Leuth (Nettetal)
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Leuth
City of Nettetal
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| Height : | 40 m above sea level NN |
| Area : | 13.21 km² |
| Residents : | 1841 (December 31, 2015) |
| Population density : | 139 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 1970 |
| Postal code : | 41334 |
| Area code : | 02157 |
 Location of Leuth in the city of Nettetal
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Leuth , a district of Nettetal in the Viersen district in North Rhine-Westphalia and a border village near Venlo ( Netherlands ) is a state-recognized resort. The Netteseen (Poelvenn, Schrolick, Wittsee) belong to Leuth and, together with the heath and forest area Venloer Heide, shape the excursion area in Nettetal and the “Kälberweide” fed by the Königsbach with 3.5 hectares of water. The motorway border crossing "Schwanenhaus / A 61" and the old border crossing "Schwanenhaus" are just as much a part of Leuth as the "Green border crossing Gate 9".
history
The first written mention comes from the year 1251 . The village image of the village, which was dominated by farmers until the 19th century , has largely been preserved. The town center, the "Church Island", is a listed building.
For centuries, Leuth lay on the southern border of the Duchy of Geldern (Amt Krickenbeck) and the Duchy of Jülich . Until 1930 Leuth belonged to the diocese of Münster and the district of Geldern , today it belongs to the diocese of Aachen and the district of Viersen . The history of the place is linked to the history of the Lords of Krickenbeck, later Counts of Schaesberg . The Lords of Krickenbeck regulated the course of the Nette as early as the 13th century and had water mills built there. The Leuther mill is well preserved .
see also Alt Krickenbeck Castle
The Catholic parish church of St. Lambertus is a three-aisled brick hall church with a polygonal choir ( Vincenz Statz , 1860/61) and the western tower from the 15th century (newly sheathed in 1650/51). It is the center of the island-like core of Leuth together with some neighboring courtyards and the surrounding open spaces and pathways (churchyard, footpaths) and shapes the silhouette of the village.
Until the middle of the 19th century, the churchyard was the burial place for Leuth. In 1850, as was common at the time due to new hygienic findings, a new cemetery area outside the old town center was acquired and put into use in 1860. There are still some gravestones from the 17th and 18th centuries in the churchyard. The churchyard is surrounded by a brick wall, which also accompanies the footpath leading from Johannes-Finken-Straße to the choir.
The former town hall / mayor's office of Leuth (Dorfstraße 83) is a two-storey brick building in five axes with wooden block walls and a dark gray-covered half- hip roof right next to the church. In the middle axis there is a gate passage with bluestone stairs to the churchyard behind. A side gate leads to the neighboring building, Dorfstrasse 84, with which it frames a small square.
The rectory (a two-storey brick house, Johann-Finken-Str. 2) has a one-storey utility wing on the side with a crooked hip facing the street. In front of the house is a small farm yard, into which a porch of the main house with battlements protrudes on the other side.
The Neyenhof (Johann-Finken-Str. 4) is a single-storey hall house from the 18th century made of brick. In the east two arched entrances and the old window layout, they were restored in the course of renovation work in the 1980s. The elongated structure that accompanies the footpath to the church has a large, striking gable roof. They are evidence of a house shape typical of the landscape which, together with the parish hall and the church, characterizes the eastern part of the church area. The farm was owned by the Leuther pastors for 400 years.
Opposite the church is a large two-story building (Dorfstrasse 81). A wide cornice on the facade emphasizes the horizontal. According to local sources it was "Hotel zur Post" around 1870 and was named as a horse mail station around 1880.
Incorporation
Leuth was incorporated into Nettetal on January 1, 1970 ( law on the reorganization of the Kempen-Krefeld district and the independent city of Viersen ).
politics
coat of arms
The coat of arms of the former municipality of Leuth, awarded in 1955, goes back to the Leuther jury seal of the 17th century and shows the parish patron St. Lambertus with the lily of the Lords of Krickenbeck.
Infrastructure
Elementary school, kindergarten, cath. Parish church, playgrounds and football fields, soccer field, sports hall, several restaurants / pubs and holiday apartments.
tourism
Large parts of one of the oldest nature reserves in North Rhine-Westphalia , the NSG " Krickenbecker Seen ", belong to Leuth. But not only the wetland between Kleinem de Wittsee, Schrolick and Poelvenn, rich in fauna and flora, is worth seeing. The “Venloer- und Groote Heide” between Leuth, Herongen and Venlo with the area of over a thousand hectares of the former Venlo-Herongen air base is a historical and recreational area. The tower , built in 1941 , was placed under Dutch monument protection. On the German side, too, ruins of former heating halls and hangars have been preserved and taxiways are still clearly visible. In the years ( 1941 to 1945 ) used as a night fighter airfield area, the area is a large German-Dutch recreational area for walkers, cyclists, roller skaters, gliders and model pilots.
economy
traffic
Leuth is easily accessible via the A 61 and the A 40 or B 221 . Several well-signposted cycle routes open up from Leuth both the Dutch Maas Valley and the excursion areas between Nette , Niers and Maas .
Business
Logistics companies, staircase construction, kitchen and bedroom production, nurseries, farm shops and the fish feed manufacturer Coppens International are based here.
Personalities
- Gerhard Xylander (1555–1610), priest and canon of Cologne
- Theresia Irmgard Sibilla von Oeyen (1696–1779), abbess
- Heinrich Houben (1866–1941), writer
literature
- Leopold Henrichs (collaboration: Johann Finken): History of glory Leuth . 1884.
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to Leopold Henrichs and Johann Finken in their Leuth-Geschichte published in 1884 (see also here
- ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 115 .
- ^ Rheinische Post: How Leuth got its new church
