Oberhövel

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Oberhövel
City of Halver
Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 12 ″  N , 7 ° 28 ′ 21 ″  E
Height : 415 m above sea level NN
Postal code : 58553
Area code : 02355
Oberhövel (Halver)
Oberhövel

Location of Oberhövel in Halver

Oberhövel is a court in Halver in the Märkisches Kreis in the administrative district of Arnsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ).

Location and description

Oberhövel is located at 415 meters above sea ​​level west of Halver's main town on the edge of a forest area. In addition to the main town, neighboring towns are Schmalenbach , Nonnenennepe , Büchermühle , Niederhövel and Altemühle . The place can be reached via secondary roads that connect the main town with the Eickerhöhe district.

In the forest north and west of the town a large-scale occurrences of is sleeves as natural monument sleeve terrain in the basement under protection.

history

Oberhövel was first mentioned in a document in 1470, but the time of origin of the settlement is assumed to be between 1200 and 1300 at the end of the medieval clearing period.

In 1818 four residents lived in the village. According to the location and distance table of the government district of Arnsberg , Oberhövel was categorized as a farm under the name Obern Hövel and in 1838 had a population of 15, all of whom were Protestant. The place belonged to the Eickhöfener peasantry within the mayor's office Halver and had three houses and four agricultural buildings.

The municipality encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia from 1887 gives a number of 12 inhabitants who lived in twelve houses.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Jung: Halver and Schalksmühle. Investigation and thoughts on the settlement history of the Halver Office, an old parish in the Saxon-Franconian border area. Friends of Altena Castle, Altena 1978 ( Altenaer contributions. Works on the history and local history of the former county Mark 13, ISSN  0516-8260 ).
  2. Johann Georg von Viebahn : Local and distance table of the government district Arnsberg, arranged according to the existing state division, with details of the earlier areas and offices, the parish and school districts and topographical information. Ritter, Arnsberg 1841.
  3. Royal Statistical Bureau (Prussia) (ed.): Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume X), Berlin 1887.