Herhahn

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Herhahn
City of Schleiden
Coordinates: 50 ° 33 ′ 23 ″  N , 6 ° 27 ′ 9 ″  E
Height : 529 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 461  (Oct 31, 2015)
Postal code : 53937
Area code : 02444
Herhahn (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Herhahn

Location of Herhahn in North Rhine-Westphalia
Parish Church of St. Catherine
Parish Church of St. Catherine

Herhahn , located directly at the Eifel National Park , is a district of Schleiden in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Euskirchen . The Braubach rises to the east of the village. The place has the Catholic Church of St. Catherine, a kindergarten, a youth home and a fire fighting group of the volunteer fire brigade . A little over 460 people live in Herhahn.

history

In the 14th century Herhahn belongs to the Jülich subordinate Dreiborn .

Until the reorganization of the communities and districts of the reorganization area Aachen, which became effective on January 1, 1972, Herhahn belonged to the Dreiborn community, which was dissolved at the same time.

Herhahn in the Dreiborn district

geography

Dreiborn plateau

Herhahn is located in North Rhine-Westphalia in the Rureifel , northwest of Schleiden , not far from the border with Belgium on the Dreiborn plateau above the Urft and Olef valleys.

Nature and recreation

The altitude is interesting for tourists with a wide view of the Urft and Olef valleys, the nearby Eifel National Park, the nearby Gemünd , the Dreiborn plateau. The proximity to the Urfttalsperre and the architecture of the NS-Ordensburg Vogelsang , the large number of marked hiking trails.

traffic

The L 207 and the B 266 cross in Herhahn . The next motorway junctions are Bad Münstereifel / Mechernich on the A 1 and Aachen-Lichtenbusch on the A 44 .

Local public transport Sign 224 - tram stop, StVO 1970.svg

  • the bus line L.63, Simmerath - Einruhr - Vogelsang (- Schleiden)
  • the bus line 831 Gemünd - Schleiden - Dreiborn , whereby a large part of the journeys is carried out as a taxi bus (only by telephone in advance).
  • the bus line SB82 (National Park Shuttle) Kall - Gemünd - Vogelsang
  • a trip in school traffic on line 836 (Hellenthal -) Schöneseiffen - Harperscheid - Schleiden to Schleiden
  • a trip on line 815 (bicycle bus) Gemünd - Kall - Monschau

Regenerative energy

Since July 2010 the "Sun-Park Herhahn", which with its 5,852 solar modules on an area of ​​around 29,000 m² is one of the largest solar parks in the country, has been in operation in the Herhahn industrial park.

Web links

Commons : Herhahn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population statistics of the city of Schleiden ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 20 kB)
  2. ↑ Law on the reorganization of the municipalities and districts of the reorganization area Aachen (Aachen Law) of December 14, 1971, § 9
  3. ^ Ewald Gläßer: The natural space units on sheet 122/123 Cologne Aachen . In: Bundesforschungsanstalt für Landeskunde und Raumordnung (Ed.): Geographische Landesaufnahme 1: 200000 Natural Spatial Structure Germany . Self-published, Bad Godesberg 1978 ( online, PDF [accessed on February 16, 2016] high Venn, German share, map of geographic land survey, natural structure, see here part 282).
  4. ↑ Facts about the Herhahn solar park at www.schleiden.de ( Memento from June 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive )