Herfen
Herfen
City of Waldbröl
Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 31 ″ N , 7 ° 37 ′ 2 ″ E
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Height : | 310 m |
Residents : | 265 (December 2, 2004) |
Postal code : | 51545 |
Area code : | 02291 |
Location of Herfen in Waldbröl
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Herfen is a village in the town of Waldbröl in the Oberbergisches Kreis in southern North Rhine-Westphalia within the administrative district of Cologne ( Germany ).
Location and description
The place is about 2.8 km south of the city center.
history
In 1487 the place was mentioned for the first time in a document: "Johan van Herwane and Nese his wife prescribe a pension from a meadow in Herwane to the convent of Herchen monastery ".
The spelling of the first mention was Herwen .
On February 22, 1944, a US Air Force B-17 bomber was shot down by a German fighter near Herfen. Seven soldiers died in the crash. Three soldiers were able to save themselves with the parachute.
leisure
Hiking and biking trails
The hiking trail O leads through Herfen, coming from Niederhof .
Bus and train connections
Public bus
Stop: Herfen
- 342 Waldbröl, Windeck-Rosbach ( OVAG )
swell
- ^ 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 .
- ↑ Missing 306BG aircraft on 1944-02-22 ( Memento from December 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive )