Wissinghausen

Wissinghausen City of Medebach Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 59 "  N , 8 ° 38 ′ 25"  E
Height :	537 m
Postal code :	59964
Aerial photograph (2013)

Wissinghausen is a district of the city of Medebach in the Hochsauerlandkreis .

Location of the place

Wissinghausen is about 8 km northwest of the core town of Medebach on the road 872 between Küstelberg in the west and Deifeld in the east at an altitude of about 530 meters.

history

Wissinghausen

The place is mentioned for the first time in a document from 1266. At that time a Reinher Wittorp waived his claims to "Werzinchosen" in favor of Küstelberg Monastery .

In 1802 the place fell with the Duchy of Westphalia to the Landgraviate of Hessen-Darmstadt. From 1816 Wissinghausen belonged to Prussia. At first it belonged to the county Medebach , then as a district of Deifeld and as part of the Office Medebach to circle Brilon .

Wissinghausen, chapel

A chapel was built in 1897. Nevertheless, the place still belongs to the Catholic parish in Deifeld as a branch .

On March 29, 1945 US soldiers coming from Küstelberg drove through Wissinghausen in tanks. Hundreds of US Army vehicles and tanks drove through the village that day and the following . On April 2, 1945, Wissinghausen was captured by German troops attacking from the direction of Küstelberg. The village has now been fired at by US soldiers with guns. A house and three barns burned down. One of the villagers was badly wounded by shrapnel. After an illness lasting four and a half years, she died as a result of the wound.

Until 1969 the place belonged to the municipality Deifeld . On July 1, 1969, it was reclassified to the city of Medebach as part of the municipal reorganization .

Attractions

• The oldest house is "Müres Haus" from 1720.
• The Church of St. John Baptist with the remains of a Roman pillar basilica from 1237

literature

• Wilhelm Rave (Ed.): Architectural and art monuments of Westphalia, Volume 45: District of Brilon , edited by Paul Michels, Münster 1952.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michels, p. 209
2. ↑ Manfred Schöne: The Duchy of Westphalia under Hesse-Darmstadt rule 1802-1816. Olpe 1966, p. 172.
3. ^ Hugo Cramer: The district of Brilon in the Second World War 1939-1945. Bigge 1955, pp. 38-41.
4. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 89 .
5. ↑ Michels, p. 216
6. ↑ http://www.medebach-touristik.de/de/region/die-ortsteile/deifeld-wissinghausen/204