Wulmeringhausen

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Wulmeringhausen
City of Olsberg
Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 50 ″  N , 8 ° 29 ′ 21 ″  E
Height : 386 m
Residents : 437  (Dec. 31, 2017)
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 59939
Area code : 02962
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Wulmeringhausen

Wulmeringhausen is a district of the city of Olsberg in the Hochsauerlandkreis . As of December 30, 2017, Wulmeringhausen had 437 inhabitants.

geography

Geographical location

Wulmeringhausen is at the entrance to the Negro valley, six kilometers south of Olsberg on the L 742 in the direction of Winterberg . The Negertal runs parallel to the Ruhr valley and provides the branch line to Winterberg. The valley is shaped by the negroes. To the northwest, the Ohlenberg (729 m) and the Wiedegge (732 m), to the northeast of the Hillerk (463 m), to the west of the Overlackersberg (653 m), to the southwest of the Wolkenberg (617 m) and to the southeast of the Papenbusch (492 m) border the place. In the valley, the place is 350 m above sea ​​level .

Neighboring communities

Wulmeringhausen has been part of the city of Olsberg since January 1st, 1975 . Assinghausen is 2 km east , and Brunskappel 5 km south . Via the Papenbusch you reach Wiemeringhausen , which is about 6 km to the south-east. The neighboring communities also include Bigge , Gevelinghausen and Elpe .

history

The village was first mentioned in a document around 1312. The St. Johann mines near Wulmeringhausen are documented around 1570. Since then, lead and zinc have been mined in Wulmeringhausen. In the 17th century, Italians created the “God's gift pit”. A hammer wash was built south of the village. The place is still shaped by its mining history today. So there are spoil heaps and tunnel mouth holes everywhere. Mining continued until around 1900. Wulmeringhausen paid a high price for its economic success, because the place became a widow's village: the men employed in the mine lived on average only 35 years old. In its heyday, tunnels were driven up to 165 m below the valley floor. This part of the local history has been processed and documented by the residents.

At the entrance to the mine path “Grube Gottesgabe” there is a cart with historical data. In addition, a local history museum was set up in the village, in which one can get a good overview of the history of mining in Wulmeringhausen with original maps and many exhibits. The rediscovered miners' path is interesting . When the mines in Wulmeringhausen were closed, many miners went to work in the mines that were still in operation in Ramsbeck . On the daily way to work they carved a way of the cross in the Elpe Valley in Buchen.

In the Second World War , 30 men from the village died as soldiers, most of them on the Eastern Front .

On the night of June 24th to 25th, 1940 there was the first air raid in the village when three British planes flew over Wulmeringhausen. On the evening of October 10, 1942, an airplane threw eight incendiary bombs into the forest when it saw a lighted window in the village. On October 6, 1944, about ten bombers broke out of a bomber formation and dropped about 21 bombs. The only bomb that fell in the middle of the village was a dud. The rest fell in the area. A cow had to be slaughtered. A man was buried in the earth during the potato harvest and was otherwise unharmed. The dud was blown up. Four old mine tunnels were prepared for air protection. Up until March 24, 1945 there were further air raids. Cover holes for pedestrians were dug in the streets. From January 1945 soldiers of the Wehrmacht, including even Latvian volunteers, were lying in the village again and again. In March foreign workers, apparently mostly from France and the Soviet Union, partly with carts and handcarts, crossed the village. On March 24, low-flying aircraft attacked a truck with a trailer in the village with on-board weapons four times. An artillery detachment fleeing towards Olsberg passed through the town on April 2nd. Artillery fire could be heard from Altbüren and the south. On the morning of April 5th, the Volkssturm from the village was supposed to come out to build positions, but no one appeared to take command. The gunfire became more intense and the population fled into the tunnels. At 6:30 p.m. US tanks fired two volleys of six shells each from the direction of Wiemeringhausen into the village. Only window panes cracked. In the evening the village was occupied without a fight. The roof of a house caught fire during the invasion. The fire was quickly extinguished. On March 7th and 8th, US artillery in and around the village fired around 1,400 grants heading west.

The main industries are tourism, small and medium-sized businesses and agriculture.

politics

Council members

In the council of the city of Olsberg the place is represented by:

  • Waltraud Wienand (CDU)
  • Alfred Metten (SPD)

Mayor

The head of the village is Elmar Hanfland (SPD).

Culture and sights

The associations of the village shape the coexistence in the place. Old half-timbered houses, the mountain landscape, natural monuments and sights shape the place from the outside.

Local museum

In the village community center, a former apartment was converted into the Wulmeringhausen local history museum . There is a club and school room, a room with cast pictures, a craftsman's room, a room with maps and exhibits on mining history and a room dedicated to agriculture and forestry.

Visitor mine

Immediately behind the parish hall is the Grave Gottesgabe IV , which is called the “school tunnel” in the village. It is an approximately 100 m long tunnel that was built around 1904. A visitor gallery is currently being built there by the village community.

Buildings

  • Leisure facility: At the Buke
  • House Schiefens
  • Steigerhaus
  • Village community center
  • St. Nicholas
  • Lady Chapel

Natural monuments

  • Kink foliation
  • Linden tree
  • Secondary biotope

societies

Wulmeringhausen is a typical Sauerland village. It is strongly influenced by its associations, which shape village life decisively. The following associations are based in the village:

  • Musikverein 1898 Wulmeringhausen e. V.
  • Caritas Association Wulmeringhausen
  • Wulmeringhausen volunteer fire department
  • Friends of Wulmeringhausen e. V.
  • Youth group Wulmeringhausen
  • Catholic Women's Community (KFD) Sankt Nikolaus Wulmeringhausen
  • Parish / parish parish St. Nikolaus Wulmeringhausen
  • St. Nikolaus Rifle Brotherhood Wulmeringhausen
  • TV "Sauerlandia 08"

Others

Wulmeringhausen has been active in the competition Our village should become more beautiful for years . Since 2006 the village "Golddorf" of NRW has been in the competition "Our village has a future".

literature

  • Hugo Cramer: The district of Brilon in the Second World War 1939-1945 - reports from many employees from all over the district. Josefs-Druckerei, Bigge 1955.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Olsberg: Facts and Figures , accessed on July 7, 2018
  2. ^ 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. 332 .
  3. ↑ http://www.wulmeringhausen.de/
  4. ^ Hugo Cramer: The district of Brilon in the Second World War 1939-1945 . 1955, honor roll section Wulmeringhausen, p. 202.
  5. ^ Hugo Cramer: The district of Brilon in the Second World War 1939-1945 . 1955, section Wulmeringhausen, pp. 142-146.
  6. ↑ http://www.olsberg-live.de/Gottesgabe