Verlautenheide

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Verlautenheide is a little country district in the northeast of Aachen with about 3,500 inhabitants. Verlautenheide is located in the district of hair. The highest point is the mountain hair ( nearly 240 m).

The eastern end of the village is called Quinx.

History

The village Verlautenheide initially developed around the estate Heiderhof and was originally called The Heyd. Only much later it became a village street. In an interest rate and lease registers of the Imperial Abbey Kornelimünster 1445 first mentioned Heath boven Haren, which Verlautenheide was meant. An important example of the time is the 15th-century canal Kahl mill.

Together with the municipality hair belonged Verlautenheide until the late 18th century to the Aachener Reich, whose boundary line of hair coming right on the southern edge of the village past moved on towards pastures. At that time Verlautenheide also home to one of eight watchtowers of the Aachen Empire on which today still remembers the Türmchenweg. After the occupation by the French in 1792 and 1794 were hair and Verlautenheide for independent Mairie hair that belonged to France from 1801 ( Peace of Luneville ), 1814 ( First Treaty of Paris ) to Prussia.

In October 1944, the place was hotly contested; the U.S. troops concluded here their ring around Aachen.

In the early 1960s the first Aachen motorway " Wuerselen / Verlautenheide " ( today's A544 ) was built in Verlautenheide; around 1963 was near the motorway intersection Aachen.

By the end of 1971, the municipality hair was independent and was then incorporated on the basis of the Aachen- law with effect from 1 January 1972 in the city of Aachen.

Personalities

In the former village Verlautenheide worked until 1976 Pastor Hugo sneezing. In October 1976 he was provost in the Provost - parish of St. George the town of Wassenberg.

Clubs

There is the SV Eintracht 1912 Verlautenheide, which has a synthetic pitch, the carnival company Bröselspetze eV 1950 and, since 1980 (?) The root Verlautenheide the Girl Scouts shank St. Georg