Oestrich (Iserlohn)

Oestrich City of Iserlohn Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 20 ″  N , 7 ° 37 ′ 59 ″  E
Residents :	3003  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Incorporation :	October 1, 1956
Postal code :	58642
Area code :	02374
Location of Oestrich in North Rhine-Westphalia
Village of Oestrich after 1840

Neo-Gothic Protestant village church

Chainsmith Teves

Oestrich is a district of Iserlohn in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany . The city of Iserlohn with its Oestrich district is located in the northwest of the Sauerland and belongs to the Märkischer Kreis . At the end of 2019, Oestrich had 3003 inhabitants.

history

Numerous Stone Age sites, in several places in Grürmannsheide, on the Burgberg and in the caves in the Grüner Tal and Lennetal, for example the now destroyed Martinshöhle , suggest that the area was settled over 40,000 years ago. There is a rampart on the castle hill that dates at least to the post-Carolingian period. Speculations by a local researcher that this complex is older or that it was even a place of worship cannot be proven archaeologically or through written sources. At the foot of the castle hill, below the rock Pater und Nun , a late antique gold jewelry (necklaces and bracelets ) from the 4th century was discovered.

Oestrich was first mentioned as “Cometia Osteric” (Freigericht Oestrich) in the “ Große Vogteirolle ” on the Essen monastery of Count von Isenberg-Altena . This writing is dated to the period from 1220 to 1250 AD.

Located in a convenient location near the intersection of two imperial roads, the small farming village flourished, but was repeatedly set back by the effects of war and disease. During the Thirty Years' War only seven residents survived a plague epidemic in 1636 and, according to legend, planted seven linden trees at the entrance to the cemetery "Am Lindenplatz" as a thank you.

Until 1808 Oestrich belonged to the county of Limburg . After the Iserlohn district was founded in 1815, the municipality of Oestrich was merged with the neighboring municipalities of Letmathe , Elsey , Limburg and Reh to form the Limburg district. In 1868 the Dechen cave was discovered during the construction of the Letmathe – Fröndenberg railway in the Green Valley . In 1903, when the municipalities of Limburg and Elsey were merged to form the municipality of Hohenlimburg , Oestrich and Letmathe formed the Letmathe-Oestrich office.

In 1921 the office was dissolved, and Oestrich formed the Oestrich office with the municipality of Lössel (previously in the office of Hemer ). On October 1, 1956, the Office of Oestrich merged with Letmathe, who had meanwhile become a city, to form the new city of Letmathe. Significant parts of the municipality of Oestrich had to be ceded to the city of Iserlohn ( Gerlingsen , Hombruch, Iserlohner Heide , Barendorfer Bruch). On January 1, 1975 Letmathe was incorporated with Oestrich to Iserlohn .

At the 24th state competition Our Village Has a Future , Oestrich was awarded a silver plaque in 2012.

Parishes

The Catholic parish is part of the Märkisches Sauerland deanery . The Protestant parish belongs to the Iserlohn parish.

Evangelical parish Oestrich-Dröschede

The Protestant parish includes the districts of Oestrich and Dröschede . After the Dröschede Advent Church was demolished, the only church now is the Oestrich Church. The current church was rebuilt at the beginning of the 20th century on the remains of a church that had existed there for at least 800 years. Frescoes of the old church were discovered during the new building. From 1560 onwards, the Reformation was introduced under the rule of the Counts of Neuenahr . A long-running dispute over the Lutheran or Reformed creed ensued. There was also a heated argument about membership of the Iserlohn Lutheran Church, which in 1637 even led to the deployment of soldiers to enable the Iserlohn pastor Varnhagen to preach in Oestrich. From 1729 Prussia guaranteed the Limburg counts the right of patronage. Since 1845 the Protestant Christians in the otherwise Catholic Letmathe belonged to the Ostrich community, only in 1875 Letmathe received its own Protestant church community.

The old church was demolished in 1906 with the exception of a tower, the oldest parts of which date from the 12th century. In 1908 the new church was consecrated in the same place.

In 1946 the parish established a kindergarten. In 1960 the parish hall was finally put into operation. Since 2007 the evangelical parishioners in the district Dröschede belong to the Oestrich parish. There are three pastors for both districts together. A parish chronicle compiled on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the church building in 2008 gives further data from the history

Catholic parish "Mariä Himmelfahrt" Oestrich

After Catholics had settled in Oestrich again in the middle of the 19th century after the Reformation - Oestrich had become Protestant in the course of the 16th century - the Oestrich mission parish was founded on July 1, 1914 at the request of the Bishop of Paderborn, Karl Joseph Schulte . This was looked after by the mother parish of St. Kilian in Letmathe. On September 21, 1917, Auxiliary Bishop Hähling von Lanzenauer consecrated the newly built church of Mary, the Mother of God. The first holy mass sacrifice in the new church was made by chaplain Friedrich Meckel, a son of the Oestrich community and later pastor of St. Kilian and dean. After the church suffered a devastating bomb hit in April 1942, the Protestant community generously granted hospitality. In the war year 1942/43, the church was provisionally built and fundamentally redesigned in 1964.

The square, 45 m high tower is now crowned by a pyramid-shaped copper-plated spire 15 m high, on which a 3.50 m high cross is located on a sphere. On April 1, 1953, the Archbishop of Paderborn, Lorenz Jaeger , elevated the mission parish of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary to an ordinary parish. In February 2002 the Archbishop of Paderborn, Johannes Joachim Cardinal Degenhardt, established the Letmathe pastoral network. As the last Catholic priest in the community, Pastor Helmut Malorny was ceremoniously retired on January 25, 2015 at a festive mass.

Events

In 1988 the old local tradition of the so-called "Appeltatenkirmes" was revived in Oestrich. This was held every year in August until 2013. "Appeltaten" (apple pockets) are yeast dough pastries.

sports clubs

The football club FC Iserlohn 46/49 emerged in 2012 from the Sportfreunde Oestrich-Iserlohn and the football department of TuS Iserlohn and plays in the Football Westphalia League . The games will be played in the Willi-Vieler Stadium in Oestrich and in the Hemberg Stadium in Iserlohn.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

• Gerhard Rödding (* 1933), Protestant theologian and North Rhine-Westphalian politician (CDU), from 1980 to 1987 member of the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia

literature

• Walter Ewig : The history of the Protestant parish Oestrich . Dorau, Hagen-Hohenlimburg 1978, 101 pp.

Web links

Commons : Oestrich  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Historical picture gallery Letmathe-Oestrich
• Oestrich (Iserlohn) in the Westphalia Culture Atlas

Individual evidence

1. ^ City of Iserlohn: Contributions to urban research and statistics (PDF), accessed on March 15, 2020
2. ^ News item in the IKZ from November 6, 2008
3. ^ Oestrich history  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 270 .
5. ↑ § 2 Sauerland / Paderborn law
6. ↑ Results of the state competition (PDF; 60 kB) Retrieved on September 11, 2012
7. ↑ http://www.kirche-iserlohn.de/
8. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 23, 2015 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. 
9. ↑ http://www.mariae-himmelfahrt-oestrich.de/
10. ↑ http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/letmathe/der-letzt-katholische-pfarrer-von-oestrich-id10272790.html
11. ↑ Appeltatenkirmes in Oestrich: Backen der Apple Taschen ( Memento of February 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved on August 23, 2012