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Millen fraction
Selfkant municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 2 ″  N , 5 ° 54 ′ 12 ″  E
Height : 43  (39-43)  m
Residents : 50  (Jun 30, 2016)
Postal code : 52538
Area code : 02456
map
Location of Millen-Bruch in Selfkant
Map of the municipality of Selfkant
Map of the municipality of Selfkant
Entrance to Millen-Bruch
House Alfens
Local development
Place-name sign
Way into the countryside
Junction 43 in Millen-Bruch
Millen break on the new recording from 1912
Millen break on the original cadastral map from 1846
Millen break on the Tranchot map 1803–1820

Millen-Bruch is a village in the municipality of Selfkant in the district of Heinsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

location

Millen-Bruch is located in the north-western area of ​​the municipality Selfkant not far from the German - Dutch border between Havert and Millen. There is an old homestead there, House Alfens.

Waters

In heavy rain and when snowmelts , the surface water flows from the Millen-Bruch area over the Saeffeler Bach into the Rodebach (GEWKZ 281822) and then further into the Maas . The Rodebach has a length of 28.918 km with a total catchment area of ​​173.385 km².

Neighboring places

Isenbruch Breakage Havert
Nieuwstadt (NL) Neighboring communities stone
Millen Tüddern Höngen

Type of settlement

Millen-Bruch is a scattered settlement based on the town of Havert.

history

Local history

The current village of Millen-Bruch is made up of the former farmsteads Gut Alfens, Beckers, Flecken and Hegems, adjoins Havert and formerly belonged to the Jülich office of Millen. At the beginning of the 12th century Havert was owned by the glory Wassenberg . Gerhard von Wassenberg had the right of patronage to the Church of St. Gertrud zu Havert, which he transferred in 1118 to the Georgsstift founded by him. In 1260 the local manor and jurisdiction was in the hands of the Lords of Millen. After this rule was transferred to Heinsberg , the farm and land in Havent appeared as a Heinsberg fief in the 14th century. (Haus Burg, Haus Wammen) Isenbruch and Schalbruch belonged to the Havert court .

Millen-Bruch had around 550 inhabitants in association with Havert in 1828. Havert formed with Isenbruch and Schalbruch the municipality Havert, which belonged to the Office Selfkant.

From April 23, 1949 to July 31, 1963, the Selfkant and thus also the Havert municipality was under Dutch contract administration. The repatriation took place on August 1, 1963 after payment of 280 million D-Marks .

With the law on the reorganization of municipalities in the Selfkantkreis Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg of June 24, 1969, the following change of area came into force on July 1, 1969.

§ 1 (1) The municipalities of Havert, Hillensberg , Höngen , Millen , Süsterseel , Tüddern , Wehr (Selfkant office) and the Saeffelen municipality (Waldfeucht office) will be merged to form a new municipal municipality. The community is given the name Selfkant.

§ 1 (2) The Office Selfkant is dissolved. The legal successor is the municipality of Selfkant.

Church history

The parish of St. Gertrud Havert was with today Millen-Bruch Isenbruch , Lind, Schalbruch and stone an independent parish . The majority of the population consists of Catholics .

The first documentary mention of the Church of St. Gertrud in Havert is known from the year 1118, when Gerhard von Wassenberg, who had the right of patronage, transferred it to the Georgsstift.

In the course of the parish reforms in the Diocese of Aachen, the formerly independent Catholic parish of St. Gertrud was incorporated into the Community of Parishes (GdG) St. Servatius Selfkant .

politics

According to § 3 (1) of the main statute of the Selfkant municipality, the municipality is divided into localities. Millen-Brch with Havert is a locality and is represented by a local mayor in the community council according to § 3 (2) . Heinz-Josef Dahlmanns is the mayor of Havert. (Stand 2013)

Infrastructure

  • In June 2013, 57 people lived in Millen-Bruch.
  • There is a farm with animal husbandry , a mail order business, a flooring company and some small businesses .
  • The children's playground was built by the local clubs in Havert
  • A community center for riflemen, drummers and the fire brigade is in Havert
  • There is a bus stop in the AVV , served by line 438.
  • The place has a connection to the cycling network NRW .

Attractions

societies

  • Selfkant volunteer fire brigade , Havert-Schalbruch extinguishing unit
  • St. John of Nepomuk Rifle Brotherhood Havert
  • Spielmannszug 1920 Edelweiß Havert eV
  • Church choir St. Cäcillia Havert
  • Selfkant-Havert riding and driving association
  • Sports club SV 1967 Havert-Stein eV
  • Social Association VdK Germany - Local Association Selfkant looks after Havert

Regular events

  • Brotherhood bird shot
  • Patronage festival and fair in Havert

traffic

Motorway connection

BAB Route section Junction distance
A46 Heinsberg - Düsseldorf AS Heinsberg 15 km
A44 Aachen - Mönchengladbach AS Aldenhoven 30 km
A4 Aachen - Cologne AS Weisweiler 40 km

Rail connection

From Geilenkirchen train station (approx. 15 km away)

line Line designation Line course
RE 4 Wupper Express Aachen - Mönchengladbach - Düsseldorf - Dortmund
RB 33 Rhine-Niers Railway Aachen - Mönchengladbach - Krefeld - Duisburg
RB 20 Euregiobahn Aachen - Geilenkirchen

Street names

At Alfens, De-Plevitz-Straße, Sandkoul

literature

  • Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen. 3. Edition. Kühlen, Mönchengladbach 1994, ISBN 3-87448-172-7 , pp. 684-686
  • Leo Gillessen: The localities of the district of Heinsberg , ISBN 3-925620-13-3 , p. 245
  • Leo Gillessen: On place names and settlement studies of the southern Selfkant district , in: Heimatkalender 1971, pp. 41–50
  • Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province . Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830

Web links

Commons : Millen Fraction  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German basic map 1: 5000
  2. ↑ http://www.selfkant.de/component/content/article/80-buergerservice/93-zahlen-ffekten.html
  3. ↑ http://www.lanuv.nrw.de/fileadmin/lanuv/wasser/pdf/Gewaesserverzeichnis%20GSK3C.xls
  4. ^ Area directory ( Memento from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ http://www.aachener-zeitung.de/lokales/heinsberg/1-august-ist-ein-markanter-tag-fuer-den-selfkant-1.509059#857515890
  6. ↑ https://recht.nrw.de/lmi/owa/br_bes_text?print=1&anw_nr=2&gld_nr=%202&ugl_nr=2020&val=4036&ver=0&sg=0&menu=1&aufgehoben=N&keyword=&bes_id=4036
  7. ↑ St. Gertrud, Havert ( Memento from July 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive )