Heienbach

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Heienbach
municipality Reichshof
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 39 ″  N , 7 ° 37 ′ 14 ″  E
Height : 310-330 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 49  (Jan. 1, 2007)
Postal code : 51580
Area code : 02296
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Location of Heienbach in Reichshof

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

Location and description

Heienbach lies to the west of the Wiehltalsperre , the closest centers are Gummersbach (24 km northwest), Cologne (61 km west) and Siegen (45 km southeast).

history

First mention

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1464. "Homburger Grenzumgang."

The spelling of the first mention was Heygenbach .

Association

  • Heienbach village community

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 .