Selbecke (Kirchhundem)

Basic data
State :	North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region :	Arnsberg administrative district
County :	District of Olpe
Municipality :	Kirchhundem
Height :	358 m above sea level NN
Residents :	180 (December 31, 2013)

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Selbecke is a village in the northeast of the municipality of Kirchhundem in the Olpe district in North Rhine-Westphalia . Together with the towns of Alpenhaus , Stelborn , Erlhof and Haus Bruch , it forms the Selbecker Grund . As of December 31, 2013, the place had 180 inhabitants.

geography

Geographical location

Selbecke lies in a wide basin on the lower reaches of the Selbecke river of the same name . The landscape is determined by meadows and pastures in the valley floor and the lower areas of the slopes. In the upper area, the mountain slopes are mostly overgrown with high spruce forest. In the local area of ​​Selbecke two sieves supplement the water of the Selbecke to the most important right-hand tributary of the Hundem .

Neighboring places

The closest places are Erlhof in the east, Stelborn about 1 km northeast, Schwartmecke 1.5 km east and Oberhundem 2 km east.

history

According to a recent analysis of the place names in the Olpe district, there are u. a. the following early references to the existence of the village of Selbecke: 1426 Gerke van Selebeke (QGS 13: documents from the parish archives of Kirchhundem), 1435 Hanse Huse's son zu Selbeke (inventories from the Graf von Spee's archive in Ahausen) and 1565 Silbecke (in an appraisal register). The basic syllable “beke” or “bike” indicates a body of water or a stream. The introduced syllable "Sel" or "Sil" is ambiguous. With a possible connection to the Old Saxon "seli" (house, hall, estate) or Middle Low German "sele" (wet meadow, lowland), Flöer believes that the place name Selbecke is interpreted as "Bach near a manor" or "Bach on a wet meadow" possible.

Selbecke already had 7 courtyards in 1565. A chapel dedicated to St. Agatha has been attested since 1578. Around 1810 the first school of its own was established, which existed until 1966. On February 25, 1858, a fire destroyed a large part of the village.

Incorporations

As part of the municipal reorganization in 1969, the Brucher Mühle residential area to the south-west was incorporated into Selbecke.

Culture and sights

St. Agatha Chapel

Stone cross

Buildings

• In 1810 the residents of the Selbecker Grund built a new chapel to replace the old chapel that had collapsed a few years earlier. The chapel was built in the Renaissance style and, like its predecessor, is consecrated to St. Agatha .

• About 1.5 km north of Selbecke there is the stone cross in the forest , a wayside shrine dedicated to St. Nicholas from 1713. The legend tells that two travelers wanted to cross the flood-leading Lenne on the warrior's path near Totenohl near Gleierbrück . The first knelt down, said a prayer to St. Nicholas, the patron saint of travelers, and crossed the raging river unscathed. The second laughed at the piety of the first, fell and perished in the floods. As a thank you for crossing the river intact, the first traveler had the wayside shrine built on the hill high above the ford.

regional customs

A large number of old customs are still cultivated in the Selbecker Grund.

• On New Year's Day, the young men go from door to door and sing their song. Each resident is given their own stanza.
• The carol singers follow on the feast of the Three Kings (January 6th). Three boys, dressed as kings, visit the houses. On the Sauerland plateau they ask for a donation for a charitable cause.
• On Lütteke Fastenacht ( Shrove Thursday ) the small children in funny disguises sing candy for themselves.
• The Easter fire is piled up on Good Friday and burned down on Easter Sunday when it gets dark. Traditionally, many former residents also come to visit on this evening.
• The sausage singers do their rounds on Boxing Day . In earlier years the servants and maids came home to their parents' farm for Christmas to celebrate Christmas. Before the often quite long way back to the employer, they got some food for themselves.

Regular events

On the weekend of the third Sunday in July, the residents of the Selbecker Grund celebrate their village festival together with many visitors from the neighboring towns.

Culinary specialties

The burrow roast is one of the culinary specialties . A cave in the ground is heated up for several hours with a strong wood fire. A large roast pork covered with soil is then cooked in the hot cavity.

Economy and Infrastructure

The most important branches of business are the automotive industry , forestry , agriculture and gastronomy .

traffic

Selbecke is on the K21 district road, which leads from the L553 back to the L553 via Selbecke, Erlhof, Stelborn and Schwartmecke in Oberhundem.

Public facilities

The Selbecker Grund has its own water supply association, which supplies the residents of Stelborn, Erlhof and Selbecke with drinking water.

Selbecke has an active fire fighting group from the volunteer fire brigade . The active participation of women has a long tradition in the local fire fighting group. In 1982, girls were the first to be accepted into a youth fire brigade in the Olpe district , in 1988 the first women were accepted into active service in the fire brigade and in 1991 the first woman was promoted to fire chief.

education

Until 1966, Selbecke had their own single-class elementary school together with the neighboring towns of Erlhof and Stelborn. Although a new school building had only been erected eleven years earlier, all schools in the then municipality of Oberhundem were combined into one school in Oberhundem. Until 2013, the Selbeck children attended primary school in Oberhundem or the secondary schools in Kirchhundem or the neighboring municipality of Lennestadt .

literature

• Aloys Klein (editor): Contributions to the history - parish and community Oberhundem. Oberhundem 1972.

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kirchhundem parish: Places , accessed on January 13, 2015
2. ↑ cf. Michael Flöer: The place names in the Olpe district. Westphalian Place Name Book (WOB), Publishing House for Regional History, Bielefeld 2014, pp. 219,220.

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′  N , 8 ° 9 ′  E