Millen (Selfkant)
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Millen
Selfkant municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 1 '27 " N , 5 ° 52' 49" E
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| Height : | 45 (39-45) m |
| Residents : | 324 (Jun. 30, 2016) |
| Incorporation : | 1st July 1969 |
| Postal code : | 52538 |
| Area code : | 02456 |
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Millen is a village directly on the border with the Netherlands in the North Rhine-Westphalian municipality of Selfkant with around 320 inhabitants.
geography
location
Millen is located on Rodebach in the western part of the Selfkant municipality on the German - Dutch border.
Waters
In heavy rain and when snowmelts , the surface water flows from the Millen area 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
| Nieuwstadt (NL) | Isenbruch | Havert |
| Overhoven (NL) |
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Höngen |
| Limbrichterveld (NL) | Sittard (NL) | Tüddern |
Type of settlement
Millen is a two-line, loosely built street village . Away from the Rodebach there is the Millener Mühle and a large multi-part castle complex with moats.
history
Place name
- 1118 Melin
- 1144 Millene (provost)
- 1195 Milne
- 14th century millen
- 1452 Myllen
- 1500 mill
- 1846 millen
Local history
Millen Castle was the seat of the Lords of Millen until Arnold von Millen sold the Millen estate to Dietrich II von Heinsberg in 1282 . Since Millen was a fiefdom of the diocese of Liège, the sale also required Dietrich's feudal rulership by the diocese. After further changes of rule, the rule Millen came from 1499 permanently to the Duchy of Jülich ; Millen Castle became the seat of the Millen office of Jülich, which was formed from the three glories Gangelt , Vucht and Millen.
Between the beginning of the 12th century and 1802 there was a Benedictine monastery in Millen , which was subordinated to the Benedictine Abbey of St. Michael in Siegburg, and the existing parish church was used as a provost church .
The Rodebach has formed the border to the Netherlands since the border regulation by the Congress of Vienna in 1815. Millen Castle, located to the left of the stream, has been Dutch since that time, while the village to the right of the stream remained German territory.
From April 23, 1949 to July 31, 1963, the Selfkant and thus also Millen were under Dutch order management. 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 Selfkant district of Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg of June 24, 1969, the municipalities of Havert , Hillensberg, Höngen, Millen, Süsterseel, Tüddern, Wehr (Office Selfkant) and the municipality of Saeffelen (Office Waldfeucht) became the new selfkant municipality united.
politics
According to § 3 (1) of the main statute of the Selfkant municipality, the municipality is divided into localities. Millen is a locality and is represented by a local mayor in the municipal council according to § 3 (2) . Heinz Beckers is the head of the village of Millen. (Stand 2013)
Parish church
The exterior of the local church, consecrated to St. Nicholas, is predominantly Romanesque, while the interior is characterized by the extensive stucco on the walls and ceilings, which essentially date from the 17th century.
The oldest part of the church is today's choir, built around the year 1000. The house of God, consecrated to St. Quirinus, was used by the Lords of Millen as their own church. In the typical regional architecture of small rural hall churches of the early Middle Ages, it was built with a single nave over a rectangular floor plan with a narrower, almost square choir closure in the east. Easily available river pebbles, boulders and old Roman material were used as building materials. Round hypocaust bricks and a fragment of a tombstone walled into the east gable above the side choir are easily recognizable from the outside as second-used Roman building materials .
In the 12th century, on the occasion of the foundation of the provosts, the previous chapel was expanded to include a larger nave in the west. The church, now also used as a provost church, was also subject to a patronage in favor of St. Nicholas. Another expansion took place around the middle of the twelfth century with the addition of a narrow aisle on the north side. The main and side aisles were opened to each other by four arched arcades that were later walled up again. Presumably due to arguments about the double patronage, the Quirinus chapel with its own apse was built in the second half of the twelfth century at the east end of the aisle.
In the 17th century major work took place again. Today's west tower and sacristy were built and the interior of the church was refurbished. The rich stucco , commissioned by provost Otto Heinrich von Bylandt between 1636 and 1654, is particularly worth seeing .
A thorough renovation took place in the 19th century, but with some arbitrary changes. New windows were broken and the blind dwarf gallery in the apse of the Quirinus Chapel was not replaced true to the original.
In the course of the parish reforms in the Diocese of Aachen, the formerly independent Catholic parish of St. Nikolaus Millen was incorporated into the Community of Parishes (GdG) St. Servatius Selfkant.
Infrastructure
- In June 2013 there were 320 people living in Millen.
- Millen is served by the AVV bus routes 435, 429 and 439 in local public transport .
- The place has a connection to the cycling network NRW .
Attractions
- Catholic parish church of St. Nicholas, as monument no.39
- Stained glass of the parish church [1]
- Propstei, on Propsteiweg, as monument no.3
- Zehntscheune, on Johann-Grein-Straße, as monument no.4
- Residential building, church square no.5, as monument no.18
- Residential house, from Byland Strasse 18, as monument no.20
- Way cross, at Gut Alfens, as monument no.21
- Residential building, (Old Pastorate), from Byland Strasse 5, as monument no.29
- Mill building, Zum Haus Millen, as memorial no.31
- Brick courtyard, Kirchplatz 1, as monument no.35
- Brick courtyard, from Byland Strasse 24, as monument no.38
- Mission cross in the cemetery, by the church, as monument no.46
- Brick courtyard, church square 12, as monument no.48
societies
- Selfkant volunteer fire brigade , Millen-Tüddern extinguishing unit
- St. Quirinus Shooting Brotherhood Millen
- Funding association 1000 years of Millener Church eV
- Millen women's community
- Millener Oldtimer Association
- Social association VdK Germany Selfkant looks after Millen
Regular events
- Day of the horse with horse blessing
traffic
Motorway connection
| BAB | Route section | Junction | distance |
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| 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 |
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| RE 4 | Wupper Express | Aachen - Mönchengladbach - Düsseldorf - Dortmund |
| RB 33 | Rhine-Niers Railway | Aachen - Mönchengladbach - Krefeld - Duisburg |
| RB 20 | Euregiobahn | Aachen - Geilenkirchen |
literature
- Paul Clemen (ed.), Karl Franck-Oberaspach, Edmund Renard (editor): The art monuments of the Rhine province. 8th volume, III: The art monuments of the Heinsberg district . L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1906
- Wilhelm Piepers: Archeology in the Heinsberg district . Self-published by the district of Heinsberg, Heinsberg 1989, ISBN 3-925620-05-2 , Volume I, p. 103. The remains of the inscriptions are: Ē • OB / SIME / E • FIL / TERNUS / R / BI / IF
- Wilhelm Piepers, Hans E. Wolters, Werner Reinartz, Balthasar Jacobs, Heinrich Bast, Josef Schmitz: Our home, the Selfkantkreis Geilenkirchen Heinsberg . Published by the working group of home nurses of the Heinsberg district, Gatzen book printing company, Geilenkirchen 1956
- Wolfgang Zahn in: Heimatkalender des Kreis Heinsberg 1979. Self-published by the Kreis Heinsberg, Heinsberg 1979, p. 54 ff. (On the church and its furnishings)
- Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen. 3. Edition. Kühlen, Mönchengladbach 1994, ISBN 3-87448-172-7 , pp. 691-693
- Leo Gillessen: The localities of the district of Heinsberg , ISBN 3-925620-13-3 , p. 252
- Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province . Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
Web links
- Millen village website
- Monuments in the municipality of Selfkant
- Churches and chapels in the Selfkant municipality
Individual evidence
- ^ German basic map 1: 5000
- ↑ http://www.selfkant.de/component/content/article/80-buergerservice/93-zahlen-ffekten.html
- ↑ http://www.lanuv.nrw.de/fileadmin/lanuv/wasser/pdf/Gewaesserverzeichnis%20GSK3C.xls
- ^ Area directory ( Memento from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.aachener-zeitung.de/lokales/heinsberg/1-august-ist-ein-markanter-tag-fuer-den-selfkant-1.509059#857515890
- ↑ 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
- ↑ St. Nikolaus, Millen ( Memento from July 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Dieck | Großwehrhagen | Havert | Heilder | Hillensberg | Höngen | Isenbruch | Kleinwehrhagen | Millen | Millen's fraction | Saeffelen | Breakage | Stone | Süsterseel | Tüddern | Weir