Waldniel is a village, part of the municipality Schwalmtal in the district

Viersen Viersen (; ) is the capital of the Viersen (district), district of Viersen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geography Viersen is situated approximately 8 km north-west of Mönchengladbach, 15 km south-west of Krefeld and 20 km ...

, 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 The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Ancient Greek, Greek 'new' and 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Mesopotamia, Asia, Europe and Africa (c. 10,000 BCE to c. 2,000 BCE). It saw the Neolithic Revo ...

(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 ( CDU) * Heinz Küppenbender (1901–1989), manager * Ludwig Gabriel Schrieber (1907–1975), sculptor, painter and draughtsman * Ernst van Aaken (1910–1984), sports physician and trainer * Rudi Fuesers (1928–2010),

trombonist The trombone (, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's lips vibrate inside a mouthpiece, causing the air column inside the instrument to ...

modern jazz Bebop or bop is a style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s in the United States. The style features compositions characterized by a fast tempo (usually exceeding 200 bpm), complex chord progressions with rapid chord changes and numerou ...

Herbert Dörenberg Herbert Dörenberg (born 27 August 1945) is a retired Germany, German football midfielder and later manager. References

1945 births Living people German men's footballers SC Opel Rüsselsheim players SV Darmstadt 98 players VfR Bürsta ...

(born 1945), football coach and former professional footballer *

Stefan Berger Stefan Berger (born 1964) is the Director of the Institute for Social Movements, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and Chairman of the committee of the Library of the Ruhr Foundation. He is Professor of Social History at the Ruhr University. He ...

(born 1969), Member of Parliament,

Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia The Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia is the state parliament (''Landtag'') of the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which convenes in the state capital of Düsseldorf, in the eastern part of the district of Düsseldorf-Hafen, Hafen ...

Bernhard Rösler Bernhard is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name *Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar (1604–1639), Duke of Saxe-Weimar * Bernhard, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen (1901–1984), head of the House of Saxe-Meiningen 194 ...

(1906–1973), entrepreneur, honorary citizen of the municipality of Schwalmtal (1972) * Joachim "Joko" Winterscheidt (born 1979), actor and presenter (grew up in Waldniel) * Karl Oelers (1913–1971), manufacturer

References

Villages in North Rhine-Westphalia {{Viersen-geo-stub