Walbeck (Geldern)
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Walbeck
City of Geldern
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| Height : | 34 m above sea level NN |
| Area : | 16.39 km² |
| Residents : | 4649 (May 31, 2018) |
| Population density : | 284 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | 1st July 1969 |
| Postal code : | 47608 |
| Area code : | 02831 |
 Location of Walbeck in the city of Geldern
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Walbeck has belonged to the city of Geldern (7 km away) since the municipal reorganization in 1969 . The place has 4,561 inhabitants (as of January 31, 2013), apart from three kindergartens and a primary school, Walbeck has had an outdoor pool since 1973. In 2003 the bath became the property of the Bäderverein Walbeck eV.
history
The oldest finds show that as early as the time of the graves around 800 to 500 BC BC people lived in Walbeck. The next documented event in Walbeck is the split of the Walbeck parish from the Straelen parish association around 1064. The name Walbeck was first mentioned in 1250.
Construction of the parish church of St. Nicholas began in 1329, and a church tower was added in 1432. The Luzia Chapel was built in the 16th century .
In March 1945, English and Canadian troops occupied Walbeck and established their base in Walbeck. Among them was the British General Bernard Montgomery as commander .
On July 1, 1969, Walbeck was incorporated into the city of Geldern.
coat of arms
Blazon : Divided; growing up in black, a left-facing red armored and crowned golden (yellow) lion; a golden (yellow) "W" in blue below.
Meaning: The lion stands for belonging to Geldern ( Geldrischer lion ) and the "W" for Walbeck. The coat of arms is based on a seal from 1468.
tourism
asparagus
Walbeck is known nationwide primarily for its asparagus . This attracts many visitors to the village on the left Lower Rhine during the annual asparagus season.
Major Walter Klein-Walbeck made his first attempts at growing asparagus on the lands of the Walbeck manor. It quickly became apparent that the light sandy soil of the Maas - Niers dune , which was washed up millions of years ago, is ideal for growing asparagus. The neighboring farmers followed suit and founded the first and to this day only asparagus cooperative in 1929.
Today vegetables from the Dutch border are available at many weekly markets in almost all of Germany. The harvest quantities are processed on the farms and marketed at the auction in Straelen .
On the last weekend of the asparagus season, the asparagus and village festival takes place on two days in the schoolyard of the local elementary school.
Waldfreibad Walbeck
The Walbeck leisure center was built in the 1970s, including holiday homes, a fitness trail, hiking trails and a large outdoor forest pool with a swimmer's pool, non-swimmer's pool and diving pool, lawns as large as eight soccer fields, a restaurant and, since 2013, the "Tippi Village", in which up to 50 people can sleep in Indian tents. The open-air swimming pool was taken over by the city of Geldern in 2003 by a newly founded spa association. Since then, volunteers have operated and maintained the bathroom and updated the technology. Solar energy is used to heat the pool. The restaurant is also used more and more for club and family celebrations.
Attractions
Sights include:
- Parish church St. Nikolaus (Walbeck) , 15th century, late Gothic brick building, lower floors of the tower made of tuff stone
- Steprath Mill
- House Walbeck
- Steprath House
- Lucia Chapel
- Old pastorate
- Eugeniana fossa
Others
Events
- The annual parade of the Walbeck asparagus princess takes place on the first Sunday in May. On the same day the asparagus and handicraft market takes place in the village center, where new and old handicrafts can be admired.
- The shooting festival takes place on the first Sunday in October . The two brotherhoods of the place, the St. Sebastianus & St. Antonius Gilde, and the St. Aloysius Jungschützen, take turns in organizing. Since the young shooters celebrate the shooting festival every two years, but the guild only every four years, there is no shooting festival every four years. The people of Walbeck then speak of a “quiet fair”, as only a few rides are set up, but no marquee
- Pre-Christmas market and Sunday shopping : At the end of November each year, a pre-Christmas market takes place on the Walbeck market. Many interesting stalls spread the Christmas spirit with the well-known scents of mulled wine, fresh pastries and fir trees. Accompanied by the Sunday shopping season, when there are lots of interesting things to marvel at in the local shops.
- Hallabalooza : On June 13, 2009 the Hallabalooza Festival took place for the first time in the Waldfreibad Walbeck. At the one-day music festival, seven regional bands perform from punk'n'roll to electro-pop.
Transport links
The closest airport is Niederrhein Airport , which is located on the former RAF Laarbruch military airfield in Weeze , 16 km away .
The closest train station is in Geldern. From there the Niers Express commutes between Düsseldorf and Kleve.
You can reach Walbeck by car via the A 40 and A 57.
literature
- Paul Clemen : The art monuments of the district geldern (= The art monuments of the Rhine Province . Volume 1, Section 2). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1891, p. 90 ( online ).
- Stefan Frankewitz : The monuments of the city of Geldern . Boss, Kleve 2001, ISBN 3-933969-12-3 , pp. 349-407.
Web links
- Walbeck on the website of the city of Geldern
- Walbeck.net - Private website about the place
Individual evidence
- ^ Population of the city of Geldern. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 30, 2013 ; Retrieved March 20, 2013 . 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.
- ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 78 .
- ↑ Description of the coat of arms "Heraldry in the World"
- ↑ Sonja Raimann: The legacy of the asparagus major. Retrieved July 19, 2012 .
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 5, 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.
- ↑ Jungschützen Walbeck
- ↑ Hallabalooza
