Schmalbroich

Schmalbroich City of Kempen
	Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 13 ″ N , 6 ° 23 ′ 15 ″ E
Incorporation :	January 1, 1970
Postal code :	47906
Area code :	02152
Location of Schmalbroich in North Rhine-Westphalia

Schmalbroich is a district of the city of Kempen in the district of Viersen in North Rhine-Westphalia . Until 1969 Schmalbroich was an independent municipality in what was then the Kempen-Krefeld district .

geography

The Schmalbroich district encompasses the rural west of today's city of Kempen. Schmalbroich is divided into the three settlement areas Wall , Klixdorf and Ziegelheide and has always been a scattered settlement without an actual village center. The western border runs along the Schleck , which also forms the Kempen city limit to Grefrath .

history

Schmalbroich was originally a honnship in the Electoral Cologne Office of Kempen and since the French times a rural community in the Prussian district of Kempen . Since 1929 Schmalbroich belonged to the Kempen-Krefeld district. By the law on the reorganization of the district of Kempen-Krefeld and the independent city of Viersen , Schmalbroich was incorporated into the city of Kempen on January 1, 1970.

House Steinfunder

Population development

year	Residents	source
1835	1277
1864	1454
1885	1543
1910	1516
1925	1444
1939	1301

Architectural monuments

Architectural monuments in Schmalbroich are the mansions Haus Steinfunder and Haus Velde , the Gleumeshof, the Vinnhof, the Weibeshof, the Heumischhof chapel, the war memorial chapel on Kapellenweg, the little holy house in Klixdorf, the corridor cross on the Klein-Boxhof and the wooden cross on the Willmenhof.

societies

One of the bearers of local customs is the St. Stefanus Schützenbruderschaft Schmalbroich 1556 . Sports clubs in Schmalbroich are the Schmalbroich Riding and Driving Club and the Tell Schmalbroich 1932 shooting club .

Web links

Heimatverein Schmalbroich

Individual evidence

^ Johann Georg von Viebahn: Statistics and topography of the government district of Düsseldorf. 1836, accessed on May 5, 2017 (digitized version).
^ Statistics of the government district of Düsseldorf 1867
^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland 1885, p. 78
↑ www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de: District of Kempen
^ Community encyclopedia for the Rhine Province 1930, p. 64
^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. krefeld.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[viebahn28-1] Johann Georg von Viebahn: Statistics and topography of the government district of Düsseldorf. 1836, accessed on May 5, 2017 (digitized version).

[2] Statistics of the government district of Düsseldorf 1867

[lexi-3] Community encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland 1885, p. 78

[4] www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de: District of Kempen

[5] Community encyclopedia for the Rhine Province 1930, p. 64

[demand-6] Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. krefeld.html. Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).