Weselerwald

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Weselerwald
Community Schermbeck
Coordinates: 51 ° 43 ′ 0 ″  N , 6 ° 44 ′ 58 ″  E
Height : 37.5–57.5 m above sea level NHN
Area : 11.97 km²
Residents : 575  (Dec. 31, 2005)
Population density : 48 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 46514
Area code : 02856
Weselerwald (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Weselerwald

Location of Weselerwald in North Rhine-Westphalia

Weselerwald is a district of the municipality Schermbeck in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Wesel .

Geographical location

Weselerwald is ten kilometers northwest of the core town of Schermbeck on Landesstrasse  401 and Kreisstrasse  25. The district is bounded to the west and north by Brünen and Marienthal , to the east by Dusk Forest and to the south by Damm and the Hünxer district of Drevenack . The entire local area is part of the Hohe Mark-Westmünsterland Nature Park . Weselerwald is originally not a settlement but a forest name. The district includes the places Voshövel and Lühlerheim in the Lühlerheide, where the Rhenish Evangelical workers' colony is located .

history

The farm "Wisele" (today Weselerwald) was first mentioned in a document from 1122. In earlier times, the parishes of Wesel , Hamminkeln and Drevenack were involved in the Weselerwald . The so-called Holzgrafschaft owned the Counts of Cleves . In the years 1884 to 1886, the Lühlerheim workers' colony was built by 19 colonists under the direction of Pastor Stursberg. In 1912, the Lühlerheim Evangelical Chapel designed by the government architect Karl Neuhaus was inaugurated.

In the Weselerwald, in the middle of a meadow made of northern granite, lies the legendary Devil's Stone. How the fir-high stone got there is still unclear. Presumably it is a holdover from the Ice Age. Until the end of 1974 Weselerwald was an independent municipality in the Schermbeck district, Rees district . On January 1, 1975, the municipalities of Schermbeck, Altschermbeck, Bricht, Damm, Dämmerwald, Gahlen, Overbeck and Weselerwald merged to form the municipality of Schermbeck as part of the regional reform in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Population development

  • 1910: 641
  • 1931: 529
  • 1961: 566
  • 1970: 619
  • 1974: 813
  • 2005: 575

Education and sport

There is no school in Weselerwald. The district is a member of the Brünen-Weselerwald-Dämmerwald school association. The schools are located in Brünen. There is a golf club and a shooting club in the local area. The golf course includes an 18-hole tournament course and a 9-hole short course .

Natural monuments

  • Head oak at the golf club with a chest height of 5.87 m (2011).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of Weselerwald on www.wir-sind-schermbeck.de ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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.wir-sind-schermbeck.de
  2. ↑ a b c 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. 297 .
  3. ^ 1900 parish register, Rees County
  4. ↑ The Office Schermbeck on Gen-Wiki
  5. ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 54 .
  6. ^ Bylaws of the Brünen-Weselerwald-Damerwald School Association
  7. ^ Entry in the directory of monumental oaks . Retrieved January 10, 2017

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