Kleinbouslar

Kleinbouslar City of Erkelenz Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 36 ″  N , 6 ° 20 ′ 45 ″  E
Height :	approx. 99 m
Residents :	142  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation :	January 1, 1972
Postal code :	41812
Area code :	02435
Location of Kleinbouslar in North Rhine-Westphalia

Kleinbouslar is a rural district of the city of Erkelenz in the district of Heinsberg ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) and forms a district with the neighboring villages of Lövenich and Katzem .

geography

"Mairie de Loevenich" with Kleinbouslar and Bucholzbusch around 1806

Kleinbouslar is located in the Erkelenz Börde 95 m above sea level, directly on the Nysterbachtal , which is a side valley of the Rur valley . The Nysterbach runs between Kleinbouslar in the south and Katzem in the north. To the north of the Nysterbach valley lies the "Hötzelenberg" at 100 m above sea level between Lövenich and Katzem.

location

Kleinbouslar is located off the main traffic routes south of Lövenich and Katzem. In the south is the place Ralshoven . The municipality of Titz and the district of Düren begin here .

history

Rittergut Haus Bouslar with a round defense tower in the inner courtyard

Bouslar house around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

A Jupiter column , which was found in a field in 1906, is evidence of a Roman settlement in the area . Replicas of this are now in the Catholic parish church in Lövenich, in the Ziegelweiherpark in Erkelenz and in the Rheinauenpark in Bonn . The original is in the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn .

The place was first mentioned in a document on June 4, 898 , when King Zwentibold gave an estate of Bouslar ( Buhslar ) to the Essen monastery.

In 1726 , Councilor Anton Michael von Heister acquired the Bouslar house from the canoness Maria Helene von Stael. The estate remained in the possession of the von Heister family until the end of the 19th century.

From the Middle Ages to the 20th century, Kleinbouslar belonged to the neighboring village of Lövenich.

From 1864 to 1981 the population fell from 217 to 175.

On February 25, 1945, the village was taken by American soldiers of the 102nd Infantry Division of the 9th US Army in the course of Operation Grenade .

The place name

Originally two villages not far from each other were called Boslar. To distinguish it, the adjective Klein- was placed in front of the village located north of the Buchholzbusch. The other Boslar is a few kilometers south in the area of ​​the city of Linnich .

The meaning of the word - lar in the place name cannot be clearly clarified. It could mean pasture, grass, the word Bos could mean bush. So Boslar would be a pasture on the bush.

religion

Barbara Chapel

Theodor Ropohl built a small chapel on his property in 1860 and donated it to his home village on February 12, 1861 as the Maria Hilf Chapel. In 1898 the chapel was opened by the priest Professor Dr. Johann Schüller, a son of a local farming family, expanded. Now she has been consecrated to Saint Barbara .

Buildings

• House Bouslar
• Barbara Chapel

See also : List of architectural monuments in Erkelenz

literature

• Josef Kahlau: History from Lövenich, Katzem and Kleinbouslar considered . Writings of the Heimatverein der Erkelenzer Lande eV Volume 10. Erkelenz 1990
• Festschrift for the 125th anniversary of the Kleinbouslarer Barbara Chapel 1861-1986
• Anneliese Louis: History and Stories from Kleinbouslar , 1999

Web links

Commons : Kleinbouslar  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website of the city of Erkelenz
• Monuments in the city of Erkelenz
• Churches and chapels in the city of Erkelenz
• Material on Haus Buslar in the Duncker Collection of the Central and State Library Berlin (PDF; 236 kB)
• Village view google map

Individual evidence

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.