Halle (Morsbach)

Hall municipality Morsbach Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 39 ″ N , 7 ° 45 ′ 1 ″ E
Height :	333 m above sea level NN
Residents :	23 (Dec 31, 2007)
Postal code :	51597
Area code :	02294

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

Location and description

Halle is located in a rural, wooded area at the southernmost tip of the Oberbergischer Kreis. The cities of Gummersbach (38 km), Siegen (32 km) and Cologne (75 km) can be reached in a few minutes by car.

Neighboring districts are Korseifen in the north, Kappenstein in the southeast, Ellingen in the southwest and Oberwarnsbach in the south.

history

In 1573 the place was mentioned for the first time in the sentence "Hermann Muller in the halls, Bergischer Kirchenknecht zu Morsbach, is mentioned several times as a witness at a trial before the Reich Chamber of Commerce."

The spelling of the first mention was In der Hallen .

swell

^ 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 .

[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 .