Pfalzdorf
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Pfalzdorf
City of Goch
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| Height : | 25 m | |
| Area : | 29.43 km² | |
| Residents : | 6954 (Jun. 30, 2015) | |
| Population density : | 236 inhabitants / km² | |
| Incorporation : | 1st July 1969 | |
| Postal code : | 47574 | |
| Area code : | 02823 | |
Location of Pfalzdorf in North Rhine-Westphalia |
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Pfalzdorf on the Lower Rhine in the northwest of North Rhine-Westphalia is a district of Goch . Before it was incorporated in 1969, it was one of the largest villages in Germany in terms of area. The pronounced scattered settlement belongs to the so-called Palatinate language island on the Lower Rhine .
geography
location
Pfalzdorf is to the left of the Rhine in the Lower Rhine lowlands between Goch, Kalkar and Kleve on the Pfalzdorfer Heights , part of the Lower Rhine ridge . Neighboring places are Bedburg-Hau in the north, Louisendorf in the northeast, Keppeln in the east, Goch in the south, Asperden in the southwest and Nierswalde in the west.
traffic
Pfalzdorf is on the Cologne – Kleve railway line . A stop existed until 1992, and since then the trains have run through Pfalzdorf without stopping.
history
In autumn 1741, the city of Goch assigned part of the Gocher Heide to emigrants from the Electoral Palatinate as a settlement area. The group of Reformed and Lutheran emigrants wanted to cross the Rhine to Rotterdam in order to cross over to America. However, the Dutch refused to allow them to continue their journey across the Rhine to Rotterdam at Schenkenschanz . In the years that followed, the emigrants had to struggle with initial financial difficulties, which led to repeated expulsions. They therefore turned to King Frederick the Great with a petition , who on April 30, 1743, gave the War and Domain Chamber of Kleve and the Goch magistrate in a special order to support the settlers.
After the first successes of the colonists on the Gocher Heide, the Prussian authorities developed an interest in the further settlement of emigrants, who have retained their dialect and customs to this day. More colonists settled there until 1771, almost exclusively from the Hunsrück . After that the heather ground was almost completely taken. Some of the settlers moved on to East Frisia , which was also Prussian at that time , where they founded the towns of Plaggenburg and Pfalzdorf near Aurich , among others .
The name Pfalzdorf was first mentioned in 1747, from 1745 the settlement Pfalzorth was mentioned . The naming can no longer be clarified beyond doubt, but the reference to the origin of the settlers is obvious. However, the area was known as Vahls , Vals or Valz (Low German for lowland) even before the settlement .
Pfalzdorf became a Mairie before 1800 . She did not belong to any office until its dissolution.
In the nearby Reichswald and in the vicinity of today's Pfalzdorf, the so-called Battle of the Reichswald took place in February 1945 of the Second World War . After this battle the Allies were able to build a bridgehead over the Rhine near Wesel and then take the Ruhr area.
On July 1, 1969, Pfalzdorf was incorporated into the city of Goch during the 1st municipal reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Religions
After the founding of Pfalzdorf, three denominations existed in the village. One third of the immigrants were Lutherans and two thirds were Reformed . The settlers from the area were predominantly Catholic .
A Reformed church was consecrated in 1775, a Lutheran church on October 29, 1779, and a Catholic church on September 11, 1811. For a long time, parts of Pfalzdorf were a Protestant enclave in the predominantly Catholic area of Kleve.
Attractions
17 buildings in Pfalzdorf are under monument protection , including the two Protestant houses of God, which were named Western Church and Eastern Church after their location .
politics
coat of arms
The heraldic description reads: "In a green field a silver lily reel, on which lies a black heart shield with an upward-striding, golden, red-crowned and red-armored lion."
The coat of arms symbolizes the settlement of the Palatinate colonists in the 18th century with the territorial coat of arms of the Palatinate Lion on the soil of the Duchy of Kleve (territorial coat of arms with the lily reel).
literature
- Barbara Mott: Palatine on the Lower Rhine . The history of the Palatinate settlements Pfalzdorf, Louisendorf and Neulouisendorf as part of the Prussian inland colonization of the 18th and 19th centuries. Völkersche Buchdruckerei and Buchhandlung, Goch and Kalkar 1989.
- Otto Hermann von Schütz: The foundation of Pfalzdorf . Ed .: Palatinate Association on the Lower Rhine. 3. Edition. Pfalzdorf 1990.
Web links
- City of Goch: Pfalzdorf
- Heimat- und beautification association Pfalzdorf
- Sound sample of the Pfalzdorfer island dialect (MP3; 1.9 MB) on the website of the language department at the Institute for Regional Studies and Regional History of the Rhineland Regional Association
Individual evidence
- ↑ Goch-Pfalzdorf: Railway checks stop in Pfalzdorf in: RP Online, from April 10, 2015
- ↑ a b Barbara Mott: Palatinate on the Lower Rhine . 1989.
- ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 79 .
