Himberg (Bad Honnef)

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Himberg is a district of Aegidienberg , a district of Bad Honnef in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

Himberg lies in the west of the Aegidienberg district on the north side of the Himberg of the same name ( 335  m above sea  level ). The village covers altitudes between 290 and 320  m above sea level. NHN . To the south-east of the town's exit, around 150 m away, the Rottbitze district begins above ; to the north there is a smooth transition to the Neichen district . Together with Neichen, Himberg lies at the eastern exit of the Schmelztal valley that descends to Bad Honnef and through which the state road 144 runs. The Siebengebirge nature reserve extends west of Himberg in the Honnef city forest .

history

Himberg was probably first mentioned as Hintberg in 948 and, like the other places at the exit of the Schmelztal valley, settled from Honnef. In 1666 the place had four residents who were liable to pay homage and in 1673 14 residents. To the north of the village, houses were built at the end of the 17th century, which were initially included in Himberg, but from 1698 onwards formed a separate place called Neichen . Himberg is one of the eight honors that made up the parish of Aegidienberg from the middle of the 18th century until the dissolution of the Duchy of Berg in 1806. In 1828 the village was still listed as Himperich in a census . The population of Himberg increased noticeably in the 19th century, the number of residential buildings increased from 1843 to 21 by 1885 to 27 residential buildings. On October 15, 1888, Himberg was the first village in Aegidienberg to receive a post office in the district of the Honnef post office, which was housed in the Leven inn (later Zur Post ).

In the middle of the 19th century, basalt mining in a quarry on the Himberg mountain to the south had become an important source of income for the village . At the beginning of the 20th century, quartzite mining began southwest of Himberg . From 1910, the transport from the two pits of the Wendehorst and Steuler & Co. took place by field railways to Schmelztalstrasse, another pit including field railroad was added to the two that had already been closed in 1922/23. The routes were on average around 500 m long and operated as horse-drawn trams - just like the route through the Logebach and Schmelztal valleys built in 1895 to just before Bad Honnef, whose route was shared by two of the field railways. Since the beginning of the 20th century, Himberg also had a department store that was unusually well-stocked for the size of the town ( Warenhaus Weinz ).

In 1923 Himberg was one of the most contested places in the context of the resistance against the separatist movement in the Rhineland ( Battle of Aegidienberg ). On November 15, several days of armed clashes began here with the shooting of Peter Staffel by the separatists.

The basalt mining on the Himberg, which was finally ceased in the Second World War, left behind an excavation water, the Himberger See . It serves as a bathing lake and a local recreation area; tennis courts have also been built on its northwestern side next to a shooting range that has been in existence since 1920 . In the early 1950s, the Weinz department store ceased operations. A campsite was opened northwest of Himberg in 1970 . At the end of the 2000s, a commercial center with a larger retail location was built between Himberg and Neichen at the junction from Landesstrasse 143 (Rottbitze – Aegidienberg– Oberpleis - Troisdorf ) to Landesstrasse 144 (Himberg – Bad Honnef) .

Population development
year Residents
1816 116
1828 128
1843 129
1885 162
1905 135
1963 197

coat of arms

Chalkboard as the town's coat of arms

In 2008 the artist Richard Lenzgen created a slate as the local coat of arms of Himberg. In the four-part coat of arms, the nearby Servatius Chapel is shown at the top left , at the top right the intersection ("triangle") of state roads 144 and 143 with the Weinz department store, which has since been demolished, at the bottom left is the Himberger See with painted basalt columns (symbol for the local quarry) and right below the former restaurant "Zur Post" as the former post office of Aegidienberg.

Personalities

  • Franz Linnig (1832–1912), Rhenish provincial school councilor and textbook author, born in Himberg

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wilhelm W. Hamacher : From “Hunferode” to “Aegidienberg”: A hike through 1500 years of history (= Heimat- und Geschichtsverein “Herrschaft Löwenburg” eV : studies on the local history of the city of Bad Honnef am Rhein , issue 11). Bad Honnef 1995, p. 25.
  2. ^ West German Society for Family Studies (ed.); Johannes Jansen: Aegidienberger Familienbuch 1666-1875 , Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-933364-57-4 , S. XIV u. XIX.
  3. ^ Otmar Falkner: The Quirrenbacher Mühle. In: Heimatblätter des Rhein-Sieg-Kreis , 75th year 2007, p. 140.
  4. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, 2nd volume: The map of 1789. Bonn 1898, p. 315.
  5. ↑ August Heinen: History of the Post Office Königswinter . Königswinter 1952.
  6. ^ Otmar Falkner: Peter Kallenbach (1805–1877). A contribution to the local history of Aegidienberg. In: Heimatblätter des Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, 72nd year 2004 , p. 117
  7. ↑ Carsten Gussmann, Wolfgang Clössner: The Heisterbacher Valley Railway and industrial railways in the Seven Mountains: History, vehicles, track plans and maps (= Regional Transport History , Volume 39). EK-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2006, ISBN 3-88255-456-8 , p. 61/62.
  8. ↑ a b Hermann Weinz bursting with energy , General-Anzeiger , July 1, 2008, p. 7
  9. ↑ Alexander August Mützell, Leopold Krug (Ed.): New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state. Second volume. G – Ko. With Karl August Kümmel, Halle 1821, p. 185 ( digitized version ).
  10. ^ Friedrich von Restorff: Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province . Nicolaische Buchhandlung, Berlin / Stettin 1830, p. 291 ( digitized version ).
  11. ↑ Royal Government of Cologne (Ed.): Overview of the constituent parts and list of all the localities and individually named properties of the government district of Cologne, according to districts, mayorships and parishes, with information on the number of people and the residential buildings, as well as the Confessions, Jurisdictions , Military and earlier country conditions. Cologne 1845, p. 85 ( digitized version ).
  12. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland. Based on materials from the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, edited by the Royal Statistical Bureau. In: Royal Statistical Bureau (Hrsg.): Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. tape XII , 1888, ZDB -ID 1046036-6 , p. 114 f . ( Digitized version ).
  13. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Rhine Province. Based on the materials from the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources, edited by the Royal Prussian State Statistical Office. In: Königliches Prussisches Statistisches Landesamt (Hrsg.): Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. Booklet XII, 1909, ZDB -ID 1046036-6 , p. 148 .
  14. ↑ Karl Gast: Aegidienberg through the ages . Aegidienberg 1964, p. 93.
  15. ^ Karl Heinz Piel: City of Bad Honnef received Himberger motif panels . In: Siebengebirgsbote , Volume 16, Issue 376, January 14, 2009

Coordinates: 50 ° 38 ′ 58 ″  N , 7 ° 18 ′ 13 ″  E