Mennekrath

Mennekrath City of Erkelenz Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 28 "  N , 6 ° 20 ′ 26"  E
Height :	approx. 88 m
Residents :	184  (December 31, 2016)
Postal code :	41812
Area code :	02431
Location of Mennekrath in North Rhine-Westphalia

Mennekrath (railway underpass)

Mennekrath is a rural district of the town of Erkelenz in the Heinsberg district in North Rhine-Westphalia . To the south, separated by the railway line and the motorway, lies the hamlet of Neuhaus. The village has 184 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2016).

geography

Mennekrath is in the Erkelenzer Börde .

location

Mennekrath is located in the northeast of Erkelenz. Surrounding villages are clockwise Rath-Anhoven (municipality Wegberg ), Herrath (city Mönchengladbach ), the hamlet Etgenbusch, Venrath , Kaulhausen , the hamlet Neuhaus, Terheeg and Erkelenz.

To the west of the village, Neu-Borschemich , the new location for the village of Borschemich that has been displaced by the Garzweiler II opencast mine , will be built in 2006 .

The Mennekrath waterworks is also located northwest of Mennekrath.

Two major traffic routes are to the west of the village; the Aachen-Düsseldorf railway line and the A 46 motorway .

Nurseries

Up until a few years ago, there were large tree nurseries around the place, some of which are now cleared. The city of Erkelenz has bought the areas of the still existing tree nurseries in order to maintain a city forest here in the future.

history

In 1309 the village was first mentioned as Menkenraide . Mennekrath belonged to the Geldrischen city of Erkelenz. The provost of the Aachen Marienstift owned farms in the village, the so-called man estates.

On February 26, 1945 Mennekrath was captured by American soldiers of the 102nd Infantry Division of the 9th US Army in the course of Operation Grenade .

See also : List of architectural monuments in Erkelenz

Place names

The place name belongs to the group of medieval clearing names . Settlements with such an ending auf - rath emerged in the Erkelenz area between the 9th and 11th centuries.

The determiner probably contains a nickname or nickname , namely Mannekin .

religion

The majority of the population is Catholic and belongs to the Terheeg chapel community , which in turn is part of the parish of St. Lambertus Erkelenz. A small chapel dedicated to Saint Anthony of Padua stood in the village until 1960 ; it was later demolished.

societies

• "The Mennekrath" is the name of the former Mennekrath fanfare corps today .

Personalities

• Mathias Baux came from Mennekrath and was town clerk in the town hall of Erkelenz from 1544 to 1558 . Three writings have come down from him; the Erkelenzer Chronik , the Erkelenzer Rechtsbuch and a Geldrische Chronik . The first two in particular are important sources for the history of the city. In 1969 a street near the grammar schools was named after him, the Bauxhof .

Neuhaus

The hamlet of Neuhaus ( 51 ° 5 ′ 11 ″  N , 6 ° 20 ′ 28 ″  E ) consists of only a few residential buildings. There is no farm. The settlement probably originated in the 19th century. Urban emergency shelters have stood on the edge of the city since the 1960s. The place has 67 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2006).

Web links

• Website of the city of Erkelenz
• Monuments in the city of Erkelenz
• Churches and chapels in the city of Erkelenz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Update of the population on December 31, 2016 (PDF). (No longer available online.) In: Website of the city of Erkelenz. Archived from the original on January 25, 2017 ; Retrieved January 25, 2017 . 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.  
2. ↑ In a primal feud that Baux wrote for Hanß van Kerpen on October 3, 1549, he signed: Per e Mathiam Baux de Mennekeraid, secretarium, scriptum . - see. The documents of the city archive of Erkelenz, edit. by Dieter Kastner, Brauweiler 2001, p. 81 (No. 145).