Waldniel

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Waldniel
municipality Schwalmtal
Waldniel coat of arms
Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 47 "  N , 6 ° 16 ′ 23"  E
Residents : 11,217
Incorporation : January 1, 1970
Postal code : 41366
Area code : 02163
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Location of Waldniel in the area of ​​the municipality Schwalmtal in the district of Viersen
Waldniel market square
Waldniel market square

The district of Waldniel is located on the left Lower Rhine in the west of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and, with around 11,141 inhabitants, belongs to the municipality of Schwalmtal in the district of Viersen , administrative district of Düsseldorf .

location

Waldniel is 1 to 2 km north of the A 52 ( Düsseldorf - Roermond ) between the Schwalmtal and Hostert junctions, 15 km east of the Dutch border and 40 km west of Düsseldorf. The Kranenbach flows through Waldniel (this flows into the Borner See ). The Schwalm flows past Waldniel a few kilometers away (see also Schwalm-Nette Nature Park ).

history

The community of Waldniel is mentioned for the first time in a document from 1020, and Amern in the 12th century in documents from the Xanten monastery . Finds in Amern as well as in Waldniel provide evidence that there was already a weak settlement in the Neolithic Age (up to 2000 BC).

In the Kempen district of the Rhine Province , the two mayorships Burgwaldniel and Kirspelwaldniel had existed since 1816 , with the municipality of Lüttelforst also belonging to Burgwaldniel . To Kirspelwaldniel ("parish" Waldniel) belonged the villages and hamlets in the area around Burgwaldniel.

In 1913, the St. Joseph Home for disabled boys and men was completed. Franciscan monks ran the home.

Burgwaldniel, Kirspelwaldniel and Lüttelforst were united on April 1, 1915 to form the mayor's office and municipality of Waldniel .

After taking power , the Nazi regime harassed the order and drove it into bankruptcy; The Rhine Province (now the Rhineland Regional Council ) became the owner of the institution in 1937 and ran it as a branch of the Süchteln-Johannistal sanatorium - Waldniel department . According to the transport lists, 1044 patients were transported from the Waldniel-Hostert branch to other institutions; z. B. for gassing in the Hadamar killing center . As part of the child euthanasia program, disabled children were murdered in the Waldniel-Hostert branch.

Before the start of the western campaign (it was postponed several times and finally began on May 10, 1940), units of the Wehrmacht camped around Waldniel .

In an air raid on February 22, 1945 - the first day of Operation Grenade - several houses were destroyed on the market square. There were also air raids on Waldniel on February 24th. On February 28, soldiers of the 84th US Infantry Division moved from Rickelrath towards Eicken and Birgen. At first there was resistance in Ungerath; Steeg was occupied at noon after considerable fighting. On the night of March 1st, Waldniel was handed over without a fight; the first US tanks rolled in early in the morning.

There is a war memorial chapel in the Church of St. Michael; there are 157 names of men from Waldniel recorded who died in the war. The church was built between 1879 and 1883. In 1883 she received a four-part chime from the bell founder Otto. Three bells were withdrawn and destroyed during the war, only one remained. In 1959/60 the Otto bell foundry delivered three new bells that the church now has four bells again. You have the disposition: h 0 - c sharp '- dis' - f sharp'. Their diameters are 1664 mm, 1461 mm, 1310 mm and 1095 mm and their weights are 2900 kg, 2050 kg, 1400 kg and 850 kg.

Incorporation

On January 1, 1970, Waldniel and Amern were merged as part of the municipal reorganization . The new community was named Schwalmtal .

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b http://www.schwalmtal.de/C12574A4002A59B9/html/D0D2A3713C792FB1C125750D00351AC4?opendocument&nid1=67260
  2. ↑ http://www.metallbau-siegers.de/html/geschichte_waldniel.html
  3. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia 1885 , p. 76ff.
  4. ↑ a b www.waldniel-hostert.de ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2013 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.waldniel-hostert.de
  5. ↑ GenWiki: Waldniel
  6. ↑ Rheinische Post April 1, 2015, p. C6: Much dispute about the Waldniel Association ( online at genios.de , 100 years of Waldniel )
  7. ↑ Hans Kaiser: From the town hall towards the GIs. In: Rheinische Post , local section Viersen, from February 21, 2015, page C6.
  8. ↑ Festschrift, pdf, page 49
  9. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Ed .: Gerhard Reinhold. Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588 , in particular pp. 78, 84, 162, 502, 503, 538, 557, 580, 582 .
  10. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556 , in particular pp. 97, 102, 470, 497, 514, 515, 523, 543, 546 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

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