Addicts

Addicts City of Viersen
Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 0 ″  N , 6 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  E
Height :	42  (35-90)  m above sea level NN
Area :	22.76 km²
Residents :	16,048  (Jan 31, 2016)
Population density :	705 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1970
Postal code :	41749
Area code :	02162

Süchteln is a district of the district town of Viersen in the district of the same name in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia .
The Catholic parish church of St. Clemens, built in 1856, forms the center of the old weaving town . Its 73 m high tower dates from 1481.

history

Tower of the catholic parish church St. Clemens on Hochstrasse in Süchteln.

Irmgardiskapelle with a fountain on the Heiligenberg in Viersen-Süchteln

House wall painting in the city center shows St. Florian

Süchteln is first mentioned as a place in 1116 in books from the St. Pantaleon Abbey in Cologne . The naming of "Süchteln" and his "Heiligenberg" shows traces of the Celtic Menapier . The report of the chronicler Hugo Doergens gives the following information: The Heiligenberg, which lies with Süchteln, refers to the pre-Christian worship of a goddess "Heel". The name Süchteln, handed down in Middle High German as Suthele, Suphtele, also refers to it. Suht, Suft means addiction, infirmity, disease in ancient Gothic. The name of the goddess Heel can be found here in the second syllable. Hele, old Gothic heiljan or helian, corresponds to our word for "heal".

After Süchteln was assigned to the Duchy of Jülich in the late Middle Ages , the place received market rights in 1423 . Süchteln has had city ​​rights since 1405 . In 2005 they celebrated “600 years of city rights addicts”. The original document with the Süchtelner seal is in the National Archives in Paris.

From the late 19th century to the late 1950s, Süchteln was a flourishing city in the weaving industry .

British and American bomber associations dropped few bombs on addicts during World War II. On March 1, 1945 soldiers of the 84th US Infantry Division from Dülken captured Süchteln against low resistance.

In the course of the regional reform in North Rhine-Westphalia on January 1, 1970, Süchteln, Viersen, Dülken and Boisheim became the town of Viersen. (See also the law on the reorganization of the Kempen-Krefeld district and the independent city of Viersen ).

As a local saint Irmgard is venerated by addicts ; including during the Irmgardisoktav , which takes place annually on the Heiligenberg , part of the Süchtelner heights .
Süchteln also includes the smaller districts of Clörath , Dornbusch , Hagen , Hagenbroich , Sittard and Süchteln-Vorst .

See also : List of districts and districts of Viersen

Attractions

• Stadtgarten Süchteln with a group of figures
• Neo-Gothic Catholic parish church of St. Clemens with an old tower
• Evangelical Church Hindenburgstrasse
• Parish Church of St. Franziskus (Süchteln-Vorst)
• Irmgardiskapelle with fountain on the Süchtelner heights
• Former Süchtelner gate
• Weber fountain in Hochstraße
• Weberhaus and Tendyckhaus
• Irmgardis pen
• District war memorial
  by architect August Hartel
• St. Maria Hilfe der Christisten Kirche Süchteln-Dornbusch

See also : List of architectural monuments in Viersen

Personalities

Born in addicts

• Matthias Nethenus (1618–1686), theologian
• Karl Matthias Schiffer (1867–1930), trade union official, member of the Reichstag (center)
• Karl Müller (1884–1964), politician
• Max Clevers (1894–1955), local politician (CDU)
• Wilhelm van Kempen (1894–1981), art historian
• Albert Vigoleis Thelen (1903–1989), writer ( The Island of the Second Face ) and translator
• Hermann Schmitz (1904–1931), artist
• Peter Van Vlodrop (* 1928), local politician (CDU)
• Hellmut Trienekens (* 1938), waste disposal company
• Hans Jürgen Kerkhoff (* 1956), President and General Manager of the Steel Federation
• Thomas Druyen (* 1957), sociologist
• Frank Rehfeld (* 1962), fantasy writer
• Dieter Könnes (* 1971), journalist

Associated with addicts

• Irmgard von Süchteln (around 1013 – around 1085), saint who, according to legend, lived as a hermit in Süchteln
• Heinrich von Rosenthal (1808–1865), was Mayor of Süchteln until 1843
• Peter Norrenberg (1847–1894), pastor, historian and social politician
• Gerhardt Bosch (* 1918), chief physician of adolescent psychiatry in Süchteln from 1962 to 1980

Others

The town of Süchteln is known, among other things, for the LVR clinic Viersen (in the Johannistal). This facility, supported by the Rhineland Regional Association , has numerous departments, including the LVR clinic for orthopedics , addiction and drug therapy , gerontology , occupational and occupational therapy , the therapeutic educational home (HPH) and numerous psychiatric facilities, e.g. B. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Forensic Clinic . There is also the St. Irmgardis Hospital in Süchteln .

literature

• 600 years city of Süchteln - Streiflichter. 1405-2005. Viersen 2005.
• History of the town of Süchteln - Norrenberg, Peter; Viersen: Baedeker, 1874 [1]
• Franz Möllemann: Traces of the Past . Buchh. Pütz, 2012.

Web links

Commons : Addictions  - Collection of images, videos, and audio files

• Suchteln on the website of the city of Viersen
• City history
• Addicts from the air

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Doergens, Hugo: Dülkener Volkstümlichkeit, ders .: Chronik der Stadt Dülken , Dülken 1925, p. 338 ff .; P. 349
2. ↑ www.stadtbild-deutschland.org
3. ↑ Men's choir 1853 Süchteln-Vorst: The history of our flag , website of the men's choir 1853 Süchteln-Vorst , accessed on January 30, 2013
4. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 115 .