Birch trees (Windhagen)

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Birken is a part of the local community Windhagen in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Neuwied .

geography

Birken borders directly to the north on federal motorway 3 and is around 200 m from the southeastern end of the closed village of Windhagen (district Hecken ). The hamlet extends over an area sloping to the northeast to a tributary of the Pfaffenbach that rises here and is between 290 and 300  m above sea level. NHN . District road 29, which leads to Windhagen, ends in Birken .

history

The place name suggests that birch trees were formed during the high medieval clearing phase . The dialect name of the place is "Birke (n)". Birken belonged to the Honschaft Windhagen in the parish of the same name and was under the administration of the Electoral Cologne Office of Altenwied . The place was documented in 1660 under its current name during an inventory in the Altenwied office, when three houses were counted here.

In Prussian times (from 1815) Birken remained a part of the Honschaft, later the municipality of Windhagen, since 1823 in the administrative district of the Asbach mayor . In the context of censuses , Birken was recorded together with the current desert Birkenseifen , located below and to the southeast, until 1828 , in 1843 the hamlet comprised two residential and four farm buildings. By the end of the 19th century, birch trees experienced significant population growth, but never grew beyond what was then achieved. In 1994 there were four (residential) houses and a farm has been preserved to this day. Birken is currently the smallest district in the municipality of Windhagen.

Population development
year Residents
1816 15th
1828 16
1843 18th
1885 27
1987 18th

Attractions

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dieter Ehlen: Place names and field names in the municipality of Windhagen. In: Windhagen - Ein Heimatbuch , Economica Verlag, Bonn 1994, p. 73.
  2. ↑ Helmut Wolff: The Windhagen dialect. In: Windhagen - Ein Heimatbuch , Economica Verlag, Bonn 1994, p. 196.
  3. ↑ August Welker: Inventory in the Altenwied office anno 1660. In: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Landkreis Neuwied , 1977, pp. 101-103.
  4. ^ The government district of Coblenz according to its location, limitation, size, population and division ... , Coblenz: Pauli, 1817; Page 88
  5. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolaische Buchhandlung, Berlin and Stettin 1830, p. 693
  6. ↑ Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Coblenz , Coblenz: Hölscher, 1843, page 66
  7. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia , Volume XII Provinz Rheinland, Verlag des Königlich Statistischen Bureaus (ed.), 1888, page 44
  8. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality
  9. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Neuwied district. Mainz 2019, p. 70 (PDF; 6.4 MB).

Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 10 ″  N , 7 ° 22 ′ 0 ″  E