Rest

Rest Ense municipality Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 49 ″  N , 7 ° 57 ′ 26 ″  E
Height :	227 m above sea level NN
Residents :	308  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Incorporation :	1st July 1969
Postal code :	59469
Area code :	02938
Location of Ruhne in Ense
Aerial view

Ruhne is a district of the municipality of Ense in the district of Soest , administrative district of Arnsberg , North Rhine-Westphalia .

Through the village of Ruhne

The district lies on the crest of the hair strand on the northern edge of the Sauerland. It is located a few hundred meters north of Bremen , Werl is about five kilometers away. The Kurfürstenhalle is the center of village life. The so-called Mucherkreuz is on the way towards Waltringen . It is reminiscent of the annual foot pilgrimage of the Mucher from Siegerland to Werl. In the center of the village there is a stylized bell tower with a solitary bell, as a memorial to the fallen of the two world wars.

In the course of the municipal reorganization on July 1, 1969, Ruhne was merged with 13 other independent locations to form the new municipality of Ense.

Surname

The name appeared as a rune in the middle of the 12th century . It can be interpreted as “settlement on a mountain cut”, related to (reconstructed) Germ. Rūn = “cut”, and refers to the location of the place on the hairline.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Municipality of Ense: Figures, data, facts , accessed on March 2, 2020
2. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 91 .
3. ↑ See Michael Flöer, Claudia Maria Korsmeier: The place names of the district of Soest (=  Westphalian Place Name Book (WOB), Volume 1). Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-89534-791-7 , pp. 381–382 ( digitized version ).

Web links

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

• Municipality of Ense (accessed October 27, 2012)
• Main statutes of the municipality of Ense (accessed on October 28, 2012) (PDF; 3.1 MB)