Heggen (Finnentrop)

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Heggen
Finnentrop municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 20 ″  N , 7 ° 57 ′ 7 ″  E
Height : 253 m
Residents : 2733  (December 31, 2016)
Postal code : 57413
Area code : 02721
Heggen (Olpe district)
Heggen

Location of Heggen in the Olpe district
Heggen from the Dünscheder saddle
Heggen from the Dünscheder saddle

Heggen is a village in the North Rhine-Westphalian municipality of Finnentrop in the Olpe district with around 2,700 inhabitants. It is one of the three largest Finnentropic villages.

Geographical location

Aerial photograph (2014)
Hohe Ley nature reserve

Heggen is located in the Sauerland around 2.3 km southwest of the core town of Finnentrop and around 4.7 km northeast of the city of Attendorn . It is traversed by the Wesmecke , which rises as a basin below the Himmelsberg, flows through Sange and flows east of the village as Heggenwasser into the Lenne tributary Bigge .

To the south of the village lies the striking Hohe Ley rock .

Church of St. Antonius Einsiedler Heggen

In a letter of indulgence from Pope John XXII. From the year 1329 a chapel in Heggen is mentioned for the first time in honor of the holy confessor Antonius. At the time of its creation, it probably served as a separate church for an estate of the Heygen knight family . It was built as a Romanesque, three-nave small church with a two-bay choir in the shape of a horseshoe and a west tower. The aisles were flat arched, the central nave widened to the west and east following the choir walls. All windows and entrances were pointed arches, the outside of the church was plastered.

By sheathing the old, small church and adding heights to the old tower to 64 m in 1900, the current church was expanded and rebuilt by the architect Johannes Franziskus Klomp . The foundation stone for the new church was laid on June 14, 1900 by the pastor Schmalohr, a year later the consecration by Bishop Wilhelm Schneider took place .

After long negotiations, Heggen became an independent parish in 1893 .

traffic

Heggen train station

Heggen is connected to small bus stops . There is also a train station as the Biggetalbahn runs through Heggen . Here the train stops every hour. At Finnentrop it is possible to change to the Ruhr-Sieg route to Hagen and Siegen .

The Attendorn-Finnentrop airfield is also located in Heggen, as the Milstenau forms the border across from the airfield to the city of Attendorn and the airfield is therefore on the right-hand catchment area. The nearest airports are Dortmund Airport , Siegerlandflughafen and Cologne / Bonn Airport , the respective linear distances of the airports mentioned amount from the airfield, about 47, 50, and 64 km away.

The closest motorways are the A 4 and A 45 .

societies

In the village there are the following clubs: rifle club, sports club, carnival society, drum corps, volunteer fire brigade , music train of the volunteer fire brigade, MGV "singers' association", tennis club, gymnastics club and fishing club.

Personalities

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Heggen (Finnentrop)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population statistics of the municipality of Finnentrop (as of December 31, 2016). (PDF) Municipality of Finnentrop, accessed on May 16, 2017 .