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Half done City of Lennestadt Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 12 ″  N , 8 ° 5 ′ 13 ″  E
Height :	431 m
Residents :	1019  (Jun 30, 2020)
Postal code :	57368
Area code :	02721
Location of Halberbracht in Lennestadt
Aerial photo of Halberbracht 2012

Halberbracht is a district of Lennestadt in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany . The first written mention of the place was dated July 25, 1279. In the following years the documents about the village contain other different forms of name. It can be found mentioned as Hallersbracht (1335), Hallerbracht (1400), Halberbracht (1486), Herlberbarch (1497), Hallebracht (1535), and Halverbracht (1552).

Today, Halberbracht, with an altitude of around 450 meters, is a winter sports resort in Lennestadt.

history

Urhandriss Halberbracht as the basis of the original register before 1831

View from the Kuhhelle ( 603  m )

The original affiliation to the manor of the royal court in Elspe is also testified by the Halberbracht free chair, first mentioned in 1444 . It stood next to the still existing Fehmeiche above the church. The free chair at Halberbracht was one of the 15 courts of the Hundem Free County, the boundaries of which cannot be viewed as a closed territory, but as a judicial and sovereign territory. Halberbracht was always on Cologne territory and belonged to Elspe ecclesiastically. The competent secular jurisdiction was exercised by the noblemen of Bilstein . After the nobleman Johann II von Bilstein died in 1363 without an heir, the Bilstein reign was taken over by Count Engelbert III. withdrawn from the mark .

Count Gottfried IV. Von Arnsberg sold the entire county of Arnsberg to the Cologne church in 1368 and since then the Cologne areas in the Sauerland, with the exception of the rule of Bilstein, belong to the Duchy of Westphalia .

In 1444 Archbishop Dietrich von Moers succeeded after four months of siege with the support of the towns of Attendorn , Olpe and Drolshagen to capture Fredeburg and in 1445 Bilstein Castle and to incorporate it into the Duchy of Westphalia.

During this time passed the boundary between the Brandenburg Bilstein and the Electoral Cologne Duchy Westfalen, coming from the Lenne on the Mittelstenahe Hardt between Meggen and Hachen to the boundaries of the peasantry Halberbracht around over the "Hexenplatz" and "Linden" for Jürgen Berg and out here in the same place. The border was secured with a Landwehr , parts of which can still be seen in the area today. A historical boundary stone above Burbecke still testifies to these boundary conditions.

After the Bilstein office belonged again to the Duchy of Westphalia from 1445, the fortified Brandenburg state border was abandoned and only remained as a judicial border until 1816.

In an appraisal register for the Turkish tax from 1535 on the Burschaft "Hallebracht" and "Meyenn" (Meggen) ten people were named, whereas in the appraisal register of 1563 only nine people had to bring their share for the place Halberbracht. If one equates the number of persons required to be valued with the number of houses or families and calculates around six residents per house, then around 1560 there were around 50–60 inhabitants in Halberbracht. At the end of June 2020, the number of residents was 1,019, with the proportion of seniors over 65 years of age being 18.5% and thus slightly above the average for the city of Lennestadt of 17.4%.

Incorporation

Until June 30, 1969, Halberbracht belonged to the municipality of Elspe , but was then incorporated into the newly founded city of Lennestadt.

religion

Church of St. Peter and Paul in Halberbracht

St. Peter and Paul - View of the chancel

The majority of the inhabitants of Halberbracht profess the Catholic faith.

A first chapel in Halberbracht was mentioned as early as 1596. On September 1, 1647, the Paderborn auxiliary bishop consecrated an altar in it in honor of St. Paul . The foundation stone for today's church was laid in 1864 after Halberbracht was elevated to a curate vicarie by the Paderborn bishop in 1861 . In 1894/95 this chapel was enlarged; at the same time a sacristy was added.

The Second World War prevented the expansion, which had become necessary due to the increased population. It was not until June 1956 that the foundation stone was laid for an extension with a double transept . In June 1957, the solemn consecration could be made by Bishop Lorenz Jaeger . Particularly worth seeing is the sgraffito technique (a kind of scratch plaster) on the altar wall, it shows Christ in the Second Coming accompanied by the Apostles Peter and Paul . In more recent times the church was renovated in 1975 and 1998, and the panel paintings from the 19th century were built into the parapet of the organ stage. The Catholic parish of St. Peter and Paul belongs to the pastoral network of Meggen-Maumke-Halberbracht.

Mining

Panel in front of the church in Halberbracht

Mining monument (rope pulley Baroschacht) in front of the shooting range

East of Halberbracht, brown iron stone was already mined "in the cellar" in 1727/28 and brought to Meggen and Maumke for smelting. A pinge train , which extends in a north-easterly direction, still reminds today of the first verifiable ore mining in Halberbracht. The mining came thereafter for about 100 years to a standstill because of Eisenstein with increasing depth was schwefelkieshaltiger more and more, and the ore for smelting proved useless.

From around 1852 the prospect of pebbles began and the ore fields around Halberbracht were distributed. With the connection to the Ruhr-Sieg railway line in 1861, mining continued to flourish. The sulphurous gravel deposit stretches from Meggen to behind Burbecke, which was initially developed in open-cast mining . Later tunnels and shafts were driven into the earth to remove the pebbles.

In 1861 the Ernestus shaft was sunk, in 1870 the east shaft at Kickenberg, which was closed again ten years later. At the beginning, several mining companies settled in the Meggen / Halberbracht area, of which the last two unions Siegena and Sicilia merged in 1926 to form an AG under the name “Sachtleben AG for mining and chemical industry”.

The pebbles were divided into three uniform vertical zones. The first transition zone in the east only about 10 m, in the west several hundred meters wide, the pebbles and barite deposits overlapped. The total storage potential of the deposit was around 60 million tons of ore, of which around 50 million tons of pyrites, zinc blende and galena and about 10 million tons of barite, from which the respective finished products zinc, lead, pyritic and barite concentrate were extracted. Until 1974, the mine was Europe's largest zinc producer and covered around 15% of West German demand for these raw materials. Mining took place up to the 13th level using two shafts and a ramp from above ground. The distance between the floors was around 50 m, so that mining could be carried out underground to a depth of around 700 meters.

Since 1992, the production of the mine has been set and in the pit building that's Mining Museum Siciliaschacht been established.

Panoramic view of Halberbracht

Panoramic picture of the high road An den Birken, on the left the ridge of the Hohe Bracht

literature

• Hennes, G., Halberbracht: Past and Present of a Sauerland Mountain Village, 1971
• Seibertz certificates III
• Westerburg-Frisch, Margret: The oldest loan books of the Counts of the Mark, 1967
• Hömberg, AK, home chronicle of the Olpe district, 1967
• Boerger, Robert: History of Elspe in the Olpe district
• Heimatblätter Journal of the Heimatvereine of the Olpe district, 8th year, issue 1, 1931
• State Archives Münster
• Geological map NRW 4814 Lennestadt explanations
• Ralf Breer and Otto Höffer: Churches and chapels in Attendorn, Lennestadt and Kirchundem. Edited by Sparkasse Attendorn-Lennestadt-Kirchhundem, Attendorn 1999, article p. 44 ff.

Web links

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

• Halberbracht in the Westphalia Culture Atlas
• Portrait of the center of Halberbracht

Individual evidence

1. ^ Information from the city of Lennestadt
2. ^ Local law of the city of Lennestadt: List of localities