Werpe

Werpe City of Schmallenberg Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 20 ″  N , 8 ° 15 ′ 4 ″  E
Height :	430 m above sea level NN
Residents :	209  (Dec. 31, 2019)
Postal code :	57392
Location of Werpe in Schmallenberg
Aerial view of Werpe

Werpe is a district of the city of Schmallenberg in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

location

The village is around two kilometers west of Schmallenberg and around 500 m south of Schmallenberg-Rennefeld Airport . State road 737 runs through the village and the Wehrsiepen stream flows .

Neighboring places

Adjacent places are Harbecke , Felbecke , Wormbach , Schmallenberg and Fleckenberg .

history

Distant view

Werpe (then still Werdepe) was first mentioned in a document in 1221. The place name (Wirpe, Werdenipe) changes several times up to the 17th century.

In 1313 a small castle belonging to the Arnsberg counts is mentioned for Willepe . The name of the waxy family Wächter in 1221 indicates a castle guardianship. The permanent house of the Arnsberg Counts of Werpe still existed in 1330 , which knight Heinrich zu Wenne had to lean from them at the same time as the permanent house at Yflepe ( Kirchilpe ). In 1515 a Hans Wächter pays four shillings annuity to the Grafschaft monastery for his land . The noble lords of Grafschaft had sold the Werper tithes to which they were entitled to the monastery in 1444 as umbrella bailiffs.

The competent secular jurisdiction for the place was exercised by the noblemen of Bilstein . After the nobleman Johann II von Bilstein died in 1363 without an heir, the Bilstein reign was taken over by Count Engelbert III. withdrawn from the mark . Count Gottfried IV. Von Arnsberg sold the entire county of Arnsberg to the Cologne church in 1368 and since then the Cologne areas in the Sauerland, with the exception of the rule of Bilstein, belong to the Duchy of Westphalia.

In 1444 Archbishop Dietrich von Moers succeeded after four months of siege, with the support of the cities of Attendorn, Olpe and Drolshagen , to capture Fredeburg and in 1445 Bilstein Castle and to incorporate it into the Duchy of Westphalia . During this time, the border ran between the Brandenburg town of Bilstein and the Duchy of Westphalia in the Electorate of Cologne, coming from the old turnpike in the Gleie, over the exit of the spirit level to the Hohenhagen above the Dahl, all the spirit level to the mountain down to Lutters Kamp to Marpe (Werpe) soon up the dent up to the White Stone, then the Landstrasse ( Heidenstrasse ) to the Schanze on the Wormbacher Berg. The Wehrsiepen brook still bears witness to this fortified Landwehr along Heidenstrasse.

After the office of Bilstein again belonged to the Duchy of Westphalia from 1445, the fortified Brandenburg state border was abandoned and only remained as a court border until 1816. Early clues about the size of the place can be found in an appraisal register (used to collect taxes) for the year 1543. According to this, there were 10 appraisers in “Wirppe”; the number should have agreed with the farms or houses that existed at the time. In 1645 Werpe was mapped on the Westphalia Ducatus map.

Until the local reorganization in North Rhine-Westphalia, Werpe belonged to the municipality of Wormbach. Werpe has been part of the town of Schmallenberg since January 1st, 1975. In 2002 the streets in Werpe were given their own street names.

Reconstruction of Werpe

Reconstruction of Werpe according to the original cadastre: 1 = chapel, 2 = Tigges farm, 3 = Stilper house, 4 = Schulte farm called Lutter, 5 = Duwe farm, 6 = Dierkes farm, 7 = Geueke farm called Schulte, 8 = Heite called Hinderkes, 9 = Hof Schmidt called Schmies, 10 = Deitenberg, 11 = Hof Schulte-Wächter

By collecting the respective individual information from the topographical maps, cadastral maps, aerial photographs, etc., the place can be reconstructed as it may have looked before 1840. By transferring the embankments and ravines from the topographical maps to the original hand plan, entering the different uses of the land in the courtyard, meadows and arable land, forest or Hude, incorporating the contour lines of today's terrain and comparing the various overview maps in the period from 1840 an overall picture can still be created today. It can also be assumed that the layout of the place has not changed significantly from the Middle Ages to 1840. According to an appraisal register from 1635, the place consisted of only 9 persons obliged to appraise, by 1840 there were 11 farms. Without a doubt, some farms in the village have burned down or were demolished due to dilapidation. As in other places, they were mostly rebuilt on the same site or next to the old farm. Here, the recyclable building material from the old building was reused wherever possible, as it was very difficult to procure new material such as beams and stones.

For Werpe we do not have to rely on descriptions in documents, but we are able to reconstruct the place for the period from around 1840 after the original cadastre was drawn up .

With the unification of the offices of Bilstein and Fredeburg with the Duchy of Westphalia after 1244, the Landwehr between the two offices also lost its role. In the centuries that followed, it was repeatedly leveled for land reclamation or converted into connecting paths or towing paths. Such a route could be planned with few resources. The hedges that stood up were often too old and the cartilaginous wood of the hedges could no longer be used as construction timber. All that remained was to use it as firewood or to produce charcoal. Therefore one can find more former kiln sites near the old land defense. Due to this systematic use, the routes of the Landwehr were tree-free and just perfect for use as a path, and they were ideal for this. They were only left in remote areas of the forest or, as in Werpe, in the damp meadow area until modern times. With the use of heavy machinery, there was again an opportunity to drain and level the meadow area at Wehrsiepen with modest means. The traces of the removal for the western part towards Felbecke can still be seen in the aerial photo maps from 1938. In the topographical map of 1953 the lost stream arms can still be seen, but in 1963 they are no longer drawn.

Panorama over Werpe into Haverland, Heidenstraße runs over the ridge

Extract from the minutes of 1614 from the Lenne parish archive (in the Schulte-Schmies house in Saalhausen)

"Directory of the" inheritance of the churches in Lenne ":

Detail of Werpe, Prussian premiere in 1841

The Wechter zu Werpe has a good profit from the Kirchen zu Lenne , as follows. First of all, the house with its accessories. It is a country in the Schlaen at the Steinkuelen under the Landtwehr to 3 pods. It. A land in the Hanboeken at the jump to 3 schepf., It. A land bouen of the Stolten Wiese to 9 schep., It. A land on the Hunegraben to 1. Malder. It. A land on the Gelsterhagen to 5 schepf., It. A land on the loach to 5 schepf., It. A land on the Ennest near the Wittenstein to a Malder., It. A land behind Deitmar's garden to 5 schepf. , It. A land on the Oele for 3 schepf., It. A land up in the Lütgen Schladen to 3 schepf., Another one there at 2 Schepf., It. A meadow behind the house as it is marked with Vohrsteienn and Paelen . It. The Stecken Wiese, It. The half of the Hoevekens against the house. A hage on the Berenberg under the path between the Landwehr. It. A Hage bouen Harbeke by the way in the Hoele. It. At the Steinkuelen between the paths a Berkenhagen.

Which, according to a register in 1522, went out and recorded on the Wednesday after Easter. Dis guet was given by a gt. Henricus Plebanus in Grafschektiven & Lenna, who gave Capellen zu Lenna, according to a document, dating from 1221. The colonus gives jaerl of this. Lease 3 pounds wax. "

Population development

year	Residents
1819	91
1942	192
1990	199
2005	214
2012	212

religion

Nikolauskapelle in Werpe

The Nikolauskapelle in Werpe was built in the 17th century (1610-1620) and rebuilt in Renaissance style towards the end of the Thirty Years' War . In the period from 1839 to 1845 renovation work was carried out on the chapel. In 1901 the chapel received a new altar which was made by the carpenter Schneider from Eslohe. Before 1930, the chapel in need of renovation was demolished and then rebuilt. The new building was consecrated on November 20, 1930.

literature

“White stone” wayside shrine at Schmallenberg-Rennefeld airfield

• Josef Lauber: Stammreihen Sauerland families, volume V, parish Wormbach . Richard Schwarzbild dissertation print, Witterschlick near Bonn 1978 (on Werpe: p. 291).

Web links

Commons : Werpe  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Werpe
• http://www.wdr.de/cgi-bin/mkram?rtsp://ras01.wdr.de/studio/siegen/050425.rm (link not available)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population figures Schmallenberg 2019 , accessed on July 3, 2020
2. ^ SUB II No. 556, list of goods of Count Wilhelm von Arnsberg
3. ^ Parish archives Wormbach, document dated February 3, 1284
4. ↑ SUB II No. 556 and SUB II No. 650
5. ^ Friedrich Albert Groeteken : History of the ancient parish Wormbach (= history of the parishes of the dean's office Wormbach in the Meschede district in the Archdiocese of Paderborn , Vol. II, Part I). Rheinische Verlagsanstalt and Buchdruckerei, Bad Godesberg 1939, p. 13 ff.
6. ^ Friedrich Albert Groeteken: History of the ancient parish Wormbach , p. 13 ff.
7. ^ Anton Fahne : History of the Westphalian families with special consideration of their relocation to Prussia, Curland and Liefland . Heberle, Cologne 1858, p. 406.
8. ↑ Rolla antiqua
9. ↑ Johann Suibert Seibertz : Diplomatic family history of the dynasts and lords in the Duchy of Westphalia (= regional and legal history of the Duchy of Westphalia , Vol. 1, 2nd section: History of the dynasts ). AL Ritter, Arnsberg 1855, p. 146.
10. ↑ The last Generalschnadezug around the "Amt Bilsteinische Hoheits- und Landeshecke" took place from June 8th to 17th, 1778 (see Wolfgang Poguntke: Die bilstein'sche Hoheits- und Landeshecke , series: Landwehren in Westphalia ).
11. ↑ Estimation register 1543 for the Kurköln Sauerland - Online (Heimatverein-finnentrop.de), p. 33 (PDF) ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. 
12. ^ 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. 335 f .
13. ↑ Norbert Scheele in Heimatstimmen from the Olpe district , volume 11, p. 721 ff.
14. ↑ see the photo of the wayside shrine "White Stone"
15. ↑ Franz Dempewolff: Chronicle of the community Wormbach . Fredeburg 1942, p. 45.
16. ↑ Friedrich Albert Groeteken: History of the ancient parish Wormbach , p. 30 ff.