Polsum

Polsum City of Marl Coordinates: 51 ° 37 ′ 33 ″  N , 7 ° 3 ′ 8 ″  E
Area :	7.8 km²
Residents :	4607  (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	590 inhabitants / km²
Postcodes :	45768, 45770
Area code :	02365
Location of the district within Marl

Polsum is a district of the city of Marl in the Recklinghausen district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

location

Polsum is located in the far southwest of Marl, the development is geographically clearly separated from the rest of the city. In the north, northeast and east lies Alt-Marl and in the southeast the city of Herten . To the south-west, Polsum borders on Gelsenkirchen and to the west on the southern part of Dorstens .

history

St. Bartholomew Polsum

Lippe mine Polsum shaft

Polsum was first mentioned in history around 1200, although it should be noted that the church tower, which was then used as a keep, still stands today. Polsum was part of Vest Recklinghausen, which belongs to Kurköln . Polsum parish was in the Niedervest Dorsten .

In the Thirty Years' War a dog that should Polsumer Möppel , a legend who drove by the Swedes. Since 1844 Polsum belonged to the Marl office . House Lüttinghof, which is now part of Gelsenkirchen, is a good kilometer from the village center. In the last weeks of the Second World War, the 116th Panzer Division (Greyhound Division) holed up in Polsum in March 1945 during the Battle of the Ruhr Basin. The three-day defense of Polsum against the invading Americans killed 79 people.

The municipality Polsum existed until 1974 from the farming communities village , Rennebaum , Hülsdau , Heiken , courtyards , Weimann , Beck courtyards , figurines and Bertlich . Due to the municipal reform of 1974, Polsum came to the city of Marl on January 1, 1975, but Bertlich was assigned to the city of Herten. Today Polsum is a district of the city of Marl, divided into two statistical sub-districts.

religion

In 1271 Polsum was first mentioned as a parish. Since Polsum belonged to Kurköln , the village remained Roman Catholic during the Reformation in the 16th century ; to this day it is mostly Catholic. Accordingly, the only school in Polsum, the elementary school, is a Catholic denominational school .

The medieval church of St. Bartholomew was in need of repair as a result of a lightning strike in 1842. Since it had become too small anyway due to the population growth of the village since the middle of the 19th century, a neo-Romanesque hall church was built in its place according to plans by Essen's city architect Carl Freyse (1815–1881). St. Bartholomew in Polsum was thus one of the earliest neo-Romanesque church buildings in the diocese of Münster. This second church was damaged by shelling during the Second World War and was initially only temporarily restored. In 1966 the second church was demolished and replaced by the current third church between 1966 and 1969.

Protestants also settled in the last century, but their number has been declining for a long time. Therefore, the Protestant church decided to forego its own building. The Evangelical Community Center, which also housed a kindergarten, was demolished in 2010. Since then, the congregation has been a guest in the Catholic Church and uses the St. Bartholomew's meeting point , which was newly built a few years ago .

politics

In elections, the CDU in Polsum, in contrast to the rest of the Marl, can traditionally achieve a high percentage of votes. The citizens of the district send a direct candidate for the city council; in the election of another, the voters in Polsum are also involved.

Culture and sights

Sports

• There are several sports clubs in Polsum, including the Polsum game and sports club (650 members).

Events

• The Polsum Christmas market, always on the third Advent, is the largest one-day Christmas market in North Rhine-Westphalia and attracts almost 60,000 visitors every year. Hit greats like Andrea Berg have already appeared on stage. Visiting the Christmas market is free.
• The shooting festival attracts a few hundred visitors every two years. The organizer is the Polsum shooting club, which alternates between holding the festival with the clubs in Frentrop and Altendorf.
• The Polsum fire-fighting train organizes a fire brigade festival every winter and every other summer. In the summer of 2009, the fire engine celebrated its 100th anniversary and held a large parade with fire departments from all over North Rhine-Westphalia.

Attractions

• The small village center around the church is worth seeing, in which there are still individual houses over 100 years old.
• The house Lüttinghof (near Polsum) is a historic moated castle from the 12th century. Today, however, the area belongs to the city of Gelsenkirchen. The castle can be reached in a few minutes' walk from Polsum.
• Cenotaph for the victims of the two world wars

economy

In Polsum, especially around the church, some commercial enterprises and businesses have settled. Although somewhat larger companies such as ReFood GmbH & Co. KG, a company of the SARIA Group , or a branch of the Raiffeisen markets can be found in Polsum, the district is still mainly characterized by agriculture and agriculture.

Local transport

The following bus routes operated by Vestische Straßenbahnen GmbH run through Polsum:

• 222 Gelsenkirchen-Buer town hall - Gelsenkirchen Hassel - Polsum memorial - Marl Mitte - Marl-Sinsen train station - Wacholderstraße
• TB240 Polsum Kirchstraße - Polsum Memorial - Herten-Bertlich - Gelsenkirchen Hassel Bahnhof / Herten-Westerholt Schlossstraße (a school trip in the morning)
• TB296 Dorsten-Altendorf-Ulfkotte Im Päsken - Polsum Memorial - Polsum Kirchstraße (from December 16, 2019)
• 296E Polsum Kirchstraße - Dorsten-Altendorf-Ulfkotte - Dorsten ZOB (two trips on school days).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ City of Marl: The area sizes of the city districts and statistical districts ( Memento of the original from February 12, 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. Retrieved January 26, 2015 
2. ↑ Population statistics December 31, 2018 Marl. Retrieved May 8, 2019 . 
3. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 316 .
4. ^ Art. Marl (Polsum) St. Bartholomäus . In: Ulrich Menkhaus (Red.): The Diocese of Münster, Bd. 3 .: The parishes . Regensberg, Münster 1993, ISBN 3-7923-0646-8 , pp. 350–351, here p. 351.
5. ^ Ludwig Schreiner: Architecture of the 19th and 20th centuries . In: Wilhelm Kohl (ed.): Westfälische Geschichte , Vol. 2: The 19th and 20th centuries. Politics and culture . Schwann, Düsseldorf 1983, ISBN 3-590-34212-9 , pp. 431-488, here p. 475.
6. ↑ Peter Holzwig: The architecture of historicism in the diocese of Münster . In: Imagination of the invisible - 1200 years of fine arts in the diocese of Münster , exhibition of the Westphalian State Museum for Art and Cultural History, LWL, Münster, 1993
7. ↑ Move to St. Bartholomew.  ( 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. September 7, 2009. Information from the Protestant parish of Marl, Region West.  
8. ↑ A considerable turning point. May 29, 2008. Information from the WAZ media group (The West).

Web links

• Home club Polsum
• Polsum in the Westphalia Culture Atlas