Breitgen

Breitgen municipality Morsbach Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 23 " N , 7 ° 39 ′ 47" E
Height :	298 m above sea level NN
Residents :	48 (Dec 31, 2007)
Postal code :	51597
Area code :	02294

Breitgen is a district of Morsbach in the Oberbergisches Kreis in southern North Rhine-Westphalia within the administrative district of Cologne .

Location and description

Breitgen is located in a rural, wooded area at the southernmost tip of the Oberbergisches Kreis. The cities of Gummersbach (38 km), Siegen (50 km) and Cologne (75 km) can be reached quickly.

Neighboring Breitgener districts are Erblingen in the northwest, Holpe in the northeast, and Reinshagen in the south.

history

First mention

The place was mentioned for the first time in 1575 , namely "Place in the map of the Bergisches Amt Windeck and the Lordship of Homburg by A. Mercator "

The spelling of the first mention was Off dem Breitgen .

swell

^ 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 .

[1] 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 .