Saeffelen

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Saeffelen
Selfkant municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 57 ″  N , 5 ° 57 ′ 38 ″  E
Height : 62  (52-62)  m
Residents : 942  (June 30, 2016)
Incorporation : 1st July 1969
Postal code : 52538
Area code : 02455
map
Location of Saeffelen in Selfkant
Map of the municipality of Selfkant
Map of the municipality of Selfkant
Saeffelen, parish church of Saint Lucia
Rectory, Monument No. 13
Courtyard, monument no.28
Town center
Place-name sign
Courtyard, monument no.23
Residential stable house, memorial number 53
Old water pump, monument no.24
Saeffelen on the new recording from 1912
Saeffelen on the original cadastral map from 1846
Saeffelen on the tranchot card 1803–1820

Saeffelen is a rural village in the municipality of Selfkant , the westernmost municipality in Germany in the district of Heinsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

location

Saeffelen is located in the east of the Selfkant municipality, about halfway between Heinsberg and Sittard . The currently most important connection between these two cities, the heavily frequented L228, runs right through Saeffelen.

North of the village is the Dutch border, at the end of the village there is a border crossing to Koningsbosch (municipality of Echt-Susteren ). South of the village, the Saeffeler Bach flows in an east-west direction in a small valley (nature reserve Höngener and Saeffeler Bruch).

Waters

In heavy rain and when snowmelts , the surface water flows from the Saeffelen area via the Saeffelbach into the Rodebach (GEWKZ 281822) and then further into the Maas . The Rodebach has a length of 28.918 km with a total catchment area of ​​173.385 km².

Neighboring places

Breakage Koningsbosch (NL) Bocket
Heilder Neighboring communities Breberen
Höngen Kleinwehrhagen Kievelberg

Village shape

Saeffelen is a square village built on both sides .

history

Place name

  • 1144 Safele
  • 1276 Sefele
  • 14th century soyffeles
  • 1457 Saefelen
  • 1550 Saiffelen
  • 1666 Saeffelen
  • The Saeffelbach gave the village its name. The suffix -e (n) was added to the water body name.

Local history

Saeffelen was first mentioned in 1136 as Safla. Safla is based on a Celtic name for the sandy soil, so the place name speaks for a settlement from the Celtic times .

Saeffelen belonged to the forest community of the great Echter bush, which, according to tradition, Pippin II had given the community of Echt . A chapel is attested from the year 1276, the old Lucia patronage suggests a great age.

Today's church, a simple brick building from 1846/49, was consecrated on May 9, 1852. Together with the rectory and the village square, it forms the center of the village. The two hamlets Dieck and Heilder belong to the parish of Saeffelen .

In the course of the parish reforms in the Diocese of Aachen, the formerly independent Catholic parish of St. Lucia Saeffelen was incorporated into the Community of Parishes (GdG) St. Servatius Selfkant .

  • Heilder is mentioned as Heylare in the 15th century. It is not certain whether the epithet refers to heather. The basic word -lar could mean pasture or swamp. Heilder has a small cath. Chapel.
  • Haus Dieck, which is hidden behind extensive meadows in a stream valley, was mentioned as a dyke, ie dike, as early as the 14th century. Today it forms a courtyard area that is closed on all sides.

In the Middle Ages Saeffelen belonged to the Millen lordship, which later became the property of the Lords of Heinsberg . In 1499 the Duchy of Jülich took over the Heinsberg area. Saeffelen now belonged to the Millen office in Jülich.

In the early modern period , Saeffelen was the center of the Anabaptist movement .

On July 1, 1969, the new community Selfkant was formed from the communities Saeffelen, Havert, Hillensberg, Höngen, Millen, Süsterseel, Tüddern and Wehr. Saeffelen had previously belonged to the Waldfeucht office . The other municipalities that formed the new municipality of Selfkant had been under Dutch contract administration until July 31, 1963 and formed the Selfkant office from August 1, 1963.

politics

According to § 3 (1) of the main statute of the Selfkant municipality, the municipality is divided into localities. Saeffelen is a locality and is represented by a local mayor in the municipal council in accordance with Section 3 (2) . Werner Joerißen is the mayor of Saeffelen. (Stand 2013)

Infrastructure

  • A curative education center is available.
  • An old people's and care center takes care of people in need.
  • There are bus stops in the AVV , served by lines 434, 436, 438 and 474.
  • The place has a connection to the cycling network NRW .

Attractions

  • Catholic parish church of St. Lucia, as monument no.12
  • Stained glazing in the parish church of St. Lucia

societies

Regular events

  • Brotherhood bird shot
  • Patronage festival and fair
  • St. Martin parade in Saeffelen
  • Oktoberfest
  • Village concert

traffic

Motorway connection

BAB Route section Junction distance
A 46 Heinsberg - Düsseldorf AS Heinsberg 15 km
A 44 Aachen - Mönchengladbach AS Aldenhoven 30 km
A 4 Aachen - Cologne AS Weisweiler 40 km

Rail connection

From Geilenkirchen train station (approx. 15 km away)

line Line designation Line course
RE 4 Wupper Express Aachen - Mönchengladbach - Düsseldorf - Dortmund
RB 33 Rhine-Niers Railway Aachen - Mönchengladbach - Krefeld - Duisburg
RB 20 Euregiobahn Aachen - Geilenkirchen

Street names

Am Bäderweg, Am Bilderweg, Am Dorfanger, Am Steincleef, An der Raderstraße, Breberener Straße, Friedhofstraße, Grenzstraße, Heinsberger Straße, Kirchweg, Lindenstraße, Pfarrer-Jäger-Straße, Selfkantstraße, Weidenstraße, Zum Schützenbruch

Sons of Saeffelen

  • Wilhelm Cleven (1893–1983), auxiliary bishop of Cologne
  • Willi Otten, Mayor of Selfkant until 2004

Oddities

The Rurtal Trio , according to their own account “one of the very few two-man trios in the world and specialists for comedy and real satire”, made Saeffelen known because it locates its programs there.

literature

  • Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen. 3. Edition. Kühlen, Mönchengladbach 1994, ISBN 3-87448-172-7 , pp. 693f.
  • Leo Gillessen: The localities of the district of Heinsberg , ISBN 3-925620-13-3 , p. 253
  • Leo Gillessen: On place names and settlement studies of the southern Selfkant district , in: Heimatkalender 1971, pp. 41–50
  • Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province . Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German basic map 1: 5000
  2. ↑ http://www.selfkant.de/component/content/article/80-buergerservice/93-zahlen-ffekten.html
  3. ↑ http://www.lanuv.nrw.de/fileadmin/lanuv/wasser/pdf/Gewaesserverzeichnis%20GSK3C.xls
  4. ^ Area directory ( Memento from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ St. Lucia, Saeffelen ( Memento from July 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 101 .