Western Eiden

Western Eiden City of Rüthen
Coordinates: 51 ° 34 ′ 15 "  N , 8 ° 24 ′ 20"  E
Height :	200 m
Residents :	473  (December 31, 2014)
Incorporation :	1st January 1975
Postal code :	59602
Area code :	02954
War memorial

Westereiden is a district of Rüthen in the Soest district in North Rhine-Westphalia . As of December 31, 2014, the village had 473 inhabitants. The federal motorway 44 ( Dortmund / Unna - Kassel ) runs north of Westereiden .

history

In 1256 Westereiden was mentioned as Occidentalis Eden in a document of the Oelinghausen monastery . Since the Middle Ages, Westereiden belonged to the Gografschaft or to the Gogericht Rüthen in the Electoral Cologne Duchy of Westphalia . In 1802 the Duchy of Westphalia fell to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt . In 1806 the geographic areas were dissolved and replaced by offices. Vest Reiden now part of the Office Rüthen and from 1811 to the mayor district Oestereiden. In 1815 Westereiden came to the Kingdom of Prussia and in 1816 to the Lippstadt district . In 1827/28 the district of Oestereiden was dissolved and the communities Westereiden and Oestereiden came into being. They belonged to the rural mayor's office in Anröchte , which was renamed to Amt Anröchte in 1833. From 1845 Westereiden belonged to the Altenrüthen office, which was called the Rüthen office from 1937. On January 1, 1975 Westereiden was incorporated into the city of Rüthen. On the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the St. Georg rifle club, Westereiden received a new coat of arms designed by Ulrich Grun .

Population development

• 1861: 296 inhabitants
• 1939: 338 inhabitants
• 1950: 409 inhabitants
• 1961: 357 inhabitants
• 1970: 383 inhabitants
• 1974: 422 inhabitants
• 1975: 427 inhabitants
• 2007: 530 inhabitants
• 2012: 477 inhabitants
• 2013: 477 inhabitants
• 2014: 473 inhabitants

politics

From 1828 to 1933 Westereiden was represented by a community leader. This called itself from 1933 community school and from 1935 to 1974 mayor. Westereiden has had a mayor since 1975 . The functions and competencies of the incumbents were very different.

Parish and local leaders

• 1821– ?: Wittenbrink (Schultheiß)
• ...
• 1845–1850: Joseph Kleegraf (community leader)
• 1850–1868: Peter Eickmann gnt. Kemper
• 1868–1873: Wilhelm Eickhoff gnt. Luebbert
• 1876–1888: Anton Trockel
• 1888–1894: Franz Eickmann gnt. Kemper
• 1894–1901: Gottfried Mues
• 1901–1912: Franz Eickmann gnt. Kemper
• 1912–1919: Heinrich Mues
• 1919–1933: Klemens Wienecke
• 1933–1945: Joseph Rüther (1934 community school, from 1935 mayor)
• 1945–1959: Joseph Rüther
• 1959–1961: Heinrich Biermann
• 1961–1974: Leo Rüther
• 1975–1979: Josef Voß (Mayor)
• 1979–1994: Leo Rüther
• from 1994: Antonius Krane

chapel

The St. George Chapel

A Catholic chapel is said to have stood on the Ruiters Hof (Mues-Rüther) in Westereiden as early as 1597. In memory of this chapel there is now a stone cross. The current St. George Chapel was built between 1882 and 1885. In 1938, a memorial was erected next to the chapel for those who died in the First World War.

Infrastructure

school

In 1949 a one-class elementary school was built. It was closed in 1972 and has served as a kindergarten since 1973. The primary school students are trained in the Luzia primary school in the neighboring village of Oestereiden. There are direct bus connections to secondary schools to Friedrich-Spee-Gymnasium and Maximilian-Kolbe Hauptschule and Realschule and, since 2014, to the private secondary school in Rüthen.

traffic

Two bus connections from Westfalenbus GmbH , line 672 from Rüthen via Menzel to Oestereiden and line R62 from Rüthen via Oestereiden and Bökenförde , go through Westereiden.

societies

• Schützenverein St. Georg Westereiden e. V.
• Westereiden minstrel train
• Westereiden theater group
• Association for homeland care and traditional customs Westereiden
• Carnival Association Westereiden
• Young carnivalists Westereiden

Others

On September 4, 1987, Westereiden was hit by a flood disaster. The Westereiden sewage treatment plant was completely destroyed. 200 liters of precipitation per square meter were measured.

literature

• Ulrich Grun : 125 years of the St. Georg Westereiden shooting club (Festschrift), Lippstadt 1984
• Friends of the homeland and traditional customs Westereiden e. V. (editor): Westereiden 750 years.

Web links

• Westereiden community

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stadt & Tourismus> Ortsteile , accessed on May 17, 2016
2. ↑ Ulrich Grun : The certificate from 1256, in: 125 years of the Schützenverein St. Georg Westereiden (Festschrift), Lippstadt 1984, p. 35 ff.
3. ^ 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 .
4. ↑ "This coat of arms reminds in its colors and figures of the historical past and affiliation of the village: The black Cologne cross indicates that Westereiden historically - ecclesiastically and politically - belonged to the Duchy of Westphalia and thus to the Archbishopric of Cologne and beyond A Cologne fiefdom was a particular property. The residents of this area are still called the 'Kölsken' by their eastern neighbors. The red eagle indicates the rule of the Counts of Rietberg-Kaunitz, the most important landlords in Westereiden. The golden field and the three diamonds standing on top of each other are reminiscent of the Knights of Lürwald, who also owned large estates in Westereiden. Finally, the red color of the diamonds shows that Westereiden belongs to the "Rüthener Quartier". The historical references show that Westereiden's colors are black and red -Gold 'to match the colors of our fatherland. " ( Ulrich Grun : The coat of arms, in: 125 years of the Schützenverein St. Georg Westereiden (Festschrift), Lippstadt 1984, p. 76.)
5. ↑ Ulrich Grun : The School in Westereiden, in: 125 Years of the Schützenverein St. Georg Westereiden (Festschrift), Lippstadt 1984, p. 47