Herbertshagen

Herbertshagen municipality Morsbach Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 32 "  N , 7 ° 41 ′ 33"  E
Height :	315 m above sea level NN
Residents :	62  (Dec 31, 2007)
Postal code :	51597
Area code :	02294

Herbertshagen is a district of Morsbach in the Oberbergischer Kreis in southern North Rhine-Westphalia within the administrative district of Cologne .

Location and description

Herbertshagen is located in a rural, wooded area at the southernmost tip of the Oberbergischer Kreis. The cities of Gummersbach (38 km), Siegen (35 km) and Cologne (75 km) can be reached in a few minutes by car.

Neighboring districts of Herbertshagen are Rolshagen in the northwest, Flockenberg in the east, Appenhagen and Katzenbach in the south.

history

First mention

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1492 , namely “Braun v. Herwertzhain, a Cologne subject in the parish of Morsbach, is mentioned in the files on afflictions (in the Middle High German period up to around 1450 it was used to mean "break, penetrate with force, commit a crime") Berg-Homburg. "

The spelling of the first mention was Herwertzhain .

swell

1. ^ Matthias Lexer : Middle High German Concise Dictionary. (At the same time as a supplement and alphabetical index to the Middle High German dictionary by Benecke - Müller - Zarncke ). Reprint of the Leipzig edition 1872–1878, with an introduction by Kurt Gärtner . Hirzel, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-7776-0488-7 .
2. ^ 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 .