Eschenbach (Netphen)

Eschenbach City of Netphen Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 44 ″  N , 8 ° 7 ′ 30 ″  E
Height :	341  (310-390)  m
Area :	4.42 km²
Residents :	587  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Population density :	133 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1969
Postal code :	57250
Area code :	02738
Eschenbach

Eschenbach is part of the town of Netphen in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district in North Rhine-Westphalia with 587 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2013).

geography

The place is about 3 km northeast of Netphen and has an area of ​​4.4 km². Eschenbach is between 310 and 390  m above sea level, the highest mountain in the area is the Old Castle at 632.9  m above sea level. Other mountains are the Schüffel with 540.9  m , Schießberg with 406  m , Scharn with 496.1  m , and Hager with 471  m . The Netphe flows through the village .

Neighboring places

Neighboring places of Eschenbach are Oechelhausen in the north, Afholderbach in the northeast, Brauersdorf in the southeast, Netphen in the south and southwest and Frohnhausen in the northwest.

history

Eschenbach was first mentioned in a document in 1311.

From 1815 until the municipal reorganization in 1969, the place belonged to the office of Netphen and on January 1, 1969 it became part of the new large municipality of Netphen, since 2000 a district.

Population numbers

Population of the place:

year Residents 1818 172 1885 196 1895 199 1905 209 1910 229 1925 215

year Residents 1933 213 1939 238 1950 316 1961 291 1967 405 1994 573

year Residents 2005 638 2009 619 2012 601 2013 587

place

A special feature Eschenbach is the last private tannery of the winner country . The St. Andreas Chapel, which was recently renovated, is located in Eschenbach. The village has a community center , a kindergarten , a sports court , a soccer field , two playgrounds and a cemetery .

societies

The Eschenbach fire fighting group of the Netphen volunteer fire brigade has the third largest crew with 49 active and young firefighters. There are also other clubs: the choral society “MGV Frohsinn Eschenbach 1888”, the sports club “SV Grün-Weiß Eschenbach”, the Eschenbach civic association and the village youth Eschenbach “DJE”.

Web links

• Eschenbach (Netphen) in the Westphalia Culture Atlas

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map of the Principality of Nassau-Siegen: Documentary evidence of settlement up to 1500 ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 71 .
3. ^ Otto Schaefer: The district of Siegen , Siegen 1968
4. ↑ Westfälisches Gemeindelexikon 1887, pp. 108/109
5. ↑ Westfälisches Gemeindelexikon 1897, pp. 110/111
6. ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de: District of Siegen
7. ↑ genealogy.net: Office Netphen
8. ↑ ^{a b} 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). 
9. ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 184 .
10. ↑ Bernhard Oltersdorf: Netphen ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 9.0 MB) , approx. 1995