Neukirchen-Vluyn

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	Coordinates: 51 ° 26 '  N , 6 ° 33'  E
Basic data
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region :	Dusseldorf
Circle :	Wesel
Height :	15 m above sea level NHN
Area :	43.5 km 2
Residents:	27,187 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	625 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	47506
Area code :	02845
License plate :	WES, DIN, MO
Community key :	05 1 70 028
City structure:	4 districts
City administration address :	Hans-Böckler-Strasse 26 47506 Neukirchen-Vluyn
Website :	www.neukirchen-vluyn.de
Mayor :	Harald Lenßen ( CDU )
Location of the city of Neukirchen-Vluyn in the Wesel district

The town of Neukirchen ([ -flyːn ]) is at the lower Niederrhein in North Rhine-Westphalia and is a middle district town of Wesel in the administrative district of Dusseldorf .

geography

Spatial location

Neukirchen-Vluyn is located in the south of the Wesel district, five kilometers west of Moers . The city is located in the Lower Rhine Plain between the Rhine and the Lower Rhine Ridge , a series of moraine hills that extend north of Hüls to the north. The Nieper Altrheinrinne with several nature reserves runs through the western urban area.

City structure

The city of Neukirchen-Vluyn is divided into the four districts of Neukirchen, Niep , Vluynbusch and Vluyn. These include other residential areas such as Dong, Luit, Hochkamer and Rayen .

Neighboring municipalities / cities

	City of Kamp-Lintfort
Rheurdt community ( Kleve district )		City of Moers
City of Kempen ( Viersen district )	City of Krefeld

history

Middle Ages and early modern times

Neukirchen

In the 9th century, an area with "Fliunnia" was first mentioned. This did not affect a settlement, but a forest and wetland area between Moers and Rheurdt-Schaephuysen. From 900 these landscape areas to the west of Moers were often referred to as "Fliunnia" and "In den Flunen". These district names were used in many farm documents from this time in the Neukirchen area. The oldest demonstrable farms are: "Endesveldes", "Larfurt", "Londunk", "Perbach" and "Wisvurth" of which documents from 1150 are available. This year is not identical to the year of origin of the farms, which can be much older but cannot be proven in writing before this date.

"Neukirchen", on the other hand, was first mentioned in 1230 as "Nyenkirken in the Flünen". In a certificate from Kamp Abbey , Arnoldus de Nyenkirken is named as a witness for a land trade, and Neukirchen is referred to as a parish , whose church was a "New Church - nova ecclesia" with regard to the older village church in Repelen .

The settlement area Vluyn was first mentioned on April 29, 1297. In a document, the Werdener Vogt undertook not to sell "the Vogtei Friemersheim, Borch and in the Vlune " to the Lords of Moers. At that time, the Bailiwick of Friemersheim belonged to the sphere of influence of the "Lords of Friemersheim". In 1324 "Abbot Wilhelm and the Convent of Werden" approved Johann von Kleve to buy the Bailiwick of Vluyn. In addition, Johann was granted a grant of 15 marks for the purchase price. In 1366 "Bodo von Friemersheim" pledged his rights to the Lords of Moers for 11800 golden shillings . Via the transfer of the feudal rights from the abbot of “Werden Abbey” to the Counts of Moers in 1385 for the rule of Friemersheim and the subsequent purchase in 1392, both the areas of Friemersheim and other areas of Neukirchen-Vluyn came under the rule of the County of Moers. In the Neukirchen-Vluyn area, the Counts of Moers had successfully tried to expand their rule by acquiring various farms and estates since the beginning of the 14th century.

In a document dated October 21, 1399, the patronage rights for the church in Neukirchen were transferred to them by the Cologne Vogt "Gumbrecht von Alpen" and his brothers "Gerhard" and "Rutger" with the consent of Archbishop Friedrich von Cologne . The affiliation of this area to the county of Moers was strengthened because the patron saint controlled the entire local church district and the responsible judiciary. From 1399 the Counts of Moers were the rulers of the Neukirchen-Vluyn area.

From now on, the rest of the story largely corresponds to that of the County of Moers .

The main course for the county was in Moers. On April 5, 1567, Count Hermann von Neuenahr introduced a new court order. In addition to the main course, there were several subordinate courts in the county that could decide offenses up to a maximum of 200 guilders. Neukirchen was the location of one of these subordinate courts and was also responsible for the "Moersische straß zu Huls (Hüls)" settlement. As court documents from 1447 and 1482 show, the court in Neukirchen already existed at the time of the new court rules and was much older. In addition to the secular court, there was also a spiritual court, the so-called " Send ", which was subordinate to the local pastor. This court was mainly responsible for moral misconduct, offenses in interpersonal relationships and religious offenses. While the secular judgment normally took place every 14 days, the broadcast only took place once a year.

Even under Count Wilhelm II of Neuenahr and Moers, Protestant preachers came to the county before the middle of the 16th century and spread Protestant doctrine. Under Count Hermann von Neuenahr, the county of Moers, and thus Neukirchen and Vluyn, was declared a Protestant country in 1560 and a new church order was issued. For almost 100 years the turmoil of war followed in the entire area of ​​northwestern Europe, which was ostensibly caused by the religious question, but also changed the power-political conditions in this area. Until the Oranians took over the county of Moers, the entire county was severely affected by the horrors of war and the temporary outbreak of the plague.

From 1600 to 1702 the county and thus both places were under Orange rule. Countess Walpurgis, Count Adolf's widow, transferred the county to Prince Moritz von Oranien-Nassau as her heir in 1594 , as she had no direct descendants. Prince Moritz was the military leader of the Netherlands , which had revolted against the rule of Catholic Spain . As a result, the county got into these armed conflicts between the Spanish and the Dutch during the Orange period. However, since the Orange managed to have the county declared a "neutral area" from 1607 and thus also in the Thirty Years' War , warlike actions in the county only occurred to a limited extent if isolated units of the belligerent powers broke their neutrality Crossed territory. Nevertheless, the Neukirchen pastor Johannes Carpius, for example, had to flee to Moers from 1642 to 1645 and was only able to perform his service as pastor in Neukirchen at times during this period.

History of religion

Evangelical village church, in the foreground Gasthaus Alt Derp

The area around Moers initially belonged to the Archdiocese of Cologne and was subordinate to the Archdiaconate Xanten. Various churches and chapels south of the town of Moers originally belonged to the Friemersheim rulership and were founded by the Werden Abbey . For example, the right of patronage for chapels from the Abbot of Werden was given to Count Friedrich III. Confirmed by Moers when the lordship of Friemersheim was enfeoffed in 1419.

The oldest church in the area of ​​today's Neukirchen-Vluyn was the village church in Neukirchen , which was probably built before the 12th and is dedicated to St. Dedicated to Quirinus and shapes the townscape to this day. It was first mentioned in documents in 1230. According to various documents, this church was at times the mother church for various chapels in neighboring settlements in the Middle Ages. In 1301 a “capella in der Vluen”, today's Liudgerus chapel , is mentioned for the Honschaft Kapellen , and in 1419 a chapel for the settlement of Lauersfort . The Antoniuskapelle in Vluyn can be traced for the first time in 1482 and was also a side church until the formation of a parish separate from Neukirchen in 1614.

In 1560, Count Hermann von Neuenahr -Moers (1520–1578) introduced the Reformation to the entire county of Moers , after this had already occurred in 1556 in Neukirchen and Vluyn. Initially the Protestants were predominantly Lutherans, but this changed a little later when Adolf von Neuenahr was the incumbent count (1579–1589). This Adolf had very close relations with the Reformed Orange, as he was temporarily governor of some areas in the Netherlands as well as commander in chief of the troops. With the introduction of the Heidelberg Catechism by Count Adolf in 1580, the Reformed direction of Protestant teaching largely prevailed in the County of Moers. Thereafter the county had a predominantly Protestant population with a predominant Reformed denomination. In 1597 Moritz von Orange was able to drive the Spaniards, who had conquered and occupied the county for many years, out of the county and Moers. With renewed acts of war at the beginning of the 17th century, the village church in Neukirchen was badly damaged by the Spaniards.

In 1614 the Vluyner Chapel was spun off from the parish of Neukirchen and became an independent parish. The deed of separation was signed on December 27, 1613 in Moers and ratified by Moritz von Oranien-Nassau on January 6, 1614 in 's-Gravenhage. The previous community was dissolved and the two rural communities Neukirchen and Vluyn came into being.

With the transition to Prussia, the Reformed parishioners were subordinate to the Prussian Reformed Consistory in Berlin and thus belonged to the Evangelical Church in Prussia (which was a United Church from 1817 ) or to its Rhenish provincial church. In 1947 the ecclesiastical province became an independent regional church as the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland . Moers became the seat of a superintendent , which later became the Moers parish within the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland . Today all Protestant / Reformed parishes in the city of Moers and the surrounding cities and communities belong to the parish of Moers .

In 1845, Andreas Bräm , the pastor of the Neukirchen village church , founded the Neukirchen Educational Association as an "association for the education of poor, abandoned and neglected children". In addition, an orphanage was operated from 1878, for which a new building was completed in February 1881. In 1880 the Elim institution for morally endangered girls was founded. Under the successor of Andreas Bräm, Pastor Ludwig Doll , a new mission house was inaugurated on August 27, 1882 and the Neukirchen Mission was founded. As a missionary teacher, Julius Stursberg from Barmen trained the first candidates for Christian missions overseas. The various activities were combined on November 16, 1907 with the establishment of a registered association of the orphanage and missionary institution .

In the 19th century, citizens of Rayen founded a church building association and inaugurated the Protestant St. John's Church in 1894 . Because of the mining in Neukirchen-Vluyn in the 1920s, many miners settled in the southern part of Neukirchen. First an emergency church was built for them and after the Second World War the Friedenskirche was built, in the typical style of the church architecture of the 1960s.

The Niederrheinische Bergwerks-Aktiengesellschaft decided in 1911 to exploit its mine fields and to sink the shafts necessary for this. As a result, workers moved in, so that Neukirchen and Vluyn again received a Catholic share of the population. The newly settled Catholics in Neukirchen belonged to St. Joseph in Moers, while the Catholics in the Vluyn district belonged to St. Hubertus in Schaephuysen. In 1920, with the support of Niederrheinische Bergwerks-Aktiengesellschaft, which provided an old building, the first holy mass sacrifice was celebrated in the emergency church.

Today Neukirchen-Vluyn belongs to the diocese of Münster . The newest church of the diocese of Münster is in Vluyn. While churches are closed everywhere, the Catholic St. Antonius Church on Vluyner Nordring was only consecrated in 1997. The church stands out from the outside with a mighty free-standing round tower and a cross made to human dimensions. Five masses are celebrated every week and Vespers are also prayed every evening of the week .

Between Prussia and France

After the death of the last Orange ruler, Wilhelm III. the county came into Prussian possession in 1702 . During this time the county was elevated to a principality . After the good years under the Orange, however, Prussian rule over the population was almost like an occupation. Looting in the first years of the occupation was the order of the day. Even the practice of religion and the powers of the local government were severely restricted. The local district court in Neukirchen also fell victim to the centralization of the entire administration in the principality by the Prussians and was repealed. In 1787 the rural community of Neukirchen and the dong farmers had a total of 150 houses and 1045 people in 174 families lived in the community. The data for rural community Vluyn with Dicksche Heide, Süsselheide and Niep were 168 houses, 736 people in 172 families.

With the occupation of the left bank of the Lower Rhine by the French revolutionary armies in 1794, the first Prussian rule came to an end. The socio-political gains of the French Revolution came into their own in the occupied territories . However, the residents of Neukirchen and Vluyn quickly lost their joy over the liberation , as oppressive demands for money - 1794 = 557 936 livres - and benefits in kind - 1795 = 55 head of cattle, 550 pairs of shoes and 8000 loaves a day - were raised and collected. Since the Prussians ceded the entire area on the left Lower Rhine to France in 1795, Neukirchen and Vluyn became legally French communities in the canton of Moers with the formation of the "Departement de la Roer" in 1801.

In mid-January 1814, with the invasion of the first Cossacks and the following Prussian troops, the French era ended on the left Lower Rhine. The victory news of April 5, 1814 from Paris was greeted with bells in both Neukirchen and Vluyn and celebrated on April 11 with solemn thanksgiving services in both parishes. In 1815 Neukirchen and Vluyn were reintegrated into the Prussian Rhine Province . A year later, the communities were first among Rheinberg in the administrative district of Kleve and finally from 1823 to the county money in the district of Dusseldorf assigned. In a list from 1836, the mayor's offices of Neukirchen and Vluyn were co-administered by the mayor's office of Repelen . At that time, Neukirchen included: the parish village of Neukirchen with the hamlets of Laßfonderfeld, Neukirchenfeld, Dong, Boschheide and Mühlenfeld. The following were recorded under Vluyn: the parish village of Vluyn with the hamlets of Dickscheheide, Süsselheide, Niep and Rittergut Bloemersheim .

Neukirchen and Vluyn were assigned to the district of Moers from 1857 . Both localities were still independent communities. In a listing from 1901, the community Neukirchen had 1825 inhabitants and, in addition to the church village Neunkirchen, continued to consist of the five farmers Boschheide, Dong, Lassfonderfeld, Mühlenfeld and Neukirchenfeld. At the same time, Vluyn had 1824 inhabitants and, in addition to the church village Vluyn, also included the three farmers' communities Dickscheheide, Niep, Süsselheide and the manor Bloemersheim.

In 1845 the Protestant Reformed pastor Andreas Bräm founded the Neukirchen Educational Association. In 1878 his successor Ludwig Doll founded the orphanage and in 1882 the Neukirchen Mission . The Protestant Neukirchener Verlagsgesellschaft was founded shortly afterwards in 1888.

Industrial revolution: coal mining

As early as 1854, drilling by Franz Haniel identified minable coal seams on the left Lower Rhine. At first, their use was severely hindered by the geological conditions. The problems could only be resolved with the introduction of the freezing process for shaft construction. That is why various mining companies were founded in the 1870s. The three individual trade unions belonging to this, with their mining fields Grand Duke of Baden , Ernst Moritz Arndt and southern Germany, agreed on September 16, 1911, through a joint subsidiary, the Niederrheinische Bergwerks-Aktiengesellschaft in Neukirchen, to exploit their mining fields together. To this end, the Niederrheinische Bergwerks-Aktiengesellschaft began sinking the shafts in 1913. Sinking of shaft I began on October 1, 1913 and was completed by October 1, 1917 at a depth of 490 m. The dates for shaft II are: beginning June 10, 1914 and end of October 22, 1917 at 433 m. The first small dismantling began on October 1, 1917. The net production in 1918 was 36,521 t and rose to 274,165 t by 1927. With the sinking of the first mine shaft of the Niederberg mine , a new era began for the two communities. With the arrival of hard coal mining , the character of the local economy, the population, the employment and settlement structure changed.

The reduction in coal production in Germany finally led to the closure of the Niederberg colliery in 2001 and the demolition of most of the above-ground colliery buildings. Coal mining under the urban area was continued by the West mine from neighboring Kamp-Lintfort until December 21, 2012.

Contemporary history

Of great importance for the development of the city was the amalgamation of the communities Neukirchen and Vluyn, between the centers of which the mine was located in Dickscheheide . The application for a merger was made by the two municipal councils in April 1928 and was put into effect in the same month by resolution of the Prussian State Ministry.

Since January 1, 1975, Neukirchen-Vluyn has been part of the Wesel district as a result of the municipal reorganization , in which the former Moers district was merged. In 1981 Neukirchen-Vluyn passed the 25,000-inhabitant mark and received city ​​rights .

After the Niederberg mine was closed on December 31, 2001, the 100 hectare industrial area between Neukirchen and Vluyn stood idle for almost ten years. On July 21, 2011, however, the groundbreaking ceremony for the opening up and development of the site took place.

Most of the area is taken up by a new residential area in the northern section. The former center of the mine will also be the center of the new project. Shops, leisure and cultural facilities and restaurants are to be located here. Furthermore, the industrial monuments, such as the old winding towers, are to be integrated into the whole. The southern section is to be developed according to the plans for the commercial sector.

The planting is to become an important pillar for the development of the area. The new landscaping will be created with more than two million euros.

dialect

In the city of Neukirchen-Vluyn, “Platt” is spoken in the various local parts of the city. Until after the Second World War, “Platt” was the colloquial language of a broad section of the population - today only a few people speak and understand the old dialects.

Neukirchen and Vluyn are located in the Lower Franconian dialect north of the so-called Benrath line (with the maache-maake distinction), which separates southern Middle Franconian (also called Ripuarian ) from northern Lower Franconian. The city is also north of the Uerdinger line , which stretches from the Rhine via Kempen to Venlo. This Uerdingen line (also called ek-ech border) separates the southern Lower Franconian (which is spoken in Uerdingen and Krefeld, for example) from the northern Lower Franconian , which u. a. in the Krefeld district of Hüls (see Hölsch Plott ) and Kempen, in Neukirchen-Vluyn, in the greater Moers area, in the districts of Kleve and Wesel as well as Dinslaken, Duisburg and Mülheim-Ruhr up to the foothills of the Bergisches Land. An important feature of North Lower Franconian is the pronunciation of the personal pronoun "I" as "ek" (as is common in Neukirchen and Vluyn), while in the south of the Lower Rhine it is spoken as "ech" or "isch".

The miner's language has also left its mark on the local colloquial language. So know a lot of the saying: "..da hate abber Futtsack off" - (there's something "went wrong"), worked a saying from the time when even pit pony underground and put in "difficult circumstances" with the feed bag calm were .

Although the dialect is on the decline, Platt is cultivated at carnivals and in clubs. There is also a rich local dialect literature. The two Neukirchen-Vluyner Heimatvereine maintain the dialect and regularly organize dialect evenings and lectures. The "Klompenweiber" are known beyond the city limits.

politics

Local election 2014

Turnout: 51.5 (2009: 58.01%)

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39.9%

36.1%

10.3%

7.5%

3.6%

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SPD

CDU

Green

NV ON

FDP

Pirates

left

Gains and losses

compared to 2009

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CDU

Green

NV ON

FDP

Pirates

left

City council

According to the results of the 2014 local elections, the 38 seats in the city ​​council are distributed among the individual parties as follows:

Political party	Seats
SPD	15th
CDU	14th
Green	4th
NV OPEN	3
FDP *	1
Pirates *	1

^* After the local elections, the FDP and Pirates initially formed a parliamentary group. On March 1, 2018, the faction was dissolved due to repeated disputes. Since then, the two council members have been non-attached.

mayor

Harald Lenßen ( CDU ) has been the mayor of Neukirchen-Vluyn since October 21, 2009 .

Mayor since 1836:

• 1836–1875 Gustav Haarbeck
• 1875–1923 Hermann Haarbeck
• 1923–1928 Dr. Baehr
• 1928–1945 Erich Neumann ( NSDAP )
• 1945–1946 Wilhelm Schneider (appointed by the military government)
• 1946–1950 Tillmann Bongardt ( CDU )
• 1950–1952 Oskar Kühnel ( SPD )
• 1952–1956 Johann Kaiser (Party for Reconstruction, later CDU)
• 1956–1963 Oskar Kühnel (SPD)
• 1963–1975 Gerhard Haastert (CDU)
• 1975–1989 Oskar Böhm (SPD)
• 1989–1994 Kornelia Kuhn (CDU)
• 1994–1999 Peter Wermke (SPD) (last honorary mayor)
• 1999–2009 Bernd Böing (independent) (first full-time mayor)
• since 2009 Harald Lenßen (CDU)

Coat of arms, seal, banner and logo

The former municipality (now the city) was granted the right to use a coat of arms and a seal with a certificate from the Minister of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia dated November 23, 1961; In addition, a document from the Minister of the Interior dated May 9, 1962, granted the community the right to use a banner. The city also has a logo.

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  coat of arms

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  Coat of arms of the former municipality of Vluyn

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  logo

Blazon : "In black three golden (yellow) oblique left wavy bars."

The coat of arms is based on a mayor's seal from 1540; the waves represent three old arms of the Rhine . The colors are those of the county of Moers , to which the city previously belonged.

Description of the seal: The official seal contains the emblem of the coat of arms. It is available in 2 sizes and corresponds to the following imprints: "Circumferential inscription:" STADT NEUKIRCHEN-VLUYN KREIS WESEL "- seal image: a rider's tart (shield shape) hanging on a hook . In black three white oblique left wave beams. "

Description of the banner: "The banner consists of three equally long and equally wide strips in the colors black, yellow and black and shows the city's coat of arms in the white banner head."

Town twinning

Neukirchen-Vluyn has had town twinning with Ustroń ( Poland ) and Mouvaux ( France ) since 1991 . Since 2012 there has been a friendship with the English city of Buckingham .

Demographics

Population structure (As of December 31, 2017) Age   Residents <6 1,372 6-17 2,918 18-25 2,086 26-45 6,085 45-65 8,922 > 65 6.211  Total population Male 13,356 Female 14,238  including foreigners Male 1,284 Female 1,066

Population development Official population on December 31st year   population 1998 28,300 1999 28,408 2000 28,525 2001 28,566 2002 28,829 year   population 2003 28,809 2004 28,835 2005 28,650 2006 28,491 2009 27,627 2010 27,579

Public facilities

Leisure and sports facilities

• swimming pool
• Golf course
• Tennis facility on Plankendicksweg
• Tennis facility at the Klingerhuf
• Football hall
• Skater facility
• Inline skate circuit (10 km)
• Stockpile North Germany
• Klingerhuf Youth Center
• Neukirchen-Vluyn Nature Conservation Center
• Klingerhuf sports and leisure park

education

In Neukirchen-Vluyn there are four primary schools with five locations. All primary schools offer an open all-day program and the Friedensreich Hundertwasser primary school also runs a Montessori group.

The Julius-Stursberg-Gymnasium, the Theodor-Heuss-Realschule, the Haarbeck-Hauptschule in the school center and the municipal comprehensive school are located at secondary schools. The Theodor-Heuss-Realschule and the Haarbeck-Hauptschule from the school year 2019/2020.

There is also a vocational college, a music school, an art school, an adult education center and two special needs schools.

There are eleven day-care centers in the city. Three of them are municipal institutions, the other eight are run by the Catholic Church, the Protestant Church, the AWO and the DRK. For family-wide get-togethers, there are two family centers under the day-care centers, and there is also a family education center in the city.

The city library is represented in the districts of Neukirchen and Vluyn.

Museums

• Local history museum in the culture hall, archive in the town hall
• Hubben Clock Museum

Buildings

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Neukirchen-Vluyn

Bloemersheim Castle

• Neukirchen village church (13th century)
• Bloemersheim Castle (16th century)
• Dong windmill (19th century)
• Vluyn village church (19th century)
• Catholic St. Anthony Church Vluyn (1997)
• Catholic St. Quirinus Church Neukirchen (1956–1958)

Regular events

• City Marketing Events:
  • Vluyner May
  • Thanksgiving festival in the village of Neukirchen (every third weekend in September)
  • Vluyner fair with Klompenball (always on the weekend after Whitsun)
  • Missionary festival in the village of Neukirchen
  • Martin's market in Vluyn

• Traditional Easter fire “Blocke Poschen” by the Junge Union at Bloemersheim Castle, on the Saturday after the Easter weekend
• April 30th, hanging of the May wreath on the craftsman's tree in Vluyn by the Vluyn e. V.
• April 30th, erection of the maypole in the village of Neukirchen, followed by a dance into May with the Neukirchen Heimat- und Verkehrsverein
• Fire protection day takes place on May 1st at the Vluyn fire engine.
• Since 2001 the metal festival "Dong Open Air" has taken place annually. In 2005 it was visited by around 2000 guests.
• Every second Saturday in September there is an open day on the Neukirchen fire engine
• Landmarkt an der Littard - always on the first weekend after November 1st at the farms on Littardweg

Infrastructure and economy

Local businesses

TROX headquarters in Vluyn (2014)

Companies	Branch	founding	Employee	Remarks
Trox GmbH	Industry	1951	3000	Technology leader for room ventilation systems
MEDA Küchen GmbH	trade	1997	1500	One of the largest kitchen specialist companies in Germany
Plant Plant GmbH	Trade & Production	2004	35	One of the largest retailers for home & garden supplies in Germany
PIONIER Absaugtechnik GmbH	Industry	1992	45	Manufacturer of industrial vacuum cleaners

traffic

Rail and bus transport

The city ​​express bus SB 10 connects Neukirchen-Vluyn directly with Duisburg . Other lines lead to Rheurdt and via Moers to Duisburg- Homberg and Rheinhausen . Line 929 runs three times a day Monday to Friday and twice a day to Venlo in the Netherlands . The lines are operated by NIAG . Line 6 connects the districts of Luit, Niep and Süsselheide with Vluyn. The line is a taxi bus, with the exception of individual school trips, which runs from / to Moers-Kapellen. With the RVN line 076 you can reach Kamp-Lintfort and Krefeld .

The tariff of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr applies to all local public transport and the NRW tariff applies to all tariff areas .

Line directory (as of June 2011)

line	Line route	Period Mon-Fri (HVZ)	Cycle Sa (HVZ)	Cycle Sun (HVZ)	operator
6 ( taxi bus )	( Tersteegenschule - Neukirchen School Center) - Vluyner Platz - Vluyner Südring - Süsselheide - Niep - Luit (- Moers-Kapellen)	120	120	120	NIAG
7th	Moers - Neukirchen Sparkasse - Town Hall - Vluyner Südring - Rheurdt - Kamp-Lintfort	60 /120	60 /120	-	NIAG
SB 10	Duisburg Central  Station East Entrance - Duisburg Central Station  - Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz  - Neukirchen-Vluyn  - Kamp-Lintfort  New Town Hall	60	60	-	NIAG
076	Krefeld Hbf - KR-Inrath - KR-Hüls - Kempen-Tönisberg - Rheurdt-Neufeld - Vluyner Südring - Hochkamer - Rayen - Kamp-Lintfort	120	120	2 trips	RVN
912	Neukirchen-Vluyn  Vluyner Südring - Moers-Hülsdonk  - Moers  Königlicher Hof  - Moers Bf  - Scherpenberg  - DU-Hochheide Market  - Alsterlagen  - Rheinhausen Market	30th	30/60	60	NIAG
929	( Venlo Station  -… -) Moers  Königlicher Hof  - Moers Bf  - DU-Hochheide Markt  - Ruhrort Friedrichsplatz  - Kaßlerfeld - Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz  - City Center - Duisburg Hbf  - Duisburg Hbf East entrance	30th	30/60	60	NIAG

Neukirchen-Vluyn also has a rail connection operated by NIAG . The Moers - Neukirchen - Dickscheheide - Vluyn - Schaephuysen - Rheurdt - Oermter Berg - Hoerstgen-Sevelen route has not been used regularly since the Niederberg coal mine in Neukirchen-Vluyn was closed. However, the section between Moers Kreisbahnhof and Vluyn was officially reactivated for freight traffic in 2008. In 2007, there were sporadic rail bus shuttles on the line from Moers to the Neukirchen-Rathaus stop, which in 2008 reached Vluyn station for the first time since 2001. There is also an initiative that wants to enforce the operation of the railway line from Vluyn to Moers in regular local rail transport . However, the circle of initiators lacks investors. The railway line is accessible, but is currently no longer accessible due to heavily overgrown sections behind Vluyn. The vegetation as far as Vluyn is cut back every year .

Streets

Neukirchen-Vluyn is connected to the motorway network by the federal motorways 40 (also E 34 , from Venlo (NL) to Dortmund ) and 57 (also E 31 , from Nijmegen (NL) to Cologne ). Landstrasse 140, the former Bundesstrasse 60, runs through Neukirchen and Vluyn.

economy

The economy of the former mining town is dominated by craft , wholesale - and retail , air conditioning, hotel - and catering , services , municipal engineering , chemical engineering , textile - and printing industry , computer - Hard - and software .

The TROX GROUP is headquartered in the city and is the second largest employer. The Trox Group is a technology leader in the manufacture, development and marketing of systems and components for room ventilation and air conditioning . According to its own information, the group achieved sales of around 500 million euros in 2018 and employs around 4,000 people worldwide. The largest employer in Neukirchen-Vluyn is the educational association to which Neukirchener Verlag belongs (as of December 2019).

With the development of the former premises of the Niederberg mine , a new industrial area is being created. New traders should settle here. In addition, areas for retail, gastronomy and leisure and cultural facilities will be created on the site.

media

In the regional daily newspapers of the Rheinische Post , the NRZ and the WAZ there are local supplements for the areas Moers, Kamp-Lintfort and Neukirchen-Vluyn. There is also one of six radio workshops of the local radio station Radio KW in the city. Most of the broadcasts of the community radio are produced in these studios .

Personalities

Born in Neukirchen-Vluyn

• Heinrich Averdunk (1840-1927), author
• Johann Giesen (1898–1966), politician and member of the state parliament (CDU)
• Klaus Quinkert (1930–2018), football coach
• Karl-Heinz Florenz (* 1947), politician, Member of the European Parliament since 1989
• Michael Hirz (* 1952), program director of the television station Phoenix
• Peter Engel (* 1954), German table tennis master in singles and doubles
• Gerd Hörnemann (1957–2005), administrative scientist, lecturer and journalist
• Thomas Nöcker (* 1958), board member of K + S AG
• Frank Sürmann (* 1962), Hessian politician (FDP)
• Urs Remond (* 1964), Swiss actor and director
• Thomas Gerwers (* 1965), photojournalist and publicist
• Christopher Lutz (* 1971), chess grandmaster

Connected to Neukirchen-Vluyn

• Friedrich Heinrich von Friedrich von der Leyen (1769–1825), industrialist, owner of Bloemersheim Castle
• Andreas Bräm (1797–1882), Protestant theologian and founder of the Neukirchener Erziehungsverein
• Ludwig Doll (1846–1883), Protestant theologian and founder of an orphanage and the Neukirchen Mission
• Julius Stursberg (1857–1909), Protestant theologian and head of the Neukirchen Mission
• Paul Ernst Ruppel (1913–2006), composer, cantor, organist and choir director
• Rudolf Weth (* 1937), theologian, author, 1973–2002 director of the Neukirchener Erziehungsverein
• Siegmund Ehrmann (* 1952), politician, member of the Bundestag, former councilor
• Franjo Terhart (* 1954), author, since 1991 cultural representative of the city of Neukirchen-Vluyn
• Rüdiger Oppers (* 1960), NRZ editor-in-chief
• Dirk Schauenberg (* 1969), karate world champion ( WSKA ) and former regional karate trainer in North Rhine-Westphalia
• Hilmi Sözer (* 1970), actor and comedian
• Konstantinos Mitroglou (* 1988), Greek football player
• Julian Korb (* 1992), soccer player
• Ahmet Engin (* 1996), soccer player

Web links

Commons : Neukirchen-Vluyn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: Neukirchen-Vluyn  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Website of the city of Neukirchen-Vluyn
• Internet portal of the Heimatverein Neukirchen
• Internet portal of the Vluyn Heimatverein
• Internet portal of the historic town center of Neukirchen
• Internet portal by Erich Lang for the city of Neukirchen-Vluyn

Individual evidence

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2. ^ City of Neukirchen-Vluyn: Figures and data , accessed on September 24, 2012
3. ↑ Peter Caulmanns, in: Neukirchen-Vluyn his story from the beginnings to the present , Verlag Michael Schiffer, Rheinberg, 1968, p. 16.
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5. ^ Theodor Joseph Lacomblet, in: Document book for the history of the Lower Rhine or the Archbishopric of Cöln, document 204 , 1853, part 3, 1301–1400, p. [192] 172 Online version
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30. ^ Regional Returning Officer NRW: Municipal elections 2014 - Final result for Neukirchen-Vluyn
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33. ^ Stadtarchiv Neukirchen-Vluyn.
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37. ↑ Population in the administrative district of Düsseldorf ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , accessed July 25, 2011. 
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39. ↑ Trox Group ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) 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. 
40. ↑ Meda kitchens
41. ↑ Plant Plant®
42. ↑ PIONIER extraction technology
43. ↑ site of TROX
44. ↑ IHK Niederrhein: October 2007 edition, page 10  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF 683 KB)