Diedenshausen (Bad Berleburg)

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Diedenshausen
City of Bad Berleburg
Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 43 "  N , 8 ° 29 ′ 58"  E
Height : 503  (460-650)  m
Area : 6.16 km²
Residents : 375  (March 31, 2011)
Population density : 61 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 57319
Area code : 02750
Residential houses in Diedenshausen
Residential houses in Diedenshausen

Diedenshausen is one of 23 districts of the city of Bad Berleburg in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany .

geography

location

Diedenshausen is about nine kilometers from Bad Berleburg . The village is between 460 and 650 meters above sea level, the mountains surrounding it are up to 674 meters high. It is located in the southeast of the Rothaargebirge . The Elsoff brook flows through the village and forms the border with Hesse . Behind it is the Seibelsbach settlement , which belongs to the Bromskirchen municipality .

Neighboring places

On the highway  717 Diedenshausen with Bad Berleburg in the west and Wunderthausen connected to the north, on the L 877 with Alertshausen the southeast.

history

Church in Diedenshausen

The village was first mentioned in 1194 as Diethennishusen , as part of a testimony of the knight Godebert von Diedenshausen .

The von Diedenshausen knight dynasty died out around 1400. As a result, the village fell into disrepair, like many others from their possession, and became a desert .

Around 1500, the Dersch family resettled the village.

Diedenshausen has been a border village since 1532, the Elsoff forms the natural border between the County of Wittgenstein and Hesse, then between the Kingdom of Prussia and the Grand Duchy of Hesse . After the Second World War , the demarcation line between the British and American occupation zones also ran here .

The legal scholar Johannes Althusius was born in 1563 in the Schulze House (today's address: Zur Saale 1 ).

As a result of the plague, around 20 residents of the village died in 1568, around a third.

On September 21, 1632 the village burned down completely.

In 1724 Daniel Womelsdorf (* 1703, Diedenshausen, Schmitte-Haus ; † 1758, Pennsylvania ) was the first Diedenshäuser to emigrate to America. His son, John Womelsdorf, was the founder of Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania .

The church burned down on June 28, 1973, but was repaired by the active participation of the population by Good Friday 1974.

As part of the municipal reorganization , Diedenshausen came to Bad Berleburg on January 1, 1975.

In 1994 the population celebrated the 800th anniversary of Diedenshausen.

In 1998 Diedenshausen won the national competition Our village should be more beautiful, our village has awarded a gold plaque for the future . Diedenshausen had continuously participated in the competition since 1977.

On March 7, 1999 the Heimathaus Diedenshausen was inaugurated. The history of the village and its families is documented there. Up to 2011, 34 changing special exhibitions were shown.

Population development

  • 1961: 348 inhabitants
  • 1970: 348 inhabitants
  • 1974: 332 inhabitants
  • 2011: 375 inhabitants

politics

coat of arms

The coat of arms used in the village is the coat of arms of the Knights of Diedenshausen, a black wolf tang on a golden background with three golden clover leaves.

literature

  • 800 years of Diedenshausen 1194–1994 History of the village and its families . Published by the Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Diedenshausen. Bad Berleburg 1997.
  • Günther Wrede : Territorial history of the county of Wittgenstein. NG Elwert'sche Verlagbuchhandlung (G.Braun), Marburg 1927.
  • Diedenshäuser Rundblick - since March 1997 published four times a year village newspaper. All editions available as PDF files: [1] .
  • Johannes Burkardt, Andreas Kroh and Ulf Lückel: The churches of the Wittgenstein church district in words and pictures . Bad Fredeburg 2001.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Günther Wrede: Territorial history of the County of Wittgenstein. NG Elwert'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (G.Braun), Marburg 1927, pp. 139–144.
  2. ↑ Klaus Homrighausen in: Diedenshäuser Rundblick, issue 86, p. 6f, published in October 2019. http://www.heimatverein.diedenshausen.de/Rundblick86.pdf
  3. ↑ 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 .
  4. ↑ See Diedenshäuser Rundblick 55, October 2011, p. 6.
  5. ↑ 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. 138 .