Saint Heribert

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Saint Heribert
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 33 ″  N , 7 ° 3 ′ 48 ″  E
Height : 169 - 182 m above sea level NN
Postal code : 42799
Sankt Heribert (Leichlingen (Rhineland))
Saint Heribert

Location of Sankt Heribert in Leichlingen (Rhineland)

Sankt Heribert is a village in the town of Leichlingen (Rhineland) in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis .

Location and description

Sankt Heribert is located east of the center of Leichlingen on the Leichlinger plateau on Landesstraße 359 on the watershed between the Wupper and its inlet Weltersbach . Sankt Heribert is divided into two larger and several smaller residential spaces. In the northern settlement, the K9 district road joins the state road, the second settlement is the Evangelical church of Sankt Heribert. Most of the remaining places are on the county road.

The nature reserves Weltersbachtal (south of the watershed) and Wupper slopes with side depths and the Wupper north of Witzhelden and Leichlingen (north of the watershed) border the local area . Neighboring towns are Höfchenstal , Balkerberg , Auf dem Katzensterz , Roderhof , Grünscheid , Bröden , Kempen , Neuwinkel , Weltersbach , Dierath , Bremersheide and Koltershäuschen .

Two brooks have their source near Sankt Heribert, from which the St. Heribert Bach flows into the Wupper and the Nüspoler Bach flows into the Weltersbach.

history

Sankt Heribert was not created until the second half of the 19th century and is named after Heribert of Cologne, who is venerated as a saint . In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province in 1885, two houses with 18 inhabitants are given. In 1895 the place had a house with six inhabitants, in 1905 two houses and eleven inhabitants.

The bell tower of the Sankt Heribert small church was inaugurated at Pentecost 1953. The bell tower was fitted with two bells, one of which came from the Rafin municipality in the Pomerania region. The bell, cast in 1677, escaped being melted down in 1942 and was fetched from the Hamburg bell cemetery, where the confiscated bell survived the Second World War . The second bell was made in the Rincker brothers' bell foundry in Sinn ( Westerwald ). In April 1957 the forest cemetery in Sankt Heribert was approved.

On June 15, 1975, the assembly church next to the bell tower was inaugurated, which previously stood in Essen - Kray and was purchased at the endeavors of the parish and erected in Sankt Heribert. Due to structural defects, it was closed on January 24, 2005. After protests against the final closure, a development association was founded , which renovated it from 2006 to 2013 exclusively with voluntary work and financial support from the parish. A new bell tower was then built and inaugurated on December 15, 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1888.
  2. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1895 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1897.
  3. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1909.
  4. ↑ History of the small church Sankt Heribert. Retrieved March 11, 2015 .