Fretter

Fretter Finnentrop municipality Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 36 " N , 8 ° 2 ′ 55" E
Height :	297 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	1445 (December 31, 2016)
Postal code :	57413
Area code :	02724
Location of Fretter in the district of Olpe
	Aerial view of Fretter

Fretter is a district of the municipality of Finnentrop in the Olpe district in North Rhine-Westphalia with around 1,400 inhabitants.

Economy and Infrastructure

In Fretter you can find companies from the following sectors: orthopedic shoe technology, wood production, wood processing, metal processing, explosives, beverage wholesaling, bus companies, automation technology, forestry, freight forwarding, construction companies, construction machinery rental, catering.

traffic

The L 737/880 runs as the main road through the village and connects Fretter with Finnentrop and Bamenohl as well as with Eslohe . There are bus connections in the direction of Finnentrop and Eslohe. There are also connections to Oedingen ( L 737) and Ostentrop ( K 30). Fretter used to have its own railway connection on what was then the Finnentrop – Wennemen railway line .

Public facilities

Culture, sights

Bone mill in Fretter

In the Fretter bone mill , you can see on selected days of the year how animal bones were ground with pure water power over 100 years ago. The stamping mill of the “Californian Poche” type comes from an ironworks and is thus the last preserved stamping mill in North Rhine-Westphalia and the oldest example of this type in Germany (around 1860). The bone mill was entered in the list of monuments of the municipality of Finnentrop in 1987 under A26.

The "Ruhrmanns Teich" lies between a forest and the Fretterbach .

Thanks to its central location in the Frettertal, Fretter is located on many hiking trails and also in the Sauerland-Rothaargebirge nature park .

In the district there are slate - roofed half - timbered houses , often with Low German inscriptions. They are witnesses to the past.

Shooting festival on the Sunday after Jakobus (usually the last weekend in July).

old castle ruins on the outskirts.

In July 2013 a radio play was published about the village, which refers, among other things, to the wood processing industry and the neighboring villages of Deutmecke and Ostentrop .

St. Matthias Church

After the old chapel , which is documented from 1509 onwards, became too small due to the continued increase in the number of inhabitants, it was demolished in 1929.

The construction of today's church began in 1926, so that the foundation stone could be laid on May 1, 1927. On June 29, 1933, on Peter and Paul Day, Paderborn Archbishop Dr. Caspar Klein presented the solemn consecration. The organ was damaged in the chaos of the Second World War and was repaired in 1946 by the organ building company Stockmann from Werl .

St. Matthias Fretter
Interior St. Matthias Fretter
Organ St. Matthias Fretter

societies

Rifle Brotherhood St. Matthias (1860) (since 2017 with a young rifle division for the first time)

Sportverein Fretter (1945) (since 2014–2015 season with SV Serkenrode in a syndicate as SG Serkenrode / Fretter Biggest success promotion to district league 2017)

Ski Club Fretter (1956) with the areas: athletics , skiing , tennis , Prinzengarde, Funkengarde and cycling

Tourist association - today village and homeland association (1975)

Rifle Club St. Eddi (1968)

Catholic women's community (1922)

music

Men's choir "1901" Fretter
Catholic church choir (since 1978)

Personalities

Josef Quinke : (* October 18, 1905 in Fretter; † December 16, 1942 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp ). He sent parcels to the soldiers at the front and, out of Christian conviction, enclosed them with the famous pastoral letter of the Munster Cardinal von Galen . On May 17, 1942, he was imprisoned in the Gestapo Steinwache prison in Dortmund. He died on December 16, 1942 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp . Josef Quinke was later declared a martyr of the 20th century by Pope John Paul II and beatified .

Hannes Pingsmann (born March 18, 1894 in Essen-Rüttenscheid, † September 27, 1955 in Essen), painter and graphic artist.

Hermann Hagedorn (born August 20, 1884 in Borbeck-Gerschede, † March 7, 1951 in Fretter), German teacher and local poet.

literature

Wilhelm Voss: Fretter and his old farms. Bigge / Ruhr 1940 ( PDF ).
G. Becker. E. Deitenberg and V. Kennemann: Fretter - A Sauerland village and its inhabitants. Fretter 1985.

Web links

Commons : Fretter - collection of images, videos and audio files

fretter.net , website of the village and homeland association

Fretter in the Westphalia Culture Atlas

Individual evidence

↑ Population statistics of the municipality of Finnentrop (as of December 31, 2016). (PDF) Municipality of Finnentrop, accessed on May 16, 2017 .
↑ The coffin maker to Fretter in the Sauerland. A radio play by Ingo Munz. Essen, 2013.
↑ Fretter: A Sauerland village and its inhabitants . Compiled by Günter Becker, Erika Deitenberg and Volker Kennemann, 1985, p. 65 ff.
^ Fretter - a Sauerland village and its inhabitants . Add.-gest. by G. Becker. E. Deitenberg and V. Kennemann, 1985, pp. 222f.

[Einwohnerstatistik-1] Population statistics of the municipality of Finnentrop (as of December 31, 2016). (PDF) Municipality of Finnentrop, accessed on May 16, 2017 .

[2] The coffin maker to Fretter in the Sauerland. A radio play by Ingo Munz. Essen, 2013.

[3] Fretter: A Sauerland village and its inhabitants . Compiled by Günter Becker, Erika Deitenberg and Volker Kennemann, 1985, p. 65 ff.

[4] Fretter - a Sauerland village and its inhabitants . Add.-gest. by G. Becker. E. Deitenberg and V. Kennemann, 1985, pp. 222f.