Bergheim (Steinheim)

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Bergheim
City of Steinheim
Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 3 ″  N , 9 ° 3 ′ 1 ″  E
Height : 161 m
Area : 6.99 km²
Residents : 1008  (December 31, 2014)
Population density : 144 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1970
Postal code : 32839
Area code : 05233
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Location of Bergheim in Steinheim

Bergheim is a district of Steinheim in the district of Höxter , North Rhine-Westphalia , and currently has 1008 inhabitants as of December 31, 2014. Until the incorporation, which came into force on January 1, 1970, Bergheim was an independent municipality in the Steinheim district .

history

Bergheim was first reliably mentioned in a document in 1031. Emperor Konrad II donated the Sandebeck estate with the associated settlements, including Berchem , to the church in Paderborn . Until 1350 jurisdiction lay with the Counts of Schwalenberg , after the line died out it fell to the noble lords of the Lippe . In addition to the bishopric Meierhöfen there was also the noble knight's seat Heithof in Bergheim , which was acquired by Heinrich von Rengershausen in 1517 , but was transferred to the lords of Oeynhausen zu Eichholz and Polhof in 1528 . When these no longer had any descendants entitled to inherit, the property fell to the bishop and also became a farm. In 1800 there was a serious fire that killed 29 houses, the school and the chapel. In 1802 the prince-bishopric of Paderborn was taken over by Prussia; this also ended the ecclesiastical ownership of Bergheim.

At that time there were twelve Meier, eleven Halbmeier and 42 Kötter and Häusler in Bergheim . From 1807 to 1813 Bergheim was part of the Kingdom of Westphalia under the rule of Jérôme Bonaparte. In addition to welcome reforms, this period also brought the citizens an increased tax burden, which impoverished the village. From October 1813 Bergheim was again Prussian and part of the canton Steinheim in the Brakel district , from 1830 the Höxter district.

With the construction of the Hanover – Altenbeken railway line (1868–1872), Bergheim lost its village isolation.

A census on October 10, 1934 found a population of 758, including 20 Protestants and 6 Jews. The last two Jews, the widow Paula Eisenstein (67 years old) and her son Fritz Eisenstein (39 years old), were deported to Theresienstadt on July 31, 1942 and later murdered in Auschwitz.

After the end of the Second World War , Bergheim grew by taking in the people who were expelled from the east. From the 1950s onwards, various commercial operations were established, and it was not until 1960–64 that the town received a central water supply and a sewage treatment plant. On January 1, 1970 Bergheim became a district of the city of Steinheim.

Buildings

From 1629 until the fire in 1800 there was a chapel in Bergheim. The Church of St. George was built on the same place around 1803. A grave cross made of sandstone commemorates the French priest Johann Ludwig Poislasnes, who looked after the parish until his death in 1825 and was buried at the church's cemetery. The church had to be demolished in 1895 because it was dilapidated. Today's St. Liborius Church was built according to plans by the Steinheim master builder Lakemeyer and the Paderborn cathedral master builder Arnold Güldenpfennig . It was inaugurated in 1896.

In the cemetery there is a baroque wayside shrine , which was probably built before 1700 and is considered the oldest in the area.

  • Parish Church of St. Liborius

  • Wayside shrine in the cemetery

Web links

Commons : Bergheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.steinheim.de/Stadt-Rathaus/Stadtportrait/Zahlen-und-Fakten
  2. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 109 .
  3. ^ A b Johannes Waldhoff: Bergheim . In: Steinheim (=  local history and folklore writings of the town of Steinheim ). tape 3 . Junfermann, Paderborn 1982, p. 172 .
  4. ↑ a b c d Johannes Waldhoff: Bergheim . S. 178 .
  5. ^ Johannes Waldhoff: Bergheim . S. 180 .
  6. ^ Johannes Waldhoff: Bergheim . S. 184 .
  7. ^ Bernhard Sprock: Crosses and wayside shrines in Bergheim . In: Steinheim (=  local history and folklore writings of the town of Steinheim ). tape 3 . Junfermann, Paderborn 1982, p. 412 .