Rahrbach

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Rahrbach
Kirchhundem parish
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 14 "  N , 7 ° 58 ′ 39"  E
Height : 440 m above sea level NN
Area : 15.98 km²
Residents : 675  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Population density : 42 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st July 1969
Postal code : 57399
Rahrbach, photographed from Hardt
Rahrbach, photographed from Hardt

Rahrbach is a village in the west of the municipality of Kirchhundem in the Olpe district . As of December 31, 2013, the place had 675 inhabitants.

geography

Geographical location

The village of Rahrbach is located at an altitude of about 440 m above sea level at 51 ° 02 ′ north latitude and 7 ° 59 ′ east longitude in the South Sauerland on the so-called Südsauerländer Rothaarvorhöhen , which roof the Rothaargebirge to the northwest and belong to the Südsauerländer Bergland . The landscape is part of the main unit group Süderbergland and thus the Rhenish Slate Mountains . The place is traversed by the Hundem tributary Olpe , which is still called Rahrbach here and gave the village its name.

Rahrbach is surrounded by the mountains Vogelsang (northwest, 560 m), Stemberg (north-northwest, 563 m), Wolfhardt (north, 626 m), Gühberg (southeast, 495 m). The mountains in the south, around the so-called Rahrbacher Höhe, have heights of around 550 m. This is where the municipality and district border runs to the city of Kreuztal and the Siegen-Wittgenstein district, which in earlier centuries separated the Principality of Nassau-Siegen from the Electoral Cologne Duchy of Westphalia and describes the course of both the Uerdinger and Benrath lines .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Rahrbach are in the Rahrbachtal Kruberg in the west and Welschen Ennest in the east, which also belong to the municipality of Kirchhundem. Other larger neighboring towns are Oberveischede (city of Olpe ) in the north and Littfeld and Burgholdinghausen (city of Kreuztal ) in the south .

history

The first mention of Rahrbach can be found in the so-called " Liber valoris ", an income directory of the Archdiocese of Cologne from around 1308. The place appears there under the name Rurbeke. However, one can assume that the origin of the place is earlier. A development of the Rahrbachmulde by residents of the Veischedetals is conceivable, which is indicated by manorial ownership and the original affiliation of Benolpe, Welschen Ennest, Rahrbach and Kruberg to the Kirchveischede parish. However, the origins of the villages can hardly be put before 950, at Kruberg one can probably only assume that it was formed after 1050.

With the place name Rahrbach it can be assumed that it was first attached to the body of water and then passed on to the place. The oldest form of the place name in Liber valoris is "Rurbeke". The name is composed of the basic word " beke " for "Bach", Low German "Bieke", and the defining word "Rur" or today "Rahr", the meaning of which is less clear.

Administrative affiliation

Documents from the 13th and 15th centuries show that the southern Sauerland belonged to the domain of the noblemen of Gevore-Bilstein , who were the owners of the judiciary and other sovereign rights. This domain was designated as free spell, free county or rule of office Bilstein . After the death of Johann II von Bilstein, who was last mentioned in 1363, the rule of Bilstein passed to the Counts of the Mark and lost their independence. 1368 sold Count Gottfried IV. Von Arnsberg after a lost feud with Count Engelbert III. from the mark his county to the Cologne Archbishopric. The Cologne possessions in the Sauerland, which formed a closed territory for the first time, were henceforth referred to as the Duchy of Westphalia. This territory was expanded to include the castle and city of Fredeburg in 1444 and the rule of Bilstein in 1445. The Duchy of Westphalia was divided into the quarters of Bilstein, Brilon , Rüthen and Werl , which in turn comprised a different number of offices or courts. The offices of Bilstein, Fredeburg and Waldenburg were part of the Bilstein quarter.

The affiliation of the Bilsteiner Land to the Electoral Cologne Duchy of Westphalia lasted until the secularization of the ecclesiastical principalities in 1802/03. With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of February 25, 1803, the duchy was awarded to Landgrave Ludwig X. of Hesse-Darmstadt, who had it occupied by his troops in September 1802. During the rule of Hesse-Darmstadt there were significant changes at the lower administrative level. So on June 18, 1808, the mayor order was introduced. At the lowest level, mayors were appointed as local councils, whose superior in the office of Bilstein was Amtmann Freusberg. Rahrbach formed its own mayor district with Karl Joseph Höfer as mayor. The districts also included the places Kruberg and Fahlenscheid.

The Hesse-Darmstadt administration ended quickly. As early as 1816, the Duchy of Westphalia became the property of the Prussian state due to the regulations of the Congress of Vienna. On August 1, 1816, the new administrative district of Arnsberg was formed and divided into districts according to the general Prussian model. Mayor offices were set up in 1826 instead of the mayor's districts. Rahrbach came to the mayor's office in Bilstein.

The rural community order for the province of Westphalia of October 31, 1841 was the basis for another administrative reform, in which the Bilstein office was formed in 1843/44. The parish of Rahrbach with the villages of Fahlenscheid , Kruberg, Rahrbach and Welschen Ennest formed from then on a political municipality of the Bilstein office. This constellation of regional subdivision was retained until the municipal reorganization, which came into force on July 1, 1969. The Bilstein office was dissolved. With the exception of the village of Fahlenscheid, the municipality of Rahrbach became part of the new large municipality of Kirchhundem.

Community leader and mayor of the community of Rahrbach

  • 1843–1846: W. Neuhaus
  • 1846–1857: Heinrich Limper
  • 1857–1861: Josef Neuhaus
  • 1861–1864: Johann Heinrich Limper
  • 1864-1870: Schmidt
  • 1870-1882: Limper
  • 1883–1895: Heinrich Limper
  • 1895–1900: Franz Grünewald
  • 1900–1903: Robert Limper sen.
  • 1903–1913: Eduard Limper
  • 1913-1918: Robert Limper jun.
  • 1918–1924: Anton Schröder
  • 1924–1930: Robert Schröder
  • 1930-1934: Robert Limper
  • 1934–1941: Lohmann
  • 1941–1945: Bruno Trinn
  • 1946: -0000Neuhaus
  • 1946–1948: Karl Graefenstein
  • 1948–1955: Josef Kramer
  • 1955–1961: Johann Berens
  • 1961–1969: Hubert Hellekes

Religions

Church affiliation

The Sauerland has been part of the Archdiocese of Cologne since the time of the Sachsenmission . Original parishes in southern Sauerland were Attendorn and Wormbach . The church affiliation to Cologne lasted until 1821, when the area was assigned to the diocese of Paderborn .

The Rahrbach parish with the church patron St. Dionysius was probably founded in the 13th century. Before that, the places in the Olpe-Rahrbach valley from Benolpe belonged to the St. Servatius Church in Kirchveischede. The pastoral care district of the Rahrbach parish included the parish, the villages of Fahlenscheid, Kruberg and Welschen Ennest. When the church was rebuilt in 1902/03, Welschen Ennest became an independent parish vicarie and thus broke away from the Rahrbach parish. For years now, both parishes have only been looked after by one pastor. In 2002 the pastoral association Am Cölschen Heck was founded with the parishes of Kohlhagen, Silberg / Varste, Benolpe, Welschen Ennest and Rahrbach. Since January 1, 2013, the parish of Rahrbach has belonged to the pastoral area of ​​Kirchhundem, with the Fahlenscheid chapel parish in the area of ​​the city of Olpe being the only case in which church and communal boundaries are different.

The division of the Sauerland into deaneries took place around the middle of the 11th century. The parish Kirchveischede came to the deanery Engern (Dekania Angriae). Around 1100 this was divided into the two deaneries Meschede and Wormbach, whereby Kirchveischede came to Meschede. Thus, the parish of Rahrbach has belonged to the deanery Meschede since its foundation and then came to the deanery Elspe when the deaneries were redistributed in 1832. Since 2006 the parish has been affiliated to the new dean's office in South Sauerland.

Mining

There were several mines around Rahrbach. The best known is probably the Poche mine on the Rahrbacher Höhe. In 1576 it is reported that the Poche mine fell into disrepair. The original operation had taken place much earlier. At the latest at the end of the 17th century, mining was carried out again via the Pocher tunnel or Braebeck tunnel . Since the exact course of the border between the Duchy of Westphalia and the Principality of Nassau was controversial, there were numerous disputes between 1709 and 1770 over the mining rights with a mine on the Nassau mountain side. In 1838 both mines were combined under the name Rahrbacher Höhe . Exploration work was carried out until 1863. After that, the owners of the mine changed without further dismantling.

Public facilities

  • Schützenhalle
  • Catholic parsonage including library
  • Joseph-Gockeln-Haus, KAB family vacation home

literature

  • 40 years of the men's singing association Rahrbach (Sauerland) 1913–1953. OOuJ (Rahrbach 1953).
  • Festschrift for the 75th anniversary of the Rahrbach-Kruberg shooting association 1903–1978. OOuJ (Rahrbach 1978).
  • 75 years MGV 1909 Rahrbach eV Festschrift. OOuJ (Rahrbach 1984).
  • 75 years Musikverein Rahrbach eV Festschrift for the music festival from 12. – 14. May 1989 (Rahrbach 1989).
  • Chronicle of the parish of St. Dionysius Kahrbach, Kruberg and Fahlenscheid. Compiled by Paul Nikolajczyk based on documents from Josef Pawelke and more recent data. 1st edition, 1988 (2nd revised edition 1994, 4th edition 1999).
  • Albrecht Jung: The Rahrbach Organ. History and restoration of the historic organ in the parish church of St. Dionysius zu Rahrbach in the Sauerland. Published on the occasion of the organ consecration on February 16, 1992. Iserlohn 1992.
  • Rahrbach-Kruberg. History, country and people. Published by the shooting club Rahrbach-Kruberg eV on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the shooting club. Olpe 2003.
  • OliverGlasmacher: Dispute on the Rahrbacher Höh: The history of copper mining on the Rahrbacher Höhe between Rahrbach and Holdinghausen , Books on Demand, November 4, 2015, 40 pages.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kirchhundem parish: Places , accessed on January 13, 2015
  2. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 89 .
  3. ↑ Oliver Glasmacher: Dispute on the Rahrbacher Höh: The history of copper mining on the Rahrbacher Höhe between Rahrbach and Holdinghausen , Books on Demand, November 4, 2015, 40 pages