Pelkum (Hamm)

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Pelkum
City of Hamm
Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ′ 18 "  N , 7 ° 44 ′ 33"  E
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 59077
Primaries : 02307, 02381, 02383, 02389

Pelkum is a district of the Westphalian city ​​of Hamm . It is located in the city district of the same name .

geography

Location and structure

Pelkum is in the west of the city of Hamm.

The settlements Selmigerheide (in the east), parish (in the south) and Westerheide (in the northwest) belong to Pelkum.

Neighboring communities

In 1967, Pelkum bordered in a clockwise direction to the west on the communities Lerche , Herringen , Wiescherhöfen and Weetfeld (all today to Hamm) and Westerbönen, Bönen and Nordbögge (all today to Bönen ).

In 1974, Pelkum bordered in a clockwise direction to the east with the city of Hamm and the communities of Rhynern , Bönen and Bergkamen (all in the Unna district) and Werne , Stockum and Bockum-Hövel (all in the Lüdinghausen district at that time ).

history

In Pelkum there is a memorial plaque and a grave of honor for those killed in the fighting of the Red Ruhr Army . According to eyewitness reports, the fiercest fighting took place there in 1920.

Pelkum part in the establishment of offices in the Prussian province of Westphalia to the Office Pelkum in district Hamm . On the occasion of the city of Hamm on April 1, 1901, the district became the district of Hamm. After an area expansion in 1929, this was renamed the Unna district in October 1930 .

On January 1, 1968, the former municipality of Pelkum was merged with the municipalities of Herringen, Lerche, Sandbochum and Weetfeld and parts of Wiescherhöfen to form the new municipality of Pelkum. This 40.65 km² large community with 25,337 inhabitants was dissolved again by the municipal reform with effect from January 1, 1975 and incorporated into the independent city of Hamm .

Population numbers

year Residents
1849 0642
1910 1477
1931 1536
1956 2586
1961 3074

Parish from 1968 to 1974

The following figures relate to the municipality that existed from 1968 to 1974, i.e. including all incorporated municipalities that were previously independent. The number from 1961 is the sum of all the population of the former municipalities.

The numbers from 1961 and 1970 refer to the respective census results on June 6, 1961 and May 27, 1970. The number from 1974 was taken on June 30th by the State Office for Data Processing and Statistics North Rhine-Westphalia, today State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia , determined in view of the imminent new municipal regulation that came into force on January 1, 1975.

year Residents
1961 23,591
1970 25.198
1974 25,337

leisure

The Selbachpark is located in the southwest of Pelkum. It was created between 1971 and 1974. It offers opportunities for recreation and sport. There is an outdoor swimming pool, tennis courts, a mini golf course and opportunities for other sporting activities. The park-like green spaces on the Selbach invite you to take a leisurely stroll in the countryside.

traffic

Streets

The state road L 654 connects Pelkum with Lerche, Kamen and Lünen . The state road L 664 leads in the east to Wiescherhöfen and Hamm, in the west to Overberge , Bergkamen and Weddinghofen . On the state road L 665 you can drive to the A 2 as well as to Bönen, Heeren-Werve and Unna .

The district road K 4 offers a connection to Sandbochum and Stockum in the north.

Transportation

With the help of line 3 of Stadtwerke Hamm you can get to the city center and Wiescherhöfen. The line ends in a south-westerly direction at Selbachpark.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 196, 317 .
  2. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 64 .
  3. ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 125 .
  4. ^ MF Essellen: Description and brief history of the Hamm district and the individual localities in the same . Verlag Reimann GmbH & Co, Hamm 1985, ISBN 3-923846-07-X , p. 147 .
  5. ↑ www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de: Population figures 1910
  6. ↑ Handbook of the offices and rural communities in the Rhine province and in the province of Westphalia , Prussian Landgemeindetag West, Berlin 1931.
  7. ^ Otto Lucas: Kreis-Atlas Unna . Unna / Münster 1957
  8. ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 237 .