Lenhausen

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Lenhausen
Finnentrop municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 3 ″  N , 7 ° 58 ′ 1 ″  E
Height : 230 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 1169  (December 31, 2016)
Postal code : 57413
Area code : 02395
Lenhausen (Olpe district)
Lenhausen

Location of Lenhausen in the district of Olpe
Passage through the village with St. Anna and Castle
Passage through the village with St. Anna and Castle

Lenhausen is a district in the municipality of Finnentrop in the Sauerland with around 1,170 inhabitants, which is located at the confluence of the Lenne and Fretter rivers .

Townscape

The townscape of the village center is partly still characterized by ancient times; some half-timbered houses (for example in Westfalenstrasse 28) are still preserved. Worth seeing in Lenhausen are the old railway bridge (built 1859–1861 for the Ruhr-Sieg route through the Lennetal ), the Biggemann courtyard house (born in 1900), the Fretterbachhof (built in 1791), Lenhausen Castle (ancestral home of the von Plettenberg family) Lenhausen , built 1400), the parish church St. Anna (1898/1899), the Sparkasse (built 1800), the Schützenhalle (1910), the Marienkapelle with the Achtermann - Pietà (built 1881/82), the Jewish cemetery (1900) and the Lenhausen run-of-river power station (built in 1928).

history

An appraisal register (used to raise taxes) from 1543 gives approximate indications of the size of Lenhausen at that time. According to this, at that time there were a total of 14 people liable to treasure in “Lenhaußer Burschäft und Dorf” (excluding 1 person who was considered poor). The number of those liable for the treasury is likely to have roughly matched the existing families or houses.

Lenhausen had an important Jewish community. In 1818, 66 Jewish residents lived there. The population share of 18.6% was the highest in the Duchy of Westphalia . After the synagogue districts were demarcated in the middle of the 19th century, Lenhausen was the seat of a synagogue community in the Meschede district next to Meschede . She was also responsible for the relatively few Jews in the entire Olpe district . It had a half-timbered synagogue built in the 18th century. The physician and publicist Alexander Haindorf emerged from the community. The community was destroyed during the Holocaust.

Born in Lenhausen

See also

literature

  • Alfons Greitemann: Lenhausen, my home village in the past and present. Balve 1968. Full text (PDF)

Web links

Commons : Lenhausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population statistics of the municipality of Finnentrop (as of December 31, 2016). (PDF) Municipality of Finnentrop, accessed on May 16, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Estimation register from 1543 ( Memento of the original from October 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 75. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.heimatbund-finnentrop.de
  3. ↑ Georg Glade: The Jews in the former Duchy of Westphalia : In: Harm Klueting (Ed.): The Duchy of Westphalia . Vol. 2, Part. 2: The former Electoral Cologne Duchy of Westphalia in the area of ​​today's Hochsauerland, Olpe, Soest and Märkischer Kreis (19th and 20th centuries) . Aschendorff, Münster 2012. ISBN 978-3-402-12862-6 . Pp. 1041-1082, here pp. 1045, 1057 and 1059.