Meiswinkel (Siegen)

Meiswinkel City of Siegen Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 2 ″  N , 7 ° 56 ′ 44 ″  E
Height :	360  (330-390)  m
Area :	2.46 km²
Residents :	621  (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	252 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	1st January 1969
Incorporated into:	Hut Valley
Postal code :	57078
Area code :	02732
Location of Meiswinkel in Siegen

Location of the town of Meiswinkel on the Uerdinger line

Meiswinkel [ 'maɪ̯s.vɪŋ.kl̩ ] is a district of the city ​​of Siegen .

geography

location

Meiswinkel is an agricultural district in the north of Siegen. The place is at the end of the valley of the Birlenbach, which rises in the place and is also called Meiswinkelbach. It flows southeast towards Langenholdinghausen. There is also a small valley to the south-west, although it is hardly built on. The place itself is at an altitude between 330 and 390  m . The highest elevation in the district is an unnamed ridge in the west with a height of 427.5  m . Other mountains are the Ziegenberg in the south with 372.3  m or the Kühlenhain in the east with 391.4  m .

Neighboring places

Meiswinkel borders, among other things, on the districts of Langenholdinghausen in the southeast and Buchen in the east. The Freudenberg district of Oberholzklau borders in the southwest . In the far west, Meiswinkel borders on Hünsborn and thus on the Olpe district .

Language border

Meiswinkel lies on the Benrather and Uerdinger lines , which together form the language border to the Low German- speaking Sauerland and separate the Moselle-Franconian Siegerland from it.

history

Meiswinkel was first mentioned in a document in 1423.

In 1925, the municipality of Meiswinkel was an agricultural and workers' residential community with 195 residents, all of whom were Protestant. A post office was already set up.

In Meiswinkel there is a war memorial that was inaugurated on June 13, 1937.

Meiswinkel belonged to the Freudenberg office and was incorporated into the newly founded city of Hüttental on January 1, 1969, which was incorporated into the city of Siegen on January 1, 1975.

Population numbers

Population of the place:

year Residents 1818 121 1885 153 1895 175 1905 176 1910 172 1925 195

year Residents 1933 201 1939 257 1950 310 1961 333 1967 334 1994 664

year Residents 2004 664 2006 677 2008 657 2009 649 2010 650 2011 638

year Residents 2012 631 2013 634 2014 640 2015 641 2016 621

politics

Former mayor

• from 1975 to?: Artur Paul († October 29, 1990)

Infrastructure

Meiswinkel has a sports field and a shooting range north of the village. In the middle of the village there is a kindergarten and the local volunteer fire department . There is a children's playground behind the volunteer fire brigade building. The cemetery is south of the village.

Meiswinkel is on Kreisstraße 8. The next entrance to the federal motorway 45 is Freudenberg. The next train station is in Geisweid.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map of the Principality of Nassau-Siegen: Documentary evidence of settlement up to 1500 ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. 
2. ↑ image of the warrior memorial on kulturgang.de
3. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 70 .
4. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 336 .
5. ^ Otto Schaefer: The district of Siegen , Siegen 1968
6. ↑ siegen.de: main resident population by district (updated regularly)
7. ↑ Westfälisches Gemeindelexikon 1887, pp. 106–113
8. ↑ Westfälisches Gemeindelexikon 1897, pp. 112/113
9. ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de: District of Siegen
10. ↑ genealogy.net: Freudenberg Office
11. ↑ ^{a b} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Siegen. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
12. ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 222 .
13. ↑ Hartmut Eichenauer: Siegen ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 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. (PDF; 12.2 MB) , approx. 1995
14. ^ "An honoring commemoration for the dead", Siegerländer Heimatkalender 1992, p. 34, 67th edition, publisher Siegerländer Heimat- und Geschichtsverein eV, Verlag für Heimatliteratur