Weslarn
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Weslarn
Municipality Bad Sassendorf
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| Height : | 82 m |
| Residents : | 887 (December 31, 2009) |
| Incorporation : | 1st July 1969 |
| Postal code : | 59505 |
| Area code : | 02921 |
Weslarn is a district of the municipality of Bad Sassendorf in the Soest district in North Rhine-Westphalia .
General
Weslarn, dialect. Wesslern, also includes the small, former Sieningsen farmers and the Ahse farmstead surrounded by a ring of graves.
Origin of name
According to information in the Westphalian place name book on the origin of the names of the communities in the Soest district, Weslarn means : Moist meadow in the forest or in the forest (name before 1685: Weslere)
location
The place is located 8.5 km northeast of the district town of Soest . Weslarn is crossed from west to east by the well-developed, almost straight road 746, which is interrupted by a fully paved roundabout in the center of the village.
history
As part of the Free County of Heppen , Weslarn came to the city of Soest in 1369, but was Kirchdorf in the Borgeln-Schwefe district, the so-called Niederbörde, until the 1960s . The place was first mentioned in the 12th century and was badly affected by many armed conflicts in the period that followed. The basic structure of the place as well as the network of trails typical of Weslarn existed early on. The old town center remained almost unchanged in its historically determined basic features. The loose building structures to the west and east of the Rosenau are still there today. The magnificent church that dominates the eastern edge of the village is surrounded by isolated buildings. Construction activities in recent times have expanded the place to the north and east.
During the time of National Socialism, the Weslarn pastor Bruno Adler (1896–1954) made a career , who had already spoken in 1931 at the parish conference of the parish of Soest about "National Socialism and Christianity" and promoted National Socialism. In December 1932 Adler became head of the German Christians in Westphalia and in October 1933 the first Protestant "Bishop of Münster" of the Westphalian Provincial Church .
On July 1, 1969, Weslarn was incorporated into Bad Sassendorf.
The place today
With a soil quality number of 70, the Weslarn district also has good conditions for agriculture .
In the last twenty years Weslarn has not been spared from structural change either: There have been an above-average number of company closings. In 1988 there were five former agricultural properties in Weslarn that were more or less vacant. There is a functioning infrastructure with a church, cemetery, shooting hall and kindergarten, and there are also businesses. In the long term, an expansion of recreational activities in the southern area of the district should be seen as an alternative to the previous agricultural industry.
nature
The Rosenau flowing through the village is partly not in a natural state. Within the local boundaries it is only occasionally covered with trees , south of the mill the stream was dammed. The cemetery is bordered with a deciduous hedge, as is typical of the region, but the extensive coniferous wood plantings disturb the otherwise harmonious picture. Oaks , beeches , linden trees and chestnuts can be found in the village.
The road from Weslarn to Bettinghausen is lined with apple and pear trees, making it one of the fruit tree avenues that are rarely used today. In the village itself you can still find some orchards .
As part of the land regrouping procedure for the Rosenaue a broad shoreline has been permanently protected, the backwaters and restoring aquatic accompanying ponds created. On the pastures around Weslarn, you can still find solitary old trees, mostly oaks: the so-called overhangers .
St. Urbanus to Weslarn
The Protestant parish church, named after the church patron St. Urban , is the second oldest hall church on the Soest Börde . The Romanesque style church was probably built in the middle of the 13th century. The choir was probably built as early as the second half of the 12th century and the sturdy, square west tower with round arches (height 34 m) as early as 1170. The nave has two bays with dome-shaped ridge vaults and one-hip barrel vaults in the side aisles . Vault and choir paintings, comparable to those of the Maria zur Höhe church in Soest, have been preserved in good condition. The church has valuable interior decoration and Romanesque wall paintings .
Saint Urban (Pope from 223 to 230) is the patron of viticulture . The Evangelical Church Community of Weslarn has it in its seal. The oldest remaining parts of the church are the tower, the choir and the sacristy . They were built around 1170/80. The nave is a three-aisled hall church that was built around 80 years later, probably on the foundations of an earlier nave. The church is 22.27 m long and 13.80 m wide. The top of the central vault is 16.23 m, the tower has a height of 34 m. In times of war the church was the refuge of the Weslarner residents. The box in the sacristy, in which the congregation's funds were kept, also dates from the time of the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648).
The ceiling paintings of the nave date from the 13th century. The dominant motif are the trees of life . The beauty of the sky is symbolized. Here, figures and powers that make access to heaven difficult are shown in the area of the pillars. There are two devils who try to wrest the human soul from an angel ; other interpretations see it as a scene of adultery or the world of a woman who is being driven into the arms by devils. Another depiction is that of the whore Babylon , who rides an animal with ten horns with fluttering hair and embodied the epitome of all pernicious influences in the Middle Ages. The paintings were exposed under nine layers of paint around 1901 and 1957. In 1957 another restoration took place , during which the original condition could be restored and further fragments with apocalyptic representations were found.
The beaker font in the north apsidiole dates from around 1200 from the time the church was built. The ornamental design (bird, nest, egg) thematizes the life that grows out of baptism and is protected in the community. Above the baptismal font is a depiction of the Coronation of Mary in the dome of the apsidiole . The figure of Maria was badly damaged and was supplemented during the restoration. The figure of Christ, however, is very well preserved. Under the coronation scene, the kings Solomon and David can be seen holding banners in their hands. The painting, in the zigzag style of the transition phase from Romanesque to Gothic, is likely to date from the middle of the 13th century and shows similarities with the coronation of Mary in the north apse of the Hohnekirche in Soest (1260/70). The busts below represent the apostles Peter and Paul .
There is nothing left of the original painting of the choir room. The tabernacle is from the Gothic period, the deacon's chair from 1622. The impressive figure that has found space in the choir is probably a representation of Saint Patroclus . The original from the 13th century is now in the LWL State Museum for Art and Cultural History in Münster . During the restoration of the sacristy in 1973/74, original ornaments and figural paintings came to light, which were created around 1170/1180 and which are the largest surviving figural paintings in the Soest district. Female saints appear to be depicted, whose faces and hands are executed in unusually high-quality incarnate painting. Remains of a rainbow in the mandorla, parts of attributes of the four evangelists and a head of a saint in a medallion point in the concept of their layout to the painting in the choir of the Patroclus Cathedral in Soest, which was destroyed in World War II. Other paintings in the sacristy are analogous to the painting on the ceiling of St. Petri in Soest, so that the origin of the painting in Weslarn is considered certain.
A grave was also found. It is located in the sacristy and was probably intended for the founder , but it has never been used.
The cafeteria of the altar , made of large green sandstone blocks, was probably built around 1300. The baroque essay dates from 1633 and was donated by the first Protestant pastor Peter Matthias. The painting on it shows the crucifixion and above it the resurrection scene . The side pictures include Petrus and Matthias.
The pulpit was built around 1600.
The current organ from the Walcker / Ludwigsburg company (Opus 827) was purchased in 1898 at a price of 4,187 Reichsmarks after its predecessor from 1702 had become unusable. It has largely been preserved in its original condition and was extensively restored in 2011 and z. Partly reconstructed and played outside of church services for concerts.
The bell tower has three bells . The smallest with the strike note a 1 was cast from bronze in 1492 and has a diameter of 865 mm, the second bronze bell in g 1 from 1557 has a diameter of 1039 mm, while the third bell with strike note e 1 from the year 1930, has a diameter of 1485 mm and was cast from iron. This replaces a bronze bell from 1642, which was delivered to be melted down as war material during the First World War . The two remaining bronze bells were then also removed to procure materials and taken away during World War II. In 1947, however, they were able to be seized and returned to the Central NS Bell Camp in Lünen. Since 1930, the hand-ringing for is sexton accounts through the purchase of an electric Läuteanlage.
The church in Weslarn was the first in the Soest Börde, in which from 1529 the songs were sung in German during mass , which the farmers had achieved through intense pressure.
Weslarn heard as well as the southern and western neighboring villages, the Soest and is therefore influenced Protestant, historically due to the transfer of the town of Soest to Lutheran Reformation in 1532. The northern and eastern neighboring villages remained after the Soest feud in 15th Century in the Electorate of Cologne Duchy of Westphalia and are therefore Roman Catholic.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Frank Stückemann: Viktor Raabe (1864-1942), pastor in Meinings and superintendent in Soest . In: Communications of the Association for History and Homeland Care , No. 28, Soest 1998.
- ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 92 .
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