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Cats City of Erkelenz Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 4 " N , 6 ° 21 ′ 18" E
Height :	approx. 95 m
Residents :	1132 (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1972
Postal code :	41812
Area code :	02435
Location of Katzem in North Rhine-Westphalia

Katzem is a village in the southern urban area of Erkelenz in the Heinsberg district in North Rhine-Westphalia . The individual farms Hauerhof and Eichhof also belong to Katzem. The rural place forms a district with the neighboring villages of Lövenich and Kleinbouslar . In the vernacular, the Katzemer call themselves "Katzenköpp" (= cats' heads).

Look at Katzem

geography

Katzem is located in the Erkelenzer Börde , north of the Nysterbach, which no longer exists.

location

"Mairie de Loevenich" with Katzem and Bucholzbusch around 1803

To the west lies Lövenich , in the north Kückhoven and delusion Busch , in the northeast of Hauerhof and Holzweiler , south of the Eichhof and Kleinbouslar . Beyond these last two settlements, the municipality of Titz begins with the villages of Ralshoven and Gevelsdorf and the district of Düren .

geology

In the original plan, the Garzweiler II open- cast lignite mine with its future mining field extended to the east of the village. The Hauerhof should also be dredged. According to the current decision of the state government, these plans have been rejected.

Waters

The Nysterbach rises near Katzem and flows in an east-west direction through a small valley to Lövenich, through Baal and flows into the Rur , now called Mühlenbach .

history

The discovery of a Roman provincial cemetery near Katzem is evidence of Roman settlement in the local landscape. An occupancy can be proven up to the middle of the 5th century.

Katzem belonged to the Duchy of Furbinge for centuries until 1794 . Located in the office of Kaster , the neighboring town of Lövenich was the court for the towns of Katzem, Boslar and Gevelsdorf.

From 1816 to 1935 it belonged to the mayor's office of Lövenich with the individual manors Hauerhof and Eichhof . From 1935 this mayor's office was added to the Baal office. Katzem has been part of the city of Erkelenz since January 1, 1972 .

Until the 1850s, the Buchholzbusch , a large forest south of the village , was about 7.5 km in length from east to west. Since the Middle Ages, it has been used as a community forest by the so-called inheritors of the surrounding villages. From 1850 it was cleared and its fertile loess soil was used as a field. The Eichhof was built after 1860 in the area of this former forest.

The Hauerhof was first mentioned in a document in 1467 and called zom Hauw . The name means: logging in the forest.

On February 25, 1945, Katzem and Eichhof were captured by American soldiers of the 102nd Infantry Division of the 9th US Army in the course of Operation Grenade .

Place name

Katzem belongs to the group of "-heim" place names . These were formed during the time of the Frankish conquest and the early expansion period.

In 1369 the place was first mentioned as Katzheym , in 1470 as Katthem and 1560 as Katzem .

Citizens' hall and parish church in Katzem

Religions

The majority of the population is Catholic . For centuries Katzem belonged to the Lövenich parish. In 1864 Katzem was raised to a parish , the church of St. Mary's Conception was built and a cemetery was laid out. On January 1st, 2010 the parish was merged with ten other parishes to form the parish of St. Maria and Elisabeth Erkelenz.

Protestant families who belong to the Protestant community of Lövenich have lived in the village since the Reformation .

Culture and sights

Attractions

The Catholic branch church of St. Mary of the Conception
Crucifixion group at the church
Former tombstone from 1679 from the Lövenich cemetery in the rectory garden
Courtyard and wayside cross at Hauerhof

societies

The Katzem association includes all of the village's associations.

Pigeon breeding association "Bleib Hier" Katzem, association 0 44 37

Carnival society "KG Katzenköpp 1857 eV" Katzem

Church choir "Cäcilia"

Musikverein from 1920

"Airmail" pigeon club

Katzem Drummers and Whistlers Corps 1925

SSV Viktoria Katzem

VdK local association Katzem

Volunteer fire brigade Katzem fire fighting group

Knallbonbons Katzem 2008 eV

Regular events

Carnival parade on the morning of Tulip Sunday
Fair
Village championship in football

Infrastructure

Citizens' Hall
Catholic kindergarten Katzem
Katzem fire fighting group of the Erkelenz volunteer fire brigade
Raiffeisenbank Erkelenz eG

Personalities

Eugen Gerards , farmer at Hauerhof and from 1958 to 1970 member of the CDU state parliament, honorary citizen of the city of Erkelenz

supporting documents

↑ 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. @1@ 2
↑ Horst Wolfgang Böhme: Germanic grave finds from the 4th to 5th centuries between the lower Elbe and Loire. Munich contributions to prehistory and early history 19. Munich 1974, p. 276. - Frank Siegmund: Merovingian time on the Lower Rhine. Rhenish excavations 34th Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1989, 323
^ 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 .

literature

Josef Kahlau, history from Lövenich, Katzem and Kleinbouslar considered , writings of the Heimatverein der Erkelenzer Lande No. 10, Erkelenz 1990

Theo Schläger, Katzem and the change in character of a village since 1900 , in: Heimatkalender der Erkelenzer Lande 1964, p. 91

Schmitz, "Die Vorstadt" von Katzem , in: Heimatblätter. Monthly for local history 1930, No. 1

Firschgens, The last linen weaver in Katzem , in: Heimatblätter. Monthly for local history 1928, No. 49

Web links

[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. @1@ 2

[2] Horst Wolfgang Böhme: Germanic grave finds from the 4th to 5th centuries between the lower Elbe and Loire. Munich contributions to prehistory and early history 19. Munich 1974, p. 276. - Frank Siegmund: Merovingian time on the Lower Rhine. Rhenish excavations 34th Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1989, 323

[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 .