Kevelaerer sheet
The Kevelaerer Blatt (KB), popularly known as “Kävels Blächen”, is a local weekly newspaper for the town of Kevelaer in the Kleve district on the Lower Rhine . It is published by Mega Top Verwaltungs GmbH based in Kevelaer . The newspaper appears weekly on Thursdays with sixteen pages, of which at least fourteen are editorial.
history
The Kevelaerer Blatt was founded in 1879 by Elisabeth Ingmanns as the "Kevelaerer Volksblatt". It saw itself as a battle sheet “for throne and altar”. In October 1939, the editor of the publisher Jakob Köster was withdrawn by the National Socialists. His successors as editors were Joseph Franz Baumgärtner, Johannes Friedrich Sturm and Hubert van Meegen. At the end of 1942 the newspaper was banned.
With a considerable distance after the end of the war, Köster revived the weekly newspaper, but after his experiences under National Socialism, he renounced any politics. From 1949 to 1980 it was published under the title “From Kevelaer and Surroundings”. In the 1970s, the paper faced stiff competition from free weekly newspapers financed by advertising. It was kept alive until the late 1980s through financial donations from the publisher's widow.
At this time, the journalists Delia Evers and Martin Willing, who were previously editors of the local daily Rheinische Post , took over the publishing house and the editorial team. They developed a political and critical city newspaper from the Heimatblatt. In 2008, the WAZ media group took over the newspaper and incorporated it into the daily newspaper Neue Ruhr Zeitung , which is published locally in Kevelaer, in terms of publishing and journalism . In 2016 the Kevelaer entrepreneur Rudolf Beerden acquired the title.
Focus
The editorial focus is on news and background reports from Kevelaer and the surrounding area. The newspaper offers reports on local events from political and economic life, often combined with a historical review of the work of important Kevelaer personalities. Social life, including sport and culture, is also given a large space. There is also a report on the pilgrimage of the famous Marian pilgrimage site, which is visited by around 800,000 pilgrims every year.
archive
Since 1994 the Kevelaerer Blatt has built up an archive with more than 60,000 digitized documents that record the history of the region from the 16th to the 21st century. The public can use the archive free of charge. In addition, all issues are almost completely preserved in the archives of the priest house and the Lower Rhine Museum for Folklore and Cultural History in Kevelaer.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kevelaer's home newspaper since 1879 , presentation of the Kevelaer newspaper's own history.
- ↑ This is how it continues with the KB , announcement by the new editor, Kevelaerer Blatt, March 29, 2016.