Willich - Alt-Willich
Alt-Willich is with more than 220 thousand citizens and a surface area of 37 sqkm the largest village in the town of Willich. In the centre is the church St. Katharina situated.
Every Friday the farmers' market takes place in the marketplace adjacent to the church every Friday.
Behind the parish church St. Katharina is the sculpture 'Sekes Männekes' situated.
A goblin brings the church tower into an askew position with a rope. Next to it lays the dead farmer from the Hardter farm 'Teufelshof' with a pig.
View from the market into the Kreuzstraße. On the left the Brauereistraße. Here one finds a board in the facade, which remembers the former brewery location of the Hannen-Brewery.
'The distinctive 'Hannen-Fist', introduced as a symbol of the same-named brewery in 1921, was well into the 1980ties the synonym for dark beer'.
Source: Town Willich, about the exhibition: From the Hannen-Fist to the horned lion.
'At the beginning of the 1960ties the brewery, situated right in the centre of Willich, became too small for the company. In 1964 the corporate management decided to relocate the brewery from Willich to Mönchengladbach into the village of Neuwerk. In 1975 the production in Willich came to an end, administration was relocated to Neuwerk a bit later and in 1986 most parts of the former brewery were pulled down.'
Source: Wikipedia