Merlsheim

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Merlsheim
City of Nieheim
Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 44 ″  N , 9 ° 1 ′ 31 ″  E
Height : 200 m above sea level NN
Area : 6.35 km²
Residents : 293  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 46 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1970
Postal code : 33039
Area code : 05238
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Location of Merlsheim in Nieheim

Merlsheim is one of ten districts of the city of Nieheim .

The village

Merlsheim is around 200 m above sea level, in the northwest of the Höxter district on the upper reaches of the Emmer , surrounded by wooded mountain slopes. Merlsheim has a blackbird as its coat of arms and is therefore often affectionately called the Amseldorf. (Merle = blackbird or thrush).

The village , which used to be mainly agricultural, has now become an almost purely residential community, because today agriculture has almost completely disappeared from the village, with the exception of a few part-time businesses. There are only a few other jobs in the village, so that today the vast majority of the working population have to go outside to work.

Merlsheim last (as of December 31, 2019) had 293 residents with a main residence, plus some citizens with a second residence, who are spread over about 110 houses.

Merlsheim had its own elementary school until 1967 , after which the pupils in the first to fourth grades had to go to primary school in Oeynhausen ; this school was closed in summer 2008. A kindergarten is still available in Oeynhausen. Today the primary school students attend the primary school in Nieheim. Various types of secondary school are located in Nieheim ( secondary level I ) and secondary levels I and II in Bad Driburg , Brakel or Steinheim .

Most recently, a new development plan with a total of seven building sites was drawn up in Merlsheim. Development takes place as soon as there is a specific intention to purchase one of the building sites.

About two kilometers as the crow flies east of the town of Merlsheim, but in the area of ​​the city of Bad Driburg, is the Bilster Berg Drive Resort , a test and presentation route for the automotive industry .

geography

Neighboring places

Himmighausen, Oeynhausen , Nieheim (core town) not district but street and Schönenberg, all town of Nieheim. Pömbsen , Reelsen and Erpentrup , all town of Bad Driburg, as well as Hohenbreden ( Grevenhagen ) town of Steinheim.

history

Merlsheim was first mentioned in 1292 under the names Merlhossen and Merlhusen , which was later also called Merlsen . At that time Merlsheim is the castle seat of a knight family of the same name, which had its heyday in the 13th to 15th centuries. When Pömbsen-Nieheim was separated in 1299, Merlsheim appeared as a branch of Pömbsen. In the middle of the 14th century, the knights of Oeynhausen near Merlsheim acquired property, and in 1390 Johann the boy from Oeynhausen bought the village of Merlsheim. The Canon C.Ph. von Ketteler had the old fortification expanded from 1667–1668 into what is now Merlsheim Castle . After that, Haus Merlsheim experienced several changes of ownership, since 1920 the castle and the associated estate have been owned by the von und zur Mühlen family, who moved from Münster to Merlsheim at the time .

An important source about the development and appearance of Merlsheim and its surroundings is a drawing by Pyrach from 1737, with its 16 houses, in which seven Meier, six Halbmeier, nine Kötter and twelve common or small Kötter live with their families. As early as the end of the 18th century, 34 homeowners were listed in a treasure trove list. A copy of the district court Nieheim-Steinheim from the year 1852 shows that Merlsheim, in addition to the estate "Haus Merlsheim", 27 farmers, 16 house and landowners as well as seven enclosures without real estate. In the years 1868/69 the current church was opened by the Baron Jos. built by Hövel. In 1908 the Merlsheim parish was given permission to baptize the children in the local chapel. In the years 1947/48 an extension took place with which the church was enlarged to its present size; the inauguration took place on September 5, 1948 by the auxiliary bishop Augustinus Baumann.

In 1880/81 a new school was built in Merlsheim. There was only one classroom at the school; for several years, lessons were held together in the morning and afternoon. In 1967 the elementary school in Merlsheim was closed, the teacher Ferdinand Schwarze on duty there then still taught at the secondary school in Nieheim. In 1958 the blackbird was included in the new local coat of arms . In 1972 Merlsheim was connected to the central water supply. In the period from 1980 to 1982, the former school was expanded and converted into today's community hall, and in 1986 an air rifle shooting range was added. In 1993, as part of the expansion of the L 755 Erpentrup -Nieheim , Merlsheim was given a bypass road on the northern edge of the village. In 1997 the streets in Merlsheim were given street names for the first time. In 2015, Merlsheim won silver in the competition "Our village should be more beautiful, or our village has a future " at the state level in the group of villages with up to 500 inhabitants. Previously, Merlsheim had also won silver in the same category in 2013 and 2014 at the district level. On the last weekend in August 2017, the 725th local anniversary was celebrated in Merlsheim. A so-called anniversary fountain was put into operation on the village square in the center of the village. The local volunteer fire brigade also celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2017

Incorporation

Up to and including 1969, Merlsheim was an independent, but officially part of the municipality in the Nieheim district of what was then the Höxter district . On January 1, 1970, it was merged with the former city of Nieheim and the other municipalities of the Nieheim office to form the new city of Nieheim, based on Section 6 of the law on the reorganization of the Höxter district of December 2, 1969. The new town of Nieheim is the legal successor to the community and the dissolved office. On January 1, 1975, the Sauerland / Paderborn law came into force, merging the previous Höxter district with the Warburg district to form today's Höxter district.

politics

Result of the 2014 local elections for the City Council of Nieheim, Merlsheim district
Political party Council election 2014 Council election 2009 Council election 2004
CDU 37.7% 37.4% 63.0%
SPD 31.7% 26.0% 33.8%
FDP 2.0% 3.4% 0.5%
UWG 28.6% 33.2% 2.8%

Merlsheim is represented by three council members in the city council of Nieheim, of which the CDU, SPD and UWG are each represented by one member. In addition, there is a five-member local committee in Merlsheim, where the CDU and SPD are represented with two members each and the UWG with one member.

religion

Merlsheim is predominantly Catholic . The Catholic parish of St. Luzia Merlsheim comprises the districts of Merlsheim and Schönenberg and has been part of the pastoral area Steinheim - Marienmünster -Nieheim, whose office is located in Steinheim , since December 1, 2018 . The PR covers the area of ​​the towns of Steinheim, Marienmünster and Nieheim and consists of the former pastoral associations Steinheim, Marienmünster and Nieheimer Land. The PR belongs to the Höxter deanery of the Archdiocese of Paderborn .

Until 1869, when Merlsheim did not yet have its own church, the devout Merlsheimers had to attend church services in Pömbsen . The church in Merlsheim, which was opened in 1869 and consecrated to St. Lucia, was a subsidiary of Pömbsen until 1925. On September 1, 1925, St. Luzia Merlsheim and St. Antonius v. Padua in Himmighausen and from then on formed a common vicarie , with the pastor having his official seat in Himmighausen. On October 1, 1998, the vicarie Himmighausen / Merlsheim was also merged with St. Dionysius in Sandebeck and its branch church St. Johannes Baptist in Grevenhagen . In 2006 all 9 Catholic parishes in the city of Nieheim merged to form the Nieheimer Land Pastoral Association. This lasted until December 1, 2018.

The Protestant Christians in Merlsheim belong to the Ev. Christ Parish Emmer-Nethe District: Marienmünster-Nieheim, in the Evangelical Church District Paderborn . The main place of worship is the neo-Gothic cruciform church in Nieheim, there are also chapels in Himmighausen-Bahnhof and on the grounds of the Abbey in Marienmünster, and the parish in Nieheim also has a parish hall.

societies

traffic

Merlsheim lies at the intersection of the country roads 951 from Steinheim to Bad Driburg and the L755 from Altenbeken via Nieheim to Höxter . The next motorway junctions are about 30 km to the west, on the A 33 , Paderborn -Zentrum and about 40 kilometers south, Diemelstadt, on the A 44 .

The regional tariffs of the “ Westfalentarifs ” ( local transport association Paderborn-Höxter ) apply in local public transport . Two regional bus lines run on weekdays by Merlsheim. Line 571 Stadtverkehr Nieheim-West connects Merlsheim with Nieheim. And the R76 line, which connects via Merlsheim, Bad Driburg and Steinheim, where there are connections to the train and other bus lines. In addition, only on school days runs in the mornings, with one trip the 578 line from Alhausen to Pömbsen and at noon with three trips from Pömbsen back to Alhausen through Merlsheim.

The nearest train stations are in Sandebeck about 6 kilometers, Bad Driburg about 8.5 kilometers, and Altenbeken and Steinheim each about 11 kilometers from Merlsheim.

The nearest airport is Paderborn-Lippstadt Airport, around 50 km away . The Hannover Airport is around 120 km away, and from the railway stations in Steinheim and Altenbeken , with the 5 S-Bahn line to directly reach every hour.

literature

  • Merlsheim . In: Josef Drewes (ed.): The Hochstift Paderborn. Portrait of a region . Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 1997, ISBN 3-506-95293-5 , pp. 419-421.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. https://www.kreis-hoexter.de/unser-kreis/zahlen-daten-ffekten/m_7508
  2. https://digital.merlsheim.de/verzeichnis/baugebiet/
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  4. http://www.nw.de/lokal/kreis_hoexter/nieheim/nieheim/20886883_Ed Edelstahltafel-erinnert-an- Silbermedaille.html
  5. http://www.nw.de/lokal/kreis_hoexter/nieheim/nieheim/21883980_Merlsheim-wird-725-Jahre-alt.html
  6. http://www.westfalen-blatt.de/OWL/Lokales/Kreis-Hoexter/Nieheim/2960868-Merlsheim-feiert-mit-vielen-Gaesten-das-725-jaehrige-Ortsjubilaeum-Parade-der-Traktoren-Brunnen -is-the-new-landmark
  7. Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 109 .
  8. https://wahlen.regioit.de/GT/kw2014/05762028/html5/Ratswahl_NRW6.csv
  9. https://nieheim.more-rubin1.de/gremien_pers.php
  10. https://www.dekanat-hx.de/2423-Dekanat-H%F6xter/10875-Pastoralverb%FCnde----------Pastorale-R%E4ume/75416,Pastoralverbund-Steinheim-Marienm% FCnster-Nieheim.html
  11. http://pastoralverbund-steinheim.de/?p=1
  12. http://www.evangelisch-in-marienmuenster-nieheim.de
  13. https://www.fahr-mit.de/fahr-mit/fahrplan-und-liniennetz/fahrplaene/bus-Kopie.php#anchor_f836f7de_Accordion-Nieheim