Oberrarbach

Oberrarbach City of Schmallenberg Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 45 ″  N , 8 ° 19 ′ 22 ″  E
Height :	512 m
Residents :	50  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Postal code :	57392
Area code :	02971
Location of Oberrarbach in Schmallenberg
Oberrarbach

Oberrarbach is a district of the town of Schmallenberg in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

location

Oberrarbach is located in the northwest of the Rothaargebirge almost 9 km north-northeast of the Schmallenberg town center. The Rarbach, which rises from the nearby Rimberg ( 713.2  m ), flows through the village . The village is partially surrounded by the nature reserve open land areas around Oberrarbach .

Neighboring places

Neighboring places are Oberhenneborn , Föckinghausen and Gellinghausen .

history

Oberrarbach

The first documentary mention of the place comes from the year 1433. This document and others from the years 1447 and 1476 are about the tithe to Oberrarbach. There were six old farms in Oberrarbach. The name Frigge was mentioned in a document as early as 1488, the other farms in the appraisal lists of the 16th and 17th centuries. In 1630 Johan Henße from Oberrarbach was named, whose father had been executed after a witch trial.

Around 1822/23 Oberrarbach consisted of 12 houses including supplementary apartments. The population was 84 in 1815, rose to 99 by 1900 and fell again in 2014 to 61, who lived in around 20 houses.

Oberrarbach belongs to the Kirchrarbach parish . As part of the political community of Rarbach formed in the 19th century , the village became a district of the new town of Schmallenberg on January 1, 1975.

Chapel of Anthony the Hermit

Chapel of Anthony the Hermit

There was a chapel in the village as early as the 17th century, which was consecrated to Anthony the Hermit . It was a single-nave church built in the transitional style with small arched windows and was enlarged and renewed at the end of the 19th century. Due to dilapidation, it was demolished in 1951 and replaced by a chapel in the neo-baroque style. Its inauguration took place on June 26, 1952.

Holy House

On the road from Oberrarbach to Fredeburg there has been a little holy house since the beginning of the 19th century at the latest. The previous building of the current holy house was demolished in 1974 because of the new road construction. Then a new saint's house was built across the street and inaugurated in 1978. As in the previous building, there is a statue of the Madonna with a child.

Bockfest

Part of village life in Oberrarbach and the neighboring village of Föckinghausen is the Bockfest, which was occasionally celebrated even before the Second World War. In a bowling competition there was a ram to win. In 1952 the tradition was resumed and since 1977 the festival has been held every four years.

economy

There is a carpenter's shop in Oberrarbach. This craft business began at the end of the 18th century with a carpenter, and spinning wheels were made in the 19th century. Another source of income is tourism. In addition, agriculture and forestry are practiced. A factory for the production of wooden handles for knives was built below the village in 1920, but it burned down in 1922 and was not rebuilt.

Sons and daughters of the place

• Johannes Frigge (born September 14, 1871 in Oberrarbach, † March 30, 1953 in Langenholthausen), pastor and builder of church, school with sister house and rectory in Raeville ( Boone County, Nebraska ), 1935 papal house prelate .

literature

• Home and history association of the cath. Kirchrarbach parish (ed.): Deeply rooted - widely branched . Life in the Henne and Rarbach valleys. Kirchrarbach 2012, ISBN 978-3-930264-96-4 .

Web links

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

• Homepage Oberrarbach
• Oberrarbach in the Westphalia Culture Atlas

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population figures Schmallenberg 2019 , accessed on July 3, 2020
2. ↑ Deeply rooted - widely ramified. P. 50.
3. ↑ Reiner Decker: The great witch hunt in the Fredeburg office around 1630, Schmallenberger Sauerland. in Almanach 1993, pp. 96-98
4. ↑ Deeply rooted - widely ramified. P. 50.
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. 335 f .
6. ↑ Deeply rooted - widely ramified. P. 238.
7. ↑ Deeply rooted - widely ramified. P. 607.
8. ↑ Deeply rooted - widely ramified. P. 576.
9. ↑ Deeply rooted - widely ramified. P. 462.
10. ↑ Deeply rooted - widely ramified. P. 457.
11. ↑ Deeply rooted - widely ramified. Pp. 769-776.