Kirchhundem (place)

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Basic data
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative district Arnsberg administrative district
district District of Olpe
local community Kirchhundem

Kirchhundem is a place in the municipality of Kirchhundem and at the same time its administrative seat. As of December 31, 2013, the place had 2,190 inhabitants.

geography

Extension of the local area

Kirchhundem is located on the western foothills of the Rothaargebirge. The place is traversed by the Hundem river, into which the Flape and Olpe flow here.

Neighboring places

Neighboring villages of Kirchhundem are Herrntrop, Würdinghausen, Flape , Hofolpe and Lennestadt- Altenhundem (administrative seat and center of the city of Lennestadt ).

history

Kirchhundem in 1892

The first mention of the village, which is considered to be certain, comes from 1249 ("altaris sancte Margarite in Hundeme). At that time the village was already a parish.

The earliest news of the parish Hundem is from 1262, as a noble lord Adolf von county the county monastery the tithes in the parish sold Hundem, the brothers Ditmar and Arnold, Ritter and governors in Hundem, from him to feud had.

The basic word of the place name comes from the river that flows through the place, the Hundem . A reference to the Germanic "hunda" for "swell" leads to the possible content of the name "swell brook". The New High German addition "Kirch-" denotes the status as a pastor and serves to distinguish it from the neighboring towns of Altenhundem and Oberhundem.

In the history of Kirchhundem, at least two major fire disasters took place, in 1564 and 1819. In the latter case, the current appearance of the town center, especially Flaper Straße, was shaped.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Parish Church of St. Peter and Paul

St. Peter and Paul (Kirchhundem)

The parish church with the patronage of St. Peter and Paul was built during the First World War by the building contractor Anton Sunder-Plassmann from Förde (today: Grevenbrück ) according to plans by the architect Joseph Buchkremer from Aachen . At the request of the provincial curator, parts of the old parish church were preserved on the west side of the new church. A special feature of this church are the two organs:

  • Historic baroque organ from 1701 by the Bielefeld organ maker Peter Henrich Varenholt. 1814 major changes by Christian Roetzel. Magnificent baroque case by the carpenter Johann Viegener from Netphen with carvings by the sculptor Johann Sasse , Attendorn.
  • Organ from the Anton Feith company , Paderborn, from 1940, which is committed to the sound ideal of the German late romantic era.

As the oldest parish in the eastern part of the Bilstein rulership, separated from the mother parish of Wormbach , the own church in "Hundem" was named as early as 1261. Two yokes and the substructure of the tower are still standing from the previous building, which are occupied according to the foundation stones in 1340 and 1470. The old organ with carvings from the sculptor's workshop Sasse in Attendorn also dates from 1701/02. Today's neo-Gothic parish church was built in 1915–1917 during the First World War across the old Romanesque church. The old church had three naves, each with four bays. The western yoke of the south aisle had two storeys, cross vaults with ridges and crowns between ogival belts and wall panels on pillars, pillars and pillars with semicircular templates.

  • Exterior view from the southeast of St. Peter and Paul Kirchhundem

  • Entrance portal and organ stage

  • Interior view of the altar

  • Entrance portal inside

In front of the church there is a picture of three hares embedded in the ground.

Three hares picture
Vasbach Chapel

Vasbach Chapel

The Vasbach Chapel (St. George's Chapel) was planned in 1677 by Georg Vasbach with the architect Heinrich Leist and inaugurated on December 8, 1680 by the abbot of the Grafschaft monastery , Gottfried von Grafschaft. From 1997 to 2000 the chapel was extensively renovated. Statues of saints and the hanging Madonna were stolen during a break-in in the late 1970s. The also stolen altar painting ( Mariae Annunciation ) by Johann Georg Rudolphi was bought back from the black market for the district home museum Attendorn (today Südsauerlandmuseum ) in the early 1980s . When the chapel was renovated, a colored reproduction of the painting was incorporated into the altar. The altar itself is a work from the Attendorn workshop by Johannes Valentorn, who worked with the sculptor Johannes Sasse. The chapel is entered in the monuments list of the municipality of Kirchhundem .

town hall

town hall

The Town Hall in Kirchhundem was formerly office management of the 1843/44 formed Office Kirchhundem . It was built from 1903 to 1905 in the Art Nouveau style. A stumbling stone has been set into the ground near the entrance to the town hall .

Clubs and communities

homeland

The Schützenverein Kirchhundem 1908 eV is very important for the village community and has more than 700 members. He is the owner of the Schützenhalle, where many events take place. In addition, the association organizes the shooting festival every year , which extends over three days and can be described as the social highlight of the year.

The Bürgererverein Kirchhundem eV has made homeland care and local history as well as village development its task.

Sports

The gyms of the elementary and secondary school as well as the artificial turf field and the tennis courts next to it enable sporting activities .

The FC Kirchhundem 1946 eV plays in the district league. The high point in the club's history was the inauguration of the artificial turf pitch in 2005.

The TV Kirchhundem forms with more than 1,300 members and nine departments of the largest Mehrsparten- sports club of the community. There are 36 different sports options in summer and 38 in winter.

singing

The MGV "Liedertafel-Eintracht" 1853 Kirchhundem achieved the title of " Master Choir in the NRW Choir Association (2007-2012)" in 2007 . Highlights in the club's history included concerts with the Regensburger Domspatzen and the Mainz court singers .

On August 29th, 2008 the Catholic church choir “St. Peter and Paul / St. Bartholomäus "Kirchhundem / Würdinghausen and the Catholic church choir" St. Cäcilia “Oberhundem merged into a common choir, which is now called the Catholic Church Choir St. Cäcilia Hundemtal .

Aid organizations

The Kirchhundem volunteer fire brigade has been serving the people around us since 1907. The German Red Cross maintains a local group here.

Economy and Infrastructure

education

In Kirchhundem there is a Catholic kindergarten , a Catholic primary school and a community secondary school . From the 2014/15 school year, a joint secondary school will be set up by the municipality of Kirchhundem and the city of Lennestadt, replacing the secondary school for each year.

Personalities

Honorary citizen

Kirchhundem's motto

literature

  • Paula Best-Vasbach: The Vasbachs on Vasbach - a family chronicle 1490-1946 , Münster, 1949.
  • Ernst and Käthe Henrichs (recorded and compiled): Time of Women - Kirchhundem women report from difficult times , publisher: Verkehrs- und Verschönerungsverein Kirchhundem 1881, Kirchhundem, 1996.
  • Ernst and Käthe Henrichs: Soldier Fates - Fallen and Missing Persons of the Second World War from Kirchhundem, Flape and Herrntrop , published by: Verkehrs- und Verschönerungsverein Kirchhundem 1881, Kirchhundem, 2003.
  • Helmut Schauerte: History and stories of Kirchhundem am Rothaargebirge , publisher: Verkehrs- und Verschönerungsverein 1881 eV Kirchhundem, Kirchhundem 1981.
  • Martin Vormberg: Fire disasters in Oberhundem and Kirchhundem 175 and 170 years ago, respectively. In: Voices from the Olpe district. 155th episode, 2/1989. P. 102 ff.
  • Martin Vormberg: Vasbach Chapel near Kirchhundem. In: Voices from the Olpe district. 195th episode, 2/1999. P. 129 ff.
  • Martin aVormberg: 100 years of Kirchhundem town hall. Festschrift for the Open Monument Day on September 11, 2005. Kirchhundem 2005.

Web links

Commons : Kirchhundem  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kirchhundem parish: Places , accessed on January 13, 2015
  2. ↑ cf. Michael Flöer: The place names of the district of Olpe. Westphalian Place Name Book (WOB), Publishing House for Regional History, Bielefeld 2014, pp. 138–141
  3. ↑ Secondary School Dogs-Lenne on the homepage of the Kirchhundem community

Coordinates: 51 ° 5 '  N , 8 ° 5'  E