Heimbach

Heimbach is a town in the district of Düren in North Rhine -Westphalia, Germany, in the Rureifel in the Eifel National Park. It is measured in terms of population, the smallest town and behind Dahlem (North Eifel) the second smallest town in North Rhine -Westphalia.

  • 2.1 religions
  • 2.2 restructuring
  • 3.1 municipal
  • 3.2 Coat of Arms, Flag and Banner
  • 4.1 information centers and leisure activities
  • 4.2 Museum
  • 4.3 Music
  • 4.4 Structures
  • 4.5 traffic
  • 6.1 Born in Heimbach
  • 6.2 connected with Heimbach

Geography

Geographical Location

Heimbach is in the valley of the Rur at the Rurtalsperre Schwammenauel and the reservoir Heimbach. In the central city of Sonneberg is. The town in the Eifel has a lot of tourism from the region of Aachen, Cologne, Bonn and from the Netherlands. Heimbach is a state- recognized health resort since the 13th September 1974.

Neighboring communities

In the district of Düren

  • Nideggen

In the Aachen region

  • Simmerath

In the district of Euskirchen

Boroughs

Heimbach consists of the districts

  • Blens
  • Düttling
  • Hare field
  • Live
  • Heimbach
  • Hergarten
  • Vlatten

There are also several smaller settlements to which the Fischbachtal, Walbig, Schwammenauel and Busch Hof include.

History

The first written mention is in Heimbach 673 in gift certificates from the Frankish king Theodoric I., Vlatten and Hergarten are first mentioned in the 9th century. In the 10th century the royal court Vlatten was transferred to the castle Hengebach.

Lothar II acquired 864 the village Hergarten from Prüm Abbey. 1288 was the focus of a Heimbach Jülich Office and the castle became the seat of a Hengebach Jülich viscount. By 1300, Heimbach received a city-like character after fixing the settlement.

Since 1602 Fairs are held in Heimbach, the market for the feast of the Visitation held on the occasion of Wallfahrtsoktav still held today.

1614 moved Heimbach with termination of Jülich- Kleve Succession dispute to Wolfgang William of Neuburg Palatinate, from 1815 it belonged to Prussia.

1903, the connection of the city to the railway network.

1904 Urfttalsperre was completed, making the tourism in the place grew vigorously.

On April 8, 1959 Heimbach were again awarded city status because of its historical past and as a tribute to Bach's home as a center of tourism.

Religions

Heimbach is a famous pilgrimage site. Since the 1804 pilgrimage faithful to " Sorrowful Mother of Heimbach ," an erected in the parish church of Heimbach Pietà. In the course of secularization, the Pietà was transferred from the 15th century, together with an Antwerp altarpiece from the 16th century on 22 June 1804 the Trappist monastery Mariawald in the Heimbacher parish church of St. Clement. Today Pietà and reredos are seen in the consecrated on May 24, 1981 Heimbacher Salvator Church. The Catholic parishes in Heimbach belong to the Diocese of Aachen. The Christians of the " Evangelical Church in the Rhineland " in Heimbach form a branch of the church " evangelical Trinity Church parish in the valley of Schleiden ".

Reorganization

On 1 July 1968 Hausen was incorporated. On July 1, 1969 Hergarten and Vlatten. The town of Heimbach came on 1 January 1972 from the circle to the circle Schleiden Düren and was merged with the city of Nideggen. On August 4, 1972, the Supreme Administrative Court ruled that Heimbach again an independent municipality is.

Policy

Parish council

The 20 seats of the council distribute at:

  • CDU 11 seats
  • FDP 3 seats
  • SPD 3 seats
  • UWV 2 seats
  • Green 1 seat

(As at municipal election held on August 30, 2009 )

Coat of Arms, Flag and Banner

Flag of the city of Heimbach

Banner of the town Heimbach

  • Blazon: " Sable, a siebenzinniger Black Grooved silver tower with a projecting plinth and spitzbogigem gate with halbgezogenem portcullis behind the battlements of a rotgeziegeltes pitched roof with silver tower ball and a covered red brick rear parapet -supporting, both sides ending each in a red military bay window with pitch nose, the base with a reclining labels covered in gold in a rotbewehrter and langued black lion. "
  • Coat Explanation: The tower stands for the early (1300 ) Attachment of the place, leaning sign showing the Jülich lions, who pointed to the membership of the Duchy of Jülich. The coat of arms of Heimbach similar to the coat of arms of Hof an der Saale: Silver crenellated tower or towers with battlements gelehntem Lion Shield ( Jülich or Wittelsbach Lion). The reason is that in Schmidt, a former village of Castle Hengebach until 1749 a branch of the now living in the Netherlands knight family of people in the Old City was established by Schmidt, whose headquarters which was built by them in 1700 manor castle husband village in the Upper Franconian church Gattendorf at court lies.

Description of flag and banner: " The flag of the city of Heimbach shows the colors white and black and white in vertical stripes in the ratio 1: 2: 1, with the city arms in the center. You may also be conducted as a banner. "

Culture and sights

Information centers and leisure activities

In the experience of nature exhibition in the " house of the guest " is about the interactions between nature and its usage around Heimbach. Among other things, the sheep is presented as an important farm animal: Eifel farmers were poor peasants. For cereals and cattle the ground was too sparse, the not yet invented artificial fertilizer. Where the dairy cow care, the Eifel sheep brought income. Sheep were in the Eifel once an important economic factor. From the former prosperity of the wool weavers and cloth merchants still convincing magnificent houses in Monschau. In the 18th century sheep from the Eifel were even driven to the markets of Paris. Large flocks of sheep meant wool, cloth and felt. Heimbach alone, there were four sheep farms. This worked a woolen mill and a fulling mill, lived dyers and weavers. Today, the sheep received the traditional cultural landscape, the green valleys of the Eifel with orchids, bumblebees and colorful butterflies.

The permanent exhibition of the Society for the Conservation of owls under the title "Audience with the King of the Night " gives the visitor the most important information about the owl and its habitat, extermination and resettlement, sources of risk and protection.

The former high school is the Water Information Centre Eifel. It also serves the consumer advice and conference venue.

In Heimbach station to the National Park Gate Heimbach is the exhibition " Secrets in Buchenwald" and important information about the Eifel National Park. The station was honored in a ceremony on 18 September 2011 as NRW - hiking station 2011. From there many hiking trails in the immediate and wider environment. Furthermore, the Eifel can be explored from here by bike or mountain bike. Through the village run the cycle routes:

  • Eifel- altitude route that leads as a circuit around the national park Eifel.
  • RurUfer bike path that connects the highest peak in the High Fens with the mouth of the river Rur in the Meuse.
  • D Route 4: Mittelland Route: From Aachen and Bonn Siegen, Erfurt, Jena and Chemnitz to Zittau.
  • D Route 7: Pilgrims Route: From Aachen via Cologne, Dusseldorf, Duisburg, Münster, Osnabrück, Bremen and Hamburg to Flensburg.
  • Through the district of Hausen ( Heimbach ), the 524 km long water castles route. It connects more than 130 castles on the edge of the Eifel and in the Cologne Bight.

Further, in Heimbach a mini golf course and a large outdoor pool with a beach volleyball court.

Museum

In the power plant Heimbach, the RWE Industrie museum with electrical devices of everyday use. At the station, the museum DKB- time travel was inaugurated in October 2009.

Music

Known far beyond the country's borders are the 1998 taking place in the power plant Concerts " tensions" with the artistic director and pianist Lars Vogt.

Structures

Heimbach is Mariawald Abbey, the only Trappist monastery in Germany.

Heimbach heard with his own small evangelical church to the Protestant church Gemuend.

Below the Urfttalsperre is the power plant Heimbach, one built in 1904 in Art Nouveau style hydroelectric power plant for generating electrical energy.

Towering above the town of Heimbach 's Hengebach Castle, which was first mentioned in 1106. After the groundbreaking ceremony on 20 November 2008 for the conversion, it became the seat of the "International Academy of Art Heimbach ".

Traffic

  • Heimbach is the terminus of the railway line Düren- Heimbach of Düren in the Eifel. The station has to offer in addition to the function, a good connection in transport between Linnich, Düren and Heimbach, a tourist function as a National park and information center for hikers and tourists. On Sundays and holidays the summer months euregiobahn of Heerlen ( NL) via Aachen and Düren Coming goes directly to the station in Heimbach ( Heerlen - Heimbach Express since 2004).
  • " Timmy " is a double-decker bus of Düren circular path, which runs on certain days with tour guides on the Eifelhöhen.
  • In addition to regular long-distance lines of public transport in the city runs a Bürgerbus Heimbach.
  • The Rursee railway connects the Heimbach station with the landing of the Rur Lake Marine in Schwammenauel ( Heimbach Hare Field ) on certain days.
  • The Rur Lake Marine offers boat connections from Heimbach Schwammenauel to the other Rursee riparian locations Nideggen -Schmidt and Simmerath- Rurberg.
  • In the area Vlatten, Hergarten and Düttling the B 265 crosses the urban area.
  • From 1922 to 1926, the Eifel race led through the village.

Others

In a study at the University of Trier, in the 158 health resorts were appraised in six provinces, Heimbach took first place.

Personalities

Born in Heimbach

  • Hanns Kurth (1904-1976), writer
  • Marion angle Wergen ( b. 1957 ), artist and ceramicist

Connected to Heimbach

  • Georg Frentzen (1854-1923), architect and university professor; built in 1904, the power plant Heimbach ( hydroelectric plant in the Urfttalsperre ) in Heimbach - rabbit box
  • Luise Kött - gardener ( b. 1953 ), plastic artist; designed in Heimbach a maze
  • John Bündgens (* 1956), pastor in Heimbach and auxiliary bishop in the Diocese of Aachen
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