Winnekendonk

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Winnekendonk
City of Kevelaer
"In red a triple golden (yellow) Pope's cross underneath a silver (white) wine umbel."
Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 53 ″  N , 6 ° 17 ′ 14 ″  E
Height : 20 m
Area : 24.9 km²
Residents : 4702  (2017)
Population density : 189 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st July 1969
Postal code : 47626
Area code : 02832

Winnekendonk is a town in the town of Kevelaer , which is in the Kleve district on the Lower Rhine . Good accessibility is guaranteed via the connection via the A 57 . Winnekendonk to include also the district Schravelen, near the Niers and the Bauerschaften Achterhoek, age Steeg, internal Heide, Hestert and Pirloer Heide.

history

Around 4,000 years ago, Neolithic people stayed in the Schravelen area along the great arch of the Nier, which has been proven by the findings of cups and arrowheads. In 1936, Roman urn graves were found at the stallion farm in Alten Steeg. Some urns that were not destroyed by the military of the occupying power of Great Britain are now in private hands. Most of the finds, however, had to be handed over to the state museums immediately.

The Franks colonized the region around 500 AD.

The first documented mention of Winnekendonk can be found on September 27, 1282, when the knight Wilhelm von Kervenheim sold the bailiwick of Winnekendonk to the monastery chapter in Xanten.

Around 1430 a permanent house was built as a judge's seat in Schravelen.

Het Dorp Wenekendonk 1739. Engraving by Paulus van Liender after Jan de Beijer, 1761

In 1796 the place was under French occupation and was liberated from this in 1814. Around 85% of Winnekendonk was destroyed in 1945, and reconstruction began in 1948.

On July 1, 1969, municipal self-government ended when it was incorporated into Kevelaer.

Population development

  • 1630: 810
  • 1910: 1922
  • 1931: 2001
  • 1961: 2415
  • 2007: 4266
  • 2014: 4276

politics

Until 1969 Winnekendonk was an independent municipality in today's Kleve / North Rhine-Westphalia . It was incorporated into the city of Kevelaer together with Kervenheim , Kervendonk , Kleinkevelaer , Twisteden and Wetten . Winnekendonk had previously been the main town of the Kervenheim office and the seat of the administration. From 1949 until the local reorganization in 1969, the management of this tripartite community was in the hands of District Director August Wormland and Mayor Wilhelm Wehren (CDU) , who from 1950 to 1970 was a member of the state parliament in North Rhine-Westphalia and at the same time a farmer at the Voeskenshof and co-initiator of the holiday park Kevelaer was between Winnekendonk and Kervenheim.

Parish church

Niersstrasse and St. Urbanus

The foundation of the parish around 1088-1099 probably goes back to the then Pope Urban II .

Today's parish church was consecrated on September 27, 1887 by Auxiliary Bishop Franz Wilhelm Cramer from Münster . Their side aisles show large-format works of art that depict the twelve stations of the Cross of Jesus Christ. The large Seifert organ from 1961 has 26 sounding registers, arranged in a pedal section with (among other things) a principal bass 16 ', a main body with (among other things) a trumpet 8' (horizontal) and a positive.

The parish included the village of Winnekendonk, parts of the village of Kervendonk and Haagsche Straße / Ploodyck belonging to the municipality of Sonsbeck. Since 1998 the Catholic parish of Sankt Urbanus has formed a pastoral care unit with Sankt Petrus Wetten. On September 7, 2014, the merger of the previous independent parishes of Sankt Antonius Kevelaer, Sankt Urbanus Winnekendonk, Sankt Petrus Wetten, Sankt Quirinus Twisteden and Sankt Antonius Kervenheim resulted in the new large parish of Sankt Antonius Kevelaer.

Education and Social

The Winnekendonk educational center offers everything from playgroups to lectures and courses of all kinds to theater visits in Essen and Duisburg.

The village of Winnekendonk has a primary school and three kindergartens (St. Urbanus, Sterntaler and Marienkäfer), a public meeting place opened in 1999, medical care and a residential complex for senior citizens built in 2006. Winnekendonk has received numerous awards for success in village competitions, most recently in 2001 with a gold plaque in the national competition.

economy

Winnekendonk is now an expansive part of the city of Kevelaer with around 4,700 inhabitants , which is evidenced by a local industrial park and new building activities. A number of craftsmen, merchants, service providers and two farmer's cafés are located here as well as conventional and ecological farms that market their products at the same time as the Rhenish farmer's market in the town center.

Personalities

The Federal Cross of Merit was awarded to:

  • Matthias Schwartges
  • Hansgerd Kronenberg
  • Artur Elders-Boll, certificate from Federal President Johannes Rau; see Rheinische Post of July 30, 2004

as well as Niederrhein Nachrichten of August 1, 2004 and NRZ of July 30, 2004 as well as press release from the Kleve district

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 78 .
  2. ↑ Municipal directory 1910, district of Geldern. Retrieved August 17, 2013 .
  3. ^ GenWiki Office Kervenheim. Retrieved August 17, 2013 .
  4. ↑ 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. 200 .
  5. ↑ Winnekendonk - History. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 31, 2013 ; Retrieved August 17, 2013 .
  6. ^ Fusion of the parishes at rp-online.de
  7. ↑ Blatus Martini - Kevelaerer Encyclopedia. Retrieved August 17, 2013 .
  8. ↑ Hansgerd Kronenberg celebrated his 70th birthday. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 16, 2016 ; Retrieved August 17, 2013 .