Helmeringhausen

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Location of Helmeringhausen in Olsberg
Church in Helmeringhausen

Helmeringhausen is the smallest district of the city of Olsberg in the Hochsauerlandkreis . As of December 31, 2017, Helmeringhausen had 254 residents.

The place with about 80 houses is about two kilometers south of Bigge . Located in the Vossbach valley, it is surrounded by the Wiedegge (732 m) and Ohlenkopf (729 m) mountains.

The place is first mentioned in a document in the property register of Count Ludwig von Arnsberg († 1313). The place belonged to the Free County of Assinghauser Grund , which was disputed between the Counts of Arnsberg and their successors, the Electors of Cologne , on the one hand and the Counts of Waldeck on the other. Around 1427 there were 10 farms. In 1759 there were 18 houses, some of whose names are still in use today. In the 19th and 20th centuries until the local reorganization, which came into force on January 1, 1975, Helmeringhausen was an independent municipality.

Since 1940 the village had to accept evacuees from the Ruhr area. Before Easter 1945, the Volkssturm was called in the village to support the Wehrmacht in Olsberg. On Easter Monday, April 2, US troops began bombarding the area around Olsberg. Villagers and biggers sought refuge in the mining tunnels around the village. On April 5, grenades hit the village without causing serious damage. German soldiers withdrew through the Sohlweg. On the afternoon of April 6, US troops occupied the village. During the invasion, two houses were set on fire by US tanks with incendiary ammunition . US soldiers were still in the village until mid-May.

During the Second World War , 23 men from the village died as soldiers, most of them on the Eastern Front , or died in captivity.

Today's St. Hubertus Church goes back to a chapel from the end of the 15th or beginning of the 16th century. Later this was rebuilt and expanded several times. The baroque altar originally comes from the parish church in Bigge. Wilhelm Schamoni worked as pastor at St. Hubertus Church .

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.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Olsberg: Facts and Figures , accessed on July 7, 2018
  2. ^ 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 .
  3. ^ Hugo Cramer: The district of Brilon in the Second World War 1939-1945 . 1955, section Helmeringhausen, pp. 156–157.
  4. ^ Hugo Cramer: The district of Brilon in the Second World War 1939-1945 . 1955, honor roll section Helmeringhausen, pp. 196–197.

Web links

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Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′  N , 8 ° 28 ′  E