Myhl

Myhl

Greetings from Myhl - 1903

Myhl is a district of the city of Wassenberg in the district of Heinsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia and has about 2700 inhabitants. There is a Catholic primary school and two kindergartens in Myhl. People settled here along the small valley. Over time, the slopes were also settled, where some very idyllic residential areas have emerged.

location

Myhl is similar to the neighboring Altmyhl in a side valley of the Rur between Gerderath and Wassenberg and belongs to the Wassenberger Riedelland. The highest point is around 95 meters above sea ​​level . The Myhler Bach is now largely piped, but runs through the entire village along St.-Johannes-Straße and flows at the end of the village through the middle and lower terrace in the direction of the Rur. Because of the significant differences in altitude, this landscape is called "Myhler Switzerland".

history

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The place was first mentioned in a document in 1269. The original text reads: "Waleramus dux de Lemburch et Jutta ducissa bona in Milen, que a nobis Johannes de Orsbeke tenebat". This means, "Walram, Duke of Limburg and Jutta, Duchess, have released goods in Myhl that Johannes von Orsbeck owns from us". The politically independent mayor of Myhl was only set up by the French shortly before the turn of the century (1799). The Myhl mayor's office later became the Myhl office , which existed until the local government reform in 1972 and was then administratively assigned to the city of Wassenberg.

In terms of local history, Altmyhl (today the city of Hückelhoven) is intertwined with (Neu-) Myhl. The villages are about a kilometer apart in two side valleys of the Rur valley. The side valleys, which are crossed by two streams, were very humid in earlier centuries. In Myhl, the brook is now channeled inside the village and outside it is included as an open ditch in a drainage system. Going back to a foundation in 1360, there was a Franciscan monastery in Myhl from 1475 to 1802, which belonged to the large "St. Johannestal" court complex and was dissolved under Napoleon. The Rhineland - and with it the municipality of Myhl - was under French administration from 1794 to 1815. The neo-Gothic Myhl parish church was built in 1877.

The origin of the place name is uncertain. One guess is that the name Myhl has a Celtic or Germanic origin. In the Celtic and Germanic languages, streams were often referred to as mel or mil, from which Myhl emerged over time. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the regional textile industry encouraged home weaving in the originally agricultural town. Further industrial impulses came from the Hückelhoven mining industry. From 1925 to 1933, the population rose from 1,075 to 1,327.

The white quicksand, which can be found in many places in Myhl close to the surface of the earth (tertiary sea sands), made it possible for many Myhlers to earn a modest livelihood in the 19th century. The very fine sand was sold by wheelbarrow in the neighboring towns (5 pfennigs for 1 barrow (approx. 5 l)). It was scattered in the living room at the weekend. The floor initially consisted of tamped clay and was later replaced by unpainted boards. The sand helped to keep the wooden floor nice and white. The rabbit monument on Floriansplatz was created in 1974 by the Erkelenz sculptor Peter Haak.

On January 1, 1972, the previously independent community of Myhl, located in the district of Erkelenz , was incorporated into the community of Wassenberg.

politics

coat of arms

former municipal coat of arms

Blazon : "In the blue field a silver M stylized as a lily"

The Myhler coat of arms is a new creation that focuses on the first letter of the town. The coat of arms was awarded with a certificate from the Interior Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia on June 4, 1958.

Attractions

• neo-Gothic Catholic parish church from 1877
• Myhler Switzerland

See also : List of architectural monuments in Wassenberg

carnival

Myhl has a carnival club, the MKV, which was founded in 1967. The symbol of the Myhl Carnival is the Sankhaas. The battle cry of the Myhler Jecken is consequently also “Sankhaas höpp höpp!”.

swell

1. ↑ http://www.wassenberg.de
2. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. erkelenz.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
3. ^ 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. 310 .
4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. 

Web links

Commons : Myhl  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Homepage of the city of Wassenberg
• Monuments in the city of Wassenberg
• Churches and chapels in the city of Wassenberg

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′  N , 6 ° 11 ′  E