Nettetal

The city is located on the Lower Nettetal Rhine in the west of North Rhine -Westphalia and is a Medium district town of Viersen in the district of Dusseldorf.

  • 3.1 Council
  • 3.2 Crest and Banner
  • 3.3 Town twinning
  • 5.1 Education
  • 5.2 traffic
  • Born 6.1 Nettetal
  • 6.2 Connected to Nettetal

Geography

The city is located in the heart of the Nature Park Maas -Schwalm -Nette in close proximity to the Netherlands and consists of six districts, there are as geographically separate settlements ( villages ). ( See the section Boroughs. )

Owes its name to the parish merger Nettetal the river flats, which flows through a length of 12.25 kilometers, the city. Vast forest and heathland with a large network of hiking trails make the city a central resort in the Nature Park Maas -Schwalm -Nette.

To Nettetal include twelve lakes with an area of ​​about 179 hectares ( compare: Cute lakes, Krickenbecker lakes). The following are the names of lakes, broken down by the river, from which they are fed (in brackets the approximate size in acres ):

Fed by the Nice

  • Small Breyeller See ( 5.3 )
  • Big Breyeller See ( 9.2 )
  • Cute fraction ( 13.2 )
  • Windmühlenbruch (6 )
  • Ferkensbruch ( 4.5 )
  • Small de Wittsee ( 4.5 )
  • Large de Wittsee ( 22.5 )
  • Schrolik ( 15.5 )
  • Poelvennsee ( 24.5 )

On the Run

  • Hinsbecker fraction ( 37.5 )
  • Glabbacher fraction ( 36.1 )

Fed by the king Bach

  • Kälberweide ( 5)

The relatively lakes and forested region, is a recreational area for the Rhine- Ruhr; to contribute to the two state-recognized Resorts Hinsbeck and Leuth. Nettetal than claim the term " Lake city ". Previously, there were bathrooms at the beach Krickenbecker lake and Poelvenn; they are closed. The nearest facilities with lifeguards are swimming in a lake since the "Blue Lagoon" at Herongen and Heidweiher at Amern.

Neighboring communities

Starting in the north clockwise adjacent to the city Nettetal Straelen and the community Wachtendonk ( Kreis Kleve ), Grefrath, the city of Viersen, Schwalmtal and Brüggen ( Viersen ) and the community Beesel and the city of Venlo in the Dutch province of Limburg.

Boroughs

After the main statutes, Nettetal divided into six " districts " called villages. "This city is divided into the following districts: . Breyell, Hinsbeck, Kaldenkirchen Leuth, Lobberich and Schaag " The two former cities Kaldenkirchen and Lobberich and the three former municipalities Breyell, Hinsbeck and Leuth were the five original villages. The youngest town in the extreme south Schaag Nettetal was created in 1995 from part Breyells. The demarcation of today six districts with one another has been modified by the City Council last 8 February 2011 in the area of the district boundary Hinsbeck / Lobberich.

Population (with principal residence ) on 31 December 2011

History

The city Nettetal was January 1, 1970 through the merger of the municipalities Leuth, Breyell and Hinsbeck and the cities Kaldenkirchen and Lobberich. Smaller parts of the former municipalities Amern, Boisheim, Brüggen and Grefrath and the cities Dülken and Süchteln added.

Policy

Advice

Since the local elections on August 30, 2009, the City Council is composed as follows:

Crest and Banner

Coat of arms of the former city Lobberich

Coat of arms of the former city Kaldenkirchen

Coat of arms of the former municipality Breyell

Coat of arms of the former municipality Hinsbeck

Coat of arms of the former municipality Leuth

Identification of the borough Schaag

Since the coat of arms of origin municipalities could not be combined, a new coat of arms was introduced on 8 April 1971. It represents the natural, which dominates the area. This is symbolized by a lily on a blue background (water). In blue a silver (white ) water lily with golden ( yellow ) slugs, circular, surrounded by five golden ( yellow ) lily pads. The five lily pads are available for the merged cities to the city Nettetal Kaldenkirchen and Lobberich and the municipalities Breyell, Hinsbeck and Leuth.

The banner of the city shows the color blue with the coat of arms without shield slightly above the center.

Twinning

Nettetal maintains official partnerships with the French commune Caudebec -en- Caux, with the Polish city of Elk (since 1998) and with the English County Fenland. A " friendship cities " cultivates Nettetal with the Saxon town of Rochlitz.

Culture and sights

  • Surrounded by the four Krickenbecker lakes lies the castle Krickenbeck, in the conference venue is housed.
  • The bike path on the north Fietsallee channel runs through the town.
  • In Kaldenkirchener Grenzwald are the nature reserve of the moorlands, arboretum Sequoia Farm Kaldenkirchen as well as the geo -hydrological water garden.
  • Aerodrome Venlo Venlo Herongen - Heath in the woodland Leuth -Venlo, which includes a small memorial at the former airfield Venlo Herongen. Nearby you can visit several ruins of aircraft hangars and the free surface of the airfield

Economy and infrastructure

Education

  • Comprehensive school Nettetal ( Breyell )
  • Realschule Nettetal ( Kaldenkirchen )
  • Urban high school Kaldenkirchen
  • Urban high school Lobberich
  • Comenius School ( Hinsbeck )
  • Berufskolleg Rhine-Meuse - Location Lobberich
  • Catholic Primary School Breyell
  • Community Primary School Breyell
  • Catholic Primary School Hinsbeck
  • Community Primary School Kaldenkirchen
  • Catholic Primary School Kaldenkirchen
  • Catholic Primary School Leuth
  • Catholic Primary School Lobberich
  • Community Primary School Lobberich
  • Hubertus primary school Schaag

Traffic

The Federal Highway 61 and the Maas- Wupper - Express with stops in Kaldenkirchen station and on the train station Breyell traverse Nettetal.

Personalities

Born in Nettetal

  • Gerhard Xylander (1555-1610), priest and canon of Cologne
  • Leo Anton Carl de Ball (1853-1916), Astronomer
  • Albert Steeger (1885-1958), polymath
  • Lambert Maassen (1894-1970), local politicians and district
  • Hans- Hilmar Staudte (1911-1979), German chess master and composer
  • Anton van Eyk (1911-2004), artist and ceramist
  • Hanns Backes (* 1925), politician
  • John Menskes (* 1927), choirmaster and composer
  • Jochen Hild ( born 1929 ), biologist and landscape ecologist
  • Leo Peters ( b. 1944 ), archivist, historian, author and professor of history
  • Wolfgang Schiffer ( born 1946 ), writer
  • Paul Badde ( b. 1948 ), historian and journalist
  • Hartmut Mirbachstrasse (1949-2011), photographer and painter
  • Michael Hardt ( born 1951 ), designer
  • Gregor Jansen (born 1965 ), art historian
  • Elmar Lehnen (* 1965), Basilica organist
  • Barbara Völzmann - Stickel Brock (born 1965 ), legal scientist
  • Sascha Lappessen (born 1970 ), DJ and band leader
  • Dietmar Brockes (born 1970 ), politician
  • Stefan Heythausen (* 1981), speed skater and Olympic athlete

* Tugrul Erat (* 1992), football player Connected to Nettetal

  • Hanna Meuter (1889-1964), sociologist, lecturer and writer; lived in Nettetal- Lobberich since the early 1950s
  • Ernst J. Martin (1900-1967), author, dentist and founder of Sequoia Farm
  • Illa Martin (1900-1988), dentist, Dendrologin and co-founder of Sequoia Farm
  • Hinnenthal Günther (1903-1945), pastor
  • Heinz Lanser (* 1937), 1970-2000 Cultural Office director; Painter and draftsman
  • Wolfgang soaps ( * 1956 in Bergheim / Erft ), 1976-1983 Church Musicians at St. Sebastian in Nettetal- Lobberich.
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