Kickenbach

Kickenbach City of Lennestadt Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 38 ″  N , 8 ° 6 ′ 9 ″  E
Height :	299 m
Residents :	504  (Jun. 30, 2020)
Postal code :	57368
Location of Kickenbach in Lennestadt
Aerial view of Kickenbach

Kickenbach is a district of Lennestadt in the Olpe district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Local situation

The place is directly on the federal highway 236 in the section that leads from Altenhundem to Schmallenberg . The place name is derived from the kick Bach likewise named, about 4 km long stream that from Kickenberg in a quicken (d. E. Fast) run in the Lenne flows. The word part “kick” corresponds to “fast” or “lively”. The place name appears in different sources in different spelling, Kighenbeke (1279), Kickemecke (1543) and finally Kickenbach (1782).

Local development

St. Hubertus Kickenbach

St. Hubertus chancel

Kickenbach is first mentioned in a document in 1279. Accordingly, that year on July 25, 1279, 30 people met in the Elsper parish church to hand over the tithe remuneration to a representative of the Mariengnadenstift in Cologne according to old custom . Also present was a Kickenbacher who was not named and paid 4 denarii (Item Kighenbeke IIII denarios).

An early insight into the population structure of Kickenbach can be found in the appraisal register (used to collect taxes) from 1543. According to this, there were 8 taxpayers in Kickemecke (Kickenbach). If one equates the number of taxpayers with the number of existing houses and calculates about 6 residents per house, around 50 people should have lived in Kickenbach at this time. The tax liability of the whole town amounted to 17 gold guilders, of which 4 went to Astmatz Gobbels fraw and Hanß her brother-in-law and also 4 gold guilders to Tilman Piper.

From the beginning of the 18th century, the advent of iron processing brought about a structural change in what had been an exclusively agricultural area until then. In the years 1727–1760, 7 ironworks were founded in Westphalia in the Electorate of Cologne. In 1765, the Kickenbacher Reidemeister (former job title in metallurgy) Johann Kayser received the concession to operate a steel hammer with fire or Esse (called "Kickenbacher Hammer"), which was located on the Kickenbacher Lennebrücke. The controversy that flared up again and again about the supply of the hammer with local charcoal is known from this time, as the charcoal burners allegedly did not adhere to the Electoral Cologne export ban and also supplied charcoal to the neighboring Siegerland. With the advent of new techniques such as steam engine and engine construction from the middle of the 19th century, water-powered metallurgy declined. In 1912 the upper ditch of the former Kickenbacher hammer was converted into a generator system for generating electricity. In 2011, the re-entry into electricity production with the help of hydropower was significantly expanded at the Kickenbacher Hammer, whereby the water inlets were initially significantly expanded. The showpiece of the power generation is a Zuppinger waterwheel with a diameter of 7.0 and a width of approx. 1.60 meters, which was installed with the help of a specialist company from Karlsruhe , which was put into operation on August 22, 2011. The plant is to be completely completed in the coming year.

In 1818 there were 6 in Kickenbach hammer mill , 4 Kohler , two blacksmiths, three cutters and two shoemakers. The expansion of the traffic routes, in particular the opening of the Ruhr-Sieg line in 1861 (connected the places Hagen, Altenhundem and Siegen), as well as the branch line Altenhundem - Schmallenberg in 1887 (stop in Kickenbach from 1903), and the improvement of the electricity - and water supply favored the economic structural change in trade, handcraft and trade. In addition to the traditional industries, modern service providers such as dental laboratories, planning offices for design, technology and network web design have recently settled in Kickenbach.

At the end of June 2020, Kickenbach had 510 inhabitants, with the proportion of seniors at 19.8% being above the average for the city of Lennestadt (17.4%). With 19 clubs available, club life is very pronounced.

religion

The majority of the residents of Kickenbach profess the Catholic faith. In 1712 the Hubertus Chapel was built by the farmer Kaiser as a single-nave hall building. It was expanded in 1904 under Pastor Scholemann from Altenhundem. A transept and a west apse were added. The old part of the chapel has been integrated into the new building. The center of the apse is the baroque altarpiece . The coronation of Mary by God the Father is shown in the round image of the upper part of the reredos. Other noteworthy items in the chapel include a late Gothic Madonna, a Gothic crucifix, a late Gothic statue of Peter and Paul and the baroque high altar.

The last renovation took place in 1999. While laying a power cable, a previously unknown well was discovered, which was then rebuilt. The statue of Hubertus, which is placed in bronze by the chapel, was created by the artist Elisabeth Buchloh. With the gift, the artist expresses her attachment to home.

In 2012 the Kickenbachers celebrate the 300th anniversary of their band. The chapel chronicle, which was revised for this occasion, contains the information that a chapel in Kickenbekke "below Langeney an der Lenne" was mentioned in a survey from 1628 about churches and chapels in the Archdiocese of Cologne. It is believed that this chapel was in a dilapidated state in 1712 and was replaced by the new chapel. The chapel has been a listed building since 1985 .

Web links

Commons : Kickenbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 725 years of the village of Kickenbach - A Chronicle, Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Kickenbach, Lennestadt-Kickenbach 2003, p. 16
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Page 28 
3. ↑ Monika Löcker, Kickenbacher Hammer, in: 725 Jahre Dorf Kickenbach (see note 1) p. 345 ff.
4. ↑ Monika Löcker, ibid, p. 355
5. ↑ Art .: Giant water wheel in Kickenbach on the electricity network, in: Westfalenpost, newspaper for the district of Olpe, edition of August 30, 2011
6. ↑ on structural change see: 725 years of the village of Kickenbach (see note 1), p. 384 ff.
7. ^ Information from the city of Lennestadt
8. ↑ Ralf Breer and Otto Höffer: 'Churches and chapels in Attendorn, Lennestadt and Kirchundem'. Edited by Sparkasse Attendorn-Lennestadt-Kirchhundem, Attendorn 1999, pp. 96,97
9. ↑ s. Article: Precious testimony of piety, in: Westfalenpost, newspaper for the district of Olpe, issue of November 24, 2011