Oberhersbach

Oberhersbach Halver municipality Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 5 ″  N , 7 ° 29 ′ 44 ″  E
Height :	330 m above sea level NN
Location of Oberhersbach in Halver

Oberhersbach was a court in the town of Halver in the Märkisches Kreis in the administrative district of Arnsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ). During the construction of the Kerspe dam , Ort was demolished between 1910 and 1912. The location of the living space is today in the bank area of ​​the dam below the water line.

Location and description

Oberhersbach was at an altitude of 330  m above sea level. NHN in southern Halver on the city limits of Kierspe . Neighboring towns were Niederhersbach , Schlachtenrade , Voswinkel , Ober- and Niederbommert , Großfastenrath , Ober- , Mittel- and Niederheukelbach and Rönsaler Löh .

history

Oberhersbach was first mentioned in a document in 1392, but the time of origin of the settlement is assumed to be between 1050 and 1200 as a result of the clearing phase after the high medieval territorial formation. The court was a split off from the royal families of Königsbommert or Niederbommert .

Around 1500 it is documented by documents that half of the Hersbach farm was liable for taxes to the Bergisches Amt Beyenburg . The jurisdiction of the court was subordinate to a Bergisch judge specially appointed for the Bergische Höfe in the otherwise Brandenburg- dominated parish of Halver, which often led to a dispute with the Brandenburg count actually responsible for the parish .

In 1818 nine residents lived in the village. In 1838 Oberhersbach belonged as Obern-Hersbach to the Bommerter peasantry within the mayor's office of Halver . The place, which was categorized as a courtyard according to the location and distance table of the government district of Arnsberg , had three residential buildings, a factory or mill and four agricultural buildings at that time. At that time, 27 residents lived in the village, all of whom were Protestant.

The municipality encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia from 1887 gives a number of 34 residents who lived in five houses.

From 1908 to 1912 the city of Barmen (now part of Wuppertal ) built a drinking water dam on the Kerspe brook 25 kilometers away , which is still a cornerstone of Wuppertal's drinking water supply thanks to a supply tunnel . Oberhersbach was one of the villages that were removed as part of the dam construction, as they were located in the storage area or in the water protection zone I.

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. ^ Gerd Helbeck : Beyenburg. History of a place on the Bergisch-Mark border and its surrounding area. Volume 1: The Middle Ages. Basics and advancement. Association for local history, Schwelm 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811749-1-5 , p. 236
3. ↑ 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.
4. ↑ 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.