Lieberhausen

Lieberhausen City of Gummersbach Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 45 ″  N , 7 ° 39 ′ 51 ″  E
Height :	372  (351-410)  m
Area :	17.96 km²
Residents :	343  (Jun 30, 2016)
Population density :	19 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st July 1969
Postal code :	51647
Area code :	02354
Location of Lieberhausen in Gummersbach
Lieberhausen with the Bunte Kerke

The " Bunte Kerke " in the center of Lieberhausen

The wood heating plant above Lieberhausen

A view of the main street through Lieberhausen

Lieberhausen is a district of Gummersbach in the Oberbergischer Kreis in the south of North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

The village is a good 9 km northeast of the municipal capital of Gummersbach, a little closer are the neighboring cities of Meinerzhagen in the north and Bergneustadt in the south. Neighboring Gummersbach districts are Drieberhausen in the north, Wörde in the east and Koverstein in the west.

history

Lieberhausen is an old church village that was the main town of the farmers of the same name for centuries and was an independent municipality until it was incorporated into Gummersbach in 1969.

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1033/1050, when “Noble Gerolf transferred his court to Liefburgahuson with chapel, other possessions and 73 servants to Werden monastery ”. The location of the mentioned chapel - probably a modest wooden predecessor of today's basilica - can no longer be determined.

Around 1300 the church is considered to be subordinate to the mother church of St. Severin in Gummersbach , but already in the course of the century mentioned it becomes an independent parish church.

The parish of Lieberhausen was particularly hard hit by the plague between 1634 and 1636 : in all 21 villages together, only 30 adults survived the epidemic. In 1776 and 1854 the place was ravaged by fire disasters, whereby apart from the church only very few buildings were spared.

In 1806, under Napoleonic direction, the Lieberhausen and Wiedenest farmers were combined with Neustadt to form a Mairie . This administrative unit remained in existence until 1858 after the Congress of Vienna , when Lieberhausen and Wiedenest separated from Bergneustadt and formed the mayor's office in Bergneustadt-Land . Curiously, there was only one mayor (based in Lieberhausen) and only one municipal treasury (kept in Wiedenest), but the municipal council, the municipality board and the registry office were duplicated, and each (sub) municipality was largely independent.

year	Residents	year	Residents
1811	107	1817	112
1843	208	1861	222
1910	180	1920	158

The increase in the number of inhabitants in the first half of the 19th century contrasts with their decline in the second half, which continued well into the 20th century. Was seemingly paradoxical reason for this the Germany-wide upswing by the Industrial Revolution : Because of the income poverty of native soil, many young people were on the flight from the land their advancement in the burgeoning cities Aggertal or in the Rhineland.

On January 1, 1929, the Prussian Minister of State merged the two communities into a single community of Lieberhausen . In 1935 it received its coat of arms with the legendary figure of "Hick von Lieberhausen". As part of the community reorganization in the Oberbergischer Kreis, the Lieberhausen community was dissolved on July 1, 1969, with the Lieberhausen part (excluding Rosenthal , Rosenthalseifen , Niederrengse and Bösinghausen ; all belonging to Bergneustadt) being added to Gummersbach and the Wiedenest part to Bergneustadt. The new Reichshof community also received parts of the area.

Economy and industry

The Energiegenossenschaft Lieberhausen eG is the sponsor of the Lieberhausen wood heating plant, which was built on the outskirts and from which the entire town is supplied with heat.

leisure

The Lieberhausen holiday center (“Käte-Strobel-Haus” of the NaturFreunde ), located a little north of the Oberrengse district, offers holiday opportunities for families in particular.

Attractions

• Lieberhausen was awarded in the competition "Our village should be more beautiful" in 1975 and 1977 and in 1979 even received the silver medal at federal level. Under the changed motto “Our village has a future”, Lieberhausen achieved gold at state level in 2009 and thus represented the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in the national competition in 2010. In the end, the silver medal could be won.
• The main attraction is the “ Bunte Kerke ”, whose medieval wall paintings gave their name to a whole group of similarly furnished village churches in the region.
• The “Lieberhäuser Eierkuchen”, a nationally known culinary specialty, is also a sight - the savory or sweet pan dish is almost 20 cm high.

Hiking and bike paths

From the hiking car park in Lieberhausen, the SGV offers hiking trails A2 (8.2 km), A3 (2.2 km) and A5 (5.4 km).

The main hiking route HW 19 of the SGV (Schlösserweg) , marked with St. Andrew's Cross ( X ), runs through the village. It comes from the north of Meinerzhagen and continues in the direction of Wiedenest and Eckenhagen .

Association

• Fanfarenzug Lieberhausen 1958 e. V.
• Gummersbach volunteer fire brigade, Lieberhausen fire fighting group
• Hovawart Exercise Group Gummersbach e. V. in the breed club for Hovawart dogs in the Association for the German Canine System (VDH)
• Schützenverein Lieberhausen 1732 e. V.
• Family holiday center Lieberhausen e. V. (operator of the holiday center)

Church institutions

• Ev. Parish of Lieberhausen

traffic

The Lieberhausen bus stop is connected to the 318 bus (Gummersbach - ( Niedernhagen -) Lieberhausen / Piene / Pernze ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Klaus Pampus: First documentary mentions of Oberbergischer places (= contributions to Oberbergischen history. Special volume 1). Oberbergische Department 1924 e. V. of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein, Gummersbach 1998, ISBN 3-88265-206-3 .
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Jürgen Woelke: Alt-Gummersbach. In contemporary images and views. Volume 2: A foray through the city and its 70 villages. Gronenberg, Gummersbach 1980, ISBN 3-88265-024-9 .
3. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia. A manual for the local reorganization with systematic overviews and lists of the new and the dissolved communities (=  Kommunale Schriften für Nordrhein-Westfalen . Volume 32 ). Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, 1970, ISSN  0454-2584 .

literature

• Robert Czoelner: Collected essays on the history of Lieberhausen and the adjacent areas. R. Czoelner, Gummersbach 1997, ISBN 3-932495-03-9 .

Web links

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

• Homepage of Lieberhausen
• Käte Strobel House
• Lieberhausen: coat of arms with explanatory text in English
• Project description "A village generates energy from wood"