Afholderbach

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Afholderbach
City of Netphen
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 40 ″  N , 8 ° 8 ′ 20 ″  E
Height : 341  (340-370)  m
Area : 5.95 km²
Residents : 205  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Population density : 34 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1969
Postal code : 57250
Area code : 02738

Afholderbach is a district of Netphen in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district in North Rhine-Westphalia with 205 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2013).

Geographical location

The area is 5.9 km² and the place is in the valley at 340  m altitude. The highest mountain in the area is the Alte Burg mountain with a height of 632.9  m . Afholderbach is located about 5 km northeast of Netphen on the B 62 . It is about 1.5 km to Sohlbach and Oechelhausen. Eschenbach is 2 km southwest and the dam to Brauersdorf in the south is about 3 km. Afholderbach is traversed by the Sieg tributary Netphe .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns are Grund in the north, Lützel in the northeast, Sohlbach in the east, Walpersdorf in the southeast, Brauersdorf in the south, Eschenbach in the southwest, Frohnhausen in the west and Oechelhausen in the northwest.

history

The first written mention of the place was on February 13, 1345 as "Affelterbach".

Until the municipal reorganization on January 1, 1969, the place belonged to the office of Netphen .

Population numbers

Population of the place:

year Residents
1818 168
1885 151
1895 131
1905 140
1910 128
1925 136
year Residents
1933 139
1939 123
1950 179
1961 143
1967 163
1994 204
year Residents
2007 203
2009 209
2012 205
2013 205

Public facilities

The meeting places and public facilities of the village include the village community center (Protestant chapel rights exist here, an early Sunday service is celebrated once a month), the playground and football field as well as the shooting range. Afholderbach also has its own cemetery. The funeral services are held in the Protestant Martini Church in Netphen, after which the funerals are here.

Attractions

  • The old half-timbered houses including the Afholderbacher Weiher are just as much worth seeing as the “Alte Mühle” and the Backes .
  • As remarkable is Wallburg "Old Castle" viewed. It is located on the cone of the "Alte Burg" mountain. It is the largest of the Siegerland ramparts with an area of ​​10 hectares and is bordered by two round and oval ramparts.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Siegener Urkundenbuch Volume I, Siegen , 1887, pp. 176–179, no. 288.
  2. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 71 .
  3. ^ Otto Schaefer: The district of Siegen , Siegen 1968
  4. ↑ Westfälisches Gemeindelexikon 1887, pp. 108/109
  5. ↑ Westfälisches Gemeindelexikon 1897, pp. 110/111
  6. ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de: District of Siegen
  7. ↑ genealogy.net: Office Netphen
  8. ↑ a b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Siegen. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
  9. ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 155 .
  10. ↑ Bernhard Oltersdorf: Netphen ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lwl.org archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 9.0 MB) , approx. 1995
  11. ↑ The ancient ramparts in Siegerland
  12. ↑ Torsten Capelle: Wall castles in Westphalia-Lippe. Published by the Antiquities Commission for Westphalia, Münster 2010, ISSN  0939-4745 , p. 15 No. XIV ( Early Castles in Westphalia special volume 1 )