Wallach (Rheinberg)
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City of Rheinberg
Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 44 ″ N , 6 ° 34 ′ 15 ″ E
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| Area : | 6.48 km² | |
| Incorporation : | April 1, 1951 | |
| Incorporated into: | Borth | |
| Postal code : | 47495 | |
| Area code : | 02802 | |
Location of Wallach in North Rhine-Westphalia |
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Wallach is a district of the city of Rheinberg in the Wesel district in North Rhine-Westphalia . Until 1951 Wallach was an independent municipality in what was then the Moers district .
geography
Wallach is located in the north of the city of Rheinberg about one kilometer from the left bank of the Rhine .
history
The parish village of Wallach originally belonged to the Duchy of Kleve and has formed a rural community since the 19th century that belonged to the Prussian mayorry of Ossenberg . This belonged to the Geldern district until 1857 and to the Moers district since 1857.
In the 1900s, a mine was sunk in Wallach , which should form a network with the neighboring Borth salt mine . The plant was shut down again in 1926.
Wallach was incorporated into the municipality of Borth on April 1, 1951 together with the municipality of Ossenberg . Borth, in turn, was incorporated into the city of Rheinberg by the Lower Rhine Act on January 1st, 1975.
Population development
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1835 | 261 | |
| 1864 | 320 | |
| 1885 | 298 | |
| 1910 | 383 | |
| 1925 | 603 | |
| 1939 | 644 |
Architectural monuments
Monuments in Wallach include the Bringshof, the old school, the Protestant church, the old mill, the Elverich house and the remains of the former mine.
Culture
One of the bearers of local customs is the Wilhelm Tell Wallach civil rifle club .
traffic
The former Solvay works railway ran right through the town.
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.foerdergerueste.de: Wallach colliery
- ^ Official journal for the administrative district of Düsseldorf 1951, p. 83
- ^ Johann Georg von Viebahn: Statistics and topography of the government district of Düsseldorf. 1836, accessed on May 5, 2017 (digitized version).
- ^ Statistics of the government district of Düsseldorf 1867
- ^ Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province 1885, p. 74
- ↑ www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de: District of Moers
- ^ Community encyclopedia for the Rhine Province 1930, p. 84
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. moers.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
