Genna (Iserlohn)

Genna City of Iserlohn Coordinates: 51 ° 21 '47 "  N , 7 ° 36' 54"  E
Postal code :	58642
Area code :	02374
Location of Genna in North Rhine-Westphalia
Lennebogen near Letmathe (painting from 1802)

Genna is a district of Iserlohn in the Letmathe district . The city of Iserlohn with its Genna district is located in the northwest of the Sauerland and belongs to the Märkischer Kreis . At the end of 2019, Genna and Lasbeck had 1903 residents.

The earlier assumption that a homestead in Getena / Getunna was donated to the Werden Abbey around 970 , could refer to Genna, has proven to be incorrect. The assumption that Genna is identical to Getunna or Gentena was refuted in 1987 by a historian. It was only 500 years later that Werden possessions in Genna were actually proven. Thus, “Genna” in place name research did not begin until the 13th century and the name form Gindena , which was passed down between 1220 and 1250 in the bailiwick of Essen Abbey . In the name interpretation and its name parts, the medieval name Gindena / Gendena is now related to an opened Gandina . With the following result: Gandina could both be on the whole an old section name of the Lenne , which was transferred to the settlement, or a job designation formed into a section name Ganda ... The place name can thus be interpreted as "swelling river" or "place near a swelling river" .

A branch of the noble family of Letmathe settled in Genna, namely the Letmathe family , called Schele .

When industrialization was advancing into the Lennetal and the railway built the Ruhr-Sieg route , Letmathe station (today's name 'Iserlohn-Letmathe') was built in Genna in 1861. In the following years, the Dechen Cave was discovered in 1868 during expansion work on the railway line to Iserlohn (the line had been built in 1864) . Many industrial companies settled in the flat Lennetal on the railway line and shaped the appearance of the former farmers' settlement through the mining of the local mass limestone. After the limestone mining was stopped in the 1960s, unique habitats for plants and animals developed in the dry, rocky quarries, which were placed under nature protection in the 1980s.

The world's oldest 220 kV high voltage line from Ronsdorf to Letmathe leads to the substation in Genna.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ City of Iserlohn: Contributions to urban research and statistics (PDF), accessed on March 15, 2020
2. ↑ Trotier, Peter, article in: Hohenlimburger Heimatblätter for the area of ​​Hagen and Iserlohn, volume 80, issue 3/2019, pages 73-77
3. ↑ Flöer, Michael: The place names of the Märkisches Kreis , Westphalian Place Name Book (WOB) 12, Bielefeld 2018, pages 150–152 (Genna)