Hohenplanken

Hohenplanken City of Halver Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 59 ″  N , 7 ° 26 ′ 31 ″  E
Height :	395 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	58553
Area code :	02355
Location of Hohenplanken in Halver

Hohenplanken is a village in Halver in the Märkisches Kreis in the administrative district of Arnsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ).

Location and description

High planks is at 395 meters above sea level in the western Halver at the county road K3 between Schwenke and stop near the border with Wipperfuerth on the watershed between the flow systems of the Wupperfeld and Ennepe . Neighboring towns are Eschen , Büchen , Kreimendahl , Büchenbaum , Auf der Bever and In den Eicken . To the east, the route of the disused Wuppertal Railway between Halver and Radevormwald runs past the village, in the village the K13 district road branches off to Hückeswagen . A tributary of the Ennepe rises to the east.

history

Hohenplanken was first mentioned in a document in 1480 as Neuenhaus , but the time of origin of the settlement is assumed to be between 1050 and 1200 as a result of the clearing phase after the high medieval territorial formation. Hohenplanken was a split from Vorst .

In 1818 55 people lived in the village. In 1838 Hohenplanken belonged to the Eickhöfer peasantry within the Halver mayor . The place, which was categorized as a courtyard according to the location and distance table of the government district of Arnsberg , had a school, six residential buildings, two factories or mills and an agricultural building at that time. At that time, 35 people lived in the village, all of whom were Protestant.

The municipality encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia from 1887 gives a number of 43 residents who lived in six houses.

In High planks of today's county road K3 ran on the route of a probably early historical old route of Schwelm about Radevormwald by Wegerhof over, as iron and carbon road was used.

The school between Hohenplanken and Büchenbaum existed until the middle of the 20th century.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alfred Jung: Halver and Schalksmühle. Investigation and thoughts on the settlement history of the Halver Office, an old parish in the Saxon-Franconian border area. Friends of Altena Castle, Altena 1978 ( Altenaer contributions. Works on the history and local history of the former county Mark 13, ISSN  0516-8260 ).
2. ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Local and distance table of the government district Arnsberg, arranged according to the existing state division, with details of the earlier areas and offices, the parish and school districts and topographical information. Ritter, Arnsberg 1841.
3. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau (Prussia) (ed.): Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume X), Berlin 1887.