Merklinghausen (Hallenberg)

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Mariengarten with the river Weife. In the background the small ice house museum

Merklinghausen was a place in the south-eastern Sauerland , which later became part of the town of Hallenberg .

location

Merklinghausen was located at the confluence of the Nuhne and Weife rivers, southeast of the city of Hallenberg, which was later founded.

Surname

The place name Merklinghausen is an education on -inghausen . Typical for this is a personal name as the first member, which in this case is probably Markilo. He means a settlement of the people of Markilo. An interpretation as a border settlement is unlikely, because a generic name Mark does not fit the suffix -ing and this suffix as well as the preceding -l- or mostly -el- is part of the earliest mentions. Comparable place names are Merklinghausen near Bödefeld , Merklinghausen near Erwitte and Merklingsen near Welver .

history

Merklinghauser Chapel

Before the city of Hallenberg was founded, Deutz Abbey had a main courtyard in Merklinghausen. How this court came to the abbey is not known. In endowment letters from Emperor Otto III. There is no information about this from the time the monastery was founded and in the oldest papal confirmation bull from 1147. A copy of a document from 1147 names a main courtyard and church "in nona" (Nuhne). Merklinghausen is mentioned in the later 12th century.

Merklinghausen was a parish. In the Liber valoris from the end of the 13th century it is listed as a parish in the dean's office in Medebach . Hallenberg takes its place in later lists. In the 16th century the pastors in Hallenberg were also called pastors at Merklinghausen.

The main courtyard in Merklinghausen was exchanged for the Archbishop of Cologne, who used it in the middle of the 13th century to found the city of Hallenberg. The residents of Merklinghausen moved into the protection of the city walls and the parish church became a chapel.

church

Cemetery next to the Merklinghauser chapel

The oldest part of today's Merklinghauser chapel , also known as the lower church, dates from the 12th century and is one of the oldest buildings in the region. Parts of the painting from before 1300 are still preserved. Because of the thick walls and small windows, it is assumed that it was used as a fortified church .

Pastors from Hallenberg are buried next to the chapel and old grave crosses from Hallenberg cemeteries are set up.

A procession to the Hallenberg Church takes place for the pastor's festival on the Sunday after the Assumption of Mary .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Michael Flöer: The place names of the Hochsauerlandkreis, Bielefeld 2013, p. 339ff., ISBN 978-3-89534-946-1 .
  2. ↑ For the year 1147, see. Michael Flöer, Place Names, p. 340.
  3. ^ A b c d Johann Suibert Seibertz : Hallenberg and Merklinghausen. In: Leaves to the closer customer of Westphalia. Born in 1869, No. 8-10, on Merklinghausen: pp. 69-72 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Pastoral Association Hallenberg: The pilgrimage church of the Assumption. And history. Retrieved October 9, 2016.

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 32.4 "  N , 8 ° 37 ′ 30"  E