Mulhouse (Grefrath)

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Mulhouse
community Grefrath
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 29 ″  N , 6 ° 21 ′ 55 ″  E
Height : 33  (33-34)  m
Residents : 1247  (Dec. 31, 2008)
Incorporation : January 1, 1970
Incorporated into: Grefrath
( together with Oedt )
Postal code : 47929
Area code : 0 21 58
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The southern entrance to Mulhouse
The southern entrance to Mulhouse

Mulhouse is the smallest district of the municipality of Grefrath in the district of Viersen , administrative district of Düsseldorf , in North Rhine-Westphalia . The village has 1,247 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2008, of which 537 are male and 710 female) and is roughly halfway between Grefrath in the west and the central center of Kempen in the east.

history

In a sand pit north of Mulhouse, finds came to light in the 1920s that testify to a settlement and a Franconian burial ground from the 7th century. In the valley of the Niers north of Mulhouse there was a tower castle ( "Motte" ).

While Grefrath ruled secularly from the 13th century, first to the county / duchy of Geldern , later to the Burgundian / Spanish Netherlands and then from 1713 to Prussia , the Amt of Oedt, east of the Niers , with the places Oedt , Mulhouse and Hagen was already part of it since the year 953, part of the centuries archbishopric and electorate of Cologne (often simply abbreviated as " Electorate of Cologne ") that a spiritual area where the office of the archbishop with the electors in personal union was connected.

From this situation there were always border disputes with the Duchies of Kleve , Jülich and Geldern , which was also the reason for the construction of Uda Castle in Oedt.

This constellation only changed fundamentally in 1794, when French revolutionary troops occupied the area and the area on the left-hand side of the Lower Rhine finally became part of the French Rur department before Napoleon came to power .

The French rule came to an end in 1814 with the defeat of Napoleon in the Battle of Waterloo , whereupon at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 a redistribution of the areas previously occupied by France by the victorious powers was decided.

The entire Rhineland was now Prussian, the former Geldrische Oberquartier , to which Grefrath belonged, for the first time, the area of ​​the former Kurköln, in which the Office of Oedt including Mülhausen was located, for the first time ever.

Mülhausen's political independence has not been documented since it was incorporated into what was then the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815, an independent municipality (even if it was only officially part of it ) no longer existed at least since 1816, instead the village of Mülhausen was simply a district of the municipality of Oedt at that time.

The independence of the former municipality of Oedt ended on December 31, 1969, on January 1, 1970, Oedt including the district of Mülhausen (but without the district of Hagen) was incorporated into the municipality of Grefrath, whose district the village of Vinkrath was already already.

nature

The Niers flows west of Mulhouse in a south-north direction . In the valley of the Niers north of Mulhouse lies the nature reserve Grasheide and Mülhausener Benden (area number VIE-007), which is characterized by wet meadows and pastures .

Infrastructure

Church institutions

Parish Church of St. Heinrich

In 1888 the congregation of the Sisters of Notre Dame, founded in the 1850s, who had emigrated to North America as a result of the Kulturkampf in Prussia in 1874, built the new motherhouse in Mulhouse after their return . Starting with the first building purchased, the “Villa Bongartz”, an extensive building complex with a monastery , school for women, girls' boarding school and rest home “Haus Salus” was created. In 1941 the Secret State Police confiscated the mother house and drove the sisters away. After the end of the war, Mulhouse became the center of the order again, the congregation expanded rapidly, also in other European countries and overseas. In 1947 the motherhouse with the generalate was relocated to Rome, Mulhouse initially existed as a German province , and after the founding of the provinces of Coesfeld and Vechta as a Rhenish province. In 2008 the three German provinces were merged into a single one with headquarters in Coesfeld.

Also worth seeing is the catholic parish church Sankt Heinrich, originally built in the neo-Gothic style in 1900, with its architecture and stained glass - most of them were designed in the 1950s by the nationally renowned expressionist painter and glass painter Heinrich Dieckmann (1890–1963). On the forecourt is a bronze sculpture depicting a miller with his donkey. The St. Heinrich kindergarten, which was built in 1953 in the former elementary school, is part of the Catholic Church.

Not far north of Mulhouse is the Benedictine Abbey " Mariendonk ".

education

With the “Liebfrauenschule” founded in 1888 as a monastery school for the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady, Mülhausen has the largest grammar school in the Viersen district. It is operated independently and is state-recognized. The former boarding school for girls at the Liebfrauenschule was converted in 2001 into the “Antoniushaus” educational facility for young people and families.

traffic

To Mulhouse lead from the north county road K 27 (grass Heider Street), from the south, from the neighboring district Oedt coming L 391 (Main Street), the coming of the West K 12 (Grefrather Road) and the east of Kempen approach leading B 509 (with a northern variant via Klixdorf and a southern variant that merges into the Kempen outer ring).

The former Mulhouse station on the disused Kempen – Venlo railway line is now used for catering purposes.

sewage

The Grefrath sewage treatment plant of the Niersverband (NV), built in the late 1960s / early 1970s, is located on the north-western outskirts of Mulhouse and discharges the treated wastewater into the Niers.

Village life and customs

The local and rifle festivals, organized by the " Schützenbruderschaft Sankt Heinrich & Sankt Vitus", which was founded in 1903 and which is a member of the Federation of Historical German Brotherhoods, are important customs in Mulhouse . The "Community of Interest Local Life Oedt and Mülhausen eV" promotes village life with other activities throughout the year, such as jazz pint and St. Nicholas market. The fire brigade group Mulhouse that the fire company of Oedt volunteer firefighters heard Grefrath, packed with many events to. In 1970 the sports club DJK SC Blau-Weiß Mülhausen was founded. The “Musica Sacra” concert series has been held in the Heinrichskirche since 2003 with around three performances per year.

Web links

Commons : Mulhouse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oedt and Mülhausen in figures  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.oedt.de  
  2. ^ Grefrath in portrait , website of the municipality Grefrath
  3. ^ Albert Steeger: Frankenfund in Gellep (Gelduba). Die Heimat 12, 1933, 9-15 Fig. 2.
  4. ^ Frank Siegmund: Merovingian time on the Lower Rhine. Rhenish excavations 34. Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-7927-1247-4 , pp. 331-332.
  5. ↑ Website on the nature reserve Grasheide - Mülhausener Benden , Zweckverband Deutsch-Dutch Naturpark Maas-Schwalm-Nette
  6. ↑ Wikipedia (NL): Keur-Keulen / Ontstaan ​​van het keurvorstendom (Dutch)
  7. ↑ THE LANDKREIS KEMPEN-KREFELD IN FIGURES , published in: Heimatbuch des Landkreis Kempen-Krefeld 1969 , Kempen (Ndrh) 1968
  8. ↑ a b Story compact ( Memento of the original from November 27, 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. , www.oedt.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oedt.de
  9. ↑ THE REPORT 1968 by Rudolf H. Muller, " Oberkreisdirektor the district Kempen-Krefeld " published in: Heimatbuch the district Kempen-Krefeld in 1969 , Kempen (Ndrh) 1968
  10. ↑ Website on the nature reserve Grasheide - Mülhausener Benden , Zweckverband Deutsch-Dutch Naturpark Maas-Schwalm-Nette
  11. ^ History of the Mulhouse Monastery
  12. ↑ 100 years of the parish church of St. Heinrich Mülhausen . Grefrath-Mulhouse 2000.
  13. ↑ Illustrations , 20th Century Glass Painting Foundation Foundation
  14. ↑ donated by the last mayor of Oedt, Josef Lepers ( obituary  ( 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. )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / oedt.de  
  15. ↑ Website about the Antoniushaus ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2009 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kirche-im-bistum-aachen.de
  16. ↑ Grefrath sewage treatment plant , Niersverband
  17. ↑ St. Heinrich and St. Vitus of 1664 Schützenbruderschaft Mülhausen (ed.): 100 years of St. Heinrich Schützenbruderschaft. Mulhouse 2003.
  18. ↑ 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. , Website of the DJK SC Blau-Weiß Mülhausen 1970 eV@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bw-muelhausen.de