Bellersen

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Bellersen
City of Brakel
Coordinates: 51 ° 46 ′ 38 "  N , 9 ° 11 ′ 30"  E
Height : 173 m
Area : 8.74 km²
Residents : 665  (December 31, 2015)
Population density : 76 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1970
Postal code : 33034
Area code : 05276
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Location of Bellersen in Brakel
Bellersen from above

Bellersen is a district of the city of Brakel in the Höxter district in North Rhine-Westphalia and thus belongs to the East Westphalia-Lippe region . 665 people live in Bellersen (as of December 31, 2015).

Bellersen is a state-approved resort and became known, among other things, for its description in the novella Die Judenbuche by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff . Today Bellersen is the model tourist village of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is the village of the future as part of the East Westphalian OWL expo project and has won numerous awards.

history

The first written mention of Bellersen was as villa Baldereshusun in 1015. This makes Bellersen the oldest documented church in the diocese of Paderborn . The place was probably founded in the 9th century. Located in the Bruchtetal , Bellersen served as a stopover with an inn on a medieval long-distance route. During the Thirty Years' War , Bellersen, like the entire region, was devastated. After a period of recovery, the place received its baroque church, begun in 1746. After surviving the Seven Years' War , the place with 65 houses was almost completely destroyed on June 28, 1794.

Since its foundation, Bellersen has belonged to the secular rule of the German diocese Paderborn , originally in the duchy of Saxony . From the 14th century the territory of the prince-bishopric of Paderborn ( Hochstift ) was formed in the Holy Roman Empire , which became part of the Lower Rhine-Westphalian Empire from the 16th century . In 1802/03 the bishopric was occupied by the Kingdom of Prussia . In Napoleonic times the place was part of the Kingdom of Westphalia . From 1815 Bellersen belonged to the Kingdom of Prussia, from 1871 it was part of the German Empire . 1945–1949 Bellersen was subordinate to the British zone of occupation , from 1946 governed by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and from 1949 also by the Federal Republic of Germany .

On January 1, 1970, Bellersen was incorporated into the city of Brakel.

The "village B." of the Jewish beech

Literature museum Bökerhof

Bellersen became known not only in literary terms as “Village B.” in the novella Die Judenbuche , written by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff . It was based on a true story that the poet was familiar with from stories in her childhood. Initially as part of regular visits to Bökendorf , a direct neighbor of Bellersen, the Bökerhof Castle there, and ultimately also through the notes of her uncle August Franz von Haxthausen . In 1818 he published the underlying incident from the Bökendorf / Bellersen area under the title History of an Algier slave based on records in court files.

The real person behind the literary figure of Friedrich Mergel was the farmer's son Hermann Winkelhaus from Bellersen, who managed to escape abroad after murdering a Jewish trader from Ovenhausen . There he was enslaved shortly afterwards and only returned to his hometown after 25 years, where he subsequently took his own life by hanging. He was found by his wife on the book on which he had previously murdered the Jewish trader and the Jewish community then carved a sign in Hebrew script that the general population was unable to interpret. Despite the suicide in Bellersen, Hermann Winkelhaus was buried as a Catholic .

Culture

Bellersen is characterized by an active village community that has set itself the goal of creating a "modern" village design. In the context of rural structural change , numerous projects to promote tourism have been developed, implemented and future projects are planned. Under the organizational leadership of the Heimat- und Verkehrsverein, the village underwent a significant change, especially in the years 1993–1996. So to date (December 2008) the following projects have been implemented to promote tourism and numerous other offers have been created: village image improvement, Werkhaus with a wide range of courses, mobile home port, Urdorf exhibition, path to experience the senses, agricultural historical circular hiking trail, village pond, historical bakery with regular baking days, Kreativhof as a private artist workshop, holiday home complex, pure nature, Annette-von-Droste-Hülshoff hiking trail, information center, show distillery , grazing of green areas with old breeds of domestic animals , offer of carriage rides and llama tours.

In 2005 the local congregation decided to develop into an "Archedorf" with the support of the Futour regional office in Munich. The aim is to make the local community fit for the future with the help of a comprehensive concept for cultural landscape and tourism development and to promote tourism. The plans are based in particular on the preservation of the native flora and fauna, in particular endangered species, and their display for visitors.

The common striving of the local community for constructive change preceded the merger to form the Bellersen Alliance. On May 3, 2008, a monument was erected in front of the Werkhaus Bellersen in the form of a glowing glass sculpture. True to the motto “Shining example”, the studio group Ingrid Heuchel and Georg Lassen made a glass sculpture from two steles. Each of which is made up of many individual mosaics to represent the whole, as is the alliance to implement the goals set.

The club life of Bellersen is dominated by the sports club, shooting club, music club, Catholic women's community, MGV Concordia, volunteer fire brigade , tennis club, the theater group, the riding and driving club Bruchtetal, the KAB Meinolfus Bellersen, the home and tourist association and the altar boy community.

In addition to sporting events and festivals, the shooting festival is also part of the local community's annual program of events.

building

The Catholic parish church of St. Meinolf , which is a listed building, is a landmark building .

The old school opposite the church is also a listed building. It has been extensively renovated in recent years.

Prices

  • Model tourism village of North Rhine-Westphalia
  • "Village of the future" as part of the OWL-Expo project of the same name ( EXPO 2000 )
  • state-approved resort
  • 2002 Winner village in the European Village Renewal Prize
  • 2000 Landessilberdorf and 2003 Landesgolddorf in North Rhine-Westphalia in the state competition " Our village has a future "
  • 2004 Silberdorf in the national competition "Our village should be more beautiful - our village has a future"
  • 2006 one of 365 selected special locations in the soccer World Cup project "Germany Land of Ideas"

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.brakel.de/Stadt/Portrait/Ortschaften/Bellersen
  2. ↑ Franz Teckhoff (ed.): The life of Bishop Meinwerk of Paderborn (= Monumenta Germaniae Historica : Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum separatim editi ., Vol 59). Hahn, Hanover 1921, p. 38.
  3. ^ Krus 1997: 323
  4. ↑ History on the homepage of the place
  5. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 107 .
  6. ↑ cf. Martin Schlu: The Jewish beech background
  7. ↑ Website of the glass sculpture "Bündnis Bellersen"