Ossendorf (Warburg)

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Ossendorf
City of Warburg
Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 42 ″  N , 9 ° 5 ′ 13 ″  E
Height : 183 m
Area : 6.49 km²
Residents : 1332
Population density : 205 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 34414
Area code : 05642
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Location of Ossendorf in Warburg
View from Heinberg towards Ossendorf
View from Heinberg towards Ossendorf

Ossendorf is a district of Warburg in Westphalia and is located in the northwestern part of the urban area, about 5 km from the city center. The place has about 1332 inhabitants.

history

The place was mentioned in the Corvey tradition between 825 and 876. The place is documented as Pagus Ossenthorp around 1100, which was in the bailiwick of Count Konrad von Rietberg.

There are the following historical names for the current place name Ossendorf: Ossendorpe, Ossendorpp, Ossendorp.

The local Catholic church with the patron saint John the Baptist was built in the 12th century. The Westphalian baroque master builder Johann Conrad Schlaun was baptized on June 5, 1695 in this church, a predecessor of today's church building . The Kliftmühle was first mentioned in writing in 1323. Ossendorf is on the Dutch road, now the B 7 , which runs from the Dutch border to Leipzig.

The town's landmark is the Heinturm , the construction of which was commissioned by Dietrich II von Moers in 1430. In 1444 the Asseler Forest was sold to the city of Warburg. Wormeln Monastery had a granary built on the church square in 1489. During the Thirty Years' War, Ossendorf was almost completely destroyed in 1642. The destroyed parish church was renewed in 1656. In 1557, Prince-Bishop Theodor Adolf von der Recke gave Ossendorf a new shooting order. The burnt down Kliftmühle was rebuilt in 1685. A post office was built in Ossendorf in 1747. Ossendorf became famous through the Battle of Warburg in the Seven Years' War . Due to the battle, the population fell sharply. After the battle there were only eight male residents in the village. At the end of the Second World War, there was a low-flying attack on February 22, 1945. Archaeological excavations took place on the old town path and on the Gaulskopf in 1966 and 1995. In 2001 Ossendorf celebrated its 1150th anniversary.

archeology

An old Saxon defense system and graves from Franconian times were found in Ossendorf .

Incorporation

On January 1, 1975, Ossendorf was incorporated into the city of Warburg.

building

St. John the Baptist front of the main entrance, photo from the B7 federal road

The Catholic Church of John the Baptist was rebuilt in 1904 in the neo-Romanesque style. The architect was the Paderborn cathedral builder Franz Mündelein . On June 17, 1907, the new church, which was consecrated in 1905, was consecrated by Paderborn Bishop Wilhelm Schneider . The church is located directly on the through road Bundesstrasse 7.

St. John's Chapel

The Johannes Chapel was built in 1776 by the judge Johannes Menne. On the stone is the inscription "God and Saint John the Baptist June 24th 1776 Joes Menne R. u. P." (Judge and postman). Since 1776 the procession on the patron saint festival of St. John Beheading has been moving to the St.

The current primary school building was rebuilt in 1959 on Nörder Straße, and the then primary school was inaugurated the following year. The building was expanded in 1978. In 1973 the kindergarten next to the school was rebuilt, and in 1993 the building was expanded. The gym was built from 1980 to 1982.

Personalities

literature

  • Leifeld, Josef (1986): Ossendorf. In: Mürmann, Franz (ed.): The city of Warburg 1036–1986. Contributions to the history of a city. Volume 2. Warburg: Hermes, pp. 467-469. ISBN 3-922032-07-9 .
  • Plass, Anton W. (1966): Ossendorf, Warburg district (Westphalia). A home book. Warburg: Association d. Home friends Warburg.
  • Norbert Aleweld. Franz Mündelein 1857–1926. A Westphalian church builder at the end of historicism . Studies and sources on Westphalian history, Volume 38, 2000, ISBN 978-3-89710-138-8 .
  • Siegfried Thews: The Schanze near Ossendorf - a field fortification of the troops of the Duke of Braunschweig (1760). An inventory . In: Archeology in Ostwestfalen 12, 2014, pp. 73–77. ISBN 978-3-89534-902-7 .

Web links

Commons : Ossendorf (Warburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Torsten Capelle: Wall castles in Westphalia-Lippe. Published by the Antiquities Commission for Westphalia, Münster 2010, ISSN  0939-4745 , p. 21. No. FBW7 ( Early Castles in Westphalia special volume 1 )
  2. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 328 .