Rinsecke (Kirchhundem)

Rinsecke (Kirchhundem) Kirchhundem parish Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 23 "  N , 8 ° 9 ′ 33"  E
Height :	441.5  (420-525)  m
Residents :	231  (December 31, 2018)
Postal code :	57399
Rin corner with a view of the soles

Rinsecke is a district of the Kirchhundem municipality in the Olpe district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

location

The village of Rinsecke belongs to the southern mountainous region of the Rhenish Slate Mountains , which is also known as the southern Sauerland or Olper country . It belongs to the so-called Bilsteiner Bergland . The village lies on the western foothills of the Rothaargebirge . It is surrounded by the Rinsenberg ( 595.8  m ) in the east, the Westerberg ( 662.1  m ) in the south-east, the Eggenkopf ( 647.3  m ) in the south-south-east, the Milsenberg ( 669.8  m ) in the south, the Lichtenhardt ( 607  m ) in the southwest, the Engelbertstein ( 575.3  m ) in the west and the Beul ( 452.6  m ) in the northwest. A valley opens to the north, through which the Rinsecke flows towards the Hundem .

Neighboring places

Neighboring places of Rinsecke are the villages or residential areas Oberhundem in the northeast, Rhein-Weser-Turm in the east, Rüspe in the southeast, Heinsberg in the south, Albaum in the southwest, Marmecke in the west, Würdinghausen in the northwest and Selbecke in the north-northwest.

history

The earliest known written mention of the place comes from 1393 in the fief books of the Counts of the Mark. There the estate is called “to Rindesbike myt der wiltbane”. The basic word of the place name - basin - is a water body designation that can now be translated as "Bach". The defining word could be related to the term “beef”. According to Michael Flöer, the name of the place may have related to cattle pastures near the stream or its function as Tränge.

St. Josef Chapel in Rinsecke

Religions

Due to the fact that the place belonged to the Electoral Cologne Duchy of Westphalia for centuries, the population structure is still predominantly Catholic today. Of 225 residents (including secondary residences), 148 belong to the Roman Catholic Church, 39 are Protestant Christians and no information is available on 37 residents.

Rinsecke belongs to the parish of Oberhundem, which may have been founded in the 11th century and is now part of the pastoral area of ​​Kirchhundem.

Buildings

The Catholic Chapel of St. Josef in Rinsecke was built in 1897. An oil painting depicting Saint Joseph comes from Ecuador and is a gift from the in-laws of Ursula Porras, born in Rinsecke. Schulte-Wrede. The Martinus window by Martin Volmert , who was born in Rinsecke and was the former district administrator of the Iserlohn district.

Incorporations

From 1843/44 to June 30, 1969, Rinsecke was a town in the municipality of Oberhundem, which was part of the Kirchhundem district. On July 1, 1969, the town came to today's municipality of Kirchhundem through the municipal reorganization.

Parks

Rinsecke is located in the Sauerland-Rothaargebirge nature park . The Panorama-Park Sauerland Wildpark is located south-east of the village on Eggenkopf .

Natural monuments

The Engelbertstein on the mountain of the same name west of the village is a 10 to 15 m high and 70 m long rock formation. According to legend, the Cologne Elector Engelbert I stopped here on the occasion of a hunt.

Economy and Infrastructure

Johann Joseph Hanses-Ketteler from Rinsecke founded the forest culture business Gebr. Hanses with five brothers after his discharge from military service in 1862. Before he started working, he had already started growing forest plants on his parents' farm, which is considered to be the birth of this branch of industry in Germany.

traffic

Rinsecke is connected  to Landesstraße  553 via Kreisstraße 22 .

education

The children of the village of Rinsecke attend the Catholic kindergarten St. Lambertus in the neighboring village of Oberhundem and the Catholic. Elementary school St. Katharina in Heinsberg. There are secondary schools in Kirchhundem and Lennestadt.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

• Martin Volmert , District Administrator of the Iserlohn district

Web links

Commons : Rinsecke  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kirchhundem community: number of residents , accessed on March 6, 2019
2. ↑ District map 1: 50,000. No. 14. Olpe district, Arnsberg district, 4th edition, 1975.
3. ↑ District map 1: 50000. No. 14. Olpe district, Arnsberg district, 4th edition, 1975.
4. ↑ Margret Westberburg fresh (ed): The oldest Lehnbücher the Counts of Mark (1392 and 1393). Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia XXVIII, 1). Münster 1967–1982.
5. ↑ Michael Flöer: The place names of the district of Olpe. Bielefeld 2014. p. 202.
6. ↑ Population statistics of the Kirchhundem community
7. ^ Günther Becker and Martin Vormberg: Kirchhundem. History of the office and the community. Kirchhundem 1994. p. 65
8. ↑ Aloys Klein (Ed.): Oberhundem. Contributions to the history of the parish and parish. Olpe 1972. Passim.
9. ↑ Personal communication from Ms. Ursula Porras on June 30, 2004 in the Kirchhundem community archive.
10. ↑ Oberhundem. Contributions to the history of the parish and parish. Oberhundem 1972. p. 109.
11. ↑ Oberhundemer village newspaper "Nigges iut diäm Duarepe". Issue 031 1st quarter 2011 from December 23, 2010
12. ^ Parish of Oberhundem. Timeline. Published by the local archive Oberhundem e. VOOuJ (Oberhundem 2008). Pp. 645-646.
13. ^ Lennestadt Kirchhundem in the Rothaargebirge, Ebbegebirge and Homert nature parks . Land survey office of North Rhine-Westphalia. Hiking map 1: 25000. 2nd edition 1998.