Referinghausen

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Referinghausen
City of Medebach
Coordinates: 51 ° 14 ′ 52 ″  N , 8 ° 40 ′ 45 ″  E
Height : 443 m
Residents : 253
Incorporation : 1st July 1969
Postal code : 59964
Area code : 05632

Referinghausen is a district of the city of Medebach in the Hochsauerlandkreis with 253 inhabitants.

Location of the place

Referinghausen is located about 9 kilometers north of the core town of Medebach in a valley at a crossroads between the state road 872 and the municipal road 35 at an altitude of about 500 meters above sea level.

history

St. Nicholas Church

The place was first mentioned in a document in the 13th century: only copies of documents from the 14th century have been preserved of documents from 1235, another document about a tithe , which was in the fief of Thitmar von Waldeck called Opholt, dates from 1269 In 1418 the lords of Büren can be traced back to fiefdom . A mill was owned by the Counts of Waldeck in 1668.

In 1548 "Referckhusen" was designated as a place that was in the Free County of Düdinghausen and belonged to the Medebach office . In 1565 11 taxpayers were counted.

The place belongs to the parish Deifeld . A chapel is attested in 1526 . Saint Nicholas was the patron saint . In 1645, Auxiliary Bishop Frick consecrated an altar in his honor. In 1789 a large part of the village burned down, including the chapel . It was rebuilt in 1797/98.

In 1802 the place fell with the Duchy of Westphalia to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt . From 1816 Referinghausen belonged to Prussia . At first it belonged to the county Medebach , then as part of the Office Medebach to circle Brilon .

In 1864 the place had 292 inhabitants. By 1939, their number sank to 233. After the Second World War , their number rose briefly (1950) to 396.

On March 20, 1945, the Figgen house was badly damaged by a bomb. Towards the end of the Second World War, the first American soldiers reached the place with their tanks on March 29, 1945 and drove through it without stopping. American troops moved in on April 2nd. German artillery shelled the village while US troops fired back. The place was spared from fighting. During this war, twelve residents died as soldiers in the Wehrmacht.

Until 1969 the place belonged to the office Medebach and had 311 inhabitants (1961) with an area of ​​4.77 km². Of these, 291 were Catholic and 18 Protestant. Of the economically active population, 73 (43.5%) were employed in agriculture and forestry, 66 (39.3%) in manufacturing and the remainder in other occupations.

On July 1, 1969, the community Referinghausen was incorporated into the city of Medebach as part of the municipal reorganization .

literature

  • Wilhelm Rave (Hrsg.): Architectural and art monuments of Westphalia. Volume 45: District of Brilon , edited by Paul Michels, Münster 1952, pp. 209-214.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Medebach: Stadtinfo Ortsteile , accessed on March 21, 2012
  2. ^ Alfred Bruns: Hallenberger sources and archive directories, Münster 1991, p. 67.
  3. ↑ Karuna Eckel: Referinghausen. September 30, 2016, accessed April 5, 2020 (German).
  4. ↑ Manfred Schöne: The Duchy of Westphalia under Hesse-Darmstadt rule 1802-1816, Olpe 1966, p. 172.
  5. ^ Statistical review for the district of Brilon, Düsseldorf 1967, pp. 16, 62.
  6. ^ Hugo Cramer: The district of Brilon in the Second World War 1939-1945 . 1955, Referinghausen section, p. 38.
  7. ^ Hugo Cramer: The district of Brilon in the Second World War 1939-1945, Bigge 1955, pp. 38, 217.
  8. ^ Statistical review for the district of Brilon, Düsseldorf 1967, pp. 62–65.
  9. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 89 .

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