History

The history of our hometown. As introduction, a chronological overview of the major historical events. Subsequently texts from the book "Aieshusun Aeissun Eysnen - Eissen - Bild unserer Heimat", which deepen the historical events and set them in a wider context.

• Between 1001 and 1010 Aieshusun is mentioned in the beneficence register of the free Imperial Abbey of Corvey.
• About the year 1080 a monastery farm is listed in a deed of Corvey Abbey.
• Between 1000 and 1100 a stone church was built, sanctified to Saint Liborius. This was an initiative of the diocese of Paderborn. The church became a parish church and Eissen a parish.
• 1447 Bohemian mercenaries on their way back from the siege of Soest destroyed the village Sunrike between Eissen and Borgentreich.
• 1632 troops from Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) marauded the area around Borgentreich and Eissen.
• 1640 the imperial main army with Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria and Ottavio Piccolomini moved into wintering grounds in the Fürst-diocese of Paderborn. The result was famine, diseases, epidemics and death in the whole region.
• 1641–1647 the region around Warburg is occupied by troops from Hesse-Kassel.
• 1717 Eissen receives from Fürst-Bishop Franz Arnold Wolff-Metternich zur Gracht the right to build their own water mill with overshot water wheel.
• From 1756 during the Seven Years' War repeated hostilities occur in the region around Warburg.
• From December 1758 until Easter 1759 four escadrons participate in the Seven Years' War, hessian dragoons quartered in Eissen and neighbouring places.
• Between autumn 1760 and early summer 1761 42 inhabitants of Eissen (about 12% of all inhabitants) die because of the consequences of the war.
• 1812 four forced recruited inhabitants of Eissen do not come back from Russia with Napoleons "Grande Armée".
• 1871 one inhabitant does not come back from the Franco-Prussian War, three more die later, probably because of their injuries.
• On May 6 1879 47 buildings in Eissen burn down within 20 minutes. The fire was caused by the inattention of a 12 year old student who had tried a found cigar butts secretly in a goat pen.
• From October 1 1876, Eissen is connected by its own station on the Holzminden–Scherfede railway.
• In 1898 a kornhaus is built (similar to a granary) as a result of a Prussion law.
• On December 18 1898 41 citizens found the Eissener Spar- und Darlehnskassenverein eGmbH, which was merged in 1962 with the Spar- und Darlehnskasse Peckelsheim. 1973; it merged again with Volkbank Paderborn which closed the subsidiary in 2001.
• Between 1912 and 1914 the church was rebuilt and enlarged.
• After World War I 30 inhabitants did not return.
• After World War II 71 inhabitants did not return.
• At April 1 1945 a German infantry company entrenched themselves at the village's southern border. Therefore, US units advancing from Hohenwepel found the village ripe for attack. The church and Kornhaus were heavily damaged, 47 properties totally destroyed. A lot of Eissen is heavily damaged but only two inhabitants are injured. 14 German and 3 American soldiers are dead, 65 soldiers of the Wehrmacht were captured, the rest dropped off along the railway to Borgholz.
• In 1975 Eissen lost its autonomy and became a part of Willebadessen. This was because of reorganisation in North Rhine-Westphalia.
• On June 2 1984, passenger train traffic was discontinued.