Rentfort
Rentfort ( Low German : Rennfort) is a district of the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Gladbeck (zip code 45966). There has been a new development area called Rentfort-Nord since the 1960s . On January 1, 1978, the Rentfort district was divided into the three districts of Alt-Rentfort , Rentfort-Nord and Schultendorf .
The name Rentfort probably referred to a cattle ford and thus the possibility of driving cattle .
location
Rentfort is located in the north-western part of Gladbeck. In the northwest, the Brabecker Mühlenbach forms the border with Bottrop , in the south and east Rentfort borders on the Gladbeck districts of Ellinghorst and Zweckel . The Quälingsbach flows through the district and is dammed into a small lake on Berliner Straße and surrounded by a park. The Alte Haarbach rises in the south and flows into the Boye .
The Gladbeck motorway junction of the A 31 is located in the district , which later becomes the main Rentforts traffic axis, Kirchhellener Strasse, which connects Bottrop-Kirchhellen with the city center of Gladbeck. A second road is the Hegestraße, which leads from Gladbeck-Schultendorf through the south of Rentfort to Bottrop-Grafenwald. Rentfort is also served by a number of bus routes.
Rentfort is around 60 meters above sea level. While the town is characterized by meadows in the north and west, the industrial site of the former Zweckel colliery and the phenol chemical plant dominates in the east , while the Flachglas AG plant (Delog-Detag) is located in the south.
history
Rentfort belonged to Zweckel, Ellinghorst, Butendorf and Brauck to the Gladbeck farmers' groups . Politically, the peasantry initially belonged to Vest Recklinghausen and suffered above all from the clashes between Kurköln and the Counts of Kleve, but also from the recurring epidemics. As part of the Napoleonic reorganization, Rentfort came first to the Duchy of Arenberg in 1803 and to the Grand Duchy of Berg in 1811 , whereby Rentfort with Zweckel and Ellinghorst was subordinated to the Mairie Kirchhellen and thus separated from the other farmers. In 1815 the place became Prussian and in 1821 the separation of the farmers was reversed.
While industrialization found its way into Gladbeck's city center as early as the 1870s, Rentfort initially largely retained its rural character; However, the expansion of the Ruhr coal mine to the north also reached the north of Gladbeck at the beginning of the 20th century , so that in 1908 the Zweckel colliery was set up on the eastern edge of Rentfort. There was a steadily increasing population development and a corresponding expansion of the infrastructure. In 1919 Gladbeck received city rights and Rentfort became a district. In 1921 membership of the Recklinghausen district also ended . A brick factory in Rentfort produced roof tiles until 1922.
In the Second World War , Gladbeck and with it Rentfort as a center of heavy industry was badly destroyed. As part of the reconstruction in the 1960s, a modern new district was created as Rentfort-Nord.
On August 16, 1988, a branch of the Deutsche Bank in the business center Rentfort-Nord was attacked. The two perpetrators from Gladbeck, Hans-Jürgen Rösner and Dieter Degowski, took hostages and fled through western and northern Germany and also to the Netherlands. Three people were killed in the course of the hostage-taking (see Gladbeck hostage-taking ).
At the end of 2005, a federal and state project (“Stadtumbau West”) was started in Rentfort, whereby the district is to be adapted to demographic change. A solution is also to be found for the Schwechater Strasse high-rise.
Churches
The Catholic Church of St. Josef, Hegestrasse 146, not far from the Rentfort cemetery, was consecrated in 1908 and made an independent parish in 1914 . In 1934 the foundation stone was laid for a new building (architect Josef Franke ), which was completed in 1935 and consecrated by the Münster bishop, Count von Galen . Completions lasted until 1937. During the Second World War the church was damaged by air raids, but could still be used. The building has an altar with a depiction of the burning bush, an ambo with the staff of Joseph, and a statue of St. Antonius made by Ernst Rasche. The most famous pastor was Josef Helmus (born 1886, pastor in St. Josef from 1939 to 1966), who lived from 1942 to 1945 as prisoner no. 41,408 in the priestly block of the Dachau concentration camp . On September 1, 2007, this parish was dissolved by the Bishop of Essen, Felix Genn , like all other Gladbeck parishes and merged into a new large parish of St. Lamberti . The last pastor was Norbert Hoffmann from Gelsenkirchen (born December 20, 1942, ordained priest in 1971, + October 15, 2018) from 1983 to 2011.
The Alt-Rentforter Church (formerly the Protestant Martin Luther Church) is a single-nave building with a small church tower attached to the south. After being deedicated by the Evangelical Church, the building has been used mainly for cultural events since 2014; Since September 2016, services of the Reformed Free Church have also been held there. The evangelical community has a cemetery together with St. Josef nearby.
The modern Catholic Church of St. Franziskus is located in the Rentfort-Nord development area. Since September 1, 2007, it has been part of the St. Josef parish as a branch church.
Leisure and clubs
Rentforter Stadtpark (Schwechater Straße) can be used for sports, games and walks. The Rentforter and Zweckeler forest are connected via connecting paths.
The park at Quällingsteich connects to the Rentforter Stadtpark in a westerly direction.
BV Rentfort was founded in 1946, a football club whose first team plays in the district league. The sports field has been the first artificial turf field in Gladbeck since its completion in summer 2009. In this context, the sports field on Enfieldstrasse should be mentioned. A sports hall and tennis courts are in the immediate vicinity.
There is a city garden with a city garden house on Johowstrasse. |
Education and youth work
Rentfort has three kindergartens, two elementary schools (Catholic Josef School and Wilhelmschule Community Elementary School ), as well as the Ingeborg-Drewitz comprehensive school in Rentfort-Nord with 1,300 students. There is also a branch of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Sprachschule.
On October 11, 1878, the local council in Gladbeck decided to set up a second school in the municipality. The single-class Catholic elementary school St. Josef started operating in 1880. She was the second oldest in town. The local council had taken out a loan of 19,000 marks for the construction of the school. In 1913, 561 children were taught in nine classes. The establishment of the Graf Moltke I / II colliery increased the number of miners and their families who lived in Rentfort. In 1892 the school was expanded. In 1923 the schoolchildren were evacuated on Hegestrasse because of the occupation troops. In 1939 it was renamed "Weddigen School" after a submarine commander from the First World War. After a bomb hit and looting in 1945, things picked up again in 1947. The postal address was Hegestrasse 120. In 1968, as part of the reorganization of the school system in North Rhine-Westphalia, the Josefschule was run as a Catholic primary school. The headmaster of the Josef School was the part-time organist and choir director Ernst Tewes from 1982 to 1994, who sat at the organ at school masses in the St.Josef Church. Most of the pastors of the St. Josepf Church gave religious instruction in the school and celebrated the school masses with the children. Dorothea Gerenkamp was the principal from 1995 to 2017. In 2010, 13 teachers taught 260 children.
The Wilhelmschule was established in 1910 as the second elementary school in Alt-Rentfort and also supplied Ellinghorst. During National Socialism it became a "German school" (community school). In 1939 the armed forces, security and auxiliary services attended the school, as did five other Gladbeck elementary schools. Students were evacuated, but classes continued in alternating shifts. In July 1943, all Gladbeck schools were closed for teaching. In 1945 the Wilhelmschule helped out the Josefschule with its premises. The bombing war had badly damaged four elementary schools in Gladbeck. In autumn 1945 classes at the Wilhelmschule were continued. Today the address of the Wilhelmschule is Kampstr. 29. It functions as a community elementary school.
In the basement of the Ingeborg-Drewitz-Gesamtschule and other locations, the Rentfort-Nord leisure center is active, an institution of the city of Gladbeck.
Behind the St. Josef church is the TOT St. Josef youth home on the first floor of the parish hall.
economy
From 1908 to 1963, coal mining from the Zweckel colliery was the most important source of life in the place. With the closure of the colliery there were serious structural problems and a reorientation towards the service sector. Today Rentfort is characterized by small and medium-sized businesses. An industrial park for future technologies is currently being built in the so-called Innova-Park Wiesenbusch in the southwest of the town not far from the motorway.
population
According to the population statistics of the city of Gladbeck, there were 4,440 inhabitants in Alt-Rentfort, 7,871 inhabitants in Rentfort-Nord and 2,351 inhabitants in Schultendorf.
Web links
- Urban redevelopment concept
- Rentfort in the Westphalia Culture Atlas
literature
- Frank Bajohr : Replaced years of Gladbeck under the swastika. Klartext Verlag, Essen 1983, ISBN 3-88474-103-9 .
- Paul Derks, The settlement names of the city of Gladbeck in Westphalia , ed. v. Museum of the City of Gladbeck, Gladbeck 2009.
- Wolfgang Hinz, The change in the social structure during the transition from the agricultural to the industrial form of existence illustrated using the example of the vestic community of Gladbeck , phil. Dissertation Cologne 1961.
- Ludger Tewes , Self- Understanding and Development Logic , Basics of Gladbeck History in the Middle Ages , in: Vestische Zeitschrift 84/85 1985/1986, pp. 38–96. ISSN 0344-1482.
- Ludger Tewes Middle Ages in the Ruhr area Settlement on the Westphalian Hellweg between Essen and Dortmund , Verlag Schoeningh, Paderborn 1997, ISBN 3-506-79152-4 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Digital Wenker Atlas, Wenkerbogen Rentfort
- ↑ Inquiry at the city hall via email on Jan. 16, 2015
- ↑ See page of the city ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ See page of the cath. Community of St. Josef ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2008 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. .
- ^ Ludger Tewes: Pastor Josef Helmus (1886-1966) from Gladbeck. In the resistance to National Socialism. In: Reimund Haas, Jürgen Bärsch (eds.): Christen an der Ruhr, 5, Aschendorff, Münster 2014 ISBN 978-3-402-10491-0 pp. 95–114; as well as online
- ^ WAZ, Gladbeck local section, October 18, 2018 and November 24, 2018
- ↑ See page of the city ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2009 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. .
- ↑ Lieutenant Captain Otto Weddigen b. 1882 in Herford, with his submarine 29, fell east of the Pentland Firth off Scotland in 1915.
- ↑ For more on Ernst Tewes see as headmaster under Zweckel, Hermann-Schule.
- ↑ WAZ of October 25, 2010, Rainer Holstein 130 years under his belt.
- ^ Ludger Tewes, War History of the City of Gladbeck, 1978, p. 216.
- ↑ Population statistics of the city of Gladbeck from June 30, 2018
Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ' N , 6 ° 57' E
