Honrath

Honrath City of Lohmar Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 27 ″ N , 7 ° 14 ′ 49 ″ E
Height :	162 m
Incorporation :	1st August 1969
Postal code :	53797
Area code :	02205/02206
Location of Honrath in North Rhine-Westphalia
	Honrath Castle with half-timbered gable of the farm building, left tower of the church

Honrath is a district of Lohmar in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

Honrath lies on a ridge that slopes sharply on three sides between the river valleys of the Agger and Sülz . Surrounding villages and hamlets are Jexmühle in the north, Agger , Naafshäuschen in the east, Windlöck and Schloss Auel in the southeast, Birken , Stumpf and Gut Rosauel in the south and Meinenbroich , Wickuhl , Schlehecken and Kleineigen in the west to northwest.

Evangelical parish church Honrath

history

In 1885 Honrath had 54 residents who lived in nine houses.

According to an address book from 1901, a pastor , two teachers , five farm workers , a carpenter , a bricklayer , a shoemaker , a small trader and a landlord lived in Honrath .

Until July 31, 1969, the place belonged to the previously independent municipality Wahlscheid .

The ore mine Aurora was located between Honrath and Hoven in the Jexmühlenbach valley, where modest ore mining took place in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Several ore veins were exposed that carried lead, zinc and copper ores. A deep tunnel, which was set up below Jexmühle, opened up these deposits. Around 1855 the mine was operated by the Honrath trade union for a few years. At that time 60 tons of lead ore were produced. At the Aggerhütte, the Honrath trade union maintained a processing plant; it was connected to the Aurora and Volta pits via a railroad, which was used to transport the piles of the mine for processing. From 1904 to 1909, the Aurora ore deposits were then re-examined. At that time the mine was owned by the stock corporation for mining, lead and zinc production in Stolberg and in Westphalia. The investigation work did not reveal any new excavations that could be mined. Today, numerous old spoil heaps and filled mine shafts (Pingen) are evidence of the former ore mining in this area. A detailed description of the mining history can be found in the publication "Metal ore mining in the lower Aggertal"

On October 29, 1923 Honrath became the scene of the so-called Overath Potato War . Members of a vigilante group , mainly farmers and miners from Overath and the surrounding area, gathered at the Honrath train station to prevent a special train from Cologne from continuing to Overath. In the train that the Cologne railway administration had used under the motto special train to buy potatoes , they suspected other hungry people from Cologne who had looted whole truckloads of potatoes, food and cattle in the vicinity of Overath in the days before. With the rifle at the ready, Overather forced the driver of the special train to return to Cologne. The train service to Overath was suspended for a few days.

Art in Honrath: Homines sumus - We are people

Attractions

The Evangelical Church in Honrath
The well-preserved castle house from the 16th century, Honrath Castle
The “Art in Honrath” project was launched by the village marketing department. With this project, Honrath is to be made more attractive through art in the outdoor area.

traffic

Honrath stop

Important traffic connections are the federal road 484 and the state road 84, which run past the site for about one kilometer and are connected to it.
Furthermore, Honrath has one stop, the only Lohmarer connection to the Cologne-Kalk-Overath railway line , on which the RB 25 ( Oberbergische Bahn ) runs and connects Cologne with Lüdenscheid via the Overath-Dieringhausen and Volmetalbahn connection.

In addition to public transport , the shared call taxi (AST) operates . Honrath belongs to the tariff area of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg (VRS).

The Lohmar Citizen Bus, Line 4, runs in Honrath.

Individual evidence

↑ City portrait, Lohmar in brief ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the homepage of the city of Lohmar @1@ 2

^ Topographic map 1: 25000

^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland (PDF; 1.5 MB), Verlag des Königlich Statistischen Bureaus, 1888, p. 120

↑ Large state address book for the individual states and provinces of the German Empire , Hanover: Berenberg, 1901, p. 224

^ Law on the local reorganization of the Bonn area (Bonn Law) of July 1, 1969; § 13

^ Albert Seemann: Metal ore mining in the lower Aggertal . Self-published, Lohmar 1990, p. 136 .

↑ Hartwig Soicke: Overath, First World War and Crisis Years (1914–1923) , pp. 205f.

^ Art in Honrath on the homepage of the city of Lohmar

↑ Timetable of the Citizen Bus Lohmar, Line 4

[1] City portrait, Lohmar in brief ( Memento of the original dated February 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the homepage of the city of Lohmar @1@ 2

[2] Topographic map 1: 25000

[lexikon-3] Community encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland (PDF; 1.5 MB), Verlag des Königlich Statistischen Bureaus, 1888, p. 120

[4] Large state address book for the individual states and provinces of the German Empire , Hanover: Berenberg, 1901, p. 224

[5] Law on the local reorganization of the Bonn area (Bonn Law) of July 1, 1969; § 13

[6] Albert Seemann: Metal ore mining in the lower Aggertal . Self-published, Lohmar 1990, p. 136 .

[7] Hartwig Soicke: Overath, First World War and Crisis Years (1914–1923) , pp. 205f.

[8] Art in Honrath on the homepage of the city of Lohmar

[9] Timetable of the Citizen Bus Lohmar, Line 4