Schwalmtal (Lower Rhine)
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Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ' N , 6 ° 16' E |
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| State : | North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Administrative region : | Dusseldorf | |
| Circle : | Viersen | |
| Height : | 60 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 48.11 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 18,969 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 394 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 41366 | |
| Area code : | 02163 | |
| License plate : | VIE, KK | |
| Community key : | 05 1 66 024 | |
| LOCODE : | DE SWL | |
| Community structure: | 2 districts | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Markt 20 41366 Schwalmtal |
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| Mayor : | Michael Pesch ( CDU ) | |
| Location of the municipality of Schwalmtal in the district of Viersen | ||
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The municipality Schwalmtal is located on the Lower Rhine in the west of North Rhine-Westphalia and is a kreisangehorige municipality of Viersen in the administrative district of Dusseldorf . The largest districts are Waldniel and Amern .
geography
Spatial location
Schwalmtal is surrounded by a typical Lower Rhine landscape. Only around 6 km² of the 48 km² community area are built on. The name of the community was given by the river Schwalm . The Schwalmtal is also called the "valley of the mills" (see here ). Schwalmtal is integrated into the eastern part of the Maas-Schwalm-Nette nature park .
Municipal area
Schwalmtal consists of the following districts:
- Amern (about 8000 inhabitants)
- Berg (about 140 inhabitants)
- Birgen (about 60 inhabitants)
- Brüggener Hut
- Dilkrath (approx. 1200 inhabitants)
- Eicken (about 80 inhabitants)
- End (about 130 inhabitants)
- Eschenrath (about 90 inhabitants)
- Field side
- Fischeln (about 130 inhabitants)
- Geneschen
- Hagen
- Rooster
- Hehler (about 500 inhabitants)
- Pagan
- Hochfeld (about 12 inhabitants)
- Hostert (about 30 residents)
- Kasend
- Broken crane
- Krinsend
- Leloh (about 100 inhabitants; area about 0.8 km²)
- Linde (about 200 inhabitants)
- Lüttelforst (around 620 inhabitants), a Waldhufendorf , runs around four kilometers parallel to the Schwalm, with the Jakobus Church
- Naphausen (about 100 inhabitants)
- Papelter Hof
- Renneperstrasse
- Rösler settlement (around 210 inhabitants)
- Beating
- Almost
- Stöcken (about 40 inhabitants)
- Inconvenience
- Vogelsrath
- Waldniel (about 11,000 inhabitants)
history
The municipality of Schwalmtal was created on January 1, 1970 in the course of the municipal reorganization . The previously legally independent municipalities of Waldniel and Amern were combined to form the municipality of Schwalmtal.
Stone Age settlement remains found are dated to the year 2000 BC. Dated. Document mentions go back to the year 1020 for Waldniel and the 12th century for Amern.
The later community Waldniel was formed in 1915 from the communities Burgwaldniel , Kirspelwaldniel and Lüttelforst. The municipality of Amern was created in 1928 with the amalgamation of Amern St. Georg and Dilkrath. In 1936 Unteramern and Oberamern were merged.
On February 28, 1945 soldiers of the 84th US Infantry Division - after fighting for Eicken, Ungerath and Hochfeld - took Schwalmtal. From there they moved on to Boisheim and Dülken.
politics
City council and mayor
The municipal council has 34 seats, which have been distributed as follows since the local elections on May 25, 2014:
Schwalmtal is currently governed by the CDU. Mayor is Michael Pesch. He was elected in May 2014 with 60.29% of the vote. The first deputy is Kurt van de Flierdt (CDU), the second deputy is Klaudia Foest (GREEN).
Coat of arms, flag and official seal
According to the approval document of the District President in Düsseldorf dated April 8, 1971, the Schwalmtal community has a coat of arms, a flag in the form of a banner and an official seal .
- Description of coat of arms
- “The coat of arms, split, shows Archangel Michael in blue, whose hair, chain mail and stockings are gold (yellow), whose halo, face, wings and skirt are silver (white) tinged and who has a black dragon with a red lance in the throat bumps; in the back in silver (white) three blue bars. "
- meaning
The coat of arms of the municipality of Schwalmtal is made up of parts of the coats of arms of the two original municipalities of Amern and Waldniel . The front half of the coat of arms contains an image of the Archangel Michael . Saint Michael is the patron saint of the Waldniel parish church.
The three blue bars in silver on the back half are taken from a seal from 1267 of the Lords of Ambere, who are considered the founders of Upper and Lower Amers.
- Flag description
- "The flag of the municipality (banner) shows the colors white - blue in a ratio of 1: 1 with the municipality's coat of arms slightly above the middle."
- Official seal
The official seal of the community of Schwalmtal contains the inscription:
"Community Schwalmtal, Kreis Viersen" and shows in the seal image in the shield the coat of arms of the community in the following tinging: "Split, in front in black a white Archangel Michael, who has a white dragon in the Throat thrusts; behind three black bars in white. "
- Emblem of the community of Schwalmtal
Coat of arms (since 1971)
banner
Town twinning
Schwalmtal's twin town has been the town of Ganges in southern France, with around 3,600 inhabitants, since 1985 . As part of the partnership, a school exchange between the two cities takes place every year. The 25th anniversary was celebrated in Ganges in 2010.
Culture and sights
The Hariksee recreation area has the oldest watermill on the Lower Rhine, the Mühlrath mill from 1447 .
The Waldniel district has the "Clee House" built in 1936 by the Cologne architect Theodor Merrill for the entrepreneur Josef Kaiser , in which the management of the Bethanien Kinder- und Jugenddörfer is now located. It was built on the foundations of the previous small castle . The history of "Haus Clee" goes back to the 14th century. The last noble owner was Eduard Rosbach, who laid out the park and also had the island castle built.
The “Schwalmtaldom”, as the vernacular calls the neo-Gothic parish church of St. Michael in Waldniel, was built between 1879 and 1883 and is located directly on the historic market square in the town center. Four bells from the bell founder Otto from Hemelingen / Bremen hang in the church tower . You have the disposition: h0 - c sharp '- dis' - f sharp'. Their diameters are: 1664 mm, 1461 mm, 1310 mm and 1095 mm. They weigh: 2900 kg, 2050 kg, 1400 kg and 850 kg.
In total there are over 130 architectural monuments in Schwalmtal.
In the district of Amern , the old mill tower from the early 19th century is worth a visit. Temporary exhibitions take place here on weekends, otherwise the mill tower can be rented for celebrations.
The “ Schwalmtalzupfern ” are one of the largest guitar orchestras in Europe. The theater group of the St. Wolfhelm High School achieved first place in the Lower Rhine Amateur Theater in Xanten in 1999 with the performance of the Broadway musical “ The Man from La Mancha ” . Charlotte Roche also gained her first stage experience in the theater group during her school days. The Achim-Besgen-Halle in the grammar school has around 500 seats.
Economy and Infrastructure
The industrial location Schwalmtal used to be characterized by the textile industry (like the cities of Viersen, Mönchengladbach and Krefeld ) . The former Rösler Draht AG (founded in Essen in 1872) was taken over by the Belgian wire manufacturer Bekaert in 1994 . At that time, Rösler employed almost 600 people in Waldniel. Bekaert mainly produced welded mat fences at the Waldniel plant. In 2005 Bekaert sold its entire company division 'Bekaert Fencing NV' to the investment company 'Gilde'. At the end of 2009 , 80 of the remaining 125 employees were laid off.
Waldniel has been the administrative headquarters of the Kamps bakery chain since 2007 .
traffic
Highway
Schwalmtal can be reached via the federal motorway 52 ( exits Schwalmtal-Hostert (5) and Schwalmtal (4)) or via the L 371 and the B 221 .
railroad
Nearby train stations are Mönchengladbach Hauptbahnhof , Viersen , Viersen-Dülken and Viersen-Boisheim . With the exception of Viersen-Boisheim, they can be reached by bus .
There used to be a railway line between Dülken and Brüggen . The part between Waldniel and Dülken was closed in 1998.
air traffic
The Dusseldorf airport can be reached in about 30 minutes by car.
Transportation
The public transport in Schwalmtal is the NEW mobile and active Mönchengladbach and the SWK MOBIL care. All lines are to be used at uniform prices of the Rhein-Ruhr transport association.
Within the municipality, the “Bürgerbus Schwalmtal e. V. ”, which supplements local public transport on a state-licensed bus route. The operator is also NEW mobil and active Mönchengladbach . All citizens bus drivers work on a voluntary basis.
sport and freetime
In the clubs TuS Waldniel, SC Waldniel, VSF Amern and DJK Fortuna Dilkrath , numerous sports are promoted. There are eleven shooting clubs ( Federation of Historic German Shooting Brotherhoods or Deutscher Schützenbund ).
Special events
On 18 August 2009 a 72-year-old retiree in a reviewer date for shot foreclosure of the house of his daughter two lawyers and two real estate appraiser and killed three of them.
Personalities
- Ernst van Aaken (1910–1984), sports medicine specialist and trainer
- Hans Hermann Henrix (* 1941), theologian and author
- Rudi Fuesers (1928–2010), trombonist and band leader
- Ludwig Gabriel Schrieber (1907–1975), sculptor, painter and draftsman
- Joachim "Joko" Winterscheidt (* 1979), moderator
- Stefan Berger (* 1969), Member of the State Parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Bernhard Rösler (1906–1973), entrepreneur, honorary citizen of the Schwalmtal community (1972)
- Jupp Heynckes (* 1945), German football coach (including at FC Bayern Munich and Borussia Mönchengladbach )
- Johannes van den Bergh (* 1986), football player
literature
- Willi Arretz (Ed.): Heimatbote Schwalmtal . Issues 1990–2009
- Hiking club Hehler VN (Ed.): Schwalmtal. Pictures tell a story. Sutton Verlag , Erfurt 2005, ISBN 3-89702-671-6 .
- Horst Jungbluth, Helmuth Elsner: The Schwalm - valley of the mills . Schwalmtal 1989.
- Andreas Kinast: “The child cannot be trained.” Euthanasia in the Waldniel children's department 1941–1943. Series: Rheinprovinz , 18. SH-Verlag, Cologne 2010, ISBN 3-89498-259-4
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 . ( Help on this )
- ↑ Website of the Rösler settlement of the Schwalmtal community
- ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 115 .
- ↑ Hans Kaiser: From the town hall towards the GIs. In: Rheinische Post (local section Viersen), February 21, 2015, page C6. Their advance was part of Operation Grenade .
- ↑ State Returning Officer NRW: final results of the 2014 local elections. Accessed on January 17, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c § 2 of the main statute of the Schwalmtal community. (PDF; 78 kB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 15, 2017 ; accessed on February 5, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Association Friends of the Sister City Ganges eV .
- ^ Wolfram Hagspiel : Cologne-Marienburg. JP Bachem, Cologne 1996, p. 889. (House Clee mentioned in the article on Merrill)
- ↑ Homepage www.bethanien-kinderdoerfer.de
- ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the bell founder Otto. Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588 , in particular pp. 78, 84, 162, 502, 503, 538, 557, 580, 582 .
- ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556 , in particular pp. 97, 102, 470, 497, 514, 515, 523, 543, 546 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).
- ↑ www.bekaert.com
- ↑ Rheinische Post : Betafence dismisses 80 people
- ↑ rp-online October 11, 2017: The Schwalmtal community is looking for new companies for the old Rösler site
- ↑ www.kamps.de: History
- ^ Rampage in Schwalmtal: court sentenced 72-year-olds to 15 years in prison. In: Spiegel Online . April 13, 2010, accessed June 9, 2018 .
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