Hövel (Bad Honnef)

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Hövel is a district of Aegidienberg , a district of Bad Honnef in the North Rhine-Westphalian Rhein-Sieg district .

geography

Hövel is located in the north-west of the Aegidienberg district, south of Federal Motorway 3 and on the eastern edge of the Siebengebirge nature reserve . The village extends on a mountain ridge that slopes slightly to the north between the valleys of the Logebach in the west and the Kochbach in the east and comprises altitudes between 250  m above sea level. NHN and 270  m above sea level NHN . To the south, Hövel flows smoothly into the parish village of Aegidienberg, the nearest villages on the northern side of the motorway include the immediately neighboring Brüngsberg and the hamlet of Efferoth, about 800 m to the east . Beyond the Logebach valley, 2.5 kilometers to the northwest, at a similar altitude, lies the Siebengebirgsort Ittenbach (city of Königswinter ). Hövel is crossed in a north-south direction by the state road 143 ( Rottbitze - Aegidienberg - Oberpleis - Troisdorf ) on a section of the Deutsche Alleenstraße , to the southwest the state road 83 (Aegidienberg - Ittenbach) grazes the town.

history

Hövel was probably settled like the other places near the exit of the Schmelztal from Honnef, which for a long time was mainly accessible via the Höveler Steig . The name Hövel (= "hill") describes the topographical location of the village. In 1673 Hövel (at that time still Höffel ) had 16 taxable residents, making it the most populous district in the Aegidienberg area according to this standard. 1803 included the place 27 houses or house numbers. Hövel is one of the eight honors that made up the parish of Aegidienberg at the latest from the middle of the 18th century until the dissolution of the Duchy of Berg in 1806. In 1843, the name of the village was still given as Höfel in a census . The Aegidienberg parish tithe , which was raised until 1858, comprised the four tithe districts Orscheid , Retscheid , Kirche (with Siefenhoven ) and Hövel. In 1874 the road connection (today's L 143) from Himberg via Hövel and Brüngsberg to Niederpleis was completed.

In 1923 Hövel was one of the most contested places in the course of the resistance against the separatist movement in the Rhineland ( Battle of Aegidienberg ). On November 16, a few dozen separatists entered the village, whose protection had been neglected in favor of Himberg and Rottbitze. In the subsequent counter-attack by the armed resistance, one of five citizens of Hövel, Theodor Weinz, who were taken hostage, was killed. For the side of the separatists, the death toll is given as 14.

At the end of the 1930s, the construction of what was then the Reichsautobahn or today's Bundesautobahn 3 required extensive excavation in order to create a cut between Hövel and Brüngsberg . When the land consolidation ended after the Second World War as a result of the construction of the motorway, agricultural operations were abandoned, but they continued to be of economic importance. As a result of extensive population growth, which had already started in the second half of the 19th century and picked up speed again in the first two post-war decades, Hövel grew together with the village that had arisen around the Aegidienberg parish church . With the construction of the district road from Hövel / Aegidienberg to Ittenbach (today's L 83), which was opened in 1955 , the traffic connection in the direction of Königswinter was significantly improved. Since 1999 the district has been crossed by the Aegidienberg tunnel of the high-speed railway line Cologne – Rhine / Main .

Population development
year Residents
1816 161
1828 179
1843 185
1885 285
1905 280
1963 465

coat of arms

Chalkboard as the town's coat of arms

In 2008 the artist Richard Lenzgen created a slate as the Hövel local coat of arms . It shows "in a curly blue tip the monument of the separatist defense surrounded by trees". As a symbol for the local importance of agriculture and in particular a barn in which contractors thresh grain , a “ sheaf of golden wheat standing in a red field ” is shown. "Two silver oak leaves with golden acorns in a green field" indicate the surrounding forests and forestry .

Attractions

  • The following are listed as architectural monuments in the city's list of monuments :
    • Memorial to the memory of the separatist defense
      At the square-like confluence of Höveler Strasse and Aegidienberger Strasse is a monument erected in 1935, which commemorates the fighting during the resistance against the separatist movement in November 1923. It consists of a stone base with four inscription panels and a monolith on top . In 1983 the memorial was renewed, and in November 2013 a further plaque in the form of a stone slab was installed, bearing the names of three citizens who organized the resistance at the time.
    • a votive cross on Höveler Straße, erected in 1913, with a preserved inscription → entry in the list of monuments
    • a residential building on Höveler Straße, partly timber-framed
  • The state road 143 crosses the A 3 between Hövel and Brüngsberg with a stone bridge , the so-called Westerwälder Tor from 1938. It is one of the few remaining stone bridges that were built during the construction of the motorway, with its graywacke masonry , its large circular segment arch and its inner round arches as an art monument .

Web links

Commons : Hövel  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ West German Society for Family Studies (ed.); Johannes Jansen: Aegidienberger Familienbuch 1666-1875 , Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-933364-57-4 , S. XVIII u. XIX.
  2. ^ Otmar Falkner: The Quirrenbacher Mühle. In: Heimatblätter des Rhein-Sieg-Kreis , 75th year 2007, p. 140.
  3. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, 2nd volume: The map of 1789. Bonn 1898, p. 315.
  4. ↑ Karl Gast: Aegidienberg through the ages. Aegidienberg 1964, pp. 149-150.
  5. ^ Klaus Friedrichs: The Separatist Battle in the Siebengebirge , Strüdersche Buchdruckerei and Verlagsanstalt, Neuwied 1931, pp. 107-122.
  6. ↑ Karl Gast: Aegidienberg through the ages . Aegidienberg 1964, pp. 229-231.
  7. ^ AA Mützell: New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state , Verlag KA Kümmel, Halle 1823, third volume, p. 191
  8. ^ Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolaische Buchhandlung, Berlin and Stettin 1830, p. 291
  9. ↑ Royal Government of Cologne: overview of the components u. Directory of all localities in the government district of Cologne. Cöln 1845, p. 86.
  10. ↑ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII Provinz Rheinland, Verlag des Königlich Statistischen Bureaus (Ed.), 1888, pages 114 u. 115 (PDF; 1.5 MB)
  11. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. Booklet XII Rhine Province. Berlin 1909, p. 148
  12. ↑ Karl Gast: Aegidienberg through the ages . Aegidienberg 1964, p. 93.
  13. ↑ Well-known coat of arms painter from Hövel , Rundblick Siebengebirge, April 26, 2008
  14. ^ Ansgar Sebastian Klein : Rise and Rule of National Socialism in the Siebengebirge . 1st edition, Klartext Verlag, Essen 2008, ISBN 978-3-89861-915-8 , p. 260. (also dissertation University of Bonn, 2007) (quoted from Philipp Küpper: Die Separatistenschlacht in Aegidienberg , Aegidienberg 1936)
  15. ↑ 90 years after the separatist defense, the Aegidienberg Citizens Association unveils a memorial plaque , General-Anzeiger, November 18, 2013

Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 8 ″  N , 7 ° 17 ′ 52 ″  E