Lavesum

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Heide bei Lavesum , anonymous painting from the 19th century

Lavesum is a district of the town of Haltern am See in North Rhine-Westphalia with 1723 inhabitants.

Lavesum has gained national fame primarily due to the Ketteler Hof amusement park and the increasingly popular food sales directly from the farm.

Geographical location

Lavesum is located on the northern edge of the Ruhr area in the middle of the Hohe Mark-Westmünsterland nature park . It is located directly northeast of the Hohen Mark , about four kilometers north-northwest of the Haltern town center.

history

Lavesum, chapel

The old form of the place name can be found in early documents: Lowesheim, Loshein, Luoshem, Lohsum or Lorzum.

The place name is made up of two parts: Lo or Loh = "forest" and Hem or home = "home, settlement". As a result, the name Lavesum means something like: "settlement in the forest".

The area was already inhabited in pre-Christian times, Lavesum was first documented in 930 in the register of properties of the Werden monastery . However, there are no further entries in the earlier history. After the chapel was completed in 1467, 16 families (mostly craftsmen) received permission to settle. This center of the settlement was surrounded by the three large farmhouses König, Lohmann and Enstrup. In 1837 Lavesum was assigned to the parish Haltern and in 1929 incorporated into the Recklinghausen district.

The most important son of Lavesum is Joseph König , who is considered the founder of food chemistry . Today a memorial stone on the war memorial chapel points to him. In 2003 the Haltern Gymnasium was named Joseph-König-Gymnasium in his honor . The farm where Joseph König was born is still owned by the König family.

Until 1974 the place belonged to the parish of Haltern parish .

Attractions

  • War memorial chapel, Kapellenstrasse: a small chapel from 1467. The restored wall paintings, which date from the late 15th century and were covered for a long time, are remarkable. Today, in addition to its original purpose as a place of worship, the chapel also serves as a memorial to the fallen and missing people of Lavesum during the two world wars, whose names are listed on memorial plaques inside the chapel.

leisure

Amusement parks

Sports

Lavesum has its own sports club, the DJK Blau Weiß Lavesum, with its own football, tennis and gymnastics department. The facility includes a grass pitch and an ash court for football, as well as four ash courts for the tennis department.

Between Lavesum and Haltern am See, bike path and main road through the trees

There are four facilities for riders.

traffic

Lavesum can be reached via junction 7 ( Haltern-Lavesum ) on federal motorway 43 . From there, the state road  652 coming from Sythen leads west-south-west into the village.

The bus route 275 of the Vestische trams runs through Lavesum . It operates from Ketteler Hof, or - when closed - from Lavesum fire station , the station Haltern am See .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Facts and Figures | City of Haltern am See. Retrieved March 16, 2020 .
  2. ^ 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. 316 .

Web links

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

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 '  N , 7 ° 10'  E