Birkenbach

Birkenbach municipality Nümbrecht Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 45 ″ N , 7 ° 36 ′ 13 ″ E
Height :	250 m above sea level NN
Residents :	82 (Dec 31, 2006)
Postal code :	51588
Area code :	02293
	Location of Birkenbach in Nümbrecht

View of Birkenbach

Birkenbach is a district of Nümbrecht in the Oberbergischer Kreis in southern North Rhine-Westphalia within the administrative district of Cologne ( Germany ).

Location and description

The place is as the crow flies around 4.3 km east of the center of Nümbrecht.

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1490 , namely "Differenzen Homburg - Berg ".

The spelling of the first mention was Birckenbach

^ Klaus Pampus: First documentary naming of Oberbergischer places (= contributions to Oberbergischen history. Sonderbd. 1). Oberbergische Department 1924 eV of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein, Gummersbach 1998, ISBN 3-88265-206-3 .