Weir (Selfkant)

Weir Selfkant municipality Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 48 ″ N , 5 ° 55 ′ 12 ″ E
Height :	52 (48-56) m
Residents :	744 (Jun. 30, 2016)
Incorporation :	1st July 1969
Postal code :	52538
Area code :	02456
	Location of Wehr in Selfkant
	Map of the municipality of Selfkant

Catholic parish church St. Severin

Entrance sign

Courtyard at Landstrasse 31

Cemetery wall on Severinusstrasse

Wehrer mill street view

Millstone at the Wehrer mill

Weir on the new record from 1912

Wehr on the original cadastral map from 1846

Weir on the tranchot map 1803–1820

The Rodebach near Wehr

Wehr is a village in the Selfkant municipality in the Heinsberg district of North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany .

geography

location

Wehr is located on the Rodebach in the southern area of the Selfkant community on federal road 56 . The village on the German - Dutch border is adjacent to the Dutch city of Sittard .

Waters

In heavy rain and when snowmelts , the surface water flows from the Wehr area into the Rodebach (GEWKZ 281822) and then further into the Maas . The Rodebach has a length of 28.918 km with a total catchment area of 173.385 km².

Neighboring places

Tüddern	Höngen	Kleinwehrhagen
Sittard (NL)		Süsterseel
Lahrhof (NL)	Hillensberg	Jabeek (NL)

Type of settlement

Wehr is a multi-line, loosely built street village .

history

Place name

1144 were
1351 Weer
14th century Weyre
1488 who
1533 Weher
1666 weir

Local history

Wehr belonged to the Born office in Jülich . Monetary income from Wehr belonged to the founding fund of the Millen Propstei in 1144 , so that the Millen rule probably had property here . In the 14th century, several goods were defended as Heinsberg fiefdoms. The name Wehr is reminiscent of the military forces of earlier centuries. In the area between Wehr and the city of Sittard, a battle between the imperial troops and the soldiers of Duke Wilhelm V of the Duchy of Jülich-Berg took place on March 24, 1543 . Wehr had a total of 530 inhabitants in 1828 and belonged to the Selfkant district.

From April 23, 1949 to July 31, 1963, the Selfkant and thus also the Wehr were under Dutch contract management. The repatriation took place on August 1, 1963 after payment of 280 million D-Marks .

With the law on the reorganization of municipalities in the Selfkantkreis Geilenkirchen-Heinsberg of June 24, 1969, the following change of area came into force on July 1, 1969.

§ 1 (1) The municipalities of Havert , Hillensberg, Höngen, Millen, Süsterseel, Tüddern, Wehr (Selfkant office) and the Saeffelen municipality (Waldfeucht office) will be merged to form a new municipal municipality. The community is given the name Selfkant.

§ 1 (2) The Office Selfkant is dissolved. The legal successor is the municipality of Selfkant.

Church history

The parish of St. Severin military was an independent parish . The majority of the population consists of Catholics .

It can be assumed that a Christian community already existed in Wehr at the turn of the first millennium . 1118 transferred Gerhard von Wassenberg part of Kollatur the church he founded the pin Wassenberg. In 1144 the provost's office received income in Wehr. At the end of the 17th century, the church received all parish rights. In 1804 Wehr became a parish in the canton of Sittard of the diocese of Aachen . In 1827 the parish was assigned to the deanery Heinsberg and in 1925 to the deanery Gangelt .

In the course of the parish reforms in the Diocese of Aachen, the formerly independent Catholic parish of St. Severin Wehr was incorporated into the Community of Parishes (GdG) St. Servatius Selfkant .

politics

According to § 3 (1) of the main statute of the Selfkant municipality, the municipality is divided into localities. Wehr is a locality and is represented by a local mayor in the municipal council in accordance with Section 3 (2) . The head of the village of Wehr is Hans Dreissen. (Stand 2013)

Infrastructure

In June 2013, 775 people lived in Wehr.

There are several farms with animal husbandry , several horse farms, a pizzeria, a fruit farm , a gas station , a transport company , a building materials trade , a butcher , a horticultural company , a flower shop and a garden center , a farm for agricultural machinery , a software and computer -Dienst, a store for children's clothing , a company for heating installation and building technology and several small businesses .

Community kindergarten "Kleine Strolche" Wehr

There are several bus stops in the AVV , served by lines 435 and 439.

The place is connected to the NRW cycling network with junction 46.

There is a sewage treatment plant on Gausweg

Attractions

Catholic parish church St. Severin as monument no.43
Stained glass in the Catholic parish church
Hofanlage, Landstrasse 31 as memorial no.27
Cemetery wall, Severinusstraße 27, as memorial no.5
Wehrer Mühle (mill building)

societies

Selfkant volunteer fire brigade , Hillensberg-Süsterseel fire fighting unit
St. Severinus Brotherhood Wehr eV
Weir marching band
Choral Society Concordia Wehr
Wehrer Jecke
Social association VdK Germany Selfkant looks after Wehr

Regular events

Historical parade for the harvest festival
Brotherhood bird shot
Patronage festival and fair in Wehr
St. Martin parade in Wehr

traffic

Motorway connection

BAB	Route section	Junction	distance
A46	Heinsberg - Düsseldorf	AS Heinsberg	15 km
A44	Aachen - Mönchengladbach	AS Aldenhoven	30 km
A4	Aachen - Cologne	AS Weisweiler	40 km

Rail connection

From Geilenkirchen train station (approx. 15 km away)

line	Line designation	Line course
RE 4	Wupper Express	Aachen - Mönchengladbach - Düsseldorf - Dortmund
RB 33	Rhine-Niers Railway	Aachen - Mönchengladbach - Krefeld - Duisburg
RB 20	Euregiobahn	Aachen - Geilenkirchen

Street names

Am alten Busch, An der Tränke, Bruchstraße, Dorfstraße, Gausweg, Hof Dahlmanns, Landstraße, Mühlenstraße, Severinusstraße, Südstraße, Tüdderner Weg, Zum Wiesengrund

Personalities

Josef Goyen, a local poet, comes from Wehr.

literature

Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen. 3. Edition. Kühlen, Mönchengladbach 1994, ISBN 3-87448-172-7 , pp. 700f.
Leo Gillessen: The localities of the district of Heinsberg , ISBN 3-925620-13-3 , p. 258
Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province . Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830

Web links

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

Individual evidence

^ German basic map 1: 5000
↑ http://www.selfkant.de/component/content/article/80-buergerservice/93-zahlen-ffekten.html
↑ http://www.lanuv.nrw.de/fileadmin/lanuv/wasser/pdf/Gewaesserverzeichnis%20GSK3C.xls
^ Area directory ( Memento from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
↑ http://www.aachener-zeitung.de/lokales/heinsberg/1-august-ist-ein-markanter-tag-fuer-den-selfkant-1.509059#857515890
↑ https://recht.nrw.de/lmi/owa/br_bes_text?print=1&anw_nr=2&gld_nr=%202&ugl_nr=2020&val=4036&ver=0&sg=0&menu=1&aufgehoben=N&keyword=&bes_id=4036
↑ Greetings ( Memento from June 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
↑ http://www.glasmalerei-ev.net/pages/b2574/b2574.shtml

[DGK5-1] German basic map 1: 5000

[2] ttp://www.selfkant.de/component/content/article/80-buergerservice/93-zahlen-ffekten.html

[3] ttp://www.lanuv.nrw.de/fileadmin/lanuv/wasser/pdf/Gewaesserverzeichnis%20GSK3C.xls

[4] Area directory ( Memento from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

[5] ttp://www.aachener-zeitung.de/lokales/heinsberg/1-august-ist-ein-markanter-tag-fuer-den-selfkant-1.509059#857515890

[6] ttps://recht.nrw.de/lmi/owa/br_bes_text?print=1&anw_nr=2&gld_nr=%202&ugl_nr=2020&val=4036&ver=0&sg=0&menu=1&aufgehoben=N&keyword=&bes_id=4036

[7] Greetings ( Memento from June 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

[8] ttp://www.glasmalerei-ev.net/pages/b2574/b2574.shtml