Kleve (district)
The district of Kleve is situated on the Lower Rhine in the northwest of the federal state of North Rhine -Westphalia. It belongs to the administrative district of Dusseldorf and is a member of the Regional Association of the Rhineland. Seat of the district is the town of Kleve.
- 2.1 20th century
- 3.1 District
- 3.2 Kreistag
- 3.3 Coat of Arms
- 4.1 Jewish Cemeteries
- 5.1 Air Traffic
- 5.2 Rail transport
- 5.3 roads
- 5.4 waterways and ports
Geography
The district
Parts of the circle are part of the Nature Park Maas -Schwalm -Nette. In the district there is a row not destroyed bunkers of the former West Wall.
Circle members communities
The Kleve district is divided into 16 municipalities belonging to a county, five of which are medium cities belonging to a county. These communities are basically self responsible, while the circle for smaller municipalities accepts local and otherwise on local tasks for their local affairs.
( In brackets the number of inhabitants 31 December 2012 )
See also: List of places in the district of Kleve
Neighboring districts or provinces -
The Kleve district is bordered to the north by the province of Gelderland ( NL), in the north- east by the district of Borken, to the east by the district of Wesel, on the south by the district of Viersen, and to the west by the Province of Limburg ( NL).
History
The historic district of Kleve was a county in the lower Rhine in the district of Dusseldorf ( until 1822 in the district of Kleve ).
It covered an area of Goch in the south, along the German -Dutch border north to the Rhine in the east and south to Kalkar. The former district of Kleve formed in pre-revolutionary part of the Duchy of Cleves, which belonged to Prussia since 1666, and in 1815 added to Prussia again at the Congress of Vienna. It was then newly formed on April 23, 1816 in the wake of the Prussian administrative organization of the district of Kleve as one of 29 districts of the province of Jülich -Cleves -Berg, the later Rhine Province.
20th century
On 1 July 1969, the cities of Kleve, Goch and Kalkar and the municipalities Kranenburg, Bedburg -Hau and Uedem were regrouped in the first phase of restructuring in North Rhine -Westphalia.
Since then, the Kleve district consisted of the municipalities
- City of Kleve
- Kalkar
- Town of Goch
- Community Kranenburg
- Community Bedburg -Hau and
- Community Uedem.
The public transport system operated alongside the train mainly the Lower Rhine Transport Company.
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 district of Kleve in the second restructuring phase.
The southern eight communities are also known as south circle Kleve.
Policy
District
At the last district election on 30 August 2009 Wolfgang Spreen (CDU ) was elected with 57.2 % of the valid votes cast for District. The other candidates were Bodo Wißen (SPD ) ( 23.1 %), Dietmar Gorißen (FDP ) ( 8.5%), Ute man Sickles ( GREEN ) ( 8.1% ) and Thomas Meschkapowitz ( LEFT ) (3.2% ). The next district election shall be held in 2015.
Council
The representation of Kleve, the council consists of 54 representatives. Since the last municipal election on 30 August 2009, in the district council CDU ( 51.9 %, 28 seats), SPD ( 22.9 %, 12 seats), the FDP (10.9%, 6 seats ), Green ( 10.8 %, 6 seats) and left ( 3.5%, representing 2 seats). The turnout was 53.0 %.
The council takes an average of five times a year for meetings. The next district council elections will be in 2014.
Coat of arms
" The county maintains its own coat of arms. It shows in the split front plate in red with a silver heart-shaped shield, the field covered by a golden, eight-rayed lily reel; back in blue a zweigeschwänzten, red reinforced and tongued golden lion. "
Culture
Jewish Cemeteries
14 Jewish cemeteries have been documented for the district of Kleve in Emmerich ( 3), money ( 1) in Goch ( 3), Issum ( 1), in Kalkar ( 1) in Kleve ( 1), Rees (2 ) and in Uedem ( 2) .. It is worth protecting cultural monuments - stone witnesses for previously existing Jewish communities and a lively Jewish community life until the 1930s.
Traffic
Traffic
The nearest airports are the Weeze airport and the airport Dusseldorf International.
Rail transport
The Kleve district is served by two railway lines, the right bank of Holland route from Duisburg to Arnhem, the left bank of the Left Lower Rhine route from Krefeld to Kleve.
The line Kleve - Spyck was decommissioned in 1969. The routes Kleve - Xanten and Kleve - Kranenburg - Nijmegen since 1990 and 1991 respectively, out of service.
The Kleve district is served by three federal highways and eight federal highways:
- A 3 ( E 35 ) Arnhem - ( Holland line) - Oberhausen - Cologne - Frankfurt am Main - Passau
- A 40 Venlo - Dortmund
- A 57 ( E 31 ) Nijmegen - Köln
- The highways 8, 9, 57, 58, 67, 220, 221 and 510
Rhine -border exist in the district of Kleve on the Rhine bridge Rees- Kalkar on the B 67 at Rhine - km 839 and the Rhine bridge Emmerich on the B 220 in the Rhine river km 853
Waterways and ports
The Rhine and the Spoykanal near Kleve form the basis for the operated in the district ports in Emmerich, Rees and Kleve.