Benfe (Erndtebrück)

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Benfe
Erndtebrück municipality
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 2 ″  N , 8 ° 14 ′ 33 ″  E
Height : 577  (550-590)  m
Area : 8.78 km²
Residents : 387  (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 44 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 57339
Area code : 02753
Look at Benfe
Image taken from the Forestry Atlas of the County of Wittgenstein from 1739. The map shows the first house in Benfe, built around 1713.

Benfe is the highest district of Erndtebrück in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district in North Rhine-Westphalia . The village has about 400 inhabitants.

geography

location

Benfe is located on a high plateau on the southwestern edge of the Wittgensteiner Land . It is located in the southern part of the Rothaargebirge or in the Sauerland-Rothaargebirge nature park . In the vicinity are the sources of Sieg , Eder and Lahn, as well as the Benfe , which flows around the place as an Eder tributary to the east. Benfe is embedded between the Kleiner Kopf ( 615.6  m above sea level ; north), the Weibelskopf ( 620.7  m above sea level ; east), the Aukopf ( 644.9  m above sea level ; south) and the Jagdberg ( 634.5  m above sea  level ; north-west) and lies at 550 to 590  m above sea level. NN . The coal road (a former farm road between Wittgensteiner Land and Siegerland ) leads through the village and the Rothaarsteig through the southern parts of the village . Temperature measurements made in the valley below the village in recent years indicate that the Benfetal is the coldest valley in northwest Germany . To ensure the result, a weather station was set up there and activated on November 18, 2019.

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Benfe are Erndtebrück in the north, Rückershausen in the north-east, Volkholz in the east, Großenbach in the south-south-east, Walpersdorf in the south-south-west, Sohlbach in the west-north-west and Lützel in the north-west.

history

In the man book of Herr von Bicken , a fiefdom register from 1344, the as yet uninhabited area is mentioned for the first time: The "Gewelde und Gewelde" is called the Benphe. Further notarizations of the area on the Benfer plateau take place with boundary descriptions in the years 1515 and 1630. Settlement began in 1713 with Johann Jost Hippenstiel (1665–1738). The first settlers were charcoal burners . The iron hammers in Ludwigseck required a large amount of charcoal . The wooded region offered the best conditions for the charcoal trade. In 1758 Benfe counted two canon estates , two other villagers are mentioned as assessors in the list of subjects in the “Feudinger Quarter” . From 1819 the place belonged to the mayor district of Erndtebrück. In 1845 Benfe was part of the Erndtebrück office.

The location of the Wittgenstein village in the immediate vicinity of the Siegerland meant that at the beginning of the 20th century some villagers began to settle on the Kohlenstraße, southwest of the village of Benfe. The head forester's house in Netphen had set up a small official apartment there around 1900, which was given up again in 1910 when the Hohenroth forester's house was rebuilt. In 1911 the modest property in the area of ​​the municipality of Nauholz , the so-called "Waldheim", was acquired and expanded by a forest worker from Benfer. During the 1930s two more houses were built on the outskirts of Benfe. This new settlement was named "Waldheim" after the former forester's apartment. As early as April 29, 1914, the bailiff from Netphen applied to the Benfe community that a child from the Waldheim settlement should attend the village school in Benfe "as a guest" and against payment of school fees, as the long way to school to Brauersdorf could not be expected of him . On November 6, 1935, the residents of Waldheim successfully submitted an application for re-parish to the parish of Erndtebrück . On August 7, 1967, the council of the community of Nauholz decided to spin off the community district "Waldheim" at the request of the residents concerned. By decree of the IM NRW of April 17th, 1968 the incorporation of the settlement "Waldheim" into the community Benfe was sealed. In 2018 there are now nine houses here.

From 1952, the German farmers' settlement in Röspe and Ludwigseck built two new housing estates in the Wittgenstein district. About half of the construction of the "Ludwigseck settlement" took place in the Benfe municipality. Here displaced people from Silesia and East and West Prussia found a new home and ensured a significant increase in the population of the community.

The place has belonged to the municipality of Erndtebrück since the territorial reform, which came into force on January 1, 1975, and was an independent municipality in the then Wittgenstein district until it was incorporated .

Population development

  • Postcard view of Benfe from 1910. Unknown photographer. Scan from April 4, 2014. View of the Oberdorf Benfe; In the background on the right: Shell of the Benfe village school after the previous building had burned down.
    1819: 048 inhabitants in 05 houses
  • 1854: 128 inhabitants in 13 houses
  • 1900: 156 inhabitants
  • 1925: 210 inhabitants
  • 1939: 208 inhabitants
  • 1946: 275 inhabitants
  • 1956: 422 inhabitants
  • 1961: 364 inhabitants
  • 1968: 394 inhabitants in 65 houses
  • 1970: 383 inhabitants
  • 1974: 380 inhabitants
  • 1992: 384 inhabitants
  • 1995: 446 inhabitants
  • 1997: 432 inhabitants
  • 2000: 451 inhabitants
  • 2002: 457 inhabitants
  • 2005: 431 inhabitants
  • 2007: 421 inhabitants
  • 2010: 395 inhabitants
  • 2012: 395 inhabitants
  • 2018: 387 inhabitants

literature

  • Rolf Dieter Bald: Action week “Coal pile Benfe 1995” . In: Wittgenstein. Leaves of the Wittgensteiner Heimatverein , 1996, issue 2, p. 69 ff.
  • Jochen Karl Mehldau : On the local and family history of Benfe . In: Wittgenstein. Leaves of the Wittgensteiner Heimatverein , 1990, issue 2, p. 57 ff.
  • Werner Wied : Hof Ludwigseck . In: Erndtebrück - a home book of the uppermost Edertal , edited by Werner Wied, Erndtebrück 1977, Volume II, p. 83 ff.
  • Werner Wied: Schürmannshof . In: In: Erndtebrück - a home book of the uppermost Edertal , edited by Werner Wied, Erndtebrück 1977, Volume II, p. 113 ff.
  • Dieter Bald: The Ludwigseck settlement . In: Refugees and Displaced Persons in Erndtebrück, A Contribution to Local History since 1946 , edited by Adolf Laues, Erndtebrück 1996, page 100 ff.
  • Dieter Bald: Comments on the first mention of the village of Benfe . In: Dorfbuch Benfe - A foray through 300 years of village history , published by Heimatverein Benfe 1992, Erndtebrück 2015, p. 10 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Wied: The living space of the village of Benfe - a mood picture from the past. In: Benfe village book. A journey through 300 years of village history. Heimatverein Benfe 1992 eV, Erndtebrück 2015, p. 309.
  2. ↑ Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )
  3. ↑ Benfe: Soon measurement data from the coldest valley in West Germany. October 17, 2019, accessed on October 18, 2019 (German).
  4. ↑ Benfe. Retrieved November 18, 2019 .
  5. ↑ The original of Bicken's man book is in the State Archives Koblenz, Dept. 54/32 III No. 2485.
  6. ↑ September 22, 1515: In a comparison across the state border between Wittgenstein and Nassau, the border course is u. a. Describe as follows: "... furth the mountain bit into the Lutzell and the river Abhien bit into the Benff, uß the Benff the mountain attached to the drawings still over ..." Source: BA Urk.Nr. 1493.
  7. ↑ May 31, 1630: Border march around the county of Wittgenstein-Wittgenstein at the instigation of Count Ludwig: To the Benfe area u a. noted: “… forters den Waldt out on the Benffer back (14) a stone, item on the way there is again a stone; from there down bit in the bench, there is also a stone set by the oak tree, and then the bottom of the water called the Lützel ... "Source: Princely Archives Wittgenstein, WA Acta G 52.
  8. ↑ WA, pension bill of 1713, page 130: “In the Benfe ohnweit Ludwigseck - Johann Jost Heppenstiel von Haus und Hoff and allowed to keep 12 head of cattle and a horse, 10 rh, had 3 years of freedom, went on 1713 in 7bris, so frey until 7bris 1716. "
  9. ↑ The Hohenroth forester's house in the Siegen-Wittgenstein regional forest office now houses a forest information center, is the seat of the “Waldland Hohenroth” association and the “Cafe Waldland” restaurant.
  10. ↑ W. Jocher: Fascination "Waldland Hohenroth". Retrieved on August 13, 2018 (German).
  11. ^ Dieter Bald: Dorfbuch Benfe, Hofgründungen im 20. Jahrhundert, Nauholz 26, page 126 ff, publisher: Heimatverein Benfe 1992 e. V., Erndtebrück 2015
  12. ↑ ders. Here: Benfe village chronicle, page 148
  13. ↑ ders. Here: Dorfchronik Benfe, page 153
  14. ↑ ders. Here: Benfe village chronicle, page 165
  15. ↑ ders. Here: Benfe village chronicle, page 165
  16. ↑ a b c 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. 337 .
  17. ↑ Adolf Wörster: The development of the office Erndtebrück . In: 700 years of Erndtebrück, Festschrift of the Erndtebrück community, 1956, p. 91.
  18. ↑ Ibid.
  19. ↑ Ibid.
  20. ↑ Home address book of the Wittgenstein district 1968, Erndtebrück office, p. 22.
  21. ↑ 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. 139 .
  22. ↑ Population of the municipality of Erndtebrück and its districts from 1992 to 2012: Click on the download of the population statistics of the municipality of Ernstebrück since 1992 ! ( Memento from September 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  23. ↑ Population statistics for the municipality of Erndtebrück on the municipality's HP, accessed on January 3, 2019, 1:20 p.m.