Opmünden

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Opmünden
Municipality Bad Sassendorf
Coat of arms of Opmünden
Coordinates: 51 ° 33 ′ 34 "  N , 8 ° 9 ′ 44"  E
Height : 127 m
Incorporation : 1st July 1969
Postal code : 59505
Area code : 02945
Opmünden (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Opmünden

Location of Opmünden in North Rhine-Westphalia

Opmünden is a district of the Bad Sassendorf municipality in the Soest district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The place is located south of the core town of Bad Sassendorf on the L 747. The A 44 runs south . East the 8.9872 extends ha large nature reserve quarry Lohner Klei .

Attractions

In the list of monuments in Bad Sassendorf there is no monument for Opmünden .

Surname

Opmünden is mentioned for the first time as Upmenni around 900 . The word Menni stands for 'Bach' and the prefix Up as a location designation 'above' or 'above'. Thus Opmünden could be translated as “Oberbach”. On the other hand, there is the newer interpretation as a place "on the heights".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. "in pago Angorion uilla Upmenni" ( . Urb If I , page 68, line 4), then first mentioned as "Opmunde" 1414 both by Michael Flöer, Claudia Maria Korsmeier: The location name of the circle Soest (=  Westfälisches place names book (WOB ), Part 1). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-89534-791-7 , p. 348 ( digitized version ).
  2. Super User: History of Opmündens. Retrieved September 17, 2018 .
  3. "in pago Angorion uilla Upmenni" (. Urb If I, page 68, line 4), then first mentioned as "Opmunde" 1414 both by Michael Flöer, Claudia Maria Korsmeier: The location name of the circle Soest (=  Westfälisches place names book ( WOB), Volume 1). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-89534-791-7 , p. 349 ( digitized version ). In this context, the underlying word “menni” (hill, hill) is also assumed to refer to the Gelmen (Gelmene) desert around 2.5 km to the north-north-west.