Würdinghausen

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Würdinghausen
Kirchhundem parish
Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 7 ″  N , 8 ° 7 ′ 14 ″  E
Height : 322 m
Residents : 1040  (December 31, 2013)
Postal code : 57399
Würdinghausen
Würdinghausen
Aerial view of Würdinghausen, with Kirchhundem behind

Würdinghausen is a village in the north of the municipality of Kirchhundem . As of December 31, 2013, the place had 1,040 inhabitants.

geography

Geographical location

Würdinghausen is located on the western foothills of the Rothaargebirge in Hundemtal, east of the main town of Kirchhundem. In addition to the Hundem river , which flows westwards from the east in the direction of Oberhundem , the village is touched by the Albaumer Bach , which flows into the Hundem west of Würdinghausen when coming from the south in the direction of Heinsberg . The village lies between the mountains of Königsberg (436.7 m) in the southeast, Stüvelhagen (616.5 m) in the southwest, Ilberg (620.8 m) in the northeast and Kuhhagen (452 ​​m) in the north. The town center itself is at an altitude of about 322 m above sea level.

Neighboring places

Neighboring villages of Würdinghausen are the villages of Selbecke and Oberhundem in the east, Marmecke in the southeast, Böminghausen and Albaum in the south, Flape in the southwest, Herrntrop in the west and Langenei (city of Lennestadt ) in the north.

history

The place came into the light of history for the first time in 1270, when Siffridus de Wordinchusen and Gerhardus de Wordinchusen appeared as witnesses in a document. The two document witnesses are to be addressed as belonging to the noble family of those "von Würdinghausen". Otherwise, the history of this sex remains largely unexplained. The relatively late first mention of the place says nothing about the actual age. Rather, conclusions can be drawn from the place name. With the places Emlinghausen , Böminghausen and Bettinghausen (today Bettinghof ) Würdinghausen is one of the so-called Inghausen places in the municipality of Kirchhundem, which testify to an initial expansion phase after the settlement of the Hundem area in the area of ​​today's Alte Feld. The foundation of these Inghausen locations is likely to have occurred between 850 and 950. Around 1285 and around 1360 the lords of Matenbike ( Mathmecke near Wenholthausen ) were enfeoffed with goods in Würdinghausen. It is unclear whether there was a connection with the noble seat of the von Würdinghausen family. The von Matenbike farms later came to the gentlemen von und zu Bruch and then to the gentlemen von Fürstenberg.

With the acquisition of the Sayn feudal rights to the rule Bilstein by Count Engelbert III. Würdinghausen became part of the Mark in 1359. After Archbishop Dietrich von Moers besieged Bilstein Castle, the area was annexed to the Electoral Cologne Duchy of Westphalia in 1445 . Since then, Würdinghausen has belonged to the Electoral Cologne office of Bilstein. The electoral rule lasted until 1802/1803, when the ecclesiastical principalities were dissolved as a result of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss . The Duchy of Westphalia was assigned to the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt , but came to Prussia as early as 1816 through the negotiations of the Congress of Vienna . Würdinghausen became a Schultheiss district in 1808 with Peter Liese as the Schultheiss . The ironworks near Würdinghausen and the village of Böminghausen also belonged to the district. Administratively, Schultheiss Liese was also used for the places Ober- and Niederalbaum. In 1826 mayor's offices were formed instead of the mayor's districts, which usually comprised four parishes. Würdinghausen came with the parish of Kirchhundem to the mayor's office of Bilstein. As early as 1829, the mayor's offices were redistributed. Würdinghausen came with the parish of Kirchhundem to the new mayorship of Kirchhundem. Due to the rural community order for the province of Westphalia from October 31, 1841, there was another change in the lower administrative level. The offices were formed. Several political communities belonged to an office, which were usually identical with the parishes. Würdinghausen now came with the political municipality of Kirchhundem to the Kirchhundem office formed in 1843/44. The office was dissolved in 1969, and Würdinghausen came to today's municipality of Kirchhundem on the occasion of the municipal reorganization.

In the appraisal registers of the 16th century, 20 taxpayers are named for Würdinghausen. Apparently there was a demographic decline during the Thirty Years' War. According to the 1649 treasury register, there were only 13 taxpayers left. Of these, six were free farmers from Bilstein, the others belonged to the noble houses of Bruch, von Lahr, von Schade zu Ahausen and von Ohle. Würdinghausen is on the route of the so-called Kriegerweg, a historic long-distance road between Paderborn and Siegen. As a result, there were numerous carters in the place who transported salt from the Westphalian salt pans to the south. To overcome the mountain pass between Hundem and Lennetal, the Würdinghausers also performed post-tensioning services.

The village was also characterized by commercial operations early on. The name “Singerwiese” already indicates medieval iron smelting. In 1625 Dietrich Hermann built an ironworks on the Hundem from and to Bruch ; In 1661, a repaired iron hammer is mentioned, that is, it was evidently converted from the previous hut. This hammer is probably also meant, which was operated in 1711 as a tin hammer with two fires. In 1763 the hammer was pledged from the von Bruch family to the Bergische Clarenbach family. In 1776 the plant was owned by the von Schade family and in 1808 it belonged to the Olpern Gerlach Hupperz and administrative administrator Hermann Josef Zeppenfeld. In 1810 the hammer was broken off. Around the same time, the new Würdinghauser hut was built on the Albaumer Bach. In 1833 the so-called "Kuhlenberger Hütte" was set up on the slope of the Albaumer Bach, which mainly obtained its iron ore from the Kuhlenberg mine near Varste . The plant was shut down in 1847. The facilities of the Kuhlenberger Hütte were acquired by Johann Josef Liese from Würdinghausen, who wanted to operate a loam mill and a steel hammer there. There is evidence of the operation of the Lohmühle. The Liese family ran a tannery in Würdinghausen until 1890 . Another branch of industry was tobacco processing in Würdinghausen in the 19th century . The Schulte brothers' tobacco factory existed until shortly after the Second World War.

Religions

St. Bartholomew Würdinghausen
Emmauskirche Würdinghausen

Due to its historical affiliation to the Electoral Cologne Duchy of Westphalia, Würdinghausen was formerly mainly Catholic . Demographic change - especially due to the events of World War II - changed this. As a result of the settlement of refugees and displaced persons from the former German eastern areas, the proportion of the Protestant population increased. The village belongs to the Catholic parish of Kirchhundem. One dedicated to St. Bartholomäus chapel is mentioned in Würdinghausen in 1628. Since 1920 pastoral care has been provided by the Fathers of the Holy Family from the order's mission school, which was set up in the Adolfsburg in Oberhundem. In 1937/38 a new chapel was built. The parish vicarie Würdinghausen was established on December 1, 1956. In 1974/75 a new Catholic church was built. The Protestant Emmaus Church was built in 1958/59.

Population development

year population
1930 376
1951 647
1961 940
1965 1053
1969 1096
1974 1112
1978 1100
1985 1097
1990 1074
2010 1014

Culture and sights

Near the K 27 from Würdinghausen to Saalhausen is the stone cross between Ilberg and Kirchberg, a wayside shrine from 1713 consecrated to St. Nicholas. The wayside shrine can be seen in connection with the warrior path (see "Traffic"). Legend has it that a knight erected him out of gratitude for being saved from the floods of the Lenne . The wayside shrine is a registered monument of the Kirchhundem community. The stone cross is located directly on the feeder path from Altenhundem (Lennestadt) to the Rothaarsteig.

music

There is a male choir in Würdinghausen. A mixed church choir exists together with the parish of Kirchhundem.

traffic

Würdinghausen is located on the historic " Kriegerweg " long-distance route , a high-altitude path that led from Paderborn via Meschede to Siegen. In Würdinghausen there was a customs office on this national road. The Kriegerweg had lost its importance at the beginning of the 19th century, but still served as the main communication route between Würdinghausen and Hilchenbach . In 1849 the Hundemtalstraße between Kirchhundem and Oberhundem was completed, and in 1853/54 road construction began in the direction of Heinsberg. Today these roads are the L 553 from Kirchhundem in the direction of Oberhundem and the L 713 in the direction of Heinsberg, via which you can continue to the Siegen-Wittgenstein district . Another traffic connection is through the K 27 from Würdinghausen to Saalhausen (Lennestadt). The branch line to the Ruhr-Sieg Railway from Altenhundem to Birkelbach (today Erndtebrück , Krs. Siegen-Wittgenstein), opened in 1914, was largely destroyed at the end of the Second World War when bridges were blown up. Goods were transported to the Würdinghausen train station until 1981.

education

The village of Würdinghausen has a “Rappelkiste” kindergarten, which is run by a parents' association. Until the summer of 2013, there was a community elementary school of the Kirchhundem community in the village. The village's children have been attending primary schools in Heinsberg or Kirchhundem since the closure . There are secondary schools in Kirchhundem (secondary school) and Lennestadt (secondary school and grammar schools). Würdinghausen is located in the catchment area of ​​the University of Siegen.

Sons and daughters of the place

literature

  • Jochen Krause: Stories from the Sauerland. A village tells. Würdinghausen in the Hundem Valley . Plettenberg 1998.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kirchhundem parish: Places , accessed on January 13, 2015
  2. ↑ a b Hiking map 1: 25000 Lennestadt-Kirchhundem . Edited by the State Surveying Office of North Rhine-Westphalia based on the topographic map 1: 25000. 2nd edition 1998
  3. ^ Hessian document book 1st section, document book of the Deutschordensballei Hessen 1, 1879, and 2, 1884, document no. 254
  4. ↑ a b c Günther Becker and Martin Vormberg: Kirchhundem - history of the office and the community . Kirchhundem 1994. p. 54.
  5. ^ Günther Becker and Martin Vormberg: Kirchhundem - history of the office and the community . Kirchhundem 1994. p. 25.
  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. 200 f.
  7. ↑ Jochen Krause: Stories from the Sauerland. A village tells. Würdinghausen in the Hundem Valley . Plettenberg 1998. p. 24.
  8. ↑ Jochen Krause: Stories from the Sauerland. A village tells. Würdinghausen in the Hundem Valley . Plettenberg 1998. p. 36 ff.
  9. ^ Publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia. XXII A. Historical work on Westphalian state research. Economic and social history group. Volume 18. Wilfried Reininghaus and Reinhard Koehne. Mining, smelting and hammer works in the Duchy of Westphalia in the Middle Ages and in the early modern period. Münster 2008. p. 272 ​​ff.
  10. ↑ Jochen Krause: Stories from the Sauerland. A village tells. Würdinghausen in the Hundem Valley . Plettenberg 1998. Timeline p. III.
  11. ^ Horst Ruegenberg: On the industrial history of the Olpe district. From the Kuhlenberger Hut in Würdinghausen to the Germania Hut in Grevenbrück . In: Heimatstimmen aus dem Kreis Olpe , Vol. 54 (1983), pp. 71–82.
  12. ↑ Horst Ruegenberg: Olper Land on the move. Entrepreneurs and their works. Olpe 1987. p. 85 ff.
  13. ↑ Horst Ruegenberg: Olper Land on the move. Entrepreneurs and their works. Olpe 1987. p. 335.
  14. ↑ a b Jochen Krause: Stories from the Sauerland. A village tells. Würdinghausen in the Hundem Valley . Plettenberg 1998. pp. 88 f.
  15. ^ Gerig: Church conditions in 1628 in the area of ​​today's Olpe district. In: Voices from the Olpe district. 8th episode. 1951. p. 498.
  16. ↑ Jochen Krause: Stories from the Sauerland. A village tells. Würdinghausen in the Hundem Valley . Plettenberg 1998. p. 64 ff.
  17. ↑ Kirchhundem community archive, inventory: Kirchhundem community - old. No. 11
  18. ↑ Kirchhundem municipal archive, holdings: Office Kirchhundem, Part 2, No. 558
  19. ^ Günther Becker and Martin Vormberg: Kirchhundem - history of the office and the community . Kirchhundem 1994. p. 430.
  20. ^ Günter Kroner: Opportunities to promote tourism in the Kirchhundem office (Sauerland). Beuel-Bonn / Kirchhundem 1966. p. 144.
  21. ↑ List of monuments of the Kirchhundem community
  22. ^ Günther Becker and Martin Vormberg: Kirchhundem - history of the office and the community . Kirchhundem 1994. p. 99
  23. ^ Günther Becker and Martin Vormberg: Kirchhundem - history of the office and the community . Kirchhundem 1994. p. 216 ff.
  24. ^ Martin Vormberg: The Ruhr-Sieg Railway. A pioneering act of Westphalian traffic development with special consideration of the Olpe district. In: Railway in the Sauerland. Edited by the Schmallenberg-Holthausen Slate Mining Local History Museum. Schmallenberg-Holthausen 1989. p. 41 ff.