Selbeck (Mülheim an der Ruhr)

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Selbeck (back) and Breitscheid (front), 2013

Selbeck is the southernmost district of Mülheim an der Ruhr in the Saarn district .

The jungle was probably cleared and settled in clearings by the Franks in the 7th and 8th centuries. A scattered settlement of the Honschaft Breitscheid with Selbeck was created. Selbeck was first mentioned in 1303 under the name Vouzheim. After Landsberg Castle was built by the Counts of Berg , the Honschaft became part of the Landsberg sub-office in the old Bergisch Amt Angermund from around 1295, together with the Honors Mintard and Laupendahl . During the French period under Napoleon Bonaparte 1806–1813, the area belonged to Mairie Eckamp in the canton of Ratingen ; after the Prussian takeover in 1815, Breitscheid and Selbeck belonged to the Mintard mayor. According to the Prussian municipal code, Breitscheid and the Selbeck district received the status of a sub-municipality without its own self-administration.

As a district of Mülheim an der Ruhr, it was created through the municipal reorganization on July 29, 1929. During this reorganization, the former rural community of Breitscheid-Selbeck (then the district of Düsseldorf ) was incorporated into the numerous Selbeck farmsteads, including the Selbecker mine and Zeche Diepenbrock, to Mülheim an der Ruhr. The mining industry had awakened Mülheim's desires.

Selbeck was originally characterized by agriculture and was a scattered settlement. As early as 1844, however, ore deposits were discovered in the vicinity, mainly turf iron stone and zinc . The industrial exploitation of the ore deposits began in 1882 by the “ Selbecker Erzbergwerke trade union ” (later “Aktiengesellschaft Selbecker Bergwerkverein”) in the “Neu-Diepenbrock” mine. Until the end of mining in 1907, the place experienced a brief period of prosperity. For the first time, Selbeck received a settlement focus near the mine for the recruited foreign workers in the form of a typical miners' village, whose street names still refer to the earlier mining industry. In 1892 the neo-Gothic Roman Catholic St. Theresa Church was built here (architect Franz Schmitz ). Until then, the St. Laurentius Church in Mintard was the parish of the farmers. Since around 1556 there was a Reformation house church at Linnep Castle , from which the Reformed parish Linnep developed with its own church since 1682, to which the Selbeck Protestants still belong today.

North of the town center, the Theodor Fliedner Factory, now Theodor Fliedner Foundation , opened a boys' home on July 26, 1908 on a former Diepenbrock colliery site. The main administration of the Theodor-Fliedner-Werk as well as “the village”, a residential facility with approx. 600 places for old and young people with and without disabilities, are located on the site.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Timeline of Mülheim's history on the cultural portal of the Mülheim cultural company
  2. ↑ Manfred Buer, Breitscheid, in: Die Quecke (Ratinger and Angerländer Heimatblätter) No. 79, 2009, ISSN  0930-6560 , pp. 10-12

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Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′  N , 6 ° 52 ′  E