Birch tree (halver)

Birch tree City of Halver Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 12 ″  N , 7 ° 27 ′ 52 ″  E
Height :	400 m above sea level NHN
Postal code :	58553
Area code :	02355
Location of Birkenbaum in Halver

Birkenbaum is a farm in Halver in the Märkisches Kreis in the North Rhine-Westphalian administrative district of Arnsberg in Germany .

Location and description

View from the south

Birch tree located at 400 meters above mean sea level in the southwestern Halver at the county road K3 between Schwenke and stop near the border with Wipperfuerth on the watershed between the flow systems of the Wupperfeld and Ennepe . Neighboring towns are Stenkenberg , Heinken-Hedfeld , Vorst , Lausberge , Berken and the Wipperfürth town of Erlen .

To the north runs the route of the disused Wuppertal Railway between Halver and Radevormwald , to the west of the formerly disused branchschlag -Wipperfürth . To the south rises at 397  m above sea level. NHN a hill.

history

Birkenbaum was first mentioned in a document in 1557, but the time of origin of the settlement is assumed to be between 1300 and 1400 following the second medieval clearing period. Birkenbaum was a split from Heinken-Hedfeld.

In 1818 ten residents lived in the village. In 1838 Birkenbaum belonged to the Lausberg farmers within the Halver mayor's office . The place, which was categorized as a courtyard according to the location and distance table of the government district of Arnsberg , had two houses at the time. At that time, 15 residents lived in the village, all of whom were Protestant.

The municipality encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia from 1887 gives a number of 13 residents who lived in two houses.

At Birkenbaum, a presumably prehistoric old road from Schwelm via Radevormwald to Wegerhof ran along the route of today's county road K3 , which was used as an iron and coal road.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alfred Jung: Halver and Schalksmühle. Investigation and thoughts on the settlement history of the Halver Office, an old parish in the Saxon-Franconian border area. Friends of Altena Castle, Altena 1978 ( Altenaer contributions. Works on the history and local history of the former county Mark 13, ISSN  0516-8260 ).
2. ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Local and distance table of the government district Arnsberg, arranged according to the existing state division, with details of the earlier areas and offices, the parish and school districts and topographical information. Ritter, Arnsberg 1841.
3. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau (Prussia) (ed.): Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume X), Berlin 1887.