Wamel

Wamel municipality Möhnesee Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 34 ″  N , 8 ° 11 ′ 17 ″  E
Height :	226 m
Area :	5.05 km²
Residents :	780  (December 31, 2017)
Population density :	154 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st July 1969
Postal code :	59519
Area code :	02924
Wamel with Möhnesee and Stockum in the background

Wamel is a district of the municipality of Möhnesee in the Soest district , North Rhine-Westphalia .

Description of place and history

Wamel mainly consists of farms and houses. The place is located in a northern side valley of the Möhne and is divided into two parts:

• the main village or upper village is in the upper end of the gentle valley rounding,
• the lower village lies on the banks of the Möhneseesee.

Oberdorf

The former lower village sank in the dammed Möhnesee , which was built from 1908 to 1913, at the beginning of the 20th century .

Wayside cross

Near the former station of the Möhnetalbahn am See, which was shut down in 1970, there are restaurants, a retirement home and the Wamel lido. In the lower Wameltal the Wameler fish pond belongs to the Möhnesee. Today there is a cycle path on the former railway line.

In 1938, Hermann Kätelhön transferred the art print company he had founded in Essen to Wamel, which became internationally known. The well-known photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch , who had lived in Wamel since the 1930s and photographed several of his most famous late works in Wamel's surroundings, was also drawn to this place: “Der Wald”, a photo book with black and white photographs from the Arnsberg Forest Nature Park .

Up until the beginning of the 1990s, there was also the best catering establishment on the entire Möhnesee in the lower village of Wamel: the Strandhotel Recklingloh. Since the 1930s, the directors of the Ruhr area mines and steelworks have been driving up to Recklingloh for weekend recreation. Today a retirement home is housed in the premises of the large Seeblick Hotel.

In the middle of the village there is a beautifully located shooting hall, which is used by many groups from near and far. The adjoining meadow (with a stream) enables campers and campers in summer. Ä.

On July 1, 1969, Wamel was incorporated into the municipality of Möhnesee.

Beyond the borders of Möhnesee, Wamel u. a. known through an amateur drama group that has existed - with interruptions - since the beginning of the century, the amateur association Wamel.

St. Elisabeth Church

St. Elisabeth village church

A first bell, which served as a death and angelus bell, had been in the village since 1778. It is still on the Krevet farm today. The inscription reads Sr, Agatha and Sr. Lucia village cartridges in 1778 let the village cast this bell alone. At that time, Wamel belonged to the Körbecke parish, and the faithful visited the local parish church. Since the walk there was difficult, a chapel should be built. Thanks to a foundation, construction began in 1906 and was completed on September 30, 1906. The inauguration under the patronage of St. Elisabeth of Thuringia was carried out by Provost Steinhoff from Soest on November 19, 1908. The company Joest-Rademacher from Wamel was responsible for planning and executing the construction work. The stones were extracted in the quarry on Kehlberg. The parishioners did manual and clamping services. The neo-Romanesque building with two vaulted yokes had a choir closure and an attached sacristy. The parishioners financed the furnishings, such as the altar, seating, organ, cross and monstrance through foundations. The painting of the choir room was remarkable. It consisted of medallions, ornaments, lettering, floral representations and various portraits. In the center stood the altar table with a tabernacle, the neo-Romanesque essay showed a representation of a saint. Due to the population increase, the chapel became too small in the 1950s, a long-planned extension to the church was made in 1961 according to plans by the architect Aloys Dietrich from Paderborn. The chapel was extended to the west by a yoke, a tower with a gallery was added, and the sacristy was expanded at the same time. Two windows in the chancel and the 1924 paintings have been removed. A large part of the work was done by the residents themselves. A complete renovation of the exterior took place in 1983. The organ was probably from 1910, it was probably in another church before. An extensive restoration of the instrument was necessary in 1983. Some of the whitewashed paintings could be exposed again; Particularly noteworthy are the medallions in the choir. The pulpit was demolished and replaced by an ambo. The bell foundry Mark from Brockscheid cast the three new bronze bells in 1991, Dompropst Winfried Dornschneider from Soest consecrated them in October 1991. The 595 kg Elisabeth bell rings with the tone g sharp, the 331 kg Maria bell rings with h and the 137 kg Hubertus bell rings with e . The chime was extended in 2006 to include the Florians and Agatha bells with the tone c sharp.

graveyard

The deceased from the village were buried in Körbecke until 1936, when the community acquired a meadow behind the chapel that was used as a cemetery. In the 1960s, the Bursy company built a cemetery chapel in front of the entrance. The sculptor Sebaid Fiswiek created a memorial for the fallen soldiers of the two world wars based on the design by Hermann Prüßmann. The names of the missing and fallen soldiers are recorded on two slates.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Möhnesee community: Population statistics , accessed on March 6, 2018
2. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 91 .
3. ↑ 100 years of St. Elisabeth in Wamel
4. ↑ Renovations and extensions
5. ↑ cemetery and war memorial

Web links

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