Welper

Welper City of Hattingen
Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 44 "  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 23"  E
Residents :	7082  (December 31, 2014)
Incorporation :	April 1, 1966
Incorporated into:	Blankenstein
Postal code :	45527
Area code :	02324
Location of Welper in North Rhine-Westphalia
Welper and Blankenstein, around 1840

Welper is a district of the city of Hattingen in the Ennepe-Ruhr district in North Rhine-Westphalia with about 7,000 inhabitants.

location

The place is located directly on the south bank of the Ruhr , opposite the city of Bochum and borders directly on Hattingen and the Hattingen district of Blankenstein . Welper is bounded to the north and west by the Ruhr and to the south by the Sprockhöveler Bach .

history

Hermann Mercker reported in 1619 that there was a chapel in the Schultenhof in Hunsebeck, which was consecrated to St. Nicholas.

For centuries the village of Welper was a largely agricultural scattered settlement . In 1711 the first school is opened on Schulknapp. 1825 came peasantry Welper along with Holthausen for mayor Hattingen, but in 1867 a spin-off from Holthausen an independent municipality.

Until the middle of the 19th century, the Bruch house was located at the confluence of the Sprockhöveler Bach with the Ruhr . This was acquired by Count Henrich zu Stolberg-Wernigerode in 1853 . After iron ore was found, the Bruch house was demolished and the Henrichshütte opened in its place in 1855 . To this end, on October 13, 1854, a concession document for the construction of a blast furnace plant on the Ruhr was signed. Welper, with around 450 inhabitants at that time, experienced a considerable economic boom as a result. In 1909 the garden city of Hüttenau was established as a cooperative workers' settlement.

The Church of St. Joseph was built in 1929.

On April 1, 1966, the municipality of Welper was combined with the town of Blankenstein and the municipalities of Buchholz and Holthausen to form the new town of Blankenstein. Blankenstein, in turn, was incorporated into Hattingen by law on January 1, 1970 to reorganize the Ennepe-Ruhr district .

The Henrichshütte was gradually shut down between 1986 and 2004. The Westphalian industrial museum , gastronomy and a business park were created on the site .

Since January 2009 the former Welper branch of the Hattingen city library has been continued as a public library on a voluntary basis.

In April 2020, the AWO Emmy Kruppke Senior Center had to be quarantined after a corona infection was found.

coat of arms

	Blazon : "In silver (white) a blue left-wing ironworker in protective clothing with a hood, golden (yellow) gloves and wooden shoes, his face flesh-colored, in his hands a blue sample ladle with red (boiling steel) contents."
	Reasons for the coat of arms: The coat of arms designed by Waldemar Mallek was awarded in 1957 by the North Rhine-Westphalian Minister of the Interior. It is reminiscent of the Henrichshütte in Welper, which was founded in 1855.

Architectural monuments

• List of architectural monuments in Hattingen

Infrastructure

Welper is an area with housing, shops, schools and industry. Most of the stores are concentrated around the marketplace. Four kindergartens and the Erik-Nölting-Grundschule belong to the district. The older children attend the comprehensive school in Hattingen, where all school-leaving certificates up to the Abitur can be obtained. The Youth Education Center of the Friends of Nature is from the year 1981. Furthermore, there is the outdoor pool Welper.

Personalities

• Willi Michels (1919–2003), politician and trade unionist

Web links

Commons : Welper  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• The districts on the website of the city of Hattingen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ according to Christian Hartmann ( memento of the original from October 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 292 .
3. ↑ Law on the amalgamation of the city of Blankenstein and the municipalities of Buchholz, Holthausen and Welper, Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis
4. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 112 .
5. ↑ https://www.waz.de/staedte/hattingen/corona-kreis-startet-massentests-in-zwei-hattinger-heimen-id228885291.html
6. ↑ Welper's coat of arms
7. ↑ St. Joseph's Catholic Kindergarten
8. ↑ Erik Nölting Primary School
9. ^ Welper comprehensive school
10. ↑ Welper youth education center
11. ↑ Welper swimming pool