Eilshausen

Eilshausen Municipality Hiddenhausen
Coordinates: 52 ° 10 ′ 5 ″  N , 8 ° 38 ′ 6 ″  E
Height :	89 m above sea level NN
Area :	4.3 km²
Residents :	4615  (2019)
Population density :	1,073 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1969
Postal code :	32120
Primaries :	05221, 05223
Location of Eilshausen in Hiddenhausen

Eilshausen is a district of the East Westphalian municipality of Hiddenhausen in the Herford district , North Rhine-Westphalia . With around 4,615 inhabitants, Eilshausen is the second largest district in the municipality of Hiddenhausen. Until the end of 1968 Eilshausen was an independent municipality in the Herford district and in the Herford-Hiddenhausen office.

history

Eilshausen, like most places with the ending "-hausen", was probably created in the Carolingian era in a forest clearing. In 1151 Eilshausen was mentioned for the first time in the deed of donation from the abbess of Herford Godesti Abbey. The spelling at that time was Eilleshusun . From the form of the name, especially from the Low German pronunciation “Oijjelshussen”, it can be concluded that the founder of the village Eilshausen was a Saxon chief Agilwolf , whose name was bite- sized Agilolf . This name was common and in use in the Saxon people. The nickname and short form of the name was Agilo . So the name of the settlement was probably first Agilwolfshusun , i.e. the houses or the village of an Agilwolf. In the following years the name was more and more abraded, in Agilofshusun , in Agiloshusun , in Agilshusun , in Ailshusun and finally in Eileshusun . In the lifting role of the old pen from the 12th century, the form is Eileshusun , in the 13th century Eilinchusun , 1361 Elshusen , 1370 Eylshusen and 1413 Eylshus . At the time of the great elector, the place was called Eyelshausen .

Eilshausen was a settlement that developed into a Westphalian rural village. It can be assumed that the farms were once close to the Wiesenbach, as the spinning mill that used to be operated here requires moist air. Later they were raised higher and moved to other locations. According to the Osnabrück Chronicle, the borders of Eilshausen expanded further south in 1576. The abbey Brandhorst , which today forms a community with Eilshausen, was added to cede the corridor in the southeast . When the village had only a few inhabitants in previous centuries, crop failures, famine and epidemics raged (e.g. 99 people died of pox and dysentery in one year and 60 children died of smallpox in another). The rapid development of the village began in the 19th century. The population skyrocketed as the emerging cigar industry in the area offered hardworking and clean residents new opportunities to earn a living. The farming village became a mixed village in which the industry employed more and more people and gradually led to economic and sociological restructuring. In the period after the Second World War, when the housing shortage increased immeasurably due to the influx of refugees, the citizenship did not fail, but instead dealt with the housing misery by founding the non-profit association for solving the housing shortage through active self-help. In the short time of its existence it has already succeeded in building 44 apartments with the contributions of its members. The years 1946 and 1950 clearly show the influx of refugees. The size of the area remained constant over the entire period and ranged between 4.07 km² and 4.12 km². Of the 3,450 inhabitants in 1950, only a small part is still employed and rooted in traditional farming. The number of newly built houses roughly shows the ascending line over the decades.

On January 1, 1969, the place was incorporated into Hiddenhausen.

Church in Eilshausen

School history

On October 25, 1893, the first own school was opened in Eilshausen, the "Eilshausen elementary school" as a "four-class Protestant all-day school". Until then, the children had attended elementary school in Hiddenhausen. The teachers Sievert (rector until 1929), Haselhoff and Busse initially took over three classes, in each of which two years were combined. In the first year they taught 234 children in three classrooms in the mornings and afternoons.

The number of pupils grew to 351 and the school had six classes from 1910. Another school, the “Brandhorster School Building”, was built. The First World War ruined many plans. After the war, however, the elementary school was again divided into six classes. This classification remained until after the Second World War . After 1947, each year could form its own class. The school time was extended to 9 years. In 1951 118 children were taught by 3 teachers in Brandhorst and 380 children by 7 teachers in the village in a total of 7 classrooms. The school room shortage was great. In 1958 Eilshausen received the new school building, which is still in use today.

In 1968 the elementary schools were closed. It was replaced by two new, independent forms of school, the elementary school and the secondary school. The Eilshausen secondary school was founded under the direction of Rector Hermann Beyer, and Heinz Hänchen was entrusted with the management of the primary school. On August 1, 1968, the primary school had 232 students.

The Eilshausen secondary school moved to a new building in Lippinghausen on November 1, 1976. On August 1, 1982, the district founded the Wittekindschule as a “school for the language handicapped” and has since used part of the school building in Eilshausen. On August 1, 1983, Wolfgang Kurrek took over the management of the primary school.

From April 1, 1999, the principal Annette Sliwinski headed the two-class school, which was attended by around 180 children. Since the 2010/11 school year it has been called Paul Maar Elementary School. As the main location (161 children), it is part of a new community primary school network, which also includes two sub-locations: the former primary schools Hiddenhausen (99 children) and Eilshausen (101 children). Claudia Gelke is responsible for the school management.

Population development

• 1885: 0936 inhabitants
• 1925: 2392 inhabitants
• 1933: 2599 inhabitants
• 1939: 2643 inhabitants
• 2004: 4802 inhabitants
• 2006: 4832 inhabitants
• 2014: 4583 inhabitants
• 2018: 4615 inhabitants

Economy and Infrastructure

Established businesses

District fire department

In Eilshausen is u. a. the district fire brigade headquarters .

traffic

Eilshausen is located directly on the national road 545, which leads from Bünde to Herford .
Regional buses run regularly to Bünde and Herford in frequent intervals.

archeology

A hanging brooch of the Babilonie type found in a cremation burial ground near Eilshausen is dated to the 3rd or 2nd century BC.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Number of people according to districts December 31, 2018. hiddenhausen.de, accessed on August 8, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 74 .
3. ^ Paul Maar Primary School
4. ↑ Sebastian Möllers, North Westphalian hanging brooches from Lower Saxony, new finds from Schnippenburg near Ostercappeln, district of Osnabrück, in: Archeology in Ostwestfalen, 7, 2002, 26–35. Online (accessed January 5, 2011; PDF; 71 kB)

Web links

Commons : Eilshausen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Link to the Paul Maar primary school