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Have to City of Hilchenbach Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 18 ″  N , 8 ° 2 ′ 32 ″  E
Height :	348  (324-395)  m
Area :	8.08 km²
Residents :	2417  (Jan 31, 2019)
Population density :	299 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1969
Postal code :	57271
Area code :	02733
Town center

Müsen is a district of Hilchenbach in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

Müsen is located above Hilchenbach– Dahlbruch in the northern Siegerland. The place is located at approx. 340  m in the Rothenbachtal, a hollow open to the south, between the Martinshardt with 616.1  m height, the Kindelsberg with 617.9  m height, the Ziegenberg with 521  m height and the Breitenberg with 529  m height. The highest mountain in the area is the Hohe Wald with a height of 655  m . Above the Rothenbach valley, at the transition to Littfeld , there is the Altenberg with a medieval mine area. At the end of the Rothenbach valley, the Winterbach flows into the Rothenbach. Neighboring towns of Müsen are Silberg and Brachthausen in the north, Hilchenbach in the extreme northeast, Allenbach in the east, Dahlbruch in the south, Kredenbach in the southwest, Ferndorf in the west and Littfeld and Burgholdinghausen in the northwest.

history

Müsen was first mentioned as Muzhena in a deed of donation from the Deutz monastery in 1079/89 . On June 3, 1335, the Winterbach farm in the Müsener district was first mentioned. On January 13, 1624, Müsens was accepted into the parish and the Hilchenbach office. Three years later, on February 3, 1627, Müsen became an independent parish after being separated from the Ferndorf mother church.

Müsener mines

Mining has been of central importance to Müsen since the High Middle Ages . The area around Müsen, with dozens of mines and several huts, was one of the centers in the Siegerland ore district (see also Müsen district ). The supraregional well-known mine Stahlberg was first mentioned in 1311 and was in operation until 1931. Today, the Stahlbergmuseum is located in Müsen in the former colliery house together with the visitor mine, in which the history of mining in the 18th and 19th centuries is located. Century is depicted.

In 1893, Müsen was badly devastated as a result of a two-day fire. The town center with the church, school, the Stahlberg inn and 50 residential buildings, almost a third of all buildings, burned down in a firestorm on June 20 and 21. The burned down district was rebuilt by 1901 - less densely built up and with a different road layout. Until the municipal reorganization on January 1, 1969, the place belonged to the Keppel office .

economy

In 1943 a production facility of the Lüdenscheider Sieper -Werke was opened in Müsen . Mainly bathroom mirror cabinets and shelves were made of plastic. For decades, the Sieper company was the largest employer in town. In 2007 the Müsener Sieper – Werke were converted into SieBad GmbH. In 2009 the company filed for bankruptcy. The plant was closed and the remaining 63 employees were laid off. The Franz sawmill, today's Franz Holzindustrie, was built on the site of the former Rothenbacher Hütte in 1953 .

Culture and leisure

The largest natural swimming pool in South Westphalia is in Müsen . It has a water surface of 8000 m² and a lying area of ​​12,000 m². Once a year, the participants of the Kindelsberg Triathlon swim their lanes here. Above Müsen, at the foot of the Martinshardt, there is a holiday village. It was built in the late 1970s on the site of the former Stahlberg mine . It consists of bungalows and roof-top houses . Between Winterbachtal and Breitenberg, the Wigrow rest area is located in a clearing, surrounded by spruce, maple and centuries-old oaks . The rest area is equipped with benches, a refuge and barbecue hut, and the winter stream rises at its lower edge.

Population numbers

Müsen and the Rothenbach valley seen from the Ziegenberg

Evangelical Church in Müsen

Population development of the place:

year Residents 1627 ~ 500 1818 641 1840 758 1843 761 1846 805 1864 1294 1880 1433 1885 1502 1887 1542 1895 1290 1905 1515

year Residents 1910 1515 1924 1456 1925 1431 1929 1447 1933 1525 1936 1601 1939 1549 1950 1820 1955 1960 1960 2060 1961 2042

year Residents 1965 2159 1967 2085 1970 2168 1975 2340 1977 2417 1979 2500 2001 2654 2002 2689 2003 2678 2004 2672 2005 2653

year Residents 2006 2620 2007 2575 2008 2554 2009 2538 2010 2498 2011 2520 2012 2516 2013 2455 2014 2463 2015 2487 2016 2440

year Residents 2017 2388 2018 2405 2019 2391

Personalities

• Johann Jakob Jung (1779–1847), founder of the Hessen-Nassau Hüttenverein
• Hermann Wurmbach (1903–1976), zoologist
• Wilhelm Müller (1912–1995), journalist
• Uwe von Seltmann (* 1964), journalist and writer

Others

Müsen lies on the Benrather and Uerdinger lines , which together form the language border to the Low German- speaking Sauerland .

literature

• Wilhelm Müller: I gave you my iron probably a thousand years . Contributions to the history, especially to the economic and cultural history of the mountain district of Müsen and the northern Siegerland. Ed .: Cultural Association Müsen. Siegen, 1979.

Web links

• Website with many pictures from Müsen
• Website of the Stahlberg Museum in Müsen
• Homepage of the city of Hilchenbach
• Müsen in the Westphalia Culture Atlas

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.hilchenbach.de/Presse-Stadtportrait/Zahlen-Daten-Fakten/Einwohner
2. ↑ Siegen Document Book Volume I, Siegen , 1887, p. 125, No. 209.
3. ↑ Leafed back ... , Siegener Zeitung from January 29, 2011.
4. ^ Scrolled back ... , Siegener Zeitung, March 5th, 2011.
5. ↑ Wilhelm Müller: I gave you my iron probably a thousand years , published by the Müsen Cultural Association, Siegen 1979, pp. 133-142.
6. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 70 .
7. ^ Sieper works soon to be history. Siegener Zeitung, October 30, 2009, accessed on September 10, 2012 . 
8. ^ History of the Franz sawmill. Accessed October 24, 2012 . 
9. ^ Otto Schaefer: The district of Siegen - an expertise for elementary schools , Siegen 1968.
10. ↑ Wilhelm Müller: I gave you my iron probably a thousand years , published by the Müsen Cultural Association, Siegen 1979, p. 24/25.
11. ^ City of Hilchenbach »The Mayor: Population figures. Retrieved December 16, 2017 . 
12. ^ Westphalian community dictionary . 1897, pp. 112/113.
13. ^ Genealogy.net: Amt Keppel .
14. ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 225 .