Vorst (Tönisvorst)
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Vorst
City of Tönisvorst
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| Height : | 36 (33-37) m |
| Residents : | 7142 (2010) |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 1970 |
| Postal code : | 47918 |
| Area code : | 0 21 56 |
.png) Location of Vorst in Tönisvorst and in the district of Viersen
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The formerly independent municipality of Vorst is a district of the town of Tönisvorst, which belongs to the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Viersen .
etymology
The place name Vorst can be traced back to a large area of forest that was cultivated around the Haus Brempt estate in the Middle Ages . The Middle High German name Vorst separates a managed forest from a natural forest, Middle High German "Boosch".
geography
Vorst lies geographically on the edge of the Kempen clay slab (Lower Rhine landscape unit 573.3 ).
Neighboring places
| Oedt | Kempen | St. Toenis |
| Hagen |
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Kehn |
| Viersen | Clörath | Anrath |
history
prehistory
Numerous prehistoric finds prove a settlement of Vorst since the Neolithic Age . Most of the sites around Vorst, however, refer to the pre-Roman Iron Age . In 1935 Albert Steeger examined an Iron Age settlement previously discovered by the farmer Wilhelm Schuhmacher at Koitzhof, northeast of Vorst on the eastern edge of the Huverheide. Archaeological prospecting as part of the development of a new housing estate on Heckerweg in 2007 and 2010, another Iron Age scattered settlement discovered with associated burial ground and 2015 in a source-funded archaeological excavation investigated over an area of 5.5 ha of the archaeologist Melanie own. A settlement continuity leading to the Roman period has not yet been proven for Vorst.
Roman time
In Roman times Vorst lay in the border area between the territories of the Cugernians and Betasians in the north and the Ubier in the south. At that time, the Kempen clay slab was mainly characterized by livestock and pasture farming . The ancient usage changed in the Middle Ages to forestry .
Until 1984 only a few Roman sites were known from the Vorst area. After Gudrun Loewe's inventory in the 1960s, these were concentrated north and northwest of the town. For example, three Roman cremation graves were known that were discovered in the 1920s while cutting clay in the Potz brickworks. The Hinkes Weißhof was demolished in the 1970s. It was to be replaced by the “An Hinkes Weißhof” development area, the surrounding fields of which had remained undeveloped since ancient times. During road development work for the new building area, an approx. 1.5 hectare Roman cemetery was discovered in 1984 and archaeologically examined between 1984 and 1989. 205 graves were excavated from the 1st - 3rd centuries. Date to the 16th century. Bridger calculated that the cemetery must have had a total occupancy of about 500 burials. Part of the burial ground was built over in 1984. On the basis of the data obtained, the archaeologist was able to deduce a population density for the Roman Vorst that, with up to 200 inhabitants spread over about 30 households , reached its peak in Flavian times. The researchers found the associated settlement in the summer of 2015 about 550 m northwest of the burial ground during a polluter-financed archaeological excavation in the area of the new development south of the Heckerweg. Under the direction of the archaeologist Melanie Eigen, the south-eastern edge area of a settlement of an indigenous-Romanized population in the northern half of the 5.5 hectare research area was cut. In addition to the floor plans of buildings with different functions, settlement pits, several wells as well as a cattle trough or flood could be proven as evidence of rural livestock farming. Furthermore, Melanie Eigen was able to prove that there was a work place that was used for iron processing. The finds from the excavation on Heckerweg showed clear parallels to the inventory of finds from the graves of the Roman cemetery "An Hinkes Weißhof" and document a pasture-oriented population of Vorst in Roman times.
The place and thus its ancient name has not been passed down from contemporary Roman sources.
middle Ages
During the archaeological investigation of the new building area on Heckerweg, a medieval courtyard was discovered whose fountain could be dendrochronologically dated to the 9th century. In 1259 the parish of Vorst was first mentioned in a document.
Modern
Vorst was an independent municipality until December 31, 1969. On January 1, 1970, the new municipality of Tönisvorst (with the main town of St. Tönis), which received city rights in 1979 , was essentially created by merging with the neighboring municipality of St. Tönis .
politics
Town twinning
The fact that the name is identical with the district of Vorst , which belongs to the Belgian municipality of Laakdal , led to a town twinning between the "mother communities" Tönisvorst and Laakdal a few years ago.
Infrastructure
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Road traffic
Vorst is initially the intersection of two state roads, here the L361 (from Kempen towards Anrath ) intersects with the L475, which leads from Schwalmtal via Süchteln , Vorst and St. Tönis to Krefeld .
Another state road, the L385, also connects Vorst with the neighboring town of Oedt, which belongs to the municipality of Grefrath .
In addition, at the northeast end of the village, the K13 district road branches off from the L475, which leads through the village of Kehn in the direction of Krefeld-Forstwald .
Rail transport
A normal gauge small railway line of the Krefeld Railway ran through Vorst , which was shut down in 1978 and later converted into a cycle path. In this context there was a Vorst train station in Vorst .
On the southern edge of the old Vorster municipality, however, was until 1969 the station " Anrath " on the railway line Duisburg ↔ M'gladbach .
With the incorporation Vorsts to Tönisvorst on 1 January 1970, the area around the Anrather station but was separated from Vorster municipal area, and together with the rest place Anrath the town of Willich slammed the "station so Anrath " henceforth the new Willich district Anrath is (and no longer in Vorst).
The " Anrath " stop, which is still in operation, is now approx. 120 m from the Tönisvorst city limits, but can be reached on foot in about half an hour from the center of the village.
Bus transport
As a district of Tönisvorst, Vorst is part of the Rhein-Ruhr transport association and is served by two SWK bus routes:
- Line 062 :
- It comes from Vinkrath via Grefrath , Mülhausen and Oedt to Vorst and continues towards St.Tönis . There is a connection to the Krefeld tram line 041 ( St. Tönis ↔ Fischeln ). Then the 062 continues to Krefeld-Forstwald
- Line 064 :
- It comes from Brüggen - Bracht via Nettetal - Lobberich and Süchteln to Vorst and continues towards St.Tönis . There is a connection to the Krefeld tram line 041 ( St.Tönis ↔ Fischeln ). Unlike the 062 bus, the 064 bus ends at Wilhelmplatz in St. Tönis at the tram terminus.
In addition, there is an express bus service that is operated jointly by the Viersener Niederrheinwerke and Busverkehr Rheinland :
- The SB87 line :
- It comes from Nettetal - Lobberich via Mülhausen and Kempen to Vorst and continues via Anrath to Viersen . There is a connection to the RE10 regional express line ( Kleve ↔ Düsseldorf ) at "Kempen" station and to the RB33 regional train line ( Duisburg ↔ Mönchengladbach ) at "Anrath" station .
Vörschter Platt
Both in the Vorst district (Vörschter Platt) and in St. Tönis ( Zent Tüenesser Platt) - with slightly different pronunciation - the Lower Rhine dialect is cultivated. Until shortly after the Second World War, Platt was the colloquial language of the vast majority of the population. Today mostly only older citizens speak genuine Platt; the younger generation speaks - in an informal group - a mixture of High German and dialect, called Regiolekt or Lower Rhine German by linguists . Tönisvorst is located in the Lower Franconian dialect area north of the so-called Benrath line (with the maache-maake distinction), which is considered the border with Middle Franconia . In this case include the Tönisvorster dialects to the south of the uerdingen line lying Südniederfränkischen (also Limburgish called), among others characterized by the use of "ECH" or "ash" for the high German personal pronoun "I". To the north of it, in Northern Lower Franconia , "ek" or "ekk" is spoken instead, e.g. B. in the Krefeld district of Hüls ( Hölsch Plott ), in Kempen and on the lower Rhine. Even if the dialect is on the decline, Platt is cultivated at carnival, on dialect evenings and in clubs. In the Tönisvorst districts, for example, there are carnival and local associations that use their own websites to promote the preservation of the local area. It should be emphasized here
- the Heimatverein Vorst with its website: Heimatverein
- the Heimatbund St. Tönis, with its website: Heimatbund
Personalities
- Ina Coelen (* 1958), graphic designer, crime novel writer and editor
- Peter Ottenbruch (* 1957), mechanical engineer and manager
- Ernst Boekels (* 1927), general practitioner and co-founder of action medeor
Individual evidence
- ^ G. Willems: On the settlement development of Vorst. Heimatbuch des Grenzkreises Kempen-Krefeld. 1959, pp. 146-150.
- ↑ Cultural landscape specialist article on state planning in North Rhine-Westphalia. Published by LVR and LWL (2007). P. 247f.
- ^ Gudrun Loewe: Kempen-Krefeld district. Archaeological finds and monuments of the Rhineland. Tape. 3. Rheinland-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1971, pp. 278-281. ISBN 3-7927-0141-3 .
- ^ Albert Steeger: A Germanic place to live near Vorst in the Kempen district. in: Die Heimat 14, 1935. pp. 172–174.
- ↑ Melanie Eigen: The Iron Age and Roman settlement of Tönisvorst-Vorst (Viersen district). Archaeological Sources Volume 1. Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2017. 978-3-946654-68-1 ( doi : 10.11588 / propylaeum.276.362 )
- ↑ G. Willems 1959, pp. 146-150.
- ↑ Gudrun Loewe, 1971, pp. 278–281.
- ↑ Clive Bridger: The Roman Age Grave Field - "To Hinkes Weisshof". Tönisvorst-Vorst, Viersen district. Rhenish excavations, Volume 40, Rheinland-Verlag, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-7927-1577-5
- ^ Bridger, p. 300.
- ↑ Melanie Eigen, Heidelberg 2017
- ↑ Melanie Eigen, Heidelberg 2017. p. 13.
- ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 115 .
- ↑ The 1968 report by Rudolf H. Müller, Oberkreisdirektor des Landkreis Kempen-Krefeld , published in the Heimatbuch des Landkreis Kempen-Krefeld 1969 , Kempen (Ndrh) 1968
- ↑ Internet portal of the LVR: Comments on the subject of Regiolekt in the Rhineland ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2012 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. Website accessed October 10, 2013
- ↑ Internet portal of the LVR: Rhenish subjects and explanation of the dialect boundaries ( Memento of the original from May 3, 2012 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. Website accessed October 10, 2013
