Hespert

Hespert municipality Reichshof Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 15 ″  N , 7 ° 43 ′ 55 ″  E
Height :	412  (400-430)  m above sea level NHN
Residents :	346  (Jan. 1, 2007)
Postal code :	51580
Area code :	02265
Location of Hespert in Reichshof

Hespert is one of the 106 localities in the Reichshof municipality in the Oberbergischer Kreis in the North Rhine-Westphalian administrative district of Cologne in Germany .

Geographical location and population

With around 350 inhabitants, Hespert is a small town with partly well-preserved or restored half-timbered houses ; the oldest is around 250 years old. The place is located about 53 km east of Cologne in the Oberbergisches Land . Hespert is around 405  m above sea level. NHN in the southern part of the Oberbergischer Kreis and is one of the 107 villages and hamlets of the Reichshof community . The municipal administration is located in Denklingen . East of the village is one of the highest elevations in the Bergisches Land, the Silberkuhle at 514  m above sea level. NHN . The village is a popular place to go sledding in winter.

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1487: "Heymann von Hersberg from the Eygen von Eckenhagen is mentioned in the Marienthaler Mirakelbuch."

The spelling of the first mention was Hersberg .

But Hespert was not always called Hespert, 1483 Hersberg, 1517 Heyßberch, 1529 Heyspert, 1541 Heeßpert, 1555 Heeßbert, the name of Heester or Heister, which means hornbeam, can be traced back.

As early as 1555 it was named as the center of one of the five honors (a kind of lower court administrative area) of the Eckenhagener parish. The place is also located on an old high trail marked on the Mercator map from 1575; there was even a Bergische customs post here in the 18th and early 19th centuries. After the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig in 1813, Hespert was attacked by a passing Russian corps and in 1945 the American combat units marched through the village towards the blockhouse, from where they attacked Eckenhagen . Despite its centuries-old importance, Hespert never became a church village; this was reserved for the neighboring town of Heidberg . On the other hand, Hespert was the center of a school district very early on . The Hesperter School emerged from a "Heckschule", a private initiative of the residents of the town and the surrounding area. At that time there was no school building, teaching was always in the apartment of the "informator" (teacher). According to old entries in the church books, this school was founded in the 18th century at the latest. Hespert could therefore look back on a school tradition of over 200 years. As early as 1830, two teachers were working here side by side. At that time, a new school building was also erected - one of the first in the Prussian mayor's office in Eckenhagen (source: The book by Oswald Gerhard "Eckenhagen and Denklingen through the ages"). With the school reform in the early 1970s and the construction of the new school center in Eckenhagen, with a multi-level secondary and elementary school, the school town of Hespert was also given up.

To ensure the water supply in Hespert, which had around 150 inhabitants at the time, the Hespert water supply association was founded on March 4, 1930. In 1949 the water supply association decided to transform the association into a "water supply association". Martin Ringsdorf became chairman. In the minutes of the meeting there is talk of a severe water shortage. The place Hespert already had 241 residents.

When the motorway was built in the early 1970s, the water catchment area and the well north of the motorway were cut off from the town. As a result, Hespert was dependent on the municipal waterworks. On June 5, 1973, the association meeting passed the resolution to dissolve. Since the association had to be liquidated after a period of one year and the liquidation of the assets had to be regulated, it was necessary to set up a successor organization for the management of the declining capital to pay out the subsidies. The establishment of a registered association was proposed.

On November 28th, 1978 the house owners association Hespert eV was founded as the successor organization of the water procurement association. The purpose of the association is, among other things, to promote the village community and manage the capital and real estate of the former Hespert water supply association.

Many community facilities in the village have already been built or supported from this fortune.

Today's townscape

The formerly agricultural village is now commercial / industrial in addition to the residential development.

Population: year / number

• 1950 - 253
• 1980-276
• 1990-286
• 2006 - 352

Industry and commerce

In Hespert there is a sawmill , the “Ballebäuschen” restaurant (2 cooking spoons in the Schlemmer Atlas and 2 toques (15/20 points) in the Gault Millau ), a small pub, the Emil Müller Werke GmbH (market leader in the production of brass and copper pipes ), a fruit and vegetable store, an insurance agency and a telecommunications distributor.

Facilities and sights

• Schulstrasse 9, old school. The two-storey slate house on a quarry stone base with a small roof turret from the beginning of the 18th century now houses the art gallery.
• Hesperter Straße 14, three-zone residential building with an eaves-side entrance. The building, which is rare due to its original inventory, is of supraregional importance for scientific, domestic and local historical reasons.
• Dorfstrasse 9, 2-storey half-timbered house in three compartments from 1806, dated in writing above the former door. With its timber framework, it is an early example of an important special form of the Bergisch half-timbered house.
• Nature conservation: juniper area north of the motorway
• Wetland to the southeast, near the golf course
• Sports facilities: Hassel golf course on the southern edge of Hespert
• Football field

Association

• Village community Hespert

particularities

The village festival on the first weekend of August each year and ten other events organized and carried out by the Hespert eV village community, which was founded in 1999.

Web links

• Homepage of Hespert

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 .