Silberg (Kirchhundem)

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Basic data
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Arnsberg administrative district
County : District of Olpe
Municipality : Kirchhundem
Height : 440 m above sea level NN
Residents : 443 (December 31, 2013)

Silberg is a village in the south of the municipality of Kirchhundem . As of December 31, 2013, the place had 443 inhabitants.

geography

Geographical location

Silberg lies at 51 ° 02 'north latitude and 8 ° 02' east longitude in the southern mountainous region of the Rhenish Slate Mountains . It belongs to the South Sauerland , which is also known as the Olper Land, and here to the so-called Bilsteiner Bergland. The village is about 440 m above sea level in a depression between the mountains Hoher Wald (655.4 m) in the southwest, Wolfshorn (642 m) in the northwest, Kophelle (575 m) in the east-northeast and Silberg (546.9 m) in the south East. The Silbergtal, which is open to the northeast, is drained by the Silberger Bach, which is initially called Dollenbrucher Bach in its headwaters. The drainage takes place towards the Olpe , which flows into the Hundem in Kirchhundem . In the south of Silberg is the district border with the Siegen-Wittgenstein district , the former border between the Duchy of Westphalia and the Nassau-Siegen county , the so-called Kölsche Heck . This describes the common course of the Uerdinger and Benrath lines , which here as a common fixed language border separate the Low German-speaking area from the Moselle-Franconian- speaking Siegerland .

Neighboring places

Neighboring places of Silberg are Welschen Ennest in the west, Varste in the northeast, Brachthausen in the east and Müsen (town of Hilchenbach ) in the south beyond the district boundary.

history

The village of Silberg can be assigned to a younger settlement period of the Middle Ages . The settlement probably took place after the year 1000 AD. The oldest known mention of the village comes from 1383. It is in an income register of the parish of Helden. The Heldener Kirche leased their property to Jakob von Seelberg and his wife Gese. This estate seems to have been owned by the Kellermann family, who are still based in Silberg today, since the 16th century. In 1395 the village of Silberg was named in the document with which the Pepersack brothers sold the fourth part of the Hundem Free County to Heidenreich von Heggen and Wilhelm Vogt von Elspe . The sale also included the Freistuhlgut and the Freistuhl in Silberg with Wylkin unter der Bercken, Willeckenß Wyff and four children. The free chair was a place of jurisdiction of the common law courts in Westphalia , which flourished since the 14th century. The chairmen of the free-chair courts were the so-called free-court officers, who were appointed by the chairman. Between 1395 and 1426, Johann or Hans von Selberg appears as a free count von Hundem (Kirchhundem). In the appraisal register of 1536 14 farmsteads are mentioned, in those of 1543 and 1565 16 farmsteads each. The estates and their owners were partly freelance farmers (free Bilsteinian farmers), partly subservient to aristocratic or ecclesiastical manors. In the 19th century at the latest, the owner's property was replaced.

Mining

Silberg looks back on a long mining tradition. Ores were extracted from the surrounding mountains as early as the 17th century. The largest mines in the area were Glanzenberg and Goldberg (I and II), as well as Alwine and Kuhlenberg (erzug) near Varste .

Religions

In the Middle Ages the village of Silberg belonged to the parish (Kirch-) Hundem. In 1655 the parish of Kohlhagen was removed from it, to which the village of Silberg then also belonged. The Silberg School Vicarie, founded in 1784, was the basis for the later separation of the villages of Silberg and Varste from the parish of Kohlhagen. The establishment of the parish Silberg / Varste took place in 1924. A dedicated to St. Antonius chapel is mentioned for Silberg as early as 1613. In 1873 a new, larger chapel was built elsewhere. Today's Silberger Church was built in 1968/69.

A special feature of the Silberger parish church is the Easter crib , which has become a tradition for several years .

Population development

Since the 19th century the population has developed as follows:

year Ew.
1818 141
1867 201
1875 213
1885 203
1895 237
1900 265
1905 363
1910 382
year Ew.
1926 374
1939 308
1950 401
1963 379
1969 387
1980 418
1988 432
2000 451
year Ew.
2006 483
2011 462
2013 443

Culture and sights

Museums

With Herbert Severin's collection on the mining history of the village of Silberg, there is a private museum which is currently housed in a room in the village's gymnasium. The museum can be visited by prior arrangement with Mr. Severin.

Buildings

Two buildings of the former Hanses (Schrabben) farm, namely the main house and the warehouse used as a bakery, are registered as architectural monuments in the monuments list of the municipality of Kirchhundem. The Heimat- und Backesverein Silberg eV has extensively renovated the storage facility and was financially supported by the NRW Foundation. Bread is baked in the granary at irregular intervals according to old farming tradition. The main building is owned by MiniCartClubs Deutschland eV and is being extensively renovated. In the main house, a local history museum is to be built with the collections of the local home keeper Herbert Severin.

Natural monuments

To the south-east of Silberg is the Dollenbruch with the nature reserves Teufelsbruch and Danzeplatz; to the south of the village is the Sellenbruch nature reserve with extensive king fern deposits .

Sports

TuS Silberg / Varste built its own gym for club sports from 1995 to 1997 . A special association exists with the MiniCartClub Germany eV, the former BobbyCarClub Germany eV , which is based in Silberg. The BobbyCar races were invented in Silberg and are now enjoying growing popularity in Germany. Since the 2011 season, slide vehicles from all manufacturers have been permitted.

Economy and Infrastructure

Silberg used to be shaped by ore mining , which has probably been practiced here since the Middle Ages. Were reduced lead - copper - and iron ores . At the Glanzenberg mine near Silberg, the most important operating period began in 1889, which lasted until 1909, when the ore was exhausted. Other shafts were Goldberg I and Goldberg II, which operated until 1905 and 1935, respectively. The processing work over days continued into the 1940s. Various buildings of the former Goldberg II shaft have been preserved and were used for other commercial operations after the end of mining, such as B. for the company Elektro-Gerätebau Oberderdingen (EGO) or the company Münker, which manufactured smaller brewery systems there. A larger commercial enterprise in the village today is the company SILIPA, which produces tracing paper.

Public facilities

The former miners' home of the Glanzenberg mine union at the Goldberg II mine was used as a sanatorium for TB sufferers after the Second World War . The Bremm'sche Stiftung retirement home has been located there since the early 1980s.

education

There was a school in Silberg as early as 1700. In 1705 Petrus Möller from Wirme was named as a schoolmaster in Silberg. In 1764 Johannes Arnoldi from Wenden came to Silberg and Varste as a teacher. The school conditions improved sustainably through the foundation of the school vicarie Silberg in 1784 by the maid Maria Theresia Nies. This was only dissolved in the 1870s as a result of the Kulturkampf in favor of a primary school. In 1882 a new school building was built next to the chapel in Silberg. In 1909 a second teaching position was set up because of the sharp increase in the number of children. The Silberger elementary school was dissolved in 1967 on the occasion of a comprehensive school reform in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . The pupils of the lower secondary level of the village visit the catholic elementary school Welschen Ennest or in Kirchhundem today. Secondary schools are located in Kirchhundem (community secondary school with secondary school branch from 2007) and Lennestadt (secondary school, municipal grammar school and Maria Königin grammar school).

literature

  • About us. Silberg 600 years old. For the 75th anniversary of the Silberg-Varste gymnastics club. Edited by the gymnastics and sports club Silberg-Varste. OouJ (Silberg 1984).
  • Martin Vormberg: History of the Schrabbe farm in Kirchhundem - Silberg. For the Open Monument Day on September 9, 2001. Published by the Heimat- und Backesverein Silberg eV Kirchhundem 2001.
  • Joseph Rinscheid: History of the parish Kohlhagen. Self-published. Olpe 1933.
  • Bernhard Pauly u. a .: 500 years of the Kohlhagen pilgrimage church. Edited by the parish council of the parish Mariae Heimsuchung Kohlhagen. Kohlhagen 1990.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kirchhundem parish: Places , accessed on January 13, 2015
  2. ↑ Otto Lucas: The Olper Land. Work of the Geographical Commission in the Provincial Institute for Westphalian Regional Studies and Folklore. Münster 1941. Sn. 4 and 22
  3. ↑ a b hiking map 1: 25,000. Lennestadt-Kirchhundem in the Rothaargebirge Ebbegebirge and Homert nature parks. Edited by the State Surveying Office of North Rhine-Westphalia on the basis of the official topographic map 1: 25,000. 2nd edition 1998.
  4. ↑ a b Martin Vormberg: The history of the village Silberg in a chronicle - From 1383 to 1900. In: We about us. Silberg 600 years old. For the 75th anniversary of the Silberg-Varste gymnastics club. OOuJ (Silberg 1984). P. 91.
  5. ^ Günther Becker and Martin Vormberg: Kirchhundem - history of the office and the community. Kirchhundem 1994. p. 41 ff.
  6. ^ Publications of the Historical Commission of Westphalia. XXX. Westphalian treasury and tax registers. Volume 2. The valuation registers of the 16th century for the Duchy of Westphalia. Part 1. The registers from 1536 and 1565. Münster 1971. p. 203. Part 2. The registers from 1543 and 1549. Place and person index for parts 1 and 2. Münster 2000. p. 42
  7. ↑ 1490 - 1990. 500 years of pilgrimage church Mariae Heimsuchung Kohlhagen. Contributions to the past and present. Kohlhagen 1990. Passim.
  8. ↑ List of monuments of the Kirchhundem community
  9. ^ Martin Vormberg and Fritz Müller: Contributions to the history of mining in the Olpe district. Part 1: Mining in the Kirchhundem community. Series of publications of the district of Olpe No. 11. Olpe 1985.
  10. ^ Fritz Müller: From miners' home to old people's home. The career of the Bremm Foundation in Silberg. In: About us. Silberg 600 years old. For the 75th anniversary of the Silberg-Varste gymnastics club. OOuJ (Silberg 1984). P. 88.
  11. ↑ 1490 - 1990. 500 years of pilgrimage church Mariae Heimsuchung Kohlhagen. Contributions to the past and present. Kohlhagen 1990. p. 337ff.

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′  N , 8 ° 2 ′  E