Upper frame

Upper frame City of Lüdenscheid Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 45 ″  N , 7 ° 37 ′ 12 ″  E
Postal code :	58513
Area code :	02351
Location of Oberrahmede in Lüdenscheid
View from the motorway bridge (A 45) onto Altenaer Straße to Oberrahmede (looking south-west)

Oberrahmede is a district of Lüdenscheid in the Märkisches Kreis and is located in the upper Rahmedetal between the cities of Lüdenscheid and Altena . Until 1968 the place belonged to the municipality Lüdenscheid-Land and has been Lüdenscheid district since January 1st, 1969.

history

Evangelical Church in Oberrahmede, Im Grund

The place was created as an industrial settlement. The ores that were extracted from the ground on the nearby Hunscheider Heights up to 1640 were once processed here. The old farm, which appears for the first time in 1633 as “Hüttebrocks Hof” in old documents, already had a “Schmitte” (smithy) at that time, in which Diederich Hüttebroch forged Hunscheider iron. The blacksmith's shop with the associated Kotten stood near today's church and the old elementary school on the later property of August Lösenbeck. It was the time of the Thirty Years' War. In 1633 Gut 42 Stüber had to pay war contribution. In 1636 and 1641 Grete Hüttebroch was the owner of the farm with the Schmitte. In the same year there was another smithy "Unter dem Fall" below the courtyard, on which Hermann Hüttebroch worked until 1650.

After 1700 this forge was probably propelled as a drop hammer with water power. At the end of the Thirty Years War, ore mining in the local mountains was stopped. This led to the complete indebtedness of the Hüttebrock family and on May 8, 1638, the farm and the smithy passed into the possession of Diedrich Selve, who owned it until 1652. The smithy Unter dem Fall, also heavily indebted and structurally decrepit due to the chaos of war, became the property of the heirs of the Lüdenscheid citizen Scharpe. In 1652, the mayor of Lüdenscheid, Eberhard Cronenberg, bought it with a piece of wood that was probably associated with it. He turned it into a drop hammer. In 1646 a man named Kuithan, also mayor of Lüdenscheid, bought the “trap corner” belonging to the farm for 56 Reichsthalers. In 1650 the farm's dues amounted to 3 barrels of male oats and 1 barrel of pastoral oats.

At the end of the 17th century there was another Osemundhammer, the Brinker Hammer, above the old Hüttebrocks-Hof, which has been called "am Brinke" since the earliest times. The names of the blacksmiths who worked on the industrial sites in what is now Oberrahmede are known from 1676. They were Johann uffm Brinke, Peter Köster, Tieges in der Rahme and Dierich Schumacher. Members of the old Hüttebrock family no longer appear at that time, only 100 years later they are mentioned again in a document in the framework. 1767 worked on the hammer under the case: Adolf Wilhelm Hüttebröcker as a blacksmith, Johann Peter Hüttebröcker as a hammersöger and Diedrich Wilhelm Hüttebröcker as an apprentice. At that time the hammer was owned by the widow Spannagel and Ludwig Overbeck.

Over the centuries the name has changed again and again - Hüttebroch, Hüttebrock, Hüttebröcker, Hüttebräucker. The village community that had formed was later called Hüttebräuckers Rahmede and had a school as early as 1735 and an inn in 1749. This still exists today, while the old school no longer serves as such and is being misused. The foundation stone of the Protestant church was laid in 1889, the inauguration took place on August 1, 1890. At the time of the Altenaer Eisenbahn (1887–1962), which ran through the valley and connected the cities of Lüdenscheid and Altena, Oberrahmede had two train stations - Oberrahmede 1 and 2. Before the latter, the through-road was very narrow. The steam train had to pass next to the street, and it drove so close to a house that the train could touch the wall of the house with an outstretched arm. The other train station, Oberrahmede 1, was where the 70 meter high concrete bridge of Autobahn 45 spans the valley today. Here was a double track, a goods handling facility and also a restaurant. By purchasing a rolling mill that belonged to the Noelle brothers, Wilhelm Kemper opened a factory for wire short goods of all kinds in 1888. This company is still based in Oberrahmede at the same location today. The plant has been redesigned and enlarged several times over the decades and has now specialized in wire forming technology.