City of Hülchrath

City of Hülchrath City of Grevenbroich Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 21 ″  N , 6 ° 39 ′ 40 ″  E
Residents :	724  (December 31, 2018)
Incorporation :	1st January 1975
Postal code :	41516
Area code :	02182
Location of the city of Hülchrath in North Rhine-Westphalia

City of Hülchrath is a district of the city of Grevenbroich in the Rhine district of Neuss in North Rhine-Westphalia and has a little over 700 inhabitants.

location

The district of Stadt Hülchrath borders the Strategic Railway Embankment and the town of Neukirchen in the east . To the southwest of Hülchrath is not far from Langwaden with the monastery of the same name . To the northwest of Hülchrath are the village of Mühlrath , the Neubrücker Mühle and the village of Neubrück. To the north of Hülchrath is the place Münchrath and a little further the Erft .

The small hamlet of Jägerhof joins directly to the east of Hülchrath . It is located at the intersection of Landesstrasse 142 and Kreisstrasse 33.

history

middle Ages

Hülchrath was once the center of the Erft and Gillbach area . Already in 900 it existed as a fortified flat settlement to protect against invading Vikings . In the 10th century, the counts of the Franconian Kölngau moved their seat from Cologne to Hülchrath. Since the year 1206 the place Hülchrath was documented as Hilkerode . The name is derived from the Germanic first name Hildeger. Hülchrath Castle was of great importance as the administrative seat of a large district in the Nievenheim Gau .

In the 12th century the Counts of Saffenburg were owned by the County of Hülchrath with the town of Hülchrath. The county and place were a cologne fiefdom (probably in connection with the bailiwick via the cathedral monastery). At the end of the 12th century the place and county passed to the Counts of Sayn . When these died out in the male line, the Counts of Sponheim inherited Hülchrath. Heinrich , a son of Gottfried von Sponheim , received the town and county of Hülchrath when his father's property was divided and became lord of Heinsberg through his marriage . His daughter Alheidis married Dietrich von Kleve and in this way brought Hülchrath and Tomburg Castle into the possession of the Counts of Kleve

When the inheritance was divided, the younger son of Count Dietrich V./VII., Dietrich Luf II. , Received the territories of his mother and thus also Hülchrath. Luf II was captured in the Battle of Worringen on the part of the Archbishop of Cologne. Luf II was only able to buy his way out by paying a large ransom. Due to the financial shortage caused by this, his son Luf III sold. On April 26, 1322, to the displeasure of the incumbent Count of Kleve, the county of Hülchrath to the Archbishop of Cologne Heinrich II for 15,000 marks . Since only 9,030 marks of the sales price were initially paid down, Kurköln provided the remaining amount as pledges: Castle and town of Aspel, Rees, Xanten and Kempen with the associated areas. On November 16, 1331, the Klevern acknowledged that the remaining sum had been paid out in the meantime. From this point on, the county of Hülchrath was owned by Kurköln as the Hülchrath office .

After the purchase of the county by Kurköln and the elevation of the settlement to a city, the castle and settlement of Hülchrath were expanded in 1323. The corbels that support the tower's bay window are in Hebrew characters. These are Jewish gravestones from Cologne. After the Jews were expelled after the plague, they were brought here in the mid-14th century and served as building material. In 1348 the St. Sebastianus Rifle Brotherhood was founded. The Duchy of Jülich tried unsuccessfully in 1499 to besiege the city Hülchrath.

Modern times

Parish Church of St. Sebastianus, 19th century

In 1583 the place was destroyed during the Truchsessian War . In 1608, the current place east of the castle was re-established as a patch and given special privileges. Between 1590 and 1630 there were numerous witch trials at Hülchrath Castle . During the Thirty Years' War in the Hessian War in 1642 the town and castle Hülchrath were besieged and destroyed again. In 1794 French troops occupied Hülchrath. The occupation ended in 1797 with the Peace of Campo Formio . During the territorial, administrative and judicial reform carried out on behalf of the French government in 1798, the old territories and dominions were abolished and new administrative districts were created as departments , cantons and communes . Hülchrath belonged to the canton of Elsen in the Département de la Roer . Due to the Napoleonic administrative reform of 1800 and the introduction of the prefecture , the administration consisted of departments, arrondissements and Mairien . The Mairie Hülchrath was created in the Arrondissement de Cologne , Département de la Roer. The cantons remained the judicial district and the seat of a peace court. In 1801, in the Peace of Lunéville France, the four departments on the left bank of the Rhine were awarded secularization in 1802 . The basis was the Concordat concluded between Napoléon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII . The nationalized church property was sold in the following years. In 1803 Hülchrath Castle was sold to the last electoral Cologne bailiff . In 1815 Hülchrath came to the Kingdom of Prussia . A year later, the Hülchrath mayor's office was formed. It consisted of the villages of Hülchrath, Gubisrath, Münchrath, Mühlrath, Neukirchen, Hoisten, Speck, Wehl, Weckhoven and Helpenstein. In 1909 the seat of the mayor of the Hülchrath community was relocated to Neukirchen. When the municipality of Hülchrath came to the district of Grevenbroich-Neuss in 1929 , it was renamed the municipality of Neukirchen.

The National Socialists used Hülchrath Castle from 1937 to 1945 . From here, which was a werewolf - attack on the Aachen Mayor Franz Oppenhoffallee started. On December 31, 1974, the Neukirchen community was dissolved, and on January 1, 1975, Hülchrath was incorporated into the city of Grevenbroich.

religion

Catholic Church

It was not until 1904 that a separate Catholic parish in Hülchrath was founded, the area of ​​which was previously part of Neukirchen. In 1911 the Catholic St. Sebastianus Church was completed.

synagogue

Judaism

• Residential houses (main street) of former Jewish residents with drawings by the owners on the outer wall
• Old cemetery (outside the wall, occupancy: approx. 1850–1938, gravestones: none)
• New cemetery (outskirts - Hülchrather Feld, occupancy: 1900–1938, tombstones: 15)
• Hülchrath synagogue : 1876 to 1933, sold in 1938, restored from 1985, today a memorial

Population development

year	2005	2006	2010	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
population	716	717	718	711	716	727	741	711	710	724	715

politics

mayor

(Years refer to existing documentary mentions)

• Godfrid Dubelman Maire von Hulchrath , "twenty-third day of the month ventose the ninth year of the Frankish Republic" (= March 14, 1801)
• Henry Josef Wilms: Maire de Hulchrath , 1808/09
• Wilhelm Engels: Mayor of Hülchrath 1831.
• August Ferdinand Wilms: Mayor of Hülchrath , 1834/36/40/42/44/45/46/1854
• Ferdinand von Pröpper, approx. 1867, 1872/78

Economy and Infrastructure

In 2000, Hülchrath owned three farms and riding stables. They had three employees. 28 people were employed in the trade and service sector. 24 people in craft and trade.

Facilities

• Volunteer fire department , fire truck Hülchrath-Münchrath
• Catholic women's community, 80 members
• kindergarten
• Tourist resort with 14 beds

Culture and leisure

buildings

• Hülchrath Castle
• Former synagogue
• In the Catholic Church there is a copy of the historically very important Madonna figure from Hülchrath (around 1100). The original is in the Clemens Sels Museum in Neuss.

Monument protection

Since 1988, the city's only monument area for the historic area of ​​the castle and city of Hülchrath has been legally binding. The monument protection law of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia enables not only the registration of individual monuments but also the protection of monument areas.

Competition - our village has a future

As part of the nationwide competition Our Village Future , Hülchrath has already received several prizes:

• District competition 1992 3rd place
• District competition 1994 3rd place
• District competition 1996 2nd place
• District competition 1999 1st place
• District competition 2002 district winner
• State competition 2003 bronze and special award NRW
• District competition 2005 district winner
• State competition 2006 silver
• District competition 2008 District winner
• State competition 2009 bronze
• District competition 2011 District winner
• State competition 2012 silver
• District competition 2014 District winner
• State competition 2015 bronze

Sports

Hülchrath has a sports field and with the SG Neukirchen-Hülchrath also a sports club.

dialect

The vernacular referred to a small group of houses between the fortified town of Hülchrath and the “Sprötzehüsje” on today's Herzogstraße as “suburb”. The moats that were drawn around cities, castles and farms for fortification purposes are called ponds. In Hülchrath, for example, the castle pond surrounds the medieval castle and the Fleckenweiher surrounds the town.

Personalities

• Samuel Friedrich Biegon von Czudnochowski (1789–1864), Mayor of Hülchrath
• Hermann Josef Stübben (born February 10, 1845 in Hülchrath (Grevenbroich), † December 8, 1936 in Frankfurt am Main), German architect and urban planner
• Eduard Johann Nikolaus Istas, painter

literature

• Christian Wiltsch: Neukirchen-Hülchrath (= History Association for Grevenbroich and Surroundings eV [Hrsg.]: Contributions to the history of the city of Grevenbroich . Volume 18 ). Grevenbroich 2006.
• Hulchrath. Publisher: Landschaftsverband Rheinland , Office for Rhenish Regional Studies; Edited by Ulrich Ritzerfeld, Margret Wensky; Cartography by Esther Weiss, ISBN 3-412-07603-1 .
• Karl Emsbach, Max Tauch: Churches, monasteries and chapels in the Neuss district. Cologne 1986.
• Walter and Brigitte Janssen: Castles, palaces and court festivals in the Neuss district. 1985.
• Ulrike Hochgürtel, Heinrich v. Kalein: About the enthroned Mother of God figure of the Catholic. Parish church of St. Sebastian in Hülchrath. In: Almanac for the Neuss district. 1980, pp. 131-136.
• Hans Kisky : Hülchrath (=  Rheinische Kunststätten . Issue 9). Neuss 1964, DNB  452125790 .
• Wilhelm Janssen : Small Rhenish History. Düsseldorf 1997. ISBN 3-491-34232-5 .
• Sabine Graumann: French administration on the Lower Rhine. The Roerdepartement 1798–1814. Essen 1990. ISBN 3-88474-141-1 .

Web links

Commons : Hülchrath  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Hülchrath in the Topographia Colonia et al. (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• Article about the location on Genwiki
• Historical city view by Frans Hogenberg from 1583: Hulckraid. According to the Cölschen Domstiffts Hern, Truchsessen did not want to rifle, That he who obliges a woman, And bishop remains like Paul speaks . ( Digitized version )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Data & Numbers - Hülchrath
2. ↑ Joachim J. Half Can: The older Counts of Sayn. P. 264 ff.
3. ^ Theodor Joseph Lacomblet: Document book for the history of the Lower Rhine or the Archbishopric of Cologne, document no. 454 . tape 2 , 1846, p. [291] 253 , urn : nbn: de: hbz: 5: 1-247 (digitized edition ULB Bonn).
4. ^ Gert van der Scheuren, in: Clevische Chronik , 1884, Cleve, Ed. Robert Scholten, p. [240] 198.
5. ↑ Theodor Joseph Lacomblet, in: Document book for the history of the Lower Rhine or the Archbishopric of Cöln, document 192 , 1853, part 3, 1301–1400, p. [185] 165.
6. ↑ According to the notes on the sales deed in the cited document book from 1853, p. [185] 165.
7. ^ Wilhelm Janssen: Small Rhenish History. Düsseldorf 1997, pp. 261-264.
8. ^ Entry on the Jewish cemetery Hülchrather Feld in Hülchrath in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association , accessed on February 15, 2017.
9. ^ Entry on the former synagogue in Hülchrath in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association , accessed on February 15, 2017.