Himmighausen

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Himmighausen
City of Nieheim
Coordinates: 51 ° 48 ′ 44 ″  N , 9 ° 1 ′ 25 ″  E
Height : 181 m
Area : 5.84 km²
Residents : 452  (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density : 77 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation : January 1, 1970
Postal code : 33039
Area code : 05238
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Location of Himmighausen in Nieheim
Himmighausen Castle
Himmighausen Castle

Himmighausen is a district of Nieheim in the Höxter district , North Rhine-Westphalia . The place was first mentioned in 1015 in the Vita Meinwerci . Until it was incorporated on January 1, 1970, the place was an independent municipality in the Nieheim district .

geography

Himmighausen is located at the mouth of the Fischbach in the Emmer . Approx. 449 inhabitants live in the place, which lies in the mountain valley at the foot of the Egge Mountains. As of December 31, 2016. In the Himmighausen-Bahnhof district is the Lindenberg, which reaches a height of 288 m above sea level. The old Antonius linden tree stands on the mountain.

The all-German educational facility, which was built in 1926 as a children's home, is located in Himmighausen-Bahnhof. At that time, children from the Ruhr area were sent to a spa stay and medically cared for as part of the so-called Kinderlandverschickung . After the Second World War, the German Youth of the East ( expellees ) and later the German Youth in Europe bought the building. She uses the latter organization for children's camps and offers for experiential education.

The listed Himmighausen Castle is also worth seeing .

traffic

The Himmighausen station is on the Hanover – Altenbeken railway line . The single-track railway to Herford via Detmold and Lage branches off here. However, all passenger trains pass through the station without stopping. A reactivation of the station is under discussion.

literature

  • Status causae in appellations matters of the Reichs-Hoff-Rath from Donops zu Wöbbel, Himmig- u. Borckhausen, appellantis, against the von Schilder brothers zur Dreckburg, appellatos, concerning the separation of the Schilderische-Himmighausischen Lehn-Güther from the Allodio. 1722 LLB Detmold

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 109 .
  2. ↑ https://www.kreis-hoexter.de/unser-kreis/zahlen-daten-ffekten/m_4926
  3. ↑ nw-news.de
  4. ↑ Neue Westfälische: Himmighäuser hope for reactivation of the station , accessed on October 1, 2019