Rintgen

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City of Viersen
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 10 "  N , 6 ° 23 ′ 37"  E
Height : 37-67 m above sea level NN
Postcodes : 41747, 41748
Area code : 02162
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Location of Rintgen in the district of Alt-Viersen and in the city of Viersen

The Rintgen is a district of the district town Viersen , which is the seat of the district of the same name in the west of the German state North Rhine-Westphalia . Within the Viersen urban area, the Rintgen district belongs to the Alt-Viersen district . The Rintgen comprises the southern Altviersen city center as well as residential and commercial areas that connect to it in a western, eastern and southern direction. Within North Rhine-Westphalia, the Rintgen belongs to the Lower Rhine region and the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan region , which overlap in Viersen.

Earlier names for today's district were initially Rinneke , later u. a. Rincken , Reindtgen , Reyntgen or Rindtgen . More recently, the name Rintgen has been increasingly replaced by the term Südstadt Viersen .

Etymology and history

Rintgen and Viersen in the Middle Ages

The villages of Rintgen and Vierssen during the French period around 1805.
The villages of Rintgen and Viersen around 1844.
The Gereonsplatz.
The fountain column in front of the Sparkasse forecourt on the main street.

The village of Rintgen was, together with the actual village of Viersen, the second main settlement core of today's Altviersen city ​​center. The oldest known documentary mention of the Rintgen comes from the year 1250, when the settlement was called Rinneke . This designation is associated with the word Rinne and probably refers to the course of the stream that still flowed through the village of Rintgen above ground in the 19th century , today's Rintger Bach (the term water channel was often used in Viersen for smaller flowing waters ). Around 1955 there were remains of the monastery pond of the monastery and begining convent “St. Pauli Conversion ”. When the "Beghinenhof" residential complex was built in 1976, the sediment layers of the monastery pond were visible. From there one of the rivulets flowed to the east, "ett Rinnken" (= a small channel). However, it was so large that it could drive a mill 60 meters further east, the so-called "monastery mill". New construction work at the end of the 1970s exposed the remains of these high medieval buildings, but did not secure them.

As early as the Middle Ages , Rintgen was one of originally seven (later eight) historical honors that made up the Altviersen territory next to the eponymous village of Viersen, part of what was then known as the “ Herrlichkeit Viersen”. The importance and size of the district "das Rintgen" can still be read on the Prussian maps from around 1899, where the name "Rintgen" is written in the same size as the name "Viersen".

That Herrlichkeit Viersen , however, was not an independent area, but was part of the clerical property of the St. Gereon Monastery in Cologne . According to a regulation going back to Charlemagne , the ecclesiastical landlords of smaller domains had to appoint a secular protector, a so-called protector , over the respective territory, who was to be selected from the noble families of the regional surroundings of the area in question. After various predecessors, the Counts of Jülich first received protection over the glory of Viersen in 1227 , then around 1294/95 the Counts of Geldern , who called themselves Dukes of Geldern from 1339 , are guardians of Viersen and subdivide the area until 1340 at the latest the glory of Viersen as an exclave to the Geldrischen office of Krickenbeck .

Rintgen and Viersen in the early modern period

The protectorate of the Duchy of Geldern brought the Altviersen area under the rule of various European powers from the 16th century : With the Treaty of Venlo , the Duchy of Geldern lost its independence in 1543 and initially became part of the Burgundian Netherlands , which was then under the direct rule of the Habsburgs Emperor Charles V , who was also Duke of Burgundy , were under. After Charles V abdicated in 1556, rule over the Duchy of Geldern passed to his son Phillip, who was King of Spain as Philip II . As part of the glory of Viersen , the Rintgen finally became a village in the Spanish Netherlands .

In the first half of the 17th century , the glory of Viersen experienced severe afflictions. First of all, almost a thousand human lives fell victim to a plague epidemic that lasted two years from 1618 onwards ; as part of the Thirty Years War , which also began in 1618, a French - Weimar - Hessian army invaded the Spanish exclave of Viersen, with Hessian soldiers almost all of the houses in Rintgen burned down. The Spanish rule over the so-called Geldrische Oberquartier , to which Viersen belonged, continued after the end of the Thirty Years' War in 1648. Still under Spanish rule, the first school was opened in Rintgen with the Catholic elementary school in 1690 , the language of instruction was Dutch .

After King Charles II, the last Habsburg ruler, had died on the Spanish throne in 1700, the War of the Spanish Succession broke out in 1701 . As part of this dispute, the area of ​​Viersen was occupied from 1705 by the northern Netherlands ( also called "States General" ) militarily. With the goodwill of the new Dutch administration, the Evangelical Reformed parish of Viersens was founded in the same year. In addition, a reformed elementary school was founded, which was located in Rintgen, but was initially responsible for the reformed students from all over Viersen. After the end of the War of the Spanish Succession, the former Spanish-Geldrische Oberquartier was divided up between Austria , Prussia , the northern Netherlands ("States General") and the Duchy of Jülich in the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 . The area of ​​Alt-Viersen including the Rintgen fell, again as an exclave, to Prussia from 1713. Under the new Prussian authorities, the first Evangelical Church was built in 1718 by the already existing Evangelical Reformed parish in the northern part of the Rintgen, roughly where the Evangelical Church of the Cross stands today on Hauptstrasse.

Rintgen and Viersen from the French era to today

From 1795, Alt-Viersen was occupied by French revolutionary troops and finally annexed by France . Since France then took over the entire area on the left bank of the Rhine (today's Germany), the Alt-Viersen area was now reunited with its surrounding area under a single rule under the French administration , and the centuries-old Viersen exclave status was thereby ended. At the instigation of Napoléon Bonaparte , who had been French emperor since 1804 , the construction of the northern canal began in 1809 , which was in Viersen u. a. ran over the area of ​​the Rintgen and separated the village from its northeastern settlements ( Hülsdonk and Robend ). In a north-westerly direction along the current main road, there was the French period between the Rintgen and the eponymous Viersener main village, approximately at the level of the current savings bank branch , even a piece of the free field which separated the two Viersener core villages from each other.

After Napoléon's defeat in the Battle of Waterloo , Viersen, like large parts of the Rhineland in general, came under the rule of Prussia again in 1815, which was then one of the victorious powers of the Napoleonic Wars . In the 19th century, better medical care and increasing industrialization also caused a strong population increase in Viersen and the associated densification of general buildings. Almost thirty years after the end of French rule, the previously existing gap between the villages of Viersen and Rintgen no longer existed; on a Prussian map drawn in 1844, today's main road shows that the main road was completely built up, with the result that the two core villages of Viersen had now grown together, Old- Viersen now had over 10,000 inhabitants. As early as 1849, the first Viersen station was opened in eastern Rintgen on the then not yet fully completed railway line from Duisburg-Ruhrort to Mönchengladbach , initially the trains only ran between Viersen and Homberg .

Between 1877 and 1879 the Protestant congregation built a new church in the north of Rintgen on Hauptstrasse, and the previous church there was demolished. About twelve years later, Rintgen also had its "own" Catholic church, the St.Josephs Church, built from 1889 to 1891 . In 1895 the Rintgen split off as a separate Catholic parish of St. Joseph from the Altviersen main parish of St. Remigius . In 1906 a tram line through the Rintgen was put into operation, which initially led from Mönchengladbach via Viersen to Dülken , and from 1907 to Süchteln . In 2006, the Diakonisches Werk Krefeld-Viersen opened the Südstadt district office on Große Bruchstraße in Rintgen . In 2008, the Episcopal General Vicariate of the Catholic Diocese of Aachen ordered the reincorporation of the parish of St. Joseph into the Altviersen main parish of St. Remigius on January 1st, 2009.

Rintgen , but not Südstadt  :
The crossroads at the junction of Krefelder Straße / Alte Bruchstraße.

The southern town of Viersen

The district of Rintgen is evidently perceived as the less attractive part of the Altviersen city center, also by the Viersen city administration, for example the pedestrian zone on the main street ends pretty much where the Rintgen begins. Against this background, various initiatives in recent years have tried to improve the situation. The term Südstadt Viersen was introduced for the southern inner city and the surrounding residential areas in order to upgrade the area a little bit in terms of its name. The terms Südstadt Viersen and Rintgen are now equated with each other, neglecting the fact that Rintgen also includes areas that are undoubtedly not part of the Südstadt such as B. the area Krefelder Straße / Alte Bruchstraße east of the railway embankment.

traffic

Road traffic

The district of Rintgen is crossed or touched by the following four North Rhine-Westphalian state roads :

Rail transport

The station building on the south side of the Viersen train station.

passenger traffic

The railway lines from Mönchengladbach to Duisburg and from Mönchengladbach to Venlo run on the same embankment in the east of the Rintgen, where the Viersen train station is also located. There you can board a regional train and two regional express lines:RE 11, RE 13 or. RB 33.

Freight transport

In addition to through goods traffic, which is handled via the railway lines running on the embankment, there was a freight siding that ran on the southern edge of the Rintgen, mainly next to Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Straße, until the 1980s. This freight line branched off a little northeast of Hamm from the main railway line running there and finally ended in the area of ​​the Kaiser's commercial complex in Hoser .

tram

Until the end of the 1950s there was a tram operation in Rintgen on initially two branches. On the one hand, a tram line ran on the northern edge of the Rintgen from the station forecourt via Bahnhofstrasse to today's Sparkasse forecourt (and further over the main street through today's pedestrian zone towards Dülken ); this line was closed in 1955. The other route led from Mönchengladbach to Süchteln and ran in Rintgen over Gladbacher Strasse and Hauptstrasse. In 1955 the northern section of this line between Remigiusplatz and Süchteln was closed, so that the section running through the Rintgen initially remained in operation (towards Mönchengladbach), and from 1959 tram traffic through the Rintgen was completely stopped.

Bus transport

As a district of Viersen, Rintgen is part of the tariff area of ​​the Rhine-Ruhr transport association . NEW AG (Lower Rhine Electricity and Water) and BVR Busverkehr Rheinland GmbH serve Rintgen with a total of twelve bus routes. As a result, there are direct connections from Rintgen with almost all other districts of Viersen, with various districts of the neighboring towns of Mönchengladbach and Willich and with the neighboring communities of Grefrath and Schwalmtal in Viersen . The express bus line SB88 also leads into the area of ​​the communities of Niederkrüchten and Brüggen near the Dutch border, the two BVR lines 071 and 094 also connect the Rintgen with the Düsseldorf suburbs of Meerbusch and Kaarst , where there is a connection to the city ​​railway - or S-Bahn - Network exists. The central stop is Gereonsplatz, where Rintgen even had its own bus station until the 1980s, before the current Viersen bus station on Rathausmarkt went into operation.

Local public transport in Viersen-Rintgen
Type line route Hints
Bus logo Basel.png SB 88 Viersen train station  - Viersen, bus terminal.  - Hoser  - Mackenstein  - Schwalmtal  - Niederkrüchten  - Elmpt  - Brüggen Express bus , NVV AG
stop in the Rintgen district: Viersen, Bf.
Bus logo Basel.png CE 89 Mackenstein  - Dülken  - Viersen bus station.  - Viersen train station  - Hamm  - Ummer  - Heimer  - Helenabrunn , signpost / Mönchengladbach Hbf CityExpress , Niederrheinwerke Viersen , stops in the Rintgen district:
Post Office , Viersen, train station and Gerhart-Hauptmann-Str.
Bus logo Basel.png 009 ( Süchteln  - Viersen bus station  - Gereonsplatz  - Beberich  - Ummer  -) Helenabrunn , signpost - M'gladbach, Alter Markt  - M'gladbach Hbf  - M'gladbach, Ohlerfeld NVV AG , stops in the Rintgen district:
Seilerwall , Gereonsplatz , town hall , Casinogarten and Hauptstr.
The section between Süchteln and Helenabrunn , signposts, is only used occasionally.
Bus logo Basel.png 019 ( Vinkrath  - Grefrath  -) Süchteln  - Viersen Busbf.  - Gereonsplatz  - Beberich  - Ummer  - Helenabrunn , signpost - M'gladbach, Alter Markt  - M'gladbach Hbf  - Rheydt, Hbf NVV AG , stops in the Rintgen district:
Seilerwall , Gereonsplatz , town hall , Casinogarten and Hauptstr.
The section between Vinkrath and Süchteln is not always used.
Bus logo Basel.png 071 Viersen, bus station.  - Gereonsplatz  - Krefelder Str./Kanalstr.  - Krefelder Str./Robend  - Anrath  - Willich  - Meerbusch , Haus Meer Stadtbahn.svg Bus traffic in Rhineland , stops in the Rintgen district:
Town Hall , Casinogarten , Hauptstraße , Gereonsplatz and Krefelder Str./Gillessen . At Haus Meer there is a connection to the Düsseldorf light rail .
Bus logo Basel.png 080 Hamm, Helmholtzstr.  - Gereonsplatz  - Viersen, bus station.  - Löh  - Schirick  - Bistard  - Dülken , Straelener Weg Niederrheinwerke Viersen , stops in the Rintgen district:
Röntgenstr. , Ringstr. , Gereonsplatz , City Hall , Casinogarten and Hauptstr.
Bus logo Basel.png 081 Düpp , Im Wolfhahn - Robend  - Krefelder Str./Kanalstr.  - Viersen, bus terminal.  - Gereonsplatz  - Hoser  - Bockert , cross Niederrheinwerke Viersen , stops in the Rintgen district:
Krefelder Str./Gillessen , post office , town hall , Casinogarten , Hauptstr. , Gereonsplatz , Beghinenhof , Körnerstr. , General Hospital and Hohlstr.
Bus logo Basel.png 082 Düpp , Im Wolfhahn - Robend , Stadtwaldallee - Viersen, train station  - Gereonsplatz  - Viersen, bus station.  - Hoser  - Bockert , cross Niederrheinwerke Viersen , stops in the Rintgen district:
Gerhart-Hauptmann-Str. , Viersen, Bf. , Lessingstr. , Gereonsplatz , Town Hall , Casino Garden , Hauptstr. , Hoserkirchweg , General Hospital and Hohlstr.
Bus logo Basel.png 083 Dülken , Am Drouvenhof - Viersen, bus station.  - Gereonsplatz  - Viersen, train station  - Krefelder Str./Kanalstr.  - Rahser  - Sittard  - addicts , adolescent psychiatry Niederrheinwerke Viersen , stops in the Rintgen district:
City Hall , Casinogarten , Hauptstr. , Gereonsplatz , Lessingstr. , Viersen, station and Krefelder Str./Gillessen .
Bus logo Basel.png 086 Beberich , Berliner Höhe - Gereonsplatz  - Viersen, bus station.  - Rahser , Notburgastr. Niederrheinwerke Viersen , stops in the Rintgen district:
Seilerwall , Gereonsplatz , town hall , Casinogarten and Hauptstr.
Bus logo Basel.png 087 Beberich , Berliner Höhe - Gereonsplatz  - Viersen, bus station.  - Krefelder Str./Kanalstr.  - Rahser , Notburgastr. Niederrheinwerke Viersen , stops in the Rintgen district:
Seilerwall , Gereonsplatz , town hall , Casinogarten , Hauptstr. and on the black stakes .
Bus logo Basel.png 094 Viersen, bus station.  - Post Office  - Krefelder Str./Gillessen  - Krefelder Str./Kanalstr.  - Krefelder Str./Robend  - Neersen  - Schiefbahn  - Kaarster SeeS-Bahn-Logo.svg Bus traffic in Rhineland , stops in the Rintgen district:
Post Office and Krefelder Str./Gillessen .
At Kaarster See there is a connection to the S28 S-Bahn (" Regiobahn ").
Status: December 2011

Bike trails

Two themed routes of the North Rhine-Westphalian cycle path network run a short distance on the north-eastern edge of the Rintgen, mainly along the Bahnhofstrasse between the Viersener Bahnhof and the Freiheitsstrasse:

Attractions

Evangelical Kreuzkirche on the southern (Rintger) section of Viersener Hauptstrasse
Catholic Church of St. Joseph , seen roughly from the secondary school
The church of the Evangelical Parish of Viersen is located in Rintgen at the height of the main road no. 120a. The building was built between 1877 and 1879 based on a design by August Hartel and has the list no. 391 under monument protection since 2000. The Protestant church building initially had no special name and was only officially called the Kreuzkirche in 1994, more than a hundred years after its construction .
The Catholic St. Joseph's Church can be found in Rintgen at the address An der Josefskirche 15 . The church building was built between 1889 and 1891, from 1895 it then became the parish church of the parish of St. Joseph, which was newly founded in Rintgen . Since the year 2000 the church building with the list no. 378 under monument protection. As a result of the reintegration of the parish of St. Joseph into the Catholic Alt-Viersen main parish of St. Remigius , the St. Josephs Church has lost its parish status since 2009.
  • Viersen station entrance building
The reception building of the Viersener Bahnhof is on the eastern edge of the Rintgen district. The building, erected in 1917, has the list no. 440 under monument protection since 2002.
  • Viersener festival hall
The Viersener Festhalle is located a little west of the main street at Hermann-Hülser-Platz 2 . The event building, which can be used for various purposes, was built between 1911 and 1913 and has the list no. 361 under monument protection since 1996.

The closer environment

Noppdorf Oberrahser
city ​​center north 		Unterrahser
Hülsdonk
Löh Neighboring communities Robend
Düpp
Panties Sub-division Hamm

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Peter Norrenberg : From the Viersener Bannbuch , Viersen 1886
    (online presentation of the university     library of the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf , accessed on October 31, 2013)
  2. ↑ City tour Viersen-Süd: Viersen Süd - nature, culture and enjoyment ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (official website of the city of Viersen, accessed on March 18, 2012) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.viersen.de
  3. ↑ a b c Map of the Rhineland 1:25 000 by Tranchot and v. Müffling (1803–1820), sheet 42 (Viersen) ( Memento of the original from October 29, 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. (Reprinted in 1966 by the Land Surveying Office of North Rhine-Westphalia, Bonn-Bad Godesberg (now: Cologne District Government), accessed on October 31, 2013) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bezreg-koeln.nrw.de
  4. ↑ a b Prussian map recording 1:25 000 - first recording (1844) -, sheet 4704 (Viersen)
    (reprinted 1991 by the state survey office of North Rhine-Westphalia, Bonn-Bad Godesberg (now: Cologne district government), accessed on October 31, 2013)
  5. ↑ Online world map of the OpenStreetMap Foundation (accessed on March 18, 2012)
  6. ↑ Wikipedia: Niederrhein (Region) (accessed on March 18, 2012)
  7. ↑ Wikipedia: Metropolitan Region Rhine-Ruhr (accessed on March 18, 2012)
  8. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Franz Joseph Schroeteler: The glory and city of Viersen - A contribution to the history of the Lower Rhine
    (Viersen, 1881, Google eBook, accessed on March 18, 2012)
  9. ↑ With Südstadt it goes up  ( 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. ( Südstadt Sommer , online presentation of the " Südstadt district office ", accessed on March 18, 2012)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.suedstadtsommer.de  
  10. ^ Ferdinand Dohr: History of the City of Viersen , self-published by the City of Viersen, 1961 ed. from the city archive of the city of Viersen
  11. ↑ a b c d Viersen's story: Viersen  ( 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. (official website of the city of Viersen, accessed on March 18, 2012)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.viersen.de  
  12. ↑ Wikipedia: Duchy of Geldern (accessed on March 18, 2012)
  13. ↑ a b Wikipedia: Obergeldern (accessed on March 18, 2012)
  14. ↑ Monuments: Evangelische Volksschule Rintgen (official website of the city of Viersen, accessed on March 18, 2012)
  15. ↑ a b c Monuments: Evangelical Kreuzkirche Viersen (official website of the city of Viersen, accessed on March 18, 2012)
  16. ↑ Marco Kieser: On the building history of the Protestant church in Viersen and its architect August Hartel
    (Internet presentation by the author Marco Kieser, accessed on March 18, 2012)
  17. ↑ a b Monuments: Viersen station entrance building (official website of the city of Viersen, accessed on March 18, 2012)
  18. ↑ a b Monuments: Catholic Parish Church of St. Joseph (official website of the city of Viersen, accessed on March 18, 2012)
  19. ^ A b Jürgen Lehmann: Tram in Mönchengladbach , published by: Verlag Kenning , Nordhorn 1997, ISBN 3-927587-62-1
  20. ↑ RP Online: Viersen: Questionnaire for Südstadt (online presentation by the Rheinische Post from September 8, 2006, accessed on March 18, 2012)
  21. ↑ a b RP Online: Viersen: Church in Discussion (online presentation by the Rheinische Post from May 14, 2008, accessed on March 18, 2012)
  22. ↑ Quarter workshop for urban development in the Viersener Südstadt (official website of the city of Viersen, accessed on March 18, 2012)
  23. ↑ Spring awakening in the southern part of the city (official website of the city of Viersen, accessed on March 18, 2012)
  24. ↑ RP Online: Nettetal: Farewell to the B 7 (online presentation by the Rheinische Post from August 2, 2010, accessed on March 18, 2012)
  25. ↑ District map 1: 50000, No. 33 (Neuss district, City of Mönchengladbach) ( Memento of the original dated November 3, 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. (2nd edition, published in 1981 by the Land Survey Office of North Rhine-Westphalia (now: Cologne District Government), accessed on October 31, 2012) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bezreg-koeln.nrw.de
  26. ↑ Cycling in the district of Viersen , cycling map 1: 50,000, 4th edition 2009
    (published by Bielefelder Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Bielefeld and economic development company for the district of Viersen mbH, Viersen , ISBN 978-3-87073-122-9 )
  27. ^ ADFC regional map : Niederrhein-Süd , 1: 75,000, 2nd edition 2006
    (published by Bielefelder Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Bielefeld and General German Bicycle Club e.V. (ADFC), Bremen , ISBN 978-3- 87073-318-6 )
  28. ↑ Monuments: Festhalle (official website of the city of Viersen, accessed on March 19, 2012)