Bedburg-Hau

The community Bedburg -Hau lies on the Lower Rhine in the northwest of North Rhine -Westphalia and is a municipality belonging to a county district of Kleve in the district of Dusseldorf. She is a member of the Euregio Rhine - Waal.

• 2.1 administrative reform
• 2.2 Population development

• 3.1 municipal
• 3.2 Mayor
• 3.3 Town twinning

• 5.1 traffic 5.1.1 Air Traffic
• 5.1.2 rail and bus
• 5.1.3 roads

• 6.1 Sons and daughters of the town

Geography

Community structure

The community Bedburg -Hau divided into seven towns

• Hasselt

• Hau

• Huisberden
• Louisendorf
• Qualburg
• Schneppenbaum
• Till Moyland

Neighboring communities

The community Bedburg -Hau is bordered to the west and north of the city of Kleve, in the east on the town of Kalkar and on the south by the city of Goch and the community Uedem.

History

Its name from the community in the development of the " Rheinische Kliniken Bedburg -Hau " from 1908. Did you get as well as built for the clinics Bahnhof51.75810666.1736559 the name Bedburg -Hau. Hau was the largest congregation of the then Office Till, Bedburg was the largest parish.

In nearby Forest Klever Empire and in the environment of today's Bedburg -Hau, the so-called Battle of the Imperial Forest took place in February 1945.

Territorial reform

Bedburg -Hau emerged in its present form 1 July 1969, the first municipal restructuring program in North Rhine -Westphalia. The communities Hau, Louis village, Schneppenbaum and Till - Moyland the Office Till and the community Huisberden the Office Griethausen merged to form the new municipality Bedburg -Hau.

On 1 January 1975, the old district of Kleve was merged with the former county funds and sub-areas of the circles Moers and Rees as the new Lower Rhine Kreis Kleve United during the second restructuring program in North Rhine -Westphalia.

Population Development

The following information refers to the present territory of the municipality Bedburg -Hau.

Policy

Parish council

The council consists of 28 representatives. Since the last municipal election on 30 August 2009, the council CDU ( 49.4 %, 14 seats), SPD ( 17.7 %, 5 seats), the FDP ( 17.3 %, 5 seats) and Green ( 15.6 %, 4 seats) represented.

The next municipal election will be held in 2014.

Mayor

The Mayor, Peter Driessen (independent), was re-elected on 30 August 2009 unopposed with 93.6 %.

The next mayoral election will take place in 2015.

Twinning

• La Ferté- Gaucher (France)
• Rybnik (Poland )

Culture and sights

A higher level of awareness was the community Bedburg -Hau, which opened in 1997 Moyland Castle Museum. Here, the world's largest collection of works and archives is currently housed and from Joseph Beuys. In addition, numerous art objects from the 19th and 20th century, visitors will be made available. All works are from the collection of the brothers Hans and Franz Joseph van der Grinten.

In mountain and valley in the district of Hau is the tomb of Maurice of Nassau, which he himself had built next to his house in 1678. He was, however, buried there temporarily after his death in 1679, before his body was transferred a year later in the family vault after victories. The tomb is made of cast iron, ornate and Tumba quarter-circular walls have been incorporated into the ancient Roman art, the one in the newly founded Museum of Antiquities brought to Bonn in 1820 and replaced by copies. The tomb was repeatedly damaged and restored.

The parish church of St. Mark in Schneppenbaum is the former monastery church of Prämonstratenserinnenstiftes Bedbur (g). Of the Romanesque cruciform church from the 12th century, the tower and the Ostschiff are obtained with the younger gothic chancel in the original. The remaining parts of the building had been broken off the end of the 18th century and have been restored neuromanisch 1900-1902.

Also worth seeing are the listed buildings Old Catholic parish church of St. Anthony Abbot and the House Rosendal

→ See also: List of monuments in Bedburg -Hau

Economy and infrastructure

Traffic

Traffic

The nearest airports are in Weeze Niederrhein Airport and Dusseldorf Airport.

Rail and bus

The station Bedburg- Hau51.75824466.1736874 is located on the left Lower Rhine route. He is from Monday to Friday every 30 minutes, served on weekends and public holidays every hour from RE 10 Nier Express Kleve - Dusseldorf via Krefeld. The rail passenger transport is carried out by the North Western Railway ( NCA ), the DMUs of type LINT 41 used in single to triple traction.

In the municipal transport operate a number of bus routes for the development of the region and the urban area.

For the entire public transport system of regional collective of the transport association Rhein- Ruhr applies (VRR ) and the NRW - tariff.

Bedburg -Hau is connected via the federal highway 9 to the federal motorway 57 (E 31).

Education

• Community Primary School St Mark Bedburg -Hau (locations in Schneppenbaum and Hasselt )
• Catholic confession Elementary School St. Anthony Hau
• Gemeinschaftshauptschule St. Mark Bedburg -Hau
• Dietrich -Bonhoeffer- school Rhine. School for the Physically Disabled
• Nursing School of LVR
• Technical College of the LVR for health education nursing
• St. Stephen Elementary School Hasselt

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Johannes Maria Verweyen (1883-1945), philosopher
• Jacob Imig (1905-1994), dialect poet and local historian
• Josef van buckets (1921-2008), forestry and Agrarmeteorologe
• Margot Potthoff (* 1934), writer
• Bernd Jansen ( born 1945 ), Photographer, Artist
• Willi Lippens ( born 1945 ), football player
• Ulrich Bister, theologian, church historian, educator