Weidenhausen (Bad Berleburg)

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Weidenhausen
City of Bad Berleburg
Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 35 ″  N , 8 ° 21 ′ 56 ″  E
Height : 523  (510-610)  m
Area : 4.94 km²
Residents : 492  (March 31, 2011)
Population density : 100 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 57319
Area code : 02751
Evangelical Church Weidenhausen
Evangelical Church Weidenhausen

Weidenhausen is a district of Bad Berleburg in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district in North Rhine-Westphalia and has about 500 inhabitants (as of March 2011). The town center is 530  m above sea level. NN on the B 480 .

history

Weidenhausen rectory

The village of Weidenhausen is located in the southern foothills of the Rothaargebirge in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district in a gently rising valley basin of the Rothenbach, surrounded by meadows, fields, conifers and hardwoods. The place has belonged to the Bad Berleburg urban area since the regional reform in 1975 and was an independent municipality of the Berleburg office in the then Wittgenstein district until it was incorporated .

The oldest known evidence of a mention comes from the year 1309. In this year Curt vom Bernshäuser Hof donated a florin to the church of “our gracious Frowen” in Weidenhausen . The Church of Our Lady (St. Marien) in Weidenhausen, which was expanded in 1765, belonged to the Archdiocese of Mainz , Dean Arfeld until the Reformation in 1555 .

The residents of the village of Weidenhausen were not spared from many setbacks in the past centuries. Above all, wars , times of plague and conflagrations bothered people badly. Especially in the Thirty Years' War from 1618 to 1648 were very often in our place billeting recorded, with robbery , looting , rape , and in the worst cases, personal injury and death often ensued. In the time of plague were residents , as well as in other places, up to half decimated. The fires of April 1725 and March 1811 also repeatedly impoverished the population .

The economic development in the 20th century has awakened the village from the centuries-long slumber. As early as 1958, an industrial company ( wire drawing ) set up shop in the local area , which changed the previous one-sided agricultural structure. In addition to some commercial enterprises , the mechanical engineering sector in particular has developed into a company with worldwide contacts. In addition, the planning and preparation for a 10-hectare commercial and industrial area in a westerly direction above the local area following the sports facility inaugurated in 1980 is currently underway.

On January 1, 1975, Weidenhausen was incorporated into Bad Berleburg.

Today the village of Weidenhausen is a lively, attractive and delightful village. The old village center by and behind the church is still structured like a village. The club life as a pillar of the village community is very pronounced, which is further promoted by the village community center housed in the former school . Since Weidenhausen is particularly suitable for quiet, natural relaxation, tourism has gained a certain importance with three larger guest houses .

Population development

  • 1961: 321 inhabitants
  • 1970: 329 inhabitants
  • 1974: 340 inhabitants
  • 2011: 492 inhabitants

church

In 1763 the old church had to be closed due to dilapidation and then the nave was demolished except for the well-fortified Romanesque tower, which dates from before 1309. The new building of the church in its current form dates from the year 1765. The late baroque eight-sided nave, a central building with a tent-like mansard roof, is remarkable and unique in the whole area . In 2001 the current organ (manual and free pedal with 13.5 stops) was inaugurated. It was created by Eckehard Lüdke from Marburg (Lahn). The parish of Weidenhausen was merged into the Raumland parish in 2009 and thus lost its independence.

Regular appointments

  • Easter fire: Holy Saturday (Organizer: Weidenhausen Volunteer Fire Brigade )
  • Sports festival: last full weekend in June (organizer: FC Weidenhausen eV 1961)
  • Village festival: at the beginning of the summer holidays (organizer: Arion Weidenhausen 1881 mixed choir)
  • Bavarian Festival: beginning of September (organizer: Dorfjugend Weidenhausen)
  • Christmas bazaar: for the first Advent (organizer: Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Weidenhausen)

literature

  • Johannes Burkardt, Andreas Kroh, Ulf Lückel (ed.): The churches of the Wittgenstein church district in words and pictures. Grobbel, Bad Fredeburg 2001, ISBN 3-930271-86-9 .
  • Festival society “700 years of Weidenhausen” (ed.): Weidenhausen and Stünzel. Once a place - today two villages. Benner printing works, Bad Berleburg 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c 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. 337 .
  2. ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 138 .