Local mountains

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Local mountains
Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 20 ″  N , 8 ° 55 ′ 35 ″  E
Height : 86 m
Area : 5.83 km²
Residents : 4955  (December 31, 2017)
Population density : 850 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1973
Postal code : 32457
Area code : 0571
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Location of local mountains in Porta Westfalica

Hausberge is the central district of the city of Porta Westfalica in the Minden-Lübbecke district . Hausberge has 5283 inhabitants.

history

View of local mountains from the Kaiser Wilhelm monument

The first known settlement at this place dates back to 1098, when the Schalksburg was mentioned in a document. The present city center of Porta Westfalica developed around this. For the first time in 1353 castle people were also announced who resided in the castle, now called "Haus zum Berge". The surrounding settlement was named "Hausberge" after the castle. In the 14th and 15th centuries, the collegiate monastery St. Walburga existed in Hausberge . Market rights were granted in 1618 and city rights in 1720.

Until December 31, 1972, the town of Hausberge was the seat of the administrative office of the Hausberge office in the Minden district . As part of the regional reform of October 2, 1972 (" Bielefeld Law "), the city of Porta Westfalica was founded on January 1, 1973, into which local mountains with 5.83 km 2 and 4447 inhabitants were incorporated. A landscape designation was thus transferred to a city. The name Porta Westfalica comes from the 18th century, when the Latin and French languages ​​were in vogue among the nobles. Porta Westfalica ("Westphalian Gate") describes the breakthrough of the Weser between the Weser and Wiehen mountains .

memorial

Memorial plaque for the Porta Westfalica satellite camp

From mid-February 1945 the Philips company in Porta Westfalica employed around 1000 female concentration camp prisoners, mostly Hungarian and Dutch Jews, in one of the three local mountains camps. They came from the Auschwitz concentration camp , the woman satellite camp Horneburg of the Neuengamme concentration camp and the woman satellite camp Reichenbach of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp . As part of the “ Stöhr I ” U relocation , the company had been preparing the upper tunnel of the Jakobsberg with production facilities for the manufacture of Wehrmacht communications equipment since the beginning of October 1944 . The women came to the camp in two groups. In Jakobsberg they were used in the production of electron tubes and light bulbs. On April 1, 1945 the camp was evacuated. This was followed by a day-long odyssey towards the north. Some of the women reached the Salzwedel satellite camp , where they were liberated by US troops on April 14. Others came to Hamburg via the Fallersleben and Beendorf subcamps , where they were liberated in late April / early May 1945. According to survivors, the camp leader was an SS-Unterscharführer Brose. Although historians and school initiatives began to show an interest in the history of the satellite camps in Porta Westfalica in the 1980s, it was only after long public disputes that the city of Porta Westfalica installed a plaque in the Hausberge district in 1992 to commemorate the 4,000 internees in Porta Westfalica. In addition to the concentration camp prisoners from Hausberge, this also includes at least 31 prisoners from the Lerbeck camp owned by the Beton Weber company. Until 1944, it produced almost exclusively for the special building projects in Porta Westfalica and the surrounding area. For the construction project in Jakobsberg, for example, the extremely high excavated tunnels had to be equipped with false ceilings made of reinforced concrete. The Weber company was commissioned with the production of these false ceilings, as the leading site manager, Wennign Government Councilor, considered them to be the most suitable for the SS construction project at the Porta. The warehouse with the largest structures was in Barkhausen in the Hotel Kaiserhof . On March 19, 1944, the first prisoners were accommodated in the Kaiserhof Hotel in the immediate vicinity of the planned SS construction project, in order to concentrate the workforce . The large hall of the hotel was prepared for this purpose. On March 31, 1944, another 40 prisoners from Buchenwald , as well as a larger number from April to July 1944, were brought from the Neuengamme main camp to the satellite camp in Porta . A transport from Sachsenhausen increased the number of prisoners to a total of 1000. In September, a large number of Danes were transported from the main camp in Neuengamme to the Porta. After the evacuation of the Lengerich camp in March 1945, the number of prisoners peaked at 1,600. The Barkhausen camp recorded the highest number of deaths, including from executions. The Cologne public prosecutor's office confirmed 400 to 550 dead in 1963. French survivors of the Barkhausen camp initiated the memorial plaque. The plaque contains the inscription: "Not wanting to know is unconditional surrender". At the site of the former Porta Westfalica-Hausberge women's satellite camp, no commemorative sign has been attached to this day. The Porta Westfalica Concentration Camp Memorial and Documentation Site Association was founded at the end of 2009 and has been actively fighting against forgetting ever since.

Evangelical Church Hausberge

religion

Local mountains 1909 with both churches (picture postcard)
The former Catholic Church of St. Walburga, 1900 (picture postcard)

Hausberge was parish off as an independent parish of Holzhausen at the Porta in the Middle Ages (1392?) ; This included not only local mountains and the western part of Lohfeld and the west of the Weser location, but in the 19th century after Barkhausen at Porta umgepfarrte Good Wedigenstein . The introduction of the (Lutheran) Reformation in Hausberge apparently took place in the middle of the 16th century (probably not before 1555). The Evangelicals living in the eastern part of Lohfeld have been part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of Hausberge since 1964; previously, the eastern part of Lohfeld was supplied by the Evangelical Lutheran Parish of Eisbergen . Since June 1, 2007, a parish connection has been set up between the Evangelical Lutheran Church Community of Hausberge and the Evangelical Church Community of Veltheim ; Since then the Veltheim pastor has been responsible for the pastoral care of the majority of the Protestant parishioners in Lohfeld. The Roman Catholic parishioners in Hausberge belong to the Catholic parish of St. Walburga Hausberge, whose parish includes the entire city of Porta Westfalica. There are also places of worship for the New Apostolic Church and Jehovah's Witnesses in local mountains . The Jewish cemetery on Kempstrasse with the Michelsohn family's mausoleum , which was probably built in the 17th century and is now a listed building, is a reminder of the former Jewish community of Hausberge .

Buildings

The simple hall with tracery windows and a polygonal end was built between 1624 and 1626 in the Kirchsiek. In 1927, a no longer existing extension with a memorial to honor the fallen of the First World War was built. The tower in the west of the church, built in 1599, was given a pointed helmet in 1888. The interior of the church, covered by a wooden ceiling, contains two stone epitaphs on the north wall from the time before the church was built. The chalice-shaped, octagonal, stone baptismal font may also be older than the church. The crucifix attached to the altar appears to be part of the initial furnishings of the church. In 1963 the church was last completely renovated and its floor plan was largely based on the state it was in when it was built during the Thirty Years War. The interior fittings and the stained glazing of the windows including the central Christ window in the choir have also been renewed. A remaining piece of the earlier stained glass was restored in 2006 and is now in the parish hall, the Ferdinand Huhold House , built in 2000/2001 opposite the church . A coat of arms of Bishop Hermann von Schaumburg , who was important for the introduction of the Reformation in the diocese of Minden and who temporarily performed his official duties from Hausberger Schalksburg , was secured when it was demolished and is located on the inner north wall of the tower.
Schalksburg today
From the once extensive palace complex, which was demolished in 1708, only small structural remains have survived, including the former gatehouse. The single-storey quarry stone building over the half-sunken basement was probably built before 1562. The roof structure was extensively renewed in 1663. The immediately adjoining Drosten apartment was built in 1708 as a two-storey plastered solid construction, the upper storey of which is partly made of half-timbered houses. Major modifications were made in 1813. The old interior layout was largely destroyed in the course of the renovation carried out at the beginning of the 1990s; in the process, the existing original building fabric was largely lost. The immediate vicinity of the monument has meanwhile been devalued by historicizing new buildings that occupy the former palace area.
  • Road extensions and renovation measures have radically changed the historic town center of Hausberge in recent years. Among the few remaining half-timbered buildings from the 17th to 19th centuries, Kiekenbrink 1 stands out, an elongated building, picturesquely situated on the slope above a high basement, which is designated 1624. Also worth mentioning are Hauptstrasse 29 (marked 1623) and No. 33 ( Alt Hausberge restaurant ). The latter goes back to a single-storey building from around 1550, which was expanded to its current two-storey form in the course of the 17th century. 1982–1986 the badly neglected house was renovated and the under-plastered half-timbering was exposed again.
  • Of the Burgmannshöfen , only the Hof von Langen and the Hof Tönsmeier on the main street are left. The former is a stately two-storey half-timbered building, which is labeled 1657 on the exterior. It was extensively renovated in 1986.

  • von Langen 'scher Burgmannshof

  • Tönsmeier farm

  • Kiekenbrink 1

  • Alt Hausberge restaurant

traffic

The town of Hausberge was opened up with the construction of the Cologne-Minden Railway in 1848. In the breakthrough valley of Porta Westfalica, the Porta train station was built after several relocations of the Weser . In the immediate vicinity of the train station, a Weser bridge Porta was built to the Barkhausen district on the opposite bank. The locations of the train station and the Weser bridge were relocated somewhat in the 20th century for new buildings. The Weser had previously been crossed here on a Porta ferry .

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

literature

  • Friedrich Blodau: History of the Evangelical Lutherans. Parish Hausberge in Porta Westfalica. In: Negotiations of the Vlotho District Synod in 1929. Herford. Westfälische Vereindruckerei undated [1929]. Pp. 55-73.
  • Jürgen Kampmann: The message of the stones. A glimpse into the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Porta Westfalica-Hausberge presented on Sunday Estomihi, February 26, 2006 when leaving the ministry as pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Parish Hausberge. Porta Westfalica: Self-published by the author 2006.
  • Jürgen Kampmann: Protocol on the visitation in Hausberge on June 27, 1838. A reading piece on the history of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Community Hausberge in the 19th century. For Christof Windhorst on April 3, 2002. Löhne-Obernbeck: Self-published by the publisher 2002.
  • Hans Nordsiek: The collegiate monastery St. Walburga in Hausberge. In: Mitteilungen des Mindener Geschichtsverein = Mindener Heimatblätter 59 (1987) pp. 133–135.
  • Michael Sprenger: The Schalksburg in Hausberge. In: AKK 1, Münster 1991, p. 29
  • Hans-Martin Polte, Hans Münstermann: Local mountains. Then and now. A city changes its face. Stories and backgrounds from four decades. Porta Westfalica 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ SV Porta Westfalica - districts. Retrieved June 20, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Marianne Nordsiek: The house to the mountain. Communications of the Mindener Geschichtsverein, year 48 (1976), pp. 129–143.
  3. ↑ Hans Nordsiek: The collegiate St. Walburga in local mountains. Communications of the Mindener Geschichtsverein, volume 59 (1987), pp. 133-135.
  4. ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 118 .
  5. ↑ Mindener Tageblatt of January 15, 2010, accessed on June 22, 2019
  6. ↑ Gallery from the Nazi era opened in Porta Westfalica. May 7, 2016, accessed May 22, 2016 .
  7. ↑ Forced labor for the SS - The Porta building project. Retrieved May 22, 2016 .
  8. ↑ The Jewish cemetery in Hausberge. In: Jüdischer Friedhof Hausberge. Retrieved May 22, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Marianne Nordsiek: The house to the mountain. In: Mitteilungen des Mindener Geschichtsverein, year 48 (1976), pp. 129–143.

Web links

Wikisource: Haußberge in the Topographia Westphaliae (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts