Oberherweg

Oberherweg City of Halver Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 55 ″ N , 7 ° 31 ′ 16 ″ E
Height :	400 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	58553
Area code :	02355
Location of Oberherweg in Halver

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

Location and description

Oberherweg is located in eastern Halver on the L892 road between the main town and the larger Ehringhausen . Other neighboring towns are Howarde , Winkhof , Siepen , Schröders Herweg , Im Wiebusch , Collenberg and Neuenherweg .

Oberherweg lies on a ridge between the valleys of the Hälver and Schlemme , both tributaries of the Volme .

history

Oberherweg was first mentioned in a document in 1461, 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 there were 20 residents in the village. According to the table of localities and distances from the government district of Arnsberg , Oberherweg was categorized as a farm under the name Obernherweg and in 1838 had a population of 37, all of whom were Protestant. The place belonged to the Halveraner village farmers within the mayor's office Halver and had five houses, two factories or mills and two agricultural buildings.

The community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia from 1887 gives a number of 33 residents who lived in five houses.

Like the other -herweg places in Halver ( Mittelherweg , Niederherweg , Neuenherweg, Schröders Herweg, Herweger Schleifkotten ), the place name is derived from the location on the Altstrasse from Cologne via Wipperfürth , Halver, Lüdenscheid , Werdohl and Arnsberg to Soest , a medieval one (According to other views, prehistoric ) trade , pilgrimage and military route , which came from Neuenherweg and ran along the route of today's state road L892.

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b 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 ).
↑ 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.
↑ 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.

[jung-1] A ^b 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.

[Gemeindelexikon1887-3] 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.