Oedingerberg

Oedingerberg City of Lennestadt Coordinates: 51 ° 10 '32 "  N , 8 ° 7' 48"  E
Height :	388 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	42  (Jun 30, 2020)
Postal code :	57368
Area code :	02725
Location of Oedingerberg in Lennestadt
St. Johannes Baptist Oedingerberg

Oedingerberg is a district of Lennestadt in North Rhine-Westphalia . Neighboring places are Oedingen and Bracht . As early as the 9th to 10th centuries there was a Carolingian - Ottonian fortification on the Oedinger Berg to control the nearby Heidenstraße and Kriegerweg long-distance routes . The boundaries of the facility are still clearly visible in the topography today. The second oldest market square in the Sauerland (after Meschede ) was also built on the site of the fortification . Evidence of an early settlement on Oedinger Berg can also be found in recent excavations. Finds corroborate the assumption that a Franconian castle stood there. A Carolingian sword belt fitting found dates to the first third of the 9th century (800 to 835).

Gerberga of Burgundy established a noble women's monastery here, which in 1000 Emperor Otto III. guaranteed certain rights. In 1538 the monastery was dissolved by the Archbishop of Cologne, Hermann V. von Wied . Only 2 maidens lived there and the economic situation was dire. The main article, Oedingen Women's Monastery, contains more detailed information on the monastery . A foundation Vicarie St. Johannes Baptist was established in 1567 to revive the church service on the Oedinger Berg in the church of St. Johannes Baptist . However, on Sunday Laetare in 1670 the church collapsed.

St. Johannes Baptist on the mountain as seen from the B55 ( coming from Eslohe )

Oedingerberg

Listed half-timbered house

According to a treasure trove list from 1543 (used to collect taxes), 3 families lived on the mountain. A further itemized list of head treasures from the Oedingen court from 1779 shows 6 families with a total of 49 inhabitants for the Oedinger Berg. The job titles of the “housebound married couple” are: 3 Halbmeyer or Kötter (small farmers), 1 Vollmeyer, 1 cattle dealer and 1 trader. In addition to family members, the 49 inhabitants mentioned also include maids and servants as well as "housemates living in the house " such as day laborers, among others

In 1716, the residents of Oedingerberg applied to the Archbishop of Cologne to build a chapel using the stones from the ruined monastery and the church that collapsed in 1670. The permit was granted on the condition that the residents keep the planned church in good condition and pay for the repairs. But in 1843 a letter to the Vicariate General noted that the chapel dedicated to St. John the Baptist had become dilapidated again. In the period that followed, ownership and maintenance obligations were reorganized; ownership of the chapel, which was renovated in-house, was transferred to the residents of the Oedinger Berg.

In 1767 a new Vcarie St. Antoni Albertis was founded on the Oedinger Berg by Canonicus Antonius Vogt from Leckmart (Vogtsche Foundation). The services probably took place in the chapel built in 1716. There is no information about the end of the vicarie.

During the construction of the Way of the Cross to the chapel in 1874, when the foundations for the stations were excavated, a supposed crypt was found . A good 100 years later, on the occasion of the restoration of the baroque chapel in 1979, a stump of the former hall church was found to be about 1.33 m below the chapel floor. The ground consisted of leveled rock ground with clay leveling and a walking level. Furthermore, remains of a slab floor made of irregular slate slabs came to light. The pillar shape found indicates a hall church from the 13th century, which was built as a new building for the old collegiate church . Experts in the protection of historical monuments raised the question, which had not been conclusively clarified, as to whether the alleged crypt excavated in 1874 is not also part of this 13th century hall church and whether the interpretation as the crypt of the earlier collegiate or monastery church is based on an error.

Today's Johanneskapelle is a simple one-nave building with a small eight-sided roof turret. The interior of the chapel is adorned with a baroque altarpiece . The chapel was completely renovated in 1979/80. The St. Burchard Oedingen parish has owned the chapel and the associated property since 1973 .

According to statistics from the city of Lennestadt as of June 30, 2020, the population of the rural Oedingerberg was 42 people, which is less than in 1779 (as described above).

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• The explanations are based on records from documents of the archives of the parish of St. Burchardus in Oedingen and the city archives of Arnsberg, which were compiled by Gerhard Arens (Oedingen) on the occasion of the 1000th anniversary.

• Ralf Breer and Otto Höffer: Churches and chapels in Attendorn, Lennestadt and Kirchundem . Edited by Sparkasse Attendorn-Lennestadt-Kirchhundem, Attendorn 1999, p. 118 ff. (Sources also refer to Gerhard Arens)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Information from the city of Lennestadt
2. ↑ Wolfgang Poguntke, Important archaeological finds report on the medieval settlement on the Oedinger Berg, in: Südsauerland Heimatstimmen from the Olpe district, issue 2/2012 (volume 247), pp. 131,145
3. ^ Booklets for history, art and folklore, 1983/1, page 247

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