Marienberghausen

Marienberghausen municipality Nümbrecht Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 11 ″  N , 7 ° 29 ′ 42 ″  E
Height :	270 m above sea level NN
Area :	37.4 km² (former municipality)
Residents :	432  (Dec. 31, 2006)
Population density :	12 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st July 1969
Postal code :	51588
Area code :	02293
Location in the community

Marienberghausen is a district of Nümbrecht in the Oberbergisches Kreis in southern North Rhine-Westphalia within the administrative district of Cologne .

Location and description

The place is as the crow flies about 3.5 kilometers northwest of the center of Nümbrecht.

history

First mention

The place was mentioned for the first time in a document in 1447 in the "invoice of the rent master Johann von Flamersfeld ".

The spelling of the first mention was Berchhusen .

Marienberghausen is considered the "birthplace" of the opera Hansel and Gretel , which was composed and performed for the first time by Engelbert Humperdinck . In Marienberghausen a street and a memorial commemorates the composer.

Engelbert Humperdinck often spent vacation days with an aunt in the small village of Wolfscharre near Marienberghausen. Contrary to all accounts, however, he did not compose the famous fairytale opera in Marienberghausen, but largely in Frankfurt. In Wolfscharre and Marienberghausen, however, a few smaller compositions were created.

Incorporation

On July 1, 1969, Marienberghausen was merged with Nümbrecht and parts of Waldbröl to form the new municipality of Homburg . At the request of the new municipality, the name was soon changed to Nümbrecht .

traffic

The state roads 338 and 350 run through Marienberghausen .

Attractions

The local Protestant church is one of the five “colorful churches” in the Oberbergischer Kreis and is particularly worth seeing because of the wall paintings that are over 500 years old and the Mühleisen organ built in 1994.

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  Ev. Church in Marienberghausen

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  Paintings in the Protestant church in Marienberghausen

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  Wall paintings
  in the Protestant church in Marienberghausen

leisure

Sports

The TSV Marienberghausen 1968 e. V. is active in table tennis and gymnastics .

Hiking and bike paths

The following hiking trails are offered by the Marienberghausen hiking car park by the Sauerland Mountain Association :

• A1 (5.0 km) - A2 (7.5 km) - A3 (2.0 km)

The following bike tours cross Marienberghausen:

• Half-timbered route : The numerous well-preserved and renovated half-timbered houses are the subject of this tour. There are 8 height differences to be mastered.
• High altitude route

Starting point Nümbrecht

Route name	Waymarks	Driving distance	Path length
Half-timbered route		Nümbrecht - Marienberghausen - Lindscheid  - Benroth  - Langenbach  - Berkenroth  - Gut Rottland  - direction Wirtenbach  - Bruch	40 km
High altitude route		Nümbrecht - Nippes - Geringhausen  - Wirtenbach  - Grötzenberg  - Heisterstock  - Elsenroth  - Marienberghausen - Ölsbachtal - Nümbrecht	28 km

Church institutions

• Ev. Marienberghausen parish
• Ev. Church choir "conTAKT" of the Ev. Marienberghausen parish
• Trumpet Choir of the Ev. Marienberghausen parish
• Children's and youth choir of the Ev. Marienberghausen parish

Educational institutions

• Community elementary school Marienberghausen

Competition - Our village should become more beautiful

Marienberghausen has already received a number of prizes in the nationwide competition “ Our village should be more beautiful ”. Including:

• 1969 Federal Gold Competition
• 1991 Federal Gold Competition

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  Award from 1969 in front of the house on Humperdinckstrasse.

traffic

Marienberghausen is connected to Nümbrecht by three bus routes.

Web links

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

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. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia. A handbook on municipal reorganization with systematic overviews and directories of the new and dissolved municipalities (=  Kommunale Schriften für Nordrhein-Westfalen . Volume 32 ). Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, 1970, ISSN  0454-2584 , p. 81 .