Marienheide

coat of arms	Germany map
	Coordinates: 51 ° 5 '  N , 7 ° 32'  E
Basic data
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region :	Cologne
Circle :	Oberbergischer Kreis
Height :	360 m above sea level NHN
Area :	54.96 km 2
Residents:	13,522 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	246 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	51709
Primaries :	02264, 02261, 02269, 02359
License plate :	GM
Community key :	05 3 74 024
Address of the municipal administration:	Hauptstrasse 20 51709 Marienheide
Website :	marienheide.de
Mayor :	Stefan Meisenberg (independent)
Location of the community Marienheide in the Oberbergischer Kreis

Marienheide is a municipality belonging to the Oberbergischer Kreis in the administrative district of Cologne . It is located in the Bergisches Land in the southeast of North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

Municipal area
Map of Marienheide with the most important districts	B - Berghof - Borlinghausen D - Dahl - Däinghausen - Dannenberg - Dürhölzen - Dommermühle E - Eberg - Eiringhausen - Erlinghagen G - Gervershagen - Gimborn - Gogarten - Graben - Griemeringhausen - Grunewald H - Heierlöh - Himmerkusen - Hinterscharde - Höfel - Holzwipper - hut J - Jedinghagen K - Kalsbach - Kattwinkel - Kempershöhe - Königsheide - Kotthausen - Kotthauserhöhe - Krommenohl - Kümmel L - Lambach - Lehmkuhl - Leiberg - Lienkamp - Linge M - Mittelweg - Müllenbach N - Niederkotthausen - Niederwette O - Oberboinghausen - Obernhagen - Obersiemeringhausen - Oberwette R - Rodt S - Sattlershöhe - Schemmen - Schmitzwipper - Schöneborn - Schulzenkamp - Siemerkusen - Siepen - Späinghausen - Straße - Stülinghausen U - Unterboinghausen - Unterpentinghausen V - front guard W - Weierhof - Wernscheid - Wilbringhausen - Winkel Z - Zimmerberg
Neighboring municipalities and towns
		Kierspe ( Märkischer Kreis )
Wipperfürth		Meinerzhagen ( Märkischer Kreis )
Lindlar	Gummersbach	Bergneustadt

history

The place is mentioned for the first time in 1417: "In a sales deed , Heydenreich is named our dear women servant on the Mergenheyde ". On the altar lights of the old pilgrimage church a drawn coat of arms from 1601 can be seen, which bears the name "Mergenheyd". In an old brochure of the Catholic parish office Marienheide can read: ". The grace Marienheide leads its origin to the year 1420 and to a certain man back" This simple man called Heinrich had as Klausner in a hewn rock hiding "on the heath", ie lived in the “Bockelsburger Wald” and thus near today's railway line. The hermit is said to have lived on agriculture. Another, unspecified chronicle is cited as a source, and so it goes on to say that “the most glorious Mother of God appeared to this zealous Heinrich in the form of a small picture and ordered him to go to Cologne to get a similar picture for thirty pieces of silver to buy. ”This marked the beginning of the pilgrimage site. Klausner Heinrich found support from Count Gerhard von der Mark , the sovereign at the time, so that both Martin V and the Order of Preachers were interested. The first small church was built “in the wilderness” and later the Dominican monastery a little further away .

The community hit the headlines on February 27, 1998, when two teachers from the comprehensive school were murdered with a self-made explosive charge and in the same year the former husband of one of the victims was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Territorial reform

Marienheide was an independent mayor's office until 1931. In the course of the local reorganization , larger areas of the city of Kierspe and the former communities of Gimborn and Klüppelberg and smaller areas of the city of Gummersbach and the community of Lindlar were incorporated into Marienheide on January 1, 1975 (Section 16 Cologne Act ) ; As on July 1, 1969 (Section 1 No. 2 Oberberg Law), smaller parts of the area were handed over to Gummersbach (Section 15 Paragraph 2 No. 2 Cologne Law) in return.

politics

Municipal council

Local election 2014 Turnout: 58.04%  % 50 40 30th 20th 10 0 46.6% 25.2% 6.9% 8.2% 7.5% 3.3% 2.39% CDU SPD FDP UWG Green left EB Fernholz

Distribution of seats in the council of the Marienheide community        A total of 26 seats Left : 1 SPD : 7 Alliance2020 : 2 UWG : 2 FDP : 2 CDU : 12

The 26 seats of the council of the community Marienheide are divided between six parties and groups. Mayor Stefan Meisenberg is also a voting member of the municipal council.

mayor

In May 2014 Stefan Meisenberg (CDU / GRÜNE / FDP / voters group) was elected to succeed Uwe Töpfer with 73.9% of the vote.

Parish partnership

The Polish city ​​of Biała has been a twin town of Marienheide since 1993 . Biała has a predominantly rural structure and has around 2600 inhabitants.

coat of arms

The upper half shows two crossed, silver lifting hoes with gold stalks on a red background, above a five-petalled, silver rose with green sepals and yellow inflorescence. On the lower half, on a silver background, there is a modified Bergisch lion , blue-armored, double-tailed, red and with a raised right paw. He walks without a crown and thus differs from the coat of arms of the von Berg family.

Attractions

→ Main article : List of architectural monuments in Marienheide

Marienheide - view from the observation tower on the Ellberg

Healing pond in Marienheide

• Brucher dam
• Lingesetalsperre
• In the district of Müllenbach there is one of the so-called colored dungeons , one with medieval ceiling paintings - see Evangelical Church (Müllenbach) .
• Historic Dahl farmhouse , branch of the Museum of the Oberbergischer Kreis.
• The headwaters of the Wipper are located in the Börlinghausen district .
• The pilgrimage church of St. Mary's Visitation is located in the center of the village . It is the destination of pilgrimages in early July. The believers look for an image of a saint that is said to have worked miracles in the Middle Ages.
• The former spa park with the "healing pond" is located near the center of the village. The spa park was created when Marienheide was a recognized climatic health resort and had not yet decided on the economic focus “trade and industry”. For the people from the Ruhr area, Marienheide was considered a “summer resort” at the time. The "healing pond" is very old, and its name comes from the fact that it was kept free from contamination at a time when there was no public drinking water network and, above all, the laundry was not washed there. He was considered “whole” or “holy”.
• Gimborn Castle
• House of Stories in the Müllenbach district
• The Bergisches Drehorgelmuseum, the museum for jukeboxes in the Bergisches Land, shows 250 jukeboxes from three centuries in the former village church in the Kempershöhe district
• The Lambachpumpenmuseum shows a functioning water pump from 1911, which, thanks to an ingenious invention, works completely without electricity.
• Lookout tower on the Ellberg in Marienheide, 30 m high (demolished in 2009)
• Lookout tower on the Unnenberg near the village of the same name, 45 m high, highest point in the Oberbergischer Kreis. When the visibility is good, the view extends to the Siebengebirge .
• Hülloch: Limestone cave near Marienheide-Winkel on the Schieferstein (365 m high), secluded in the forest (N 51 ° 04.206, E 7 ° 30.375), information board of the Marienheide community from May 1973 at the cave entrance:

Brucher dam

Natural monument “Hülloch” (also Höhlloch) “Old books and writings tell of an underground passage to the Marienheide monastery and Gimborn Castle. These reports can be attributed to the legend: They were not confirmed by expert investigations in December 1972.

Dimension of the cave:

• Entrance hall 15 × 12 m
• Corridors in total 25 m
• Lowest point 7 m below the level of the entrance.

During the Thirty Years' War the cave served as a refuge for the surrounding residents from wandering gangs. It is interesting and new to note that limestone excavations have been carried out on a large scale in this area. The discovery of glazed stones points to earlier lime kilns. ”In the cave there is a cache, photos and information on access.

Churches

Pilgrimage
Church of St. Maria Visitation

Colorful church in Müllenbach

• Roman Catholic monastery and pilgrimage church of St. Mary's Visitation
• Roman Catholic Church of St. Ludwig Maria Grignion von Montfort
• Roman Catholic Church of St. Johann-Baptist (former Castle Church of Gimborn)
• Evangelical Church Marienheide
• Evangelical Church Müllenbach
• Evangelical Church Kotthausen
• Baptist Brethren Congregation Marienheide
• Evangelical Free Church Mission Congregation

Hiking and biking trails

The hiking trails in the Oberbergisches Land also include the Marienheide hiking trails, which are almost exclusively run by the Sauerland Mountain Association. V. (SGV) . Two supraregional hiking trails lead through Marienheide : The road of work and the Wupperweg , plus the two pilgrimage routes of Heidenstrasse (Leipzig - Cologne) and the Way of St. James . Marienheide is the start and end point of the water quintet themed cycle route .

traffic

Rail and bus transport

Marienheide Train Station is located on the single-track Volmetal track on which section of Dieringhausen and subsequent Aggertalbahn in rail transport hourly Oberbergische train to Cologne , and east to Meinerzhagen and Lüdenscheid wrong.

line	Line course	Tact	Transport network
RB 25	Oberbergische Bahn : Cologne Hansaring  - Cologne Hbf  - Cologne Messe / Deutz  - Cologne Trimbornstrasse - Cologne Frankfurter Strasse  - Rösrath-Stümpen - Rösrath  - Hoffnungsthal  - Lohmar-Honrath  - Overath  - Engelskirchen  - Ründeroth  - Gummersbach-Dieringhausen  - Gummersbach  - Marienheide  - Meinerzhagen  - Kierspe  - Halver-Oberbrügge  - Lüdenscheid-Bruges  - Lüdenscheid Status: timetable change December 2019	60 min	VRS

Local rail passenger transport (SPNV) is carried out by DB Regio NRW .

The tracks in the direction of Meinerzhagen were renovated by 2012 and went into operation when the timetable changed in December 2013.

Two other routes, the Leppetalbahn to Engelskirchen and the Wippertalbahn to Remscheid- Lennep, have long been shut down and dismantled.

The bus lines run from Marienheide train station for local road transport

• 308 Marienheide train station - Hütte - Frielingsdorf - Engelskirchen train station (OVAG, Mon-Fri, no evening and night traffic, limited traffic on Saturdays)
• 320 Marienheide train station - Meinerzhagen (OVAG, only weekday traffic, except for school trips, 5 trips a day)
• 336 Gummersbach - Marienheide - Wipperfürth - Remscheid-Lennep (OVAG, Mon-Sun every hour, night bus connections)
• 399 Marienheide train station - Kempershöhe - Gimborn - Dohrgaul - Holzwipper (OVAG, only on school days, hourly mornings and noon)

The tariff of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg (VRS) applies to all local public transport and the NRW tariff applies to all tariff areas .

Streets

Marienheide is connected to the trunk road network via the federal highways 4 ( E 40 ) and 45 ( E 41 ) as well as the federal highway 256 .

culture and education

• Primary school association "Heier Primary School" Marienheide
• Community elementary school Müllenbach
• Marienheide comprehensive school with secondary levels I and II
• District adult education center Dept. Marienheide
• Information and education center of the police (IBZ) Gimborn
• Leisure center of the Biblical Association Holzwipper
• Home for the ev. Military chaplaincy
• Marienheide community library with branch Müllenbach
• Catholic parish library

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

• Gottlieb Lambach (1838–1921), inventor of the Lambach pump
• Josef Müller-Marein (1907–1981), long-time editor-in-chief of Die Zeit and Writers
• Paul Lücke (1914–1976), Federal Minister for Housing, Federal Minister of the Interior
• Jochen Feldhoff (* 1943), former handball player
• Klaus Kater (* 1948), handball goalkeeper
• Johannes M. Becker (* 1952), political scientist, peace researcher and university professor
• Peter Vollmann (* 1957), football coach
• Lucy Scharenberg (* 1976), children's book author

People connected to Marienheide

• Bernd Podak (1942–2018), handball goalkeeper
• Thomas Derksen (* 1988), web video producer and author
• Stella Kramer (* 1989), handball player
• Paul Drux (* 1995), handball player

literature

• Hermann de Buhr, Martin Wittenberg, Volkmar Wittmütz: Chronicle Marienheide. Gronenberg, Gummersbach 1986, ISBN 3-88265-141-5 .
• Werner Knabe, Friedhelm König, Werner Kühr: Marienheide. A look into the past. Gronenberg, Gummersbach 1984, ISBN 3-88265-116-4 .
• Klaus Pampus: First documentary mentions of Oberbergischer places (= contributions to Oberbergischen history. Special vol. 1). Oberbergische Department 1924 e. V. of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein, Gummersbach 1998, ISBN 3-88265-206-3 .

Web links

Commons : Marienheide  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Community website
• Information - pictures - interesting facts - interesting facts about the community of Marienheide, the village of Oberwipper and the Oberbergischer Kreis

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 .   ( Help on this )
2. ^ Pampus: First documented mention of Oberbergischer places. 1998.
3. ^ Marienheide • History . 9 October 2010.
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. 301 .
5. ↑ ^{a b} European elections / local elections 2014 .
6. ↑ https://www.rundschau-online.de/region/oberberg/marienheide/-buendnis-2020-marienheide--marienheider-gruene-tret-aus-partei-aus---neue-fraktion-36253938
7. ↑ http://www.wahlresults.nrw.de/kommunalwahlen/2014/aktuell/d374024kw1400.html
8. ↑ Organ grinder gaiety. Retrieved January 11, 2019 . 
9. ↑ The Lambach pump in the Marienheide Pump Museum ( Memento of the original from July 21, 2015 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. 
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11. ↑ Level crossings remain a problem in Güntenbecke. May 25, 2012, accessed December 15, 2013 . 
12. ↑ "Up on the Volme. Expansion and reactivation of the Volmetalbahn. ”, P. 2 of 6.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF document 2.59 MB)