Elsey (Hagen)

Elsey City of Hagen Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 37 "  N , 7 ° 33 ′ 43"  E
Area :	2.6 km²
Residents :	9472  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Population density :	3,643 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	April 1, 1902
Incorporated into:	Hohenlimburg
Postal code :	58119
Area code :	02334
Location of Elsey in North Rhine-Westphalia
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Elsey is a district of the city of Hagen in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

Elsey is bounded in the west by the Lenne , in the north by the Bundesautobahn 46 and in the east by the Hagen city limits to Iserlohn . In the south, Elsey extends to the Steltenberg nature reserve , which is already part of the Oege district. Within the city of Hagen, Elsey belongs to the Hohenlimburg district .

The Elsey village square

Elsey Evangelical Church

history

Elsey is one of the oldest places in the Hagen area and was probably built as a Carolingian royal court on Lennestrasse and on the Heerweg from Hohensyburg to Altena as early as the 8th century . The first simple church in Elsey, consecrated to St. Fabian and St. Sebastian , probably existed from the second half of the 9th century.

Elsey was first mentioned in a document in 1200, when Mechthild von Holland, wife of Count Arnold von Altena , received the income from two farms in Elsey ( due curtes in Elseyge ) as Wittum . The name of the village was spelled differently over the centuries with Elseyge (1200), Elseie (1226), Elseye (1246), Elze (1341), Elzey (1379), Eilsey (1468) or Else . Pronounced in nd dialect Älsę . The place name can be interpreted as Erlenaue or a body of water with alder trees .

Elsey was an Oberhof and had about twenty yards or cottages at the end of the 12th century. Some of them were fiefs of neighboring nobles. Several farms belonged to the Isenberg counts , others to those of Berchem , von Dunhove, von Hardenberg , von Letmathe or von Volmestein . The first names of Elsey farmers appear in 1268 with the two mayors "Vrowinus et Lifhardus, villici in Elsey" as a witness in a document from the Elsey monastery . The successor farms of the old royal estate in the vicinity of the monastery are called "Holtschmit auf'm Berge", Schultenhof, Raschen Hof, Holtschmit-Hof and Sundernhof. The Elseyer Mark was 4,000 acres ; this included the Mühlenberg up to the Oeger Höhle and the Ostfeld on the borders with the Letmather and Reher Marks. There was a Lenne ferry north of Elsey, between Reh and Herbeck . A Lennefurt between the Elsey Monastery and the Sundernhof, for a long time it was the only way for wagons to get to the other bank on the Altena - Ruhr route until the Count had a wooden bridge built in Limburg in the 14th century .

The nucleus of Elsey was the Elsey Monastery, founded around 1220. The late Romanesque, three-part hall construction of the collegiate church was also built around this time (approx. 1223) on the foundations of the previous building. She was simultaneously parish church for the surrounding, mentioned for the first time in 1582 the parish . It is the only church in the Hagen area that has largely been preserved in its original structure from the early 13th century. It was the burial place of the Counts of Limburg from the Isenberg family, who died here in 1511, and of the Count's House of Bentheim-Limburg , which died out in 1626 and of which the large epitaph from 1619 for Count Konrad Gumprecht in the church still testifies.

The residents of Elsey suffered a great deal from epidemics ( plague , peeling ), famine, robbery and fire in the period up to the end of the 18th century. In the wars of looting, billeting and raids. In the Cologne War (1587), the monastery was by arson destroyed by fire (new building on the same site until the 17th century). The raids and pillages in Elsey in 1599 and 1616 under the command of Francisco de Mendoza during the Spanish-Dutch War were terrible . In 1616 the Count's grain mill on Lenne-Mühlengraben burned down (new building until 1619). During the Thirty Years' War Elsey was occupied by Hesse and Sweden, and by imperial troops. The billeting in Elsey and Limburg from 1633 to 1636 under the imperial field sergeant Lothar von Bönninghausen was painful . In 1654 the villagers were impoverished, many houses were destroyed and the farmers' fields were devastated. During the Seven Years' War Elsey was occupied by the dreaded Fischer'schen Freicorps in 1761 , which also brought the Blattern with them and 68 residents died of it. The residents of Reh were hit particularly badly on April 29, 1783, when the entire upper village, apart from two houses, with 14 houses and numerous barns and stables burned down.

In 1618 a free chair is mentioned in the miller's yard at Elsey . Later, the Limburg Gogericht met once a year next to the church on the Elsey market square under the old judicial linden tree . The last known judgment reading (death sentence) took place here on March 14, 1807, the subsequent execution on June 19, 1807. The place of execution (Reher Galgen) itself, however, was far away on the way between Reh and Schälk. The churchyard, enclosed by a wall, was the cemetery for the residents of the parish until 1843 and also for members of the monastery nobility until 1810, as several tombstones preserved in the area of ​​the church show. In the early 17th century, the Reformation was introduced in the Elsey Monastery under the Count House of Bentheim. Of the various monastery preachers, Johann Friedrich Möller (1750–1807) in particular achieved great fame and charisma. His theological and historical work as well as his political commitment reached far beyond the territories of Mark and Limburg. In 1814, a memorial was erected in his honor on Klippchen high above the Lennetal. Later a street was named after him.

An Elsey school already existed in the middle of the 16th century at the time of Count Adolf von Neuenahr . The Count's police regulations of 1582 also document a rifle company and a rifle festival in Elsey. In 1654 there were 48 farmers and kötter in Elsey. The majority of the farms belonged to Elsey Monastery, 11 were owned by the count and some were owned by the church or school. According to the folk table of the County of Limburg from 1786, there was in the parish Elsey with the farmers Elsey and Reh, a Fräuleinstift, 47 farms, 59 single houses and 505 residents. Elseyer Stiftsamtmann was Friedrich Moritz Holtschmit (1766-1844) around 1800, later from 1818 royal mayor of the Limburg administrative district (Limburg, Elsey, Letmathe and Oestrich ) and from 1841 bailiff of the Limburg office. In Elsey he was also a farmer, innkeeper with his own brewery, brick kiln and limestone quarry owner.

Since the 19th century, Elsey formed a rural community in the Hohenlimburg district of the Iserlohn district . The community with an area of ​​1058 hectares consisted of the residential areas Elsey, Henkhausen, Bad Henkhausen, Mühlendorf, Reh, Sundern, Schilken, Schälk, Schöne Aussicht, Viermarkenbaum and Weinhof. In 1896 there were 2980 inhabitants, 204 buildings, 5 public buildings and 9 commercial facilities. The community leader was the landowner Uebemann-Schulte, and the arbitrator was the manufacturer Friedrich Becker. The center of Elsey's focus is the Protestant parish church. The Protestant elementary school Elsey (built 1874/1890) had six teachers and the second school in Reh (built 1885–86) had one teacher. During this time there was a warrior club, the Elseyer Turnverein 1881, the gymnastics club “Germania-Reh 1894”, the singing club “MGV 1846” and the theater company “Gemütlichkeit” in Mühlendorf. The construction of a hospital was supported by a foundation (8000 thalers ) from the Elsey pastor Dr. Wilhelm Hülsemann makes it possible. The current predecessor building was inaugurated on March 20, 1887. The Protestant cemetery on Esserstraße was established in 1843 and the Elsey Jewish cemetery on Heidestraße in 1886 .

Industrialization in the agricultural Elsey began at the beginning of the 19th century. In 1805, the cloth dyer Moritz Ribbert (1787-1856) sought permission from the Count's government in Limburg to establish a “ blue dyeing and fabric printing company ”. It was granted to him so that he set up a business first in Elsey and then on the site of the old wire roll at the “Sundernhof” on the Lenne. The company later developed into the largest plant of its kind in Germany. In 1826, the cloth factory HD Nettmann & Sohn (founded in 1780 in Westhofen ) settled on the site of the former count's grain mill in Mühlendorf. The company was the largest cloth factory in the Iserlohn district in the middle of the century. In 1829 JD Koch founded an insulated wire and dynamo brush factory in Elsey. At the end of the 19th century, more and more businesses emerged, such as the Fritz Becker fabric printing and dyeing works, founded in 1894 by the Riepelmeier & Maas roller engraving company, the Wilhelm Winterhager machine and spiral spring factory in 1895 and the Carl Uebemann metal wire drawing company in 1897.

The neighboring communities of Elsey and Hohenlimburg grew closer and closer together until the end of the 19th century, and so it was natural to unite. On April 1, 1902, the two communities united to form a community, under the name Hohenlimburg, by unanimous resolutions of the Hohenlimburg city council and the Elsey community council.

Hohenlimburg became part of the city of Hagen in 1975.

Population development

year	Residents	source
1833	787
1871	1736
1885	2466
1895	2993
2013	9472

Architectural monuments

Former collegiate curia of Elsey Monastery. Abbess's residence.

The Evangelical Church Elsey and several buildings in the historic monastery area , the Ostfeld and Heidefriedhof cemetery chapels , the Jewish cemetery , the residential building at Iserlohner Straße 46 and the Villa Koenig at Burgweg 7 are listed buildings .

Sports

The Elseyer Turnverein 1881 is the local sports club.

Web links

Commons : Elsey (Hagen)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Hagen district data 2014 (pdf)
2. ^ Bleicher, Wilhelm : 750 years of Hohenlimburg , Verlag Werner Dorau, Hohenlimburg 1979, pages 69-71 and 93
3. ↑ Stirnberg, Reinhold in: Before the Markers Came, Part VI: The Counts of Altena and the End of the German Controversy for the Throne , pdf
4. ↑ Brandes, Friedrich Ludwig: The Low German dialects of the south-Westphalian area Breckerfeld-Hagen-Iserlohn , Groningen 2011, page 6
5. ↑ Esser, Hermann: Hohenlimburg and Elsey , Dortmund 1907, pages 44–45 (digital collections of the University and State Library of Münster)
6. ^ Bleicher, Wilhelm / Stirnberg, Reinhold: On the reconstruction of the Elsey monastery from 1223 , pdf
7. ↑ Esser, Hermann: Hohenlimburg - Festschrift for the 700th anniversary , Hohenlimburger Verlag 1930
8. ^ Esser, Hermann: Hohenlimburger Heimatbuch , Verlag Mark & ​​Kreutzberg Hohenlimburg 1925
9. ^ Heimatverein Ergste eV - The last execution on the Reher Galgen
10. ↑ Ralf Blank / Stephanie Marra / Gerhard E. Solbach: Hagen - history of a large city and its region , Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, pages 161-164
11. ^ Bleicher, Wilhelm: 750 years Hohenlimburg , Verlag Werner Dorau, Hohenlimburg 1979, page 256
12. ↑ The legend of " The White Maiden of Elsey ". In: Legendary Ruhr Area
13. ^ Address book for the Iserlohn district , Part One, Section III Hohenlimburg Office - Elsey Community, 1896, printed and published by: Iserlohner Tageblatt
14. ↑ Esser, Hermann: Hohenlimburg and Elsey , Dortmund 1907, pages 473–478, digital collections of the University and State Library of Münster
15. ↑ Felka, Widbert: On the 100th anniversary of the union of Hohenlimburg and Elsey , pdf. In: Hohenlimburger Heimatblätter, 63rd volume, No. 4/2002, pages 121-132
16. ^ Westphalia Lexicon 1832-1835 . In: Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (Ed.): Reprints for the Westphalian archive maintenance . tape 3 . Münster 1978 (reprint of the original from 1834).
17. ^ The municipalities and manor districts of the Province of Westphalia in 1871
18. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia 1885
19. ↑ 1895 census