Grove (Netphen)

Grove City of Netphen Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 11 "  N , 8 ° 12 ′ 58"  E
Height :	417  (384-674)  m
Area :	10.1 km²
Residents :	908  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Population density :	90 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1969
Postal code :	57250
Area code :	02737
Grove from the direction of Irmgarteichen; in the background the Haincher Höhe

Hainchen is a district of Netphen in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district in North Rhine-Westphalia with 908 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2013).

geography

View from the edge of the Haincher Höhe to Hainchen (foreground).
In the second row the mountains of the western Rothaargebirge towering over the Siegerland by one level.

Geographical location

Hainchen is located on the eastern edge of the historic Siegerland , at the junction of the spring basin landscape of the natural Siegerland and the Rothaargebirge . The Haincher Höhe , named after the place , which towers over the location immediately to the east by around 200 m, represents a ridge-like southwestern extension of the Rothaar Mountains and forms a natural border between North Rhine-Westphalia and Hesse . In the northeastern extension of this ridge, 5.2 km (as the crow flies ), lies in the Jagdberg at 675.9  m above sea level. NN the highest elevation of the place.

The district area is 10.1 km² (1,010 ha). The area is divided into 650 ha of forest and 420 ha of land and location. The district boundary runs around 8 km along the Hessian state border. Furthermore, the place borders on the city of Bad Laasphe to the north and the municipality of Wilnsdorf to the south . The difference in altitude is 194  m from the entrance to the village ( 384  m ) to the exit from the Hessian border ( 578  m above sea  level ) . The Werthenbach tributary Geiersgrundbach flows through the village .

Neighboring places

Neighboring towns of Hainchen are Werthenbach in the north, Rittershausen in the east, Weidelbach in the south-east, Offdilln and Dillbrecht in the south, Wilgersdorf in the south-west and Irmgarteichen in the west.

history

Hainchen Castle

The first written mention of the place was in the year 1313. On May 4th of this year Heinrich I von Nassau , from the brothers Friedrich and Gottfried von dem Hain (= fencing, enclosure) acquired the "burch zu deme hana" with the associated valley (= "Place"). The existence of a village is also proven because the brothers from the grove kept two courtyards “by heart of the ditch” for themselves. The village is certainly older, because the castle Hainchen ( castrum indaginem ) was mentioned earlier, on April 23, 1290. The ancestors of the castle owners are mentioned even earlier. “Derer vom Hain”, Conradius de Indagine , was first mentioned in 1215.

In 1566, 28 taxpayers lived in the village. In the 15th century about 120 people lived in Hainchen, in the 16th century there were 150 and in the 17th century 160 people. In 1815 there were eight carters, two small blacksmiths and a landlord in Hainchen.

Until the end of 1968 the place belonged to the office of Netphen and on January 1, 1969, as part of the municipal reorganization, it was connected to the new larger municipality of Netphen as an independent municipality. Since 1981 two of the three baking houses ("Backes") have been operated regularly.

Population numbers

The population development of Hainchen:

year Residents 1818 255 1831 335 1839 342 1843 351 1852 333 1855 337 1858 329 1867 298

year Residents 1871 284 1885 259 1895 291 1905 313 1910 311 1925 426 1933 453 1939 439

year Residents 1946 565 1950 603 1961 717 1967 762 1969 798 1975 768 1976 780 1981 834

year Residents 1989 938 1994 1000 2005 988 2009 958 2012 907 2013 908

Attractions

• In Hainchen is also Castle Hainchen a Wasserburg . It has existed since at least 1290, the year in which it was first mentioned in a document.
• Valley of the Geiergrundbach
• Ski jump

Infrastructure

Bus route R16 in the direction of Hainchen

Industry

The local economy has developed from what used to be small craft businesses and independent farmers to become industrial operations today. A prefabricated house company as well as a mechanical workshop and four service companies have settled here. There is also an agricultural area of ​​four farms, two of which are the main occupation . There are a total of 129 jobs in the village. The vast majority of employees commute to the neighboring areas (Greater Siegen and front Hesse ).

Transport links

The place is 14 km from the A 45 . The favorable transport connections also contribute to the revitalization of the hiking trails on the Rothaarsteig , which leads 7 km through Hainchen. Hainchen is also connected to the bus service (line R16 from Siegen and Netphen . However, due to high demand, line R16 (formerly line L161) was extended to Rudersdorf in the municipality of Wilnsdorf , so that the remote village of Hainchen is better connected to the infrastructure and through the one located there The DB train station can be connected more quickly to Siegen and Dillenburg. There is also the A360 line with connections to the surrounding towns). Formerly there was a bus route R21, which connected Hilchenbach via Netphen, Hainchen and Almonds to Dillenburg and from Netphen via Hainchen to Almonds in the Dietzhölztal with a connection to Bad Laasphe with bus routes 302 / R32 and A381.

Social and public institutions

• primary school
• Community center

• sports ground
• Tennis facility
• Football field
• Three children's playgrounds
• graveyard
• Volunteer firefighter
• Ski club Upper Johannland

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 71 .
2. ↑ hainchen.info: History  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ Otto Schaefer: The district of Siegen , Siegen 1968
4. ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de: District of Siegen
5. ↑ genealogy.net: Office Netphen
6. ↑ ^{a b} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Siegen. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
7. ↑ Bernhard Oltersdorf: Netphen ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 9.0 MB) , approx. 1995

Web links

• Village website
• Hainchen (Netphen) in the Westphalia Culture Atlas