Höhscheid (Leichlingen)

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Höhscheid
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 41 ″  N , 7 ° 7 ′ 59 ″  E
Height : 192 m above sea level NN
Postal code : 42799
Area code : 02174
Höhscheid (Leichlingen (Rhineland))
Höhscheid

Location of Höhscheid in Leichlingen (Rhineland)

Höhscheid is a village in Leichlingen (Rhineland) in the Rheinisch-Bergisch district that emerged from three court communities .

Location and description

The place is located southeast of Witzhelden in the headwaters of the Höhscheider Bach , a tributary of the Wersbach near the city limits of Solingen and Burscheid . Neighboring towns are Nüsenhöfen , Dorffeld , Bern , Feld , Neuenhof , Meie , Brachhausen , Altenbach , Kuhle , Heide and Wersbacher Mühle on Leichlinger and Heide , Kippekofen and Schneppendahl in the Burscheider urban area.

Höhscheid was created from the three residential areas Oberhöhscheid, Mittelhöhscheid and Unterhöhscheid. Ober- and Mittelhöhscheid have now grown together and have a cohesive development with Heide and Kuhle, Unterhöhscheid at the confluence of the Höhscheider Bach in the Wersbach can still be seen independently.

history

Höhscheid was first mentioned in 1362 as Hoeschyt . The place name is a -scheid -Name in conjunction with ahd. Hohi (height). The map Topographia Ducatus Montani from 1715 shows two residential areas with one or two courtyards under the name Husget . In the 18th century, the place belonged to the parish Witzhelden in the Bergisches Amt Miselohe . The topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 shows all three residential areas, whereby the adjacent residential areas Ober- and Mittelhöhscheid as Höhscheid and the residential area Unterhöhscheid as Unt. Höhscheid are labeled. The Prussian first recording from 1844 lists all three residential areas with their names Ober- , Mittel- and Unterhöhscheid .

199 inhabitants lived in the village in 1815/16. In 1832 Höhscheid belonged to the parish Witzhelden of the mayor's office of Burscheid under the name Hühscheid . The place, categorized as a village according to the statistics and topography of the administrative district of Düsseldorf , had 48 houses, a factory or mill and 76 agricultural buildings at that time. At that time, 256 residents lived in the village, eight of them Catholic and 248 Protestant.

Due to the municipal code for the Rhine province, the parish of Witzhelden received the status of a municipality in 1845, left the Burscheid mayor and formed its own mayor's office from 1850 onwards . In the municipality lexicon for the province of Rhineland in 1885 53 houses with 234 inhabitants are given. In 1895 the place had 41 houses with 189 inhabitants, in 1905 40 houses and 158 inhabitants.

On January 1, 1975, the municipality of Witzhelden was incorporated into Leichlingen with Höhscheid.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Dittmaier : settlement names and settlement history of the Bergisches Land , Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1956 ( journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein , vol. 74 / parallel edition as a publication of the Institute for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland at the University of Bonn )
  2. ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
  3. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1888.
  4. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1895 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1897.
  5. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1909.
  6. ^ 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. 298 .