Wilgersdorf

Wilgersdorf Wilnsdorf municipality Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 54 ″  N , 8 ° 8 ′ 42 ″  E
Height :	400  (380-470)  m
Area :	11.54 km²
Residents :	2882  (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	250 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1969
Postal code :	57234
Area code :	02739
Location of the place Wilgersdorf within the municipality of Wilnsdorf.

Wilgersdorf is a district of the municipality of Wilnsdorf in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

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Wilgersdorf Panorama

Wilgersdorf is located in the Siegerland in a very wooded region in the Rothaar Mountains . The highest elevations in the local area are the Kalteiche with 579.3  m and the Tiefenrother Höhe with 552.3  m above sea level. NN . In addition, the 466.8  m high Hemmersberg lies between Wilgersdorf and Wilnsdorf. The white rises south of the village . In the village itself, the almost 2 km long Goldschmiedsborn and another small stream flow into the Weiß. Wilgersdorf has a municipal area of ​​11.54 km².

Neighboring places

Neighboring villages of Wilgersdorf are Rudersdorf in the north, Gernsdorf in the northeast, Dillbrecht in the east, Fellerdilln and Steinbach in the southeast, Haigerseelbach (to Haiger ) and Würgendorf (to Burbach ) in the south, Gilsbach in the southwest and Wilnsdorf in the west.

history

In 1377 Wilgersdorf was first mentioned in a document as "Vylgirstorff".

In 1491 the place was completely destroyed by a major fire. In 1563, the plague killed ten of 204 Wilgersdorfers. In 1636 45% of the population died from hunger and disease . The village used to belong to the Haiger church , in February 1587 the request was made to re-parish to Wilnsdorf. From 1595 Wilgersdorf belonged to the parish of Wilnsdorf. In 1716 work began on building a new simultaneous church in the village. In 1621 the place fell to Johann von Nassau . In 1648 Wilgersdorf was merged with Wilnsdorf and Rödgen to form one community, and in 1818 it was assigned to the Wilnsdorf office.

On August 31 and September 2, 1857, there were two major fires, which killed 26 houses, the school and a chapel . On November 2, 1920, four houses and three outbuildings were burned.

In 1906 a water pipe was built. This was financed from 1912 with the money of a Lüdenscheid manufacturer who paid rent for hunting in Wilgersdorf. Between 1910 and 1911, the Jost mill, acquired by August Jost in 1890, was expanded and a dynamo was installed to generate electricity. From 1911 Wilgersdorf was supplied with electricity from there. In 1926 the volunteer fire brigade was founded. In 1953 a Protestant club house was built, and in 1957 a new Catholic church was consecrated.

In 1963 Otto Krasa and Paul Theis excavated living and smelting sites from the La Tène period (500 BC). On January 1, 1969, the Wilnsdorf office was dissolved and the previously independent municipality of Wilgersdorf was incorporated into the new large municipality of Wilnsdorf as part of the municipal reorganization . In 1977 the place celebrated its 600th anniversary.

Population numbers

Population of the place:

year Residents 1773 261 1818 456 1885 709 1895 780 1905 926 1910 998 1925 1053 1933 1156

year Residents 1939 1197 1950 1532 1961 1817 1967 2056 1969 2109 1991 2630 1994 2845 2005 2991

year Residents 2006 2946 2007 2977 2008 2985 2009 2977 2010 2933 2011 2903 2012 2916 2013 2918

year Residents 2014 2895 2015 2891 2016 2882

Notes: Figures 1969 / from 1994 on December 31; 1991 to March 31.

Pits

In Wilgersdorf the New Hope mine (at the Landeskrone ) stood from 1883 to March 5, 1913 with 300 workers. On December 28, 1900, a consolidation with the Wildener Grube Landeskrone took place. The total depth was 440 meters. Zinc , lead and silver ore as well as Spateisenstein were mined .

New Jerusalem existed from 1806 to 1912. In 1882 the pit consolidated with New Hope . The Victoria mine existed from 1883. There was also the Bomkutte mine .

A tunnel was built around 1900, which served as an air raid shelter in 1945. Today it is called "Briedoffelsloch". The redesign of the tunnel mouth hole followed in 2005, and since 2008 it has been part of the Wilnsdorf mine hiking trail.

Infrastructure and transport links

Wilgersdorf is located on Landstrasse 904, which leads from Rudersdorf over the village to the Kalteiche and meets the Bundesstrasse 54 there. The place is connected to the federal motorway 45 via Wilnsdorf. The next train station is in Rudersdorf.

The place has its own elementary school and two kindergartens, both of which are maintained by the Catholic Church. There is a football field, a sports field and a gym in town. In addition, Wilgersdorf has a volleyball field, a riding arena and a tennis facility with four ash courts, as well as an outdoor pool.

Personalities

• Oskar Reichmann (* 1937), Germanist and linguist
• Gerhard Neuser (1938-1993); Soccer player ( Sportfreunde Siegen , FC Schalke 04 )
• Herbert Landau (born April 26, 1948); Judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
• Reinhold Mathes (born March 31, 1949); Soccer player (Sportfreunde Siegen, Borussia Dortmund )
• Sabrina Mockenhaupt (born December 6, 1980); Track and field athlete who grew up in Wilgersdorf

Web links

Commons : Wilgersdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Wilgersdorf on the Internet
• Wilgersdorf in the Westphalia Culture Atlas
• List of mines in Wilgersdorf

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dieter Krumm: Wilnsdorf in old views from the period between 1880 and 1925. European Library, Zaltbommel 1976.
2. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 72 .
3. ↑ Otto Schaefer: The district of Siegen. Wins 1968.
4. ^ Franz Dango: Wilnsdorf. History and landscape. Vorländer, Siegen 1955.
5. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia. Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau, Berlin 1887, ZDB -ID 1458761-0 , p. 112/113.
6. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia. Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau, Berlin 1897, pp. 114/115.
7. ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de: District of Siegen
8. ↑ genealogy.net: Office Burbach
9. ↑ ^{a b} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Siegen. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
10. ↑ 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 .
11. ↑ WILNSDORF Aktuell - Citizen information from the community , 1992/93 edition
12. ↑ Rolf Betz: Wilnsdorf ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2013 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; 7.0 MB) , approx. 1995
13. ↑ wilnsdorf.de: Annual Report 2011 ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2013 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; 2.8 MB), page 6 

literature

• Herbert Wiesner (Red.): 600 years of Wilgersdorf 1377–1977. Chronicle and Festschrift. Published by the working group of local associations. Self-published, Wilgersdorf 1977.
• Kurt Becker: Our fathers. The miners of the Bautenberg mine between Gilsbach and Wilden, Dill and Westerwald. Dillbrecht 1994.