City of Wevelinghoven

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City of Wevelinghoven
City of Grevenbroich
Coat of arms of the city of Wevelinghoven
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 26 ″  N , 6 ° 37 ′ 19 ″  E
Area : 13.93 km²
Residents : 7198  (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 517 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 41516
Area code : 02181
The new market place of Wevelinghoven 2009 with the "Wevelinghovener Arkaden", the old Wevelinghovener town hall in the background
The new market place of Wevelinghoven 2009 with the "Wevelinghovener Arkaden", the old Wevelinghovener town hall in the background

City of Wevelinghoven is a district of Grevenbroich ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) on the Erft . Until the regional reform on January 1, 1975, Wevelinghoven was an independent town. According to the cadastre, the area in the "Wevelinghoven mit Langwaden" district is 13.93 square kilometers. The population on December 31, 2016 was 7,038 people.

geography

City of Wevelinghoven is located in the city triangle of Düsseldorf - Cologne - Mönchengladbach with good to very good transport links to all three major cities. In the northwest it borders on the towns of Stadt Hülchrath and Langwaden . In the east there is a bypass road that connects the federal highway 59 to the south with the connecting road to Langwaden and which ensures the greatest possible relief of the town from heavy traffic. The Erft runs to the west, and the village of Kapellen is to the north . In the north there is an industrial area with a focus on small craft businesses and medium-sized commercial enterprises. A paint factory has been based there for a long time. a. Paints for the automotive industry are produced. In the south, on the border with Grevenbroich, is the site of the former sugar factory , on which there is a processing plant for the food industry ( potato chips and the like). The rest of the area is used by some small businesses and a hardware store.

Wevelinghoven is a typical street village , and the main development runs almost parallel along the right bank of the Erft . Geologically, the main development of the village is located on the younger central terrace of the Erft, which was created during the Saale Ice Age in the Middle Pleistocene and can be identified geomorphologically from the sloping terrain towards the Erft. The younger middle terrace is stratigraphically overlaid by a 1 to 2 meter thick layer of loess that sedimented during the Vistula Ice Age in the Upper Pleistocene . The extremely fertile loess soil east of Wevelinghoven is used in a variety of ways for arable farming. The geological subsoil along the left undeveloped Erftufer can be dated to the Holocene and consists mainly of floodplain clay and a locally eroded fen with broken forest, reed and sedge peat . The area along the left bank of the Erft is used for local recreation and consists of extensive meadows and horse pastures, isolated fields and deciduous forest.

history

In addition to many finds from the Middle Stone Age / Hambach Group ( Mesolithic ), there are also isolated finds from the Neolithic ( Neolithic ). In addition, a few Roman finds were located in the area of ​​“Römerstraße” and “Krummstraße” - a Roman path ran along the Erft from Neuss via Hülchrath , Wevelinghoven via today's streets: Römerstraße, Am Wehr, Unterstraße, Burgstraße, An der Obermühle , Krummstrasse further to Grevenbroich . Furthermore, fragments of the so-called Badorf ceramics and Pingsdorf ceramics were found in some fields in the former urban area of ​​Wevelinghoven . They date the age of the settlement back to the Carolingian and Ottonian times .

According to unconfirmed sources, the first written mention of the place took place in 809. This is also supported by the root of the place name: The term Wibbel , which is still used today in Low German for unsteady and restless people, refers to a very busy Franconian founder of the place. The name Wibilo , which is often handed down in southern Germany from this period, provides the decisive indication of the origin of the first part of the name.

The egg-shaped courtyards around the moths' form of fortification, which dates back to Norman times, gave the name Ova from the Latin ovum for egg due to their oval ground plan . Wibilos Ova was the passage of time and language development of the genitive in German to Wiblinchove , and due to the so-called sound shift from b to v in time subsequent to Wevelinckhoffen . The intermediate term Weuelinghouen can be traced back to the different ways of using V and U in medieval German and Latin.

Name origin

Wevelinghoven (1135 Wievelenchoven) is the westernmost place of the Gillbacher 'hoven' group, which goes back to Franconian times, to which the St. Martin's patronage of the Catholic parish church points. The place Wevelinghoven is known under different names: In addition to Wevelkaven (still used in Dutch today), Weuelinghouen, Wiblinchoven, Wevelinckhoffen, the name Wivelkoven (~ 1750) has been preserved as "Wivekove" in the local dialect tradition.

Coat of arms of those of Wevelinghoven

In the Middle Ages the name Wrjfflichofen (shown in the map by Vopelius in 1555) was also common. Also in 1075 a Wernere de Wiuelcoue (here: Wevelinghoven) appeared on a document as a witness. As early as 1072 there was an unsecured guarantee from a gentleman from Wevelinghoven in what is now southern Germany.

coat of arms

The original coat of arms from the Middle Ages only carried the red shield with two parallel horizontal silver bars. Such simple coats of arms are typical of the early high nobility. We find it in its pure form, for example on many depictions of the Munster bishop Florence von Wevelinghofen . Over time and through use by the official nobility, it was supplemented by a black swan on a helmet and green tendrils. The later city of Wevelinghoven carried this richly decorated coat of arms until 1938. Copyright legal disputes with the Prince of Bentheim as the heir to the title of the Lords of Wevelinghoven led to the old fabric being reissued in the Bauhaus style . The new coat of arms (see above) represents the elements of the noble family of the Lords of Wevelinghoven (1138–1446) in their core: the helmet with a black gooseneck and the three red roses, whose origin is unclear. The red shield with the silver bars has completely disappeared.

Documentary mention

However, first mentioned in a document in 1096 during the First Crusade , the high medieval chapter of Wevelinghoven begins with little praise. The persecution of the Rhenish Jews from Speyer to Xanten by the German Crusade , an unauthorized side movement of the First Crusade proclaimed by Pope Urban II , prompted the then Cologne Archbishop Hermann III. von Hochstaden to a large-scale rescue operation for the Jews of his city: a total of 7 fortified places in his area of ​​influence were chosen to take in the Jewish communities and to grant them refuge for the duration of the warlike peasants' passage. In addition to Neuss, Xanten and Geldern, which later had a fortress-like significance, the smaller gentlemen such as Eller, Moers, Meer (busch) and Wevelinghoven should be mentioned. The catastrophe did not end for the supposedly safe Jews: betrayed by the rural population, the murdering hordes moved towards them through the named places and also massacred the Jewish inhabitants in the strongly fortified castles of Hülchrath and Zons. It can be assumed that the inhabitants willingly granted entry to the crusaders. For Wevelinghoven it is also recorded that the Jews who fled here initially left the supposedly safe castle to flee into the swamps in the area. When they found out about the murders in Hülchrath and Zons , they saw no other chance than suicide.

In addition to the place, a fortification within Wevelinghoven was mentioned for the first time, but there is no pictorial representation of the castle of the Lords of Wevelinghoven. It can be assumed, however, that the fortifications of the time were correspondingly extensive, as they are mentioned in a row with the larger systems in the vicinity.

In 1145, the Langwaden monastery was founded by Christian von Wevelinghoven. In 1216 Konrad von Hochstaden , who later became Archbishop of Cologne , became the Catholic pastor of Wevelinghoven.

Historical significance of the castles

The site of the presumed ancestral castle can still be seen today as a hillside location on the left bank of the Erft. It is located directly opposite the former presumed own church of the Lords of Wevelinghoven and the manor, which was built on the foundation walls of the outer bailey that was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War and which was later administered to the von Deutz landed gentry, who came from the possible Wevelinghover landlords . Around this hill there is a younger ditch crossing, which, like the small half-timbered pavilion on the top of the hill, can be assigned to a classicist garden . An arm of the Erft that used to flow around the hill can be recognized from the surrounding trees and slight depressions in the terrain. Presumably, today's bed of the Erft (which let the aforementioned arm dry out) was dug in this area by human hands in order to separate the main and outer bailey and to be able to control the access through a bridge. The assignment of the facility to the Lords of Wevelinghoven is in doubt due to several historical and archaeological uncertainties. On the one hand, according to historical sources, the Lords of Hochstaden had the right to fill the pastoral position in Wevelinghoven. Accordingly, it seems obvious that the fortifications adjacent to the church could also be ascribed to them. On the other hand, there is another fortification, Liewendahl Castle in the southern district. Until it was abandoned, this was given to the successors of the Lords of Wevelinghoven - the Counts of Bentheim-Tecklenburg - as a fief. In 1672 they also founded the Protestant church on the northern slopes of the Erft valley. Furthermore, there is a castle complex - called Kerpen'sche Burg in lore - in the northern part of the village in the immediate vicinity of today's Cistercian monastery Langwaden. Since this monastery was donated to the Premonstratensians by the Lords of Wevelinghoven in 1045, this castle complex, which has now been completely removed, is also up for discussion as a possible family seat of the Lords of Wevelinghoven.

Political independence

Destruction of Godesburg AD in 1583 in the Truchsessian War

On June 29, 1354, the Lords of Wevelinghoven transferred their rule to the Archbishop of Cologne as a fief. With this, Wevelinghoven lost its political independence as the domain of its own sovereign. This also established the political affiliation to Kurköln for the centuries to come , since the Wevelinghover Castle thus became a coveted war target of Cologne's enemies. On the other hand, the border location of the Wevelinghover Castle together with Hülchrath in the front line to the Jülich official city of Grevenbroich was a further determining factor in the conflict between the later dukes of Jülich and the Archbishops of Cologne. The existence of the Protestant community within Wevelinghoven was also decisive for this conflict up to and including the Napoleonic period. In the Archdiocese of Cologne, it was the only Reformed community in the long term that existed with the approval of the Archbishop. In return, the landlord and Count von Bentheim left the church and pastorate to the local Catholics. After the Treaty of Westphalia, these actually belonged to the Protestants.

The castle was one of the first structures in the Archdiocese of Cologne to be destroyed in the Truchsessian War in 1583 and was not rebuilt afterwards. Other significant castles that were destroyed in this far-reaching dispute were the Godesburg (opposite) and, in the immediate vicinity, Wevelinghovens Burg and Schloss Hülchrath.

Battle of Wevelinghoven AD 1648

Battle of Wevelinghoven AD 1648

At the end of the Thirty Years' War , on June 14, 1648, the battle of Wevelinghoven broke out . Imperial troops under General Lamboy appeared on June 13th with about 7000 men in front of the camp of the Hessian troops south of Wevelinghoven under General Geyso . The imperial officials tried to cut off all communications with the Hessian camp on the right bank of the Erft. On June 14th, the Hessians advanced with their entire cavalry, artillery and infantry in front of the camp and stood for battle. The imperial troops were far superior to the Hessian ones: eleven imperial cannons faced only five from the Hessians, 3500 imperial riders, 2000 Hessian riders and 3000 imperial foot soldiers, 1600 Hessian foot soldiers. Nonetheless, the imperial troops suffered a devastating defeat, as their cavalry on the left wing became confused during the course of the battle. After their escape, the mounted troops of the Hessians under Colonel Grod were able to roll up the field from right to left.

The Wevelinghover noble family

Due to their long history, the von Wevelinghoven family is counted among the Rhenish nobility.

Modern times

Entrance signs for Grevenbroich-Wevelinghoven

In 1653, after the Thirty Years' War, Wevelinghoven was rebuilt with the old pastorate on Unterstrasse. In July 1758, after the battle of Krefeld in the Seven Years' War , French and Hanoverian-Prussian troops faced each other on the Erft from Grevenbroich to Wevelinghoven. Until 1794, the subordinate rule of Wevelinghoven belonged to the Hülchrath office in the Electorate of Cologne. In 1794 the left Rhine area was occupied by the French. The Mairie Wevelinghoven was created in the newly established canton ( district ) Elsen (former Teutonic rule since 1263), in the Arrondissement de Cologne in the Département de la Roer . In 1815 the Lower Rhine fell to the Kingdom of Prussia (apart from one "cannon shot" far from the Maas ) . Since 1816 the community Wevelinghoven belonged to the old district Grevenbroich in the administrative district of Düsseldorf . In 1827 Wevelinghoven received a seat and vote in the Rhenish provincial parliament together with twelve other towns in the area . In 1839 Wevelinghoven received city rights. From 1816 to 1846 and from 1866 to 1886 it was the seat of the district office of the Grevenbroich district . In 1884, on the occasion of the imperial maneuver, the associated imperial parade of the VII Army Corps , which was later to carry out the maneuver with the VIII Army Corps , which had parade in front of the Supreme Warlord in Euskirchen , took place in Wevelinghoven. In 1909 the Wevelinghovener town hall, designed by the Aachen architect Krieger, was inaugurated . The Bürgererschützenverein Wevelinghoven 1924 e. V. was founded in 1924. The last mayor of the city of Wevelinghoven was Hilmar Krüll (CDU), his deputy was the later Grevenbroich mayor Hans Gottfried Bernrath (SPD). The city of Wevelinghoven had an area of ​​13.90 km². and consisted of the localities Wevelinghoven, Tüschenbroich and Langwaden . On January 1, 1975, Wevelinghoven became a district of Grevenbroich as part of the municipal reorganization. Since a place can be revoked the city ​​rights , but not the title, Wevelinghoven was granted the right at the end of the 1990s together with the city of Hülchrath to document the historical reference to political independence through the title Stadt Wevelinghoven on the entrance signs.

Population development

  • 1961: 5501 inhabitants (June 6th)
  • 1964: 6032 inhabitants (June 30th)
  • 1970: 6037 inhabitants (May 27th)
  • 1974: 7536 inhabitants (June 30)
  • 2005: 7,330 inhabitants (December 31)
  • 2006: 7,284 inhabitants (May 31)
  • 2010: 7,068 inhabitants (December 31)
  • 2013: 6966 inhabitants (December 31)
  • 2014: 6968 inhabitants (December 31)
  • 2015: 7087 inhabitants (December 31)
  • 2016: 7038 inhabitants (December 31)
  • 2017: 7126 inhabitants (December 31)
  • 2018: 7198 inhabitants (December 31)

Culture and leisure

Architectural monuments

Chapel of St. Joseph

In addition to the Busch House and Langwaden Abbey, Wevelinghoven also has other important buildings of historical importance. The listed Church of St. Martin is one of them .

Old pastorate

Old pastorate from 1653 (left in the picture)

Above all, the old pastorate should be mentioned here, which has had an eventful history after its construction around 1650. The open stucco fireplace bears the year 1653. It is the oldest building in Wevelinghoven and probably the oldest residential building in Grevenbroich that is under monument protection. The Thirty Years' War , which ended with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, had raged around Wevelinghoven at times and largely destroyed the place (1648 Battle of Wevelinghoven ). With the building of the pastorate, a dwelling place was created again for the Protestant pastor. In the course of the next few years the church and pastorate frequently changed denominations. Ultimately, the Catholics got the rights to both buildings. In 1685, the Protestants created a new home for themselves on today's Burgstrasse at the corner of Hemmerdener Weg. The current rectory from 1857 represents an extension in which the Catholic priest continues to live. After the Second World War, refugee families were still housed in the building of the old pastorate for a while. After that it stood empty for many years and the substance threatened to deteriorate completely. The old pastorate was completely restored by the Catholic community by 2020 and is now integrated into the building ensemble of the new Martinus Forum community center.

Old Town Hall

Town hall of the city of Wevelinghoven

The symbol for the former independence of the old town of Wevelinghoven is the town hall, inaugurated in 1909 by the Aachen architect Krieger. In addition to the typical Wilhelmine-Marzial wall plinth, the building has many Art Nouveau ornaments, which are particularly visible as wall tiles in the corridors of the former savings bank rooms. Particularly noteworthy is the completely preserved council chamber, which with its windows, chairs and fireplace represents a successful and conservative ensemble. Today the building is privately owned. However, the local associations are entitled to use the council chamber for public events.

Economy and Infrastructure

Industry

It is documented as early as 1155 that the Obermühle provided its service as a mill. Today it is still managed as a modern mill. Evidence for the lower mill goes back to the 14th century. It is no longer in operation today.

In 1852 a woolen factory was built in Wevelinghoven, which at that time, alongside the agricultural economy as a whole, represented the essential part of local employers.

In 1874 a sugar factory was built in Wevelinghoven . This factory had been part of a stock corporation of the Pfeifer & Langen company since 1926 and was owned by the Pfeifer & Langen KG company since 1928. In 1995 beet processing in the Wevelinghoven sugar factory was stopped. Today there are buildings for the storage and packaging of special types of sugar (e.g. white rock candy , powdered sugar , sugar cubes , jam sugar and sugar loafs ) on the remaining factory premises . The company is run as a branch of the Elsdorf sugar factory . There is now a shopping center on the rest of the former factory premises.

media

  • Neuss-Grevenbroich newspaper - national daily, Neuss newspaper publisher GmbH to Rheinische Post duly
  • Erft-Kurier Grevenbroich - local advertising paper (Wednesday & Saturday), Kurier-Verlag GmbH
  • Lokal-Anzeiger Grevenbroich - local advertising paper (Thursday), Rhein-Erft-Verlag GmbH
  • Westdeutsche Zeitung - regional daily newspaper, belonging to Verlag W. Girardet
  • Stattblatt - local advertising paper in magazine format (monthly)

traffic

Kapellen-Wevelinghoven station

Highways

Wevelinghoven is part of the Grevenbroich metropolitan area and lies at the intersection of the four large cities on the southern Lower Rhine and northern Rhineland: Cologne, Düsseldorf, Mönchengladbach and Aachen. All cities can be reached by car in a maximum of 40 minutes. The well-developed A 44 and A 57 motorways as well as the A 46 known as the “Heinsberger Autobahn” serve this purpose.

Bus routes

In addition to the city bus, Wevelinghoven is served at its 14 stops: (Zuckerfabrik, Brückenstraße, Hülser Weg, Hemmerdener Weg, Realschule, Marktplatz, Rhenaniastraße, Grüner Weg, Poststraße, Am Wehr, An der Untermühle, Am Gather Hof) by the following 7 lines of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein -Ruhr approached:

line route Remarks
858 Grevenbroich - Wevelinghoven - Kapellen - Autobahn (A46) - Neuss Stadthalle working days
865 (Neurath -) Grevenbroich - Wevelinghoven - Mühlrath / Barrenstein Monday - Friday
869 Neuss Stadthalle - Holzheim - Grevenbroich chapels - Wevelinghoven - Grevenbroich Bf daily (so only to chapels)
877 Neuss Landestheater - NE-Süd Bf - Holzheim - Grevenbroich Kapellen - Wevelinghoven (- Grevenbroich Bf) working days
878 Neuss Stüttgen - Elvekum - Norf - Hoisten - Grevenbroich Neukirchen - Wevelinghoven (- Grevenbroich Bf) (minibus) Monday - Friday
893 Kapellen Bf - Wevelinghoven - Grevenbroich Bf Every day
NE12 Kapellen Bf - Wevelinghoven - Grevenbroich Bf - Gustorf Night express, Saturdays

Train stations

In Kapellen / Erft there is the Kapellen-Wevelinghoven station on the Düren – Neuss railway line . This station was built in the 19th century with the money of the then city of Wevelinghoven and some companies based there. The railway-internal designation of the stop is therefore 'Wf'. From there there are connections u. a. to Grevenbroich, Neuss and Düsseldorf.

line Line designation Line course Clock frequency
RB 38 Erft Railway Düsseldorf - Neuss - Kapellen - Wevelinghoven - Grevenbroich - Horrem - Cologne - Cologne Messe / Deutz Hourly, Mon-Fri every half hour Grevenbroich-Neuss

Others

Works of art

3 of 9 steles by Helmut Coenen, History of the City of Wevelinghoven

Helmut Coenen made 9 steles out of 2.5 cm thick steel, about 50 cm wide and 180 cm high, which represent nine centuries of Wevelinghoven's history: from the first mention in 1096 to the incorporation in 1975. The shape of the palisade is reminiscent of the medieval Fixing a moth . The openwork works of art each represent two corresponding motifs arranged one above the other. The steles are set up in groups of three in Wevelinghoven: At the oak, at the “Denkhaus” and at the city park. The first sculptures were put up in August 2004.

Wewelinghöfer

Memorial plaque to Florence von Wevelinghofen (Bishop of Münster 1364-1378) and his Wewelinghöfer

The Wewelinghöfer is a Westphalian pfennig, which was minted under Emperor Friedrich II. (1212–1250) in Dortmund, by the Archbishop of Cologne Konrad in Soest and by the bishops of Münster and Osnabrück from the 13th to the 15th century. The small and thick planes did not offer enough space for the larger coin dies, so that many transcriptions did not fit on the coin and can only be recognized in fragments. The coins were named after Florence by Wevelinghofen , who was bishop of Münster and Utrecht in the 14th century and who had the small, fat pennies minted in large quantities. A plaque commemorates him with the inscription: "Wewelinghöfer, means of payment under Florence from Wevelinghofen, Bishop of Münster 1364-1378 and Utrecht 1379-1393".

Personalities

literature

  • Irmgard Hantsche: Atlas for the history of the Lower Rhine , series of publications by the Niederrhein Academy Volume 4, 5th edition, Verlag Pomp, Bottrop Essen 2004, ISBN 3-89355-200-6
  • Handbook of the historical sites of Germany , North Rhine-Westphalia, Alfred Kröner Verlag, Stuttgart 1963
  • Hermann Baumanns: From the history of the city of Wevelinghoven , Council of the city of Wevelinghoven, Wevelinghoven 1963
  • Antonius Knaup: The diamond of the gods. Stories, fairy tales, poems , L. Holzwarth-Verlag, Leipzig and Düsseldorf approx. 1930
  • History association for Grevenbroich and the surrounding area (publisher), Wevelinghoven (contributions to the history of the city of Grevenbroich 12), Grevenbroich 1996
  • Heinz Ohletz: 1929–1974 years people initiatives in the great district of Grevenbroich.oO, (1975)
  • Hans Georg Kirchhoff: Grevenbroich. The city history. From prehistoric times to the French Revolution. With the collaboration of Jost Auler . Edited by the history association for Grevenbroich and the surrounding area e. V. Grevenbroich 2006 (Contributions to the History of the City of Grevenbroich 17), pp. 248–263
  • Richard Verhuven: The Wolfskuhlen manor and its owners , local calendar of the Moers district, Hülserberg 1954
  • Helmut Heiland: ... and so I live miserably without help and assistance ... Festschrift of the Evangelical Church Community in Wevelinghoven . Grevenbroich 1985

Web links

Commons : Wevelinghoven  - collection of images, videos and audio files

swell

  • Burgsteinfurt. Castle, IV. Rep. G. 2. b) Lordship of Wevelinghoven . In: Ludwig Schmitz-Kallenberg (edit :): Inventories of the non-state archives of the Steinfurt district . (Publications of the Historical Commission of the Province of Westphalia. Inventories of the non-state archives of the Province of Westphalia 1,4). Aschendorff, Münster 1907, p. 130f (= p. 618 * f) ( digitized version of the University and State Library of Münster)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dates & Figures - Wevelinghoven
  2. a b c Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 294 .
  3. Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 48 .