Herkenhähn

Herkenhähn municipality Lindlar Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 10 ″  N , 7 ° 19 ′ 53 ″  E
Height :	210 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	51789
Area code :	02266
Location of Herkenhähn in Lindlar

The Hofschaft Herkenhähn is a district of the municipality of Lindlar , Oberbergischen Kreis in the administrative district of Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ).

Location and description

Herkenhähn is located west of Lindlar, northeast of Hohkeppel . The living space is only a little away from the municipality boundary with Engelskirchen .

history

Herkenhöhn was first mentioned in 1467 as erckenhain .

In Herkenhähn there is a half-timbered house from the 18th century and a wayside cross from 1711. Around 1500 the farm was under the control of the rent master at Georghausen .

The place was near Heidenstrasse , an important medieval old highway from Cologne via Kassel to Leipzig .

The Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies , Blatt Amt Steinbach , shows that the residential area had a courtyard as early as 1715, which is labeled as Herckenhehn . Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking names the court on his charter of the Duchy of Berg in 1789 as Herkenhan . It shows that the place was part of the Honschaft Vellingen in the parish of Hohkeppel at that time .

The place is recorded on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1817 as Herkenhain . The Prussian first recording from 1845 shows the residential area under the name Herkenhähn . From the Prussian new admission in 1892, the place is regularly recorded on measuring table sheets as Herkenhähn .

In 1822 9 people lived in the place categorized as a house and designated as Herkenhain , which after the collapse of the Napoleonic administration and its replacement belonged to the municipality of Hohkeppel of the Engelskirchen mayor's office in the Wipperfürth district . For the year 1830 43 inhabitants are given for the place called Herkenhain . The place, which was categorized as a courtyard in 1845 according to the overview of the government district of Cologne , had a residential building with eight residents at that time, all of whom were Catholic.

The local and Gutbezirksstatistik the Rhine Province leads Herkenhähn 1871 with two houses and 14 residents. In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province of 1888, Herkenhähn has two houses with 15 inhabitants. In 1895 the place had two houses with ten inhabitants, in 1905 one house and ten inhabitants are given.

Due to § 10 and § 14 of the Cologne Act , the municipality of Hohkeppel was dissolved in 1975 and extensive parts of Lindlar were incorporated. Including Herkenhähn .

bus connections

The next stop is Unterfrielinghausen .

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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 .
2. ^ Herbert Nicke : The Heidenstrasse. History and landscape along the historic highway from Cologne to Kassel . In: Land and history between Berg, Wildenburg and South Westphalia . tape 6 . Galunder, Wiehl 2001, ISBN 3-931251-74-8 , pp. 38 f .
3. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations for the Historical Atlas of the Rhine Province ; Second volume: The map of 1789. Division and development of the territories from 1600 to 1794 ; Bonn; 1898
4. ↑ Alexander A. Mützell: New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . tape 2 . Karl August Künnel, Halle 1821.
5. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff :  Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
6. ↑ Overview of the components and list of all the localities and individually named properties of the government district of Cologne: by districts, mayor's offices and parishes, with information on the number of people and the residential buildings, as well as the Confessions, Jurisdictions, Military and former state conditions. / ed. from the Royal Government of Cologne [Cologne], [1845]
7. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
8. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1888.
9. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1895 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1897.
10. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1909.
11. ^ The Cologne Act in full. Retrieved June 7, 2016 .