Schwafheim

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Schwafheim
City of Moers
Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 25 ″  N , 6 ° 39 ′ 12 ″  E
Height : 27.5 m above sea level NN
Area : 4.58 km²
Residents : 7360  (December 31, 2015)
Population density : 1,607 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : April 1, 1906
Postal code : 47447
Area code : 02841
Schwafheim (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Schwafheim

Location of Schwafheim in North Rhine-Westphalia

Residential areas of Moers; Schwafheim is located in the south-east of Moers

Schwafheim is a district (officially residential ) of the Moers district in the southeast of Moers in the Wesel district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

location

The district borders in the north-west on Vinn , in the north on Asberg , in the east on the city of Duisburg , district Rheinhausen , specifically on the districts Burgfeld and Trompet of the Duisburg district Bergheim , in the south bounded by the stream of the Schwafheimer Bruchkendel on Rumeln-Kaldenhausen and in Southwest at Holderberg .

The natural monument , the so-called approx. 500 year old Kaiser's beech on Heideweg, was famous for Schwafheim . It had to be felled on August 10, 2015. In the district there are four lakes created from former gravel pits (including the mountain lake), some of which are used as local recreation areas. Landesstrasse 137 (formerly Bundesstrasse 57 ) crosses the district in a north-south direction.

history

Map of the county of Moers by Gerhard Mercator 1591 with "Swaefheim"
Former natural monument of Kaisers beech
Evangelical village church (2020)

There are only a few verifiable traces of the at least temporary stay of people in the Schwafheim area up to Roman times on the Lower Rhine. Only in a few places in the southwest in the area of ​​Vinnbusch were flint blades and debris from the processing of flint from the Stone Age and some individual finds of prehistoric shards from the early Iron Age. Since Schwafheim is south of Asberg and the historic Roman road is the southeastern border of Schwafheim, significantly more finds have been excavated from the Roman era. For example, over 200 cremation graves and a Roman tombstone were found in the area of ​​the Roman road. But also in the area "Auf der Heide" a Roman tuff stone coffin with skeletal remains and two coins from AD 159/160 was found and the remains of a house with remains of foundations, bricks and coins were also excavated.

Spiritual property in Schwafheim by Werden Abbey in the early Middle Ages is verifiable. In the land register of this abbey, which was built around 900, an individual property from the Friemersheim manor in "Suab (f) hem" is listed. The place names Suafhem, Suefhem or Svafhem, which were also mentioned in the documents of the Werden monastery in the 9th century , mean "House or home of the Swabians". Mercator wrote “Swaefheim” on his map from 1591. The former small farming community of Schwafheim initially belonged to the barons of Friemersheim until the heavily indebted knight Bovo von Friemersheim had to sell his rule to the Moers counts on June 13, 1399 .

Although Schwafheim belonged to the county of Moers from the beginning of the 15th century, the rural hamlet was still dependent on Friemersheim. Around 1624, as it was until the end of the 18th century, the area was only sparsely populated and Schwafheim only had ten to 12 farms. At the beginning of the 17th century, the court in Friemersheim was responsible for both chapels and the peasantry between these two villages, including Schwafheim. Even after the judicial reform carried out under the Prussians in 1770, there was still a lower court in Friemersheim, which was subordinate to the main court in Moers. This only changed under the French from 1794 onwards. Moers lost its central position in favor of Krefeld during the modernization of the judiciary, and a peace court remained in Moers, which was responsible for the canton of Moers.

After 1794 Schwafheim became part of the canton of Meurs (Moers), which belonged to the French Département de la Roer . In the central prefectural system, which was introduced from 1800, the Mairie Moers was formed. In addition to the city, this Mairie was also responsible for Asberg, Fünderich, Hochstraß, Hülsdonk, Vinn and Schwafheim.

In 1814 the French Empire collapsed and the Prussian king became sovereign again. Then the Prussian Rhine Province was formed, to which the entire area of ​​the Lower Rhine belonged. In a description of the Düsseldorf administrative region from 1836, the village of Schwafheim was co-administered by the mayor of Moers. In addition to the urban area, five rural communities belonged to this mayor's office. The village of Schwafheim with the hamlets of Colve and Altenbruck was one of these communities with its own special household. In 1834 Schwafheim had 45 houses with 318 residents. The data for Colve were three houses and 20 residents and for Altenbruck five and 43. Of the total of 381 residents of the parish, 10 were Catholic, all the others were Protestants. The latter belonged to the Protestant community of Hochemmerich .

In 1901 the community comprised the village of Schwafheim and the groups of houses Altenbruch, Külve, Vinnbruch and the station area of ​​Trompet. On this date, 873 people lived in the village. From April 1, 1906, Schwafheim was incorporated into Moers together with Asberg, Hochstraß, Hülsdonk and Vinn.

Population development

  • 1624: 24
  • 1713: 21
  • 1821: 267
  • 1852: 476
  • 1895: 732
  • 1960: 2,500
  • 1999: 6,863
  • 2014: 7,367

traffic

Schwafheim is cut through by local rail passenger transport on the Lower Rhine route (the so-called Hippeland Express) in a north-south direction between the Moers and (Duisburg-) Trompet stations . There is no stopping point in Schwafheim, although this topic has been discussed again and again at the local level. Bus lines in Schwafheim are operated by NIAG line 914 (Moers - Friemersheim (Duisburg) ) and express bus line SB 80 (Moers - Krefeld - Uerdingen via Rumeln-Kaldenhausen ).

Sights and buildings

Foundling of the war memorial from 1936/37

The war memorial erected from 1936 to 1937 on Maria-Djuk-Straße has been the only architectural monument in Schwafheim since May 2015 under number 125 in the list of architectural monuments in Moers . In addition, the area of ​​the mountain lake , which is designated as a landscape protection area, and its surrounding green and forest areas is one of the most popular local recreation areas in Moers.

The nature reserve Schwafheimer Bruch with the Schwafheimer Meer is located southwest of Schwafheim, in Holderberg and in Rumeln . In the quarry landscape with its lakes, two former flood channels of the Rhine met , so that for centuries the Rhine flowed directly past Schwafheim once or twice a year during floods. The nature reserve is not directly accessible, but can be circumnavigated along a nature trail. The courses of these flood channels can still be traced today using the artificially created Kendel Schwafheimer Bruchkendel and Aubruch Canal .

The Evangelical village church is located on Ackerstrasse. Opposite it on Dorfstrasse is the Schrapershof , a historic courtyard that characterizes the town. The current buildings date from 1876 and were extensively renovated in 2004 and converted into condominiums .

The Catholic Church of St. Markus was built on Länglingsweg in 1976. The last service took place in it in October 2010 before it was profaned and later demolished. In their place there is now a doctor and office building.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Moers - districts and residential areas. Retrieved August 15, 2015 .
  2. Wensky, Margret, in: Moers. The history of the city from the early days to the present . 2000, Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Volume 1, pp. 428, 444 + 447. ISBN 3-412-04600-0
  3. Wensky, Margret, in: Moers. The history of the city from the early days to the present . 2000, Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Volume 1, p. 71. ISBN 3-412-04600-0
  4. ^ Schwafheim, my part of town, historical Schwafheim. Retrieved August 15, 2015 .
  5. Hirschberg, Carl. In: History of the County of Moers . 1904, p. [119] 113. Online version
  6. Wensky, Margret, in: Moers. The history of the city from the early days to the present . 2000, Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Volume 2, pp. 90 + 91. ISBN 3-412-04600-0
  7. Wensky, Margret, in: Moers. The history of the city from the early days to the present . 2000, Böhlau Verlag, Cologne, Volume 2, p. 77. ISBN 3-412-04600-0
  8. cattle train, Johann Georg von. In: Statistics and topography of the administrative district of Düsseldorf. Second part . 1836, p. 106.
  9. Berenberg. In: Grosses Landes-Adressebuch . 1901, Hannover, p. [1189] 1115. Online version
  10. Schwafheim, my district, did you know? Retrieved August 15, 2015 .
  11. Municipal directory 1910, Moers district. Retrieved August 15, 2015 .
  12. https://www.uni-due.de/collcart/christ/kini/weskreis/moers/schwmark/wafmar00.htm