Veldrom / Feldrom / Kempen

Veldrom / Feldrom / Kempen City of Horn-Bad Meinberg Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′ 24 ″  N , 8 ° 56 ′ 30 ″  E
Height :	348 m above sea level NN
Area :	11.91 km²
Residents :	838  (Dec. 31, 2004)
Population density :	70 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1970
Postal code :	32805
Primaries :	05234, 05255
Location of Veldrom / Feldrom / Kempen in Horn-Bad Meinberg
Feldrom (left) and Veldrom (right)

Veldrom , Feldrom and Kempen form since the municipal reform a 1970 town leading to the city of Horn-Bad Meinberg heard and in Westphalia North Rhine- Lippe , Detmold is located. A good 830 people live in the village (as of 2005).

Historically, Veldrom, which is located in the valley, belonged to the Evangelical Principality of Lippe . Feldrom, which is located on Eggehang , and the neighboring village of Kempen were united in the municipality of Kempenfeldrom before 1970 and for centuries they were the northernmost tip of the Catholic prince-bishopric of Paderborn , with which they fell to Prussia in 1802 .

The Lippe Veldrom was a peasantry until 1922 and a municipality from 1922 to 1969 . The Prussian Kempenfeldrom was until 1970 a municipality in the Office Steinheim the district Hoexter . The community reformers then added Kempenfeldrom to the Lippe district - the Höxter district received the Lippe exclave Grevenhagen with Hohenbreden .

geography

location

Silberbach near Feldrom.

The scattered settlement lies between Horn and Altenbeken at the foot of the 468 meter high Velmerstot , the highest elevation in the Egge Mountains. Two nature reserves border the village that are part of the Natura 2000 project of the European Commission : The first is the area around Eggehang and Lippischen Velmerstot with its Osning sandstone cliffs; the second area is the limestone quarries at the Bielstein Cave. The Silberbach flows through the village , on which the border between Lippe and Paderborn used to be oriented, and in whose water silver was searched for from 1710 to 1711 .

geology

The place is located on the northern Egge Mountains , a good three kilometers from the southern foothills of the Teutoburg Forest . The two low mountain ranges were called Osning until the 17th century .

The harrow is a ridge that stretches in a north-south direction and on which clouds often accumulate until they rain down. The village is located in a mountain fold a good two kilometers wide: in the east the Egge, in the west the Bauernkamp, ​​a northern branch of the Paderborn plateau . While the Bauernkamp is made of limestone on which beech forests grow, the harrow is made of Neokom and Gault sandstone on which blueberries , lingonberries and heather thrive. In the Middle Ages, mainly stunted beeches and oaks grew on the harrow . The mountain tops were unwooded. Spruce forests have existed since afforestation in 1786 .

There are three caves in the limestone at the Bauernkamp : The Lukenloch, a so-called sinkhole cave that leads vertically like a shaft into the mountain. The larger Bielstein Cave, which is located in a natural rock bastion with 15 meter high cliffs, stretches a good 42 meters as a rift cave through the rock. The hollow stone cave is a roughly 185 meter long cleft cave with stalactites . Bats such as the great mouse-eared bat and the pond bat live in the caves .

Neighboring places

	Horn-Bad Meinberg
snakes		Leopoldstal
	Altenbeken	Sandebeck

Local division

The place is 45 hectares and is divided into Veldrom and Feldrom as well as the neighboring small settlements Haue and Schnat. Kempen and the “Little Jerusalem” settlement are a good two kilometers south.

climate

The climate is mild, the annual precipitation is just over 1,100 millimeters, the average annual temperature is between seven and eight degrees Celsius. The wind comes gusty and mostly from the west, in winter sometimes from the east.

history

Antiquity

A Roman bathing building and a cohort fort are said to have existed on the hill between Feldrom and Kempen - another is suspected to be near Sommersell in the Höxter district . The fort is said to have been a good 2.5 hectares in size and was located on the old Hellweg , which led in this section from Paderborn to Horn and on via Schieder and Lügde to the Weser .

The assumptions are based on infrared aerial photographs: the alleged warehouse is outlined broadly and darkly; presumably there were internals, storage gates and two other buildings. The camp has the typical angular shape of a Roman bath . There could also have been an open, weather-protected room for fuel.

middle Ages

Around the year 850 the landscape - there was no village yet - was mentioned as a threat in the Corveyer traditions . The names Druheim and Droheim can be found in other documents . The prefix Dro- or Dru- suggests a clan name , it later changed to Drom . The second syllable heim or hem means "home" or "home"; but it is also possible that it comes from Franconian and designates a settlement: the home of Dru, Drou, Druc or Dro. The name Kempen has its origin in the name Kämpen bei Drome - the meadows, pastures near Drom.

In 1015 the original settlement in Lippische Regesten No. 26 is listed as Druhem . It is also said to have been listed in Abbot Druthmar von Corvey's inventory of goods . In 1160 the bishop of Paderborn donated part of his property, which was called Truheim , to the Hardehausen monastery near Warburg . This probably built the Druheim manor on the nearby Mönkeberg - mountain of the monks - by the beginning of the 13th century at the latest .

At the beginning of the 15th century there was a glassworks , the first houses and probably a pottery . In 1530 the sovereign Count Simon V zu Lippe used the field to Drome - or, depending on the spelling, Velde to Drome - as a pasture for cattle. In 1533 the lords built - under Count Simon VI. - a stately cattle shed for around 200 oxen and horses. In 1564 a dairy was built, which was the cornerstone for the construction of further farms. Construction of a school began in the 16th century.

reformation

During the Reformation , the Prince-Bishop of Paderborn , Rembert von Kerßenbrock , represented the Catholic Church . In 1567 he campaigned for an exchange between Lippe and Paderborn: Feldrom, which had previously belonged to Paderborn, came to Lippe. While the Protestants ran into the Evangelical Reformed Church in Horn, the Catholics wandered over the Egge to Sandebeck . This contract was valid until 1808.

At the end of the 16th century, Lipper and Paderborn again fought over their border. When a mill in Veldrom burned down in 1609, the Lippers accused the Vogt von Kempen, demanded redress and stopped all border negotiations.

Border disputes

Landmark No. 46 with the Lippe rose.

In the Thirty Years War from 1618 to 1648, a good half of the population died. With that, the tax revenue sank drastically. Despite the turmoil, preliminary and sub- negotiations take place, which lead to the original Lippspring comparison of 1658. Count Hermann Adolf zu Lippe had his Chamber President Tilhelm and Landdrosten von Donop from Wöbbeler Schloss negotiate the course of the border .

Landmark No. 46 with an episcopal cross.

The border between the Lippe Noblemen and the Bishopric of Paderborn retreated across the village, lived in the 1670 some 160 people, and continue along the silver brook and through today Schnat - an old word for boundary. Some boundary stones are still standing today: on one side you can see the prince-bishop's cross - or the Prussian eagle ; the other side is adorned with the Lippe rose and the year 1658, the year in which the boundary stones were laid ("set"). They came from the sandstone quarries of Velmerstots .

In 1802 Feldrom and Kempen belonged to the Niederwald district of the Paderborn district. In 1805 the district division in the Hochstift was changed: Feldrom and Kempen were added to the Brakel district.

National Socialism

the abandoned Bundeswehr training base on Moenkeberg

As early as 1932 - a year before the seizure of power of Adolf Hitler - were in the local NSDAP ten members organized. In 1935 there were 243 people in Veldrom who worked in agriculture and crafts. The party formations SA , Hitler Youth , Jungvolk and Bund Deutscher Mädel had members in town.

The local group of the NSDAP Veldrom, Feldrom, Kempen was headed by Karl Friedrich Titho from 1935 to 1936 , until the security service of the Reichsführer SS called him to Frankfurt am Main . His successor was SA Storm Leader Hermann Droste, who , together with National Socialists from Horn, destroyed the homes of Jewish families and the synagogue in Haaren in the Paderborn district on the Night of the Reichspogrom on November 9, 1938 .

From 1937 the Wehrmacht built the radio transmission center 276 on the 424 meter high Mönkeberg near Kempen. It served the radio communication of the air bases in Detmold , Gütersloh , Paderborn , Lippstadt and Bad Lippspringe . During the Second World War from 1939 to 1945, the German Reich operated air situation warning transmitters there. In 1943 they built the Primadonna transmitter , which was responsible for the west. Field Marshal Albert Kesselring directed the campaign in the west via the transmitter . Also from here, on May 27, 1941, the order was sent to the battleship Bismarck to sink itself. In 1967 the Bundeswehr set up a training base on the mountain. Today the facility is empty.

Shortly before the war, shot in 1944, the field Romer Landwehr - a report from the police station in snakes - three fugitive Soviet prisoners of war near the Lippe Veldrom. The eight-man group was headed by Anton Eilert. In the skirmish, two of the prisoners of war died immediately, the third died from his injuries later.

In April 1945, an SS unit took up residence in the Veldrom school. 10 German and 16 American soldiers died in battles with the Allies . When the Allies threatened to bomb the village, the SS gave up their resistance.

Since 1945

With the incorporation of the state of Lippe into the state of North Rhine-Westphalia on January 21, 1947, the state's statehood ceased and both villages were henceforth part of North Rhine-Westphalia. Nevertheless, the border remained, but now only as a district border. Veldrom continued to form the southernmost tip of the Detmold district . The place remained divided until 1970. There were also two volunteer fire brigades, two bars and two mom and pop shops .

On January 1, 1970, the municipalities of Kempenfeldrom ( Höxter district ) and Veldrom were incorporated into the new municipality of Bad Meinberg-Horn according to the Detmold Act . This was renamed Horn-Bad Meinberg on September 10, 1970 . The Lippe exclave Grevenhagen has belonged to the town of Steinheim in the Höxter district since then , along with the Hohenbreden community . The two villages were thus united and the border ceased to exist. The different spelling remained: The Lippe Veldrom with "V" , the Prussian Feldrom with "F" . The confessional difference also persisted: The Lippe district remained predominantly Protestant, while the Feldrom, which formerly belonged to Prussia, remained predominantly Catholic. In 1980 the place-name signs for Feldrom and Kempen were put up again. By then there was a sign for Kempenfeldrom.

On May 27, 1981, a tactical reconnaissance aircraft of the German army type RF-4E Phantom II crashed near Veldrom . Captain Hausmanns, the pilot of Reconnaissance Wing 52 , was killed.

Religions

Catholic Joseph Chapel in Feldrom

Catholic field rom

Feldrom has always been a Catholic and belongs to the diocese, since 1930 Archdiocese of Paderborn . Until 1567 Kempenfeldrom belonged to the parish of Sandebeck . Bishop Rembert von Kerßenbrock then managed to get Kempenfeldrom - in exchange for Grevenhagen - to the Lippe parish of Horn. The Catholic Field Romans had to go to the Protestant church in Horn since then.

In 1811 Feldrom came back into the care of Sandebeck under the Royal Westphalian government , where all baptisms, weddings and funerals have taken place since then. Until 1880, the dead had to be carted with horse-drawn vehicles on the Totenweg over the Egge to Sandebeck - in winter by sledge. Only then was a cemetery established in Feldrom.

In 1906 the Catholics inaugurated the St. Joseph's Chapel in Feldrom. The brick building was mainly financed by Count Friedrich von Metternich from Vinsebeck . A priest was still missing until 1909 .

During the National Socialism there were three reports against pastors. The third was the most explosive: Pastor Schäfer from Sandebeck was reported for first communion after the sermon and barely escaped the concentration camp .

The Catholic Kempenfeldrom, which was incorporated into the Lippe district in 1970, is still the only part of the Lippe regional church in which the Evangelicals are in the minority. In 1979 the Catholic Church reorganized its parishes. Since then, the Catholics in Feldrom and Kempen belong to the parish of Horn.

Evangelical Veldrom

Evangelical Church in Veldrom

Veldrom has been Protestant since the Reformation and belonged to the Protestant Reformed parish of Horn. In 1964 the parish in Veldrom built a church with a parish hall and a bell tower . It is also a cemetery chapel for burials in the municipal cemetery in Veldrom. The mayor of Veldroms, Rudolf Faulstich, who was also the church elder, submitted the application for the construction of the church in 1963.

Before the church was built, the services were held in the Veldromer school and funeral ceremonies took place on the respective Deele. When these disappeared, the dead could no longer be laid out. In addition, the funeral procession could no longer take place on the main road, as it was now being developed as a connection between the B1 and the motorway. In 1988 the parish of Leopoldstal became independent with Veldrom as the second place of preaching.

Memorial stone on the Catholic St. Joseph's Chapel

Ecumenism

The first ecumenical parish festival took place in 2000 in the Protestant church. At the second ecumenical parish festival in 2004, the arm spinning school celebrated its 150th anniversary, since it began its work in 1854. In 2006 the Catholic chapel in Feldrom celebrated its centenary and on this occasion erected a memorial stone with the inscription: "You are Church 2006, 100 years of St. Joseph's Chapel and many years of ecumenical activity"

Population development

year	Veldrom	Kempen feldrom	All in all
1670	approx. 70	approx. 90	about 160
1720	approx. 90	about 110	approx. 200
1880	291	341	634
1905	276	362	638
1961	311	360	671
1965	280	380	660
1969	237	403	640
1988	275	438	713
2005	341	487	828
2013			732

politics

mayor

Community leader in Kempenfeldrom from 1853

See also : community leader

• 1853 to 1870: Anton Glitz
• 1870 to 1877: Anton Schöttler
• 1877 to 1917: Adolf Robrecht
• 1917 to 1924: Johannes Glitz
• 1924 to 1932: Daniel Reineke
• 1932 to 1947: Karl Rusch
• 1947 to 1948: Adolf Schöttler ( CDU )
• 1948 to 1952: Wilhelm Mikus ( SPD )
• 1952 to 1956: Adolf Schöttler (CDU)
• 1956 to 1961: Wilhelm Mikus (SPD)
• 1961 to 1970: Heinz Dütting (SPD)

Mayor in Veldrom from 1880

See also : mayor

• 1880 to 1907: Bernhard Meierjohann
• 1907 to 1918: Adolf Schierenberg
• 1918 to 1925: Wilhelm Klüter
• 1925 to 1945: Adolf Schlüter
• 1945 to 1946: Albrecht Tölle
• 1946 to 1970: Rudolf Faulstich (SPD)

Culture and sights

Museums

Kempen Tractor Museum.

There are 60 tractors from all over the world in the tractor museum in Kempen . It shows how agriculture developed from the Middle Ages to the 1960s. A power station with historic Herford engines supplies the museum with electricity.

societies

Buildings

The three old Christian landmarks that the "Eggepater" Beda Kleinschmidt rebuilt are considered monuments of the pious art of Catholicism . You are on the Reich hiking route on the Eggeweg from Feldrom to Altenbeken . The memorial bears all the insignia of baroque art. The inscription is faded but probably reads: “Praise be to Jesus Christ. Praise and help praise him forever. Anno 1772 ".

Architectural monuments are the Bollmühle in Veldrom, the “Gut Kempen” farm complex and two crossroads in Feldrom. The pictures of the Stations of the Cross, the tabernacle, the four statues of saints and the altar of Mary from 1929 are all worth seeing in the St. Joseph's Chapel in Feldrom.

Natural monuments

The Bielstein Gorge is a ground monument , which was a place of refuge and settlement in prehistoric times.

Economy and Infrastructure

In the 17th century there were nine mills on the Silberbach : three grinding mills , four grinding mills , where blacksmiths cut knives, hatchets, axes and weapons, and two fulling mills on the upper reaches of the brook , where felt and cloth were refined. The last mills closed in 1868 and 1895. The residents lived from brickworks , day wages and small trades - apart from five farmers and the manor of Count von Metternich from Vinsebeck .

The place is still dominated by agriculture: there are still farms, horse and cattle breeding and forestry . Furthermore, there is still tourism - even if the wedding was in the 1980s - restaurants such as the Restaurant zum Bauernkamp or the Müseler economy in Kempen. There are also sanitary facilities, preservationists and carpenters. There are twelve wind turbines with an output of 350 to 1000 kilowatts on the Bauernkamp hill .

traffic

• Landstrasse 828, which begins in Detmold and connects the town with Horn-Bad Meinberg and Altenbeken, and from there on to Scherfede , runs through the town in a north-south direction . In Veldrom, the county road 98 branches off from the L 828 in a westerly direction to Schlangen .
• The nearest train stations are in Altenbeken and Horn-Bad Meinberg.
• The European long-distance hiking trail E1 leads directly past the village.

media

• Community letter of the Evangelical Church (monthly)

Public facilities

• The Lebenshilfe Detmold serves people with disabilities in the Katte mill.
• Children's home in Veldrom (Heinrich-Schacht-Haus)

education

School in Veldrom

In 1694 the school was added to the stately Meierhaus. It was rebuilt and added several times. From 1669 to 1968, lessons were held here on weekdays and mass was called on Sundays. Because the school was also a church, it had its own bell tower. It was named after Heinrich Schacht , who taught here.

School in Feldrom

In 1764 the school was moved from Kempen to Feldrom under Bishop Wilhelm Anton von Westphalen . There was only one teacher and one classroom. In the mornings the children of the 5th to 8th grade were taught, in the afternoon those of the 1st to 4th grade. The teachers were given an apartment and firewood for heating. In 1880, 76 children attended school, as did the war year 1918, when city children (including 15 from Bochum ) were accepted before the Whitsun holidays . In 1950, 80 children were still in school. Nevertheless, it was closed at Easter 1966 - the 27 children were now in the Altenbeken elementary school . After the community reform in 1970, they were retrained to Horn.

Spinning school in Veldrom

The arm spinning school was set up in 1859 by Hofjägermeister Auguste von Donop - an old noble family from Lippe - in which poor and neglected children from the village were to be employed. The founder supervised the school until her death in 1883. After that, the Princely Consortium in Detmold was in charge. Every year between 20 and 30 boys and girls from Veldrom and Feldrom worked here for money. In 1916, the State Ministry changed the purpose of the foundation: the spinning school for boys and girls became a handicraft school for girls who knitted stockings, gloves and wrist warmers. The school was closed in the winter of 1928/1929. The foundation supported projects for disadvantaged children and young people from the town and from Horn-Bad Meinberg with the interest income.

Personalities

• Heinrich Schacht , ornithologist , author, worked as a teacher in the Veldromer school from 1865 to 1890
• Wilhelm Wüllner , born in Feldrom on December 6, 1905, missionary in India
• Franciscan Father Beda Kleinschmidt OFM , Doctor of Theology, took over the service in Kempenfeldrom in January 1925 until his death on March 7, 1932
• Dirk Liesemer , journalist, grew up in Veldrom

Other people

• Karl Friedrich Titho , born in Veldrom on May 14, 1911, SS lieutenant colonel and war criminal

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literature

• Walter E. Capelle: Chronicle of the school Veldrom on the background of the early history of the place . Detmold 1984.
• Siegfried Franzen: A parish is established. The Evangelical Reformed parish of Leopoldstal . (With chapters on Veldrom.) Shaker Verlag Aachen 2003 (available from the parish Leopoldstal, Eichenweg 21, 32805 Horn-Bad Meinberg.) ISBN 3-8322-1953-6 .
• Willy Gerking: From the older history of the villages Feldrom - Kempen - Veldrom. Detmold 2016. * Heinz Oswald: The strange cross on the Veldromer Ebersberg . In: Heimatland Lippe . Detmold September 1989. pp. 280-282.
• Otto Rehme: From Veldrom's past days. Period 1160-1890. Name, teachers' salaries, a settlement project, a social act . In: Heimatland Lippe , 57th year, Detmold 1964, pp. 216–218.
• Artur Schöning: Räker in Veldrom No. 6 . In: ders .: The property of the Corvey monastery in the former Lippe region . 3 vol., Detmold 1958-1960; Vol. 3 Part 4. pp. 96-100.
• Johannes Schulze: History of the communities Kempen, Feldrom, Veldrom . Horn-Bad Meinberg 1989.
• Johannes Schulze: From the history of the Bollmühle in Veldrom . In: Schlänger Bote . 235 year. 2000. pp. 10-11.
• Caroline Wagner: The NSDAP in the village. A social history of the Nazi seizure of power in Lippe . (With a detailed chapter on Veldrom / Feldrom / Kempen.) Verlag Aschendorff, Münster 1998, ISBN 3-402-06795-1 .

Web links

Commons : Veldrom / Feldrom / Kempen  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Feldrom - Veldrom - Kempen
• Tractor Museum in Kempen
• Historical house inscriptions
• Profile of the air measurement site

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Further information can be found at Roman friends
2. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 106 .
3. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 321 .