Weringhausen

Weringhausen Finnentrop municipality Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 11 ″  N , 7 ° 59 ′ 57 ″  E
Height :	323 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	447  (December 31, 2016)
Postal code :	57413
Area code :	02721
Location of Weringhausen in the district of Olpe
View of Weringhausen

Weringhausen is a place in the municipality of Finnentrop with around 450 inhabitants. The place is on a ridge between Lenne and Frettertal , in the southern part of the Sauerland .

geography

The place is between Bamenohl and Fretter on the state road 880. Neighboring places are Bamenohl, Sporke , Melbecke , Frettermühle and Finnentrop . The entire region belongs to the Rhenish Slate Mountains . Part of it belongs to the Attendorn-Elsper double trough and shows limestone deposits.

history

Weringhausen lies on a former long-distance route, the mountain road leading from Grevenbrück to Arnsberg . Due to this, the first documentary mention is from the 14th century. This is the Hennecken Gut , today Hof Arens, which at the time belonged to Herford Abbey . In the parish archive of Schönholthausen there is a copy of a document from 1393, II. 10th, which reports on an estate of the Heidenreich von Heggen in Wedinghausen . The connection with the parish church Schönholthausen and the Frettermühle shows that this does not mean Wedinghausen near Arnsberg, but Weringhausen . Heidenreich von Heggen zu Bamenohl was married to a Beleke von Hundem called Pepersack and thus came into the possession or joint ownership of the Bamenohl family.

For several centuries old files and documents almost exclusively report on the old Weringhauser Höfe such as
1. Müller - Hanses
2. Kebbe (abandoned and divided in the 19th century)
3. Hansmann
4. Bock - Lubeley
5. Hennecke - Arens

An appraisal register (used to collect taxes) from 1543 gives approximate clues about the size of Weringhausen and the immediately neighboring Bamenohl at that time . According to this, at that time there were a total of 12 people liable to treasure in Werminghaußen and Babenoill (not including 2 people who were considered poor). The number of those liable for the treasury is likely to have roughly matched the existing families or houses. Some names have a similar spelling to the aforementioned farms.

In the course of the municipal reorganization of North Rhine-Westphalia, which came into force on July 1, 1969, the council of the Schönholthausen municipality, which existed until June 30, 1969, decided that Finnentrop should be designated as the central location of the new municipality of Finnentrop and the places Bamenohl and Weringhausen be incorporated with the omission of their place names. The aim was to give it the name “city”. After this goal could not be achieved due to a lack of "urban appearance" and the outrage of the Bamenohl and Weringhauser population because of the discontinuation of the historical place names, the council of the municipality of Finnentrop decided on September 21, 1982 to reintroduce the old place names.

Economy and Infrastructure

Economically, Weringhausen was shaped exclusively by agriculture until the limestone quarry opened in 1892. This and the lime works in Bamenohl were shut down in 1958. The raw material was transported from the Weringhausen quarry to the ring kiln in Bamenohl by means of a 3 km long narrow-gauge railway . In the course of the economic boom, agriculture lost its dominant role. Today there are only two full-time farms in agriculture and one full-time forest business. The now settled industry belongs to metal processing. After all road traffic had passed through Weringhausen in the past, a bypass road was completed on September 20, 2003 after a construction period of around one year.

Church and school

Village chapel in the center of the village

For centuries Weringhausen belonged to the parish of Schönholthausen. Early 20th century Weringhausen was the parish assigned Bamenohl. Today's village chapel was inaugurated on February 9, 1870, patron saint: St. Apollonia. In 1858 a classroom was set up in Weringhausen as a branch of the parish school Schönholthausen for the children from Weringhausen and Bamenohl. After two own school houses built later, the children now go to the Bamenohl elementary school or to secondary schools at other locations.

Club life

Schützenhalle

In Weringhausen there is a rifle club and a marching band . After more than 100 years of existence, the men's choir unfortunately had to be dissolved and deregistered for lack of young talent.

See also

• List of architectural monuments in Finnentrop

Web links

• Homepage Weringhausen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population statistics of the municipality of Finnentrop (as of December 31, 2016). (PDF) Municipality of Finnentrop, accessed on May 16, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Leaves for a closer look at Westphalia, 1875, p. 74
3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 3, 2011 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. Pages 75.76 
4. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 89 .
5. ↑ Minutes of the meeting