Kuchhausen (Windeck)

Kuchhausen community Windeck Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 54 ″  N , 7 ° 34 ′ 2 ″  E
Height :	approx. 287–351 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	109  (Sep 30, 2017)
Postal code :	51570
Area code :	02292
Kuchhausen (Windeck), aerial photo (2017)

Kuchhausen is a district of the municipality Windeck , which is located in the Westerwald . The place is a place of residence. Earlier it was here in the Blue Stone basalt crater basalt broken.

location

The basalt quarry Blauer Stein is well worth seeing

Kuchhausen is located south of Alsen , Eutscheid and Kocherscheid , west of Bitzen, Friedenthal and Mittelirsen and north of Rimbach ( Oberirsen ) at an altitude between 287  m and 351  m . To the west, apart from state road 147 (North Rhine-Westphalia) / 276 (Rhineland-Palatinate), only the forests of the Leuscheid lie .

history

In 1910 Kuchhausen had 44 households. The resident families were Bergmann, Bitzer, Brandenburger, Engelbert, Fürbach, Fuchs, Gansauer, Grab, Griesenbach, Haßel, Hein, Hilkhausen, Kappenstein, Krämer, Ludwigs, Müller, Neitzert, Ochsenbrücher, Selbach, Schmidt, Stöber and Weber. In addition to farmers and day laborers, the cattle traders Ludwig and Wilhelm Krämer are mentioned

Connected with Kuchhausen

The photographer August Sander , also known as a documentarist of the Westerwald and its inhabitants in the first half of the 20th century, relocated to Kuchhausen from 1942 due to the increasing bombing raids in Cologne and lived here until 1963.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Windeck - List of localities , accessed on October 24, 2018
2. ^ Resident directory Siegburg 1910