Ruitzhof
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Ruitzhof
City of Monschau
Coordinates: 50 ° 31 ′ 29 ″ N , 6 ° 11 ′ 39 ″ E
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| Height : | approx. 550 m above sea level NHN |
| Area : | 18.73 km² (with Kalterherberg) |
 Map of the Ruitzhof exclave in Belgium
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 Road through Ruitzhof
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Ruitzhof is a settlement belonging to Monschau - Kalterherberg ( Aachen city region , North Rhine-Westphalia ), which consists of a group of homesteads and residential buildings. The place is about 550 m above sea level. NHN . The Schwarzbach, which forms the border with Belgium and flows into the Rur flowing to the east, runs south .
Ruitzhof goes back to a leasehold farm originally belonging to Reichenstein Monastery , first mentioned in 1501. After Reichenstein was dissolved in 1802 and sold except for Ruitzhof in 1808, the tenant Johann Els bought the farm with 106 Magdeburg acres, equivalent to 25 hectares Farmland.
After the Rückschlag homestead , which is further north, Ruitzhof is the second smallest inhabited exclave in Germany.
In the north, west and south the area borders on Belgium, in the east runs the Vennbahn , the route of which is Belgian national territory. This means that Ruitzhof can only be reached via Belgian territory . Today the border crossing can only be recognized by boundary stones at the Küchelscheid level crossing. After the end of World War II, Belgium planned to annex the exclave created by the Vennbahn, but dropped these plans again in April 1949.
A few kilometers north there are two more German exclaves belonging to Monschau, the village of Mützenich and the Rückschlag homestead near Konzen . In addition, part of the village of Lammersdorf, which belongs to Simmerath, is an exclave, as is part of Roetgen .
The municipality of Kalterherberg, to which Ruitzhof belonged, was incorporated into the city of Monschau on January 1, 1972.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Gert Lauscher: The Reichenstein manor . Editor: District of Aachen. Aachen 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-024400-1 , p. 11-18 .
- ↑ Bettina Blank : The West German States and the Development of the Federal Republic , Munich 1995, ISBN 3-486-56108-1 , p. 220, limited preview in the Google book search
- ^ 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. 309 .
