Bushgotthard huts

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The Buschgotthardshütte with settlement around 1900

Buschgotthardshütten (also known as Boschgotthardshütten ) was a hut settlement of Weidenau and from 1622 to 1937 an independent community in the northern Siegen urban area in the Siegen district .

In 1467 Gotthard Busch built a hammer mill in what would later become the local area. The growing settlement separated from Weidenau in 1622 and formed an independent municipality in the Weidenau office , whose parish was first Siegen and from 1874 Weidenau. On April 1, 1902 and June 26, 1912, parts of the municipality of Buschgotthardshütten (40 ha and 51 ha) were incorporated into the city of Siegen. From 1927 the place belonged to the district court and tax office Siegen as well as the post office in Weidenau.

In 1925 the municipality of Buschgotthardshütten had a total area of ​​256.53 hectares and had 543 inhabitants, of which 461 were Protestant, 70 Catholic and twelve belonged to other denominations. In addition to the volunteer fire brigade Buschgotthardshütten there was electricity, gas and water supplies. A sports field and a rest home were set up. The municipal council had seven seats.

On April 1, 1937, the Buschgotthardshütten community was dissolved and divided between the city of Siegen (104 ha) and the community of Weidenau (143 ha). From July 1, 1966, the Weidenau part of the new town of Hüttental . Since January 1st, 1975 the entire former municipality of Buschgotthardshütten belongs to Siegen.

The Charlottental settlement was part of the former Buschgotthardshütten community .

Population numbers

year 1861 1885 1910 1925
Residents 190 515 397 541

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Lothar Irle: Siegerländer Ortverzeichnis , 1973 ( Memento from March 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ A b c Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and municipalities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 223 .
  3. ^ Genealogy.net: Weidenau Office
  4. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 336 .
  5. ↑ Ritter's geographic-statistical lexicon 1865, p. 251
  6. ↑ Westfälisches Gemeindelexikon 1887, pp. 108/109
  7. ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de: District of Siegen
  8. ^ 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).

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Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 14 "  N , 8 ° 1 ′ 11"  E