Marienheide

Marienheide
Marienheide
Location of Marienheide within Oberbergischer Kreis district
Coordinates	51°5′N 7°32′E / 51.08333°N 7.53333°E / 51.08333; 7.53333Coordinates: 51°5′N 7°32′E / 51.08333°N 7.53333°E / 51.08333; 7.53333
Administration
Country	Germany
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Admin. region	Cologne
District	Oberbergischer Kreis
Mayor	Uwe Töpfer (SPD)
Basic statistics
Area	54.99 km2 (21.23 sq mi)
Elevation	256 - 506 m
Population	13,758 (31 December 2010)[1]
- Density	250 /km2 (648 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	GM
Postal codes	51709, 51704–51706
Area codes	0 22 64

Marienheide is a municipality in the Oberbergischer Kreis, in Northrhine-Westfalia, Germany.

Geography

Marienheide is located about 50 km east of Cologne.

Neighbouring places

The neighbouring towns are Gummersbach and Wipperfürth as well as in Märkischer Kreis - Meinerzhagen and Kierspe, and the neighbouring municipalities are Engelskirchen and Lindlar.

Division of the municipality

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

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.

Transportation

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.

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

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^{[clarification needed]} to the parish Saint Josef in Kierspe and with it to diocese Essen.

Sons and daughter's of the municipality

In Marienheide born

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

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.

Further sources of information

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

References

1. ^ "Amtliche Bevölkerungszahlen" (in German). Landesbetrieb Information und Technik NRW. 31 December 2010. http://www.it.nrw.de/statistik/a/daten/amtlichebevoelkerungszahlen/index.html. 

External links

• Official site (German)