Oberholzklau

Oberholzklau City of Freudenberg Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 35 ″  N , 7 ° 56 ′ 4 ″  E
Height :	359 m
Area :	1.6 km²
Residents :	628  (Jun. 30, 2017)
Population density :	393 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1969
Postal code :	57258
Area code :	02734

Main street of Oberholzklau

Oberholzklau is a district of Freudenberg in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

It borders the Freudenberg districts of Niederholzklau and Bühl , as well as the Siegen district of Meiswinkel . The state road L 564 runs through the village .

history

The first documented mention of the place under the name Holzeclaen dates from 1079. The parish of Oberholzklau was first mentioned in 1329.

In the first mention from the year 1079 it says:

" In the name of the holy and indivisible Trinity, be it announced to all who belong to the holy community of faith that I, Heribert, and my brother Gerung - concerned for the salvation of our souls and called upon by God through his Holy Spirit, fulfilling a vow and giving thanks to God - The Holy Mother of God, the Eternal Virgin Mary and St. Heribert have transferred a certain property that was in wood-stolen property through the law of servitude on it, to which a certain inheritance law entitles us. "

In 1392 Oberholzklau is first mentioned as a parish . A document states that the brothers Johannes and Ensfried are taking over the Dröningen farm, located in the parish of Holzklau, on a lease from the Keppel monastery.

In 1345 Otto II. Count von Nassau sold, among other things, the parish of Oberholzklau to Archbishop Walram of Cologne. The Oberholzklauer thus lived temporarily under dual rule. In 1360 Count Otto's son, Johann I, took the parishes that had been sold back into his possession. Oberholzklau now belonged again to the Archdiocese of Mainz . In the year, the pastor in wood claws placed himself under the protection of Archbishop Gerlach Graf von Nassau in troubled times.

After the Reformation , William the Rich Count of Nassau introduced Lutheran teaching in 1531/31, which became binding for the Oberholzklau parish. In 1578, Johann VI. Count of Nassau introduced the evangelical reformed doctrine that he had previously got to know in the Netherlands .

Districts of Freudenberg

The Oberholzklau parish included Freudenberg , the Büschergrund , Alchen , Lindenberg , Bottenberg , Bühl, Niederholzklau , Meiswinkel , Oberhees , Mittelhees and Langenholdinghausen . However, in 1585, Freudenberg received the permission from the Princely House to found their own parish together with Büschergrund.

Oberholzklau suffered from common epidemics such as plague and dysentery. In 1742 a total of 27 children under the age of eight died of the leaves .

During the French era , Oberholzklau suffered from the passage of French, Austrian and Prussian troops in 1799. From 1806 to 1815 the parish belonged to the Grand Duchy of Berg founded by Napoleon . After the Congress of Vienna , Oberholzklau was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia .

Around 1900 a new school building was built, which children from Oberholzklau, Niederholzklau, Bühl, Meiswinkel and the upper Heestal visited.

At the beginning of the 1920s, Oberholzklau was connected to the power grid. In 1924 the Oberholzklau / Bühl volunteer fire brigade was founded.

After the Second World War , the structure of the village changed significantly. Most of the residents no longer earned their livelihood in agriculture , but in industry and mining . Agriculture and forestry were mostly just a sideline . 40 new apartments were built by 1965 and numerous refugees were quartered.

In the 1950s, Oberholzklau got a water pipe.

On January 1, 1969, Oberholzklau became a district of the city of Freudenberg.

Surname

The place name stimulates some speculation. In 2011, a television team from WDR investigated the question of where the name came from in the series “ Funny Place Names ”. It has nothing to do with “ Klauen ”, because the syllable “ klau ” was written early “ claw ”. When it was first mentioned in 1079, the place name " Holzeklaen " was written.

The attempt to trace the syllable “ steal ” back to the Celtic word “ glen ” ( ford ) is not plausible. Celts lived in the Siegerland , but then the area was uninhabited for centuries , so that they could not pass on Celtic names to the Germanic tribes who later settled there.

The origin of the place name remains in the dark. At least the different spellings could be reconstructed:

Holzeklaen (1079)

Holzcla (1329)

Holzclae (14th / 15th century)

Woodslan (1632)

Holtzglaen (17th / 18th century)

Wood steal

Population numbers

The district currently has 672 inhabitants (as of June 30, 2019). (Source: www.freudenberg-stadt.de)

Population of the place:

year Residents 1818 92 1885 126 1895 130 1905 149 1910 154 1925 197

year Residents 1933 196 1939 196 1950 316 1961 395 1967 410 1994 588

year Residents 2000 603 2003 634 2009 626 2010 624 2011 627 2019 672

Note: 2010 population as of June 30th.

regional customs

In 1983 the home and beautification association Oberholzklau e. V. founded, which today has around 200 members. This association restored the historical border crossing " Holzklauer Schlag " and brought it to the attention of the locals with various actions.

The May celebration is one of the recurring festivals. On May 1st, girls dressed as “ May children ” go through the village and sing the song “ May has come ”.

In the Easter Vigil a large is Easter fire burned.

At Pentecost , the “ Pengstelommel ” (Pentecostum) go from house to house and ask for eggs or money. They use an old saying:

"Hey come a lot of Pengstemah,

dä kai Broad mee bisse ka,

calls a nest, where can Schelling it

gäe os three o'r four, the annern, you keep them.

Eggs o'r money, there ten 'm'r wierer e de forest. "

Then there is the Potato Roast Festival in autumn.

The tradition of baking bread was revived with the construction of a bakery.

Picture gallery

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  Protestant church

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  restored border station

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  old rectory

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  former school

literature

• Hammel, Eike Otto: A border town on the "Kölschen Heck" - The old parish of Oberholzklau: A chapter in the history of Siegerland . Oberholzklau, published by the Heimat- und Beschönerungsverein Oberholzklau eV, 2015. 235 pages
• Hammel, Eike Otto: Orwerholzklauer Duffelboch - Interesting and worth knowing about the great tuber; over 130 potato recipes from Siegerland and the rest of the world . Oberholzklau: Hammel, 1995, 127 pages

Web links

Commons : Oberholzklau  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website freudenberg-oberholzklau.de
• Oberholzklau in the Westphalia Culture Atlas

Individual evidence

1. ^ City of Freudenberg: Distribution of residents , accessed on August 25, 2017
2. ↑ website freudenberg-oberholzklau.de
3. ↑ Freudenberg - City with Tradition and Future on freudenberg-stadt.de ( Memento of the original from October 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Eike Otto Hammel: A border town on the "Kölschen Heck . Heimat- und Verschönerungsverein Oberholzklau eV, Oberholzklau 2015, p. 9 .
5. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia. A handbook on the local reorganization with systematic overviews and lists of the new and the dissolved (=  Kommunale Schriften für Nordrhein-Westfalen . Volume 32 ). Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, 1970, ISSN  0454-2584 , p. 70 .
6. ↑ Otto Schaefer: The district of Siegen. Wins 1968.
7. ↑ freudenberg-stadt.de: Distribution of residents (updated regularly)
8. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia. Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau, Berlin 1887, ZDB -ID 1458761-0 , p. 110/111.
9. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia. Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau, Berlin 1897, pp. 114/115.
10. ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de: District of Siegen
11. ↑ genealogy.net: Freudenberg Office
12. ↑ ^{a b} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Siegen. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
13. ↑ 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. 232 .
14. ↑ Bernhard Oltersdorf: Freudenberg, Stadt ( memento of the original from October 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 6.6 MB) , approx. 1995
15. ^ Freudenberg: districts
16. ↑ "Population 2003"
17. ↑ Eike Otto Hammel: A border town on the "Kölschen Heck . Heimat- und Verschönerungsverein Oberholzklau eV, Oberholzklau 2015, p. 49 .