Watern

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Watern
City of Wegberg
Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 50 ″  N , 6 ° 16 ′ 9 ″  E
Height : 70–78 m above sea level NN
Residents : 238  (December 31, 2017)
Postal code : 41844
Area code : 02434
Post mill in Watern
House of St. George in Watern
Crossroads at the Bockenmühle

Watern is a district of the Mittelstadt Wegberg in the district of Heinsberg in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

Watern is located south of Wegberg outside the Grenzlandring . The Schwalm , which has its source in Geneiken about 2 km away , flows through the town in a south-north direction and has supplied numerous mills with water for centuries . The statement "Wegberg in the valley of the mills" has its origin here. Watern is located in the eastern tip of the Maas-Schwalm-Nette nature park .

Neighboring places

Wegberg
Clinic Neighboring communities Beeck
Tüschenbroich Schwanenberg Uevekoven

history

The first mention of the place name is assumed to be in the year 966. Probably the place “ uuazarlar ” in the Mühlgau mentioned in a document from Otto the Great from 966 is Watern. The place name is referred to in later documents with "te Water" (1397) and "to Water" (1506).

Documentary records suggest that the Bockenmühle and the Bischofsmühle in Watern belonged to the Aachen Marienstift in the 16th and 17th centuries . The post mill with its undershot water wheel had two grinding cycles that alternated with an oil press . The Bischofsmühle had a steam boiler system , which should supplement the water power to support the low usable waterfall height of only 0.6 m. As early as 1908, the steam operation was given up and initially limited to water power, until electricity brought relief from energy worries. Nevertheless, it had to cease operations in 1960, a few years after the Milling Act was passed .

Haus St. Georg is a Catholic youth education center and center of scout work in the diocese of Aachen (headquarters of the DPSG diocesan association Aachen). The house with far supraregional importance in the educational and leisure work of the diocese is available for a wide variety of stays, training courses, conferences, for children's holiday games, school graduation trips and for groups with disabled people.

Infrastructure

In June 2011, 1753 people lived in Watern, in December 2017 238 people. The place is rural with little through traffic. Numerous fishing ponds invite you to relax close to nature. There are farms with animals and horses as well as commercial and small businesses. A bus and school bus stop provides connections to the schools as well as to the cities of Wegberg, Erkelenz and Mönchengladbach .

Attractions

Watern on the 1807 Tranchot map
  • Wayside cross, at the Bockenmühle, (monument no.130)
  • Bockenmühle farm, Zur Bockenmühle 5, (monument no.131)
  • Bischofsmühle farm complex, Zur Bischofsmühle 6, (monument no.132)
  • Wayside cross, in front of the house St. Georg, (monument no.134)

societies

  • Association "Sociability" Watern

literature

  • Wegberg cultural guide. Stadtmarketing-Team der Stadt Wegberg, Wegberg 2007, pp. 59–61.

Web links

Commons : Watern  - collection of images, videos and audio files