Hengsbach (Siegen)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The “Untere Hengsbach” farm around 1900. View of the Siegtal, upper half of the mountain the dumps of the Flussberg mine , on the road a freight train of the Eisern-Siegener Railway, on the right in the background the smoke trail of the Marienhütte near Eiserfeld.

Hengsbach was a district of the former municipality of Eiserfeld in the southern Siegen urban area in the Siegen district .

Hengsbach was first mentioned on August 23, 1288 in a document as "Gut Hengisbach". The squire Gerhard zu Selbach ( Altenseelbach ) transferred his property in Hengsbach to the nunnery of St. Johann zu Siegen. On a map that was created around 1600, Hengsbach is shown as a separate place Henngsbach next to Iserfelt.

At the beginning of the 20th century the place still consisted of the farms Untere and Obere Hengsbach . The Lower Hengsbach farm existed as a count's court in the Middle Ages. Around the place there were the important pits Flussberg , Gilberg , Glücksbrunnen, Münker and Pützhorn , as well as Anna and Ehrenhut. Most of these pits were on the Gilberg , which lies between the Hengsbach and the Eiserfeld town center. In the upper outflowing valley, already on the slope of the Eisernhardt , was the Eiserner Union composite mine . In the valley, the Eisern-Siegen railway passed the place.

Today the settlement known as Hengsbach in Siegerland is part of the Siegen district of Eiserfeld and is located in a small, steeply rising side valley of the Sieg , surrounded by the mountains Gilberg, Eisernhardt , Blumichskopf and Ählkopf.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Horst G. Koch: Queen of the iron stone pits - Eisenzecher Zug / Reinhold-Forster-Erbstollen , Verlag Gudrun Koch, Siegen 1986.
  2. ^ Lothar Irle: Siegerländer Ortverzeichnis , 1973 ( Memento of March 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Dieter Pfau: Traces of time in Siegerland and Wittgenstein - Early and High Middle Ages 750-1250 , Publishing House for Regional History , Bielefeld 2009.
  4. ↑ Siegener Urkundenbuch Volume I, Siegen , 1887, pp. 34–35, no. 55.
  5. ^ Otto Braun: 700 years Neunkirchen , Neunkirchen 1988.

Coordinates: 50 ° 51 '  N , 8 ° 1'  E