Meiningsen

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Meiningsen
City of Soest
Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 19 ″  N , 8 ° 3 ′ 38 ″  E
Height : 152  (120-180)  m
Residents : 450
Incorporation : 1st July 1969
Soest and its districts

Meiningsen has been a district of Soest with 400 to 500 inhabitants since it was incorporated in 1969 . The village is bordered by the Soest districts of Epsingsen in the west, Ampen in the northwest, the city of Soest in the northeast, Deiringsen in the east and in the south by the districts of Theiningsen and Hewingsen of the municipality of Möhnesee.

The church village in the (historical) Soester Börde (Oberbörde) lies in the northern transition area between Haarstrang and Soester Börde at 120–180 m above sea level.

history

It was first mentioned in 1276, according to other information in 1177 as "Menechuse"; Due to the name of the settlement, location and shape of the land, it is probably a settlement from the old Saxon times in the 7th to 9th centuries.

The current name is derived from the original form of the name Meininghausen. The Evangelical Lutheran St. Matthias Church is one of the oldest churches in the Soest Börde, its nave dates from around 1100.

Meiningsen was the ancestral seat of the important Soest patrician family von Meininghausen, which can be traced from 1175 to 1462. As a fief of the Counts of Arnsberg, they owned the Hovinghof or Hövinckhof zu Meiningsen in the first half of the 14th century.

The settlement “Meiningserbauer”, which is located further south, belongs to the district of Meiningsen.

On July 1, 1969 Meiningsen was incorporated into the district town of Soest by the Soest / Beckum law .

Culture and sights

literature

  • Gerhard Köhn: Soest in old pictures: 1870–1920. Westfälische Verlagsbuchhandlung Mocker & Jahn, Soest 1979.
  • Marga Koske : Meiningsen: A contribution to the settlement history of the Soester Börde. In: Soest magazine of the association for the history of Soest and the Börde. No. 79 (1966). Pp. 5–19 (Soest City Archives S a 1–79).

supporting documents

  1. ^ Marga Koske: History of the incorporated Soest districts. In: Soester Zeitschrift, 112, 2000, pp. 23–78, here p. 29
  2. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 92 .

Web links

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