Linden (Wiehl)

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Linden trees
City of Wiehl
Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 12 ″  N , 7 ° 30 ′ 55 ″  E
Height : 240 m above sea level NN
Residents : 278  (Dec. 31, 2008)
Postal code : 51674
Area code : 02262
Linden (Wiehl)
Linden trees

Location of Linden in Wiehl
View of linden trees
View of linden trees

Linden is one of 51 localities in the city of Wiehl in the Oberbergisches Kreis in the administrative district of Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Location and description

The place is about 2 km northwest of the city center of Wiehl. The neighboring villages are Hengstenberg and Mühlen . Linden currently has 278 inhabitants (as of 12/2008) Linden is located south of the federal motorway 4 .

history

First mention

In 1443 the place was mentioned for the first time in a document, namely in "Income and rights of the Cologne Apostelstift".

Spelling of the first mention: Lynden

The place can also be found in 1575 on the A. Mercator map of Zur Linden . Assembly and court place Thingstätte under a linden tree, today still called zoo Lingen ("Zelingen") in dialect .

In the fodder oat slip of the Homburg rulership of 1580, 3 Bergische subjects are counted as subject to tax.

Iron , copper and lead ore were already mined in earlier times (among other things, this is indicated by tunnel entrances that have been buried for a long time and the street names “Im Eiserner Berg” and “Auf der Brache”).

leisure

Hiking and biking trails

  • The local circular route upside down T touches the place in the north.
  • The local hiking trail O “Around Bielstein ” runs through the village.

literature

  • Dieter Dresbach, Fritz Licht: Börnhausen and its neighboring towns - the history of the Bechtal. Castles - villages and farmsteads on an ancient high and high road. Gronenberg, Wiehl-Bomig 2004, ISBN 3-88265-251-9 .