Birkelbach (Erndtebrück)

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Birkelbach
Erndtebrück municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 53 ″  N , 8 ° 16 ′ 6 ″  E
Height : 476 m
Area : 8.04 km²
Residents : 810  (December 31, 2013)
Population density : 101 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 57339
Area code : 02753
Birkelbach town sign
Birkelbach town sign

Birkelbach is a district of Erndtebrück in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district in North Rhine-Westphalia with around 800 inhabitants.

geography

Neighboring places

history

Birkelbach between 1896 and 1900
The Protestant Church in Birkelbach
Picture of the school grounds in 1944

The first documentary evidence for Birkelbach can be found in 1475. In a document (No. 1058 in the Princely Archives Berleburg), Count Johann zu Wittgenstein pawned some meadows in Birkelbach (Bergkelbach) on February 9, 1475. At that time, Birkelbach was probably still a desert . Information that dates the first documentary mention of Birkelbach to the year 1344 has meanwhile turned out to be an error. The resettlement took place at the beginning of the 16th century. In 1538 the place belonged to the Erndtebrück family . In 1590 he was awarded the office of Berleburg. Birkelbach was parish in the parish Wingeshausen in 1607. From the year 1619 the own parish exists. The Evangelical Church in Birkelbach has been registered in the list of monuments of the Erndtebrück community since September 1991. The Birkelbach Schulzerei existed from 1733. An expansion followed

1819 to the district of Birkelbach with the localities of Womelsdorf and Birkefehl. From 1845 Birkelbach belonged to the Berghausen office. In 1914 the Altenhundem – Birkelbach railway was opened.

Population development

  • 1961: 1109 inhabitants
  • 1970: 1016 inhabitants
  • 1974: 1005 inhabitants
  • 1992: 1095 inhabitants
  • 1995: 0898 inhabitants
  • 1997: 0861 inhabitants
  • 2000: 0874 inhabitants
  • 2002: 0846 inhabitants
  • Birkelbach stop
    2005: 0875 inhabitants
  • 2007: 0849 inhabitants
  • 2010: 0794 inhabitants
  • 2012: 0819 inhabitants
  • 2013: 0810 inhabitants

Incorporation

Since the territorial reform, which came into force on January 1, 1975, the place, which was previously an independent municipality in the then Wittgenstein district , belongs to the municipality of Erndtebrück.

Culture

In 1921 the Sportfreunde Birkelbach were founded. The shooting club was founded in 1953.

Former Reifensteiner school or Christian youth village

School gardens 1985

A Reifensteiner school was opened at Easter 1928 . The number of female pupils rose steadily, internally the school ran under the name Wittgenstein .

From September 1939 the school was planned as a reserve hospital and from 1944 almost all female pupils were forced to work in armaments factories. Schools could not be resumed until November 1945. From 1946 to 1952, the school took on the girls' section of the destroyed agricultural school in Erndtebrück. From the mid-1950s to 1980, the number of female students rose to 170. Among others, Luz Leskowitz performed at the women's school in Birkelbach in 1960 when he was seventeen.

In 1980 the first male student was admitted to the school, and in 1988 a book on a festive buffet was published. In the mid-1980s, however, the number of female students began to drop so sharply that, despite constantly changing training opportunities, the Reifensteiner Association transferred its school to the Christliche Jugenddorfwerk Deutschlands e. V. handed over.

The school will continue to run as the “Wittgenstein Youth Village - Reifenstein School”. Since then, the range of tasks has expanded to include youth welfare, educational measures, the accommodation of unaccompanied refugee minors and measures commissioned by the Federal Employment Agency .

Economy and Infrastructure

In Birkelbach there is the Beuter Wood Energy Center , which produces and sells energy wood .

Local heating network

In 2016, the initiative Nahwärmenetz Birkelbach-Womelsdorf, NaBiWo for short, was founded, which would like to implement such a project with a central wood chip heating system for both villages.

traffic

The Birkelbach stop is on the Erndtebrück – Bad Berleburg railway line . This is served by regional trains every hour. The Altenhundem – Birkelbach railway line, which was closed in 1944, used to flow here .

Personalities

literature

  • Village reading book, 525 years of Birkelbach, 1475–2000. Ed. Evangelical Church Community Birkelbach, Dorfgemeinschaft Birkelbach, self-published 2000.
  • Andreas Krüger: The first mention of Birkelbach. In: Wittgenstein , Blätter des Wittgensteiner Heimatverein (1986), p. 53 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günther Wrede : Territorial history of the County of Wittgenstein. NG Elwertsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Marburg 1927, pp. 136–137.
  2. ↑ 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 .
  3. ↑ 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 .
  4. ↑ 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 )
  5. ↑ Ortrud Wörner-Heil: Women's schools in the country 1997
  6. ↑ Luz Leskowitz is adopted. siegener-zeitung.de, accessed on March 10, 2016 .
  7. ^ Ingrid Gräfe, The festive buffet of the Reifensteiner School in Birkelbach. Published by Reifensteiner Schule Wittgenstein, Birkelbach, 1988
  8. ^ Announcement from the Reifensteiner Verband on the anniversary of the handover. (PDF) August 2, 2010, accessed March 10, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Andreas Müller visited Christian Youth Village. District administrator agrees to support. siegener-zeitung.de, March 15, 2016, accessed on October 3, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Beuter Wood Energy Center. Retrieved October 3, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Local heating network Birkelbach-Womelsdorf. nabiwo.de, accessed on May 8, 2016 .
  12. ↑ Great interest in local heating. derWesten.de, May 5, 2016, accessed on May 8, 2016 .