Amelunxen (Beverungen)
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Amelunxes
City of Beverungen
Coordinates: 51 ° 42 ′ 44 ″ N , 9 ° 20 ′ 37 ″ E
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| Height : | 110 m above sea level NN |
| Area : | 14.31 km² |
| Residents : | 1236 (2005) |
| Population density : | 86 inhabitants / km² |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 1970 |
| Postal code : | 37688 |
| Primaries : | 05273, 05275 |
 Location of Amelunxen in Beverungen
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Amelunxen is a village in North Rhine-Westphalia and belongs to the city of Beverungen in the Höxter district .
geography
The place with about 1250 inhabitants is about 6 km northwest of the core city Beverungen and about 7 km southwest of Höxter .
The Nethe flows past the place.
history
In the year 811 the place was first mentioned as Amalung in a document of Charlemagne . It was the ancestral seat of the Knights of Amelunxen , who sat here until the end of the 17th century.
During the Second World War, no German troops were stationed in the community. In April 1945 the village was set up for defense by an unknown German unit, reinforced by some pioneers. Positions were dug, anti-tank barriers were put in place and the two railway overpasses and the four Nethe bridges were prepared for demolition. On the afternoon of April 5, the defenders were reinforced by around 130 Waffen SS soldiers. Amelunxen should definitely be kept as a bridgehead on the western bank of the Weser. On the evening of April 5, the Americans, coming from Ottbergen, felt against the place for the first time. However, they immediately withdrew when they encountered resistance. On the morning of April 6th, the Americans began shelling the village. Then there was heavy street and house fighting, as a result of which the structures prepared for demolition were destroyed by the Germans. During the blasts, Amelunxen damaged or destroyed other houses. Around noon, three-quarters of the village was occupied by the Americans after continuing violent street fighting. The last building to be occupied by the Americans was the house of the Menke family at the eastern exit of the town on the road to Wehrden. The command post of the German defenders had been in this building since the afternoon. 15 German and 13 American soldiers were killed in the fighting for Amelunxen.
The formerly independent municipality in the Beverungen office merged on January 1, 1970 with ten other municipalities in the Beverungen office and the city of Beverungen to form the new city of Beverungen on the basis of the Höxter Act .
Population development
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1885 | 960 | |
| December 1, 1910 | 955 | |
| 1925 | 1091 | |
| 1933 | 1159 | |
| 1939 | 1077 | |
| June 6, 1961 | 1269 | |
| December 31, 1967 | 1275 | |
| December 31, 1969 | 1256 | |
| 1980 | 1295 | |
| 1985 | 1298 | |
| 1990 | 1270 | |
| 1995 | 1350 | |
| 1998 | 1316 | |
| 2000 | 1325 | |
| 2002 | 1296 | |
| 2004 | 1258 | |
| 2005 | 1236 |
Coat of arms
The place bears the unofficial coat of arms of the family of the Amelunxes : in red, two silver posts each covered with four and a half blue iron hats (Eisenhutfeh). On the helmet with red and silver covers, nine silver tournament lances with flags like the shield.
Buildings
- In the center of the village there are two churches:
- The Romanesque St. George's Church was consecrated in 1118 and finally evangelical in 1651, after frequent changes of ownership between the two denominations.
- The Catholic St. Peter and Paul Church was built from 1818 to 1822 on behalf of Ferdinand von Lüninck .
- The Amelunxen castle was in 1554 in the style of the early Weser Renaissance built. Its interiors are not open to the public.
- About 16 tombstones have been preserved in the Jewish cemetery .
education
In Amelunxen there is a community primary school, which had to close in the summer of 2014 and therefore for the 2015 school year, as well as a kindergarten for 50 children.
traffic
Coming from the south, the state road L 837 runs through Amelunxen, which joins the B 64 north of it .
The Sollingbahn runs through the village; As in Amelunxen West , the Altenbeken – Kreiensen railway line no longer stops at the Amelunxen stops .
The R 2 cycle path, coming from Brakel , leads through Amelunxen via Godelheim to the confluence of the Nethe into the Weser, where there is a connection to the Weser cycle path (R 99).
Personalities
- Gustav von Ewers (1781–1830), historian, constitutional law teacher, rector of the University of Dorpat, Imperial Russian Real Councilor of State, born in Amelunxen
literature
- Franz J. Blaschke, Alexander von Köckritz, Birgit Steinmann, Leopold Schütte, Nolte, Strassmann: Amelunxen, 1150 years: Searching for traces - from the past and present of the village of Amalunxen . Huxaria, 1999, ISBN 978-3-9805700-6-0 .
Web links
- Amelunxen's website
- Amelunxen in the Westphalia Culture Atlas
Footnotes
- ↑ Hand Boelte: The Höxter district "in those days" - The end of the war in 1945 between Weser and Egge . 2nd Edition. Bussesche Verlagshandlung, Herford.
- ^ Georg Tessin: Associations and troops of the German Wehrmacht and the Waffen SS in World War II 1939–1945, Volume 16, Part 2: Wehrkreise VII - XIII . tape 16 , no. 2 . Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1996.
- ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 107 .
- ↑ a b c d Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. hoexter.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Municipal directory 1900: District Höxter
- ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 158 .
- ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 104 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Page no longer available , search in web archives: City of Beverungen residents' registration office, from structural atlas 2005 for the Höxter district (PDF; 1.5 MB)
- ^ Anna Bálint: Castles, palaces and historical aristocratic residences in the Höxter district . Ed .: District of Höxter. Höxter 2002, ISBN 3-00-009356-7 , p. 30-31 .
- ↑ Amelunxen primary school closed , accessed on February 11, 2017.
