Rüspe

Rüspe Kirchhundem parish Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 14 "  N , 8 ° 13 ′ 48"  E
Height :	510 m
Residents :	28  (Dec. 31, 2014)
Incorporation :	1st July 1969
Postal code :	57399

Rüspe is a hamlet in the east of the municipality of Kirchhundem in the Olpe district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

location

Rüspe belongs to the southern mountains of the Rhenish Slate Mountains , which is also known as southern Sauerland or Olper Land. In the center of the Rothaargebirge it is located in the Bilsteiner Bergland about 500 m west of the border between the Olpe district and the Siegen-Wittgenstein district . Rüspe is located in the valley of the Meinscheidbach, which is called Röspe after the confluence with the Schwarzbach on the other side of the district boundary and flows to the Eder . The mountains surrounding the hamlet are the Burgkopf ( 658.4  m ) in the east, the Darre ( 639.3  m ) in the southeast, the Hermeskopf ( 611.4  m ) in the south, the Krumme Frau ( 603.1  m ) in the west southwest, the Westerberg ( 662.1  m ) somewhat distant in the north-west, the Stengenberg ( 706.8  m ) in the north-north-west, the Hohe Hessel ( 743.6  m ) in the north and the Heiligenholz ( 657.6  m ) in the north-east.

Neighborhoods

The neighborhoods and hamlets of Rüspe are: Wingeshausen in the east, Röspe in the southeast, Zinse in the south-south-west, Heinsberg in the west -south- west, Albaum in the west, Marmecke in the west-north-west, Rinsecke and Rhein-Weser-Turm in the north-west and Kasimirstal in the north.

history

The hamlet of Rüspe came into the light of history in 1312 with the mention of Conrad de Rüspe in the Soester Bürgerbuch . From this it can be concluded that the settlement existed before. In the man book of the Lords of Bicken , Conrad von Rüspe and his brother Frederich are mentioned in 1344. In the period between 1353 and 1411, the Lords of Rüspe appeared various times as witnesses and seals in Wittgenstein documents. At the beginning of the 15th century, the family moved their residence to the Brünninghausen house near Ohle through marriage, but appeared in documents and correspondence under the name "von Rüspe" until the 17th century. Remains of the medieval castle of the Lords of Rüspe are now entered as a ground monument in the monuments list of the municipality of Kirchhundem.

The Rüsper Forest - the area surrounding Rüspe - has been the subject of controversy for centuries between the Cologne Elector as sovereign of the Duchy of Westphalia on the one hand and the Counts of Wittgenstein-Berleburg on the other. As early as 1332 Pastor Deytwin von Wingeshausen sued the knight Degenhard von Hundem, his brother Godefrid and the residents of Hundem because Hundemer claimed that forests, meadows and fields east of the Meinscheidbach were Bilstein fiefs. In 1484, according to a map by Wittgensteiner Conrad Jeger, the county of Wittgenstein-Berleburg claimed a border drawing between the two territories from the earlier Wildborn (now Dreiherrnstein) through the Faule Buchholz to the Hufeisenstein in the Schwarzbachtal and further over the Krumme Frau and today's Rhein-Weser Tower to Wildhöfer. Jeger ascribed the parts of the Rüspe forest area to the west of this line to the von Rüspe family. The residents of Heinsberg redrew the border in 1562 and marked it with markings on trees. They followed the current district boundary from Wildhöfer to Burgkopf, but then stayed 500 to 900 m further east of it in the further course to Dreiherrnstein. A Wittgenstein recession from 1569 insisted on the border from 1484, but the Bilsteiner Drost Kaspar von Fürstenberg was not impressed by this and nevertheless went hunting in Meinscheid in 1572. Attempts to settle in 1581 remained unsuccessful and there were mutual assaults through the destruction of wild hedges, felling of trees, pledging of cattle, etc. In 1592 the elector of Cologne filed a lawsuit with the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Speyer to obtain legal recognition for the disputed area, a process which dragged on for decades without any judgment being reached. It was not until 1694 that an agreement was finally reached on the borderline.

The Rüspe area, which is remote from the surrounding villages, was particularly popular because of its abundance of game. In the map of the Oberhundemer Jagd from 1743 two hunting lodges are entered, namely the one on the “Borgseite”, which was also called “Lammersburg”, and the one newly built in 1743 on the border with the Heinsberg hunting district. Despite its remoteness, the Rüspe area was important in terms of traffic, because it was due to the "via Francofurtensis", a historical long-distance connection from the Duchy of Westphalia to Hesse.

The hunting lodge built in 1911 by Dr. Lebrecht Steinmüller from Gummersbach was converted after the Second World War by the "Carl Eberhard Steinmüller Foundation" into a factory rest home for L. & C. Steinmüller , Gummersbach, and in the 1960s into the Rüspe study house with an anthroposophical focus. The latter existed until 2013.

Religions

Of the 28 inhabitants of Rüspe, 13 are Roman Catholics, 13 are Protestants and two of them are not given information about their religious affiliation.

Incorporation and population development

From 1843/44 Rüspe belonged to the political municipality of Oberhundem in the Kirchhundem office. With the local reorganization on July 1, 1969, the current Kirchhundem community came about.

On July 1, 1969, there were 66 inhabitants in Rüspe; Since then, the number of inhabitants has been falling steadily: 54 (1974), 43 (1978), 34 (1985), 33 (1990) and 28 (2014).

Buildings

The Catholic Chapel of St. Hubertus was built in 1956 and on 3 November 1956 by the Paderborn Archbishop Lorenz Jaeger benediziert . Hubertus fairs take place here every year.

Parks and natural monuments

Rüspe is located in the Sauerland-Rothaargebirge nature park . The supraregional Rothaarsteig hiking trail passes nearby. Parts of the Schwarzbachsystem nature reserve with Haberg and Krenkelstal are located near Rüspe .

traffic

Rüspe is on the state road  553, which leads from Kirchhundem in the direction of Hatzfeld (Eder) . The railway line from Altenhundem to Birkelbach, operated from 1914 to 1945, led south of the hamlet. After the partial destruction of bridges in the Second World War, it was not made continuously passable again. Until 1959, people were still transported to the Röspe loading point and goods were transported until 1964. A historical route was the "via Francofurtensis", which connected the Duchy of Westphalia with Hesse . It was only recently rediscovered on a historical hunting map.

education

The children from Rüspe have been attending the St. Katharina Catholic Primary School in Heinsberg since the primary school in Oberhundem was closed in 2013. There are secondary schools in Kirchhundem and Lennestadt . There is a nearby university in Siegen .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )
2. ↑ District map 1: 50000. No. 14. Olpe district. Arnsberg administrative district. Edited by the Land Survey Office of North Rhine-Westphalia. 4th edition 1975.
3. ↑ Michael Flöer: The place names of the district of Olpe. Bielefeld 2014. p. 208.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Heinz Hechmann: Rüspe. On the history of a southern Sauerland border village. Erndtebrück / Röspe 2007. pp. 12–13
5. ↑ List of monuments of the Kirchhundem community
6. ^ Günther Becker and Martin Vormberg: Kirchhundem. History of the office and the community. Kirchhundem 1994. pp. 56-57
7. ^ Martin Vormberg: The hunting districts of Schloss Adolfsburg. Historical views of the town and landscape elements in the South Sauerland around 1743/44. Kirchhundem 2013. p. 72
8. ↑ ^{a b} Martin Vormberg: The hunting districts of Schloss Adolfsburg. Historical views of the town and landscape elements in the South Sauerland around 1743/44. Kirchhundem 2013. p. 59
9. ↑ Population statistics of the Kirchhundem community
10. ↑ Heinz Hechmann: Rüspe. On the history of a southern Sauerland border village. Erndtebrück / Röspe 2007. pp. 100–106.
11. ↑ Heinz Hechmann: Rüspe. On the history of a southern Sauerland border village. Erndtebrück / Röspe 2007. pp. 114–123

literature

• Adolf Färber: Adolfsburg and Rüsper Wald. Olpe 1941.
• Heinz Hechmann: Rüspe. On the history of a southern Sauerland border village. Erndtebrück-Röspe 2007.
• Peter Schneider: March 18, 1945: Flight officer Caspar Haboian crashed near Rüspe? . In: Wittgenstein. Leaves of the Wittgensteiner Heimatverein , vol. 69, 2005, p. 17 ff.
• Martin Vormberg: The hunting districts of Schloss Adolfsburg. Historical views of the town and landscape elements in the South Sauerland around 1743/44. Kirchhundem 2013.