Silschede
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Silschede
City of Gevelsberg
Coordinates: 51 ° 21 ′ 10 ″ N , 7 ° 19 ′ 52 ″ E
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| Area : | 5.24 km² |
| Incorporation : | January 1, 1970 |
| Postal code : | 58285 |
| Area code : | 02332 |
 Location of Silschede in Gevelsberg
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Silschede is a district of the town of Gevelsberg in the Ennepe-Ruhr district in North Rhine-Westphalia . Until 1969 Silschede was an independent municipality .
geography
Silschede is located in the north of the urban area of Gevelsberg in the Niederbergisch-Märkisch hill country . The center of Silschede, which is also known as the "Höhendorf" due to its location, is about two kilometers north of the Gevelsberg town center. Other smaller settlements in the area of the district of Silschede include Behrenbruch, Büffel, Ellinghausen and Ilberg.
history
Silschede was originally a Westphalian peasantry . The first documentary mention comes from the treasure book of Grafschaft Mark from 1486. Since the 15th century, hard coal mining has been practiced in Silschede , initially in open-cast mining and later via tunnels. The Sengsbank colliery existed from 1754 to 1831. The United Trappe colliery existed from 1842 to 1925 on Esborner Strasse north of the Silscheder town center . Since the 19th century Silschede formed a rural community in the office of Volmarstein in the district of Hagen in the Westphalian administrative district of Arnsberg . In 1929 Silschede came to the Ennepe-Ruhr district. During the Second World War , the Silschede railway tunnel was used to move German armaments production underground .
On January 1, 1970, Silschede became part of the town of Gevelsberg through the law to reorganize the Ennepe-Ruhr district .
Population development
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1871 | 1084 | |
| 1885 | 1156 | |
| 1910 | 1744 | |
| 1939 | 1677 |
Architectural monuments
The Evangelical Church in Silschede, the Sassenhaus courtyard at Schwelmer Strasse 221, the Auf der Illberg bridge over the former coal railway and the half-timbered houses at Am Hagen 1 and Esborner Strasse 51 are listed as historical monuments .
Culture
The Silschede 1872 rifle club is one of the bearers of local customs .
Sports
The local soccer club FC Schwarz-Weiß Silschede 1926 is the home club of the national player Alexandra Popp .
traffic
The Gevelsberg junction of federal motorway 1 is in Silschede . The federal highway 234 crosses Silschede in an east-west direction. From 1934 to 1980 the Witten – Schwelm railway ran through the 845 m long Silscheder Tunnel. The Schee – Silschede railway line, opened in 1889, was shut down in 1989. The Schlebusch-Harkort coal railway also ran through Silschede.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the town of Gevelsberg
- ^ The municipalities and manor districts of the Province of Westphalia in 1871
- ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia 1885
- ↑ Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on February 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the Reich in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. ennepe.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ^ Website of the Silschede shooting club
