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Cock beech
municipality Reichshof
Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 5 ″  N , 7 ° 41 ′ 41 ″  E
Height : 307 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 133  (Jan. 1, 2007)
Postal code : 51580
Area code : 02265
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Location of Hahnbuche in Reichshof

Hahnbuche is one of 106 localities in the Reichshof community in the Oberbergischer Kreis in the North Rhine-Westphalian administrative district of Cologne in Germany .

Location and description

Hahnbuche is located in the northern part of the Reichshof community a good 1 km north of Eckenhagen and 5 km southeast of Bergneustadt . The closest centers are Gummersbach (15 km northwest), Cologne (64 km west) and Siegen (39 km southeast).

history

First mention

The place was mentioned for the first time in 1492 : "Hannes von der Hambachen is one of the witnesses in the establishment of the Bergisch rights in the Eigen von Eckenhagen ."

The spelling of the first mention was Hambachen .

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Association

  • Village community “Im Grund” eV, Hahnbuche

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 .