Elisenhof (Bad Wünnenberg)

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Elisenhof
Elisenhof coat of arms
Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 31 ″  N , 8 ° 48 ′ 22 ″  E
Height : approx. 335 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 115  (Oct 2, 2015)
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Area code : 02953
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Location of Elisenhof in Bad Wünnenberg

Elisenhof has been a district of Bad Wünnenberg in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany and belongs to the Paderborn district since January 1, 1975, with 125 inhabitants .

history

prehistory

The prehistory of the village goes back a long way; since the early Middle Ages there were two small settlements in the immediate vicinity, called Boclon and Osteilern . Boclon was in today's corridor named Schäferstube and Osteilern, a daughter settlement of Kircheilern was about 400 meters to the west. The Mittelborn spring below the Eilerberg was for a long time of great importance for the water supply of Elisenhof. There were a number of flourishing villages on the Sintfeld , which, according to documents from the Böddeken and Dalheim monasteries , fell into desolation around 1350 . The reasons for this were plague and knight feuds . After Boclon and Osteilern became desolate, the area of ​​today's Elisenhof district became the property of Dalheim Monastery. The canons cultivated the dilapidated fields and used areas as pastureland. Dalheim Monastery was dissolved in 1803 and then passed into Prussian ownership. The monastery was converted into a domain and Elisenhof became a branch. Buildings for people and animals were presumably already being built at this time, but Gockel, the local master builder at the time, only submitted plans for the Dalheimer Vorwerk to be established on the Sintfelde in December 1816 . For 1822 a house, stables and barns (five buildings in total), which were arranged in a rectangular shape. The road built in 1826 led from Fürstenberg to Dalheim, it opened up the Vorwerk significantly. After the completion of the Vorwerk, the following text was published in the official gazette of the Royal Government of Minden: The name "Elisenhof" was added to the new Vorwerk built on the Dalheim domain, in the so-called Sennfelde, which is brought to the public knowledge by this, Minden, August 18, 1826 . That was the first mention of the place name Elisenhof, which was then adopted in language and written usage. Why this name was chosen is not known. In 1930 a public elementary school was founded. The community was re-formed on August 10, 1952 from a part of the former community Dalheim-Blankenrode .

In the years that followed, Dalheim, including the Elisenhof farm, tried again and again to separate from the community of Blankenrode ; a corresponding request from the then senior bailiff Engelbrecht, who acted as administrator, dated March 1844, has been handed down. The application was not approved by the royal government in Münster. Dalheim, Elisenhof and Blankenrode existed as a political unit until 1952.

Time as Vorwerk

Elisenhof was administered from Dalheim. The administrator Engelbrecht wrote in a letter to the royal government in Minden: that 1,000 pieces of hammel were fed on the Elisenhof farm. So there had to be correspondingly large stables , barns and houses. Engelbrecht's son took over the administration from his father and worked in this position until 1873. During this time, sheep was mainly farmed in the Vorwerk. Then a son of superintendent Kersten leased the Vorwerk, the contract was extended in 1903 for 18 years, it ended on July 1, 1922. This ended Elisenhof's function as a Vorwerk. The Reich Settlement Act of August 11, 1919 said: State domains are to be offered for sale to the non-profit settlement company (§ 1) at the end of the lease agreement at a maximum of their earnings value, provided they are no longer in state ownership . The responsible non-profit settlement company was the settlement company Rote Erde GmbH in Münster. The end of the lease enabled a smooth transition, new peasant livelihoods could be created and existing small businesses could expand. People who were damaged by the First World War should also be helped to make a new start as settlers. The main initiator of these measures was the architect Meinolf Drolshagen from Fürstenberg; he worked with an architectural office in Hagen. The selection of the criteria for the selection of the new settlers was determined in a meeting in October 1921. Participants were the community leader from Fürstenberg Drüppel, as well as the leaders from Haaren, Leiberg, Wünnenberg, Helmern, Henglarn, Essentho and Meerhof. The decision on the allocation of the land should be made after examining the urgency and the economic situation . A condition for the start-up was also that the company was able to guarantee a family a sufficient income to be able to cope with the interest burden. In addition, a separate community school should be set up. With regard to the water supply, it was assumed that it was sufficient to store the rainwater from the roofs and otherwise use it from the springs in the shepherd's room. The new buildings to be constructed could be constructed freely, the existing buildings of the Vorwerk were left to the former residents for expansion and renovation.

Settlement from 1922

In consultation with the Rote Erde settlement company and the district administration, 16 settlers were selected from over a hundred applications. Most of them came from the Büren district . Among them were a wheelwright and a master blacksmith to ensure the manual supply. The Ministry of Agriculture, Domains and Forests in Berlin approved the sale of the Elisenhof domain farm on January 31, 1922, covering an area of ​​238.4901 hectares, including the buildings, facilities and other accessories on it, as well as the supplies on June 30, 1922 of natural fertilizer, straw and hay . The existing fire extinguishers were excluded from the sale and sold to the Rote Erde settlement community. The existing buildings, two large barns, a sheepfold, a pig and cattle shed with a granary and an administration building stood in a rectangular shape around an orchard. The garden was used by the settlers until around 1925. The distribution of the buildings to the settlers was decided by lot. The settlement was opened up by a paved avenue that led into the road from Dalheim to Fürstenberg. The other roads in the village were not paved and softened when it rained. The new residents moved into the partially unfinished dwellings in 1923 under primitive conditions. In order to have permanent accommodation for the time being, some of the settler families lived temporarily in the administration building in order to be able to carry out the necessary cultivation of the fields from here. Only a few buildings had electricity. A major problem was the constant water shortage. The spring below the Eilerberg provided little water and often dried up. There was also little water available from the tap at the caretaker's house. The water often had to be laboriously fetched from the Mittelborn spring in Friedrichsgrund or from Fürstenberg or Dalheim. Horse-drawn carts were used to ensure supplies. The water shortage was not remedied until 1952.

Due to the inflation in 1922 and 1923, the value of the money became less and less and the entrepreneurs and craftsmen only accepted in kind as payment for their services. After the currency reform carried out in 1923, money became scarce and the construction of the settlement was severely delayed. It took well into the thirties for the five original buildings and the new ones to be completed. A farming village had developed from the former Vorwerk. Since the settlers came from different places, they also spoke different types of the Low German dialect, which could not prevail in the village.

Until 1924 the school-age children attended school in Dalheim. On December 1st, the Dalheim-Blankenrode community set up a family school in Elisenhof. The classroom was provisionally furnished in the former tenant house. One teacher was hired by a private service contract, and the parents paid for the income. The tenant house was demolished in 1928 and a one-class elementary school with a teacher's apartment was built on the site. During the construction period, lessons continued in a private room. The teacher Anton Rosenthal, employed until 1935, founded a choral society. In 1930 13 children were taught in the school, in 1938 there were 27.

The time after 1930

A functioning community had developed in the village through self and neighborhood help. That probably corresponded to the ideology of the NSDAP. In 1939, the state farmers' union of Westphalia invited the press to visit Elisenhof. This new farmer settlement was considered exemplary in terms of its attitude in the Büren district. The Westphalian Volksblatt of March 28, 1939 reported a full page with the title Front soldiers conquered their home and farm - farmers / comrades - recipe and example: This is how the Elisenhof farm in the Büren district solves all the difficulties of farm work . The article wrote: How do we cope with our daily work and how can we fulfill our duty in the fight for German food freedom . In the elections in the next few years, Elisenhof came up with elections that speak clearly enough for the economic and nutritional value of peasant freedom in the Elisenhof settlement, which are at the same time proof of the importance of an active peasantry and which are the most emphatic promoters for to create settlements and work space for our young farmers, because this really serves to feed our people . Almost all of the male settlers in the village were soldiers from the front, and so it was reported: It is the old, hardened spirit of camaraderie, tried and tested from the World War, from which the settlement emerged . Incidentally, 63 children from the 16 families had been born by 1939, this corresponded to the prevailing ideology.

Incorporation

The Elisenhof community was independent until the communities and districts were reorganized and on January 1, 1975, it was incorporated into the city of Wünnenberg.

politics

coat of arms

The coat of arms was designed in 1986 on the initiative of the villagers. In the upper part it shows the chapel, which is the center of the former community. It is surrounded by a symbolic linden grove. Below that you can see three ears of wheat, which indicate the fact that Elisenhof is rural.

Sturmius Chapel

In the early years of the village, the focus was on acquiring private property and providing for families. However, life was strongly influenced by the connection to the Catholic Church, the population was almost without exception Catholic. Every Sunday the faithful attended church services in Fürstenberg or Dalheim. They drove in carriages and horse-drawn carts or they went on foot. In terms of church politics, Elisenhof belonged to the parish in Meerhof, but the way there was even more difficult and long. In order to counteract this problem, the construction of a chapel began in 1928. The costs for the construction were collected through collections, and every resident fit for work helped with the construction. The mother church in Meerhof donated an altar that came from the monastery church in Dalheim. The benches were taken over from the church in Husen and the Way of the Cross from the church in Borlinghausen. The then pastor Sauerland donated a harmonium . The chapel under the patronage of St. Sturmius was inaugurated on June 12, 1930, a relic of the patron saint was given by the Bishop of Fulda in the same year and transferred to the chapel. After the first services were provided by a retired vicar from Henglarn, the Franciscan Fathers of the Paderborn Convent took over the care from autumn to Christmas in 1932 and returned from Atteln after a short term in office of a former dean. They took over pastoral care until 1952.

Others

In the place is the children's and. Jugendhof Friedrichsgrund GmbH.

Trivia

  • The following inscription is preserved on the sandstone slab by the village fountain: This village was created in harmony - The water, God, gave your hand - Keep away fire and danger of war - Keep love and harmony for us . The poet is no longer known.
  • In the 1930s, the teacher Anton Rosenthal introduced the custom of lighting a large fire on Martin's Eve and organizing a torchlight procession through the village

literature

  • Bernhard Hesse Heimatbuch der Stadt Wünnenberg HrsG Stadt Wünnenberg, 1987, total production Paderborn printing center

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bernhard Hesse Heimatbuch der Stadt Wünnenberg HrsG Stadt Wünnenberg, 1987, total production Paderborn printing center, pages 179 to 181
  2. ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 230 .
  3. ^ Bernhard Hesse Heimatbuch der Stadt Wünnenberg HrsG Stadt Wünnenberg, 1987, total production Paderborn printing center, page 181
  4. ^ Bernhard Hesse Heimatbuch der Stadt Wünnenberg HrsG Stadt Wünnenberg, 1987, total production Paderborn printing center, pages 181 and 182
  5. ^ Bernhard Hesse Heimatbuch der Stadt Wünnenberg HrsG Stadt Wünnenberg, 1987, total production Paderborn printing center, pages 182 and 183
  6. ^ Bernhard Hesse Heimatbuch der Stadt Wünnenberg HrsG Stadt Wünnenberg, 1987, total production Paderborn printing center, pages 193 and 184
  7. ^ Bernhard Hesse Heimatbuch der Stadt Wünnenberg HrsG Stadt Wünnenberg, 1987, complete production Paderborn printing center, page 186
  8. ^ 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. 321 .
  9. ↑ Description of the coat of arms
  10. ↑ Bernhard Hesse Heimatbuch der Stadt Wünnenberg HrsG Stadt Wünnenberg, 1987, total production Paderborn printing center, pages 184 and 185
  11. ↑ Children's and youth farm
  12. ^ Bernhard Hesse Heimatbuch der Stadt Wünnenberg HrsG Stadt Wünnenberg, 1987, complete production Paderborn printing center, page 179
  13. ^ Bernhard Hesse Heimatbuch der Stadt Wünnenberg HrsG Stadt Wünnenberg, 1987, complete production Paderborn printing center, page 184