Schwarzenau (Bad Berleburg)

Schwarzenau City of Bad Berleburg Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 27 ″ N , 8 ° 28 ′ 31 ″ E
Height :	372 (360-590) m
Area :	5.49 km²
Residents :	821 (March 31, 2011)
Population density :	150 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1975
Postal code :	57319
Area code :	02755

Schwarzenau is a former municipality in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany.

history

First notarization

Schwarzenau was mentioned in a document as early as 1059 as "Swarcenown". At that time we cannot speak of a village. The settlement consisted of a few rural properties.

General

In the document from 1059, as well as in other documents from the 16th century, a part of Schwarzenau, the so-called old village , belongs to the bailiwick of Elsoff. The old village disappeared at the beginning of the 16th century. From this point on we can only speak of a Schwarzenau domain .

Canonists settled here from 1713. Some of the new settlers also include Huguenots . From 1732 the place belongs to the Elsoffer quarter. In 1760 there are already 47; At the beginning of the 19th century there were 49 canon estates. During this time the actual village of Schwarzenau was created. In 1819 the district of Schwarzenau was established, to which the municipality of Beddelhausen also belongs. From 1845 the place belongs to the Arfeld office.

Schwarzenau has belonged to the town of Bad Berleburg in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district since January 1, 1975 under the Sauerland-Paderborn Act .

Population development

1961: 921 inhabitants
1970: 894 inhabitants
1974: 923 inhabitants
2011: 821 inhabitants

Schwarzenau Castle

The Schwarzenau manor house , built in the middle of the 18th century, is located in the middle of the village on the Eder . This first served as a widow's seat and hunting lodge for the Counts of Sayn-Wittgenstein . But already the previous building was expanded to become the seat of government when, during the radical pietistic phase in Wittgenstein, the sovereign Count Henrich Albrecht zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein moved his center of life there and from there, instead of Wittgenstein Castle near Laasphe , carried out government business in order to be closer to to be able to be the brothers and sisters living there.

religion

Since around 1698, many religiously persecuted settlers have settled in the upper Hüttental near Schwarzenau. They only lived in simple and poor huts, which is how the name "Hüttental" came about. The Pietist-Anabaptist movement of the Schwarzenau Brethren , which still exists today, was founded in Schwarzenau , and after emigrating to North America it spread mainly in the USA. The largest church in Schwarzenau Brethren today is the Church of the Brethren . The hour of birth of the Schwarzenau New Baptist was when Alexander Mack baptized eight people in the Eder in early August 1708. Today the Alexander Mack Museum in the upper Hüttental commemorates the Brothers Church and the time of radical Pietism in Wittgenstein. In 1854 Schwarzenau became an independent parish , which existed until December 31, 2005. Since January 1st, 2006 the place belongs to the evangelical Lukas parish in the Eder and Elsofftal.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

Johann Christoph Sauer (1695–1757), printer and pioneer of the German-American press
Siegmund Jacob (1874–1944), film producer
Paul Kanstein (1899–1981), lawyer, Gestapo officer and SS leader
Johann Friedrich Henschel (1931–2007), until 1995 Vice President of the Federal Constitutional Court
Pia Wunderlich (* 1975), German soccer player
Tina Wunderlich (* 1977), German soccer player

Other personalities associated with the place

Ernst Christoph Hochmann von Hochenau (1670–1721 in Schwarzenau), mystical pietist

literature

Günther Wrede : Territorialgeschichte der Grafschaft Wittgenstein (= Marburg studies on older German history. Series 1: Work on the historical atlas of Hesse and Nassau. H. 3, ZDB -ID 506846-0 ). Elwert, Marburg 1927 (at the same time: Marburg, Phil. Diss., 1927).
Andreas Kroh, Ulf Lückel: Wittgensteiner Pietism in Portraits. A contribution to the history of radical pietism in Wittgenstein. Horn, Bruchsal 2003.
Otto Marburger (Ed.): Schwarzenau 1708-2008. (Anniversary publication for the 300th anniversary. 2008 Brethren World Assembly). Brenner printer, Bad Berleburg 2008
Ulf Lückel: nobility and piety. The Berleburg Counts and Pietism in their territories. Vorländer Verlag, Siegen 2016.

Web links

Schwarzenau (Bad Berleburg) in the Westphalia Cultural Atlas

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 337 .
↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 138 .
↑ Ulf Lückel: Nobility and piety. The Berleburg Counts and Pietism in their territories. Vorländer Verlag, Siegen 2016, pp. 59–60.

[Gemeindeverzeichnis1970bis1982-1] Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 337 .

[2] Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 138 .

[3] Ulf Lückel: Nobility and piety. The Berleburg Counts and Pietism in their territories. Vorländer Verlag, Siegen 2016, pp. 59–60.