Heikausen

Heikausen municipality Reichshof Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 14 ″ N , 7 ° 36 ′ 31 ″ E
Height :	235–250 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	70 (Jan. 1, 2007)
Postal code :	51580
Area code :	02296
	Location of Heikausen in Reichshof

Heikausen, photographed from the northwest, 2004

Heikausen is one of a total of 106 localities in the Reichshof municipality in the Oberbergisches Kreis in the North Rhine-Westphalian administrative district of Cologne in Germany .

Location and description

Heikhausen is 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 1425. "Rorich van Haikshusen is mentioned in a sealed letter from the bailiff of Neustadt."

The spelling of the first mention was Haikshusen .

Individual evidence

^ Klaus Pampus: First documentary mentions of Oberbergischer places (= contributions to Oberbergischen history. Special volume 1). Oberbergische Department 1924 eV of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein, Gummersbach 1998, ISBN 3-88265-206-3 .

[1] Klaus Pampus: First documentary mentions of Oberbergischer places (= contributions to Oberbergischen history. Special volume 1). Oberbergische Department 1924 eV of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein, Gummersbach 1998, ISBN 3-88265-206-3 .