Meinhardt (Siegen)

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Meinhardt was one of seven hut settlements Weidenau and later part of this community in the northern Siegen urban area in the Siegen district .

The final settlement of the place began between 800 and 950 in the "Franconian expansion period". A Meinhardt hammer was first mentioned in 1444. This was taken over by Wilhelm Berg in the middle of the 19th century and converted into a machine factory. There is also evidence of a grinding mill in 1496, as well as a small old mill in 1570. A new mill was built in 1826, it existed until the 1950s, but was no longer in operation earlier.

Meinhardt is predominantly evangelical, but catholic between 1711 and 1743. In 1861 150 people lived in the village. On December 1, 1885, Meinhardt had 265 inhabitants. In 1888, the “Highest Ordinance” of the German Emperor Wilhelm II stipulated “that the districts of Haardt , Fickenhütten , Schneppenkauten , Münkershütten , Müßnershütten , Meinhardt and Weidenau, which make up the community of Weidenau, in the Siegen district , no longer use the previous names for the individual districts henceforth uniformly use the name 'Weidenau' ” .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Lothar Irle: Siegerländer Ortverzeichnis , 1973 ( Memento from March 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Dieter Pfau: Traces of time in Siegerland and Wittgenstein. Early and High Middle Ages 750–1250. Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-89534-861-7 , p. 122/123.
  3. ^ Hans-Dirk Joosten: Mills and millers in Siegerland. With a directory of the hydropower plants in this region. Waxmann, Münster et al. 1996, ISBN 3-89325-369-6 , p. 250.
  4. ^ Ritter's geographic-statistical lexicon. Volume 2: L - Z. 5th completely reworked, greatly increased and improved edition. Wigand, Leipzig 1865, p. 140.
  5. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia. Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau, Berlin 1887, ZDB -ID 1458761-0 , p. 112/113.

Coordinates: 50 ° 54 '23.8 "  N , 8 ° 2' 14.3"  E