Sonsbeck
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Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ' N , 6 ° 23' E |
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| State : | North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Administrative region : | Dusseldorf | |
| Circle : | Wesel | |
| Height : | 25 m above sea level NHN | |
| Area : | 55.41 km 2 | |
| Residents: | 8673 (Dec. 31, 2019) | |
| Population density : | 157 inhabitants per km 2 | |
| Postal code : | 47665 | |
| Area code : | 02838 | |
| License plate : | WES, DIN, MO | |
| Community key : | 05 1 70 040 | |
| Community structure: | 3 districts | |
| Address of the municipal administration: |
Herrenstrasse 2 47665 Sonsbeck |
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| Mayor : | Heiko Schmidt ( CDU ) | |
| Location of the community of Sonsbeck in the Wesel district | ||
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The municipality Sonsbeck is located on the lower Lower Rhine in the northwest of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia and is a kreisangehorige community of Wesel in the administrative district of Dusseldorf . It is a member of the Euregio Rhine-Waal .
geography
Spatial location
The municipality Sonsbeck is located in the Lower Rhine on the western border of the Wesel to Kleve district , 8 km southwest of Xanten , 11 km northeast of funds and 17 km south-west of the district town Wesel .
Municipal area
The community of Sonsbeck has a total area of 55.28 km². The south of the municipality is characterized by the Niers lowland and the foothills of the Bönninghardt . In the north rises the so-called Sonsbeck Switzerland , a section of the Lower Rhine ridge . The highest point in the municipality is 87.20 m above sea level. Parts of the nature reserve Grenzdyck and Uedemer Hochwald are in the municipality.
Sonsbeck is divided into the three districts Sonsbeck, Hamb and Labbeck .
Neighboring municipalities / cities
The municipality of Sonsbeck borders in the north on the municipality of Uedem ( Kleve district ), in the east on the city of Xanten and the municipality of Alpen (both in the Wesel district ), in the south on the municipality of Issum and the city of Geldern and in the west on the city of Kevelaer (all Kleve district).
climate
In Sonsbeck, the average annual air temperature is around 10 ° C. The prevailing wind direction on an annual average is west . The precipitation rate from May to July is 180 to 200 mm.
history
The independence of today's Sonsbeck began with the granting of city rights by Count Theodor von Cleve on December 14, 1320. How long the settlement of the area lasted can only be estimated; but it must have been more than 200 years. The earlier place name “Suangochesboch”, from which later “Sungesbeek” and today's place name “Sonsbeck” originated, was first mentioned in a document around 862, so that an earlier settlement cannot be excluded. The designation as “Suangochesboch” provides ambiguous information, as it can be interpreted from the Latin “sus” (= pig) as “swine brook”, i.e. uninhabited pastureland, as well as from the Lower Franconian “soneman” (= arbitrator). Accordingly, it would be the brook where the arbitrator, the judge, lived. A third possibility arises from the Celtic word "seann" (= old, long existing). In this case Sonsbeck would be the "old brook". Today only a narrow valley from Sonsbeck Switzerland towards the village of Labbeck , the "Dassental" , bears witness to the eponymous brook, the source of which must have dried up at the beginning of the Middle Ages .
Antiquity
Already in ancient times , the Romans built a watchtower on the Balberg in Sonsbeck Switzerland to secure the military road between Vetera (near today's Xanten ) and Blerick ( Netherlands ). This was later expanded into a fortified and residential castle for the Klevian counts and dukes . The round tower, built in 1417, has been preserved to this day and bears the name “Römerturm” based on its prehistory.
middle Ages
The first settlement of Suangochesboch was built near the residential castle . Soon afterwards Sonsbeck developed into a place of pilgrimage . Because according to legend, in the 6./7. In the 18th century, the priest Gerebernus was the tutor of his daughter Dymphna at the court of an Irish king . When the king wanted to take his daughter as his wife after the death of his wife, Dymphna fled with Gerebernus, was discovered by the father in Geel near Antwerp and was martyred with Gerebernus. According to legend, the relics of Gerebernus were stolen up to the head by "robbers from Xanten" from Geel. They then came to Sonsbeck, where a chapel was built that remained a pilgrimage chapel until World War II .
St. Maria Magdalena
In 1203 the Sonsbeck chapel was separated from the parish of the Xanten Viktorstift and raised to a parish . At the same time, another settlement developed not far at the foot of Sonsbeck Switzerland, which took the name of the existing settlement and was founded in 1320 by Count Dietrich IX. was awarded city rights by Kleve . In the following time it was fortified with a city wall, the construction of which was completed around 1420. The wall also included a castle belonging to the Counts of Kleve, which was destroyed in 1641. The most important preserved architectural monument of this settlement is the Magdalenenkirche, which was completed in 1431. In the same year Pope Eugene IV ordered the transfer of the baptismal font to the Magdalenakirche, but the old parish church was to be preserved and the pious practice of pilgrimage preserved. Sonsbeck was also granted market rights in 1431 . In 1478 St. Gerebernus was built in place of the first parish chapel.
Modern times
As was the case for the entire region, the Jülich-Klevian succession dispute that began around the turn of the 16th century was of particular importance and was not followed by any longer peace until the end of the Eighty Years War . From 1794 to 1814 Sonsbeck was occupied by the French as part of the left bank of the Rhine and incorporated into the Département de la Roer . During this time, today's municipality lost its town charter and became the Mairie in the canton of Xanten in the Arrondissements de Clèves .
From 1815 Sonsbeck again belonged to the Kingdom of Prussia and formed a mayor's office with the nearby Hamb ; this was administered in personal union with the mayor's office of Labbeck . As part of the Prussian administrative organization, Sonsbeck came to the Rheinberg district on April 23, 1816, as one of over 40 districts in the Jülich-Kleve-Berg province , which later became the Rhine province , but was united with the Geldern district as early as 1823 . This association was reversed in 1857. From then on, Sonsbeck belonged to the Moers district .
During the Second World War , Sonsbeck was 85 percent destroyed because it was located directly in the front line from February 1945. On March 6, 1945, the first Canadian troops marched through Sonsbeck without a fight. On March 7th the Canadian Lincoln and Welland Regiment passed through Sonsbeck and stopped in front of Veen (Alps) that same afternoon .
348 German, Polish and Soviet dead from the Second World War rest on the Sonsbeck war cemetery at the Catholic cemetery. They fell in the battle for Sonsbeck or at the Allied Rhine crossing west of Wesel .
In the southern part of Sonsbeck there is a waste oil and plastic recycling company, which was affected by a major fire in 2011.
Incorporations
On July 1, 1969, in the course of the first municipal reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia, the previously independent municipalities of Hamb, Labbeck and Sonsbeck of the former Sonsbeck office were merged into a new municipality of Sonsbeck. Since January 1st, 1975 Sonsbeck has belonged to the Wesel district , in which the former Moers district was merged.
Population structure
On December 31, 2004 the community of Sonsbeck had 8,646 inhabitants, of which 64.0 percent belonged to the Roman Catholic, 20.4 percent to the Protestant and 15.6 percent to other denominations. The proportion of foreigners was 3.9 percent.
Population development
Official resident population on December 31, 1961 on June 6 (census result):
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politics
City council and mayor
According to the result of the local elections on May 25, 2014, the 26 seats in the municipal council are distributed among the individual parties as follows:
| Party / list | Seats | G / V |
| CDU | 15th | - 1 |
| SPD | 4th | ± 0 |
| FDP | 3 | ± 0 |
| Green | 2 | + 2 |
| Citizen in Sonsbeck | 2 | - 1 |
Mayor of the community of Sonsbeck is Heiko Schmidt ( CDU ). He was elected as the successor to Leo Giesbers (CDU) in the 2014 local elections with 65.9% of the valid votes. Giesbers held the office since 1996.
Town twinning
Sonsbeck has a partnership with the English city of Sandwich in Kent .
Coat of arms, seals, and banners
The municipality of Sonsbeck was granted the right to use a coat of arms , a banner and a seal with a certificate from the District President of Düsseldorf dated September 9, 1970 .
coat of arms
Coat of arms of the municipality of Sonsbeck until 1970
Coat of arms of the former municipality of Hamb
Coat of arms of the former municipality of Labbeck
Coat of arms of the former Sonsbeck office
seal
banner
Blazon : "The red coat of arms shows a nineteen-rayed golden (yellow) sun, covered over the entire width of the shield with a lowered blue wavy bar, this accompanied by a three-pinned piece of red wall at the top."
The coat of arms is linked to the official coat of arms; older seals already had " speaking signs " (Sons- (sun), -beck (Bach)); the section of the wall reminds of the former town charter until 1800.
The seal is inscribed - Sonsbeck Kreis Wesel - in the form of a coin legend and as a seal image in a black circle a nineteen-rayed white sun, covered over the entire width with a lowered wave bar in outline with two structural lines, this accompanied by a three-pinned piece of black wall at the top.
The flag (banner) is striped lengthways in a ratio of 1: 1: 1 in the colors yellow - blue - yellow. The white head of the banner shows the coat of arms of the municipality.
Attractions
→ see also: Monuments in Sonsbeck
- St. Gerebernus Chapel
- Catholic Church of St. Maria Magdalena
- Protestant church
- Gomman's mill
- Roman tower
- Lookout tower on Dürsberg
- Pauenhof Dharmasala : Tibetan Buddhist center
- Tractor Museum Pauenhof : Private museum on the route of industrial culture , with over 400 tractors
- Ceramic Museum Tietz: private exhibition about Josef Hehl
- St. Antonius Chapel in the Hamb district
- Plague cross in the district of Labbeck
- Windmill in the Labbeck district
- Hasenacker Forestry House
- Jewish Cemetery
- Sonsbeck Switzerland with geo hiking trail Sonsbeck
Sports
The first team in the football department of SV Sonsbeck , the largest sports club in Sonsbeck, was promoted to the Niederrhein association league in 2004, from which it has now been relegated to the regional league. For the 2010/2011 season, the team was promoted to the new Niederrheinliga (former Association League Niederrhein). Since the 2012/2013 season, the SVS's first team has been playing in the now fifth-class Oberliga Niederrhein. The second team plays in the district league. All first teams of the youth of SV Sonsbeck play from the 2010/11 season in the performance classes of the Moers district.
DJK-BV-Labbeck / Uedemerbruch is a football club from Labbeck, which belongs to Sonsbeck, and was founded in 1946 by Wilhelm Wienemann, Franz Kempkes, Anton Eumann, Wilhelm Kempkes, Johann Schlusen, Heinrich Kappenstiel and Alfons Immens. In a joint general assembly of the clubs DJK BV Labbeck and Sparta Uedemerbruch (founded on May 24, 1923) on June 5, 1969, the merger of the two eponymous clubs was decided. The newly founded association is called DJK BV Labbeck-Uedemerbruch . The colors green-white-red were set as the club colors.
traffic
Former rail transport
The district of Labbeck had a train station on the Boxtel-Wesel line from 1878 until the bombing on February 21, 1945 .
Bus transport
The Sonsbeck-Geldern bus line, which opened on April 8, 1925, was the first route operated by NIAG . In public transport , the bus route NIAG today connects 36 Sonsbeck with the stations ' money and Xanten . In addition, the NIAG bus route 37 runs on school days from Sonsbeck to the Kevelaer and Wesel train stations . The NIAG bus route 43 runs from Xanten to Uedem on school days. With its route over Labbeck and Uedemerbruch, it corresponds to the former Boxteler Bahn in this section .
The tariff of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr applies and the NRW tariff applies to all tariff areas . In addition, a citizen bus opens up the community area and connects it with Xanten. A separate tariff applies in the citizen bus. In addition, two other citizen bus routes serve Sonsbeck: the citizen bus Uedem connects the district Labbeck with Uedem from the stop Kerstgenshof and the citizen bus Kevelaer connects Sonsbeck with Kevelaer.
Streets
Sonsbeck is connected to the trunk road network by the federal motorway 57 ( E 31 ). 28.1 km of state roads , 10.2 km of district roads and 46.4 km of communal and communal roads run through the municipality.
Air traffic
Sonsbeck is located - together with the neighboring communities in the west of Winnekendonk and Kevelaer - in the approach path of Weeze Airport .
Personalities
- Johannes Heydekyn von Sonsbeck (approx. 1450–1516), Augustinian canon and chronicler in the Kirschgarten Monastery (Worms) , author of the Kirschgarten Chronicle .
- Christian Sgrothen (around 1525–1604), court cartographer of the Spanish king
- Bernhard Roßhoff (1908–1986), district and community director in Sonsbeck, member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Adolf Althoff (1913–1998), animal trainer and circus director
- Walter Eykmann (* 1937), member of the Bavarian State Parliament
- Karl-Heinz Tekath (1955–2004), historian, archivist, champion of German-Dutch friendship
- Christoph Brüx (* 1965), composer, musician, music producer
- Suzie Kerstgens (* 1971), pop singer, front singer of the band Klee
- Giacomo Thüs (* 1987), German e-athlete
- Sabine Schmidt, (* 1968), artist
- Heinrich Heekeren (1931–2004) 8th general superior of the Steyler missionaries from 1977 to 1988
literature
- Bernhard Roßhoff : From the early days of Sonsbeck's history . In: 1957 local calendar for the Moers district . Moers 1956, pp. 123-126
- Bernhard Roßhoff: From the old Labbeck . In: 1960 local calendar for the Moers district . Moers 1959, pp. 57-62
- Bernhard Roßhoff: “Et Klöster” is one of them - St. Bernardin Monastery in Hamb . In: Local calendar 1961 for the district of Moers . Moers 1960, pp. 33-37
- Bernhard Roßhoff: Sonsbeck: From the Klevian city to a unified community - for the 650th anniversary of the city elevation . In: 1970 local calendar for the Moers district . Moers 1969, pp. 53-59
- Bernhard Roßhoff: The piglet market in Sonsbeck . In: Local calendar of the Wesel district 1980 . Wesel 1979, pp. 175-179
- Bernhard Roßhoff: The village is changing - Labbeck, peasantry and residential village . In: Home calendar of the Wesel district 1982 . Wesel 1981, pp. 150-155
- Bernhard Roßhoff: Sonsbeck community on the Lower Rhine (= Rheinsche Kunststätten 313). Rhenish Association for Monument Preservation and Landscape Protection, Neuss 1986, ISBN 3-88094-529-2 .
- Bernhard Roßhoff: The Andreas Monastery in Sonsbeck . In: Home calendar of the Wesel district in 1988 . Wesel 1987, pp. 47-56
- Margret Wensky (Ed.): Sonsbeck . In: Geschichtlicher Atlas der Rheinlande , Delivery XII No. 67, 1996, ISBN 3-7927-1566-X
- Margret Wensky (Ed.): Sonsbeck. The history of the Lower Rhine community from the early days to the present . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar 2003, ISBN 3-412-06103-4 .
- Wilhelm Wüsten: Chronicle of Sonsbeck . Self-published, Rheinberg 1965.
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 )
- ^ Course of the front line in February 1945
- ^ Xanten in World War II
- ↑ Kevelaerer Encyclopedia: Chapter 12
- ↑ 2 photos from these days and English text ( memento of the original from February 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ volksbund.de/kriegsgraeberstaetten
- ↑ rp-online.de
- ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 103 .
- ↑ Municipal computing center Niederrhein: Council election May 25, 2014, Sonsbeck municipality, overall result ( memento of the original from February 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Official Gazette District Wesel Local Election 2009 ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (PDF)
- ↑ sandwich-sonsbeck.de
- ↑ Main statute of the municipality of Sonsbeck in the version of March 4, 2010, §2 (PDF; 72 kB) sonsbeck.de. Archived from the original on December 30, 2013. 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. Retrieved October 6, 2013.
- ^ Hermann Habben: Coats of arms, seals and flags in the Moers district . Rheinberg 1962, p. 78 ff.
- ^ DJK-BV-Labbeck / Uedemerbruch
- ^ Tabular history of the NBDS
- ↑ Margret Wensky (Ed.): Sonsbeck . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2003, p. 210
- ^ " Kursbuchtabelle" Passenger Traffic Wesel-Hassum 1944/1945
- ^ Citizen bus association Sonsbeck e. V.
- ↑ Timetable Citizen Bus Uedem ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ Citizens' bus Kevelaer-Sonsbeck (PDF)
- ↑ Johannes Heydekyn von Sonsbeck . In: Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle
- ↑ Website for the Kirschgarten Chronicle
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