Schmalbroich
Schmalbroich
City of Kempen
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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.
Population development
year | Residents | source |
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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
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. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).