Giesenkirchen

51.15876.4922Koordinaten: 51 ° 9 ' 31 " N, 6 ° 29' 32" E

Location of Giesenkirchen Center in the city of Mönchengladbach

Giesenkirchen is a district of Mönchengladbach, in the Lower Rhine region and belongs to the municipality Mönchengladbach East. Until 22 October 2009 was an independent municipality of Mönchengladbach. Previously, the village belonged to Reydt, which was incorporated in 1975 to Mönchengladbach. At 30 June 2007 had a total of 15,853 inhabitants Giesenkirchen. Of this total, 9130 of the district Giesenkirchen Center, 4431 to Giesenkirchen North and 2292 on Schelsen.

History

Already in the period from 50 AD. to 274 AD. existed, a few kilometers west of the present Giesenkirchen, a Roman village ( vicus Mülfort ). From there, coming crossed an important road connection from the Meuse to to Neuss ( Novesium ), the territory of Giesenkirchen. The road was a little south of the present-day Mülforter street and from Schelsen in the Liedberger road.

On the Roman road some farms originated ( villa rustica). 15 debris sites are in Giesenkirchen and another debris site in the peasant's hut, Horster Schelsen and Högden were discovered .. 274 AD were all farms, destroyed by the invading Franks.

Documented can be proven that the place name Giesenkirchen has been named in 1150 for the first time. This document is now in the Historical Archive of the City of Cologne. There is here a donation from so-called " tithes of neugerodetem country " reported that makes the provost of St. Gereon in Cologne of the Church of Giesenkirchen with the condition that in the future small repairs to the roof and upper part of the church and the sacristy be paid by the parishioners. It is further reported by a chorus Bishop Walter, who held the same pastorate in Giesenkirchen. That donation was negotiated under the chairmanship of Archbishop Arnold of Cologne, in the presence and with the consent of the members of Gereon in Cologne pin.

Until October 1794, the collection of French troops, Giesenkirchen Zoppenbroich and Horst belonged to the Electorate of Cologne, Dyck - Schelsen to imperial rule Dyck. To Zoppenbroich included: workers, Biesel, Schrödt, Eiger and Junker. Pesch, Lepper hut, hut pigeons, city, Looshof, Steinhausen and Horster - Schelsen belonged to Horst. Giesenkirchen comprised the rest of the territory of the municipality of the same name.

By the rule of the French, the boundaries between the previous Hoheitstrager were abolished for all time.

On April 24, 1816, the new county was Gladbach. He belonged to the governmental district Dusseldorf in the later Rhine Province. The community Schelsen belonged to the circle Gladbach until its dissolution in 1929. The community Schelsen as total community was subdivided into the special municipalities Giesenkirchen and Schelsen. There was a council for each Giesenkirchen and Schelsen. For the entire community existed a mayor-. Budgets were adopted for both the special communities as well as for the total community.

The Prussian Parliament approved the municipal reorganization of the Rhenish-Westphalian industrial area on 29 July 1929. On 1 August of the same year from the cities of Munich - Gladbach, Reydt and Odenkirchen, as well as the communities Schelsen and Hardt, the city Gladbach Rheydt.This formed. On August 1, 1933, divided by a decision of the Supreme Court in Leipzig, the young city.

In the first election after the Second World War, and in all other elections, a crucial number of politicians from Giesenkirchen was elected to the city councils of the city Reydt.

In 1974 the North Rhine-Westphalian state parliament decided in Dusseldorf, the law on the restructuring of the space Monchengladbach / Dusseldorf / Wuppertal. Between the cities of Mönchengladbach / Rheydt and the community Wickrathberg an area change agreement was concluded. This contract also includes that the new city of Moenchengladbach is divided into ten districts. In addition to the city council for the city in a district office was established in each municipality. The first district representative for Giesenkirchen was elected at the municipal election on May 4, 1975. In this representation, the CDU District 9 seats and the SPD had 4 seats.

On 22 October 2009, the number of boroughs was reduced to four. This consists of the quarters of the old city district Giesenkirchen now to the municipality Mönchengladbach East.

Policy

In the election for district council in September 2004, the CDU 43.3 percent ( six seats), the SPD 25.4 percent (three seats), the FDP 4.7 percent (one seat), the Greens 8.3 per cent ( A seat ) and the FWG 16.1 percent (two seats ) of the votes. To the district director Frank Boss ( CDU ) was elected.

Members of the Council of the City of Mönchengladbach from Giesenkirchen since the municipal election 2004: Frank Boss ( CDU / direct elected in the constituency Giesenkirchen Meerkamp, Tackhütte ), Axel Zimmermann ( CDU / direct elected in the constituency Giesenkirchen Schelsen, Ahrener field), Horst Peter Vennen (SPD / Council reserve list ), Oliver Büschgens (SPD / Council reserve list ) and Bernd Püllen ( FWG / Council reserve list )

2009: Council members: Giesenkirchen North: Horst -Peter Vennen (SPD ), Giesenkirchen -South: Ralf Kremer ( CDU). From 2004 to 2009, the CDU lost in Giesenkirchen more than 50 percent of their voters.

The Giesenkirchener Hans -Willi Körfges (SPD ) 2000 Member of the Landtag of North Rhine -Westphalia since the state election in

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The school story begins with a parish school, a Catholic institution. The timing of this device is not known. There is evidence that in 1571 the " schoolmaster uff Remigii " received 4 Taler from Giesenkirchener church masters. In 1809 the congregation built south next to the church, a school building with a classroom. With the introduction of compulsory education in 1825, a second classroom had to be cultivated.

On 19 October 1868, the school Meerkamp was inaugurated and opened to the classroom. An extension was created in 1898. The final form of the school received Meerkamp with the construction of a new wing with four classrooms, teaching aids room and staff room in 1912. For the evangelical students from Schelsen oriented citizens in Horster - Schelsen in 1846 a private school a. The cost recovery was carried out by voluntary contributions and a current grant from the Gustav -Adolf -Verein. Because of the low number of students it was dissolved in 1945.

A public Protestant elementary school began in 1947 in the building of the Catholic elementary school Korschenbroicher road with the lessons. In 1959, she then moved into the free-standing building on the frieze road. A new school building was built for the Protestant elementary school in the years 1965/1966 of the city Reydt on Asternweg. In 1968, the existing education system was radically changed and divided the elementary school in primary and secondary school. In Giesenkirchen originated at the beginning of the school year 1968 one Catholic elementary school at the Konstantinstraße, Kleinenbroicher Street, On Sternfeld and cats Bauerstraße. A Protestant primary school was set up in Bluff Road. At the beginning of the school year 1969/1970 this school was converted into a community primary school. Due to low number of students, the Catholic primary school cats Bauerstraße was disbanded in 1969.

At the beginning of school year 1985/86 Catholic elementary schools Konstantinstraße and Kleinenbroicher road to the Catholic primary school Giesenkirchen were combined with the use of the building Kleinenbroicher road. The community primary school was out in addition the building Konstantinstraße. The Catholic primary school at the star field received at the same time its original name " school Meerkamp " back.

The Community's main school moved in 1968 in the newly created building Asternweg, but that did not cover the space required for this new type of school. The building had been built for the Protestant elementary school. The main school suffered at the star field to the 1974 class outsourcing in the building of the Catholic elementary school. Only then the required school expansion was completed on Asternweg. 1974, the Council decided the city Reydt to set up a fourth high school. Final location of this school was the school center Asternweg in Giesenkirchen.

Since 1978, the school is named after Franz Meyers High School, named after the former Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia and honorary citizen of the city of Mönchengladbach, Dr. Franz Meyers. In school center Giesenkirchen is a teaching center with school library, a gymnasium with teaching pool and a triple gymnasium. There are also in Giesenkirchen an urban youth center, the K5. It is for children and adolescents aged six years.

Sons and daughters

• Edmund Pesch (1903-1992), journalist
• Norbert Bude ( * 1959), Lord Mayor of Mönchengladbach

Monuments

The following buildings in Giesenkirchen are under monument protection.

• Elementary School, at the star field 155 as a monument No. A013
• Steiger Tower, On Star box 3 as a monument No. A048
• House Horst, Palandweg 48 as a monument No. H010
• Youth center, Kleinenbroicher road 5 as a monument No. K078
• School, Kleinenbroicher road 22 as a monument No. K059
• Old Vicarage, Konstantin Platz 1 as a monument No. K023
• Catholic parish church, Constantine place as a monument No. 12 K026
• Town Hall, Konstantin 19th place as a monument No. K024
• Jewish Cemetery, Konstantinstrasse as a monument No. K094
• Industrialist's villa, Konstantinstrasse 283 as a monument No. K014
• Fachwerkhof conditioning, jerk 134 as a monument No. K014
• Half-timbered House, Högden 6 as a monument No. H016
• War memorial, Tackhütte 38 as a monument No. T018
• Factory site, Konstantinstrasse 2-16 as a monument No. K041