Kervendonk

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Kervendonk
City of Kevelaer
"In blue a silver (white) braided basket with a handle growing out of it a golden (yellow) six-pointed star."
Coordinates: 51 ° 36 ′ 32 "  N , 6 ° 15 ′ 52"  E
Height : 20 m
Area : 15.1 km²
Residents : 200  (2007)
Population density : 13 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st July 1969
Postal code : 47627
Area code : 02825

Kervendonk is an agricultural region on the lower left Lower Rhine between Winnekendonk , Kevelaer and Kervenheim . The community Kervendonk belonged to the office Kervenheim, since 1969 the peasantry Kervendonk belongs to the locality Kervenheim (city Kevelaer ).

The part of the name - donk denotes a sandy earth ridge, which rises slightly above the surrounding quarry landscape and thus offered protection from flooding. Donken were probably the starting point for settlements in the flat and humid lowlands of the western Lower Rhine in the Middle Ages . Kervendonk Castle, first mentioned in 1270 and located on a small hill in today's village of Kervenheim, testifies to this development.

history

  • Around 800 BC - The first settlements are established in the "Haus Brempt" area,
  • Around 500 AD - settlement by the Franks,
  • around 843 AD - first evidence of individual farms in the Kervendonks area
  • 1299 - Kervendonk and Kervenheim form the "Glory Kervenheim"
  • 1689 - French troops destroy and loot in the region, burn Gründjenshof, Niersmannshof, Voeskenshof , Diepenbruckshof, Büllhorst, Daelshof
  • 23 Jan 1798 - introduction of a French administrative system,
  • Jan. 12, 1814 - crews released,
  • April 22, 1816 - with the founding of the district of Geldern, the mayor's office of Kervendonk, Kervenheim and Winnekendonk is established with its headquarters in Kervenheim,
  • September 17, 1853 - Winnekendonk becomes the new seat of the mayor's office,
  • June 30, 1969 - With the territorial reform, the municipal self-administration of the association of municipalities and the mayor's office ended, which in the years from 1949 onwards had been led by the district director August Wormland and the mayor Wilhelm Wehren (farmer and member of the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament ).

Since July 1, 1969, Kervendonk has been part of the village of Kervenheim in the town of Kevelaer through incorporation .

Transport and economy

Infrastructure

Kervendonk can be reached

  • Airplane: Airport Weeze / Niederrhein
  • Motorway: A 57 - Exit No. 4 - Uedem / Weeze
  • Federal road: B 9 - junctions in Kevelaer and Weeze / Schloss Wissen
  • Federal railway: Niers-Express (RE 10) - Kevelaer station
  • Citizen bus route : Kervenheim - Winnekendonk - Kervendonk - Kevelaer train station
  • District road: K 13 - Kevelaer - Uedem, fundamental new building in 2006
  • Cyclists: Manor Route (Sonsbeck - Kervendonk - Kervenheim)
  • Cyclists: Lower Rhine Route , section no.15 (Kevelaer - Winnekendonk - Kervendonk - Kervenheim - Uedem)
  • Hikers: Jakobsweg along the Niers - (Weeze - Wissen Castle - Kervendonk - Haus Brempt - Schravelen - Kevelaer)
  • Hikers: Michelsweg (Kevelaer - Schravelner Heide - Kervendonk - Kervenheim)

economy

  • Extraction of raw materials - planning in the "Bleickshof" area

Based on prehistoric developments, numerous gravel deposits have emerged on the Lower Rhine, which are increasingly being opened up. With an excavation depth of around 10-15 m, the gravel areas become larger and larger. For the Kervendonk “Bleickshof” area, an application has been made to gravel around 80 hectares of land currently used for agriculture.

Between 1960 and 1970 part of the area of ​​the Voeskenshof was excavated with a cable excavator. The lake, which is very small by today's standards, was completely renatured after the gravel and is now dated

  • Leisure and holiday park Kevelaer

surrounded by approx. 370 weekend houses. The farm buildings of the Voeskenshof estate, which was formerly part of Wissen Castle, outside the holiday park, were converted into a stately estate hotel with a restaurant in the course of general structural change .

  • Organic farm "Rouenhof"
  • “Daelshof” riding stables by Hermann Schopmans and Marianne Mundt

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 78 .

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