Swivel (halver)

Pan City of Halver Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 34 "  N , 7 ° 26 ′ 11"  E
Height :	378 m
Residents :	600
Postal code :	58553
Area code :	02353
Location of Schwenke in Halver

Schwenke is a district of the North Rhine-Westphalian town of Halver in the Märkisches Kreis .

Location and geography

The settlement has about 600 inhabitants with the surrounding farmsteads and is located about four kilometers west of the core town of Halver and six kilometers east of Radevormwald at an altitude of about 400 meters above sea ​​level . The place is on the federal road 229 , which connects Remscheid with Lüdenscheid . The former residential areas Mark and Felsenberg have merged into the closed development of the place.

history

Schwenke was not settled until 1836 and is one of the youngest settlements in Halver. The core of the settlement was on the road from Halver to Radevormwald , which was completed in 1836 in this section, today's federal road 229, at the intersection of the road with the old roads to Bärendahl and Dienstühlen .

At Schwenke, on the route of today's federal road 229 and the district road K 3, a presumably prehistoric old road ran from Schwelm via Radevormwald to Wegerhof , which was used as an iron and coal road. This was crossed by another important old road from Wipperfürth to Breckerfeld .

The municipality encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia from 1887 gives a number of three residents who lived in a residential building.

On June 30, 1910, with the opening of the Wuppertal Railway , Schwenke was connected to the railway network. The place had its own train station a little away from the place on the branch line running from Wuppertal-Oberbarmen or Remscheid-Lennep via Krebsöge and Radevormwald, Schwenke and Halver to Oberbrügge . The railway line, which had never been of economic importance, was closed for passenger traffic on May 30, 1964. A few years later, freight traffic was also discontinued and the line was finally dismantled.

In the first third of the 20th century, Schwenke consisted of a small group of houses south of today's main road, the original settlement core, and a factory with a chimney to the north of it. From the middle of the 20th century, the settlement area north of the federal road increased, especially west of the road to Bärendahl. In the second half of the 20th century, there was a short-term school in Schwenke on the old factory site, which had previously been located in nearby Hohenplanken . Towards the end of the 20th century, the local area assimilated the previously independent residential areas Mark and Felsenberg.

CDU petition against small arms

Schwenke became internationally known through an action by the artist group Peng! . This had founded a fictional CDU local association in 2017, the chairwoman of which Brigitte Ebersbach addressed to the chairwoman of the CDU , Angela Merkel , to campaign against the export of small arms in the next legislative period. This call was reported in the international media. The communications guerrilla campaign was later promoted by Peng! approved.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alfred Jung: Halver and Schalksmühle. Investigation and thoughts on the settlement history of the Halver Office, an old parish in the Saxon-Franconian border area. Friends of Altena Castle, Altena 1978 ( Altenaer contributions. Works on the history and local history of the former county Mark 13, ISSN  0516-8260 ).
2. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau (Prussia) (ed.): Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume X), Berlin 1887.
3. ^ Fictitious local association of the CDU Schwenke
4. ↑ "art group mocks media. Wrong feelings in the CDU," Facts page the news from the May 3, 2017
5. ↑ Sebastian Maas, Marc Röhlig: This fake CDU politician puts the whole world in - with an important message. In: bento. May 3, 2017. Retrieved May 6, 2017 .