Hillerscheid

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Hillerscheid
City of Wiehl
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 36 ″  N , 7 ° 28 ′ 28 ″  E
Height : 270 m above sea level NN
Residents : 124  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Postal code : 51674
Area code : 02262
Hillerscheid (Wiehl)
Hillerscheid

Location of Hillerscheid in Wiehl

Hillerscheid ( Hommersch : Hillerschen) is a village in the city of Wiehl in the Oberbergisches Kreis in the administrative district of Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Location and description

The place at Drabenderhöhe is about 5 km west of the city center of Wiehl at the intersection of the district roads K 34 and K 40 as the crow flies.Hillerscheid is south of the federal motorway 4 .

history

Place name

The place Hillerscheid was probably created during the expansion period with further clearing activities in the High Middle Ages . The name is made up of a personal name “Hild, Hildir” and the old Franconian “Hago” and means the fenced-in dwelling of Hildir. The personal name can also be found in some German first names, such as Hildegard or Hildebold, and stands for fight.

In 1454 a document is mentioned of a Frelen von Hilderßham who was caught during a raid by the Bergische and the property was sacked. Other mentions of the place can be found in the A. Mercator map from 1575 as Hillershagen . In the fodder oat slip of the Homburg rule of 1580, Hillershaenn counts four Bergische subjects as taxable.

The place should not be called Hillerscheid today, but Hillershagen or Hildershagen. This is evidenced by other documented mentions, such as 1555 "Zu Heldershagenn" (Bergische Landessteuerliste), 1575 Hillershagen (Mercator card), 1580 Hillershaenn (Homburg food oat label), 1675 Hillersch (Church book Drabenderhöhe) and 1791 Hillerhagen (Reilly card Reichsherrschaft Homburg).

Hillerscheid is only mentioned in the first Prussian cartographic record from 1831. Apparently it was a transcription error by the cartographer from the dialect "Hillerian". In the dialect, the "d" is dropped from Hilders and is merged into Hillersch. The Hagen is also usually shortened to Haan, Han or Hen.

Residents

In the Homburgian fodder oat label from 1580, four Bergische households are named: Hillerschen Johan, Siemon, Goebbel Braun's son, Peter Langh Kedell. Then in 1675 the first person admission took place by the Drabenderhöher pastor Haas. In 1843 Hillerscheid had 14 houses, in 1885 there were 17 houses.

Hillerscheid is a small place, as evidenced by the population figures from the 19th and 20th centuries:

  • 1817: 61
  • 1831: 67
  • 1843: 70
  • 1868: 75
  • 1885: 77
  • 1900: 82
  • 1961: 90
  • 1978: 104
  • 2004: 145
  • 2013: 124

20th century

In the 1920s and 1930s, a modest tourism with two private pensions developed. The place was called Hillerscheid climatic health resort near Drabenderhöhe.

With the emergence of the Transylvanian Saxony settlement, Drabenderhöhe expanded to Hillerscheid. The place remained independent. As early as 1975, the first Transylvanian Saxons to emigrate from Romania moved to Hillerscheid and bought existing houses, other families followed. In 1994 a new building area with 10 houses was developed, eight of which were sold to Transylvanian Saxons. The integration was quick and easy. The Transylvanian Saxons now make up around 46% of the population.

societies

  • Heimatverein Hillerscheid eV

literature

  • Klaus Pampus: First documentary mentions of Oberbergischer places (= contributions to Oberbergischen history. Special vol. 1). Oberbergische Department 1924 eV of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein, Gummersbach 1998, ISBN 3-88265-206-3 .
  • Hans Joachim Söhn, Lothar Wirths: Oat feed label. Inhabitants and fireplaces in the Homburg rulership in 1580 (= materials and sources on the Oberberg regional history. H. 3). Galunder, Gummersbach 2003, ISBN 3-89909-012-8 .