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Hostert (Schwalmtal)
Hostert is a residential area in the municipality of Schwalmtal, in the German county of Viersen. In 1970, it merged with Waldniel, 2.5 km further west, to form the municipality of Schwalmtal. It lies on the state road ('' Landstraße'') from Schwalmtal to Gladbach. To the south it borders on the A 52 motorway. Linguistically Hostert means ''Hofstatt'' ("farmstead").Tobias Vogelfänger''Nordrheinische Flurnamen und digitale Sprachgeographie: sprachliche Vielfalt in räumlicher Verbreitung.''Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2010, page 318 The settlement includes the complex of St. Josefsheim, built in 1909. After being built as a Franciscan priory, the monks were forced out by the Nazi regime and it was used as part of their child euthanasia programme. After the war it became a British military boarding school, Kent School, Hostert Kent School was a British secondary school in Germany, with boarding facilities, for the children of military personnel. It was located near the milita ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schwalmtal (Niederrhein)
Schwalmtal is a municipality in the district of Viersen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is named after the river Schwalm, which flows through the area. Schwalmtal is situated approximately 12 km west of Mönchengladbach Mönchengladbach (, li, Jlabbach ) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located west of the Rhine, halfway between Düsseldorf and the Dutch border. Geography Municipal subdivisions Since 2009, the territory of Mönchengladbac .... References External links Viersen (district) {{Viersen-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kreis Viersen
Viersen () is a Kreis (district) in the west of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Cleves, Wesel, district-free Krefeld, Neuss, district-free Mönchengladbach, Heinsberg and the Dutch province of Limburg. History In 1816, the new Prussian government created the district of ''Kempen''. Originally belonging to the Regierungsbezirk Kleve which was dissolved in 1822, Kempen has since then belonged to Düsseldorf. In 1929 the district was enlarged significantly and renamed ''Kempen-Krefeld''. In 1975 the district again changed its borders and was renamed ''Viersen'' even though Kempen remained the capital. Viersen city replaced Kempen as the capital in 1984. Twin Cities The district Viersen has been twinned with Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom since 1983. Geography The district is located in the lowlands between the rivers Rhine and Meuse. The highest elevation is at ''Süchtelner Höhen'' with , whereas the lowest is at ''Pielbruch'' with . Coat of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waldniel
Waldniel is a village, part of the municipality Schwalmtal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Schwalmtal in the district Viersen (district), Viersen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It has 11,750 inhabitants (December 2020). History The first humans lived at the location of the modern Waldniel in the neolithic (2000 v. Chr.) In 1020, this place was first mentioned in a document. Geography The Kranenbach flows through Waldniel. Notable residents * Albin Windhausen (1863–1946), painter * Josef Windhausen (1888–1946), local politician (Christian Democratic Union of Germany, CDU) * Heinz Küppenbender (1901–1989), manager * Ludwig Gabriel Schrieber (1907–1975), sculptor, painter and Drawing, draughtsman * Ernst van Aaken (1910–1984), sports physician and trainer * Rudi Fuesers (1928–2010), trombonist of modern jazz * Herbert Dörenberg (born 1945), Manager (association football), football coach and former professional footballer * Stefan Berger (politician), Stefan Berger (bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landstraße
Landstraße (; Central Bavarian: ''Laundstrossn'') is the 3rd municipal district of Vienna, Austria (german: 3. Bezirk). It is near the center of Vienna and was established in the 19th century. Landstraße is a heavily populated urban area with many workers and residential homes. Wien.gv.at webpage (see below: References). It has 89,834 inhabitants in an area of 7.42 km2 (2.9 sq miles). It has existed since about 1200 AD. In 1192, the English king Richard the Lionheart was captured in the Erdberg neighbourhood, after the unsuccessful Third Crusade. The name ''Landstraße'' means "country road". To tourists, it is mostly known for the 18th-century castle and gardens of Belvedere, the residence of Eugene of Savoy, which today houses the Austrian Gallery. Another residence was built by the Russian envoy to Vienna, Count Razumovsky. A more recent point of interest is the Hundertwasserhaus block of flats (apartment block) designed in a dream-like style by the architect and paint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gladbach (Mönchengladbach)
Gladbach may refer to: *the former name of Mönchengladbach, a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany **Borussia Mönchengladbach, a football club in Mönchengladbach *the former name of Bergisch Gladbach, a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany *Gladbach, Rhineland-Palatinate, a municipality in the district Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany *Gladbach, a suburban administrative district of Neuwied, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany *Gladbach (Niers) Gladbach is a small river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It flows into the Niers near Mönchengladbach Mönchengladbach (, li, Jlabbach ) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located west of the Rhine, halfway betwe ..., a river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany * Gladbach Formation, a geologic formation in Germany {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bundesautobahn 52
is an autobahn in western Germany. It starts at the Dutch-German border near the community of Niederkrüchten, district of Viersen. From Elmpt it runs northeast. Its westernmost part serves as an important commuter route into Düsseldorf. The autobahn becomes Bundesstraße 7 shortly before the Rheinkniebrücke, which leads into the Düsseldorf city centre. Traffic of the A 52 is routed through the Düsseldorf city centre on the B 8 and B 1 secondary roads up to Düsseldorf-Mörsenbroich, where the A 52 becomes a road of its own again. The autobahn has three parts: #Dutch-German border - Niederkrüchten-Elmpt - Mönchengladbach - Düsseldorf-Heerdt #Düsseldorf-Mörsenbroich - Dreieck Essen-Ost #Gladbeck - Gelsenkirchen - Marl-Nord A new connection from the Dutch border to Elmpt opened in May 2009. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazi Regime
Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a dictatorship. Under Hitler's rule, Germany quickly became a totalitarian state where nearly all aspects of life were controlled by the government. The Third Reich, meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire", alluded to the Nazi claim that Nazi Germany was the successor to the earlier Holy Roman Empire (800–1806) and German Empire (1871–1918). The Third Reich, which Hitler and the Nazis referred to as the Thousand-Year Reich, ended in May 1945 after just 12 years when the Allies defeated Germany, ending World War II in Europe. On 30 January 1933, Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany, the head of government, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazi Child Euthanasia Programme
Child Euthanasia (german: Kinder-Euthanasie) was the name given to the organised killing of severely mentally and physically disabled children and young people up to 16 years old during the Nazi era in over 30 so-called special children's wards. At least 5,000 children were victims of the programme, which was a precursor to the subsequent murder of children in the concentration camps. Background Social Darwinism came to play a major role in the ideology of Nazism, where it was combined with a similarly pseudo-scientific theory of racial hierarchy in order to identify the Germans as a part of what the Nazis regarded as an Aryan race, Aryan or Nordic race, Nordic master race. This ideology held unreservedly to the notion of the survival of the fittest, at both the level of the individual as well as the level of entire peoples and states. This notion claimed to have natural law on its side. All opposing religious and humanitarian views would ultimately prove to be unnatural. A pers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kent School, Hostert
Kent School was a British secondary school in Germany, with boarding facilities, for the children of military personnel. It was located near the military complex at JHQ Rheindahlen, at Hostert, near Mönchengladbach. The school operated from 1963 until 1986 when it was amalgamated with Queens School, Rheindahlen, to become Windsor School. It was one of several secondary schools in Germany operated by the Service Children's Education organization. History Background The school was based in a former Franciscan priory, St. Josefsheim, built in 1913, that closed in 1937 and was then used by the Nazis, as Waldniel Institute, as part of their child euthanasia programme. In 1952, the Allies were establishing a new headquarters in Hardt Forest just outside the city of Mönchengladbach which became a major base for both British and NATO forces - notably the HQs of the 2nd Allied Tactical Air Force, Northern Army Group and British Army of the Rhine. The base was known as the Joint ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
