Werth (Stolberg)

Werth City of Stolberg (Rhld.) Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 50 ″ N , 6 ° 16 ′ 56 ″ E
Height :	240 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	1048 (2017)
Postal code :	52224
Area code :	02409

Werth has been a northern district of Stolberg (Rhld.) In the Aachen city region since 1972 with around 1,048 inhabitants (as of 2017).

geography

Werth is located on a forest-less hillside on the Kaltenbornbach. Neighboring districts of Stolberg are Gressenich in the southeast, Mausbach in the south and Donnerberg with the district of Duffenter in the west. In the north is the Eschweiler district of Hastenrath .

history

In the 16th century the place is in the Wilhelmstein office . The Werth area belonged to Nothberg until 1794 . From 1794 to 1815 Werth was together with Krewinkel, Mausbach and Vicht a place in the Mairie Gressenich in the canton of Eschweiler in the Département de la Roer . In 1816, the mayor of Gressenich came to the Prussian district of Aachen . The place only really formed in the 19th century, when carters stopped here while they were hauling coal from Eschweiler to the Diepenlinchen ore mine . The Hastenrath side of the village came to Gressenich in 1932. On January 1, 1972, Werth and the rest of the community of Gressenich came to Stolberg. This has strictly refused in advance against an assignment of the town of Werth, located near Hastenrath and Scherpenseel and connected to the Eschweiler sewer system, to Eschweiler (report from 1968 on the Aachen Act, p. 100).

From 1808 on, Werth belonged to the area of the peace court and later district court Eschweiler , later to the district court of Stolberg and since 1972 again to the district court of Eschweiler.

Place name

The origin of the place name is not finally clear. In the description of the "Wiltbants" from the 13th century, a locality is named "heren Wynrichs Stertt", which is associated with Werth. An equestrian statue on a side window of the old Gressenich church shows the equestrian general Jan van Werth , these speculations receive further nourishment from the news of a tombstone that is said to have been walled up as the cornerstone of the Gressenich church in 1806 and whose inscription and the like. a. should have read: Born in the near value, his corpse rests in strange earth.

religion

Parish Church of St. Joseph

Werth belonged to the parish of Gressenich until 1916; Today's St. Josef Church was built in 1949 in place of the emergency church that was destroyed in 1944. On January 1, 1953, Werth became an independent parish.

Attractions

The limestone cliffs "Römerstein" on the Hitzberg near the Vygen quarry are protected as a natural monument. The Werther Heide nature reserve is located near Werth .

traffic

The Werther local road extends in a west-east direction. The place is at the knee of K 6 (from Donnerberg) and L 11 (coming from Gressenich), which meet in Hastenrath. The next motorway junction is "Eschweiler-Ost" on the A 4 . Several bus lines connect Werth with Gressenich, Mausbach , Vicht , Breinig , Dorff , Stolberg-Mitte, Hastenrath , Bergrath and Eschweiler-Mitte. Several bus routes run by the Aachen transport association run through Werth . They are the EW3 and the 1.

societies

KG Adler Werth 1968/09 eV
SG Stolberg 1919/09 (merger of SV Gressenich and FC Adler Werth)
Maijungen Werth eV
HSV MV Stolberg-Werth 1982 eV

literature

René Sauer and Agi Sauer: Crasciniaci • Genealogy community Gressenich - Family register of the Stolberg districts Gressenich, Mausbach, Schevenhütte, Werth and Vicht, from the late Middle Ages to the modern era. Self-published by Reiner L. Sauer, Eschweiler 2011, ISBN 978-3-00-033938-7 .
Dieter Mätschke: Stolberger walks. Vol. 2: In the North Eifel Nature Park. Meyer & Meyer Verlag, Aachen 1991. ISBN 3-89124-105-4 .
Anton Hackhausen: The mayors and lay judges Hackhausen from the Gressenich rule and their descendants. Self-published, Siegen 2005, ISBN 3-00-015956-8 .
Anton Hackhausen: The abbots of the imperial abbey Kornelimünster from the 15th century up to secularization. In: Series of publications on German homeland and family research. Volume I, Siegen 2011, ISSN 2193-1135 .

Web links

Commons : Werth (Stolberg, Rheinland) - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Sonja Essers: More births, but fewer inhabitants in Stolberg. In: Stolberger Zeitung. Retrieved February 2, 2019 .
^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 305 .

[1] Sonja Essers: More births, but fewer inhabitants in Stolberg. In: Stolberger Zeitung. Retrieved February 2, 2019 .

[2] Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 305 .