Elmenhorst (Waltrop)
Elmenhorst is one of seven farmers in the town of Waltrop in the Recklinghausen district . Elmenhorst is located east of the city center Waltrop on the Datteln-Hamm Canal on the border with the city of Lünen . Furthermore, the Waltrop farmers' associations Brockenscheidt and Oberlippe border Elmenhorst. The most important sight is the ruins of Wilbring Castle . The population, together with the Brockenscheidt farmers, totaled 1153 citizens on January 31, 2014.
history
Elmenhorst was first mentioned in a document in 1292, but is actually older than the town of Waltrop itself. Here, on the strategically important Lippestrasse in the border area of several domains, there was initially an imperial court, which controlled the southern bank of the Lippe and was probably built in Carolingian times. This courtyard was not built as a closed settlement; Instead, there were a number of sub-farms: the Lippe, Brockenscheidt, Holthausen, Oberwiese and Bram farms , which together made up the Elmenhorst farmers. Since 1314 the Elmenhorst Reichshöfe were in pledge possession of the Grafschaft Mark , the sovereignty on the other hand lay with Kurköln. The castle Wilbring was built in 1321 and was independent of the peasantry. It was designed as a moated castle on an island. The outer bailey is still inhabited today, but the castle itself, which has been state-owned since 1913, was demolished in favor of the expansion of the Datteln-Hamm Canal during the Weimar Republic.
The current coat of arms of the town of Waltrop, which shows the imperial eagle on a yellow background, was adopted from the seal of the old imperial court Elmenhorst.
literature
- Erhard Nietzschmann: The free in the country. Former German imperial villages and their coats of arms. Melchior, Wolfenbüttel 2013, ISBN 978-3-944289-16-8 , p. 28.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population figures of Waltrop as of December 31, 2014 according to the mail information from the Waltrop Citizens' Office
Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ' N , 7 ° 26' E