Field (Reichshof)

field municipality Reichshof Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 5 ″  N , 7 ° 37 ′ 17 ″  E
Height :	270 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	180  (Jan. 1, 2007)
Postal code :	51580
Area code :	02296
Location of Feld in Reichshof

Feld is one of a total of 106 localities in the Reichshof municipality in the Oberbergischer Kreis in the North Rhine-Westphalian administrative district of Cologne in Germany .

Location and description

Feld lies to the west of the Wiehltalsperre , the closest centers are Gummersbach (22 km northwest), Cologne (60 km west) and Siegen (44 km southeast).

history

First mention

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1467 . "Hannes vom Velde witnessed a border circumvention (in the Arnold Mercator map 1575 and later the place is called Konincks Vell )."

The spelling of the first mention was Velde .

Churches

The chapel of the Holy Family was built in Feld in 1956-57 according to plans by the Cologne architect Hans Schilling ; it belongs to the parish of St. Mary's Assumption in Wiehl .

Chapel to the Holy Family

leisure

Hiking and biking trails

Local hiking trails

The starting point of the circular hiking trail Δ with a length of 10 kilometers is Reichshof-Feld and takes the following course:

Reichshof-Feld - Angfurten - Büttinghausen - Dreisbach - Reichshof-Mühlenschlade - Reichshof-Drespe - circle around height 328.8 - east of Reichshof-Heikausen - Reichshof-Feld

Individual evidence

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 .