Heddinghausen (Marsberg)

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Heddinghausen
City of Marsberg
Coat of arms of Heddinghausen
Coordinates: 51 ° 24 '10 "  N , 8 ° 53' 46"  E
Height : 400 m
Area : 5.19 km²
Residents : 183  (2017)
Population density : 35 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 34431
Area code : 02993
Listed Gut Forst in Heddinghausen
Listed Gut Forst in Heddinghausen

Heddinghausen is a village and a district of Marsberg in the Hochsauerlandkreis , North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ).

geography

Heddinghausen is located in Westphalia in the eastern part of the Sauerland around 10 km (as the crow flies ) southeast of the Marsberg city center. It is located in the mostly forestless hilly landscape of the Red Land on a 400 meter high hilltop. The landscape protection area open spaces around Heddinghausen is located around the village .

history

The area of ​​Heddinghausen has been settled for a long time and historically belongs to the Canstein lordship . The town was founded in 782, when Charlemagne had a chapel built here for his army. The foundations of the chapel are still in place. The place was mentioned in a document in 1250, as the estate of the Knight of Aspe.

Since the High Middle Ages, the center of the village has been the parish church " St. Hubertus " with its unique Randebrock organ, which was completely restored in 1998. The unadorned Romanesque west tower has been preserved from the previous building mentioned around 1230. The church is the patronage church and burial place of the von Canstein family.

On March 30, 1945 the first US soldiers reached Heddinghausen. The area had already been occupied the day before. The village was properly occupied by 120 soldiers on March 31. Most of the houses had raised white flags. The village was searched, with valuables and alcohol stolen. The last US soldiers left on April 8th.

In the Second World War , 15 men from Heddinghausen died as soldiers, 14 of them on the Eastern Front .

On January 1, 1975, Heddinghausen was incorporated into the new town of Marsberg.

politics

coat of arms

Blazon : “In green, a sloping bar cut into silver (white) and blue; below a bundle of golden (yellow) ears of corn and above a right-facing red deer head, between the antlers a silver (white) cross. "

The chess bar comes from the coat of arms of the Lords of Horhusen , who owned a castle in the area between the 11th and 16th centuries. The deer head with the cross stands for the parish patron St. Hubertus , the grain ears for agriculture.

Worth mentioning

For several years now, Heddinghausen has gained national fame through the corn fair.

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Marsberg: Demographic Development 1997–2017. In: City of Marsberg IKEK. Retrieved September 15, 2018 .
  2. ^ Josef Rüther, history of the district of Brilon, 1957, Regensberg Verlag Münster, pages 367 u. 368
  3. ^ Hugo Cramer: The district of Brilon in the Second World War 1939-1945 . 1955, section Heddinghausen, pp. 88-89.
  4. ^ Hugo Cramer: The district of Brilon in the Second World War 1939-1945 . 1955, honor roll section Heddinghausen, p. 223.
  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 .