Mennkausen
Mennkausen
municipality Reichshof
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 19 ″ N , 7 ° 38 ′ 4 ″ E
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Height : | 305 m above sea level NHN |
Residents : | 60 (Jan. 1, 2007) |
Postal code : | 51580 |
Area code : | 02265 |
Location of Mennkausen in Reichshof
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Mennkausen 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
Mennkausen is located south 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 first mentioned in a document in 1492 . "The place is mentioned in a list of witnesses in the determination of the Bergisch rights in the Windeck district."
The spelling of the first mention was Mennenkuisen .
Association
- Mennkausen village community
Individual evidence
- ^ 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 .