Drabenderhöhe

Drabenderhöhe City of Wiehl Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 36 ″  N , 7 ° 27 ′ 21 ″  E
Height :	319 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	3308  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Postal code :	51674
Area code :	02262
Location of Drabenderhöhe in Wiehl
Drabenderhöhe Church

Drabenderhöhe ( hommersch Dravenderhöh / de Höh) is a town in the town of Wiehl in the Oberbergisches Kreis in the administrative district of Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Location and description

Drabenderhöhe is located in the intersection area of the of Cologne according Siegen leading Brüderstraße and of Siegburg about Ründeroth by Hagen extending Zeithstraße ( national highway 56 and national road 338 ). The Hausiefen rises on the southern edge of the village and flows into the Bröl as the Becher Suthbach .

The settlements along the K 40 , the Pfaffenscheid (on the B 56) and Dahl (L 321) were created as new residential areas . The Drabenderhöhe industrial park is outside, on the L 336. Drabenderhöhe is located south of federal motorway 4 .

history

Coat of arms of the former municipality

Middle Ages - until around 1700

The church tower dates from the 12th or 13th century. Once built on a hill as a baptistery at the crossroads of old trade routes, it is one of the oldest in the Upper Bergisches Land as a Christian cultural monument . Other historical sources suggest that a church in Drabenderhöhe existed well before the 12th century. Around the middle of the 14th century the church was affiliated to the Order of St. John and was in close contact with the Commandery Marienhagen ( Commandery = administrative district of a knightly order). The Johanniterkreuz has become part of the coat of arms of the old Drabenderhöhe community.

In 1353 the place was first mentioned in the spelling "Dravender Hoy": "Knight Heinrich von Grafschaft transfers the tithe of the Dravender Hoy with all associated rights to his son Heinrich".

Recorded on the A. Mercator map of 1575 as the parish village of Drauende hoighe . In the fodder oat slip of the Homburg rule from 1580, one Wittgenstein, one Sayn and 10 Bergische subjects are counted as subject to the Uff der Hoehe .

In 1555 the vicarius Jakob Neuleben was appointed as clergyman to Drabenderhöhe , probably by the Komtur von Marienhagen . Initially committed to the Bergisch (Catholic) church order, he was later devoted to the Reformation .

In the Siegburg comparison to the end of the long-running disputes between Berg and Homburg , it is determined in 1604 to define the border line (short version): “... vom Ahe Seiffen (border brook between the was and the Siegkreis). .. in the Hönerborn, from there next to the Trabender Höhe up the Landwehr , so that the Landwehr and the turnpike remain Bergisch and the chapel with the church poison Homburg ". A year later the Church introduced the Reformed Confession. The religious affiliation of the parishes in the border line of different sovereign claims (Berg, Homburg) was controversial for decades. In the neighboring Much the Catholic faith finally stayed. A street name today reminds of the pastor from that time, Jakob Neuleben, who converted to the Lutheran creed.

From 1634 to 1636 during the Thirty Years' War it is reported that the plague raged in Drabenderhöhe and the surrounding area and carried away many residents. Legend has it that the Black Death hit the area heavily as early as the 13th century, so that many farms were almost deserted. It is said of Drabenderhöhe that only 2 people survived the scourge of that time; one in a hole in the ground on the Heckberg, the other in a courtyard in Brächen. Every morning the man from the Heckberg is said to have climbed a hill to see whether smoke was still rising from a chimney of his neighbor.

After the great fire in 1696, which destroyed 11 houses and the church, a new nave was built the following year and the church tower was raised by one storey.

Modern times - approx. 1700 to 1945

As a church and market village, Drabenderhöhe was shaped by agriculture and handicrafts until the 19th century. After the ore mines in Forst and Kaltenbach were closed around 1911, the residents looked for work in the blossoming Agger and Wiehl valleys. During the reign of Homburg around 1700 49 souls were counted in 9 households. In 1863 there are 104 residents.

The result of the demarcations in Siegburger comparison territorial split village (known as Dreikreiseort Drabenderhöhe) is connected into a unified whole 1932 and assigned to the Oberbergi circle.

During the Second World War , guns and anti-aircraft batteries were deployed around Drabenderhöhe. The exposed high altitude on a thoroughfare with troop movements and evacuee trails led to the fact that the first soldiers and civilians were killed or injured in low-flying attacks at the end of March 1945. The church received the heaviest bomb hits and was almost completely destroyed. Incendiary bombs devastated almost all nearby buildings. After that, repeated artillery bombardment by the Americans continued the work of destruction, especially at night. Domestic life mainly took place in the cellars. After persistent resistance by German troops, Drabenderhöhe narrowly escaped destruction from the air on April 12, 1945. According to the invading US military, a squadron of fighter-bombers that would have laid the site in ruins was canceled at the last minute.

After the Second World War

Only after the Second World War did the population increase significantly. The first displaced people helped with the reconstruction. In 1965 there were around 600 inhabitants. The settlement of the Transylvanian Saxons from 1964 onwards became an important economic and cultural factor for the further development of the temporary high-altitude health resort . On the outskirts of the old village, a large settlement grew in twenty years.

Of the 250 hometowns in Transylvania , 190 settlers moved to Drabenderhöhe. Drabenderhöhe became a meeting place. Over 3500 people live in Drabenderhöhe today. On January 6, 1960, the municipality of Drabenderhöhe was renamed Bielstein by an official decision, as the administrative seat of the municipality was also located in the previous district of Bielstein. Bielstein was incorporated into the neighboring town of Wiehl on July 1, 1969 .

In 1986 the then Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker paid a visit to Drabenderhöhe, the largest Transylvanian settlement outside of Transylvania. Before that, Karl Carstens , a hiking friend, had already been an incumbent Federal President here. In 1991 Drabenderhöhe won the gold plaque for the exemplary integration of foreigners in the national competition.

Drabenderhöhe gained media attention because of its "Kulturhaus Hermann Oberth", whose namesake Hermann Oberth called for the annihilation of disabled life in his "Voters' Guide for a World Parliament" (first edition 1983). He was chosen as the namesake for the Kulturhaus due to his work as a physicist and inventor in the aerospace industry with Transylvanian roots.

particularities

The origin of the term Landwehr preserved in a street name has not been clearly established. While the earth walls and ditches that can still be seen in individual places were assumed to be defensive structures or a mere border divide from early Germanic times, according to other historical research sources, the land forces were border barriers, as they were used to protect many territories in the 14th and 15th centuries had to be created by the subjects on the orders of the respective sovereigns. In the Siegburg settlement in 1604, this old borderline is taken up again and written down.

Economy and industry

The Drabenderhöhe industrial park is 7.6 hectares in size. It can be reached via the state road 336 . It is about 4.2 km from junction 24 of the A 4 .

Churches

• Evangelical Church Drabenderhöhe

Museums

The Transylvanian Heimatstube Drabenderhöhe has been housed in the Drabenderhöhe cultural center since August 1989 and is one of the most important museum institutions of Transylvanian culture outside of Romania. The Heimatstube gives an insight into the customs of the over 800 years old tradition and culture in the Transylvanian region, which are still cultivated today. The collections include traditional costumes, jewelry and embroidery. You can also see furrier work and ceramics. There is also painted furniture from farmhouse parlors, including a magnificent bed. A visit is only possible by appointment, but admission is free.

The green barn local history museum in the Scheid district was originally Gustav Hühn's grain distillery from 1884. In 2000 Barbara & Eckhardt Venz bought the demolished building and rebuilt the house true to detail. Since 2005 it has served as a museum for the exhibits that have been collected over the years, all of which are related to Drabenderhöhe. The exhibition includes old clothes, jewelry, crockery, a kitchen, living room and bedroom, toys, certificates, pictures, window glass, school desk and much more. Under the building there is a 15 m long and 3 m wide vaulted cellar that was used to store schnapps. There is also a 12 m deep well carved out of natural stone, which is considered one of the sources of the Wahnbach .

In summer the "Green Barn" forms the background for exhibitions, concerts, readings, workshops or other cultural events. Admission is free, but you should register in advance by phone.

leisure

Sports

There are several local sports clubs. The BV 09 Drabenderhöhe e. V. is active in several disciplines in popular and competitive sports. The soccer department is the founding department, later gymnastics, badminton, volleyball, athletics and fitness / health sports were added. The tennis department separated from the BV in 1977 and founded the TC 77 Drabenderhöhe, which operates its facility in the immediate vicinity of the local sports field. The MSC Drabenderhöhe-Bielstein e. V. operates motorsport on the motocross facility located between the two locations, which also included an annual World Championship run in motocross. A tragic accident occurred on the track in 2016 in which a spectator was fatally injured by an out of control machine in an area that was actually closed to spectators. The 1. Reit- und Fahrverein Wiehl e. V. offers horse riding on a facility in the Scheidt district. As a small sports group, the Drabenderhöhe fishing club “JIMSH” e. V. also settled in town.

Hiking and biking trails

In and around Drabenderhöhe there are the following hiking trails of the Sauerland Mountain Association :

Art	Waymarks	Distance	Path length
Circular hiking trail	A5	Drabenderhöhe– Brächen - Verr –Drabenderhöhe	04.1 km
Circular hiking trail	A6	Drabenderhöhe – south of Drabenderhöhe – Drabenderhöhe	03.7 km
Circular hiking trail	A7	Drabenderhöhe- Büddelhagen -nördlich Verr -Umrundung of Steimel - Much - Heckhaus - Herkberg -südlich Büddelhagen -Drabenderhöhe	09.5 km
Circular hiking trail	O0	Bielstein - Oberbantenberg - Weiershagen - forestry - would break -Drabenderhöhe-south Hiller Scheid -südlich Jennecken - streets Hagen - Lower Belling - Faulmert - Hengstberg -Linden- Bielstein	21.5 km

In addition, three long-distance hiking trails cross the town: the Kurkölner Weg from Meschede to Köln-Rath (marked X22 ), the Graf-Engelbert-Weg from Hattingen to Schladern ( X28 ) and the Elisabethpfad from Cologne to Marburg (marked with a red E).

Facilities

• Fire station
• Evangelical kindergarten
• Adele Zay Kindergarten
• Community elementary school Drabenderhöhe
• Old people's home Transylvania
• Ev. Community building
• Youth home
• Culture House Hermann Oberth
• Siebenbürger Heimatstube, a museum in the culture house
• graveyard

Competition - Our village should become more beautiful

As part of the nationwide competition Our village should become more beautiful (Oberberg), Drabenderhöhe received the following prizes:

• 1975 State competition bronze
• 1977 State competition silver + special price
• 1989 State competition silver + special price

literature

• Hans Joachim Söhn, Lothar Wirths: Oat feed label. Inhabitants and fireplaces in the Homburg rulership in 1580 (= materials and sources on the Oberberg regional history. H. 3). Galunder, Gummersbach 2003, ISBN 3-89909-012-8 .
• Eugen Schubach: The community of Bielstein-Rhineland. Formerly Drabenderhöhe. A contribution to local history. sn, Bielstein-Rhineland 1967.
• Wilhelm Tieke : ... until zero hour. The Oberbergisches Land in the war 1939–1945. Gronenberg, Gummersbach 1985, ISBN 3-88265-127-X .
• Home through the ages. 10 years of the Transylvanian Saxony settlement Drabenderhöhe. Böhlau (on commission), Cologne et al. 1976, ISBN 3-412-03276-X .

Web links

• www.drabenderhoehe.de
• Museum of Green Bills
• Heimatverein Drabenderhöhe

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The art monuments of the Rhine Province . Volume 5, Dept. 1.
2. ↑ ksta.de of July 21, 2010 “Renaming Oberth House” , accessed on July 5, 2015
3. ^ Discussion about Hermann Oberth postponed. In: Oberberg Aktuell , March 17, 2010.
4. ↑ General silence on Hermann Oberth. In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger , March 17, 2010.
5. ↑ Welcome to the "Green Barn". Accessed March 8, 2019 (German). 
6. ↑ The Wahnbach | Wahnbachtalsperrenverband. Retrieved March 8, 2019 . 
7. ^ City of Wiehl - overview of the sports clubs. City of Wiehl, accessed on July 6, 2017 .