Alsdorf

Alsdorf [ alsdɔɐ̯f ] is a middle region belonging to the city and a medium-sized town in the North Rhine -Westphalia Aachen region. By the end of the 20th century Alsdorf was an outspoken mining town, but its structure could now change to service companies and has a large town hall, a cinema center, a mining museum and a zoo.

  • 2.1 Amalgamations
  • 3.1 City Council
  • 3.2 Town twinning
  • 3.3 Coat of Arms and Flag 3.3.1 Coat of Arms
  • 3.3.2 Banner and Flag
  • 4.1 Alsdorf (city center)
  • 4.2 Blumenrath
  • 4.3 Kellersberg
  • 4.4 Mariasdorf
  • 5.1 traffic
  • 5.2 Education
  • 5.3 Medical care

Geography

Alsdorf is located near the border triangle Germany / Belgium / Netherlands in the far west of the Federal Republic of Germany. Neighboring municipalities are, clockwise starting in the north, Baesweiler, Aldenhoven, Eschweiler, Wuerselen, Duke Rath and Ubach- Palenberg. Alsdorf is in the northern district of Aachen.

Waters

  • Begauer flow
  • Broicher Bach
  • Euchener Bach
  • Hoengener flow
  • Untermerzbach
  • Schauf Berger flow
  • Siefengraben

Boroughs

Alsdorf consists of the following 16 districts:

  • Alsdorf Center
  • Begau
  • Bettendorf
  • Blumenrath
  • Broicher settlement
  • Bush
  • Duffesheide
  • Hoengen
  • Kellersberg
  • Mariasdorf
  • Neuweiler
  • Ofden
  • Schaufenberg
  • East settlement
  • Warden
  • Zopp

History

The first historical mention was the local name Alsdorf in 1191 in a religious act under the name " alstorp ".

Until 1789 Alsdorf belonged to the Duchy of Limburg the Austrian Netherlands. The present-day eastern neighborhoods Hoengen, Schaufenberg and Warden belonged to the upper office Jülich and Jülich Ofden for Office Wilhelmstein. This division sat down with the French continued: in 1813 included the Mairie Alsdorf to Canton Rolduc in the department of Meuse inferieure ( Lower Maas ), while the three mairies Hoengen, Bardenberg ( with Duffesheide and Reifeld ) and Broich ( with Ofden and courtyard cellar mountain ) to Canton Eschweiler and the Mairie Setterich ( with Bettendorf and Schaufenberg ) for Canton Linnich - both Département de la Roer ( Rur ) belonged.

1818 were formed in Prussia circles and government districts, and today's Alsdorfer area was for the first time completely in an administrative unit: the Region of Aachen. But the present-day districts were distributed to various mayors and circles. Bettendorf and Schaufenberg belonged to the mayor's Setterich, then Siersdorf, then back to Setterich in a circle Jülich. The rest belonged to different communities in the former district Aachen Alsdorf, Bardenberg, Broichweiden and Hoengen. From 1927 to the 1950s Alsdorf part of the employment office district Eschweiler.

In Alsdorf there was the pit of Anna Eschweiler mining association. On 21 October 1930, the heavy mining disaster occurred Alsdorf with 271 dead. Coal production was discontinued in late 1983.

1950 Alsdorf receives city rights. From 1968 to 1970 found in Alsdorf process meetings held for the thalidomide scandal.

Incorporations

On January 1, 1972, merged on the basis of § 4 of the Act Aachen Alsdorf, Bettendorf and Hoengen the new Alsdorf and other minor territorial changes made. Hoengen struck before the alternate name " Broichtal " for the new city before. Furthermore Hoengen came from the area of the district court Eschweiler to the District Court of Aachen.

Policy

City ​​council

Status: local elections on August 30, 2009

1) The CDU were calculated to 11 seats in the city council of a voting share of 29.4%. 5 members of the Council of the CDU founded shortly after the election his own party and now sit as ABU ( Alsdorfer Civic Union ) in the City Council. 2) With the mandate waiver by Frank Thyssen, the LEFT Group has dissolved.

Twinning

The city maintains Alsdorf twinned with:

  • Hennig village (Brandenburg)
  • Saint- Brieuc (France)
  • Brunssum (Netherlands)

Coat of arms and flag

The town of Alsdorf leads a coat of arms, a city flag and an official seal.

Coat of arms of the former municipality Hoengen

Coat of arms of the former municipality of Bettendorf

Flag with Coat of Arms

Flag without Coat of Arms

Banner

Coat of arms

Blazon: "In gold ( yellow), a blue bar topped with a golden ( yellow ) inclined Seeblatt; above a blue crossed mallets and a blue hammer and a rising blue lion; in the sign of the same rising blue lion. "

The coat of arms is based on a seal of Goswin von Ailstorp from 1439. It was designed in 1936 by the Düsseldorf heraldist Wolfgang Pagenstecherstraße which Goswin fälschlicherweiser stopped for a Alsdorfer and approved by Oberpräsident in Koblenz on 14 August 1936. The colors are fictitious; the former community believed that it was the Limburg 's. The lily pad is reminiscent of the former water castle in Alsdorf; Hammer and mallets are available for the previous mining and the lion is supposed to be the Limburg on which the region belonged to 1866.

Banner and Flag

Description of banner: ". Divided in blue and yellow in the ratio 1:1 " The main statute is no description of the banner. Indeed banners are shown without coat of arms.

Description of the flag: " The flag shows the colors blue and yellow in the ratio 1: 1 striated, in the center of the coat of arms of the city. " The main statutes are the following completely inadequate Flag description: ". The city colors are blue and gold divided " The flag is shown without crest.

Culture and sights

Alsdorf (city center)

  • Castle Alsdorf
  • Anna Park with Carriers House main shaft ( pit Anna I)
  • Headframe of the former main shaft of the mine Anna I
  • Substation ( Grube Anna I)
  • Turbine center ( mine Anna I)
  • Water tower of the former pit Anna II
  • Pithead baths ( mine Anna II)
  • Carriers House Eduard shaft ( pit Anna II)
  • Forge ( pit Anna II)
  • Power station (or nave ), the former gas turbine hall and later electric main workshop

Blumenrath

  • Rather Flowers Cross
  • Europe Hauptschule Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
  • Settlement Blumenrath ( Werksiedlung )

Kellersberg

  • Kellersberger mill
  • Arms Stein with the year 1724 in the gate wall of the basement Berger Hof ( derived from the burnt mountain castle cellar )

Mariasdorf

  • Former railway station Maria pit
  • Church of St. Immaculate Conception
  • Secondary Marian School
  • Europe Hauptschule J. H. Pestalozzi
  • Kreuzschule crossroad
  • Glück-Auf - park with Bergmann Memorial
  • Cenotaph
  • Crows monument Marie Street
  • Sheave Eschweiler road
  • Barbel on the triangle
  • Old Town Hall
  • Bushof
  • Broicher mill

Economy and infrastructure

For a long time coal mining the core of Alsdorfer economy. The last mine was closed in the 1990s. In addition, companies that either took advantage of the proximity to the RWTH Aachen, or the favorable location near the borders with Belgium and the Netherlands originated saw as an advantage.

The largest local employer is the Cinram GmbH with about 1200 employees in the district Schaufenberg. In the injection molding process up to 2 million DVDs, Blu-rays and CDs are here every day prepared, packaged, and shipped to major customers mainly in Europe. The pressing plant, founded in 1975 by Warner Music was taken over in 2003 by the Canadian corporation Cinram International. It serves, among other well-known record labels and media companies such as Warner Music, 20th Century Fox and Universal Pictures.

Traffic

There is a direct connection to the motorways 44 (AS " Alsdorf " ) and 4 / e 40 (AS " Eschweiler- West ").

Alsdorf belongs to the root area " Duke Rath / Alsdorf / Wuerselen " in Aachen AVV Transport Association and is connected by bus with all the neighboring places. Main stops are " Alsdorf - Anna Park" and " Maria Village Triangle". Since December 11, 2005 Alsdorf is to reach back over the railway: About the Euregiobahn breakpoints " Alsdorf - Anna Park" and Alsdorf -Busch, and, since December 2011, Alsdorf post road, Alsdorf -Maria village and Alsdorf Cellar Mountain, Alsdorf is Merkstein, Duke Rath Aachen and connected. The next DB station are " Eschweiler Hbf" on the route Cologne -Düren -Aachen and " Duke Rath" on the line Aachen -Mönchengladbach - Geilenkirchen. See also: Railway Stolberg- Herzogenrath.

Besides the close integration into the regional cycle network in NRW water castles route passes through the town. It combines 524 km More than 130 castles on the edge of the Eifel and in the Cologne Bight.

Education

In Alsdorf all school types are represented. There is a high school, two middle schools, a comprehensive school, high school, a school for children with learning difficulties, ten primary schools and a vocational school. The European secondary school in the flowers Rath district, formerly GHS Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, participates in the European Union Comenius program. In this project, which is edited by students of the schools, a partnership with the European secondary school in Leoben, Austria, and a school from Karlskoga, Sweden, is built. The school in Blumenrath has 400 to 500 students.

There are 20 kindergartens and day care centers, more than half is the Church of the carrier.

In cooperation with the cities Baesweiler, Duke Rath and Wuerselen Alsdorf operates a community college.

Medical care

Alsdorf has a psychiatric day hospital. The closest hospitals are the Medical Center district of Aachen in Wuerselen and Bardenberg and the St. Antonius Hospital Eschweiler.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town of Alsdorf

  • Wilhelm Roelen ( born July 8, 1889 in Maria village, † May 22, 1958 in Mülheim an der Ruhr at Castle Styrum ) ( German mining expert and entrepreneur )
  • Wienand Ungermann ( born August 27, 1895 in Alsdorf, † June 24, 1969 in Ubach- Palenberg ) ( District Administrator of Aachen )
  • Peter Heinrich Keulers ( born March 15, 1896 in Alsdorf, † 30 August 1963 Hiltrup ) ( journalist and writer )
  • Hubert Leclaire (* May 30, 1906 in Maria village, † unknown) German police officer, SS- Sturmscharführer, officers of the Political Department of the Buchenwald concentration camp
  • Herbert Zimmermann ( reporter ) ( born November 29, 1917 in Alsdorf, † December 16, 1966 in Hamburg) (Reporter of the legendary radio report of the final match of the Football World Cup 1954 in Bern )
  • Hubert Dellwing ( born September 25, 1918 in June Schaufenberg † 6, 1980 in Alsdorf ) ( SPD Member of Parliament )
  • Ludwig Schaffrath ( born July 13, 1924 in Alsdorf; † 6 February 2011 Wuerselen ) (sculptor and painter, honorary citizen of Alsdorf )
  • Hans Vorpeil ( born February 26, 1937 in Alsdorf ) ( SPD Member of Parliament )
  • Matthias Juchem ( opera singer)
  • Hans Berger ( born February 28, 1938 in Alsdorf ) ( Bergmann, honorary professor at the University of Applied Sciences Georg Acricola, Chairman of the Mining and Energy from 1991 to 1997, SPD member of the Bundestag from 1990 to 1998, President of International Mining and Chemical Association Work 1995-1999)
  • Helmut Brandt ( born October 24, 1950 in Bardenberg ) ( CDU member of the Bundestag )
  • Hans -Peter Lehnhoff ( born July 12, 1963 in Alsdorf ) (former professional soccer player, including 1 FC Köln Bayer 04 Leverkusen )
  • Ralf Souquet ( born November 29, 1968 in Hoengen ) (billiards world champion and gold medalist World Games )
  • Torsten Frings ( born November 22, 1976 in Wuerselen ) ( football player )

Personalities who are associated with the city Alsdorf

  • Kurt Koblitz (* September 27, 1916, † October 13, 1979 in Alsdorf ) ( SPD member of the Bundestag )
  • Furthermore, Hans ( born December 23, 1928 in Malbergweich ( district of Bitburg -Prüm ), † October 3, 1982 in Alsdorf ) ( SPD Member of Parliament )
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