Methler

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Methler
City of Kamen
"Divided into gold (yellow) and blue in changing colors, a four-step staircase ascending on both sides at the top and a four-step staircase descending on both sides at the bottom."
Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 49 ″  N , 7 ° 36 ′ 42 ″  E
Height : 62  (55-71)  m
Area : 12.63 km²
Residents : 11,494  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Population density : 910 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1968
Postal code : 59174
Area code : 02307

Methler is a district of the city of Kamen in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Unna in Germany .

history

Margaret Church

Methler has been part of Kamen since January 1st, 1968 . A year earlier, on January 1, 1967, the neighboring parishes Westick and Wasserkurl were incorporated. For historical, but also more recent settlement-related reasons, Methler is often divided into the areas Methler Dorf (also Alt-Methler), Altenmethler, Kaiserau , Westick and Wasserkurl.

The first documented mention of the name Methler goes back to a deed of gift dated April 11, 898, in which possessions are transferred to the St. Gereonsstift in Cologne under the name Metlere .

The soil finds in Westick, a Germanic trading center with a high proportion of Roman finds, however, indicate a much older settlement in the Methler area. The finds from the archaeological site, which is also of national importance, are part of the collection of the House for City History in Kamen and the “Prehistory” section of the Gustav Lübcke Museum in Hamm.

Population development

The population figures refer to the municipality in the respective borders and to the current district.

year Residents
1849 00.482
1910 02,368
1931 02.140
1956 02,477
1961 02,593
1967 07,788
1987 10,655
2010 11,765
2013 11,494

village life

A locally important date in the event calendar is the plum fair , which traditionally takes place on September 17th and the next weekend. It ends with fireworks on Monday evening. The fair takes place in the historical center of the village around the Margaretenkirche .

Every year on Ascension Day , the “ Löschgruppe Methler” of the “ Kamen Volunteer Fire Brigade ” celebrates its festival with an open day at the fire station at the “Bunter Kuh”. Every year on the Saturday after Ascension Day, the “Dorfjungs Methler” organize their traditional tug of war at the same place. Several clubs from near and far come to this event. Every two years, always in the odd years, the Methler shooting club invites you to a shooting festival in late summer. From Friday to the so-called “village evening” on Monday, there is dance and music every evening in the large rifle tent at the community center.

Forest singing on Ascension Day by the men's choir in 1875, Wasserkurl under Meinberg's beeches in the village of Wasserkurl, also has a tradition going back over 75 years. Not only families from the village of Wasserkurl come to this event, but from all over the area.

Methler is also known for its distinctive club life. There are 72 registered associations in the Kamen district. The highest ranking sports club is the RV Wanderlust, a cycling club that plays in the second division.

coat of arms

Blazon : "Divided into gold (yellow) and blue in changing colors above a four-step staircase ascending on both sides and a four-step staircase descending on both sides below."

The municipal coat of arms, created in 1954, comes from the coat of arms of the eponymous noble family of the Lords of Methler, which died out in 1440.

traffic

Road traffic

A piece of the A2 motorway leads through Methler with the Kamen / Bergkamen junction nearby. There are also road connections with the neighboring towns of Bergkamen-Weddinghofen , Lünen-Niederaden , Dortmund-Lanstrop , -Husen and Unna-Massen and -Afferde . The main connecting road with Kamen is Westicker Strasse, which has been reduced in time by several roundabouts.

railroad

Kamen-Methler stop, originally "Westick-Kaiserau"

At the Kamen-Methler stop of Deutsche Bahn , which is located in the former Westick municipality on the Dortmund – Hamm railway line between the Kamen stations in the east and Dortmund-Kurl in the west, the RE11 regional express lines (Düsseldorf - Kassel -Wilhelmshöhe) and RE3 (Düsseldorf - Hamm; " Eurobahn "). The stop was built by the municipality of Westick under the name "Bahnhof Westick-Kaiserau" on what was then the trunk line of the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft . Originally there was a train station building with counter sales and a waiting hall, and the level crossing at the stop was previously "restricted" and had a gatekeeper.

bus connections

All bus routes in Methler are operated by the local transport company VKU .

Regular buses:

  • C24: Methler, Schmiedeweg - Methler Bf - Methler, Lutherplatz - Kamen Bf - Kamen, Markt
  • R54: Methler, Lutherplatz - Methler Bf - Massen Bf - Unna Bf

economy

Durable

The largest employer in the area is the Durable Hunke & Jochheim company with around 200 employees. There are also many small businesses in the village, such as a savings bank branch, two supermarkets, several hairdressers, opticians, a gas station, a car company, tax advisors, doctors, law firms, etc.

Also worth mentioning is the Kaiserau sports school , which hosted the Spanish national soccer team during the 2006 World Cup . As part of the preparations for the 1990 World Cup in Italy, the German national soccer team under Franz Beckenbauer was a guest at the sports school.

Personalities

  • Wilhelm Meinberg (born March 1, 1898 in Wasserkurl; † February 8, 1973 in Kamen), politician ( NSDAP , DRP )
  • Uwe Kröger (born December 4, 1964 in Methler), musical performer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 64 .
  2. ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 262 .
  3. ^ MF Essellen: Description and brief history of the Hamm district and the individual localities in the same . Verlag Reimann GmbH & Co, Hamm 1985, ISBN 3-923846-07-X , p. 178 .
  4. ↑ www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de: Population figures 1910
  5. ↑ Handbook of the offices and rural communities in the Rhine province and in the province of Westphalia , Prussian Landgemeindetag West, Berlin 1931.
  6. ^ Otto Lucas: Kreis-Atlas Unna . Unna / Münster 1957.
  7. ↑ 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. 223 .
  8. ↑ 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. 151 .
  9. ^ State Office for Data Processing and Statistics (ed.): Population and private households as well as buildings and apartments. Selected results for parts of the community. Arnsberg administrative district . Düsseldorf 1990, p. 272 .
  10. ^ Inhabitants in the districts of the towns and municipalities of the Unna district
  11. ^ Community coat of arms at Wiki Commons. Retrieved June 13, 2013 .
  12. ^ Assignment in R. Neuhaus, 1100 Jahre Methler, Greven 1998.