District of Heinsberg

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Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′  N , 6 ° 6 ′  E

Basic data
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Cologne
Regional association : Rhineland
Administrative headquarters : Heinsberg
Area : 627.99 km 2
Residents: 255,555 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 407 inhabitants per km 2
License plate : HS, ERK, GK
Circle key : 05 3 70
Circle structure: 10 municipalities
Address of the
district administration:
Valkenburger Strasse 45
52525 Heinsberg
Website : www.kreis-heinsberg.de
District Administrator : Stephan Pusch ( CDU )
Location of the district of Heinsberg (district) in North Rhine-Westphalia
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The district of Heinsberg is a district in the west of North Rhine-Westphalia in the administrative district of Cologne . It is the westernmost district in Germany; the westernmost point is in the municipality of Selfkant on the German-Dutch border .

The COVID-19 pandemic in the district is reported in national media (nationally and internationally) after the first major SARS-CoV-2 spread in Germany took place during and after a carnival session on February 15, 2020 in Gangelt .

geography

There are different landscapes in the district of Heinsberg :

The Erkelenzer Börde and the neighboring Baaler Riedelland are naturally included in the Lower Rhine Bay ; the other parts of the district are part of the Lower Rhine lowlands .

The north of the district is part of the Maas-Schwalm-Nette nature park , which is directly adjacent to the De Meinweg national park on the Dutch side . In the southwest lies the 4.5 km² nature reserve Teverener Heide .

See also: List of nature reserves in the Heinsberg district , List of landscape protection areas in the Heinsberg district

Rivers

  • The Rur flows from southeast to northwest through the district area.
  • The Wurm flows into the Rur north of Heinsberg.
  • The Schwalm rises in the north near Tüschenbroich .
  • The Niers rises east of Erkelenz.

Communities

The district of Heinsberg is made up of ten communities . Seven bear the title “ City ”. Of these seven, the five cities of Erkelenz, Geilenkirchen, Heinsberg (Rhld.), Hückelhoven and Wegberg are medium-sized cities , as their population numbers are between 25,000 and 60,000.

The following list lists the ten communities in the Heinsberg district alphabetically with their official names.

The population figures - in brackets - are as of December 31, 2019.

Niederlande Kreis Düren Kreis Viersen Mönchengladbach Rhein-Erft-Kreis Rhein-Kreis Neuss Städteregion Aachen Erkelenz Gangelt Geilenkirchen Heinsberg Hückelhoven Selfkant Übach-Palenberg Waldfeucht Wassenberg WegbergMunicipalities in HS.svg
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Cities

  1. Erkelenz (43,206)
  2. Geilenkirchen (27,470)
  3. Heinsberg (42,236)
  4. Hückelhoven (40,245)
  5. Übach-Palenberg (24,044)
  6. Wassenberg (18,630)
  7. Wegberg (28,169)

Other communities

  1. Gangelt (12,576)
  2. Selfkant (10,137)
  3. Waldfeucht (8,842)

The district of Heinsberg has an area of ​​628 square kilometers. The district border is 171 kilometers long, almost 78 kilometers of which are identical to the German-Dutch border. With its extension of 42.8 kilometers in a west-east direction and 32.6 kilometers in a north-south direction, the Heinsberg district is one of the medium-sized districts in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Neighboring areas

The district of Heinsberg borders, starting in the north in a clockwise direction, on the district of Viersen , on the independent city of Mönchengladbach , on the Rhine district of Neuss , on the district of Düren and on the urban region of Aachen . In the west it borders on the Dutch province of Limburg .

history

The district of Heinsberg is an old settlement area. Archaeological finds from several epochs prove this. Whether it is Stone Age tools with an age of up to 100,000 years, or the around 7,000 year old wooden well that was found at Erkelenz- Kückhoven at the beginning of the 90s . The Romans were also at home in the region, especially since the area was opened up by Roman roads, including the important connection Heerlen - Xanten.

The Christianization left its settlement history traces, as is demonstrated in the 8th century, the first church buildings. At the end of the 12th century, numerous castle complexes of the moth type were built in what is now the administrative area of ​​the district , mostly taking advantage of spur layers in the Riedelland, small hills or water-rich surroundings. They were usually manors and small dynasty seats; they are usually dated to the early Middle Ages and assigned to the Normans and Vikings upstream. In the Middle Ages there was no homogeneous area in the region. A wide variety of noble houses claimed possessions in today's district area, which was linguistically and historically part of the Maasland .

With the establishment of the administrative district of Aachen in the Kingdom of Prussia , the districts of Heinsberg , Geilenkirchen and Erkelenz were created in 1816 . While the Erkelenz district existed for 156 years, the Geilenkirchen and Heinsberg districts were initially combined under the name "Geilenkirchen District" in 1932. A year later, the name was changed to "Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg District". In 1951 this district was renamed “ Selfkantkreis Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg ”. The decisive factor for this was the temporary submission of the Selfkant area under Dutch administration from 1949 to 1963.

On January 1, 1972, the new district of Heinsberg was created as part of the municipal reorganization in the Aachen area ( Aachen law ) by merging the Selfkant district of Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg with the district of Erkelenz. Since January 1st, 1975 - at that time the community of Niederkrüchten was incorporated into the district of Viersen - the district of Heinsberg has had its present form.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been occurring in the Heinsberg district since February 2020 . On March 6, 2020, the Robert Koch Institute declared the district as a particularly affected area of ​​the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany , after the first major spread of the coronavirus in Germany took place there. This probably began with a carnival event in Gangelt .

Population statistics

year Residents
1975 209.257
1980 214.331
1985 216.304
1990 220.602
1995 238,627
2000 250,400
2005 257.326
2010 254.936
2015 252,527

Denomination statistics

According to the 2011 census , 17.0% of the population in 2011 were Protestant , 61.5% Roman Catholic and 21.5% were non-denominational , belonged to another religious community or did not provide any information. The number of Catholics has fallen since then, in 2014 around 165,000 of the approximately 250,000 inhabitants were Roman Catholic . As of December 31, 2018, 145,995 (57.4%) of the 254,322 inhabitants were members of the Roman Catholic Church.

politics

District council

Election of the Heinsberg district assembly in 2014
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20th
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51.3%
22.6%
10.2%
4.3%
3.3%
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Gains and losses
compared to 2009
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Otherwise.

Currently there is the following distribution of seats according to parliamentary groups in the district council (as of September 2014):

CDU SPD Green FDP AfD left FW NPD total
28 12 5 2 2 2 2 1 * 54
Allocation of seats in the
Heinsberg district assembly 2014
        
A total of 54 seats

* NPD non-attached

District Administrator

In the local elections on September 26, 2004, Stephan Pusch (CDU) was able to prevail with 56.2% of the votes against his challenger Franz-Josef Fürkötter ( SPD ), who received 26.2%. In the election on August 30, 2009, District Administrator Pusch achieved 60.8%. His challenger Michael Stock (SPD) got 20.4%. In the election on May 25, 2014, Pusch was confirmed in office with 59.9%. Challenger Ralf Derichs (SPD) received 23.2% of the vote. The next election is expected to take place in 2020.

Former district administrators

Bundestag elections

On September 22, 2013, Wilfried Oellers ( CDU ) won the direct mandate of the constituency of Heinsberg for the German Bundestag with 53.4% ​​of the first votes . The CDU received 49.3% of the second vote . Norbert Spinrath ( SPD ) was elected as a further member of the North Rhine-Westphalian state list.

In the 2017 federal election, Wilfried Oellers won the direct mandate again. However, his share of the first vote fell to 45.6%. Wilfried Oellers thus achieved the worst result for the CDU in the Heinsberg constituency for 37 years.

Coat of arms, seal and flag

The district of Heinsberg was granted permission by a certificate from the District President of Cologne dated September 3, 1973 to use coats of arms, seals, banners and hoisting flags as described below. Walther Bergmann designed the coat of arms .

Description of coat of arms
“Divided and split above. Above: in front in red a crowned, two-tailed, silver (white) lion; behind in gold (yellow) a black lion. Below: in silver (white) a free-floating, lying, red lily cross , covered with a five-petalled blue flax flower . "
Origin and meaning

The design of the coat of arms was based on the intention to symbolically represent the emergence of the three districts of Erkelenz, Geilenkirchen and Heinsberg and their common interests.

  • The two-tailed silver lion on a red background was the coat of arms of the Lords of Heinsberg and the city of Heinsberg
  • Geilenkirchen received from the Duke of Jülich a lion (black on a yellow background) as its coat of arms, which was depicted as a sign of dependence on the Heinsberg rule and thus reminded of the lion of the Heinsberg coat of arms. When designing the coat of arms for the Selfkantkreis Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg , this representation was changed to a tailed lion.
  • The lily cross with the flax blossom comes from the coat of arms of the Erkelenz district . The lily is a reminder of the centuries-old relationship between the city of Erkelenz and the Marienstift Aachen , the flax flower of the flax cultivation in the area of ​​the former district.
Seal description
“Inscription: above: circle
below: Heinsberg
Seal picture: In the seal round the circular coat of arms in the divided shield split at the top. Above: in front in black a crowned white lion with two tails; behind in white a black lion. Below: a free-floating, lying, black lily cross in white, covered with a five-petalled, white flax blossom. "
Description of the banner
“Divided twice with freely floating heraldic figures. Upper third: split; in front a crowned, silver (white lion) with two tails in red; behind in gold (yellow) a black lion. Middle third: in silver (white) a free-floating, lying, red lily cross, covered with a five-petalled, blue flax flower. Lower third: split from red to gold (yellow). "
Description of the flag
“Divided according to the coat of arms and split above; the heraldic figures floating freely. "

Partner circles

European region

The district of Heinsberg has belonged to the Euregio Meuse-Rhine since 1978 .

Economy and Transport

In the Future Atlas 2016 , the district of Heinsberg was ranked 235 out of 402 districts, municipal associations and urban districts in Germany, making it one of the regions with a “balanced risk-opportunity mix” for the future.

License Plate

When the new circle was formed, it was assigned the distinctive symbol HS with effect from January 1, 1972 . The distinguishing marks ERK (Erkelenz) and GK (Geilenkirchen) have also been available since September 2, 2013 .

Street

Private transport

Since the A 46 Heinsberg - Düsseldorf ( Selfkantstrasse ) was expanded in 1995, there have been several connection points to places in the district.

Bus transport

The district of Heinsberg is part of the Aachen Transport Association (AVV). The district's own WestVerkehr take care of the bus transport . The traffic is mainly geared towards the transport of schoolchildren, which is why the bus service sometimes does not follow a uniform cycle. While traffic often ends after 7 p.m. on weekdays, it almost completely comes to a standstill on weekends. In order to still be able to offer transport services in off-peak times, one relies on the multibus, a bus that travels around a circle but only on request.

railroad

Left: RegionalExpress on the Rur bridge between Baal and Brachelen, right: harvest time

stretch

Main lines

The Aachen – Mönchengladbach line has passed through the Heinsberg district since 1852 and the Mönchengladbach - Wegberg - Roermond - Antwerp line, known as the Iron Rhine , since 1879 . A connecting railway branches off from the Iron Rhine to the Siemens railway testing center in Wegberg-Wildenrath. Another connecting line branching off from the Iron Rhine to (former) military facilities near Arsbeck and Elmpt has now been dismantled.

Branch lines

The Prussian state railway closed in 1890, the current county seat Heinsberg in Lindern ( railway Heinsberg-relieving ) to the Aachen-Mönchengladbach railway to. In addition, the Jülich – Dalheim line was added in 1911 , creating a cross-connection between the Iron Rhine and the Aachen – Mönchengladbach line via the Dalheim and Baal junctions. Traffic on this cross-connection has now completely ceased in the district and the route has been largely dismantled. The connections to the Sophia-Jacoba colliery and the Oberbruch chemical park , which had their own factory railways, were important for freight traffic on these routes .

Selfkantbahn
Track dismantling in Wassenberg
Work to reactivate the Heinsberg route
Narrow gauge railway

In 1900 the Geilenkirchener Kreisbahnen narrow-gauge railways opened from the then district town of Geilenkirchen on the one hand to Alsdorf , on the other hand to Wehr, from where it continued to Tüddern in 1905. Today the IHS operates a museum railway, the Selfkantbahn, on a remnant part of this railway line .

development

Heyday

The border station in Dalheim once reached an extension of over 27 tracks and was thus the largest station in the district for a long time. Passenger train traffic to Heinsberg peaked in the 1950s with 13 pairs of passenger trains a day.

Freight traffic to the (now closed) Sophia-Jacoba colliery between Baal and Ratheim (this section of the Jülich – Dalheim line was also electrified ) was an important source of income for the railway; so had Ratheim station once 14 officials and the freight reached up to 60,000 freight cars a year (1987). Four to six so-called “program trains” drove per day (additional freight trains if required) and internal transports between the mine site in Ratheim and the processing (briquette factory) in Hückelhoven almost every block.

Decline

In the course of individual motorization with cars, the number of passengers declined in the post-war decades. With the use of rail buses , the former Federal Railroad shifted public passenger transport away from rail and at the same time reduced operations on the branch lines to only a few pairs of trains per day and direction.

In the years 1949 to 1971, traffic on the Selfkantbahn gradually ended . As early as 1953, no more passenger trains ran in cross-border traffic between Dalheim and Roermond. On September 29, 1968, passenger traffic from Baal to Jülich was stopped. On September 27, 1980 the last passenger train ran from Baal to Dalheim and one day earlier the last passenger train from Heinsberg to Lindern. Critics saw a reduced number of trains as the cause of the decline in the number of passengers and assumed that the railway systematically tried to make operations on the railway lines unattractive and, with the resulting decrease in passengers, to construct a reason for their closure.

After the “Sophia-Jacoba” colliery was closed in 1997, the section between Ratheim and Baal was still used for the briquette factory in Hückelhoven, which continued until 2008.

present

Both main routes are important city connections in the Rhineland. While the Dalheim route provides public transport to the city of Wegberg, the main route Aachen – Mönchengladbach, which cuts through the south of the district, is an important link on the Ruhr-Aachen-Belgium route and of great importance for commuters in the structurally weak Heinsberger Land.

For the district and the city of Wegberg, rail traffic is also of major economic importance due to the railway testing center in Wegberg-Wildenrath .

After Heinsberg had been one of the few district towns without its own rail connection for over 30 years, the Heinsberg - Lindern route was reopened as the Wurmtalbahn with the timetable change in December 2013 .

future

In the long term, the aim was to put the Baal – Ratheim – Wassenberg connection back into operation. At the beginning of 2015, however, the Federal Railway Authority issued a notice of exemption for the section Hückelhoven Stadtmitte - Ratheim. The construction of the L 117n on the former railway line could begin in winter 2015. The development plan provides for a route for a future railway line between the L 117n and Jacobastraße. However, this is not dedicated to railway law, so a future reactivation would legally equate to a new building.

A study on behalf of the Heinsberg district, which was presented to the responsible committee at the end of 2015, predicts a favored reactivation of the Baal-Ratheim line with a connection to and from Mönchengladbach, the potential of 6440 passengers per working day, which, according to the spokesman for IG Ratheimer Bahn, “even the the greatest optimists might be surprised ”.

It is also planned to build a new connection between Baal and Linnich or between Lindern and Linnich .

A use of the iron Rhine for freight traffic is no longer pursued.

shipping

The Rur was navigable in earlier centuries. It represented an important traffic artery for the region and gave the Heinsberger Lands cohesion. Upstream the Rur could only be navigated by means of towing . The paths along the Rur led to the Jülich and Limburger Land.

Leisure and tourism

Museums

Bega's house. Museum for Art and Regional History Heinsberg

The former Heinsberg District Museum, located in the historic archway building on upper Hochstrasse since 1949, was closed from mid-2010 until mid-March 2014 due to renovation and expansion work. The official reopening took place on March 14th. The focus of the exhibition is the Berlin artist family Begas , who come from Heinsberg , supplemented by excursions on regional territorial, cultural and church history. The museum was located in “Bega's house. Museum for Art and Regional History Heinsberg ”renamed; Since January 1, 2011, its sponsor has been the sponsoring association Museum Heinsberg eV with significant financial contributions from the Heinsberg district, the city of Heinsberg and the Heinsberg district savings bank.

Other museums

  • Rhenish Fire Brigade Museum in Erkelenz- Lövenich
  • Beecker flax museum in Beeck (Wegberg)
  • Museum for European folk costumes in Wegberg-Beeck
  • Permanent exhibition " Bionics - Future Technology Learns From Nature" in the Wegberg- Wildenrath Nature Park Center .
  • Selfkant Farm Museum in Selfkant-Tüddern
  • The Riediger Collection in Übach-Palenberg shows finds from the Mesolithic Age and lightning tubes .
  • Local history museum “Gerhard Tholen Stube” in Waldfeucht
  • Mineral and Mining Museum in Hückelhoven
  • Shaft 3 in Hückelhoven is a former mine of the Sophia-Jacoba colliery .
  • Basket-making museum in Hückelhoven- Hilfarth
  • historical classroom in Geilenkirchen-Immendorf
  • Private Loewe Opta radio museum in Waldfeucht-Bocket, here you can find something unique from radio history.

Other destinations

  • Gangelt wildlife park
  • Selfkantbahn , a historic meter-gauge steam train
  • Watermills
  • Windmills along the Selfkant Mühlenstraße
  • The St. Jans-Klus in hair
  • Various recreational areas

Bicycle tourism

Since 2006, an orientation system with nodes adapted to the neighboring Netherlands and the neighboring districts has been used to promote cycle tourism. Three long-distance cycle paths lead through the district.

Cycle path signs in the Heinsberg district

In 2006, the “Knooppuntsystem” ( node system ) from the Netherlands was introduced in the Heinsberg district . There is an orientation map at these red marked and numbered junctions.

Culture

Jewish cemeteries

8 Jewish cemeteries are documented for the district of Heinsberg : in Erkelenz (2), in Gangelt (1), in Geilenkirchen (1), in Heinsberg (3) and in Wassenberg (1). They are cultural monuments that are worth protecting - stone witnesses to formerly existing Jewish communities and a lively Jewish community life up to the 1930s.

media

The local newspaper market still divides the district area into its two predecessor districts: While in the southern part, the former Selfkant district of Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg , the Geilenkirchener Zeitung and the Heinsberger Zeitung (as local editions of the Aachener Zeitung ) and the Heinsberger Nachrichten (as the local edition of the Aachener Messages ) are read, the Rheinische Post is more widespread in the northern former district of Erkelenz .

The West German Broadcasting (WDR) reported from the responsible for the region WDR Studio Aachen local both in its "local time" of the WDR television and in the regional part of its second radio program WDR 2 about current events.

HS-TV regional television for the district of Heinsberg, based in Erkelenz, is a company for Internet television and public television in locations that attract the public. It reports in a fortnightly magazine broadcast at over 70 terminal locations in the entire district as well as updated daily on its website at www.HS-TV.de on regional topics. There is no public broadcast via radio. At the end of 2011, HS-TV stopped broadcasting on the Internet.

Welle West , the local radio station for the Heinsberg district, ceased broadcasting on May 15, 2007 after 15 years.

See also

literature

  • Home calendar of the Heinsberg district
  • Museum publications of the Heinsberg district
  • Series of publications by the Heinsberg district
  • Bibliography Grenzland 1981–1999, ed. Working group Grenzland Kreis Heinsberg - Limburg
  • Horst Romeyk : The leading state and municipal administrative officials of the Rhine Province 1816–1945 (=  publications of the Society for Rhenish History . Volume 69 ). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-7585-4 , p. 324 and a .
  • Harry Seipolt: "... comes from an antisocial and hereditary clan". Forced sterilization and Nazi euthanasia in the Heinsberg district 1933–1945. In: Local calendar of the Heinsberg district. 1992, pp. 112-124.
  • Harry Seipolt: Reich Committee children in the district of Heinsberg 1939 - 1945. In: Local calendar of the district of Heinsberg. 1993, pp. 123-135.

Web links

Commons : Kreis Heinsberg  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 .  ( Help on this )
  2. Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 .  ( Help on this )
  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. 308 .
  4. RKI - Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 - COVID-19: International risk areas and particularly affected areas in Germany. Retrieved March 19, 2020 .
  5. Ruth Fulterer, Joana Kelén, Barnaby Skinner: How Mardi Gras accelerated the pandemic in Germany | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . ( nzz.ch [accessed on March 19, 2020]).
  6. ^ State database North Rhine-Westphalia
  7. District of Heinsberg Religion , 2011 census
  8. ^ Church in the Heinsberg region. Retrieved August 2, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Resigning from the church concerns the diocese of Aachen , accessed on July 23, 2019
  10. Diocese of Aachen Overview Figures Data Facts , accessed on July 9, 2020
  11. 2014 municipal elections in NRW. Retrieved July 28, 2015 .
  12. ^ Result of the 2013 federal election, constituency 89 Heinsberg on the site of the regional returning officer of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Retrieved August 20, 2016 .
  13. Election to the German Bundestag in the Heinsberg district , on wahlen.regioit.de
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  15. a b c § 2 of the main statute of the Heinsberg district (PDF; 47 kB)
  16. ^ Rolf Nagel: Rheinisches Wappenbuch . Rheinland Verlag, Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-7927-0816-7 , p. 171 .
  17. Future Atlas 2016. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 2, 2017 ; accessed on March 23, 2018 .
  18. Authority clears the route for the L117n. In: Aachener Zeitung. March 2, 2015, accessed December 9, 2015 .
  19. Reactivation of the Baal-Ratheim railway line has potential. In: Aachener Zeitung. November 29, 2015, accessed December 9, 2015 .
  20. Michael Heckers, Dieter Weber: Mönchengladbach: Railway line "Iron Rhine" finally off the table. Retrieved August 10, 2018 .
  21. H.Coenen: towpath . (September 5, 2006)
  22. Press release BEGAS HAUS - Museum for Art and Regional History Heinsberg Reopening after three years of renovation. Retrieved July 10, 2020 .
  23. Heinsberg: “Lighthouse” of culture not only for the region. Retrieved July 10, 2020 .
  24. District of Heinsberg. In: Overview of all projects for the documentation of Jewish grave inscriptions in the area of ​​the Federal Republic of Germany. North Rhine-Westphalia. Editor: Claudia Pohl. Version: December 2002; here: North Rhine - List according to today's administrative structure - Cologne district