Kalbertal

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Kalbertal
municipality Reichshof
Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 12 "  N , 7 ° 38 ′ 26"  E
Height : 355 m above sea level NHN
Residents : (Jan. 1, 2007)
Postal code : 51580
Area code : 02296
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Location of Kalbertal in Reichshof

Kalbertal is one of a total of 106 localities in the Reichshof community in the Oberbergischer Kreis in the North Rhine-Westphalian administrative district of Cologne in Germany .

Location and description

Kalbertal lies west of the Wiehltalsperre , the closest centers are Gummersbach (24 km northwest), Cologne (61 km west) and Siegen (45 km southeast).

history

First mention

The place was mentioned for the first time in 1388 . "Johan von Kalberdal, Gerlach van Eckenhan and others announce the feud as helpers of the knight Godart von Drachenfels of the city of Aachen ."

The spelling of the first mention was Kalberdal .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Pampus: First documentary naming of Oberbergischer places (= contributions to Oberbergischen history. Sonderbd. 1). Oberbergische Department 1924 eV of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein, Gummersbach 1998, ISBN 3-88265-206-3 .