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Praise City of Nettetal
Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 26 ″  N , 6 ° 16 ′ 45 ″  E
Height :	47 m
Area :	17.64 km²
Residents :	13,795  (Jun 30, 2013)
Population density :	782 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1970
Postal code :	41334
Area code :	02153
Location of Lobberich in the city of Nettetal

Lobberich is a district of the city of Nettetal in the district of Viersen in North Rhine-Westphalia . Lobberich was known in many countries around the world for its velvet and silk production until the middle of the 20th century . The villages of Sassenfeld , Dyck and Bocholt belong to Lobberich .

St. Sebastian

St. Sebastian front view

Ingenhoven Castle

Precipitation values ​​from Lobberich

history

The oldest surviving document, in which Lobberich is mentioned, was made around the year 988. With her, Archbishop Everger of Cologne transferred, among other things, the Church of Lubbruch to Bishop Notker of Liège.

The Lobberich textile industry began in 1802 with the Heithausen velvet ribbon factory. In 1880 the first fully mechanical loom was put into operation near Niedieck ; it provided a great competitive advantage. Between 1970 and 1975, Niedieck employed over 1000 people. In 1868 the Kempen – Venlo line was opened. During the Second World War , an anti-aircraft division of the Luftwaffe was stationed in the municipality . On March 2, 1945 Lobberich was occupied by troops of the 8th US Armored Division after artillery bombardment in the course of Operation Grenade .

Just six years after the town charter was granted in 1964, the new town of Nettetal was formed on January 1, 1970 as part of the municipal reorganization from the towns of Lobberich and Kaldenkirchen and the towns of Breyell , Hinsbeck and Leuth .

After the Second World War, the metal industry gained importance through the production of sanitary fittings and carburettors at ' Rokal Armaturen GmbH'. Rokal also produced model trains in TT gauge (12 mm) and was later taken over by Pierburg , a supplier to the automotive industry. Pierburg gave up its Lobberich location in 2014/15 and moved to Neuss (→ Rheinmetall Automotive ).

In mid-May 2011, the Dutch company Laarakkers bought the site of the former Niedieck velvet weaving mill, which became insolvent in 2004. Laarakkers had the Niedieck building torn down and built apartments, small-scale commercial space and buildings for service companies there.

Attractions

See also : List of architectural monuments in Nettetal

Attractions in Lobberich include:

• several churches (the double-towered Catholic parish church of St. Sebastian, built in 1893, is the third largest church in the diocese of Aachen )
• the water tower Lobberich
• the former residences of former feudal lords Burg Bocholt and Burg Ingenhoven
• the Marienhospital (opened in 1885) with chapel (Sassenfelder Kirchweg).

Others

The velvet production made Lobberich more prosperous than the surrounding communities. Its residents said that the lobbyists were self-important and arrogant and used the term "Lobbricker Wenk" for it. Wenkbüll is the vernacular term for Lobbericher (great-) inhabitants, " puffs " means.

Personalities

• Jacob Reiners (1828–1907), portrait, genre and landscape painter
• Leo Anton Carl de Ball (1853–1916), astronomer
• Heribert Reiners (1884–1960), art historian and university professor
• Albert Steeger (1885–1958), universal scholar
• Heinrich Plönes (1885–1956), educator and writer
• Reinhard Boetzkes (1886–1967), classical philologist and high school teacher
• Rudolf Kömstedt (1887–1961), art and architecture historian
• Werner Jaeger (1888–1961), philologist
• Hanna Meuter (1889–1964), sociologist, lecturer and writer
• Johannes Hessen (1889–1971), philosopher and Roman Catholic theologian
• Urbanus Bomm (1901–1982) Benedictine Abbot Maria Laach
• August Erkens (1908–1988), painter from the Lower Rhine region
• Johannes Menskes (* 1927), choirmaster and conductor
• Hans Klaps (1936–2015), politician (SPD)
• Heinrich Gillis Görtz (1940–2010), painter and graphic artist
• Wolfgang Schiffer (* 1946), writer
• Hartmut Mirbach (1949–2011), German photographer and painter
• Volker Kischkel (MOCK) (* 1953), caricaturist
• Michael Heghmanns (* 1957), lawyer and university professor
• Marcus Optendrenk (* 1969), politician (CDU)

Twin cities

• Caudebec-en-Caux

literature

• Velvet and silk. On the history of the Lobberich textile industry. 2012. Ed. VVV Lobberich, ISBN 3-9807883-5-0 / Theo Optendrenk.
• Peter Dohms: Lobberich - history of a community on the Lower Rhine .

Series of publications of the district of Viersen, 1981, ISBN 3766692402

• Johann Finken: History of the former glory Lobberich , 1902. online at lobberich.de

Web links

• Lobberich on the website of the city of Nettetal
• lobberich.de
• Heimatverein Lobberland e. V. - with archive
• Heimatverein "Stammtischrunde"
• Verkehrs- und Verschönerungsverein (VVV) Lobberich: 'Tour through Lobberich' (pdf, brochure)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marcus Optendrenk : Lobberich - Between rule and community . In: Frank G. Hirschmann, Gerd Mentgen: Campana pulsante convocati. Festschrift on the occasion of the retirement of Prof. Dr. Alfred Haverkamp . Kliomedia, Trier 2005, ISBN 978-3-89890-086-7 , pp. 449-472, here p. 451.
2. ↑ Rheinische Post of May 16, 2009, page B3: silk barons were the godfathers
3. ↑ the train station was at the end of Friedenstrasse; it was demolished in 1978. Rheinische Post January 2, 2018, p. C2
4. ↑ Hans Kaiser / Grenzland-Kurier of February 28, 2015, p. C4: The citizens waved the white flags in front of the approaching US soldiers .
5. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 115 .
6. ↑ website of Rokalfreunde Lobberich carburettor Lobberich: ROKAL and Pierburg
7. ^ WZ May 11, 2011: The Niedieck site has been sold
8. ↑ www.wohnen-in-nettetal.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ www.niedieckpark.de ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2018 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. 
10. ↑ History  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: rp-online.de November 5, 2010  
11. ↑ www.vvv-lobberich.de ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2015 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. 
12. ↑ see also this literature list
13. ↑ a reprint appeared in 1977.