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Kaldenkirchen is a village in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany, situated close to the Dutch border at Venlo. It is part of the municipality of Nettetal. == History == For the first time the place name “Caldenkirken” appeared in a document dated 1206. Until 1794 the city belonged to the Duchy of Jülich. Some inhabitants of Kaldenkirchen belonged to the 13 German families who were members of the Religious Society of Friends and Mennonites. These families left Krefeld in 1683 with a ship called ''Concord'' and headed for Philadelphia where they settled in the newly founded suburb called Germantown.〔Leo Peters: ''Geschichte der Stadt Kaldenkirchen. Band 1: Von den Anfängen bis zum Ende der französischen Zeit 1814''. B.O.S.S. Kleve 1998, ISBN 3-9805931-5-0〕 Subsequent emigrants from Kaldenkirchen to Germantown included Paulus and Gertrude Kuster, the great-great-great-great-grandparents of U.S. Army colonel George Armstrong Custer. In 1856 King Frederick William IV of Prussia permitted the use of “town” for this city. After the Wiener Kongress Congress of Vienna in 1814 Kaldenkirchen belonged to Prussia. In 1903 the German Emperor Wilhelm II permitted the city arms. The synagogue was destroyed during the Kristallnacht. During the last weeks of the Second World War the city was evacuated. In 1947 a fire destroyed 90% of the forest. In 1961 Kaldenkirchen had 6305 inhabitants, 23% of them Heimatvertriebene. On January 1, 1970 Kaldenkirchen became part of the newly founded city of Nettetal.〔Leo Peters: ''Geschichte der Stadt Kaldenkirchen. Band 2: Vom Beginn der preußischen Zeit bis zum Ende der Selbständigkeit 1970''. Kleve 1998〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kaldenkirchen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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