extension is 10.8 kilometers and the east-west extension 9.4 kilometers.

Neighboring communities

Neighboring communities or towns in Jüchen are clockwise:

City structure

The following districts belong to the city of Jüchen:

Hochneukirch was called Neukirchen until it was connected to the imperial railway network in 1873.

In the course of the Garzweiler opencast mine , the following villages became:

relocated and later dredged. During the resettlement, the place names of the previously existing localities (to distinguish them) were supplemented by the designation “Old” and the place names of the newly created locations were supplemented with the designation “New”. After the complete resettlement and dissolution of the old locations, the additional designations "New" in front of the place names of the new locations were removed.

history

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The first settlements go back to prehistoric times (band ceramists). The place name is probably derived from the Roman villa Jucunda, which was located on the western edge of today's Jüchen. Franconian graves from the 6th and 7th centuries have been found. In 866 the Prüm Grund Abbey in Iuhcgende / Iughgende was donated; this early mention was previously identified with Jüchen, but this is now rejected.

The sure first mention of the year 1273/4. Juchen belonged to the Duchy of Jülich ( Amt Kaster ) until the end of the 18th century . In 1794 the area was occupied by French troops. The Mairie Jüchen was created, which belonged to the canton of Odenkirchen in the Arrondissement of Krefeld in the Département de la Roer . In 1815 Jüchen came to the Kingdom of Prussia . A year later, the mayor's office in Jüchen was created, which came to the Grevenbroich district and in 1929 to the Grevenbroich-Neuss district. In 1975 Jüchen became part of the Rhein-Kreis Neuss .

On November 28, 2017, the state government of North Rhine-Westphalia, represented by Prime Minister Armin Laschet and Minister for Home, Local Affairs, Building and Equality Ina Scharrenbach signed the ordinance that Jüchen will be named a city belonging to the middle district on January 1, 2019 .

Incorporations

In the 1930s there were some local reorganizations, which also affected the Jüchen area: In 1937 the Elsen office was dissolved. The municipality of Elsen was incorporated into the city of Grevenbroich and the municipality of Elfgen remained an independent municipality in the office of Jüchen. Shortly thereafter, the Kelzenberg community was dissolved and incorporated into the Jüchen community. In 1964 the municipality of Elfgen was dissolved due to the brown coal planning and the place found its relocation site in the city of Grevenbroich. On January 1, 1975, the new municipality of Jüchen was formed from the municipalities of Jüchen, Hochneukirch, Garzweiler and Bedburdyck.

Population development

(as of September 30th)

  • 1983 - 20,926

(as of December 31st)

  • 1998 - 22,662
  • 1999 - 22,636
  • 2000 - 22,710
  • 2001 - 22,569
  • 2002 - 22,476
  • 2003 - 22,517
  • 2004 - 22,642
  • 2005 - 22,793
  • 2006 - 22,487
  • 2007 - 22,534
  • 2008 - 22,732
  • 2010 - 22,455 (as of June 30, 2010)
  • 2012 - 22,379
  • 2013 - 22,556
  • 2014 - 22,855
  • 2015 - 23,260
  • 2016 - 23,691 (as of June 16, 2016)
  • 2018 - 23,757

politics

Election of the Jüchen municipal council in 2014
Voter turnout 47.7% (2009: 52.6%)
 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
46.39%
25.96%
8.07%
7.46%
7.41%
3.40%
1.41%
Gains and losses
compared to 2009
 % p
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
  -8th
-10
+ 3.81  % p
+ 2.34  % p.p.
-8.56  % p
-0.03  % p
+0.65  % p.p.
+ 0.47  % p
+1.41  % p
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City council

Allocation of seats in the
Jüchen municipal council 2014
       
A total of 42 seats

The total number of seats: in the Jüchen city council is 42 (regular 38 seats, plus 4 overhang and compensatory mandates). After the local elections on May 25, 2014 , they are distributed among the individual parties and constituencies as follows:

mayor

Harald Zillikens (* 1959) (CDU) was elected mayor in 2009 and confirmed in office in 2015. The predecessor in office was Margarete Kranz (CDU), who was no longer available for re-election.

Town twinning

The coat of arms of the city of Jüchen

Coat of arms of Juchen
 Blazon : “In blue a silver church in side view, on the right a golden shield with a red-tongued black lion; at the top in front a waxing golden moon, behind a six-pointed golden star. "
Reasons for the coat of arms: The coat of arms was approved on July 21, 1978. The seal of Jüchen hanging on a document dated September 8, 1303 in the Prussian State Archives in Düsseldorf (document no. 17, Saarn, Cistercian women) shows the shield of Jülich as that of the landlords in the round field of seals in front, raised by an outwardly open crescent moon , at the back with a cross each on the tower and choir. The colors of Jülich are well known: In gold, a black lion with a red tongue. Matching blue was chosen as the color of the shield by Jüchen, in which yellow stars shine above a white church with a black door and identical windows. The church shown seems to be the place of worship that existed in Jüchen when the seal was created. The additions moon and star can be found more often in seals and coats of arms at this time. The oldest surviving seal from Titz bei Jülich from 1343 also adorns the moon and star above the Jülich lion. The ingredients could have come to the Rhineland through the Crusades from the Orient, where the moon and star still adorn numerous flags.

Culture and sights

Buildings

catholic parish church
  • Neo-Gothic Catholic Church St. Jakobus d. Ä. in Juchen
  • Evangelical court church behind the houses on Jüchener Markt
  • House Katz in Jüchen, the listed building houses, among other things, the youth welfare office
  • Windmill towers in Jüchen and Hochneukirch
  • Dyck Castle (near Damm, former headquarters of the Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck princes)
  • Nikolauskloster near Damm
  • Dycker Weinhaus in Damm
  • Water tower in wood ( blown up because of the Garzweiler opencast mine in January 2011)
  • Catholic churches in Hochneukirch and Bedburdyck
  • Becherhof in Aldenhoven
  • Gierath castle tower
  • Rittergut Leuffen in Alt-Otzenrath (demolished on February 26, 2007 because of the Garzweiler opencast mine)

Economy and Infrastructure

Companies

Open pit

Juchen train station today

The Garzweiler opencast mine is located southwest of Jüchen. The districts of Otzenrath and Spenrath, which belong to the municipality of Jüchen, were therefore torn down and relocated. The Garzweiler open-cast lignite mine can be viewed from a vantage point.

additional

See: Jüchen wind farm

education

In Jüchen there are a total of five primary schools (the Catholic primary school in Hochneukirch, the Janusz Korczak primary school in Neu-Otzenrath, the community primary school in Jüchen, the Lindenschule in Gierath and the community primary school in Stessen), the grammar school and the comprehensive school Juchen.

traffic

Juchen is on the Rheydt – Cologne-Ehrenfeld railway line and has two stations: Jüchen and Hochneukirch . The Jüchen train station was built in 1889 with a station building, which is now privately owned. The line that came from Jülich until 1983 converged in the community of Jüchen, near Hochneukirch .

Personalities

literature

  • Jürgen Kiltz: Street, alley, path and house names in the municipality of Jüchen. (= History of the community of Jüchen. Volume 12). Hundt Druck, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-045099-0 .
  • Jürgen Kiltz: The village of Jüchen on postcards. (= History of the community of Jüchen. Volume 11). 1st edition. Hundt Druck, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-00-045338-0 .
  • Hans-Joachim Bauschke: "Honor God, defend your neighbor". Origin and development of fire fighting in the municipality of Jüchen. (= History of the community of Jüchen. Volume 3). Geiger publishing house, Horb a. Neckar 1997, ISBN 3-89570-352-4 .
  • Hans-Georg Kirchhoff: From prehistory to 1794 (= history of the community of Jüchen. Volume 2). Geiger publishing house, Horb a. Neckar 1996, ISBN 3-89570-137-8 .
  • Ulrike von Leszczynski: At the edge of big industry: The mayor's office of Jüchen 1845 to 1914. (= History of the community of Jüchen. Volume 5). Geiger publishing house, Horb a. Neckar 1999, ISBN 3-89570-545-4 .

Web links

Commons : Jüchen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Jüchen  - Travel Guide

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 )
  2. ↑ https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/juechen/juechen-wird-am-1-januar-2019-zur-stadt_aid-20721843
  3. ^ Frank Siegmund: Merovingian time on the Lower Rhine. (= Rhenish excavations. 34). Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-7927-1247-4 , pp. 314-315.
  4. ↑ Ingo Schwab: The Prümer Urbar. (= Rhenish land register. 5). Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1983, ISBN 3-7700-7545-5 , p. 236 No. 85 with p. 122 f.
  5. ↑ Law and Ordinance Gazette (GV.NRW.) Edition 2017 No. 34 of December 8, 2017, pages 863 to 916
  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. 295 .
  7. ↑ Parish in numbers ( Memento from July 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ State Returning Officer NRW: Municipal elections 2014 - final result for: Jüchen