Düdinghausen (Medebach)

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Düdinghausen
City of Medebach
Coat of arms of Düdinghausen
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 42 "  N , 8 ° 41 ′ 37"  E
Height : 472 m
Residents : 456
Incorporation : 1st July 1969
Postal code : 59964
Area code : 05632
View from the northwest to Düdinghausen
View from the northwest to Düdinghausen

Düdinghausen is the northernmost district of Medebach in the Hochsauerlandkreis in North Rhine-Westphalia . The community has 456 inhabitants.

Geographical location

The nature around Düdinghausen

Düdinghausen is situated in the northeast part of the Rothaar nearly 7.5 km north-northwest of the Medebacher core city and about 1.5 km (depending crow flies ) east of Kalied ( 744.8  m ), an offshoot of the Kahler Pön ( 775.3  m ) to about 472  m above sea level NHN . Located in the Sauerland-Rothaargebirge nature reserve , the Prisebecke , a tributary of the Wild Aa , flows through it.

history

overview

In 1194, the Flechtdorf monastery appears as the landlord. In 1197 the village of Düdinghausen was first mentioned in the Corvey Monastery register of properties . Due to its location as a border village between the County of Waldeck and the Electorate of Cologne . In 1334, due to the pledging of the noblemen to Büren , the place belonged to the County of Waldeck until 1548. The Reformation is introduced in 1529 . In the period from 1539 to 1663 the free county changed hands six times, but also the denomination. (Büren, then Kurköln and Waldeck). In 1650, after the Thirty Years' War , the villages of the Free County of Düdinghausen began to rebel against being reassigned to Waldeck. It was not until 1663 that the village was divided into part of Kurköln . The Counts of Waldeck keep the old church and extensive church land. They settle eleven Protestant families on their church land. Between 1710 and 1810, further potential for conflict developed between the Protestant Waldeck and the Catholic Kurköln, which led to violent disputes. In the struggle for supremacy, the Free County of Düdinghausen was an object of contention between Waldeck and Cologne for centuries. In 1802 the owner changes again and the village becomes part of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt . In 1807 the Principality of Waldeck surrenders its leasehold rights to Hesse. In 1810 the Protestant church was demolished because it was in disrepair, and Protestants no longer lived in the village. In 1816 Düdinghausen came to the Kingdom of Prussia . In 1841 the village gained the status of an independent political municipality , which it retained until the regional reform in 1969. Since then Düdinghausen has been a district of Medebach.

In particular, the constant changes of ownership and rule hindered the development of the village and led to constant economic hardship for the local farmers. This situation only improved, if only slowly, after the farms were freed from medieval fiefs and burdens between 1820 and 1850 .

The hardship meant that the woodturning trade was becoming increasingly important as a sideline. The world's largest wooden beer crane was manufactured here in 1934, and this craft is still practiced today.

On July 1, 1969, Düdinghausen was incorporated into Medebach.

Parish Church of St. John

politics

The crest

Coat of arms of the former municipality

The three-fold shield shows in the right field the sword ( white (silver) sword on black background ) as a sign of the free county with the old jurisdiction, in the left field the Electoral Cologne Cross ( black cross on white (silver) ground ), because Kurköln passes through here Possessed sovereignty for centuries. The Waldecker star in the lower part of the coat of arms ( black star on a yellow (golden) background ) indicates the connection with the history of the Waldecker Land up to the 19th century.

church

On May 16, 1900 the foundation stone for today's listed neo-Gothic church was laid. The stones of the old, broken church served as the foundation.

Culture

Easter cross on a mountain in Düdinghausen

The traditional Easter tradition ( Easter cross ) is unique for this region.

900 years of Düdinghausen

societies

  • Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Düdinghausen eV
  • Bürgererschützenverein Düdinghausen eV
  • Sports club Düdinghausen eV
  • Renn-Sport-Club-Düdinghausen eV
  • Country Club Düdinghausen eV
  • Musikverein Düdinghausen eV
  • Local Advisory Board Düdinghausen eV
  • Choral society Düdinghausen
  • Ski lift community
  • Düdinghausen fire department
  • Women's Community (KFD)
  • Hunting association
  • church choir
  • MTB group
  • Parish Caritas
  • Parish
  • Reservist fellowship

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] , accessed on April 27, 2019
  2. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 88 .

literature

  • Antonie Finnemann: Düdinghausen - history of a border village. Local and tourist association Düdinghausen, 1992.

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