Spenrath

Spenrath municipality Jüchen Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 47 " N , 6 ° 27 ′ 11" E
Height :	approx. 90 m
Residents :	0 (Jul 24, 2013)
Postal code :	41363
Area code :	02165
	Location of the former place Spenrath in the Rhenish lignite mining area

Spenrath and neighboring towns on the Tranchot map around 1806

Spenrather Hof with poplar avenue on the western outskirts

Spenrath was a district of the former municipality of Jüchen in North Rhine-Westphalia . The original village Alt-Spenrath had the Garzweiler of RWE Power soft. At the end of June 2010 there were still three residents living here. The place has been completely depopulated since March 2012. Most of the residents moved to Neu-Spenrath .

geography

Planned mining area Garzweiler II

The completely devastated Alt-Spenrath was bordered by Otzenrath in the north , by the village of Pesch in the south, by the village of Immerath in the south-west , and by Borschemich in the north-west . All neighboring towns of Alt-Spenrath are also located in the future mining area of the Garzweiler opencast mine and will therefore also be relocated and demolished.

history

The village was first mentioned as Spenrode in 1398 . In 1650 10 families lived here. In the 19th century a large estate was built on Baumstrasse. In 1836 a windmill was built on the Wegstern between Spenrath and Pesch. In 1893 it got a steam drive and later an electric motor. In 1926 the mill collapsed.

The demolition work in the village began in June 2007. First, the houses in Baumstrasse, the western part of Spenrath, were demolished. At this point the place had already been completely relocated; only the Spenrath estate at the western end was still inhabited. This was also used for agriculture until the summer of 2013. Most of the residents of Spenrath have moved to Neu-Spenrath. In mid-2013, the last building in Spenrath, the Gutshof, was demolished.

Population development

Population up to 1970

year	1722	1799	1832	1871	1895	1905	1950	1970	1980	1990	1999	2007	2008	2010	2012
Ew.	68	136	187	204	263	266	254	196	168	170	189	7th	5	3	0

photos

Dismantled place-name signs
Abandoned houses in Spenrath
Abandoned group of houses "an de Luhr", 2007
Spenrath 2009 in September - view from the same point of view as the picture on the left.
Gable detail
Spenrath 2010

Web links

Commons : Alt-Spenrath - Collection of images, videos and audio files

literature

Karl L. Mackes: Erkelenzer Börde and Niersquellgebiet. In: Series of publications by the city of Erkelenz, No. 6, Mönchengladbach 1985.
Peter Staatz: The story of Otzenrath and Spenrath. From the beginning to the relocation . Juchen 2008 (history of the community of Jüchen, 8).
Jürgen Kiltz: Hochneukirch, Holz, Otzenrath and Spenrath on postcards. Hundt Druck, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-049507-6 (= history of the community of Jüchen, vol. 14)

Individual evidence

↑ http://www.juechen.de/info/unser-juechen/zahlen-daten- expen/ index.html ( Memento from July 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Peter Saatz: History of Otzenrath and Spenrath. Juchen 2008, p. 23.
^ Population numbers according to Karl L. Mackes: Erkelenzer Börde and Niersquellgebiet. In: Series of publications by the city of Erkelenz, No. 6, Mönchengladbach 1985, p. 183 as well as after Peter Staatz: The story of Otzenrath and Spenrath. From the beginning to the relocation . Juchen 2008, p. 112.

[1] ttp://www.juechen.de/info/unser-juechen/zahlen-daten- expen/ index.html ( Memento from July 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

[2] Peter Saatz: History of Otzenrath and Spenrath. Juchen 2008, p. 23.

[3] Population numbers according to Karl L. Mackes: Erkelenzer Börde and Niersquellgebiet. In: Series of publications by the city of Erkelenz, No. 6, Mönchengladbach 1985, p. 183 as well as after Peter Staatz: The story of Otzenrath and Spenrath. From the beginning to the relocation . Juchen 2008, p. 112.