Nirm (Geilenkirchen)

Nirm City of Geilenkirchen Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 18 ″ N , 6 ° 10 ′ 3 ″ E
Height :	62 (58-67) m
Residents :	195 (December 31, 2015)
Postal code :	52511
Area code :	02453
	Location of Nirm in Geilenkirchen
	Geilenkirchen Nirm from the south, aerial view

The Nirmer Dorfstrasse

View of Nirmer Dorfstrasse

Chapel between Kraudorf and Nirm

Interior of the chapel

Footfall at the entrance to the village

Refuge in the valley of the worm

Nirm on the tranchot map 1803–1820

Footfall in Nirm

Nirm is a district of the middle town Geilenkirchen in the district of Heinsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

location

Nirm is located northeast of Geilenkirchen on state road 42 , which leads from Randerath via Geilenkirchen to Heerlen (Netherlands). The place is above the valley of the worm at a height of 58 to 67 m above sea level , about 3-5 m above the water level of the worm on the northern city limits.

Waters

The worm supplied numerous mills with water over a river length of 53 km . The source of the worm is south of Aachen at 265 m above sea level. The confluence with the Rur is in the town of Kempen in the town of Heinsberg at 32 m above sea level. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, worm straightening was carried out. The curving, now and then meandering course of the river disappeared in favor of a simple route . The river length shortened and the flow speed increased. Even if Nirm was not directly threatened by floods , the management of the meadows and bends could be significantly improved by straightening the river .

Neighboring places

Uetterath	Randerath	Fallow
Hoven		Flahstrasse
Kraudorf	Müllendorf	Leiffarth

Type of settlement

Nirm is a two-sided, loosely built two- street village with several farms .

history

Place name

15th century Nerhem
1514 Nyrhem
1540 Nierhem
1560 Nirem
1820 Nirm

Nirm is derived from Niederheim. Viewed from Kraudorf, the farm was down Wurm. As a counterpart there was a noble seat upstream called Opheim.

Local history

Nirm used to belong to the Jülich office of Randerath . A farm in Nirm was in the 15th century Randerather fief . It can be assumed that Nirm was originally a single settlement that expanded along the state road 42 Randerath-Geilenkirchen. The place in the parish Kraudorf belonged to the court Randerath.

Nirm had a total of 156 inhabitants in 1828, 189 inhabitants in 1852 and the place belonged to the mayor's office of Randerath. In the course of the regional reform on January 1, 1972, the towns of Hoven, Kogenbroich, Kraudorf and Nirm were taken over by the mayor's office of Randerath in the city of Geilenkirchen. Legal successor is the city of Geilenkirchen according to Section 29 of the Aachen Act .

Church history

The parish of St. Gertrud Kraudorf is made up of the towns of Kraudorf, Kogenbroich, Nirm, Hoven, Leerodt and Zumdahl . The majority of the population consists of Catholics .

In 1451 a Kyrche zo Kruytdorp was mentioned for the first time . The floor was also re-laid at this time. With the same type of tiles as the Premonstratensian monastery in Heinsberg received. An architectural study from 1950 shows a hall church 11 m long and 7 m wide. The foundations consist of quartzite sandstone, limestone, Roman stone and roof tiles. The dating is roughly in the 10th – 11th centuries. Century because there was only one day available for the examinations. An older wooden church is suspected.

In 1521 the priest Hubert Hutmann († 1563) was presented by the duke of Jülich , the dean of Susteren, as pastor for Kraudorf. He was also vicar of the Johannes Altar in Randerath.

When the diocese of Aachen was established in 1804, the parish came from the diocese of Liège to the new diocese and was assigned to the canton of Geilenkirchen. When the re-established Archdiocese of Cologne undertook a reorganization in 1827, the canton became the Deanery of Geilenkirchen. Since then the parish has belonged to this deanery.

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

politics

According to § 3 (1) e) of the main statute of the city of Geilenkirchen, the places Kraudorf, Nirm, Kogenbroich and Hoven form a city district. He is represented by a local mayor in the city council of Geilenkirchen.

Attractions

Catholic parish church St. Gertrud as monument no.7
Stained glass in the Catholic Parish Church
Catholic rectory in Kraudorf
Chapel of the Sorrowful Mother Maria, between Kraudorf and Nirm
Zumdahl house, rectangular courtyard with tower and moat as monument no.41
Gut Leerodt, former water system as monument no.46
Footfall stations between Randerath and Nirm as monument no.44

Infrastructure

There are several farms with animal husbandry , as well as some small businesses.
Carnival and various other festivals are celebrated in the club's restaurant in Nirm.
There is a bus stop in the AVV , served by lines 407 Geilenkirchen- Myhl and back
The playground for Nirm is located at the sports field in Kraudorf.
The place has a connection to the cycling network NRW .
The Nirm fire fighting unit of the Geilenkirchen Volunteer Fire Brigade (Zug IV)

School system

Kraudorf primary school 1925: 1 class, 1 level, 1 teacher, 58 children
Elementary school Kraudorf-Nirm 1965: 2 classes, 2 teaching positions, 56 children

societies

Interest group of the parish Kraudorf eV
St. Antonius Rifle Brotherhood Kraudorf-Nirm from 1912
Drummers and Pfeiffer Corps Kraudorf-Nirm
FSV Kraudorf-Uetterath eV
Church choir St. Cäcilia from 1874 (merged with the church choir Würm in 1998; dissolved in 2003)

Regular events

Patronage feast and coronation ceremony of the majesties
Fair weekend in the parish from Friday to Sunday
Birdshot by the Rifle Society one week after the fair
St. Martin parade in the area of the parish
Summer party of the FSV Kraudorf-Uetterath eV
Every two years the Kraudorf-Nirm Drummers and Pfeiffer Corps' summer festival
In the year in which the drum and Pfeiffer corps has no event, the Lantern Festival of the Nirm fire fighting unit

Street names

Nirm, To the Benden, Zumdahl

literature

Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen. 3. Edition. Kühlen, Mönchengladbach 1994, ISBN 3-87448-172-7 , pp. 710-712
Wilhelm Piepers: Archeology in the Heinsberg district , p. 391–401
Leo Gillessen: The localities of the district of Heinsberg , p. 134
Leo Gillessen: On place names and settlement studies of the southern Selfkant district , in: Home calendar of the Selfkant district Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg 1970, pp. 38–49
Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province . Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
Helmut Krause: The pastors of the parish St. Gertrud in Kraudorf , 1991
Helmut Krause: Noteworthy grave slab in the Kraudorf church , in: Heimatkalender des Kreises Heinsberg 1990, pp. 79–82
Helmut Krause: The hand ax from Kraudorf , in: Heimatkalender des Kreises Heinsberg 1991, pp. 34–42
Rainer Steppkes: Kraudorf's only church book before 1798 , in: Heimatkalender des Kreises Heinsberg 1988, pp. 134–141

Web links

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

Individual evidence

[DGK5-1] German basic map 1: 5000

[DE-NW_TIM-2] Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )

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