Kreuzau

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Coat of arms of the municipality of Kreuzau
Kreuzau
Map of Germany, position of the municipality of Kreuzau highlighted

Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′  N , 6 ° 29 ′  E

Basic data
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Cologne
Circle : Düren
Height : 145 m above sea level NHN
Area : 41.73 km 2
Residents: 17,444 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 418 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 52372
Primaries : 02422, 02427, 02421
License plate : DN, JÜL, MON, SLE
Community key : 05 3 58 028
LOCODE : DE KZU
Address of the
municipal administration: 		Bahnhofstrasse 7
52372 Kreuzau
Website : www.kreuzau.de
Mayor : Ingo Eßer ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Kreuzau in the Düren district
Kreis Düren Nordrhein-Westfalen Rhein-Erft-Kreis Kreis Euskirchen Rhein-Kreis Neuss Kreis Heinsberg Stadt Aachen Städteregion Aachen Belgien Heimbach Kreuzau Nideggen Vettweiß Düren Jülich Langerwehe Titz Merzenich Aldenhoven Hürtgenwald Nörvenich Inden Niederzier Linnichmap
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City

Kreuzau is located in the Rureifel recreation area and, with around 18,000 inhabitants in a good 7,000 households, is the third largest municipality in the Düren district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The Ruraue near Kreuzau has been part of the Hohes Venn-Eifel Nature Park since 2020

geography

Neighboring communities

Starting in the north in a clockwise direction, the following cities and municipalities border Kreuzau, all of which are in the Düren district:

Düren Norvenich
Huertgenwald Neighboring communities Vettweiß
Nideggen

Community structure

The municipality of Kreuzau is made up of the following districts :

District Size (ha) Residents (1)
Bergheim 290
Bilstein 311
Bogheim 174.17 250
Boich (2) 686.37 604
Drove 480.09 2258
Kreuzau with Schneidhausen 562.05 5223
Langenbroich 131
Leversbach 545
Obermaubach (3) 238.93 1345
Blowstone 226
Stockheim with Stepprath 768.65 2660
Thum 369.18 377
Üdingen 148.64 644
Untermaubach 312.43 1064
Winches 434.64 2010
(1) Without secondary residence, as of March 31, 2019
(2) With Leversbach
(3) With striking stone

In addition, there was the lost place Hemgenberg .

history

Kreuzau Castle

Numerous archaeological finds prove that Kreuzau was already settled in pre-Roman times. In 1319 the place was first mentioned in a document as "Auwe superior". The current name Kreuzau appears for the first time in the 15th century. It is believed that the name arose after the church dedicated to the holy cross .

The life story of Saint Heribert , Archbishop of Cologne and patron saint of the church in Kreuzau, reveals a 1000-year history of the place. His mother is buried in the church in Kreuzau.

Incorporations

The municipality of Kreuzau was created by § 8 of the law on the reorganization of municipalities in the Düren district of June 24, 1969 (GV.NRW. P. 372) in the form of the amalgamation of the municipalities of Bogheim, Boich-Leversbach , Drove, Kreuzau, Stockheim, Thum , Üdingen and Winden ( Kreuzau Office ) with effect from July 1, 1969. By § 14 of the law for the reorganization of the communities and districts of the reorganization area Aachen from December 14, 1971 (GV.NRW. P. 411) the communities Obermaubach-Schlagstein and Untermaubach as well as part of the community Hürtgenwald (Langenbroich) became parts of the former community Lendersdorf-Krauthausen (Schneidhausen and Welk) and parts of the former municipality of Niederau incorporated into the municipality of Kreuzau with effect from January 1, 1972. The Kreuzau office was dissolved. The legal successor is the municipality of Kreuzau.

politics

town hall

mayor

Ingo Eßer (CDU) has been the full-time mayor of the Kreuzau community since 2014.

Municipal council

Local election 2014
Turnout: 57.79% (2009: 62.54%)
 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
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47.72%
33.52%
12.76%
4.39%
1.62%
Gains and losses
compared to 2009
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   0
  -2
  -4
  -6
-0.38  % p
+ 3.09  % p
+1.88  % p
-4.61  % p.p.
+0.03  % p
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The 34 seats (-4) of the municipal council have been distributed among the individual parties as follows since the local elections on May 25, 2014 :

  • CDU : 16 seats (-1)
  • SPD : 12 seats (+2)
  • GREEN : 4 seats (=)
  • FDP : 2 seats (−1)

In addition, Mayor Ingo Eßer (CDU) has a seat on the local council.

Coat of arms, flag and official seal

  • Coat of arms of the municipality of Kreuzau

  • Flag of the municipality of Kreuzau

The municipality of Kreuzau was granted the right to carry a coat of arms, a flag and an official seal with a certificate from the Interior Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia dated April 20, 1964. These are described in § 2 of the main statute of the municipality. The coat of arms or the coat of arms symbols may only be used by third parties with the approval of the council. The approval is deemed to be revocable.

Description of coat of arms

"The coat of arms shows a black head of shield covered with a continuous golden (yellow) cross and a black lion with a red tongue in gold (yellow)."

meaning

The cross indicates the community name, which is given in a document from 1319 as "Auwe superior". In the middle of the 15th century, the name of the church consecrated to the Holy Cross was added to the "Auwe". This finally resulted in “Kreuzau”. The main component of the coat of arms is the lion, which is copied from an old aldermen's seal from January 23, 1356 and which is undoubtedly the Jülich lion .

With the area change agreement dated September 12, 1968, the previous communities of Bogheim, Boich-Leversbach, Drove, Kreuzau, Stockheim, Thum, Üdingen and Winden merged to form the new community of Kreuzau and agreed on the coat of arms of the former community of Kreuzau.

flag

The flag shows the coat of arms of the municipality on a length divided by black and yellow.

Official seal

The official seal shows the municipal coat of arms with the inscription "Municipality of Kreuzau - District of Düren".

Town twinning

Kreuzau maintains partnerships with the following municipalities / cities:

Culture and sights

freetime and sports

For leisure activities, the citizens of the community can use the monte mare leisure pool , which offers numerous attractions such as a wave pool and water slide . An extensive sauna area has been available since the expansion in 2005/2006. After a further extension, the leisure pool also has a textile sauna . At the beginning of February 2009, the monte mare group of companies was awarded the contract to operate the leisure pool on behalf of the Düren district. Before the takeover, the bath was called "Rurwelle".

Kreuzau has a variety of shopping opportunities. Excursions to surrounding towns, such as Obermaubach , which is part of the Kreuzau municipality, with its reservoir and the Rur, offer variety and relaxation.

There is a lively club life in Kreuzau, be it in the cultural or sporting field.

The place Kreuzau is known beyond its borders for its Rose Monday parade. It is carried out by the Ahle Schlupp carnival society and attracts over 30,000 visitors to the streets every year.

The city of Kreuzau is connected to a number of cycle paths :

Economy and Infrastructure

Kreuzau was and is one of the centers of the paper industry . Are to be mentioned

  • the company Metsä Tissue (formerly Strepp) in the Untermaubach district
  • the Niederauer Mühle (formerly Gebr. Hoesch ) in the Kreuzau district and
  • the Smurfit Kappa Germany (formerly Rheinische corrugated board), the corrugated - cardboard manufacture.

The largest industrial area in the municipality is located in the Stockheim district, near the city of Düren.

Another industrial company based in Kreuzau is the bathtub factory Hoesch Design GmbH in the Schneidhausen district, which emerged from the family-owned hut in Haus Schneidhausen and is now one of the largest bathtub manufacturers in Europe. The company was taken over by a Polish company in the early 2000s.

The company Valder Kunststoffververarbeitung-GmbH has been based in Kreuzau since 1974. In addition to products for medical and electrical engineering, individual plastic products are manufactured at Valder.

traffic

Rurtalbahnhof Kreuzau

The B 56 (Geilenkirchen - Bonn) runs through the east of the municipality . The Düren – Heimbach railway , which is operated by the Rurtalbahn , runs right through the municipality . Kreuzau itself also has the Eifelstraße stop on this route in addition to the Kreuzau train station. In addition, the Üdingen and Obermaubach stops and the Untermaubach-Schlagstein train station are located in the municipality.

Local public transport is supplemented by the Düren circular railway with bus routes to Düren, Winden, Nideggen, Berg, Stockheim and Obermaubach.

education

The Kreuzau community has four primary schools at five locations and a large school center with the Kreuzau / Nideggen secondary school and a grammar school . There is also a music school in the Kreuzau district.

Sons and daughters of the church

Personalities who have worked or are working on site

References and comments

  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. ↑ https://www.aachener-zeitung.de/lokales/dueren/der-naturpark-nordeifel-reich-nun-bis-in-die-boerde_aid-48307391
  3. ↑ Numbers, data, facts. Kreuzau parish, March 31, 2019, accessed on May 25, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Law on the reorganization of municipalities in the Düren district of June 24, 1969
  5. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 98 .
  6. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the municipalities and districts of the reorganization area Aachen (Aachen Law) of December 14, 1971
  7. ^ 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 .
  8. ↑ http://www.wahlresults.nrw.de/kommunalwahlen/2014/aktuell/c358028kw1400.html
  9. ↑ a b c d Main statutes of the Kreuzau community of October 22, 1999 ( Memento of the original of December 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (PDF; 82 kB) in the version of the 5th amendment of December 14, 2005 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kreuzau.de
  10. ↑ Kreuzau municipality: coat of arms of the municipality and the districts
  11. ↑ http://musikschulekreuzau.de/ Website of the music school

Web links

Commons : Kreuzau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikivoyage: Kreuzau  - travel guide