Nehden

Nehden City of Brilon
Coordinates: 51 ° 26 ′ 9 ″  N , 8 ° 38 ′ 14 ″  E
Height :	413 m
Area :	4.38 km²
Residents :	486  (December 31, 2015)
Population density :	111 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1975
Postal code :	59929
Area code :	02964
Location of the village of Nehden within the urban area of ​​Brilon

With around 500 inhabitants, Nehden is one of the smaller towns in the town of Brilon in the Hochsauerlandkreis ( North Rhine-Westphalia ). Here is an excavation site for the dinosaurs . In 1978 Henke des Iguanodon (iguana tooth) were found in the quarry . The village is almost completely surrounded by the nature reserve Offenland around Nehden .

history

Until the end of the Second World War, marble was extracted in a marble quarry on the road to Alme . It was not blown up but dismantled with chopping and shoveling so as not to reduce the quality of the marble. The Dassel company from Allagen sold the marble under the name Goldader . A memorial stone on the Kräuterhagen commemorates the marble quarrying.

From mid-1943 children evacuated because of air raids were housed in Nehden. At the beginning of 1945 80 children went to school in Nehden; about half of them were evacuated children from large cities in the Ruhr area and the Rhineland. At this time there were repeated attacks by low-flying pilots on the Almetalbahn, which is located near the village . The air raid shelter had to be visited almost every day because of the air raid. In March a police company was relocated to the village from Viersen, which had already been occupied by the Allies . On the afternoon of March 29th, some German Wehrmacht trucks drove through the village in the direction of Alme and reported the arrival of the US Army in front of Brilon. A Wehrmacht field post unit quartered in the village also fled. A little later the first US tanks rolled through the village with other vehicles and immediately drove on towards Wünnenberg . Towards evening larger units with over 100 tanks reached the village and took the police company prisoner. Two German planes that appeared over the village were shot at by US soldiers. Motorized US units crossed the village in the direction of Wünnenberg all night and the following day. A US battery with four guns on self-propelled guns was stationed in the village from the end of April to the beginning . The former prisoners from Poland and the Soviet Union in the village now quartered in the hall of the Henke inn and in the school. 96 were prisoners from the Soviet Union. After the former prisoners were evacuated from the Soviet Union, Italians later lived in the school.

In the Second World War, 25 Nehden soldiers died, 21 of them on the Eastern Front .

On January 1, 1975, the previously independent municipality of Nehden was incorporated into the city of Brilon.

politics

coat of arms

Blazon : Three golden lilies on red. Description: The colors come from the coat of arms of the Corvey monastery , which originally had rulership rights here. The coat of arms corresponds to that of the noble von Nehden family. Official approval took place on November 12, 1953.

Attractions

Replica of a dinosaur skeleton from Nehden

Until the end of the 20th century, the place was mainly characterized by agriculture, but with 20,000 overnight stays by 2006 it has undergone an economic structural change towards tourism.

• The listed Johanneskapelle is well worth seeing .
• The village has two inns: "Gasthof zur Dränke" and "Megges".
• The shooting festival takes place every year in the shooting hall from 1926.
• The dinosaur quarry can be visited and it has an information board. Fossil bones of dinosaurs, mainly of the Iguanodon genus , have been found here. These animals were pure herbivores; they could reach a length of up to 11 meters and weigh up to 4.5 tons. They lived about 100 million years ago. Up until this discovery, the iguanodonts were only identified by fossilized footprints found in northern Germany. In addition, remains of turtles, predatory dinosaurs and crocodiles as well as remains of insects and fish were found.

Personalities

TV presenter Birgit Schrowange was born in Nehden . She lived in her parents' house until 1979. Then she moved to Cologne to work at WDR . From 1994 to 2019 she presented the program " Extra " on RTL.

Views

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  Partial view of the place

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  Schützenhalle

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  War memorial

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  graveyard

Web links

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

• Sides of the village
• Exploration of the karst cave filling
• Report on the west to the fossil finds

literature

• Hugo Cramer: The district of Brilon in the Second World War 1939–1945 - reports from many employees from all over the district. Josefs-Druckerei, Bigge 1955.
• David B. Norman , Karl-Heinz Hilpert: The vertebrate fauna of Nehden (Sauerland), West Germany (=  geology and palaeontology in Westphalia, issue 8). Translated by Jutta Heinisch. Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe , 1987, ISBN 3-924590-11-7 .
• Jutta Heinisch: The dinosaurs from Brilon-Nehden in the Sauerland (=  paleontology in Westphalia, issue 7). Published by the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe, Landesbildstelle Westfalen, 1990.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Resident in Brilon | Brilon economic development. Retrieved September 5, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Briloner Heimatverein (ed.): Briloner Heimatbuch, Volume VI. P. 31.
3. ^ Hugo Cramer: The district of Brilon in the Second World War 1939-1945 . 1955, section Nehden, pp. 50-52.
4. ^ Hugo Cramer: The district of Brilon in the Second World War 1939-1945 . 1955, honor roll section Nehden, p. 243.
5. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 332 .
6. ^ Eduard Belke, Alfred Bruns, Helmut Müller: Communal coats of arms of the Duchy of Westphalia. Arnsberg 1986, ISBN 3-87793-017-4 , p. 168.