Odenspiel

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Odenspiel
municipality Reichshof
Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 44 "  N , 7 ° 42 ′ 59"  E
Height : 403 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 411  (December 31, 2008)
Postal code : 51580
Area code : 02297
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Location of Odenspiel in Reichshof

Odenspiel (also called Ospel ) is one of the 106 localities of the Reichshof municipality in the Oberbergischer Kreis in the North Rhine-Westphalian administrative district of Cologne in Germany .

Location and description

Odenspiel is located southeast of the Wiehltalsperre , the closest centers are Gummersbach (29 km northwest), Cologne (67 km west) and Siegen (40 km southeast), Olpe (21 km northeast), Altenkirchen (37 km south).

history

Protestant church in Odenspiel

The place was mentioned for the first time in 1361, namely "Richard von Odinspil acts as a witness in a document in favor of the Johanniter settlement in Marienhagen (The identity of Odinthorpa in the Werdener Urbar around 1050 with Odenspiel is not likely)."

Spelling of the first mention : Odinspil

church

The hall building with a three-sided choir closure and surrounding galleries was built in 1697. The Romanesque nave walls from the 13th century were included in the construction. The upstream west tower was completed in its current form in 1755. Altar, pulpit and organ are on top of each other, with the organ gallery they form a cross. The first bell from 1520 was melted down at the beginning of the First World War. When the interior was renovated in 1968, the original painting on the brochure came to light. The six-sided baptismal font made of trachyte from the 12th or 13th century, which had been built into the altar until then, was carved around and placed in the choir room.

school

In 1674 a teacher was appointed to the school by the pastor, lay judges, jury, church masters and administrators as well as the common people. He should show the "dear young people with a good exemplary life and change, the same in reading, writing, arithmetic, singing and stopping beds diligently and exercising the Kathechismum Lutheri." At the same time, detailed school regulations are issued, in which the number of hours, the subjects taught and much more is sorted.

Population development
year Residents
1817 123
1832 120
1862 123
1982 about 300
2003 417
2007 439

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Pampus: First documentary naming of Oberbergischer places (= contributions to Oberbergischen history. Sonderbd. 1). Oberbergische Department 1924 e. V. of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein, Gummersbach 1998, ISBN 3-88265-206-3 .
  2. Plaque on the Protestant Church
  3. Erich Bohnemann: The evangelical lower school system in the Duchy of Berg. Cologne 1925, p. 6 f., (Cologne, University, phil. Dissertation, 1925).