Wickede (Ruhr)

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Coat of arms of the municipality of Wickede (Ruhr)
Wickede (Ruhr)
Map of Germany, position of the municipality Wickede (Ruhr) highlighted

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 '  N , 7 ° 52'  E

Basic data
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Arnsberg
Circle : Soest
Height : 140 m above sea level NHN
Area : 25.24 km 2
Residents: 12,682 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 502 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 58739
Area code : 02377
License plate : SO, LP
Community key : 05 9 74 056
Community structure: 5 districts
Address of the
municipal administration:
Hauptstrasse 81
58739 Wickede (Ruhr)
Website : www.wickede.de
Mayor : Dr. Martin Michalzik ( CDU )
Location of the municipality of Wickede (Ruhr) in the Soest district
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Aerial photograph (2014)

Wickede (Ruhr) is a municipality in the administrative district of Arnsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany and belongs to the Soest district .

geography

Geographical location

The municipality of Wickede is located in the Ruhr Valley on the edge of the Sauerland on the southern slope of the Haarstrang . The municipality is characterized by the town center, which extends in the valley of the Ruhr, and extensions that have developed at the elevations of the hairline from the center. The Ruhr cuts through the community and shapes the townscape.

The highest elevation in the municipality is the Bellingser Berg with a height of 238 m above sea ​​level . The lowest point at 128 m above sea level is on the Ruhr on the border between Menden (Sauerland) and Fröndenberg / Ruhr.

Community structure

Districts of Wickede

According to the main statute in the version of October 10, 2014, the four localities of Echthausen, Schlückingen, Wiehagen and Wimbern have been formed on the 25.2  km² community area, which correspond to the areas of the earlier communities. The area of ​​the former municipality of Wickede does not belong to any of these localities. The council elects a local mayor for each locality; in civil status books and documents, the locality names are used to designate the part of the municipality.

The following overview shows the population density of the individual districts as of December 31, 2016.

District Area
in km²
Residents Inhabitants
per km²
Real houses 6.89 1,507 0.219
Gulps 4.89 0.187 0.038
Wickede (main town) 4.54 7,929 1,746
Wiehagen 3.38 1,341 0.397
Eyebrows 5.55 0.985 0.177

Neighboring communities

Wickede (Ruhr) borders on six cities and municipalities from four districts in North Rhine-Westphalia . Starting in the north and then following clockwise, these are Werl and Ense in the Soest district , Arnsberg in the Hochsauerland district , Menden in the Märkischer district and Fröndenberg and Unna in the Unna district .

history

The early documentary mentions of Wickede can be identified by a reference to the location on the Ruhr or the neighborhood to the Scheda monastery and thus differentiated from Wickede near Dortmund . The first mentions of Wickede an der Ruhr refer to the 11th century, but are forgeries from later times. A forgery from the first half of the 12th century mentions the year 1036. Early name forms are Wikki / Wicke, the suffix -de does not appear until the 14th century.

Around 1100 there was a scattered settlement consisting of five courtyards . This belonged to the county of Arnsberg . With the sale of the county of Arnsberg, Wickede fell to Kurköln in 1368 . The entire Electoral Cologne Duchy of Westphalia and with it the area of ​​Wickede (except Scheda ) with 443 inhabitants at that time came to Hessen-Darmstadt in 1803 and to Prussia from 1816 .

The industrialization that had started brought the use of hydropower from the Ruhr to Wickede (Ruhr) . A puddling and rolling mill was created as an indirect predecessor of today's Wickeder Westfalenstahl GmbH . The population grew to around 1000 by 1870. The Ruhr Valley Railway of the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft was opened in 1870. Wickede got its own train station. In 1889 a glassworks was built and caused a large increase in population. This glassworks was closed again in 1915. The first glass dome of the Eiffel Tower in Paris came from Wickede. With further industrialization, the population increased to 1547 inhabitants, as many skilled workers lived in the village. In 1939 there were 3334 inhabitants in Wickede.

Due to a British air raid on the barrier wall of the Möhnesees on May 17, 1943 during the Second World War , the Ruhr valley and with it parts of Wickede near the river were hit by a tidal wave . The flood claimed 118 lives in Wickede.

From April 1, 1945, the municipality of Wickede was part of the Ruhr basin that was enclosed by Allied troops . Troops of the US Army occupied the city between the 9th and 14th of April. During the occupation there were no major battles in what is now the city. The effects were most severe in real houses. Echthausen was fired at by US artillery for three days before the US invasion on April 14th . Two women and several foreign prisoners of war lying in the local hospital were killed and several buildings were hit.

At the end of 1967 Wickede had 7,585 inhabitants. The workers in the industry made their living primarily in steel processing and in two large factories specializing in hospital supplies.

Sculpture on the village square in Echthausen

Incorporations

Today's municipality of Wickede (Ruhr) was created on July 1, 1969 by the law on the reorganization of the Soest district and parts of the Beckum district . The previous communities of Echthausen ( Hüsten district in the Arnsberg district ), Schlückingen, Wickede and Wiehagen (all Werl district in the Soest district ) and Wimbern ( Menden district in the Iserlohn district ) were merged to form the new non-governmental community. At the same time parts of Bentrop ( district of Unna ) and Büderich (Amt Werl in the district of Soest) were incorporated.

Religions

The majority of the population is of the Christian faith . About 60% are Catholic ; there is also a Protestant and a small New Apostolic congregation.

Holy Spirit Monastery in Wickede-Wimbern

The two Catholic parishes of St. Antonius of Padua in Wickede and St. Vinzenz in Echthausen were merged with the Schlückingen chapel to form the parish of St. Antonius of Padua & St. Vinzenz Wickede. The parish belongs to the Hellweg deanery of the Archdiocese of Paderborn . There is also the Holy Spirit Monastery of the Steyler Missionary Sisters in Wickede-Wimbern.

The Evangelical Lutheran parish with the Christ Church and the Lutherhaus parish center is the smallest in terms of area and one of the youngest parishes in the Arnsberg parish of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia .

The divine services of the New Apostolic congregation are celebrated in their own church in Wickede-Wiehagen.

politics

Municipal council

Local election 2014
Turnout: 52.9% (2009: 56.61%)
 %
50
40
30th
20th
10
0
47.32%
31.85%
6.44%
6.38%
8.01%
Gains and losses
compared to 2009
 % p
   6th
   4th
   2
   0
  -2
  -4
-2.48  % p
+ 4.75  % p.p.
-3.26  % p
-2.12  % p
+ 3.11  % p.p.

After the local elections on May 25, 2014 , the council of the municipality is composed as follows:

Party / group Seats
CDU 15th
SPD 10
GREEN 02
FDP 02
BG 03

Mayor after 1945

  • 1945–1946 Richard Merse (master locksmith)
  • 1946–1948 Alfons Brumberg (organist, choir director)
  • 1948–1950 Wilhelm Heide (travel agent)
  • 1950–1952 Wilhelm Schulte
  • 1952–1952 Philipp Luft (master painter)
  • 1952–1964 Franz Schweins (teacher)
  • 1964–1969 Alfons Brumberg (organist, choir director)

1969 local reorganization

  • 1969–1984 Alfons Brumberg (organist, choir director)
  • 1984–1989 Alfons Henke (commercial clerk)
  • 1989–1999 Werner Koenig (railway official)

1999 full-time mayor

  • 1999–2004 Jakob Martens ( independent )
  • 2004–2014 Hermann Arndt ( CDU )
  • since 2014 Dr. Martin Michalzik ( CDU )

Results of the local elections from 1975

Only parties and voter communities that received at least 1.95 percent of the votes in the respective election are shown in the list.

year CDU SPD BG FDP Green 1 FORUM
1975 52.6 43.9 03.5
1979 54.9 54.1
1984 50.8 47.5
1989 41.2 45.5 12.8
1994 40.4 43.1 04.6 11.8
1999 49.0 35.8 05.7 09.5
2004 54.3 30.2 08.7 6.8
2009 49.8 27.1 4.9 09.7 8.5
2014 47.3 31.8 8.0 006.44 06.38

footnote

1 Greens: 1984 and 1989: Greens, from 1994: B'90 / Greens

coat of arms

Coat of arms illustration

Blazon

In the shield, which is divided from silver (white) over blue in a wavy cut, a continuous black cross above, and below a silver (white) cog wheel growing out of the base of the shield.

description

In the upper half of the Wicked coat of arms appears the black cross of the Electorate of Cologne , to which the area of ​​the Ruhr community belonged in earlier years. The lower half symbolizes a heavy gear or flywheel. It stands as a clearly visible sign of the special position the municipality of Wickede (Ruhr) occupies for heavy industry. In this context, the undulating dividing line is reminiscent of the Ruhr, which meanders through the town and reaches its northernmost point in Wickede. The coat of arms was approved on April 3, 1970 by the district president in Arnsberg.

The municipality also flies a flag. It is blue-white-blue striped lengthways and bears the municipal coat of arms in the upper half of the white field. The official seal contains the coat of arms with the surrounding writing of the community of Wickede (Ruhr) .

Note and distance stone, twin town Jemielnica

Town twinning

On November 14, 2000 the local council decided to enter into a town twinning, which is why contacts were made with the Polish rural community Jemielnica / Himmelwitz . The official partnership agreement was signed on May 12, 2006 in the Wickeder Bürgerhaus. Even before the seal was sealed, a circle of friends was established to organize mutual visits by the partners.

Culture and sights

Buildings

Echthausen Castle

There are some historically important buildings and facilities in the municipality, all of which are in private use and can only be viewed from the outside. Echthausen Castle is one of the listed buildings . The former manor with a spacious park was owned by the von Boeselager family for a long time. During this time it fell into disrepair. The current owner family extensively restored the entire property and uses it for residential purposes themselves.

The monastery Scheda is a former Premonstratensian around which many legends. Among other things, the "White Abbot" is said to still haunt the park there. The plant was long owned by the Counts of Kanitz , who farmed there. In May 2011, the building stock moved to entrepreneur Walter PJ Droege from the Droege International Group.

The first owners of the Schafhausen estate were the lords of Schaephuisen, vassals of the von Bilstein dynasts. Around 1863 the estate formed a contiguous area of ​​around 800 acres. About 460 acres of this was arable land, the rest was mainly oak and larch forest. Today the estate is owned by the Aurich family. Gut Beringhof is a former estate directly on the Old Ruhr . It used to be owned by the Bering family and later by Boeselager. After the threat of decay and temporary use by a spiritual community, the entire property was completely renovated and expanded by the Müller family after a change of ownership. A horse breeding facility and a jumping stables were established.

Also worth seeing is the listed factory owner's villa , popularly known as the White Villa . It used to be inhabited by the directors of the former Wickeder iron and steel works , one of the largest employers in the region.

Ruhr in the Ruhraue nature reserve

Landscape and nature reserves, parks

Seven parts of the municipality of Wickede were designated as landscape protection areas (LSG) in 2006 with the landscape plan V Wickede-Ense . These are the landscape protection areas Schafhauser Haar (163 ha), Wiehagener Wassertal (21 ha), Strullbachtal (92 ha) and Wickeder Ruhraue / Feldflur Beringhof / Nesselbruch (85 ha), Lütkenheide / Aufschlag / Bellingser Berg (73 ha), Oevinghauser Forest and Ruhr Valley (262 ha) and Echthauser Berg / Echthauser Heide / Osterberg (303 ha). Wickede also has three areas that have been designated as nature reserves (NSG). These are the nature reserves Ruhraue (370 ha, sub-area in the city of Ense), Wimberner Bach (13 ha) and forests on Mühlenbach (71.5 ha). All three nature reserves have also been designated as a European protected area ( FFH area ). The Ruhraue was partially designated as an NSG for the first time in 1985. In the NSG Ruhraue, in particular, the Ruhr with its underwater vegetation, Ruhr arms, mud banks and alder, ash and softwood alluvial forests on the Ruhr bank should be protected. The following animal species from Annex II of the Habitats Directive are found in the NSG Ruhraue: Great crested newt , brook lamprey , bullhead , pond bat , kingfisher , sand martin , teal , little ringed plover , reed warbler , pochard , goosander , meadow pipit , whooper swan and little grebe .

In the middle of the Hövelwald above the Ruhr, on the so-called Böse Ufer, the thick beech was the only natural monument in the city of Wickede. The thick beech fell in a storm in January 2012. In the municipality, the six are protected landscape elements forest areas Schafhauser hair , sunken road north of Wiehagen , Strullbach with side Siepen , Brakel Bach , Jordan and ponds Ruhr lowlands reported. There are also some legally protected biotopes . In addition to the Bernhard Bauer Park with a pond and old trees in the center of the municipality, there are other park-like facilities in the districts.

Sports

Various sporting leisure activities are possible in the municipality.

Football is played "Im Ohl" on a modern football facility with a grass and artificial turf field. TuS Wickede also trains here. In the district of Echthausen there is also a modern football facility, the so-called “Waldstadion Echthausen” with artificial turf available for the 1911 Echthausen gymnastics and game club. Two beach volleyball fields are available in Echthausen for beach volleyball. At the edge of the forest of Echthausen and in the districts of Schlückingen and Wimbern there are smaller football fields.

Sports halls are located in the Engelhard, Gerken, Melanchthon and Westerheide schools.

The largest sports club in Wickede (Ruhr) with approx. 1700 members is the TV Wickede. It offers gymnastics, judo, handball, tennis, table tennis, badminton, hip-hop for kids, fitness mix, crawling groups, Nordic walking, ZUMParty, competitive gymnastics, aerobics, Street dance, Modern Tang Soo Do, and much more. Tennis is played in the community on the five tennis courts of TV Wickede. The tennis club facility is located on the main street.

Regular events

Shooting festivals take place in Wickede and its districts, as well as in other towns and communities in the district, at regular intervals. The shooting matches are of the protecting brotherhoods "Wimbern 1891 Schutterij" aligned "Saint John Wickede (Ruhr) -Wiehagen 1818", "Sankt Vinzentius Echthausen" and the. The annual Christmas market is organized by the local associations and the community.

The Catholic parish of St. Antonius Wickede has been organizing the traditional "St. Nicholas Parade" for more than 60 years on the eve of the name day of St. Nicholas, in cooperation with the Friends' Association Dorf Wiehagen. Saint Nicholas rides through the community accompanied by mounted heralds and infantry and speaks to the children on the Wiehagen village square and the market square in Wickede.

Since 2001 a place in the Wickeder downtown Rosenmontagszug held, organized by the association "WiKaVau Helau 01". The business association Wickede (Ruhr) organizes the Lanferfest every year on the first weekend in October.

Economy and Infrastructure

Westfalenstahl, administration building with entrance area

In the 19th century, with the beginning of industrialization, a glassworks developed in Wickede. Instead of glass processing, the steel industry emerged at the beginning of the 20th century. Large companies in this branch developed, so Mannesmann settled down and Wickeder Westfalenstahl became the town's largest employer. The companies “Wissner Bosserhoff” and “Schmitz u. Söhne GmbH & Co. KG ”, both of which have their mainstay in the production of high-quality clinical and nursing supplies such as hospital beds, nursing care beds and operating tables and equipment. In addition, the company Wilhelm Humpert GmbH & Co. KG, a fourth generation global company in the bicycle parts sector, and the HEKO chain factory have been based there for decades.

At the beginning of the 1980s, the Westerhaar industrial area was developed by the community above the community area on the border with the neighboring town of Werl . Small and large companies from different industries have settled here. These include surface finishers such as Walter Hillebrand, large bakeries, a stone factory, electrical companies and a packaging company.

In the center of the village there are numerous retail stores that cover the needs of the residents well. In addition to numerous restaurants (including a western bar), snack bars, pizzerias and good middle-class restaurants, there is also an upscale restaurant near the Westerhaar industrial park.

In June 2010 there were 4,391 employees subject to social security contributions in the municipality. Of these, 2,723 were in the manufacturing sector, 500 in trade, hospitality, transport and storage, 21 in agriculture, forestry and fishing, and 1,147 in other services.

traffic

Station building (before the last renovation)

The municipality is cut through by the B63 . This is the most important traffic artery in the place and the link between Münsterland and Ruhrtal. In the north, the A44 / A445 touches the municipality. The B7 runs through the district of Wimbern.

The Ruhr is not navigable near Wickede, at best it can be used by small boats.

The train station on the Upper Ruhr Valley Railway offers direct connections to Dortmund , Hagen , in the direction of Sauerland to Winterberg and Brilon via Bestwig . Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe can be reached continuously via Warburg .

media

The Werl, Wickede (Ruhr) and Ense edition of the regional daily Soester Anzeiger is published every working day with local news and information. a. from the municipality of Wickede (Ruhr).

Since October 1, 2014, the local news portal wickede.ruhr, Heimat Online , has been delivering current news and reports from and about the community of Wickede (Ruhr) and its vicinity.

Public facilities

In the district of Wimbern there was the Marien Hospital, a general medical clinic founded by the Sisters of the Steyler Missionary Order who lived in the neighboring monastery. At the end of 2011 the hospital was closed. It has been used as the central accommodation unit for the reception of refugees since 2014. The facility is supported by the population.

The Ruhrtalklinik is also located in the Wimbern district, right on the border with Menden-Barge . The Ruhrtalklinik is a rehabilitation clinic for mentally and / or physically disabled people.

Melanchthon School

education

There are two primary schools and one secondary school in the municipality. The closest secondary schools and high schools are in Werl. Public vocational schools are located in Soest, Lippstadt and Unna.

In the individual districts of the community there are five kindergartens, which are sponsored by the community (Echthausen and Wiehagen) or sponsored by the Catholic day-care center Hellweg gGmbH. A daycare center is run by an association in the Wimbern district.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Personalities who have worked or are working on site

literature

  • Willy Timm: 125 years old pharmacy in Wickede (Ruhr). From branch pharmacy to full pharmacy 1872 - 1937 - 1997. Hellweg-Bücherei Verlag, Unna 1997, ISBN 3-87298-066-1 .
  • Franz Haarmann, Josef Kampmann: Wickede (Ruhr). Sutton Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-89702-763-1 .
  • Jürgen B. Bauer, Franz Haarmann, Andreas Dunker a. a .: Chronicle of the 20th Century - 100 Years of Wickede (Ruhr) 1900–2000. Edited on behalf of Volksbank, AD-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-9804899-0-6 .
  • Soest district: Landscape plan V "Wickede-Ense". Soest 2006.
  • Fritz Oelmann: The industrial community of Wickede. In the Soest district - becoming and being. On behalf of the district administration, Verlag Hans Burkhard, Essen.

Web links

Commons : Wickede (Ruhr)  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 .  ( Help on this )
  2. Sections 1, 3 and 3a of the main statutes of the Wickede (Ruhr) municipality (PDF; 44 kB). Retrieved May 21, 2018.
  3. ^ Area and resident population in Wickede (Ruhr). Wickede municipality, December 31, 2016, accessed May 21, 2018 .
  4. Michael Flöer, Claudia Maria Korsmeier: The place names of the Soest district. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-89534-791-7 , p. 472 f .
  5. Helmuth Euler: When Germany's dams broke. The truth about the bombing of the Möhne-Eder-Sorpe dams in 1943. Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart 1975, ISBN 3-87943-367-4 .
  6. Willi Mues: The large boiler - a documentation about the end of the Second World War between Lippe and Ruhr / Sieg and Lenne. Erwitte 1984.
  7. Willi Mues: The large cauldron. A documentary about the end of the Second World War between Lippe and Ruhr / Sieg and Lenne. Erwitte 1984. p. 486.
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  9. Law on the reorganization of the Soest district and parts of the Beckum district of June 24, 1969 ( online )
  10. Homepage. Evangelical Church Community Wickede, accessed on May 22, 2012 .
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  12. http://wahlen.citkomm.de/EUKW2014/05974056/index.htm
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  14. Elective profile of the State Office for Data Processing and Statistics NW ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.it.nrw.de
  15. Election results 1999  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 5.9 MB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / webshop.it.nrw.de  
  16. ^ Soest district: Landscape plan V Wickede-Ense. Pp. 80-92.
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  18. http://www.naturschutzinformationen-nrw.de/bk/de/karten/bk Biotopkataster NRW
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  22. ^ Soest district: Landscape plan V Wickede-Ense.
  23. Employees subject to social security contributions at the place of work on June 30, 2010, municipal profile Wickede (Ruhr), page 15 ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2015 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. (PDF; 220 kB). Retrieved July 12, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.it.nrw.de
  24. Online news portal. In: wickede.ruhr, Heimat Online. Retrieved March 5, 2018 .
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  26. Schulamt Kreis Soest: Schools in the Soest district ( Memento of the original from August 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 18, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kreis-soest.de
  27. Short biography