Marienheide

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Marienheide


Country	Germany
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region	Cologne
District	Oberbergischer Kreis
Population	13,740 (2004)
Area	54.99 km²
Population density	250 /km²
Elevation	256-506 m
Coordinates	51°5′ N 7°32′ E
Postal code	51709, 51704-51706
Area code	02264
Licence plate code	GM
Mayor	Uwe Töpfer (SPD)
Website	marienheide.de

Marienheide is a Northrhine-Westfalian municipality in the Oberbergischer Kreis in Germany, about 50 km east of Cologne. The neighbouring towns are Gummersbach and Wipperfürth as well as in Märkischer Kreis - Meinerzhagen and Kierspe, and the neighbouring municipalities are Engelskirchen and Lindlar.

1 History
2 The localities of the municipality Marienheide
3 Transport
4 Places of interest
5 Church municipalities
6 Sons and daughter's of the municipality
- 6.1 In Marienheide born
7 Twin town
8 Further sources of information
- 8.1 Literature
- 8.2 External link

[edit] History

The first documentary mention of the place was in 1417 " in a sales document is called Heydenreich of our dear Mrs. Knecht on the Mergenheyde " (Documentary first namings of oberbergischer places v. Klaus Pampus).

The manner of writing of the first naming was: Mergenheyde.

On the altar lights of the old pilgrimage church a signed coat of arms of 1601 which carries the name "Mergenheyd" is to be seen. In an old brochure of the Catholic vicarage Marienheide one can read up: " The mercy place Marienheide leads back his origin for 1420 and on a certain man. " This, a simple man called Heinrich, has lived as a hermit in a hit rock hiding place in the " Bockelsburger wood ", thus near the today's railroad line. The hermit should have lived on agriculture. Another not closer designated chronicle, is stated moreover as a source, and thus one says further that " the mother of God appeared to this keen Heinrich in the form of a small picture and ordered to him to proceed to Cologne to purchase a similar little picture for thirty pieces of silver. " With it the beginning has been made for the place of pilgrimage. Hermit Heinrich has been found with Count Gerhard of the Mark, the sovereign at that time, support, so that Pope Martin V as well as the preacher's order interested. Thus is "in the wilderness" the first little church and later a piece the Dominican order's cloister resulted dequeues.

[edit] The localities of the municipality Marienheide

	North: Wipperfürth - Kierspe
West: Lindlar	Marienheide	East: Meinerzhagen
	South: Gummersbach

B	Berghof - Boinghausen - Börlinghausen
D	Dahl - Däinghausen - Dannenberg - Dommermühle - Dürhölzen
E	Eberg - Eiringhausen - Erlinghagen
G	Gevershagen - Gimborn - Gogarten - Grunewald
H	Himmerkusen - Höfel - Holzwipper - Hütte
J	Jedinghagen
K	Kalsbach - Kattwinkel - Kempershöhe - Königsheide - Kotthausen - Kotthauser Höhe - Krommenohl - Kümmel
L	Lambach - Lehmkuhl - Leiberg - Lienkamp - Linge
M	Mittelweg - Müllenbach
N	Niederwette
O	Oberboinghausen - Obernhagen - Obersiemeringhausen
R	Rodt
S	Scharde - Schemmen - Schmitzwipper - Schöneborn - Schulzenkamp - Siemerkusen - Siepen - Späinghausen - Straße - Stülinghausen
U	Untererlinghagen - Unterpentinghausen
W	Weierhof - Wernscheid - Wilbringhausen - Wilhelmsthal - Winkel

[edit] Transport

The transport binding to the national road system is good. Connector (highway to Meinerzhagen of the federal motorway A45 removed 15 kilometers (Sauerland line Dortmund - Gießen) can be arrived at about 15 minutes. Up to connector Wiehl/Gummersbach of the federal motorway A4 Cologne - Olpe) are to be put back 17 kilometers in about 20-minute running time. The town is crossed by the B 256.

There consist the following bus lines:

Line 336 after Gummersbach or about Wipperfürth after Remscheid - Lennep
Line 320 after to Meinerzhagen
Line 308 after Engelskirchen - Lindlar
High-speed bus line 36 about Wipperfürth after Remscheid- Lennep

Marienheide is traversed by the KBS 459. The regional road Volme Agger railway goes every hour about Gummersbach, Engelskirchen, Overath to Cologne. To the reactivation of the connection to Brügge construction jobs were carried out. The opening is still pending.

[edit] Places of interest

castle Gimborn

Brucher dam
Lingese dam
In the local village Müllenbach stands one of the so-called "colored churches", a church with medieval cover paintings.
Historical house Dahl (farmhouse Dahl), branch station of the museum of the Oberbergischer Kreis.
In the local village Börlinghausen lie the spring of the Wipper.
In the local middle the pilgrimage church Saint Mariä Heimsuchung lies, worth seeing for tourists and destination of pilgrimage in each case at the beginning of July.
Close of the local middle there lies the former health resort park with the " Heil pond"
Castle Gimborn
House of the history in the local village Müllenbach

[edit] Church municipalities

Pilgrimage church Saint Mariä Annunciation

Protestant church municipality Müllenbach.
Catholic parish Gimborn Saint Johannes Baptist.
Catholic parish Marienheide Saint Mariä Heimsuchung.

The place Wilbringhausen hears ecclesiastically to the parish Saint Josef in Kierspe and with it to diocese Essen.

[edit] Sons and daughter's of the municipality

[edit] In Marienheide born

Paul Lücke Federal Minister for house building and Federal Minister of the inside

[edit] Twin town

The Polish town Biala is the twin town of Marienheide. Since 1993 the official towns partnership consists. Biala is structured predominantly country and has in possibly also many inhabitants like Marienheide.

[edit] Further sources of information

[edit] Literature

Hermann de Buhr / Martin Wittenberg / Volkmar Wittmütz: Chronik Marienheide, Gummersbach 1986
Werner Knabe / Friedhelm König / Werner Kühr: Marienheide - ein Blick in die Vergangenheit, Gummersbach 1984