Wockerath

Wockerath City of Erkelenz Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 29 ″  N , 6 ° 20 ′ 43 ″  E
Height :	87 m
Residents :	262  (Dec. 31, 2016)
Postal code :	41812
Area code :	02431
Location of Wockerath in North Rhine-Westphalia

Wockerath

Wockerath is a rural district of the city of Erkelenz in the Heinsberg district in North Rhine-Westphalia . The village is about 2 km east of Erkelenz away from the main traffic routes.

geography

Wockerath is in the Erkelenzer Börde .

location

The A 46 motorway is located in the west between town and town . To the north is Terheeg , south Kückhoven , southeast Bellinghoven .

geology

A thick layer of Quaternary loess is on the surface.

Lignite from the tertiary period lies underground. That is why Wockerath was originally supposed to give way to the Garzweiler II opencast mine and relocate.

Waters

The Wockerather Fließ runs north of the village, collects the surface water , especially the field , absorbs the Bellinghovener Fließ southeast of Kaulhausen and flows into the Niers in Unterwestrich . It is not a continuously flowing body of water .

Type of settlement

Wockerath is a two-line street village .

history

Roman bricks and ceramics were found in the field south of the village , the last evidence of a villa rustica .

In 1309 the place was mentioned for the first time as Wukeroide in a document. Wockerath is one of the villages around Erkelenz that belonged to the Geldrian office of Erkelenz. The Aachen Marienstift , the medieval landlord in Erkelenz, owned farms in the village.

The Cologne Heerweg passed the village until the 19th century . This route was the most important connection between Cologne , Erkelenz and Roermond in the Netherlands . Today it is partially preserved as a dirt road.

On February 26, 1945, the village was taken by American soldiers of the 102nd Infantry Division of the 9th US Army in the course of Operation Grenade .

Place names

Wockerath belongs to the group of clearing names and was founded in the 9th and 10th centuries. The place name probably contains the personal name Woco , Wuco .

religion

The majority of the population is Catholic . Located in the Erkelenz parish St. Lambertus , it belongs to the Terheeg chapel community.

Attractions

• The St. Jacobus Chapel. In the small, white silted chapel from 1706 there are two old wooden statues. The first represents St. Jacobus. The depicted female person in the second statue is disputed. She is venerated locally as St. Anna . But it could also be St. Odilia and come from the dissolved Hohenbusch monastery , where she was particularly venerated.
• Old farms

See also : List of architectural monuments in Erkelenz

Personalities

• Goswin von Wockeraid was pastor of St. Lambertus Church in Erkelenz from 1529 to 1555. After a fire in Erkelenz destroyed almost the entire city in 1540, the roof of the church was also destroyed. When the patron saint , the Marienstift in Aachen , refused to provide sufficient funds for repairs, Goswin von Wockerath successfully asked Emperor Charles V for support at the state parliament in Nijmegen . Goswinstrasse was named after this priest in Erkelenz in the 20th century.

• Conrad Ohoven (born February 19, 1740 in Wockerath, † January 4, 1806 in Wockerath) was the last prior of the Hohenbusch Kreuzherrenkloster . After the abolition of the monastery in 1802, he returned to his parents' house in Wockerath.

Web links

• Website of the city of Erkelenz
• Monuments in the city of Erkelenz
• Churches and chapels in the city of Erkelenz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Update of the population on December 31, 2016 (PDF). (No longer available online.) In: Website of the city of Erkelenz. Archived from the original on January 25, 2017 ; Retrieved January 25, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.