Vicht (Stolberg)

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Vicht
Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 37 ″  N , 6 ° 15 ′ 57 ″  E
Height : 218 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 1867  (2017)
Postal code : 52224
Area code : 02402

Vicht is a village in the North Eifel and has been part of Stolberg (Rhld.) In the North Rhine-Westphalian city ​​region of Aachen since 1972 . It has about 1,900 inhabitants (as of 2005).

geography

location

Vicht lies in the northern Eifel region in the northern part of the German - Belgian High Fens-Eifel . It extends north-south along the Vichtbach ( Vicht ), which comes from Zweifall and traverses about two thirds of the town and flows north towards Stolberg. The village is about 263  m above sea level. Above sea level.

Districts and neighborhoods

The smaller districts of Münsterau in the south and Stollenwerk in the east belong to Vicht . The gallery is located on the Fischbach, which flows into the Vichtbach near Vicht. Neighboring towns are Zweifall in the south, Mausbach in the northeast, Breinig with Breinigerberg in the west and Oberstolberg in the northwest.

history

The place Vicht was first mentioned in 1322 in the Imperial Forest Book under the name "Feicht". Until 1435 the place belonged to the Duchy of Lower Lorraine, subordinate to Montjoie ( Monschau ). Then it came to the Duchy of Jülich until 1797 . There is no evidence of a settlement in the Vichttal in Roman times, but this valley was made accessible by the Roman road from Breinig. In addition, the Eifelstrasse, which runs parallel to the Vichtbach today, was part of the Way of St. James centuries ago.

A document from Duke Wilhelm von Jülich from 1537 gave the Stollenwerk brothers permission to set up two water wheels to operate an oil and grain mill next to their “Iserhütte” (ironworks). It should be clear that the Duke of Jülich in Vicht owned an iron hammer himself. The field names Henneswerk and Stollenwerk prove the existence of such Reitwerke. The most important riding masters were the Hoeschs , who ran the Junkershammer , Neuenhammer and Platenhammer riding workshops in Vicht . In 1558 a "Kryns Kyrstgens von der Veigt" was named in an iron hammer calculation by the Duke of Jülich.

Cemetery chapel
Roman Catholic parish church "Johann-Baptist"

The Vichters also suffered badly from earthquakes that struck the area from 1755 to 1757. Hence the promise to go on a pilgrimage to Heimbach every year .

In 1792 the French invaded the Vichtbachtal, were ousted in 1793, but came back a year later. From 1794 to 1815 Vicht was together with Krewinkel, Mausbach and Werth a place in the Mairie Gressenich in the canton of Eschweiler in the Département de la Roer . In 1816 it came to the district of Aachen and remained in the municipality of Gressenich. The withdrawal of the French was celebrated by erecting a "freedom tree", a chestnut that stood next to the Nepomuk chapel on Leuwstrasse until 1951. From 1808 on, Vicht belonged to the area of ​​the peace court and later district court Eschweiler , later to the district court of Stolberg and since 1972 again to the district court of Eschweiler. The extension of the street from Stolberg to Zweifall in the middle of the 19th century improved the traffic connection of the place and led to more development. Only straightening of the Vicht in the 1960s and 1970s brought an end to the flood problem. On January 1, 1972, Vicht came to Stolberg together with the rest of the community of Gressenich.

Place name

The place name comes from the Vichtbach . Centuries earlier, the village was known as "Feicht", as was the stream. It is not known whether the place was named after the brook or vice versa. Naming it after the stream is the more likely option.

religion

In 1694 Vicht became a parish independent of the mother parish in Lendersdorf . In the parish church of St. John the Baptist was Jörg Lau a "glowing avid acolyte" in the 1970s. The Johanneskapelle , which was built in 1675 and renovated in 1993, was enlarged in 1848 and, after the construction of the current parish church, was dismantled in 1911/12 and only used as a chapel for the dead.

Attractions

The rock formation Kluck stones in Vichter conglomerate are protected as a natural monument.

traffic

Vicht is on Landesstraße  238. The next motorway junctions are Aachen-Brand on the A 44 and Eschweiler-West on the A 4 .

In the local public transport of the AachenerVerkehrVerbund (AVV) Vicht is connected as follows:

line course
1 Uniklinik  - Westbahnhof  - Ponttor  - Aachen Bus Station  - Ludwig Forum  - Talbot  - Haaren  - Verlautenheide  - Atsch  - Stolberg Mühlener Bf  - Stolberg Altstadt  - Binsfeldhammer  - Bernardshammer  - Vicht  - Mausbach  - Werth  - Gressenich  - Schevenhütte
8th Zweifall  - Vicht  - Bernardshammer  - Binsfeldhammer  - Stolberg Mühlener Bf  - Velau  - Steinfurt  - Pump-Stich  - Talbahnhof / Raiffeisenplatz  - Hospital  - Eschweiler  Busof
15th Elisenbrunnen  - Aachen Bushof  - Kaiserplatz  - Josefskirche  - Bf Rothe Erde  - Forst  - Brand  - Krauthausen  - Breinig (-  Vicht  - Mausbach )
42 ( Schevenhütte  -) Gressenich Chapel  - Krewinkel  - Mausbach  - / ( Zweifall  -) Vicht  - Breinigerberg  - Breinig  - Dorff  - Büsbach  - Münsterbusch  - Zinkhütter Hof  - Stolberg Mühlener Bf  - ( Velau  - Stolberg Hbf ) / Birkengang  - Stolberg Hans-Böckler-Straße

carnival

The carnival in Vicht is organized by KG 1935 Vicht ev Närrische Lehmjörese as well as by the dance group der Narren und Piratengarde 2000 Vicht e. V. designed.

Sons of the place

literature

  • René Sauer and Agi Sauer: Crasciniaci • Genealogy community Gressenich - Family register of the Stolberg districts Gressenich, Mausbach, Schevenhütte, Werth and Vicht, from the late Middle Ages to the modern era. Self-published by Reiner L. Sauer, Eschweiler 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-033938-7
  • Dieter Mätschke: Stolberger walks. Vol. 2: In the North Eifel Nature Park. Meyer & Meyer Verlag, Aachen 1991, ISBN 3-89124-105-4
  • Rudi Dreuw: Contributions to local history, various volumes; Burg-Verlag Gastinger GmbH, Stolberg

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sonja Essers: More births, but fewer inhabitants in Stolberg. In: Stolberger Zeitung. Retrieved February 2, 2019 .
  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. 305 .
  3. ↑ Jörg Lau: Father's home. In: zeit.de. November 10, 2005, accessed December 9, 2014 .