Benolpe (Kirchhundem)

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Benolpe
Kirchhundem parish
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 43 ″  N , 8 ° 1 ′ 13 ″  E
Height : 380 m
Residents : 457  (Jun 30, 2020)
Postal code : 57399

Benolpe is a village in the southern Sauerland . It forms the district 6 of the municipality Kirchhundem . As of June 30, 2020, the place had 457 inhabitants.

geography

Geographical location

The village of Benolpe belongs to the southern mountainous region of the Rhenish Slate Mountains, which is also known as the southern Sauerland or Olper country. It belongs to the so-called Bilsteiner Bergland . The village is located on the western foothills of the Rothaargebirge in the valley of the Olpe , a brook that flows northeast from Welschen Ennest and flows into the Hundem in Kirchhundem . The place is surrounded by the mountains Rimmert (569 m) in the east, Wolfshorn (642 m) in the south, Welperich (543 m), Waare (556 m) and Rehhecke (565 m) in the west and Haardt (527 m) in the north .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Benolpe are Varste in the east, Welschen Ennest in the south, Oberveischede (city of Olpe) in the west, Kirchveischede and Bilstein (both Lennestadt) in the north and Heidschott in the northeast.

history

The place Overolipe appears in an unspecified interest- bearing roll of the Deutz monastery from the 13th century. Some researchers suspect that this is the place Benolpe. The first reliable mention of Benolpe comes from a document from 1395, with which Johann Pepersack, his wife Liese and his brothers Hermann, Pastor zu Halver, and Wilhelm sell a quarter of the Free County of Hundem to Heidenreich von Heggen and Wilhelm Vogd von Elspe . In the deed, several residents of the village of Benolpe who belonged to the Free County are named.

Since the Middle Ages the village has belonged to the parish of Kirchveischede. With the acquisition of the Sayn feudal rights to the rule Bilstein by Count Engelbert III. by Mark 1359 Benolpe Maerkisch . After the siege of Bilstein Castle by Archbishop Dietrich II von Moers , the area was annexed to the Electoral Cologne Duchy of Westphalia in 1445 . Since then, Benolpe has belonged to the Electoral Cologne office of Bilstein . The rule of the Electorate of Cologne lasted until 1802/03, when the ecclesiastical principalities were dissolved as a result of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss . The Duchy of Westphalia was assigned to the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt , but came to Prussia as early as 1816 through the negotiations of the Congress of Vienna . Benolpe became a mayor's district in 1808; The administrative mayor in 1812 was Karl Joseph Höfer from Rahrbach . In 1826 mayor's offices were formed in place of the mayor's districts, which usually comprised four parishes. Benolpe came with the parish of Kirchveischede to the mayor of Bilstein. In place of the mayor's offices, offices were formed in 1843/44, whereby Benolpe came to the office of Bilstein with the political municipality of Kirchveischede.

The village was dominated by agriculture for centuries. However, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries there were also numerous miners in the village who were employed in the neighboring ore mines near Silberg and Varste. Benolpe did not benefit directly from the Ruhr-Sieg Railway , which opened in 1861 . The village did not even have a stop for passenger traffic and was therefore dependent on the railway station in Welschen Ennest, three kilometers away. It was not until 1954 that Benolpe got its own stop on the railway line, but it has been abandoned for a long time.

Religions

Since the Middle Ages , Benolpe has belonged to the Catholic parish of Kirchveischede. In the village there was one of St. Elizabeth consecrated chapel , which was first mentioned in the 1537th When two emigrated French clergy held Sunday services here in 1816/17, the need to get their own clergyman was aroused. In 1855, eight inmates laid the foundations for the establishment of a vicariate by buying a farm in Niederdielfen (Siegen district) for 2000 Taler . The Vikariefonds was also further supported during the construction of the Ruhr-Sieg Railway, in that the Benolper Einsassen let some of the basic compensation they are entitled to flow into it. The hunting leases paid for Benolpe were also allocated to the fund. In 1868 a parish vicarie was founded. Today's Catholic Church of St. Elisabeth was built in 1912 by the entrepreneur Plaßmann, Förde, according to plans by the architect Pinnenkamp, ​​Bochum. The Catholic parish of St. Elisabeth Benolpe is now part of the pastoral group “Am Cölschen Heck” in the Olpe deanery, Archdiocese of Paderborn.

Incorporation

Until the local reorganization on July 1, 1969, Benolpe belonged to the political municipality of Kirchveischede in the office of Bilstein and then came to today's municipality of Kirchhundem in the Olpe district.

Population development

year population
1931 391
1935 389
1940 360
1950 441
1959 395
1969 415
1974 469
1978 422
1985 461
1990 465
2010 478

Culture and sights

St. Elisabeth

The Catholic Church of St. Elisabeth Benolpe is a registered monument of the Kirchhundem community . There are also numerous half-timbered houses in the village, two of which are also registered as architectural monuments in the monuments list of the municipality of Kirchhundem. In the south-west of the village, on a hill, the Beul, there is a Marian grotto built in 1951.

music

In Benolpe there is the Elisabeth men's choir, which was founded in 1888.

Nature parks

Benolpe was on the border of the Ebbegebirge Nature Park (in the west) and Rothaargebirge in the east, which merged into the Sauerland-Rothaargebirge Nature Park in 2015 .

traffic

Benolpe is located on the federal highway 517 and on the Ruhr-Sieg Railway, which opened in 1861 . The former breakpoint no longer exists today. The next train stations are now in the neighboring town of Welschen-Ennest and in Lennestadt-Altenhundem.

Public facilities

In Benolpe, the Horst-Limper-Haus , the youth education center of the Olpe district, is located in the rooms of the former elementary school . The village has its own cemetery, which is run by the Catholic parish

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

  • Johannes Hatzfeld , priest, musician and writer
  • Walter Gerhold , (born June 8, 1921 in Benolpe, † March 2, 2013 in Lünen) lone fighter and one-man torpedo driver, first bearer of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of the Navy in the crew stand,

literature

  • Günther Becker, Martin Vormberg: Kirchhundem . History of the office and the community. Kirchhundem 1994.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kirchhundem parish: Places , accessed on August 4, 2020.
  2. ↑ Otto Lucas: The Olper Land . Work of the Geographical Commission in the Provincial Institute for Westphalian Regional Studies and Folklore. tape 4 . Münster 1941, p. 4th f. and 22 f .
  3. ↑ a b c State Surveying Office North Rhine-Westphalia (Ed.): Hiking map 1: 25,000 Lennestadt-Kirchhundem . 2nd Edition. 1989 (based on topographic map 1: 25,000).
  4. ^ Graf von Spee'sches Archiv ( Attendorn -) Ahausen, Ahausen-Grevenstein-Salwey files No. 67a. 17th century copy of the lost original document.
  5. ↑ Günther Becker, Hans Mieles: Bilstein . Country, castle and place. In: Contributions to the history of the Lennestadt area and the former rule of Bilstein . Lennestadt 1975, p. 154 ff .
  6. ^ Martin Vormberg, Fritz Müller: Contributions to the history of mining in the Olpe district . In: Series of publications of the Olpe district . Part 1: Mining in the Kirchhundem community, No. 11 . Olpe 1985, p. 67 .
  7. ↑ a b Lucie Löcker: My home village (Benolpe) . 1950.
  8. ↑ Kirchhundem municipal archive, holdings: archival material in book form, No. 10, Benolpe school chronicle, p. 39
  9. ^ Gerig: Church conditions in 1628 in the area of ​​today's Olpe district . In: Voices from the Olpe district . 8th episode, 1951, p. 485 ff .
  10. ↑ Klemens Stracke, Maria Nolte: The history of the church (Benolpe) . In: Festschrift 75 years Schützenverein Benolpe e. V. oouJ 1980, p. 35 .
  11. ↑ Kirchhundem community archive, inventory: Rahrbach community, numbers 78, 225 and 228. In it: civil status recordings from the Bilstein office
  12. ↑ Registration office of the municipality of Kirchhundem
  13. ↑ List of monuments of the Kirchhundem community
  14. ↑ Martin Vormberg, Edgar Zoor: Marienbildstocks - an unmistakable sign of the veneration of Mary in the Kurkölnischen Sauerland using the example of the parish of Kirchhundem . In: Marian veneration in the Sauerland . Schmallenberg-Holthausen 2004, p. 273 ff .
  15. ↑ Tourism map . Retrieved February 8, 2011 .

Günther Becker, Martin Vormberg: Kirchhundem. (see literature):

  1. ↑ p. 24
  2. ↑ Passim
  3. ↑ p. 294
  4. ↑ p. 419f
  5. ↑ p. 430
  6. ↑ p. 263