Kirchveischede

Kirchveischede City of Lennestadt
Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 27 ″  N , 7 ° 59 ′ 58 ″  E
Height :	330 m above sea level NHN
Area :	31.04 km²
Residents :	923  (Jun 30, 2020)
Population density :	30 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st July 1969
Postal code :	57368
Area code :	02721
Location of Kirchveischede in Lennestadt
The parish church of St. Servatius on the Veischede river

Aerial view of Kirchveischede

Kirchveischede is a village in the Sauerland , incorporated into the city of Lennestadt in the Olpe district . The place is located on the B55 in the Veischede valley , a tributary of the Lenne , and had 923 inhabitants at the end of June 2020. At 19.4% of the population, the proportion of senior citizens is above the average for Lennestadt (17.4%).

About 1.5 kilometers southwest of the village is the Hofkühl ramparts , which were probably built in the Iron Age . On the opposite ridge is the Jäckelchen Wallburg , a post-Carolingian-Ottonian castle that was built between the 8th and 10th centuries.

Local development

The place was mentioned for the first time in 1019 in a document that testifies that the Deutz Abbey was given an estate in the village of "Viesche". Historians agree that this village called “Viesche” is today's Kirchveischede. The place name Kirchveische - instead of "Viesche" or "Veische" - can be traced for the first time in 1519.

The place name is based on the water body name Veischede . A reference u. a. the Low German “Fiseln” (thin rain) or the Old Norse “Fisa” (fan, move back and forth) and the name derived from this for “seeping or moving brook” is problematic. In a more recent study, Flöer comes to the conclusion that the previously suggested possible interpretations offer “no feasible path” and that another explanation of the water's name has not yet been successful.

With the capture of Bilstein Castle by Archbishop Dietrich von Moers in 1445, Kirchveischede with the Bilstein office was incorporated into the Duchy of Westphalia and thus belonged to the Electorate of Cologne . An early and fairly complete overview of the families living in Kirchveischede is provided by a survey list of the Duchy of Westphalia from 1536 for the financing of the Turkish wars . According to this, there were 18 heads of household at that time, the number of which should have roughly corresponded to the number of houses at that time.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, most families in Kirchveische still made a living from agriculture. In most cases the peasants were tenants or fiefs of estates that had been owned by the Cologne electors and archbishops or the church of the church since 1445.

The population increase in the 18th century led to a growing number of people who had to make a living outside of agriculture. According to a tax register from 1775, a total of 32 flyers lived on 16 farms in Kirchveische who did not own any residential property. They lived in the houses of the local residents or in outbuildings and made a living as craftsmen or day laborers.

The parish church of St. Servatius is located in the center of the village . Historic half-timbered houses are grouped near the church. Eleven buildings are currently under monument protection: Haus Hardenacke (Röthe 1), Haus Drüeke (Röthe 4), Haus Sondermann (Röthe 6), Haus Hein (Westfälische Straße 50), Parish Church St. Servatius, Rectory at Kellenberg 6 , Haus Nolting (Westfälische Str. 41), Haus Schlüngermann (Westfälische Strasse 43), Haus Epe (Zum Kellenberg 2), Haus Nolting (Westfälische Strasse 48) and Haus Drüeke (Am Radenberg 1).

Most of the half-timbered houses were built between 1784 and 1790, probably as part of new construction work after a major fire. Although the houses have individual characteristics, the basic type of houses corresponds to that of a Low German hall house . Functionally, the hall house fulfills three tasks: It is used to house people, set up cattle and store the harvest.

With the secularization in 1802 the electoral Cologne period ended. In the following politically changeable time, the Duchy of Westphalia and thus also Kirchveischede were initially added to the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt and then taken over by Prussia from 1816. From then on, Kirchveischede belonged to the administrative district of Arnsberg and thus to the province of Westphalia.

In the period from 1775 to 1818 the population of Kirchveische grew by approx. 25% to 246. This, in connection with the lack of a sustainable improvement in the economic structure, led to numerous emigrations in the period from 1836 to 1882. The situation only improved when the tobacco and cigar industry in the neighboring town of Bilstein and Kirchveischede was able to develop for a longer period in the second half of the 19th century.

From 1904 to 1916 the place had a connection to the Ruhr-Sieg line in Grevenbrück station with the Veischedetalbahn , a trolleybus operation . Due to the chaos of war and a lack of material, operations had to be stopped in 1916; the railway was later replaced by the postal service .

On July 1, 1969, Kirchveischede was incorporated into the new town of Lennestadt.

The wooded surroundings with many hiking trails, the beauty of the place with the striking half-timbered houses, the nearby Hohe Bracht observation tower , Bilstein Castle , the Attahöhle in nearby Attendorn and the Biggesee give the place a high level of recreational value with employment opportunities in the catering and accommodation industry. In addition, there are also job opportunities in nearby places with trades, especially in iron and metal processing.

Kirchveischede has been voted the most beautiful village in the Sauerland several times and can bear the title of Golddorf .

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  Art in Kirchveischede

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  Westfälische Strasse 43 (Schlüngermann House)

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  To Kellenberg 2 (Haus Epe)

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  Parish to Kellenberg 6

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  Röthe 1 (Hardenacke House)

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  Veischedetalbahn passenger car

Personalities

Kirchveischede is the birthplace of football coach Helmut Schulte .

Literature and Sources

• Historic half-timbered houses in Lennestadt-Kirchveischede , published by the Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Kirchveischede eV, July 2004.
• Our village Kirchveischede , M. Heer, N. Klein, A. Schlüngermann, G. Schnütgen, HP. Schröder, H. Steinberg, G. Becker, 1984.
• Soldier fates from Kirchveischede Authors, H. Steinberg, U. Rauchheld, A. Schlüngermann

Web links

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

• Homepage Kirchveischede
• Kirchveischede in the Westphalia Culture Atlas

Individual evidence

1. ^ Information from the city of Lennestadt
2. ↑ Günther Becker, Lennestadt - Kirchveischede - from the history of a Sauerland church village , published by the St. Hubertus Schützenverein eV Kirchveischede, Lennestadt 1976, p. 12f.
3. ↑ Günther Becker, Lennestadt - Kirchveischede - from the history of a Sauerland church village , published by the St. Hubertus Schützenverein eV Kirchveischede, Lennestadt 1976, p. 15.
4. ↑ Michael Flöer: The place names of the district of Olpe. Westphalian Place Name Book (WOB), Publishing House for Regional History, Bielefeld 2014, pp. 240–243.
5. ↑ Günther Becker, Lennestadt - Kirchveischede - from the history of a Sauerland church village , published by the St. Hubertus Schützenverein eV Kirchveischede, Lennestadt 1976, p. 30.
6. ↑ Günther Becker, Lennestadt - Kirchveischede - from the history of a Sauerland church village , published by the St. Hubertus Schützenverein eV Kirchveischede, Lennestadt 1976, p. 41.
7. ↑ ^{a b} Günther Becker, Lennestadt - Kirchveischede - from the history of a Sauerland church village , published by the St. Hubertus Schützenverein eV Kirchveischede, Lennestadt 1976, p. 55.
8. ↑ Marlies Heer, Norbert Klein, Alfons Schlüngermann, Gregor Schnütgen, Hans Peter Schröder, Helga Steinberg, Günther Becker: Our village Kirchveischede - from its houses and its people , published by the St. Hubertus Schützenverein Kirchveischede e. V., Lennestadt – Kirchveischede 1984, p. 15 ff.
9. ↑ Ludger Kenning and Jürgen Lehmann, Trolleybuses in Germany, Volume 2, Nordhorn 2011, pp. 219–225.
10. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 90 .