Esshoff

Esshoff City of Brilon Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 4 "  N , 8 ° 28 ′ 8"  E
Height :	499 m above sea level NN
Area :	66 ha
Residents :	72  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	109 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1975
Postal code :	59929
Area code :	02961
Location of the village of Esshoff within the urban area of ​​Brilon

With 72 inhabitants and an area of ​​66 ha, Esshoff is the smallest district of the city of Brilon in the North Rhine-Westphalian Hochsauerlandkreis , Germany .

history

The place on the south-eastern edge of the Arnsberg Forest was first mentioned on June 14, 1442 as Essingtusen . In 1853 a mine was named Lottchen near Esshoff in the Brilon district, in which clayey spherosiderite (clay iron stone) was mined.

Esshoff belonged as an independent municipality to the Bigge office in the Brilon district . In terms of area, it was the smallest municipality in the district.

On April 4, 1945, the US Army attacked Esshoff with tanks. Around 100 soldiers of the Wehrmacht, without heavy weapons, were holed up in and around Esshoff. When the US soldiers hit machine gun fire, they retreated and shelling with tanks and artillery began. Two houses were badly damaged. Then there was an assault with tanks. The German soldiers had to surrender. The German weapons were thrown in a heap and crushed by tanks. During the fighting, the population had fled to the forester's house in the Antfeld forest or the Altenbürener mill in horse and ox carts. When the residents were allowed to return on April 7th, one of the houses had been taken over by foreign workers, mostly Poles. On April 10, the US soldiers withdrew. The residents now threw the foreign workers out of the occupied house. Some time later the hamlet was raided and looted by a group of armed former prisoners from the Soviet Union. In World War II, eight Esshoffer fell as soldiers, seven of them on the eastern front .

On January 1, 1975 the place (at that time still with the spelling Eßhoff ) was incorporated into Brilon. Today it is the smallest district of Brilon with around 80 inhabitants.

Ebberg

The Ebberg is at 547 m above sea level. the highest point in town. The drinking water reservoir still stands here today , from which the inhabitants were supplied with drinking water from a spring near Grimlinghausen by means of a pumping station until the end of the 1950s .

Old School Esshoff

Since the 1860s there was a desire for a school in town. After starting in private rooms, the school building was inaugurated in 1952. There is no longer any school operation. The building is rented for private use, but is also used as a polling station and assembly room.

literature

• Hugo Cramer: The district of Brilon in the Second World War 1939–1945 - reports from many employees from all over the district. Josefs-Druckerei, Bigge 1955.

Web links

• Private page about the village of Esshof
• Homepage of Brilon

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population statistics on December 31, 2019. City of Brilon, December 31, 2019, accessed March 27, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Decheniana , Volume 10, ed. from the Natural History Association of the Rhineland and Westphalia, p. 227.
3. ^ Hugo Cramer: The district of Brilon in the Second World War 1939-1945 . 1955, section Esshoff, pp. 74-75.
4. ^ Hugo Cramer: The district of Brilon in the Second World War 1939-1945 . 1955, honor roll section Eßhoff, p. 196.
5. ^ 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. 332 .