Rheinkamp

Rheinkamp City of Moers
Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 25 ″  N , 6 ° 36 ′ 41 ″  E
Height :	24 m above sea level NN
Area :	23.42 km²
Residents :	36,524  (Dec. 31, 2014)
Population density :	1,560 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1975
Postal code :	47445
Area code :	02841
Location of Rheinkamp in North Rhine-Westphalia

Rheinkamp is one of the three districts of Moers in the Wesel district , North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

location

Residential places in Moers

Rheinkamp is located on the left Lower Rhine in the west of the Ruhr area . The federal autobahn 57 and the federal autobahn 42 run along the district .

Districts

Districts with population

Repelen	11,020
Meerbeck	9.126
Eick	5,093
Utfort	5,021
Rheinkamp-Mitte (Meerfeld)	5,001
Genend	588
Bornheim	400
Coal huck	215
Baerler Busch	60

history

News for the current Rheinkamp area in the Middle Ages is available for Eick and Repelen . The oldest document for Rheinkamp dates from 1288. In this, Friedrich von Moers signed an estate in the Repelen area (in the document the location is indicated as “Rinkampe”) to Count Adolf V and received it as a fief. Furthermore, a court in Eick is mentioned in 1317 as a knight's seat; the first representatives of these farm owners are historically tangible since 1226 and 1262. At the same time, a court in Repelen is also mentioned as a knight's seat, and here too the family first appears in written sources in the 13th century. In the Repelen area, the Echternach monastery already had 726 benefices and Echternach property is documented for 855/56. Around 1830, in addition to the village of Repelen, 8 other farmers and 2 manors ( Haus Tervoort and Strommoers ) with a total of 219 houses and 1904 residents belonged to the Repelen mayor.

Rheinkamp was and is the name of an old small settlement area that belongs to Repelen and lies northeast of the original village center of Repelen and today belongs to the Bornheim residential area . In 1835 the hamlet of Rheincamp consisted of 24 residential buildings with 186 residents.

Moers colony Meerbeck 2

With the beginning of coal mining in the Moers-Meerbeck / Utfort area from 1900, there was a sharp increase in the population. For example, the number of inhabitants in the area of ​​the Baerl-Meerbeck mayor's office changed from 2,166 in 1900 to 8,229 in 1909. The comparable figures for the Repelen area changed from 2,387 to 4,715. In order to be able to solve the problems of the necessary adjustments for the infrastructure more easily, a merger of the mayorships of Baerl and Repelen was made. Repelen-Baerl was the name of the new municipality that was created in 1910 when the mayor's offices were merged. In addition to the residential areas of the current Rheinkamp district of Moers, the area also included the areas that were later separated again by Baerl and the areas of Graft and Niephauserfeld. In 1950 the municipality of Repelen-Baerl was officially renamed Rheinkamp , but it remained an independent municipality.

With the larger municipal reorganization in North Rhine-Westphalia on January 1, 1975, the municipality of Rheinkamp was largely divided into two areas of equal size with the exception of a few small areas. One of the two parts was combined with Moers as a new district and the greater Baerl area was separated from Duisburg . The most populous part of Rheinkamp, ​​at that time about 37,000 inhabitants, who lived on 23.42 km², was now a district of the city of Moers and kept the name Rheinkamp. The district of Baerl with the areas of Binsheim, Gerdt, Hochhalen and Uettelsheim was reclassified to Duisburg with 4376 inhabitants at that time, who lived on 24.47 km². The Meerbeck area , which originally belonged to the Baerl mayor, was not assigned to Duisburg, but to the new Moers district of Rheinkamp. The area of Niephauserfeld with an area of ​​5.45 km² and at that time 270 inhabitants came to Kamp-Lintfort . Rheinberg received the Graft area with 31 hectares and 106 inhabitants. At Neukirchen-Vluyn there was a small uninhabited area of ​​only 9 hectares.

The district now has 36,649 inhabitants.

Eick cemetery

In the area between Repelen, Utfort and Bornheim, an early medieval burial ground was discovered in the run-up to a large housing project in 1957 and excavated under the direction of Hermann Hinz . It entered the scientific literature under the name “Gräberfeld von Eick”. Since the usual distance between the cemetery and the settlement barely exceeded 750 m in the early Middle Ages, a historical connection between the cemetery and the Eick farm, which is 2 km away, and the Repelen settlement, which is a good 1.2 km away, is unlikely.

The grave field includes 162 burials from around 530 and 670 AD. It could not be completely excavated, the excavator estimates the original number at around 250 burials. Taking these considerations into account, the number of people living at the same time can be estimated at around 70 to 75 people, which means a rather large settlement for this period. In contrast to most of the Rhenish grave fields of the early Middle Ages, the dead were buried in Eick according to their family affiliation (“family cemetery”). Also unusual for the region is the increased occurrence of tree coffins , cremation graves and circular trenches . Despite the heavy looting of the graves, finds such as a bronze-clad bucket, a box or the large chamber graves show that members of the contemporary upper class were also buried here.

dialect

In the districts of the former municipality of Rheinkamp, ​​“Grafschafter Platt” was spoken in the respective local expression. Until after the Second World War, “Platt” was the colloquial language of a broad section of the population - today only spoken and understood by a few people. Rheinkamp ( with the former districts of Repelen, Utfort, Eick, Meerbeck and Baerl ) is located in the Lower Franconian dialect north of the so-called Benrath line (with the maache-maake distinction), which separates the southern Middle Franconian (also called Ripuarian ) from the northern Lower Franconian . Rheinkamp is also north of the Uerdinger dialect line , which comes from the Rhine and runs past Hüls via Kempen to Venlo. This Uerdinger line (also called ek-ech border) delimits the southern Lower Franconian (which is spoken e.g. in Uerdingen and Krefeld - Krieewelsch ) from the northern Lower Franconian , which is in the Krefeld district of Hüls (see Hölsch Plott ) and Kempen, and to the north in the greater Moers area, in the districts of Kleve and Wesel as well as, Duisburg and Mülheim-Ruhr.

The Grafschafter Platt showed a different expression in the individual districts that belonged to the former Rheinkamp, ​​so that, for example, Repelner, Baerler or Meerbecker Plattsprecher could definitely differ in their pronunciation. One of the most important features of the North Lower Franconian Grafschafter Platt is the pronunciation of the personal pronoun "I" as ek , while in the south of the Lower Rhine it is spoken as ech . The word “also” is pronounced differently, namely as “ook” in the north and as “ooch” in the south. The verb “have” is also pronounced differently: in Grafschafter Platt it says z. B. "ek häbb". Further south it says “ech han”. The miner's language has also left its mark on the local dialect. Everyone knows the saying of: "... but hate it!" (The term feed sack indicates that something “went wrong”. It comes from the time when pit horses were still working underground, which were immobilized with the feed sack in “difficult conditions”.)

Even if the dialect is on the decline, Platt is cultivated at carnival, on dialect evenings and in clubs. There is a rich local vernacular literature. The books by

• Georg Kreischer among others: Op Platt fell on opgeschrewen. 2001.
• Gottfried Krach among others: Min Modersprok. Steiger Verlag, 1977.

The books are also considered a source of history and dialect:

• Heinz Wilhelm Rosendahl, Heinz Peter Splittorf: Repelen - an ancient story. 2008.
• Ernst Kelter: Chronicle of the community Rheinkamp. Steiger Verlag, Moers 1960.

politics

coat of arms

Blazon : In a golden (yellow) shield a black rectangular field, covered with a continuous silver (white) oblique left wavy bar, accompanied by nine golden (yellow) pointed triangles at the top and ten equal triangles at the bottom.

Meaning: It is a "talking coat of arms" in which the wave bar represents the Rhine and the black rectangle represents the field (Kamp). The triangles represent the nineteen localities in the parish. The colors black and gold are the colors of the county of Moers to which all of the localities of Rheinkamps used to belong.

traffic

The Rhein-Ruhr transport association ensures local public transport . The Rheinkamp depot is on the former Rheinhausen – Kleve railway line , now Rheinhausen – Xanten.

supporting documents

1. ↑ Places to live in Moers
2. ↑ Population figures according to the city of Moers for Rheinkamp, ​​as of December 31, 2014
3. ↑ Christoph Jacob Kremer, In: Academic contributions to Gülchberg history, in the CLXV document of the 7th Lenz month (March) 1288. 1781, p. [405] 186.
4. ↑ Hermann Hinz : The Franconian cemetery of Eick. 1969, p. 81.
5. ↑ Handbook, in: Die Rheinprovinz der Prussischen Monarchy , 1834, Volume 1, Sixth Book, pp. [219 + 220] 161 + 162.
6. ^ Johann Georg von Viebahn (Hrsg.): Statistics and topography of the government district of Düsseldorf, second part. Düsseldorf 1836, p. 107.
7. ↑ In: Ev. Church of Moers-Utfort , section: History. Online version
8. ^ Johann Georg von Viebahn (ed.): Statistics and topography of the government district of Düsseldorf. Düsseldorf 1836, part II, p. 105
9. ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 39 and 50 .
10. ↑ Data and facts in Moers
11. ↑ Hermann Hinz: The Franconian cemetery of Eick, municipality of Rheinkamp, ​​district of Moers. (Germanic Monuments of the Migration Period. Series B, Volume 4). Gebr. Mann, Berlin 1969.
12. ^ Frank Siegmund: Merovingian time on the Lower Rhine. (Rhenish excavations, 34). Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1989, p. 286.
13. ↑ Hermann Hinz: The Franconian cemetery of Eick. 1969, pp. 56-63.
14. ↑ ^{a b} Gottfried Krach: Min Modersprok. Steiger Verlag, Moers 1977, ISBN 3-921564-05-0 , p. 3 ff.
15. ^ Rheinhausen mining terms. Archived from the original on January 2, 2011 ; accessed on January 1, 2013 . 
16. ↑ Rosendahl / Splittorf: Repelen - an ancient story. printmediapart, 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-024177-2 , p. 7 ff.
17. ^ Ernst Kelter: Chronicle of the community Rheinkamp. Steiger Verlag, Moers 1960, ISBN 3-921564-13-1 , p. 5 ff.
18. ↑ Heraldry of the World coat of arms description

Remarks

1. ↑ In the meantime, however, some historians ascribe this evidence not to Repelen in Moers, but to Reppel in North Brabant. For this: → Grafschaft Moers under discussion .

Web links

• Chronicle of the community of Rheinkamp
• Report on the cemetery with pictures of two clay pots