Oppum
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Oppum
City of Krefeld
Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 45 ″ N , 6 ° 36 ′ 46 ″ E
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| Height : | approx. 35 m |
| Area : | 5.73 km² |
| Residents : | 12,964 (Dec. 31, 2011) |
| Population density : | 2.262 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | 1907 |
| Postal code : | 47809 |
| Area code : | 02151 |
Oppum is a district of Krefeld in North Rhine-Westphalia and has 13,047 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2007). Together with the district of Linn and parts of Bockum , it forms the district of Oppum-Linn.
history
The village of Oppum emerged as a Franconian farmers' settlement, probably around the year 500. In 1072 the place was first mentioned in a Worms document as a gift from the later Emperor Heinrich IV. To the Kaiserswerther St. Suitbertus Stift. The name Uphem used in the document means something like Obenheim. The village was in the Middle Ages Honnschaft the Office Linn and belonged until 1392 to the county Kleve , then to the electorate of Cologne . After the French occupation of the Napoleonic Wars from 1794 to 1814, Prussia became part of the Rhine Province like the entire Rhineland .
Up until the 19th century, Oppum was a street village with around 60 farmhouses, which were built on the east side along the village street, today's main street. The first Oppum school was built in 1836, and Krefeld-Oppum station in 1877 . After the opening of the railway repair shop in 1891, which created 300 jobs, the place developed more and more into a workers' settlement . Oppum belonged to the mayor's office Bockum, which had been within the Krefeld district since 1816 . On October 15, 1907, it was incorporated into the city of Krefeld. In World War II Oppum suffered from 1944 heavy losses and destruction by Allied bombing . The Second World War ended for Oppum on March 3, 1945 with the invasion of American troops.
dialect
Until the Second World War, flat was, as in all places on the Lower Rhine , the colloquial language of the majority of the population. Oppumer Platt is close to the Krefeld city dialect ( Krieewelsch ), although it differs from this in some ways. Older Oppumers, Linner, Bockumers or Krefeld speakers can recognize their mutual origins from the tone of voice and the use of dialect . Oppum is located in the Lower Franconian dialect area north of the so-called Benrath line (with the maache-maake distinction), which is considered the border to Middle Franconian . The Oppumer dialect is part of the southern Lower Franconian language south of the Uerdinger line (also called Limburgish ), characterized by the use of “ech” or “isch” for the High German personal pronoun “I”. To the north of it, in North Lower Franconian , "ek" is spoken instead, z. B. in the Krefeld district of Hüls ( Hölsch Plott ), in Kempen and on the lower Rhine.
Even if the dialect is on the decline, Platt is cultivated at carnival, on dialect evenings and in clubs. There are numerous carnival societies in Oppum with their own websites and hand-made speeches on Oppumer Platt. (Reference should be made to the book “Mundart in Krefeld - jedeit, jeseit, jeschriewe” published by the Krefeld Verein für Heimatkunde in 2007, in which vernacular authors from all parts of the town have their say).
Buildings
Railway repair shop
railway station
Danube settlement
Worth mentioning is the Donk settlement on the Oppumer and Fischeln area, which was built between 1932 and 1938. It comprised over 500 settler sites and still exists today in an expanded form after being severely damaged during the Second World War. It is considered the largest closed settlement in North Rhine-Westphalia. Among other things, the well-known swimmer Anne Poleska comes from the Donksiedlung.
Fungendonk solar settlement
As part of the state program for 50 solar settlements in North Rhine-Westphalia , the Fungendonk solar settlement has been under construction since 2004 on the site of a former sports field. According to the plans of the Krefeld architect Detlef Lenschen, semi-detached and terraced houses are being built as passive solar houses along the Geschwister-Scholl-Weg.
Geism mill
The Geismühle, one of the last completely preserved windmills on the Lower Rhine, is located at the motorway service station of the same name on the A 57 . Their name is derived from the field name on the Geest . Originally built around 1300 as an outpost of Linn Castle, it was first documented as a windmill in 1575 and was in operation until it was damaged by an aerial bomb at the end of the Second World War. After a repair by the Mühlenbauverein Geismühle Krefeld-Oppum , it can be viewed again since 2007.
societies
Sports
From Oppum the traditional handball club is TV Oppum that in the seasons 1965/1966 and 1967/1968 German champion in the field handball was. These championships were held in the Grotenburg Stadium , which is located in the Bockum district , but belongs to the Oppum- Linn district . In addition, the district sports facility was completed in 2001, in which SV Oppum 1910 eV plays today. The professional team of FC Schalke 04 , the German national soccer team for women and the Danish national soccer team for men have already trained on this facility . There is also a tennis club at Fungendonk, the Oppumer TC 1978 eV, which z. Sometimes nationally popular tournaments such as the Borgi Cup or Holtermann Cup are held on its facility.
The Association for German Shepherds was founded in Oppum in 1909. Since its establishment, the association has provided important representatives and service providers within the regional group and the main association. The association is the organizer of various breeding and performance tests and breeding events of the state group 05 and the main association. Since 1968 the Niederrheinpokal has been one of the largest events of the association with participants from all over the world.
Fire Brigade Oppum
In August 1907 the Oppum volunteer fire brigade was founded, the fire station of which was on Thielenstrasse (later a police station). The extinguishing group existed until the end of the war in 1945 and was then disbanded by the post-war events, like some other units. In 1974 it was re-established. Since then, the volunteer fire brigade in Oppum has been part of the Krefeld fire brigade as the Oppum fire fighting group. Around 37 men and women are currently working on a voluntary basis in the extinguishing unit. Their main task is to support the Krefeld professional fire brigade, mainly in the Oppumer and Bockumer areas.
On October 15, 2011, the new fire station at Heinrich-Malina-Straße 4 was inaugurated. This building consists of two building parts (vehicle hall and social wing). The vehicle hall offers space for three emergency vehicles and the social building for alarm changing rooms, administration and training rooms. The project was built with funds from the Economic Development Program II. The design was made by the architect Simone Mattedi from kplan AG in Siegen.
Animals and nature
Worth mentioning
The last boundary stone Oppums is on the Krefeld Grenzstrasse. It is almost hidden away from the road on the tram connection between Oppumer Strasse and Uerdinger Strasse. In the 1960s it was moved a few meters from its original location for reasons of tram construction. The emblem of the Elector of Cologne and the Count of Moers as well as the year 1726 can still be seen today despite the weathering.
literature
- Johannes M. Giesen: Oppumer Heimatbuch . Hermann Heß Verlag, Krefeld 1972
Web links
Footnotes
- ^ Verein für Heimatkunde Krefeld (publisher): Dialect in Krefeld: jedeit - jeseit - jeschriewe Verlag Joh. Van Acken Krefeld, 2007, ISBN 3-923140-56-8 , p. 11 ff.
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