Hunsheim

Hunsheim municipality Reichshof Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 56 ″  N , 7 ° 36 ′ 38 ″  E
Height :	298  (290-315)  m above sea level NHN
Residents :	966  (December 31, 2008)
Postal code :	51580
Area code :	02261
Location of Hunsheim in Reichshof

Hunsheim is one of 106 localities in the Reichshof municipality in the Oberbergischer Kreis in the North Rhine-Westphalian administrative district of Cologne in Germany .

Location and description

Hunsheim is located northwest of the Wiehltalsperre , the closest centers are Gummersbach (10 km northwest), Cologne (54 km west) and Siegen (46 km southeast).

The closest motorway is the A4 with exit 26 (Reichshof / Bergneustadt) and exit 25 (Gummersbach), each about 8 kilometers away.

First mention

The place was mentioned for the first time in 1467, namely " Heidenreich, Aloff and other residents of Honntzem / Honntzheim are witnesses in a border circuit ".

Spelling of the first mention : Honntzem / Honntzheim

history

Hunsheim has a culturally determined name, 1555 Honnen, 1561 Honzem, 1575 Hontzingen = home, home of the Honnen. Honne = head of the honors (hunnius, centenarius).

Hunsheim belonged to the Alpe Sattelgut, one of the six saddles in the Eckenhagen parish , probably the largest. This included "10 Aggerhöfe", in addition to Hunsheim, Alpe, Berghausen, Dorn, Fahrenberg, Seifen, Merkausen, Allinghausen, Allenbach and Ohlhagen.

The documents of the Alper Bürger Club indicate that stately stone buildings rose around a well-fortified keep, where otherwise the villages were only characterized by low half-timbered houses. Both places (“In der Olpe” and “In der nider Olpe”) are referred to as “ a castle and Adelicher seß (seat)”.

The book "Eckenhagen and Denklingen in the Changing Times" shows that there was a Peter von Heydt, known as Hüngerkausen, who lived in Niederalpe around the middle of the 16th century. In 1560 he married a non-aristocratic woman, Gertrud from Ohlhagen. The marriage resulted in 5 children.

The "Eigen von Eckenhagen" reported in 1575 consisted of 2 church or parish villages, 83 hamlets and 18 individual farms. The latter have become hamlets over time, while others have disappeared.

The treasury or the compulsory tax, originally different from the conditional or voluntary tax, was levied on all goods and land subject to obligation. According to the waiter's bills from 1749, it was the task of the Honschaften in Eigen von Eckenhagen to collect the taxes in the 105 localities for the Windeck office. Hunsheim was one of 7 honors in the Eckenhagen parish.

Debt and Bede paid 11 villages in the Acherhonschaft in 1753, including Hunsheim.

According to further indications, the municipal road building was of particular economic importance in the middle of the 19th century. This also included the connection between Allenbach and Ohlhagen, which was probably completed around 1870.

In the years 1924–1929 the Dieringhausen-Hunsheim-Drespe postal service was set up. This put an end to the old postal connection ("Imperial Post" and private post) on the route.

Legal system

With the Teutons, the community under public law formed an association that included individual farms and smaller hamlets and bore the name Hundertschaft, also Honschaft. The administration of justice was a matter for the judge appointed by the hundred, called the centenary or the hun. The parish (court) Eckenhagen comprised seven honors in 1555, including Hunsheim (Honnen)

School system

Dorn has a special significance in the history of the area due to its school, which was famous in the early 17th century, to which Hunsheim also belongs. When it burned down in 1841, it looked back on over 200 years of history. The school hall remained largely intact and was moved to Hunsheim. The school is still there today, named after Peter von Heydt.

Church affiliation

The beginnings of an own pastorisation of the area around Hunsheim go back a long way. In Dorn there was a Lutheran chapel in which the so-called ten Aggerhöfe, u. a. Hunsheim, located in the Bergisches Amt Windeck, held their regular services. At the beginning of the Thirty Years' War bequeathed the nobleman Peter von Heydt called Hungerkausen, from Lower Alpe according Testament from October 9, 1622 this Agger courts "the cottage to the mandrel together with the garden behind it, alloyed to the glory of God before a Kapell- and schoolhouse." The Lutheran chapel was demolished at the end of the 18th century.

Another indication that the ten Aggerhöfe “belonged to Marienhagen, their main churches (located) in Homburg, have been irritating from time immemorial; But since the Homburg sovereign and with him the Marienhagen parish turned to the Reformed religion, the 10 Acherhöfe, as far as baptism and communion were concerned, turned to Eckenhagen out of love for the fatherland, but otherwise stayed with Marienhagen. "

In 1787 the Acherhöfe were forced to move to Eckenhagen due to a tightened mandate. In 1855 they finally wanted to be parish back to Marienhagen, but the presbytery refused because the church and churchyard would be too small.

The desire for independent pastoralization grew stronger and stronger. In 1907 the time had come and the foundation stone was laid on May 21st and the inauguration took place on November 17th. The church, built according to plans by government architect August Senz , had 2 bells. The larger one, which had to be delivered in 1917, bore the inscription: O COUNTRY, COUNTRY, COUNTRY, HEAR THE LORD'S WORD! - the one in the upper wreath, which was newly procured in 1928: AFTER WAR AND SORRY I CALL TO BEAT again! They had to be returned in April 1942.

In 1907 the civil community of Denklingen established a cemetery in Hunsheim, and the war memorial was created in 1925.

The horrors of World War II were not spared. On December 1, 1943 there was an attack on the Oberbergischer Kreis. The small, beautiful church in Hunsheim, built in 1907, was destroyed.

The foundation stone for a new church was laid on September 5, 1948, and the topping-out ceremony on May 8, 1949, with great sympathy from the population, ecclesiastical and secular authorities. The first service was celebrated on January 29, 1950, the inauguration on December 10 of that year.

Regarding the Catholics, only very few in this area in the 20th century until the end of the war, one finds the reference that by archbishop's decree of August 24, 1889 14 localities from the community of Denklingen, including Hunsheim, with a total of 130 Catholics, are part of the rectorate That were assigned.

Economy and industry

In Hunsheim there is an industrial area belonging to the Reichshof community, where various companies have settled, e. B. BPW Bergische axis factory Wiehl.

Parishes

• Ev. Parish of Hunsheim
• Evangelical Free Church Congregation ( Baptists )

Schools and educational institutions

• Peter von Heydt Primary School Hunsheim

leisure

Association

• Hunsheim volunteer fire department
• TC Reichshof-Hunsheim eV
• SG Hunsheim 1985 eV
• Teaching pool
• CVJM Drespe
• YMCA Reichshof
• SV Hunsheim

Individual evidence

1. ^ Klaus Pampus: First documentary naming of Oberbergischer places (= contributions to Oberbergischen history. Sonderbd. 1). Oberbergische Department 1924 eV of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein, Gummersbach 1998, ISBN 3-88265-206-3 .

literature

• Oswald Gerhard: Eckenhagen and Denklingen through the ages. A home history of the former Reichshof area of ​​Eckenhagen (the current municipalities of Eckenhagen and Denklingen) as a contribution to the history of the Oberbergisches Land. Heimatverein eV, Eckenhagen 1953.