Hesselbach (Gummersbach)

Hesselbach City of Gummersbach Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 38 ″  N , 7 ° 36 ′ 26 ″  E
Height :	240–278 m above sea level NN
Residents :	344  (Jun. 30, 2016)
Postal code :	51647
Area code :	02261
Location of Hesselbach in Gummersbach

Hesselbach half-timbered houses

Hesselbach is a district of Gummersbach in the Oberbergischer Kreis in southern North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany .

geography

Hesselbach is approx. 3.5 km from the city center of Gummersbach .

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1520 in a contract about a death knell between Hermann von Heiden called Hungeringhausen and Grete van Heselbecke . In 1518, Hungeringhausen killed Teves von Merrichus ( Merkausen ), the son of von Heselbecke, there in a dispute . On April 23, 1520 he concluded an atonement with the mother of the murdered man. Witnesses were u. a. Godemann von Mollenbeck ( Müllenbach ), the old Vogt of Gummersbach, and Heinrich in front of the stone from Gummersbach.

Culture

In the village there are the two sports clubs TV Dümmlinghausen-Hesselbach and FC Hesselbach .

traffic

The Hesselbach bus stop is connected via bus routes 303 (Gummersbach – Waldbröl) and 364 (Gummersbach – Bernberg (round trip)).

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 .