Heiligenborn (Bad Laasphe)

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Heiligenborn
City of Bad Laasphe
Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 35 ″  N , 8 ° 16 ′ 35 ″  E
Height : 607 m above sea level NN
Area : 2.52 km²
Residents : (2003)
Population density : 2 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 57334
Area code : 02752
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City structure of the individual districts of Bad Laasphe

Heiligenborn is a west-southwestern district of Bad Laasphe in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Siegen-Wittgenstein ( Germany ).

According to the main statutes of the city of Bad Laasphe, the district of Heiligenborn belongs to the Banfe district . Today there are only four houses in the village, in which a total of five people live.

Geographical location

The Heiligenborn settlement is located in the southern part of the Rothaar Mountains on the southeastern border of the Siegen-Wittgenstein district. Heiligenborn is around 10 km (as the crow flies ) from Bad Laasphe in the west-south-west direction. The place is surrounded on all sides by a forest area. Heiligenborn can only be reached via two narrow streets, one of which is to be expanded from 2009.

The Schwarze Langenbach flows through Heiligenborn and feeds a pond there and is a tributary of the Ilse . This in turn flows away around 850 m southeast of the village of the holy Ilsequelle located on the Rothaarsteig . Above the source is the compass at 694.1  m above sea level. NHN the summit of the highest mountain in the urban area of ​​Bad Laasphe. The Lahn rises around 2.5 km west of Heiligenborn .

The Kleiner Rothaar fairy tale hiking trail is also located near Heiligenborn .

history

The name Heiligenborn derives from the Ilsequelle, which was already known in the Middle Ages as a holy Born beyond the national borders. Heiligenborn was built as a canon settlement around 1700 . Around 1850 the residents sold their property to the Princely Administration in Laasphe and left their homes, most of them emigrated to America .

Heiligenborn was an independent municipality until the Sauerland / Paderborn Act was implemented on January 1, 1975.

Today the village of Heiligenborn, in which there are still four houses and the old school used as a residential building, and the surrounding forests are privately owned.

Population development

  • 1961: 22 inhabitants
  • 1970: 15 inhabitants
  • 1974: 14 inhabitants
  • 2003: 05 inhabitants

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Retail concept for the city of Bad Laasphe ( Memento of the original from February 1, 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; 1.2 MB), with population figures of the city districts (page 8)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bad-laasphe.de
  2. Road expansion program of the city of Bad Laasphe for the years 2009 - 2012 ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2009 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bad-laasphe.de
  3. Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )
  4. a b c Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 337 f .
  5. Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 140 f .