Eichholz (Halver)

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Oak wood
City of Halver
Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 33 ″  N , 7 ° 30 ′ 16 ″  E
Height : 400 m above sea level NN
Postal code : 58553
Area code : 02355
Eichholz (Halver)
Oak wood

Location of Eichholz in Halver

Eichholz is a district of Halver in the Märkisches Kreis in the administrative district of Arnsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ).

Location and description

Eichholz is located at 400 meters above sea ​​level northeast of the main town and today borders on its central locations. In addition to the main town, neighboring towns are the suburbs of Howarde and Oberlangenscheid , as well as a residential area southeast of Eichholz. In Eichholz, the state road L528 branches off from the new federal road 229 , which is routed as a bypass . North of Eichholz, an industrial park extends to Oberlangenscheid.

Hardly anything is left of the original settlement , the old buildings had to give way to the new intersection or were built over with a large production hall . Parts of the route of the Hälvertalbahn , which had its terminus at the southern end of the village, have already been cut. Commercial buildings and newer residential developments define the Eichholz district today.

history

Eichholz was first mentioned in a document in 1594, the time of origin of the settlement was probably between 1500 and 1600. Eichholz was owned by the Markgenossenschaft of the village farmers of Halvers.

In 1818 there were 16 people living in the village. According to the table of localities and distances from the government district of Arnsberg , Eichholz was categorized as a farm and in 1838 had a population of 67, all of whom were Protestant. At that time, the place belonged to the Halveran village farmers within the mayor's office of Halver and owned six residential buildings, a factory or mill and two agricultural buildings.

The municipality encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia from 1887 gives a number of 123 inhabitants who lived in twelve houses.

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.