Hilkerscheid

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Catholic Parish Church of St. Catherine

Hilkerscheid is part of the local community Sankt Katharinen in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Neuwied .

geography

Hilkerscheid adjoins the center of Sankt Katharinen to the west and lies at about 350  m above sea level. NHN on an area sloping from northwest to southeast. In terms of natural space, the village within the Niederwesterwald can still be assigned to the Rhein-Wied ridge , but is located at the transition to the Rheinwesterwälder volcanic ridge . Landesstraße 254 ( Kretzhaus - Hargarten - Weissfeld) runs along the western edge .

history

Hilkerscheid first appeared in 1230 in a document about the donation of a shepherd to the St. Katharinen monastery , thus earlier than the neighboring Notscheid. Other spellings of the name denominated Hilkers , Hilkirs (1480), Hilkirßt , Hilker difference and Heilkerscheid (1790). In 1450, according to a list of heads of households, the place had around 20 residents and in 1620 around 30. The majority of Hilkerscheid was under the administration of the Electoral Cologne Office of Linz as part of the Linzer Höhe , one house belonged to the Electoral Cologne Office of Altenwied . Hilkerscheid had most of the water wells on the Linzer Höhe.

Since 1809 Hilkerscheid belonged to the newly formed community Notscheid , from 1816 in the administrative district of the mayor's office in Linz . In 1828 the place comprised eight farms, in 1843 it was listed as a hamlet with eleven residential and 20 farm buildings . Until the end of the 19th century, the village was dominated by agriculture and inhabited by farmers and day laborers .

Population development
year Residents
1816 52
1828 57
1843 72
1885 74
1926 75
1950 63

Attractions

As a cultural monument under monument protection are:

  • a path chapel, groin vaulted plastered building, around 1900
  • a wayside shrine on Barbastraße , marked 1691
  • the Catholic parish church of St. Catherine ; former monastery church, steep, six-axis plastered building, 1317–1324, side aisle 1912/1913, west portal 1901

literature

  • Parish of St. Katharinen (ed.); Heiner Strauss: St. Katharinen. Fest- und Heimatbuch , St. Katharinen 1994/2001, pp. 102-108.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The government district of Coblenz according to its location, limitation, size, population and division ... , Coblenz: Pauli, 1817; Page 57
  2. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolaische Buchhandlung, Berlin and Stettin 1830, p. 675
  3. ↑ Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Coblenz , Coblenz: Hölscher, 1843, page 62
  4. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia , Publishing House of the Royal Statistical Bureau (ed.), 1885, page 44
  5. ↑ a b parish of St. Katharinen (ed.); Heiner Strauss: St. Katharinen. Fest- und Heimatbuch , St. Katharinen 1994/2001, p. 122.

Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 36 ″  N , 7 ° 20 ′ 29 ″  E