Elves

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Elves
Municipality Bad Sassendorf
Elfsen coat of arms
Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 52 ″  N , 8 ° 9 ′ 13 ″  E
Height : 149 m
Incorporation : 1st July 1969
Postal code : 59505
Area code : 02921

Elfsen is a district of Bad Sassendorf in the Soest district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

The heap village is located in the southwest of the municipality of Bad Sassendorf, about two kilometers southeast of the center of the district town of Soest . The "Elfser Markt" represents the center of the village, a larger open space in the center of the village. To the east of Kreisstraße 5, which crosses the town, is the old town center with large courtyards consisting of wide buildings and smaller courtyards. In contrast, the southwest of Elfsen is dominated by a new development area.

The next motorway junction is Soest-Ost on federal motorway 44 and is only around 500 m north of Elfsen.

history

A first documentary mention as "Eweldenchusen" comes from the year 1179 . Further documents show the place as "Elfendehusen" (1186) and "Elphenhusen" (1496). According to recent interpretations, it is a typical “inghausen” name for the region, the defining word of which is the personal name Alvold . The meaning of the place name would then be something like: 'at the houses of the people of Alvold' - an education analogous to the original name of today's Soest district of Paradiese .

The buildings are grouped around a circular, wall-like elevation with a diameter of around 15 meters. A village chapel stood there on the Schulzenhof in Elfsen until it was demolished around 1800 . This Electoral Cologne court was one of the oldest upper courts in the Soest area. The population of the place changed only slightly from 1936, when 148 inhabitants were counted, to 1987 with 177 inhabitants. Before the regional reform, which came into force in 1969, Elfsen had been an independent municipality in the Soest district since 1818 .

Elfsen was with a train station on the WLE route of the Möhnetalbahn .

In the past few years, several orchards and pastures have been converted into fields or building land in the peripheral areas of the village.

On July 1, 1969, Elfsen was incorporated into Bad Sassendorf.

Attractions

The streets in the town center are lined with stone walls overgrown with various plants. In the south of Elfsen is a small village pond is bank with green, surrounded by willows , oaks and ash trees . The Lange Hof on Dorfstrasse dates back to the 18th century and today includes some listed buildings.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the etymology: Michael Flöer, Claudia Maria Korsmeier: The place names of the Soest district (=  Westphalian Place Name Book (WOB), Volume 1). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-89534-791-7 , pp. 148-150 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 92 .

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