Hostert is a residential area in the municipality of
Schwalmtal, in the German county of
Viersen. In 1970, it merged with
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 ...
, 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 military complex at JHQ Rheindahlen, at Hostert, near Mönchengladbach. The school operated from 1963 ...
. Since that closed in 1993, the site has stood empty.
References
External links
Peter Zöhren: ''Pflege, Mord, Unterricht in Hostert.''
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Viersen (district)