Wiescherhöfen

Wiescherhöfen City of Hamm Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ′ 53 "  N , 7 ° 45 ′ 43"  E
Incorporation :	1st January 1968
Incorporated into:	Pelkum
Primaries :	02307, 02381, 02383

Wiescherhöfen is a part of the city of Hamm in the Hamm-Pelkum district . Wiescherhöfen is located south of the Lippe in the eastern Ruhr area . It borders the districts of Pelkum, Herringen , Westen, Berge and Weetfeld in the city of Hamm.

history

The name Wiescherhöfen was first mentioned in a document in 1486. In the treasury of the county of Mark it was written as "Wyesch". According to the tax book, only three farms belonged to Wiescherhöfen: Greinewysch, Tünnemann and Schult zur Wysch (Schulze zur Wiesch). The Schult van Zelmick (Schulze Selmig) farm was added to the three farms in Selmigerheide. The four courtyards later merged with the newly built courtyards to form the community of Wiescherhöfen. According to the list of the Pelkum office from 1731, these were the farms: Schulze-Selmig, Schulte zur Wysche, Bresser, Grönewysche, Schulte Kissing, Tünnemann, Schnübbe, Hoppe, Dörholt, Lenickenhoff, Brandt, Drees, Vogelweyer and Kleykamp. The church belonged to Herringen and therefore did not have its own village church. At that time Wiescherhöfen included the districts of Kissingerhöfen, Daberg, Geist, Lohauserholz, Selmiger Heide and the Harringholzsiedlung. A private school was established in Selmigerheide in 1762.

A total of 17 communities were combined to form the Pelkum district in 1797 because the small communities could not do all of their tasks on their own. The main office of the office was in Pelkum, which was then the largest municipality in the district. In 1816, the miller Middendorf built a mill made entirely of wood on Grosse Werlstrasse. Due to the low population, the building was visible from afar and became the landmark of Wiescherhöfen. The fire was controlled in 1827 by contract. Thirty farmers and kötter agreed on a levy to regulate and finance the transport of the pressure sprayer to the scene of the fire. The syringe house was on today's Weetfelder Straße / confluence with Baumhofstraße. The fire fighting was then carried out by volunteers and neighbors. In 1831 the population was 454. The rifle club Wiescherhöfen-Lohauserholz was founded in 1838.

The community was and is very much influenced by the railroad. The Cologne-Mindener Railway started train traffic on May 2, 1847. In 1865 the Bergisch-Märkische Bahn was put into operation. On April 1, 1884, the district of Pelkum opened the Amtssparkasse, which also had branches in Selmigerheide and Lohauserholz. The largest marshalling yard in Europe was later located in the municipality . Around 75 hectares of land were purchased from a total of 11 farmers to build this train station. The manor Lohaus (namesake of the district Lohauserholz) disappeared completely due to the marshalling yard. The only stopping point in the community was the Wiescherhöfen train station on the "Kuckuck" parcel (today Weetfelder Strasse / intersection Wiescherhöfener Strasse). Commissioning was on December 15, 1895. 47 passenger trains with destinations Hamm or Unna stopped in Wiescherhöfen every day.

The men's choir Harmonie Wiescherhöfen was founded in 1899.

Coal deposits were discovered as early as 1874 during test drilling. On October 25, 1902, the de Wendel colliery with the two shafts Heinrich and Robert went into operation. Previously, the De Wendel colliery had acquired a total of 17,512 m² in Berge, Hamm, Pelkum, Wiescherhöfen and Herringen. The coking plant had 118 ovens with a daily production of 2100 tons. As the third railway line, the Osterfelder Bahn was put into operation in 1905. In the same year the gymnastics club "TV Deutsche Treue Wiescherhöfen" was launched. The voluntary fire brigade Wiescherhöfen was founded on January 9th, 1909 and received a fire station with a riser tower next to the village school. The shooting society started its activity on February 28, 1909 (today's shooting society Wiescherhöfen-Weetfeld). The Wiescherhöfen sports club was founded on June 10, 1910. The number of inhabitants continued to increase due to the railway and the colliery. In 1900 it had 1298 inhabitants and in 1914 there were already 4515. During the First World War , there was no major damage to the community. The Second World War caused considerable damage and deaths due to the railway lines and the marshalling yard. The largest attack took place on April 22, 1944 and claimed 49 lives alone.

On September 17, 1950, the newly built Wiescherhöfen fire station with a hose tower on the "Auf der Horst" street was opened. The fire truck was on the first floor. There is one apartment each on the 1st floor and in the attic.

The newly built vehicle hall with three truck parking spaces for the Wiescherhöfen volunteer fire department was put into operation on November 27, 1965. At the same time, the first turntable ladder vehicle (Magirus ladder on Klöckner-Humboldt-Deutz chassis) goes into action.

On December 13, 1967, the state parliament passed the law to reorganize Unna / Hamm. Against the will of the council and the population, the community was divided. On January 1, 1968, the districts of Daberg, Geist and Lohauserholz came to the city of Hamm. The other districts moved to the greater municipality of Pelkum. The Pelkum office was dissolved.

The two community representatives of the communities Wiescherhöfen and Weetfeld agreed in 1971 to store the Weetfeld fire engine in the Wiescherhöfen fire station. The Weetfeld fire brigade was also permitted to use the building. The old fire station of the Weetfeld Volunteer Fire Brigade at today's intersection of Wilhelm-Lange Strasse and Weetfelder Strasse was demolished by the company.

On January 1, 1975, the second municipal reorganization took place and the rest of Wiescherhöfen thus also belonged to the city of Hamm .

March 31, 1987 which was coking of coal mine Heinrich Robert closed. Demolition of the building began in autumn 1987. It lasted until the spring of 1988. The two chimneys had to give way towards the end. When the coking plant was shut down, the appearance of the town changed accordingly: after the fire in the ovens had gone out, the clouds of extinguishing steam and flares stopped. Only after the demolition did they want to erect an industrial monument in the form of a coke oven door, but everything has already been disposed of. The oven door exhibited on the Wiescherhöfen market square comes from the Hansa coking plant in Dortmund .

On September 30, 2010, the last shift of the Heinrich-Robert colliery took place . After more than 100 years, the last mine in the city of Hamm closed .

In 2013, the listed former village school of the Wiescherhöfen / Weetfeld fire brigade and the youth fire brigade were made available for their training operations, who renovated and converted the premises themselves.

Population development

year	Residents
1849	0499
1910	4515
1931	6152
1956	8567
1961	9223

Sons of the place

• Karl Isenbeck (1904–1945), plant breeding scientist
• Walther Lipphardt (1906–1981), music and theater scholar, church musician and high school teacher

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 64 .
2. ^ MF Essellen: Description and brief history of the Hamm district and the individual localities in the same . Verlag Reimann GmbH & Co, Hamm 1985, ISBN 3-923846-07-X , p. 159 .
3. ↑ www.gemeindeververzeichnis.de: Population figures 1910
4. ↑ Handbook of the offices and rural communities in the Rhine province and in the province of Westphalia , Prussian Landgemeindetag West, Berlin 1931.
5. ^ Otto Lucas: Kreis-Atlas Unna . Unna / Münster 1957.
6. ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 267 .