Ophoven
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Ophoven
City of Wassenberg
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| Height : | 33 m |
| Area : | 4.55 km² |
| Residents : | 736 (May 31, 2016) |
| Population density : | 162 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 1972 |
| Postal code : | 41849 |
| Area code : | 02432 |
Ophoven is a district of the city of Wassenberg in the Heinsberg district in North Rhine-Westphalia , right on the border with the Netherlands , about 15 km from Roermond and about 25 km from Mönchengladbach .
geography
Ophoven is in the Rurn lowlands about 33 m above sea level. NN . Sands and gravels are excavated in the groundwater area. Waters are the Rur in the west, oxbow lakes of the Rur and quarrying ponds in the southeast.
history
Place name
The place name is derived from the Lower Franconian name Op de Höv , which means on the farms. At that time this was a common name for a settlement of manors. Old Lehnsverzeichnisse the man chamber Wassenberg prove that in the district of today Ophovens 5 courtyards must have been: The Water Court in the north, the Behrens yard in the center of the present village, east of the Schaphauser yard, to the southeast of Nauen yard and finally, in the south on the edge of the Ophoven district, the Wielack estate, which still exists today. Except for the latter, all other farms have disappeared today, partly due to demolition, partly due to major fires.
Emergence
The exact founding date of Ophoven can hardly be determined. Most of the documents show that between 1191 and 1196 an Otto von Born near Sittard donated a Schaphauser Hof to the nuns of the Cistercian Herkenrode on the banks of the Rur . The donation of the red tithing in the deanery Wassenberg was often disputed to the monastery . However, this was confirmed by his widow Petronella and their son after Otto von Born's death. There, the future abbess of Herkenrode Jutta von Wassenberg and Duchess of Limburg founded a branch monastery to the Cîteaux monastery with a monastery church, which is still an attraction of the special devotion to Mary . A document from 1202 shows that both nuns and monks lived in the monastery "Op Hoven" . Monks presumably to do the rough forest and field work and to promote the construction of the church. However, the monks no longer seem to have lived in the monastery around 1232, as a document only mentions “conventual women”. The Liège bishop Albert von Cuyk and other gentlemen gave the founding of the monastery plenty of money and valuables. This rich monastery attracted settlers who worked, prayed and lived here in economic security. This was the real reason for the founding of the monastery at that time, because they served colonization. The monastery complex included: In addition to the church, an accommodation area for monks, nuns and servants, a farm building with stables and a monastery mill. The property comprised 450 acres . In 1823 the Schaphauser Hof is demolished, the former monastery area no longer exists.
Effects of war
Immediately before the outbreak of World War II on September 1, 1939, the population was confronted with air protection measures (gas masks, air raid shelter). On the night of Pentecost Sunday 1940, Ophoven was overflown by Allied (English) bombers for the first time. The first bombs fell in the pursuit of German fighter pilots on the old sports field on Mühlenstrasse. In the first days of September 1944, the war front from the west, which was continually turning to the east due to the landing of the Allied troops in June 1944, also entered the local area, on September 14, 1944 the population is ordered to evacuate. The grenade strikes by the Allied troops became more and more frequent from mid-February 1945, so that the Ophovener church was badly damaged by several grenade strikes on February 25th. On February 28, 1945 the front rolled over Ophoven and it was occupied by American troops. The balance of the war from Ophoven's point of view: 24 dead, including 17 fallen soldiers and 7 civilian casualties.
Incorporation
On January 1, 1972, the previously independent municipality of Ophoven was incorporated into the municipality of Wassenberg.
church
The Church of St. Mary of the Assumption is a Roman Catholic pilgrimage church. Most of the Romanesque three-aisled pillar basilica was built in the 12th century.
traffic
train
The next train station with a connection to Aachen is Heinsberg (Rheinl) . In addition, there are connections to Aachen and Dortmund via Mönchengladbach and Düsseldorf in Erkelenz .
Bus transport
Ophoven is served at two stops by the westVerkehr bus line 404 (Wassenberg - Birgelen - Effeld - Ophoven - Kempen - Karken - Heinsberg) on weekdays. The MultiBus , a shared call taxi , runs on weekends . The journey time to Erkelenz is about 50 minutes (with a change in Wassenberg to the express bus SB1), to Heinsberg 10 to 25 minutes.
automobile
Ophoven is only a few kilometers away from the Hückelhoven-West junction of the A 46 . The state road L 117, which leads to the Netherlands ( Vlodrop ) or Hückelhoven , and the federal road B 221 , which leads to Aachen and Niederkrüchten ( A 52 ), are only a few kilometers from the village .
Infrastructure
Up until 2009 there was a municipal kindergarten in Ophoven. In the course of amalgamating the kindergartens with the Effeld district, a new daycare center was created in the Steinkirchen district, which lies between Ophoven and Effeld and officially belongs to Effeld. Today the Caron family has an exhibition with 1,300 Santa Clauses and Santa Clauses in the former kindergarten.
media
There are three daily newspapers in Ophoven: The Heinsberger Zeitung and the Heinsberger Nachrichten from the Aachen newspaper publisher, as well as the Rheinische Post with a local section from Erkelenz.
Since 2007 there has been no NRW local radio in the Heinsberg district. Welle West used to broadcast on VHF 98.3. Instead, the German-language broadcaster 100'5 DAS HITRADIO reports. from Eupen on what is happening in and around Ophoven.
Awards
The first gold plaque “ Our village has a future ” at state and federal level went to Ophoven.
Under the motto “Our village should become more beautiful”, the Federal Minister for Food, Agriculture and Forests announced a competition in the spring of 1961 to determine the most beautiful village in each federal state. At the state level, Ophoven took first place. The gold plaque was presented personally by the then State Minister Gustav Niermann .
Ophoven won the gold plaque not only at the state level, but also at a later competition at the federal level, in which all the winning municipalities were allowed to participate. In the presence of the then Federal President Dr. Heinrich Lübke , Federal Minister Werner Schwarz presented the gold plaque to Mayor Caron from Ophoven at a ceremony in the Beethoven Hall in Bonn.
In 2008 the competition was awarded the silver badge.
In 2011 Ophoven received the silver award and an additional award for cultural development.
politics
Mayor of Wassenberg (this includes the Ophoven district) is Manfred Winkens from Ophoven (CDU).
Regular events
- Octave Marian pilgrimage to St. Mary
- "Bleekfest" (derived from Low German: Bleek = bleach; the meadow in front of the former kindergarten once served as bleach for laundry) on the meadow in front of the former kindergarten alternating with the "Benden party at the lake" on the Rong Kull im month August
personality
- Gerhard Esser (1860–1923), Catholic clergyman and university professor
Individual evidence
- ^ 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 .
Web links
- Homepage of the city of Wassenberg
- Monuments in the city of Wassenberg
- Churches and chapels in the city of Wassenberg
- Official website of Ophoven
Birgelen with Eulenbusch, Rosenthal, Schaufenberg | Effeld | Myhl | Ophoven with stone churches | Orsbeck with Luchtenberg, Ohe | Wassenberg with forest