Alpen, Germany

The community of Alpine is located on the Lower Rhine in the northwest of the federal state of North Rhine -Westphalia and is a kreisangehorige community of Wesel in the district of Dusseldorf. She is a member of the Euregio Rhine - Waal.

• 2.1 Castle Alps
• 2.2 territorial reform

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Coat of Arms, Banner and Seal

• 4.1 Transport Infrastructure 4.1.1 Transportation
• 4.1.2 roads

Geography

Spatial location

The community of Alpine is located in the Lower Rhine plain, between Xanten (10 km) and Rheinberg (7 km ) and 11 km southwest of the county town of Wesel. In the northwestern area contains parts of the nature reserve Grenzdyck.

Community structure

The community of Alpine divided into four districts: Alpine, Bönninghardt, Menzelen and Veen.

Neighboring municipalities / cities

The municipality is bordered to the north by the Alps town of Xanten, on the east by the cities of Wesel and Rheinberg, on the south by the town of Kamp -Lintfort and the community Issum in the Kleve district and in the west on the community of Sonsbeck.

History

The most important reference for the early Middle Ages inside the Alps is the burial ground of Rill. But even in Alps themselves, just north of the village, early medieval graves from the second half of the 7th century AD were recovered.

Alpine 1074 was mentioned for the first time in a document, but was possibly in the 7th century AD to the possession of the Archbishop of Cologne. Until about 1330 it was from the 1084 first mentioned gender " of the Alps" dominated. From 1330 to 1422 the Electoral Cologne Reeves owned the place, which then also called themselves by Alps. The town received municipal rights from 1330 and was walled; later Alps got the right of coinage. Until 1602, the rule Alps remained in the possession of the Counts of Neuenahr and then fell until the French occupation ( 1794-1814 ) in the possession of the Counts of Bentheim.

The existing since the beginning of the French Jewish community used a time from 1801 mentioned synagogue until its destruction in 1938. Grave in the Jewish cemetery 56 stones ( Mazewot ) from the period 1792 to 1936 are obtained.

The Evangelical church is the oldest Protestant parish church in Germany.

Castle Alps

The Castle of Alps, a moth with possibly two baileys, was first documented in 1200. Inhabited the castle was still up in the 18th century. Made uninhabitable by an earthquake in 1758, the building eventually fell apart. 1809, the moth was removed and the material to build a landscaped under French occupation, Chausseestraße (castle road ) is used. This road crosses the western part of the moth hill.

The original church of St. Ulrich is first mentioned in 1300 in Liber Valoris, but may originate because of Patroziniums from the 11th century. She was lying in the middle ages to the west out of town before the " Kirchtor ". In a war it was destroyed in 1602, the new parish church was erected in 1650 within the city.

Territorial reform

Alps was in pre-revolutionary time for Electoral Cologne office Rheinberg, which was added to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815, among others at the Vienna Congress. Then Alps came in the wake of the Prussian administrative organization on April 23, 1816 District Rheinberg than one of 29 districts of the province of Jülich -Cleves -Berg, the later Rhine Province, but was already in 1823 united with the county funds. This association was already made in 1857 reversed. From starting as Alps belonged to the district of Moers.

On 1 July 1969, the formerly independent communities Alps, Menzelen Veen and the former Office Alpine Veen were merged to form the new municipality Alps in the first phase of restructuring in North Rhine -Westphalia.

Since 1 January 1975 the Alpine part of the district of Wesel, in which the former district Moers opened.

Policy

Parish council

Mayor of Alpine is Thomas Ahls ( CDU).

The 32 seats in the municipal council are distributed according to the results of the municipal election held on 30 August 2009 as follows on the individual parties:

Crests, Banners and Seal

The community Alps has been awarded with certificate of the provincial government of Dusseldorf on 14 January 1971, the right to bear a coat of arms, a banner and a seal.

Coat of arms of the former municipality Menzelen

Coat of arms of the former municipality Veen

Coat of arms of the former Office Alpine Veen

Seal

Banner

Blazon: " Eleven times shared by gold ( yellow ) and red, topped with a red armored black eagle. " This is the coat of arms of the former Electoral Cologne Erbvögte and gentlemen of the Alps, the Count of Neuenahr. The symbols occurred already in the oldest seal, at the foot of a bishop (St. Ulrich ) within a magnificent Gothic stalls from the 14th century.

Description of banner: " Eleven times quergestreift from yellow to red, topped with a little bit above the middle upwards pushed rotbewehrten black eagle. "

Description of the seal: " The municipality with an official stamp with the inscription: GEMEINDE.ALPEN.KREIS WESEL ( in the form of a Münzlegende ). Seal picture: In the Black Circle eleven divided from white to black, covered with a black eagle. "

Infrastructure and economy

Transport infrastructure

Transportation

The Alpine railway station lies about 500 meters east of the center of the Lower Rhine line ( KBS 498 ), on the rail passenger transport by regional train " The Lower Rhine " (RB 31) Xanten, Moers- Duisburg wrong.

The rail passenger transport is carried out by the North Western Railway ( NCA ), which DMUs of type LINT 41 used in single and double traction.

For the entire public transport (PT ) the rate of the transport association Rhein- Ruhr and collective space border of the NRW rate applies. Except for the tariff of Bürgerbus Alps. The ticket is valid only for the journey from Alps to Veen about the Bönninghardt or back.

Alps is tied to the federal motorway 57 (E 31) and to the Federal Road 58 and State Road 57. At the same time the municipality by the highway 460 (to the north ) and the Highway 491 is intersected ( in the southwestern area).

Business

Larger companies in the Alps are the agricultural machinery manufacturer Lemken, the company Norgren GmbH, which manufactures pneumatic control there, as well as the rental of working platforms Gardemann. The People's Bank Lower Rhine has its headquarters in the Alps.

Security

The community of Alpine has a volunteer fire department with about 100 members and 14 emergency vehicles, which are housed at the locations Alps, Menzelen and Veen. At its area is also part of the federal highway 57 in the direction of travel Rheinberg and Sonsbeck. The district police Wesel maintains a district officials, which can be found in the new town hall since 2010. The fight against crime is ensured by the police guards Xanten, Rheinberg and Kamp- Lintfort. In 2010, the civil defense sirens of type E57 located for many decades in various locations in the municipal area, were replaced by new high-performance sirens to ensure the warning of the population.

Education

In Veen, Menzelen Alps and there is one primary school in the Alps a community high school and junior high school in a school center, located near the historic moth. From the school year 2012/2013 a secondary school there is introduced the model of the North Rhine-Westphalian government, as it was decided in 2011.

Sports

In the Alps are in the area of the school center, a multipurpose gymnasium, a swimming pool, football pitches and tennis courts. In all districts of sports facilities, which are used by local associations as well as the schools exist.

Sports clubs in the community:

• Running the Alps eV
• FC Viktoria Alps 1911 eV
• BSV " Rot-Weiss" Bönninghardt
• SV Menzelen 1925 eV
• SV Borussia Veen 1920 eV
• BSV Drüpt 1683 eV
• DLRG OG Alps
• Riding and Driving Club " St. Georg "Alpine eV
• ASV " rudd " Alpine
• Poker Team -am- Niederrhein
• Aikido Dojo Alps eV

Personalities

• The Princess Amalia, Countess Palatine of the Rhine, Duchess in Bavaria, née Countess Neuenahr and Limburg, woman Alps, etc., was born in 1539 at the castle in the Alps and also died there on 10 April 1602. At first she was the leader of the Dutch Freedom Movement, Henry of Brederode, later with the Elector Friedrich III. married from the Palatinate.
• John of the Alps (1630-1698) was vicar general of the diocese of Münster.
• Wilhelm Brinkhoff (1839 - after 1860 ), predator on the Bönninghardt
• Wilhelm Koppers (1886-1961) priest, ethnologist. From 1928 Professor of Ethnology in Vienna. As a supporter of the Austro-fascism he had to leave Austria after the Anschluss with Germany. After 1945 he was reinstated.
• Anne Gesthuysen (* 1969), journalist and presenter of the ARD morning show.
• Robert Bongen ( b. 1974 ), author and television journalist at the ARD policy magazine Panorama.
• Marc Torke ( b. 1982 ), moderator, inter alia, the Central German Broadcasting, now at Radio NRW.