Herringbone

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Herringbone
City of Radevormwald
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 13 ″  N , 7 ° 19 ′ 36 ″  E
Height : 300 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 253  (Oct 31, 2004)
Postal code : 42477
Area code : 02195
Herkingrade (Radevormwald)
Herringbone

Location of Herkingrade in Radevormwald

Herkingrade is a place and district in Radevormwald in the Oberbergischer Kreis in the North Rhine-Westphalian administrative district of Cologne in Germany .

location

Herkingrade in Radevormwald in October 2004

The place is on the state road  130 in a continuation of the line Dahlerau , Keilbeck and Auf der Brede . In Herkingrade there is a location and a fire fighting group of the Radevormwald volunteer fire brigade.

The Herkingrader Bach flows through the village . Its source can be found northeast of the settlement. The brook flows into the Uelfe in the south of Keilbeck .

In addition to a farm, the small town is dominated by residential developments, and a restaurant is also located there.

history

View from Herkingrade into the valley of the Wupper

The place was mentioned for the first time in 1315, when “Count Adolf VI. von Berg von Gottfried von Sayn u. a. the Freigut Herkintrayde ".

Spelling of the first mention : Herkintrayde

In 1815/16 the place had 106 inhabitants. In 1832 the place belonged to the parish Remlingrade of the rural outskirts of the mayor's office Radevormwald . The place, categorized as a village according to the statistics and topography of the administrative district of Düsseldorf , had 21 residential houses and eleven agricultural buildings at that time. At that time, 197 residents lived in the place, 39 Catholic and 158 Protestant faith. In 1888, 19 houses with 197 inhabitants are listed in the community encyclopedia of the Rhine Province .

  • 1877 Foundation of the Herkingrade fire brigade extinguishing group
  • 1883 Construction of a syringe house
  • 1964 New construction of a fire station (various conversions and additions in the years 1990–1994)
  • 2003 Start of an extension to the fire station for the DRK, local group Dahlhausen

Buildings

In 1883 a distillery was put into operation in Herkingrade, in which a clear grain with 32% alcohol content was distilled with a daily production of 400 to 450 liters. The yeast attack was sold to the surrounding bakeries. During the First World War , production was stopped because the copper in the devices was needed for armament. The building, which was used by a local farmer as a storage room, still exists today, but without the chimney, which was demolished in August 1965 due to dilapidation.

Associations and institutions

Fire fighting group of the Radevormwald fire brigade in Herkingrade in October 2004

Hiking and biking trails

The following hiking trails lead through the village:

Web links

Commons : Radevormwald-Herkingrade  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wupperverband; River basin geographic information system
  2. ^ Klaus Pampus: First documentary mentions of Oberbergischer places (= contributions to Oberbergischen history. Special volume 1). Oberbergische Department 1924 e. V. of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein, Gummersbach 1998, ISBN 3-88265-206-3 .
  3. ↑ a b Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and topography of the administrative district of Düsseldorf. Part 2: Containing the statistical table of places and distances and the alphabetical index of place names. Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1836, p. 10 .
  4. ^ Royal Statistical Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland province. Based on the materials from the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources (= community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. Vol. 12, ZDB -ID 1046036-6 ). Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau, Berlin 1888.