Kaarst

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Kaarst
Map of Germany, position of the city of Kaarst highlighted

Coordinates: 51 ° 14 '  N , 6 ° 37'  E

Basic data
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Dusseldorf
Circle : Rhine district of Neuss
Height : 39 m above sea level NHN
Area : 37.39 km 2
Residents: 43,493 (Dec 31, 2019)
Population density : 1163 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 41564
Area code : 02131
License plate : NE, GV
Community key : 05 1 62 016
LOCODE : DE KAA
City structure: 5 districts

City administration address : 		Am Neumarkt 2
41564 Kaarst
Website : www.kaarst.de
Mayoress : Ulrike Nienhaus ( CDU )
Location of the city of Kaarst in the Rhine district of Neuss
Düsseldorf Duisburg Köln Krefeld Kreis Düren Kreis Heinsberg Kreis Mettmann Kreis Viersen Mönchengladbach Rhein-Erft-Kreis Dormagen Grevenbroich Jüchen Kaarst Korschenbroich Meerbusch Neuss Rommerskirchenmap
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Kaarst is a city ​​on the left bank of the Rhine in the Lower Rhine region in the Rhine district of Neuss in North Rhine-Westphalia . The middle district town has 43,286 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2015) and with an area of ​​37.4 km² is the smallest in terms of area and the most densely populated town in the district after the district town of Neuss .

geography

Neighboring communities

Kaarst borders the city of Meerbusch in the northeast . In the east, the federal highways A 57 and A 52 form the border to the city of Neuss , in the southeast the shared border runs over agricultural areas. In the south and southwest, the districts of Büttgen, Driesch and Vorst border the neighboring town of Korschenbroich . To the west of the Kaarster Lakes and further north-west of the A 52 is the border with the town of Willich in the Viersen district .

Districts

Kaarst is divided into five districts (population as of December 31, 2014)

history

Early and Middle Ages

In 1958 and 1969 gravel pits were excavated near Kaarst for the construction of the A 52 and A 57. 32 graves from the Frankish period (6th – 8th centuries AD) were discovered. Weapons, jewelry and a gold coin were found in the graves. The current district of Büttgen was first mentioned in a document in 793 with its then name Budica . The name Kaarst appeared in documents as Carlesforst in 1218 and indicates a great age. The Catholic Church in Kaarst is a Romanesque building and bears the building inscription 1146. Kaarst has belonged to the Electoral Cologne office of Liedberg since the Middle Ages, but was a separate thing chair .

Modern times

In 1591 Jan von Werth was born in Büttgen , who achieved fame as an equestrian general during the Thirty Years' War .

In 1794, the French revolutionary troops ended Kaarst's membership in the Archbishopric of Cologne . Kaarst became its own mairie in the Département de la Roer . A holdover from the time of French rule is today's North Canal , which was built in 1806. Napoleon thought the North Canal was of great economic importance as a waterway between the Meuse and the Rhine . After the Congress of Vienna in 1815 Kaarst came to the Kingdom of Prussia and in 1822 to the Rhine Province . In 1816 the Mairie Kaarst became the mayor's office or rural community Kaarst with the villages Kaarst, Broicherseite, Brück, Heide, Hinterfeld and Neußerfurth. It belonged to the circle Neuss in the administrative district of Dusseldorf on.

With the opening of the Neuss – Viersen railway line in 1877, the first commercial enterprises and smaller factories began to settle in, which brought commercial jobs to the villages that were until then purely agricultural.

In 1913 the municipality of Kaarst lost the districts of Neußerfurth and Vogelsang to the city of Neuss. In 1929 Kaarst came to what was then the district of Grevenbroich-Neuss .

In 1936 the municipalities of Kaarst and Büttgen were merged into one administrative unit for the first time and their administration was relocated to Büttgen, which is larger with 4400 inhabitants. Kaarst only had 2600 inhabitants at that time. The administrative unit was later dissolved again.

In the Second World War , significant parts of the wooden floors and Vorst were destroyed. The communities of Büttgen and Kaarst were largely spared and were able to take in more than 1,300 refugees after the war.

On 1 January 1981 Kaarst was the functional reform the city charter as middle district town awarded. At that time the community had 38,383 inhabitants.

The former municipalities of Kaarst and Büttgen, which were independent until December 31, 1974, including the districts of Vorst, Holzbüttgen and Driesch, which originally belonged to the municipality of Büttgen, are recognizable as urban districts in the cityscape. The Kaarst city ​​administration has been using the central town hall at the Kaarst-Mitte location ("Neue Mitte") and the so-called Technical Town Hall in Büttgen since 1995 . City administration offices that are close to the citizen , such as the Citizens' Office , are represented at both locations.

The parties represented in the city council maintain separate local associations in Kaarst and Büttgen.

Incorporations

As part of the North Rhine-Westphalian regional reform , the municipality of Kaarst was merged on January 1, 1975 with the municipality of Büttgen , consisting of the localities of Büttgen, Holzbüttgen, Vorst and Driesch, to form the large municipality of Kaarst, which had around 33,000 inhabitants when it was founded.

Outsourcing

On January 1, 1975, Kaarst ceded an area with then more than 1500 inhabitants to the district town of Neuss.

Religious communities

Roman Catholic parishes

The four parishes belong to the dean's office Neuss / Kaarst in the Archdiocese of Cologne and together form the Kaarst / Büttgen pastoral care area :

Evangelical houses of worship

The Evangelical Church Community in Kaarst has the following facilities:

  • Johanneskirche Büttgen
  • Lukaskirche Holzbüttgen
  • Church of the Resurrection Kaarst
  • Katharina-von-Bora House Vorst

politics

Mayoress

City council

Election of the Kaarst City Council 2014
in percent
 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
44.31%
17.00%
14.00%
7.94%
5.25%
4.84%
2.73%
2.50%
1.42%
Gains and losses
compared to 2009
 % p
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
-3.01  % p
+ 3.03  % p
+1,30  % p
-1.91  % p
+ 0.05  % p
-2.43  % p
+ 2.73  % p.p.
+0.56  % p
+1.42  % p

The CDU won all direct mandates for the city ​​council in the city ​​council election on May 25, 2014 .

The overall distribution of seats was as follows (2014: 50 seats, 2009: 46 seats):

The result of the 2009 election in brackets.

Political party Seats be right
CDU 22 (22) 44.3% (47.3%)
SPD 9 (6) 17.0% (14.0%)
GREEN 7 (6) 14.0% (12.7%)
FDP 4 (5) 7.9% (9.9%)
CENTER 3 (2) 5.3% (5.2%)
UWG 2 (3) 4.8% (7.3%)
AfD 1 (-) 2.7% (-)00
LEFT 1 (1) 2.5% (1.9%)
PIRATES 1 (-) 1.4% (-)00
Allocation of seats in the city council in 2014
         
A total of 50 seats

One council member resigned from the SPD parliamentary group in November 2018 and has been a non-attached member of the city council ever since.

Parties

There are city and local associations of the CDU, SPD, FDP, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, Piraten, UWG, Zentrum, AfD and the family party .

town hall

Due to the development of the city of Kaarst as an amalgamation of the municipalities of Kaarst and Büttgen (including today's districts of Vorst, Driesch and Holzbüttgen, which belonged to the municipality of Büttgen until the merger), the city has two town halls, namely the town hall in Kaarst, which was completed in April 1994 , which is the seat of the mayor and the city council, and the former town hall of the municipality of Büttgen, which was completed on October 25, 1969 and was awarded the Architecture Prize of the Association of German Architects in 1972 , which today houses the technical areas of the city administration. General administrative matters (registration office) can be dealt with in both town halls.

Debt level

City center of Kaarst

While the city of Kaarst was able to continuously reduce its debt from 1990 to 2002 by repaying old loans while at the same time not taking out new loans from € 10.56 million to € 3.36 million, there was an increase in debt between 2003 and 2005 to € 8.47 million in 2005. In the course of repeated unscheduled trade tax income due to external tax audits at companies with permanent establishments in Kaarst, this debt level could be maintained and in some cases even reduced in the following years. At the end of 2013, the debt level was € 6.3 million and, contrary to the trend in the Rhine district of Neuss, rose to € 10.8 million by December 31, 2015. With comparatively high spending, the city's medium-term financial planning provides for a further increase in the debt level.

coat of arms

Old coat of arms of Kaarst

Blazon : "Under a silver shield head , inside a continuous black bar cross, split by blue and gold, in front three silver mill irons placed around a golden ring 2: 1 , behind a red cloak divided by a right-pointing silver sword."

Since the city of Kaarst emerged from the former municipalities of Büttgen and Kaarst, the current city ​​coat of arms designed by the heraldist Walther Bergmann and approved by the District President of Düsseldorf on February 8, 1979 , ties in with the two coats of arms of the previous municipalities and combines their heraldic statements in the new one Coat of arms of the city of Kaarst as an expression of the current communal unity: Instead of the equestrian figure " Jan van Werth " on the coat of arms of the municipality of Büttgen, his coat of arms emblem "three Mühleisen around a ring 2: 1" is used. The figure " St. Martin with horse and beggar" on the coat of arms of the municipality of Kaarst has now been replaced by its attribute "cloak divided by a sword" . Berghausen near Pforzheim also thematizes the Martin story in a similar way .

The black bar cross was included in both earlier coats of arms and appears in the new version as an expression of the original state political affiliation to the state rule of Cologne .

The logo of the city of Kaarst

As part of city ​​marketing , the city council decided in January 2001 to have a new city ​​logo developed, which should visually signal the changes and visions of the city. A competition was announced in which six agencies took part, whose proposals were evaluated by a jury. On May 22, 2002 the new logo was officially adopted after several changes in a special meeting of the city council.

The logo consists of the lettering “kaarst *” in blue and an underlying slogan in black, which can be adapted to the respective application.

Town twinning

Culture and sights

Romanesque church of St. Aldegundis in Büttgen
Romanesque Martinus Church in Kaarst
Braunsmühle in Büttgen

With the Tuppenhof and the Braunsmühle , two historically valuable monuments have been preserved in Kaarst :

  • The Tuppenhof in Vorst, a former farm from 1684, which was extensively restored from 1996 to spring 2000 after the death of the last farmer in 1983. The museum and meeting place for rural history and culture was opened there in 1999 .
  • The Braunsmühle (originally "Dycker Mühle") in Büttgen is a stone windmill that has existed in its current form since 1756. After the slow decline since the 1970s, the mill was completely restored from 2002 to 2005 and has a working wind turbine with grinder again .

The two Romanesque churches of Alt St. Martinus in Kaarst and St. Aldegundis in Büttgen are also worth mentioning .

Regular events:

  • City festival Kaarst Total in the center of Kaarst on the first weekend in September
  • Rose Monday parade in Kaarst-Büttgen
  • Homeland, folk and rifle festivals of the brotherhoods:
    • in Kaarst-Driesch on the second weekend in May
    • in Kaarst-Zentrum on the second weekend in June
    • in Kaarst-Büttgen on the last weekend in June
    • in Kaarst-Holzbüttgen at the beginning of August
    • in Kaarst-Vorst on the second weekend in September
  • Cycle race sprint into May Night on April 30th in the cycling hall in Kaarst-Büttgen
  • City & Bike road bike race on May 1st in Kaarst
  • Spekulatius market on the 2nd weekend in Advent in the center of Büttgen
  • Kaarst great moments on the 3rd Advent weekend in Kaarst city center

sport and freetime

The sports and leisure facilities in Kaarst offer an extensive range of sports and leisure activities with many sports facilities , some of which are maintained by the city or by the many clubs themselves. In addition to gyms and sports fields in all parts of the city, there is a public outdoor pool in a small part of Lake Kaarster . The large lake is shared by four sports clubs, the sailing club Kaarster Segel-Club e. V., the sport fishing club SFV Kaarst e. V., the diving club TSC Kaarst and the windsurfing club WSK Kaarst e. V. There are a total of 17 sports halls in the city. In Büttgen there is also an indoor swimming pool , a mini golf course and the Kaarst-Büttgen Sports Forum, a large sports hall (2500 seats in the largest hall), which is used in particular as a cycling hall by many national and Olympic teams as a training base. With the " Crash Eagles Kaarst " the city of Kaarst has a club in the inline skater hockey Bundesliga , which won the German championship in 2017 and 2018. There are also the multi-discipline sports clubs Sportgemeinschaft Kaarst, VfR Büttgen and Sportfreunde Vorst. There are also the tennis clubs TC Grün Weiss Büttgen and TC Vorster Wald e. V. , the latter with an attached boules department.

Economy and Infrastructure

The city of Kaarst is considered to be a preferred residential and business location with short distances to work in the outskirts of the state capital Düsseldorf. Single-family houses dominate the residential area. The extensive portfolio of medium-sized companies in the service sector and trade, but also the relocation of medium-sized companies from all industries and the expansion of resident companies underline the popularity of the location. In addition to the conveniently located and well-developed commercial areas, Kaarst and the entire region also have a large number of qualified specialists.

At 444%, the trade tax multiplier is well above the national average of 399% (2015).

The property tax rate (as of 2016) for agricultural and forestry areas (property tax A) is 243% below and for all other areas with 440% close to the national average (as of 2014) of 320% (property tax A) and 441% (property tax B. ).

The largest private employers in Kaarst are the furniture store IKEA and the American industrial and mechanical engineering group Parker-Hannifin , whose German sales center is in the Büttgen district .

The average purchasing power per inhabitant in 2005 was 131% of the national average and thus clearly exceeded the already above average purchasing power of the citizens of the Rhein-Kreis Neuss with 118% of the national average.

education

Kaarst has 12 public schools and one adult education center .

Elementary schools

  • Catholic primary school Kaarst
  • Community elementary school Vorst
  • Community elementary school staker page
  • Community elementary school Matthias Claudius School Kaarst
  • Community Primary School Büttgen (since 2011 united with the Catholic Primary School Büttgen)
  • Astrid Lindgren School in Holzbüttgen

Realschulen

  • Municipal secondary school Kaarst

Comprehensive schools

  • Kaarst-Büttgen comprehensive school

High schools

  • Albert Einstein High School Kaarst
  • Georg-Büchner-Gymnasium Vorst (until 1994: Gymnasium Büttgen)

Special schools

  • Martinus School (special focus on learning and emotional and social development)
  • Sebastian School Holzbüttgen (Funding Priority Intellectual Development)

Community College

  • VHS Kaarst-Korschenbroich

Former schools

  • Community secondary school Kaarst-Büttgen
  • Elisabeth Selbert secondary school in Büttgen
  • Albert Schweitzer Primary School

traffic

Highways

Kaarst is located on the federal motorways A 52 ( Roermond -Düsseldorf) and A 57 (E31) (Cologne- Krefeld ), which cross at the Kaarst motorway junction . The Kaarst motorway junction was built from 1968 to 1970 and has been under construction since November 2013. The Kaarst-Nord and Holzbüttgen junctions are in the urban area. The state capital Düsseldorf is around 15 km away and can be reached in a few minutes via the motorways.

Transportation

The city of Kaarst is part of the Rhein-Ruhr transport association and is connected to public transport with two S-Bahn lines and two express bus lines as well as several regional bus lines :

Airports

The nearest international airports are Düsseldorf Airport (23 km), Cologne / Bonn Airport (65 km) and Niederrhein Airport (75 km). The Mönchengladbach airfield , which does not offer scheduled flights, is 10 km away.

Bike paths

The cycle paths Fietsallee on the North Canal and the Lower Rhine Route run through the city.

Personalities

The Kaarst City Council honors citizens who have made a special contribution to the welfare of the city. You will receive a medal of honor in fine silver . In 2004 this award was given to Armin Wünsche, Markus Koll, Egon Wilhelm Vossen, Wilhelm Peter Bayer, Karla Becker and Norberta Müller. For the first time in the history of the city of Kaarst, the title of honorary mayor was awarded to Heinz Klever (1928–2006) for his long and extraordinary work as mayor and deputy mayor.

Born in Kaarst

Associated with Kaarst

literature

  • Evangelical Adult Education Center (ed.): From the village to the city of Kaarst yesterday and today . Aurel Verlag, Wegberg 2005, ISBN 3-938759-01-1 .
  • City of Kaarst (ed.): History in Pictures 1890–1990. Volume 1. Kaarst.
  • City of Kaarst (ed.): History in Pictures 1890–1990. Volume 2. Kaarst 2008.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ - Statistical information from the city of Kaarst, 9 residents are not assigned to any district but are listed under other
  4. ↑ Johanna Brandt: New Franconian graves in Kaarst, Kr. Neuss. Archäologisches Korrespondenzblatt 8, 1978, pp. 145–148
    Frank Siegmund: Merovingian time on the Lower Rhine. Rhenish excavations 34. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1998, pp. 315–322.
  5. ^ Theodor Joseph Lacomblet : Document book for the history of the Lower Rhine. Düsseldorf 1840-1858, Volume II, p. 108, No. 207 ( digitized version ); see. ibid. 111 f., No. 216 ( digitized version ).
  6. ^ Hans Georg Kirchhoff: History of the city of Kaarst. Kaarst 1987.
  7. ^ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and topography of the government district of Düsseldorf. JHC Schreinger, 1836, p. 150 ( Google Books ).
  8. ↑ To the history of Neusser Nordstadt  ( 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. (PDF; 1.3 MB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.neuss.de  
  9. ↑ a b c 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. 292, 295 .
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  11. ↑ www.kirchenmusik-kaarst.de
  12. ↑ Setback for social democrats: Ekici resigns from the SPD parliamentary group and remains in the council report of the daily newspaper Rheinische Post on November 17, 2018, accessed on November 17, 2018
  13. ^ Family party city association Kaarst
  14. ↑ made in Kaarst, business magazine of the city of Kaarst, issue 34 / March 2014, pp. 6–7: Interview with the business development manager Stefan Meuser
  15. ↑ Press release Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , accessed April 11, 2017 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.it.nrw.de
  16. ^ Rolf Nagel: Rheinisches Wappenbuch . Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-7927-0816-7 , p. 86 .
  17. ↑ Kreiswerke grevenbroich , www.ab-ins-schwimmbad.de
  18. ↑ www.ksc-kaarst.de
  19. ↑ Information in an article in the Neuss-Grevenbroicher Zeitung from December 4, 2015
  20. ↑ German champion in skater hockey: Crash Eagles again in the Golden Book Report of the daily newspaper Rheinische Post from February 7, 2019, accessed on February 7, 2019
  21. ^ Federal average trade tax multiplier, press release No. 296 of the Federal Statistical Office of August 26, 2016
  22. ↑ Information on the property tax assessment rates on the website of the city of Kaarst , accessed on January 7, 2016
  23. ↑ Press release of August 31, 2015 from the Federal Statistical Office
  24. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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. - Homepage of the city of Kaarst @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.erfalt-in-kaarst.de
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  26. ^ RP ONLINE: Kaarst: Albert Schweitzer School says goodbye. Retrieved September 17, 2019 .
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