Heinsberg (district)

The circle Heinberg is a circle in the west of North Rhine -Westphalia in the district of Cologne. It is the westernmost county of Germany, the most westerly point is located in the municipality Selfkantbahn.

• 4.1 Kreistag
• 4.2 District
• 4.3 Former county councilors
• 4.4 Bundestag elections
• 4.5 Coat of Arms, Seal and Flag
• 4.6 Partner circles
• 4.7 Europe region

• 5.1 street 5.1.1 private transport
• 5.1.2 bus

• 5.2.1 routes
• 5.2.2 development
• 5.2.3 present
• 5.2.4 future

• 6.1 Museums 6.1.1 Bega's house. Museum of Art and Regional History Heinberg
• 6.1.2 Other Museums

• 7.1 Jewish Cemeteries

Geography

The circle Heinberg has various landscapes:

• The Selfkantbahn in the West with its central sub-element Geilenkirchener clay plate.
• Shares in the Schwalm -Nette - plate in the northeastern part circle around Wegberg.
• The Erkelenzer flange and the Baaler Riedel country as part of the Jülich flaring in the Southeast.

While the Erkelenzer flange and the adjacent Baaler Riedelland are naturally spatially counted for the Lower Rhine Basin, include the other circuit parts for the Lower Rhine lowlands.

The north of the district has a share in Nature Park Maas -Schwalm -Nette, immediately adjacent to the terminal on the Dutch side Meinweg National Park. In the southwest there is the larger nature reserve Teverener Heath.

• The Rur flows from southeast to northwest through the county area.
• The worm opens at Kempen in the Rur.
• The Schwalm rises in the north at Tüschenbroich.
• The Nier has its origins east of Erkelenz.

Circle outline

The circle Heinberg is made up of ten municipalities. Seven had the title of " city ". Of these seven, the five cities Erkelenz, Geilenkirchen, Heinberg are ( Rhineland), GER and Wegberg Mean kreisangehorige cities because their populations are both 25000-60000.

The following list is one of the ten municipalities of the Heinberg alphabetically with official names.

The inhabitants numbers - in brackets - is as of 31 December 2012.

Cities

Communities

The circle Heinberg has an area of ​​628 square kilometers. The circular border has a length of 171 kilometers, nearly 78 km of which are identical to the German -Dutch border. With its stretch of 42.8 kilometers in east-west direction and 32.6 kilometers in a north-south direction of the circular Heinberg is one of the medium-sized circles area in North Rhine -Westphalia.

Neighboring counties and cities

The circle Heinberg is bordered to the north by the district of Viersen, in the northeast on the district-free city Mönchengladbach, in the east of the Rhein-Kreis Neuss, in the southeast of the district of Düren, in the south to the cities of Aachen and in the west of the Dutch province of Limburg.

History

The circle Heinberg is an old settlement area. This is proved by archaeological finds from different eras. Whether it is stone age tools with an age of up to 100,000 years, or 7,000 year old wooden fountain that was found at the beginning of the 90s in Erkelenz - Kückhoven. The Romans were native to the region, especially the area by Roman roads, including the significant association Heerlen - was developed Xanten.

In the Middle Ages there were in the region of a homogeneous field. Different noble houses claimed possessions in today's circular area that was linguistically and culturally assigned to the Meuse.

Upon the establishment of the district of Aachen in the Kingdom of Prussia created in 1816 the circles Heinberg, Geilenkirchen and Erkelenz. While the district had 156 years Erkelenz inventory, the circles Geilenkirchen and Heinberg 1932 were summarized under the name "Circle Geilenkirchen ". A year later it was renamed "circle Geilenkirchen - Heinberg ". In 1951 this district was renamed " Selfkantbahn circle Geilenkirchen - Heinberg ". Decisive for the temporary subordination of Selfkantbahn area was under Dutch administration in the years from 1949 to 1963.

On January 1, 1972, the new county Heinberg within the municipal reorganization in the Aachen area was ( Aachen- law ) by merging the Selfkantbahn circle Geilenkirchen - Heinberg with the county Erkelenz. Since January 1, 1975 - at that time the community Niederkruechten was incorporated into the district of Viersen - the circle has Heinberg its present shape.

Religions

In Heinberg circle live about 257,000 people. Around 167,000 of them belong to the Catholic Church. (2006 )

Policy

Council

In the election for district council on August 30, 2009, the following result (54 seats ) revealed:

• CDU: 28 seats (-1)
• SPD: 11 seats (-3)
• GREEN: 5 seats (± 0)
• FDP: 5 seats (± 0)
• UB- UWG: 2 seats ( 2)
• LEFT: 2 seats ( 2)
• NPD: 1 seat ( ± 0)

District

In the local elections on 26 September 2004, Stephan Pusch (CDU ) was 56.2 % of the vote against challenger Franz -Josef Fürkötter (SPD ), which accounted for 26.2%, prevail. In the election on 30 August 2009 District Pusch reached 60.8 %. His challenger Michael Stock (SPD ) came to 20.4 %.

Former county councilors

Bundestag elections

On September 18, 2005 Leo Dautzenberg (CDU ) won with 51.4 % of the primary vote the direct mandate of the constituency Heinberg for the German Bundestag. The CDU won 43.2% of the second votes. Dautzenberg resigned on 1 February 2011 by mandate waiver from the Bundestag. Since then, the circle has Heinberg Although no direct representatives in the Bundestag more, but (CDU), co-supervised by Mr Thomas Rachel from the neighboring district of Düren. Dautzenbergs was succeeded by Gaius Julius Caesar (CDU ) as substitutes, since he was the next candidate on the North Rhine-Westphalian list.

Coat of arms, seal and flag

The circle Heinberg has been granted approval by September 3, 1973 by deed of Government President Cologne to lead coat of arms, seals, banners and Hissflagge as described below.

The design of the coat of arms was designed with the objective to present the emergence of the three circles Erkelenz, Geilenkirchen and Heinberg and their common interests symbolic.

• The zweigeschwänzte silver lion on a red background was the symbol of the Lords of Heinberg and the city Heinberg
• Geilenkirchen received by the Duke of Jülich as a lion coat of arms (black on a yellow background ), which was shown zwiegeschwänzt as a sign of dependence on the Heinsberger rule and thus recalled the lion of the coat of arms Heinsberger. In the design of the coat of arms for the county Selfkantbahn Geilenkirchen - Heinberg this representation was changed to a Lions eingeschwänzten.
• The lily cross with the flat flower comes from the coat of arms of the circle Erkelenz. The Lily recalls the centuries- old relationship with the city Erkelenz to Marienstift Aachen, the flat flower at flax cultivation in the area of the former district.

Banner

Hissflagge

Partner circles

• The District Midlothian in Scotland
• Komárom- Esztergom in Hungary

Europe region

The circle Heinberg belongs since 1978 to Meuse- Rhine.

Traffic

Road

Private transport

Since the extension of the A46 Heinberg - Dusseldorf ( Selfkantbahn Street ) in 1995, there are several connection points to places in the district.

Bus

The circle Heinberg is part of the Aachen Transport Association ( AVV). The supply of bus and coach take over the circular own West Energy and Transport GmbH and the German Railroad, Inc. ( RVE ). The traffic is mainly focused on the transportation of students, so the bus services partially follows no uniform clock. During transport on weekdays often ends already after 19 clock, this comes at the weekend almost complete halt. To be able to offer transport services in weak times you bet on - call collection taxis or in the western part of the Multibus, a bus, which runs only on request.

Railway

Stretch

Through the circle Heinberg run since 1852, the railway line Aachen -Mönchengladbach and since 1879 the route Mönchengladbach - called Antwerp, Iron Rhine - Wegberg - Roermond. From the Iron Rhine branches a connection path from the Bahnprüfzentrum Siemens in Wegberg -Wildenrath. Another branch off from the Iron Rhine railway siding to (former) militiärischen facilities at Arsbeck and Elmpt has now been dismantled.

The Prussian state railway closed in 1890, the present district town Heinberg in alleviating ( railway Heinberg - relieving ) to the railway line Aachen- Mönchengladbach. Furthermore, in 1911 came the railway Julich- Dalheim, which via the link points Dalheim and Baal created a cross-connection between the Iron Rhine and the Aachen -Mönchengladbach, added. The traffic on this cross-connection is set in the district now completely and the track largely degraded. In freight transport on these routes important were the connections to Zeche Sophia - Jacoba and the Chemical Oberbruch, which had their own industrial railways.

In 1900 the Geilenkirchener orbits narrow gauge railways opened by the former county town of Geilenkirchen one hand to Alsdorf, on the other hand, according to Weir, from where it went from 1905 to Tüddern. Today, the IHS operates on a scrap piece of this train line heritage railway, the Selfkantbahn.

Development

The border station in Dalheim reached once an area of ​​about 27 tracks and was for a long time the largest railway station in the district. The passenger rail service by Heinberg reached in the 50s with 13 passenger train pairs a day its maximum.

The freight transport (now disused ) colliery Sophia - Jacoba between Baal - Ratheim ( this section of the route Jülich- Dalheim was electrified an important source of revenue for the railway, so the Ratheim station once had 14 officers and the freight reached up to 60,000 freight cars per year ( 1987). It took four to six so-called " program trains " per day ( if required more freight trains ) and in-house almost in the block distance transport between the mine site in Ratheim and processing ( briquette ) in GER.

In the course of individual motorisation by car ridership declined in the postwar decades. With the use of rail buses, the former Federal Railroad shifted public transport away from the rail and reduced at the same time to operate on the secondary lines on very few pairs of trains per day in each direction.

Thus ended in the years 1949 to 1971 gradually the traffic on the Selfkantbahn. Already since 1953 wrong no more passenger trains in cross-border traffic between Dalheim and Roermond. On September 29, 1968, the passenger of Baal to Jülich has been set. On September 27, 1980, the last passenger train of Baal wrong after Dalheim and a day earlier, the last passenger train from Heinberg after relieving. Critics saw a reduced train services as the cause for the decline in passengers and subordinate, the railway had systematically tried to make the operation on the railway lines unattractive and to construct the resultant passenger decline a reason for its closure.

After the closure of the mine " Sophia - Jacoba " 1997 the section between Ratheim and Baal nor for persisting until 2008 briquette in GER was used.

Presence

Both main lines are important cities compounds in Rheinland.Während the Dalheimer route ensures the supply of the city Wegberg in public transport, the south of the circle intersecting the main line Aachen -Mönchengladbach is an important link on the relation Ruhr, Aachen, Belgium, and of great importance for the commuters structurally weak Heinsberger country.

For the county and the town of Wegberg Rail has due to the Bahnprüfzentrums in Wegberg -Wildenrath also an important economic significance.

After Heinberg was over 30 years one of the few district towns without its own rail connection, the route Heinberg was with the timetable change in December 2013 - Alleviate reopened as a worm roller coaster.

Future

Long-term objective, the connection Baal Ratheim - Wassenberg to resume operation. It will include the construction of a connection between Baal and Linnich or between relieving and Linnich to obtain connection to the euregiobahn. For the inter-regional freight transport, the Iron Rhine is to be used again.

Shipping

The Rur was navigable in earlier centuries. It represented a major traffic artery for the region and gave the Heinsberger landing a cohesion. Upstream was the Rur z.T. only be driven by means of towing. The paths along the Rur led to the Jülich or Limburger country.

Leisure and tourism

Museums

Bega's house. Museum of Art and Regional History Heinberg

The former County Museum Heinberg, located in the upper high street since 1949 in the historic Torbogenhaus, 2014 [ deprecated] Since the mid 2010 due to conversion and expansion construction work until probably March closed. It is then re-opened with a new conception; future exhibition focus is originating from Heinberg Berlin artist family Bega, supplemented by digressions on regional territorial, cultural and church history. The museum was in " Bega's house. Museum of Art and Regional History Heinberg " renamed; be carriers since the 1st of January 2011, the carrier club museum Heinberg eV with significant financial participation of the circle Heinberg, the city Heinberg and District Savings Bank Heinberg.

Other Museums

• Rhine Fire Museum in Erkelenz - Lövenich
• Flax Museum in Beeck ( Wegberg )
• Museum of European folk costumes in Wegberg -Beeck
• Permanent exhibition " bionic future technology learns from nature" in Naturparkzentrum Wegberg- Wildenrath.
• Bauernmuseum Selfkantbahn in Selfkantbahn - Tüddern
• The collection Riediger in Ubach- Palenberg displays finds from the Mesolithic and flash tubes.
• Museum of Local History " Gerhard Tholen parlor" in forest wetland
• Minerals and mining museum in GER
• Shaft 3 in GER is a former mine Zeche Sophia - Jacoba.
• Korbmacher Museum in GER - Hilfarth
• Historic classroom in Geilenkirchen - Immendorf

Other Attractions

• Selfkantbahn, a historic narrow gauge steam railway
• Water mills
• Windmills along the Selfkantbahn Mill Road
• The St. -Jans- Klus in hair
• Various recreational areas

Cycling

Since 2006, neighboring to the Netherlands and the neighboring districts adapted orientation system with nodes of the promotion of cycle tourism serves. Three long-distance cycle paths through the circuit area.

• The cycle path Aachen -Nijmegen, the 2-country route leads through the communities of Ubach- Palenberg, Gangelt forest and wetland.
• The RurUfer bike trail accompanies the Rur on their run through the district area, his start is at the Rurtalsperre in Düren district, his end in Roermond, the Netherlands.
• The NiederRheinroute between Emmerich am Rhein and the Selfkantbahn ( circle Heinberg )

In 2006, the native of the Netherlands " Knooppuntsystem " ( node system ) was introduced in the Heinsberg. Each is an orientation map at these red and numbered nodes.

Culture

Jewish Cemeteries

8 Jewish Cemeteries are documented for the circle Heinberg: Erkelenz ( 2), in Gangelt ( 1) in Geilenkirchen ( 1), in Heinberg (3) and in Wassenberg (1). There are worth protecting cultural monuments - stone witnesses for previously existing Jewish communities and a lively Jewish community life until the 1930s.