Hahn (Morsbach)

Rooster municipality Morsbach Coordinates: 50 ° 52 ′ 35 ″  N , 7 ° 42 ′ 5 ″  E
Height :	321 m above sea level NN
Residents :	204  (Dec. 31, 2007)
Postal code :	51597
Area code :	02294

Hahn is a district of Morsbach in the Oberbergisches Kreis in southern North Rhine-Westphalia within the administrative district of Cologne .

Location and description

Hahn is located in a rural, wooded area at the southernmost tip of the Oberbergisches Kreis. The cities of Gummersbach (38 km), Siegen (50 km) and Cologne (75 km) can be reached in a few minutes by car.

Neighboring villages are Solseifen in the southwest, Wallerhausen in the west, Böcklingen in the north, and Rossenbach in the southeast.

history

First mention

The place was mentioned for the first time in 1492 , namely "Brauns Tiel vom Han is mentioned in files about afflictions (in Middle High German times up to around 1450 used to mean" break, penetrate with force, commit a crime ") Berg-Homburg im Parish Morsbach "

The spelling of the first mention was Han .

swell

1. ^ Matthias Lexer : Middle High German Concise Dictionary. (At the same time as a supplement and alphabetical index to the Middle High German dictionary by Benecke - Müller - Zarncke ). Reprint of the Leipzig edition 1872–1878, with an introduction by Kurt Gärtner . Hirzel, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-7776-0488-7 .
2. ^ 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 .