Porselen

Porselen City of Heinsberg Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 18 ″ N , 6 ° 10 ′ 20 ″ E
Height :	45 m above sea level NHN
Area :	2.97 km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1969
Incorporated into:	Oberbruch Dremmen
Postal code :	52525
Area code :	02453

Porselen is a district of Heinsberg in the Heinsberg district and is located on the Wurm . The districts Bleckden , Schanz and Porselener Mühle also belong to Porselen . Together with the neighboring village of Horst, the village forms a district of the city of Heinsberg.

history

Porselen is mentioned indirectly for the first time in a document from 1283: de Porcele .

The village has always belonged to the parish of Dremmen. In 1891 it was given a chapel and was made a rectorate, then in 1914 a parish.

From the time of the French occupation until 1932, Porselen belonged to the community of Hilfarth. After Hilfarth was hived off from the "old" district of Heinsberg, Porselen became an independent municipality in the Dremmen mayor and belonged to the Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg district .

Local government

On January 1, 1969, the place was incorporated into Oberbruch-Dremmen .

With effect from January 1, 1972 in the course of the municipal reorganization by the Aachen Act (§ 27) , the municipality of Oberbruch-Dremmen (and thus also Porselen) was merged with Heinsberg and now forms, together with Horst, a district within the city of Heinsberg .

The city district of Porselen / Horst is represented by the elected mayor in the city council of Heinsberg. Horst was nominated as part of the state competition Our Village has nominated the future and elected gold village at the district level in 2014.

Economy and Infrastructure

former Porselen train station

traffic

Rurtalbahn GmbH stop on the Heinsberg-Lindern Wurmtalbahn line

The bus line 493 runs through Porselen, which creates a connection on different routes between the Heinsberg town center and Lindern train station .

line	course
493	Heinsberg bus station - Schafhausen - Eschweiler - Oberbruch - Dremmen - Porselen - Horst - Randerath - Lindern station

Porselen is on the Heinsberg – Lindern railway line .

line	designation	Train run
RB 33	Rhine-Niers Railway	Heinsberg - Heinsberg-Porselen - Lindern - Herzogenrath - Aachen main station.

Porselen's sons and daughters

Rudolf Debiel (1931–2015), actor, author and producer

Individual evidence

↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 73 .

^ 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 .

↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2013 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. Main statute §7 @1@ 2

Web links

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

Commons : Horst - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

[1] Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 73 .

[2] 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 .