Mehrhoog

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Mehrhoog
City of Hamminkeln
Coat of arms of the district of Mehrhoog
Coordinates: 51 ° 44 ′ 19 ″  N , 6 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 23 m above sea level NN
Area : 13 km²
Residents : 6336  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 487 inhabitants / km²
Postal code : 46499
Primaries : 02857, 02850
Mehrhoog (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Mehrhoog

Location of Mehrhoog in North Rhine-Westphalia

Mehrhoog is a district of the town of Hamminkeln in the Wesel district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Landstrasse 7 (formerly Bundesstrasse 8 ), Landesstrasse 602 and Kreisstrasse 11 meet near the town .

history

The oldest traces of human activity in the area of ​​today's Mehrhoog go back to the Latène period .

Roman silver and copper coins from AD 249 to AD 270 and vessels made from terra sigillata have been found near the train station .

During the Seven Years' War on August 5, 1758, in the Battle of Mehr (French Affaire de Meer), the Brunswick Lieutenant General von Imhoff defeated the French troops under General Chevert . It took place between the old Poststrasse and the residential area "Im Kuckuck". The Imhoff memorial in Storchenweg commemorates this battle.

The Hollands Mill has been documented since 1790. It is located between Rheinstrasse and Köpenweg. Today only remains of the foundation remain from the mill.

In 1813, at the time of French interim rule, Mehrhoog belonged to Mehr , Mairie Haldern, Canton Rees in the Rees arrondissement in the Lippe department.

From 1816 Mehrhoog belonged to the municipality of Haffen-Mehr with just 202 inhabitants at that time, still as part of Mehr ; this belonged to the mayor's office or to the office of Haldern in the Rees district of the Jülich-Kleve-Berg province in the Kleve administrative district . From 1822 the Rees district belonged to the Rhine Province in the Düsseldorf administrative district .

The Oberhausen – Arnhem railway line was built through the Mehr'sche Heide from 1853 to 1856 , and a railway station was built in Mehrhoog, which made the place considerably larger in the following years.

The current Catholic Church was consecrated on October 1, 1966.

On January 1, 1975, Mehrhoog became part of the municipality of Hamminkeln in the course of the second reorganization program, which was elevated to a town in 1995.

Place name

Until the middle of the 19th century, the area belonged to Mehr and was known as Mehße Hejde or Mehr'sche Heide. Another local spelling in 1807 was Mehr'sche Hoog . The current spelling of Mehrhoog can be found for the first time in a document from 1823. When the station (located on the Holland route ) was named by the Mehrhoog railway company in 1856 , the name finally caught on.

The local part of the name More says that the place near a sea, a former Rheinarms lies. Hoog means higher . Mehrhoog is the higher part of the old town Mehr.

coat of arms

Blasonierung : diagonally right divided up Green Gold bottom (yellow) with a color-changing circuit in gold (yellow) is green.

Meaning: The coat of arms symbolizes the landscape of Mehrhoog, the sandy soils of the heathland and the green fields. The inclined line stands for the Oberhausen-Amsterdam railway line, which cuts through the town from southeast to northwest. The circle refers to the coat of arms of the city of Hamminkeln.

education

In the place there is

societies

  • Haffen-Mehr-Mehrhoog 1922 eV
  • Tennis Club Mehrhoog eV
  • Gymnastics Club Mehrhoog 1964 eV
  • Bürgererschützenverein Mehrhoog eV
  • Male choir Mehrhoog 1982
  • Ev. Mehrhoog church choir
  • Parish choir Heilig Kreuz Mehrhoog
  • Mehrhoog flute group
  • Folklore dance group Mehrhoog
  • Belly dance group Mehrhoog
  • Budo Association Mehrhoog e. V.
  • Pigeon club "Sturmvogel" Mehrhoog
  • Pigeon club "Our pride" Mehrhoog
  • Rhenish rural women local association Loikum-Töven-Mehrhoog
  • Trades table Mehrhoog e. V.
  • Citizen Bus Mehrhoog eV
  • Mehrhooger Bürgererverein eV
  • Supporting association of the Mehrhoog eV meeting place
  • MehrhoogHilft (refugee aid)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Schönfelde: The late Celtic chariot grave of Boé. , Philipps University of Marburg, Department of History and Cultural Studies, Marburg January 27, 2004, pp. 98 to 100
  2. ↑ Jakob Schneider: The old master and trade routes of the Teutons: Romans and Franks in the German Empire. University of California 1882, p. 21
  3. ↑ Digital Archive Marburg, HStAM Karten WHK 25 / 53d  ( 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: Dead Link / www.digam.net  
  4. ^ 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. 297 .
  5. ↑ Website of the city of Hamminkeln  ( 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.hamminkeln.de  
  6. ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf: 1823, Bagel, 1823, p. 140
  7. ↑ Ernst Wilhelm Forstemann: The German names of Ernst Förstemann. Ferd. Förstemann's Verlag, Nordhausen 1863, p. 42

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