Allenbach (Hilchenbach)

Allenbach City of Hilchenbach Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 52 ″  N , 8 ° 5 ′ 32 ″  E
Height :	328–359 m above sea level NHN
Area :	8.34 km²
Residents :	2015  (Jan 31, 2019)
Population density :	242 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1969
Postal code :	57271
Area code :	02733
Keppel-Allenbach Abbey station

Allenbach is a district of Hilchenbach , Siegen-Wittgenstein district . It consists of the districts Allenbach, Haarhausen and Sieben Eichen.

history

The place was first mentioned as "Altpach" on September 23, 1337 during the transfer of tax claims from a nobleman to the Count of Nassau.

The district of Haarhausen, which was an independent municipality until 1930, was first mentioned in a document on April 27, 1248 and was incorporated into Allenbach on August 1, 1930.

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

Population numbers

Population of the place, including Haarhausen:

year Residents 1818 276 1885 734 1895 840 1905 881 1910 793 1925 933 1933 909 1939 1073

year Residents 1950 1484 1961 1628 1967 1968 1994 2242 2001 2147 2002 2163 2003 2180 2004 2158

year Residents 2005 2124 2006 2137 2007 2186 2008 2187 2009 2149 2010 2123 2011 2121 2012 2123

year Residents 2013 2115 2014 2095 2015 2064 2016 2070 2017 2045

• 1885: Allenbach: 479, Haarhausen: 255
• 1895: Allenbach: 582, Haarhausen: 258
• 1910: Allenbach: 622, Haarhausen: 271

Collegiate Church of St. Mary and St. John Evangelist

Others

In Allenbach there are the former Premonstratensian monastery Stift Keppel (today a public high school ) with the collegiate church of St. Maria and St.Johannes-Evangelist, a historic town center with many half-timbered houses , almost all of which were built after the great fire of the 14th and 15th centuries. 15th December 1781, which destroyed 14 houses. The large hammer mill , the Allenbacher Hammer, dominates the townscape and has long been an important employer in the Ferndorftal valley, which is dominated by the mining industry . In addition, there is the Breitenbachtalsperre in Allenbach , which is used for the drinking water supply and flood protection. Allenbach has its own train stop ( Stift Keppel-Allenbach ) on the Kreuztal – Cölbe railway line .

Allenbach has three local sports clubs: TV Allenbach , the Red Sox Allenbach soccer club and the Allenbach 1956 shooting club. V.

Personalities

• Johann Eberhard Rau (1695–1770), Protestant theologian and university professor

Web links

• Homepage of the city of Hilchenbach
• Allenbach (Hilchenbach) in the Westphalia Culture Atlas

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.hilchenbach.de/Presse-Stadtportrait/Zahlen-Daten-Fakten/Einwohner
2. ↑ Siegener Urkundenbuch Volume I, Siegen , 1887, pp. 131–132, no. 216.
3. ↑ Map of the Principality of Nassau-Siegen: Documentary evidence of settlement up to 1500 ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 208 .
5. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 70 .
6. ↑ Otto Schaefer: The district of Siegen. Wins 1968.
7. ^ City of Hilchenbach »The Mayor: Population figures. Retrieved December 16, 2017 . 
8. ^ Westphalian community dictionary . 1887, pp. 106-113.
9. ^ Westphalian community dictionary . 1897, pp. 110/111.
10. ↑ District of Siegen gemeindeververzeichnis.de
11. ^ Office Keppel genealogy.net
12. ↑ ^{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). 
13. ↑ 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. 156 .
14. ↑ Hartmut Eichenauer: Hilchenbach . ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 7.6 MB) approx. 1995.