Helmeringhausen

Helmeringhausen is the smallest district of the city Olsberg in Hochsauerlandkreis.

The village is located about 2 kilometers south of Bigge. Situated in the valley of the Voßbach he is, among other things from the mountains Wiedegge (732 m) and Ohlenkopf ( 729 m) surrounded. In the present, the site consists of about 80 houses and 319 inhabitants.

First mentioned the place is in the goods nomenclature of Count Ludwig von Arnsberg († 1313 ). The place was one of among the Counts of Arnsberg and his successors the Elector of Cologne, on the one hand and the Counts of Waldeck on the other side disputed Free County Assinghauser reason. To 1427 there were 10 farms. In 1759, there were 18 home sites, whose names are partly modified still in use today. In the 19th and 20th century to the municipal reform, which took effect on 1 January 1975, Helmeringhausen was a separate municipality.

Since 1940, the village had to take evacuees from the Ruhr. Before Easter 1945, the Volkssturm was called in the village to support the Wehrmacht in Olsberg. On Easter Monday, April 2, U.S. forces began to bombard the area around Olsberg. Villagers and Bigger sought shelter in the mine tunnel around the village. On April 5 grenades met the village without causing serious damage. By Sohlweg German soldiers retreated. In the afternoon, April 6, U.S. troops occupied the village. When invasion two houses of U.S. tanks were set on fire with incendiary ammunition. By mid-May more U.S. soldiers were in the village.

During World War II were 23 men from the village as soldiers, most of them on the Eastern Front, or died in captivity.

Today's St. Hubertus Church goes back to a chapel from the late 15th or early 16th century. Later, this was repeatedly rebuilt and expanded. The baroque altar is originally from the parish church in Bigge.