Venrath

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Venrath
City of Erkelenz
Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 27 ″  N , 6 ° 22 ′ 24 ″  E
Height : 88 m
Residents : 892  (December 31, 2016)
Incorporation : January 1, 1972
Postal code : 41812
Area code : 02431
Venrath (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Venrath

Location of Venrath in North Rhine-Westphalia
St. Valentin in Venrath

Venrath is a rural district of the city of Erkelenz ( Heinsberg district ). The village is located on the northeastern edge of the community of Erkelenz. The place is located north of the future mining limit of the Garzweiler open- cast lignite mine . Originally Venrath was also supposed to give way to the opencast mine.

The neighboring village of Kaulhausen is closely connected to Venrath and is therefore presented in this article. Because of its proximity, the hamlet of Etgenbusch is also described.

geography

The village lies in the Erkelenzer Börde , which is an excellent location for arable farming.

location

Kaulhausen is in the south, Kuckum in the southeast , Herrath and Beckrath in the north, the latter two villages already belonging to the city of Mönchengladbach . The A 46 motorway runs between these two villages and Venrath . There is a bypass road west of Venrath. The small hamlet of Etgenbusch is also located here ( 51 ° 5 ′ 34 ″  N , 6 ° 21 ′ 42 ″  E ).

Type of settlement

Venrath developed from a multi-lined street village .

history

The history of Venrath can be proven to go back to the 12th century. The nobleman Otto II von Wickrath gave the monastery of Knechtsteden an allod in "Venirode". On May 30, 1197, this was confirmed by the Archbishop of Cologne in a document.

In 1385 Venrath belonged to the office of Kaster in the Duchy of Jülich . In 1422 Venrath was pledged by the Duke of Jülich to Count Friedrich von Moers-Saar Werden. This assigned the village to the office of Brüggen . In 1494 Venrath came back to the Duchy of Jülich.

From 1554/55 the court and sub-office Dahlen (today Rheindahlen ) in the office of Brüggen was responsible for Venrath and its neighboring town of Kaulhausen.

In the French period from 1794 to 1814 Venrath was assigned to the Mairie (mayor's office) Kuckum in the canton of Erkelenz.

The Prussians founded the mayor's office in Keyenberg in 1816 , which also included Venrath. This community was in the new district of Erkelenz .

In 1935 this mayor's office was dissolved and turned into the office of Holzweiler. Venrath was united with the newly formed office of Erkelenz-Land.

On February 27, 1945, Venrath was captured by American soldiers of the 405th Regiment of the 102nd Infantry Division of the 9th US Army in the course of Operation Grenade .

On January 1, 1972, the Amt Erkelenz-Land Amt was dissolved and merged with the city of Erkelenz .

Place name

The place name is made up of the Old High German word "fenni" (swamp) and the word "reod", which translates as clearing .

religion

The place belonged to the Catholic parish Wanlo until the 19th century , the Venrath church was first mentioned in 1478. The church tower was built on April 1, 1525.

Around 1800 Venrath was added to the new canton of Erkelenz. On March 1, 1804, the place therefore became an independent parish. In addition to Venrath, the parish also included Kaulhausen, Etgenbusch, Beckrath and Herrath, the latter two villages being predominantly Protestant .

A neo-Gothic church was built between 1866 and 1868 , the church is consecrated to St. Valentine and St. Roch . The consecration took place on August 31, 1868.

On January 1st, 2010 the parish was merged with ten other parishes to form the parish of St. Maria and Elisabeth Erkelenz.

Culture and sights

Attractions

Regular events

societies

  • Drummers and Whistlers Corps Venrath 1920
  • St. Josef Schützenbruderschaft 1805 eV Venrath
  • Carnival Society "Venroder Wenk" eV 1952
  • SV "Black-Yellow" Venrath 1932 eV
  • Village community Venrath-Kaulhausen e. V.
  • Citizens' initiative Stop Rheinbraun e. V.
  • Tubeless Venrath cycling club
  • Community of women and mothers
  • VdK Venrath
  • Pigeon club "Weather Festival" Venrath
  • Emergency community in Venrath

Kaulhausen

The place has 217 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2016).

Kaulhausen through the town

Place names

The place name contains the word Kule = sink, ground depression and means houses in a sink.

history

The place was first mentioned in 1478 as Kuilhousen in a document. Administratively, the place always belonged to Venrath.

religion

Initially, Kaulhausen was part of the Wanlo parish, but in 1804 the village was assigned to the newly founded Venrath parish. A chapel was built in the village in 1632 and demolished in 1899. In 1901 the foundation stone was laid for a new and larger chapel. At their location there was previously a fire water pond and a horse trough. It was not until 1908 that the new building was completed and dedicated to St. Wendelin .

Etgenbusch

In contrast to Venrath and Kaulhausen, the hamlet of Etgenbusch has always been part of the city of Erkelenz. Etgenbusch is currently the smallest town in the urban area.

history

In 1309 Eychenbouhcs = oak bush (forest) was first mentioned in a document. The Aachen Marienstift , the medieval landlord of Erkelenz, owned agricultural goods here. Around 1820 there were five farms.

personality

See also

literature

  • Karl L. Mackes: Erkelenzer Börde and Niersquellgebiet. In: Series of publications by the city of Erkelenz. No. 6, Mönchengladbach 1985
  • Village community Venrath - Kaulhausen (ed.): Eight hundred years of Venrath 1197–1997. Venrath 1997

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Update of the population on December 31, 2016 (PDF). (No longer available online.) In: Website of the city of Erkelenz. Archived from the original on January 25, 2017 ; Retrieved January 25, 2017 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.erkelenz.de
  2. ^ 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. 307 .

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