Titmaringhausen

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Titmaringhausen
City of Medebach
Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 12 ″  N , 8 ° 39 ′ 24 ″  E
Height : 504 m
Area : 7.69 km²
Residents : 190
Population density : 25 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st July 1969
Postal code : 59964
Area code : 05632

Titmaringhausen is a district of the town of Medebach in the Hochsauerlandkreis with 190 inhabitants.

Saint Anthony Church

Location of the place

Titmaringhausen is located about 10 kilometers north of the core town of Medebach at the foot of the " Kahle Pön " (774 meters) in a location of about 500–650 meters above sea level in a narrow basin that is surrounded on three sides by high mountains.

history

The place is mentioned for the first time in a document from 1280. The noblemen of Büren ruled over the place for a long time. In 1654 there is still talk of the Büren “Zwinghof” in Titmaringhausen. Around 1450 the place was temporarily deserted , but was settled again in the next decades. At the beginning of the 16th century, Titmaringhausen consisted of 10 taxable farms.

In 1548 "Titmarckhusen" was referred to as a place that was in the Free County of Düdinghausen and belonged to the Medebach office .

In 1623 a small chapel was built. The dead were buried in the neighboring parish of Deifeld until 1926 , to which Titmaringhausen was a branch .

In 1802 the place fell with the Duchy of Westphalia to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt . From 1816 Titmaringhausen belonged to Prussia. At first it belonged to the county Medebach , then as part of the Office Medebach to circle Brilon .

According to the original cadastre from 1831, the village had 28 houses with around 270 inhabitants. There was a first school building in Titmaringhausen since 1830, but it was demolished again in 1856 due to ongoing repairs and replaced by a new half-timbered building. In 1904 a new school was built, which was used as a school until 1969.

When an ammunition train exploded in Willingen on March 20, 1945 after a low-flying attack, grenades and fragments flew as far as Titmaringhausen without causing damage. Towards the end of the Second World War, the first American soldiers arrived in their tanks on March 29, 1945. But when they found that they could not climb the mountains in the direction of Brilon from the narrow basin in which the village is located, they returned in the direction of Düdinghausen . On March 30th, soldiers of the Waffen SS tried unsuccessfully to organize the Volkssturm in the village . On April 2nd, American infantry occupied the village. The US soldiers excavated positions and brought tanks into position because a breakthrough of German units from the west was feared. The US troops moved on on April 5th. During this war 14 residents died as soldiers of the Wehrmacht.

Until 1969 the place belonged to the office Medebach and had 229 inhabitants (1961) with an area of ​​7.69 km². 214 of them were Catholic and 15 Protestant. 66.4% of the labor force were employed in agriculture and forestry, 22.7% in manufacturing and the remainder in other occupations.

On July 1, 1969, the municipality of Titmaringhausen was incorporated into the city of Medebach as part of the municipal reorganization.

politics

The head of the village is Franz Imöhl.

Attractions

The Fresenhof is an old farmhouse from 1708 with a granary from 1658. The St. Antonius Church was built in 1623 as a chapel.

literature

  • Wilhelm Rave (Hrsg.): Architectural and art monuments of Westphalia. Volume 45: Brilon district , edited by Paul Michels, Münster 1952, p. 209.
  • Hans Classen Medebach Grafschaft and Orke Druckerei Bing Korbach 1985

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ medebach-touristik.de: Medebach and its districts , accessed on March 18, 2013
  2. ^ Alfred Bruns: Hallenberger sources and archive directories, Münster 1991, p. 67.
  3. ↑ Manfred Schöne: The Duchy of Westphalia under Hesse-Darmstadt rule 1802-1816, Olpe 1966, p. 172.
  4. ↑ Hugo Cramer: The district of Brilon in the Second World War 1939-1945, Bigge 1955, pp. 41f, 217.
  5. ^ Statistical review for the district of Brilon, Düsseldorf 1967, pp. 62–65.
  6. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 89 .

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