Bachum

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Bachum
City of Arnsberg
Bachum coat of arms
Coordinates: 51 ° 27 ′ 49 ″  N , 7 ° 55 ′ 52 ″  E
Height : 197  (151-253)  m
Area : 3.45 km²
Residents : 872  (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 253 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 59757
Area code : 02932
St. Isidore Church
St. Isidore Church

Bachum is a small district of Arnsberg in the Hochsauerlandkreis ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) with 872 inhabitants.

The place owes its name to the old form of the name "Bachem" or "Bakhem", where the syllable "Bac" or "Bak" means hill and "hem" means home . From this the name "Backum" and today Bachum arose. So the name means home on the hill . Only an old legend interprets the name as "Heimat am Bache". The St. Isidor Church is roughly in the center of the village .

geography

Bachum is located south-west of the course of the Ruhr between Vosswinkel and Neheim . The three-kilometer-long Bachumer Bach rises north of Dreihausen and flows into the Ruhr.

history

Granary of the Brandhof

The first mention Bachums dated from the year 1036 of a certificate in Urbar the abbey are . A farm in Bachum was initially owned by the knight Sigenand von Batthausen. Because he was childless, he and his wife Hathewigis donated their two farms in Bachum and Oelinghausen to the church in 1170 with the condition that one of the two farms be used as a monastery. This happened in 1174 in Oelinghausen . In 1860 the village "Dreihausen" belonging to Bachum was founded and in 1901 the settlement "Cameroon" outside the village center was founded. On January 1, 1975, Bachum came to the enlarged town of Arnsberg as part of the municipal reorganization.

politics

coat of arms

Blazon : a slanted golden hoe in red.

Description: The hoe stands both as a symbol for the holy farmer Isidor, to whom the Bachum chapel is consecrated, as well as for the former purely agricultural orientation of the place. The color version has no historical reference. The coat of arms was approved by the Interior Minister of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia on March 22, 1963.

societies

  • Bachum women's community
  • Bachum Cemetery Association
  • Mixed choir Bachum
  • Catholic Schützenbruderschaft St. Isidor Bachum eV
  • SV Bachum-Bergheim eV

Web links

Sources and individual references

  1. ↑ City of Arnsberg: Residents main and secondary residence by district , accessed on June 20, 2019
  2. ↑ see article by Bernhard Bahnschulte in the weekly supplement "Our Home" of the "Ruhr-Möhne-Zeitung" of November 5, 1924, printed in "Discovering Heimat with Bernhard Bahnschulte", 1998, published by Heimatbund Neheim-Hüsten eV
  3. ↑ from "Auf Bergheim and in Bachum", Catholic Church Community St. Joseph Bergheim, ISBN 3-9805004-6-2
  4. ^ 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. 330 .
  5. ^ Eduard Belke, Alfred Bruns, Helmut Müller: Kommunale Wappen des Herzogtums Westfalen, Arnsberg 1986, p. 132 ISBN 3-87793-017-4