Holthausen (Schmallenberg)

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Holthausen
City of Schmallenberg
Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 57 ″  N , 8 ° 20 ′ 27 ″  E
Height : 492  (460-580)  m
Residents : 567  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Postal code : 57392
Holthausen (Schmallenberg)
Holthausen

Location of Holthausen in Schmallenberg
View from the Wilzenberg tower to Holthausen
View from the Wilzenberg tower to Holthausen

Holthausen is a district of the town Schmallenberg in the Hochsauerlandkreis in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ).

geography

Church in Holthausen

location

The village is east of Bad Fredeburg. Like many other villages in this region, it was awarded the title of Federal Gold Village, because in 1979 the place became national winner in the competition “Our village should be more beautiful”. Today our village has a future .

Neighboring places

Neighboring places are Bad Fredeburg , Huxel , Rellmecke , Niedersorpe , Winkhausen and Gleidorf .

history

In 1292 a "Johann de Holthusen" was named as a citizen in Schmallenberg. In the list of goods of the Mescheder Stift in 1314, the taxes in kind were converted into cash payments for the "curtis in Durrenholthusen", the later Hof König in Holthausen. In addition to the Meschede monastery, the Grafschaft monastery was an important court and landowner in Holthausen. In 1645 Holihusen was mapped on the Westphalia Ducatus map. In 1895, 270 inhabitants lived in Holthausen, according to the entry in the trade and business address book of the Province of Westphalia. The village belonged to the municipality of Oberkirchen until the municipal territorial reform. Holthausen has been part of the extended town of Schmallenberg since January 1, 1975.

Attractions

Entrance to the slate mining and local history museum in Holthausen

The Westphalian Slate Mining and Local History Museum , which opened its doors in 1975, is very well known . On an area of ​​around 2300 m², the museum provides information on slate mining, local history and natural history, economic life (agriculture, textile processing, printing, bookbinding, etc.), popular piety and superstition and, since 2009, also on the subject of art affiliated Südwestfälische Galerie.

tourism

The village marks its numerous hiking trails. In Holthausen, there are also children's playgrounds, treading pools, an indoor swimming pool and an exercise path.

Facilities

Holthausen is the seat of the Fredeburg Holthauser Mühle specialist clinic.

View of Holthausen from the Sauerland-Höhenflug on the Ohlberg

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

  • Franziskus Hennemann (born October 27, 1882 in the Holthausen district; † January 17, 1951 in Cape Town / South Africa), mission bishop, was appointed titular bishop of Coptus, the first bishop of Cameroon, in 1913. In 1933 he became Bishop of Cape Town (South Africa)
  • Heinrich Knoche (born January 19, 1831 in Holthausen; † October 22, 1911 in Hüsten) was the headmaster of the elementary school in Herdringen, Arnsberg, from 1852 to 1892. He was the author of the six million copies of the arithmetic book for elementary schools.
  • Rötger Belke-Grobe (* August 27, 1940; † August 17, 2007), local farmer, chairman of the slate mining museum, Schmallenberg mayor (1989 to 1994), member of the district council since 1975, former chairman of the management board of Milchwerke Cologne / Wuppertal (Tuffi) up to Merger with Campina, since then a member of the board / supervisory board of Campina, second deputy chairman of the Westphalia-Lippe Regional Assembly (so-called Westphalia Parliament)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population figures Schmallenberg 2019 , accessed on June 30, 2020
  2. ↑ Manfred Wolf: The Archives of the Grafschaft Monastery (Certificate Monastery Grafschaft No. 27), 1972 and Alfred Bruns, Oberkirchener Bauerschaftsregister, p. 21
  3. ^ History of Holthausen, accessed on February 28, 2010
  4. ^ Alfred Bruns: Court and parish Oberkirchen , p. 460, Stadt Schmallenberg (ed.), 1981
  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. 335 f .