Lengenbeck

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Lengenbach (disambiguation) .

Lengenbeck City of Schmallenberg Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 31 ″  N , 8 ° 24 ′ 17 ″  E
Height :	500 m above sea level NN
Residents :	55  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Postal code :	57392
Location of Lengenbeck in Schmallenberg
Aerial view of Lengenbeck

Lengenbeck

Chapel in Lengenbeck

Slate pit Sperlingslust

Lengenbeck is a district of the city of Schmallenberg in North Rhine-Westphalia . The place has 20 houses in which 55 residents live (as of December 31, 2019).

geography

location

The place is 8 km northeast of the core town Schmallenberg on the district road 18 between Inderlenne and Nordenau away from through traffic.

Neighboring places

Neighboring places are Nordenau and Inderlenne .

history

The place name is derived from the brook "Langebieke (long brook)", which rises in the forest area between Heidberg and Auf der Helle. The brook flows into the Nesselbach at the beginning of the village.

Lengenbeck was mentioned in old chronicles as early as 1295, as a protective outbuilding of Nordenau Castle . Today's Lengenbeck seems to have emerged shortly before the Thirty Years War , because the village was not yet mentioned in the 1602 treasury register. However, Lassenbeck appears in a note from the period between 1620 and 1651. According to the document, there were three houses in Lengenbeck to the north-east. The body treasure register from 1686 recorded 16 residents in Lengenbeck (then called Lennemecke ). Two hundred years later, according to the entry in the trade and business address book of the Province of Westphalia from 1895, lived in the place.

Towards the end of the Second World War , US troops began bombarding the village from the east on the night of April 1 to April 2, 1945. The residents of the village fled into the tunnel of the Lengenbeck slate mine, into which most of the residents of Westfeld also took refuge in the course of the following day. On April 3, 1945, Lengenbeck was occupied by US soldiers without a fight.

Lengenbeck was strongly influenced by slate mining. Throughout history there have been three slate pits around the place, with the last slate pit closed in 1965. The former slate quarry “Sperlingslust” is located about 1 km from the village. There, in a well-preserved company building, the local residents created rooms for the village community.

As part of the municipal reorganization, the municipality of Oberkirchen was added on January 1, 1975 , to which the 19 localities Oberkirchen, Inderlenne, Westfeld, Vorwald, Hoher Bone, Inderlenne, Ohlenbach, Lengenbeck, Nordenau, Nesselbach, Rehsiepen, Obersorpe, Mittelorpe, Rellmecke, Huxel , Holthausen, Niedersorpe, Winkhausen, Lüttmecke and Almert belonged to the new town of Schmallenberg.

religion

In 1965 the Chapel of St. Three Kings, financed by the residents, was inaugurated.

Others

The two springs in the village supply Lengenbeck and Inderlenne with water. Lengenbeck has its own sewage treatment plant , which was built in 1999 in-house. It is a plant sewage treatment plant that is unique in North Rhine-Westphalia. The landscape protection area Hangmagergrünland extends partially to the edge of the village.

Above the former slate quarry "Sperlingslust" is a not publicly available Klause .

Legend has it that there are no sparrows in the Lengenbeck valley . The reason for this has not yet been found out.

Web links

Commons : Lengenbeck (Schmallenberg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population figures Schmallenberg 2019 , accessed on July 2, 2020
2. ^ Alfred Bruns: Oberkirchen, court and parish Oberkirchen , p. 808, Stadt Schmallenberg (ed.), 1981
3. ↑ Cologne City Archives: Farragines Gelentii 9.246, term of office after Paster Daniel Sutoris
4. ^ Alfred Bruns: Oberkirchen, Court and Parish Oberkirchen , p. 460, Stadt Schmallenberg (ed.), 1981.
5. ↑ Albert Huyskens : The district of Meschede under the fire roller of the Second World War - compiled from the experience reports of many employees from all over the district and presented on behalf of the district administration. W. Bertelsmann Verlag, Bielefeld 1949. pp. 41-42.
6. ^ 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. 335 f .