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Hohn is a part of the local community Windhagen in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Neuwied .

geography

Hohn is at the top just under two kilometers south of the center of Windhagen, but with a new development area near the federal motorway 3, it comes much closer. The village extends on a sloping south to the valley of the Hallerbach and includes altitudes between 270 and 305  m above sea level. NHN . To the northeast, there is a moor birch-oak forest , which is designated as a biotope complex due to its regional rarity . The closest localities include Windhagen in the north, Günterscheid in the east, Vettelschoss in the south-west and Frohnen in the north-west. In Hohn, the district roads K 26 (state border towards Rottbitze - Hallerbach - Unterelsaff) and K 28 (border to Aegidienberg - Windhagen - Hohn) cross.

history

Hohn belonged to the Honschaft Rederscheid (formerly also called Hohner Honschaft ) in the parish of Windhagen and was under the administration of the Electoral Cologne Office of Altenwied . The place appeared in a document under its current name in 1660 during an inventory in the Altenwied office, when five houses were counted here. The dialect name of the place is "Hon" (short, open o ). Around 1670, one kilometer southeast in the Hallerbach valley, the Hohner mill was built , which initially served as an oil mill for the residents of Hohn.

In Prussian times (from 1815), Hohn remained a part of the Honschaft, later the Rederscheid municipality , since 1823 in the administrative district of the Asbach mayor . In the context of censuses , the hamlet appeared under the name Hahn at least until 1830 , in 1843 it was already listed as a village with its current name and comprised 18 residential and 24 farm buildings. Until the end of the 19th century, Hohn was one of the largest towns in the Rederscheid community. In 1880 there was a major fire in which 11 residential buildings and their outbuildings fell victim. 1892 Hohn part of the delivery area of the postal agency Vettelschoß , in 1931 it got its own post office Class II in the district of the post office Asbach , which also covered the district Frohnen. In 1953 the post office was assigned to the Linz post office .

As part of the administration and territorial reform of Rhineland-Palatinate , Hohn and the Rederscheid community were incorporated into the Windhagen community on November 7, 1970. The district belonging to the former municipality of Rederscheid remained. As a result of the municipal reorganization, the post office in Hohn was closed in 1973. In 1977, Hohn was connected to the gas supply network. At the end of the 1980s, with the creation of the "Wohnpark Windhagen-Hohn", the village was expanded to the north, including a new school, sports and event center for the municipality of Windhagen. Several half-timbered houses have been preserved in the town center .

Population development
year Residents
1816 69
1828 96
1843 112
1885 87
1910 87
1987 149

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biotope complex "oak-birch forest south of Windhagen" , Osiris Rhineland-Palatinate
  2. ↑ August Welker: Inventory in the Altenwied office anno 1660. In: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Landkreis Neuwied , 1977, pp. 101-103.
  3. ↑ Helmut Wolff: The Windhagen dialect. In: Windhagen - Ein Heimatbuch , Economica Verlag, Bonn 1994, p. 196.
  4. ↑ a b Dieter Ehlen: Place names and field names in the municipality of Windhagen. In: Windhagen - Ein Heimatbuch , Economica Verlag, Bonn 1994, p. 71.
  5. ^ Ernst-Dieter Meyer: Half-timbered buildings . In: Windhagen - Ein Heimatbuch , Economica Verlag, Bonn 1994, p. 264.
  6. ↑ a b Theo Winterscheid: From the history of the post in the Windhagener area. In: Windhagen - Ein Heimatbuch , Economica Verlag, Bonn 1994, pp. 112–115.
  7. ↑ Erwin Rüddel: Supplying the community with gas. In: Windhagen - Ein Heimatbuch , Economica Verlag, Bonn 1994, p. 363.
  8. ^ Günther Muders: The settlement of the home area. In: Windhagen - Ein Heimatbuch , Economica Verlag, Bonn 1994, p. 44.
  9. ^ The government district of Coblenz according to its location, limitation, size, population and division ... , Coblenz: Pauli, 1817; Page 88
  10. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolaische Buchhandlung, Berlin and Stettin 1830, p. 693
  11. ↑ Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Coblenz , Coblenz: Hölscher, 1843, page 66
  12. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia , Volume XII Provinz Rheinland, Verlag des Königlich Statistischen Bureaus (ed.), 1888, page 44
  13. ↑ Günther Muders: Review of the development of schools in the Windhagen area. In: Windhagen - Ein Heimatbuch , Economica Verlag, Bonn 1994, p. 98.
  14. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality

Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 40 ″  N , 7 ° 21 ′ 22 ″  E