Langwaden (Grevenbroich)

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City of Grevenbroich
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 49 ″  N , 6 ° 39 ′ 2 ″  E
Residents : 848  (December 31, 2018)
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 41516
Area code : 02182
Langwaden (North Rhine-Westphalia)
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Location of Langwaden in North Rhine-Westphalia

Langwaden is a small village and eastern part of Grevenbroich in the Rhine district of Neuss in North Rhine-Westphalia .

location

Langwaden is bounded in the east by the Gillbach , which flows past the place in a south-north direction. In the north the place is surrounded by forest. To the north-east is the town of Hülchrath with the castle of the same name.

history

As early as the 12th century, the Premonstratensian women founded the Langwaden Monastery during the clearing period between Erft and Gilbach . It was donated to the order in 1132 by Christian I von Wevelinghoven as an estate. Politically, Langwaden has belonged to the Hülchrath office in the Electorate of Cologne since the Middle Ages . In 1794 French troops occupied the place and Langwaden came to the Mairie Wevelinghoven in the canton of Elsen in the Arrondissement de Cologne in the Département de la Roer . In 1815 Langwaden came to the Kingdom of Prussia. A year later Langwaden was part of the community Wevelinghoven the circle Grevenbroich in the administrative district of Dusseldorf . In the course of the incorporation of Wevelinghoven to Grevenbroich on January 1, 1975, one of the main streets of Langwaden was renamed: the Schlossweg became the Sankt-Bernhard-Straße, named after Bernhard von Clairvaux , probably the most important member of the Cistercian order.

Langwaden Monastery

Population development

year 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
population 850 831 847 857 859 861 848

Culture and leisure

  • The Langwaden monastery and a moat (cultural monument) are worth seeing . The monastery was founded in 1132 as a Premonstratensian monastery.

After the expropriation in the course of secularization , it came into the possession of Marshal Maison , a friend of Emperor Napoleon's , in 1803 . He turned it into a castle. Since 1910 it was owned by the barons of Benningsen and since 1913 by the counts of Nesselrode . After a long lease was signed in the early 1960s, the castle was once again used as a monastery for the Cistercian order.

  • In the back of the village, at the end of Dorfstrasse, there is still a bunker from the Second World War.
  • Once a year the "Langwacken" festival takes place in the immediate vicinity of the Langwaden monastery . It extends over a weekend and does not have any bands. Tents are pitched, barbecues and beer are drunk. The highlights of the event are the festival's internal Olympics and the grilling of three suckling pigs. The name is made up of the name of the village Langwaden and the metal festival Wacken .

Facilities

The place had a sports field until 2005. The village café was closed at the end of March 2018. In the village there is a kindergarten, a bakery with a small supermarket and a gas station.

traffic

The next junction is Grevenbroich-Kapellen on the A 46 or Grevenbroich-Südstadt A 540 .

literature

  • Heinz Ohletz: 1929–1974 years people initiatives in the greater Grevenbroich district, o. O. 1975.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dates & Numbers - Long Legs
  2. ↑ between Count Hermann von Nesselrode and the Abbot General of the Cistercian Order Dr. Sighard Kleiner OC
  3. ↑ info page of the long Wacken Festival , accessed on April 9, 2014.

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