Oberholzen (Wiehl)

Oberholzen City of Wiehl Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 25 ″  N , 7 ° 34 ′ 23 ″  E
Height :	275 m above sea level NN
Residents :	75  (Dec 31, 2004)
Postal code :	51674
Area code :	02262
Location of Oberholzen in Wiehl
Oberholzen, 2004

Oberholzen is a village in the town of Wiehl in the Oberbergischer Kreis in the administrative district of Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Location and description

The place is about 1.5 km northeast of the city center of Wiehl as the crow flies. Oberholzen is located south of the federal motorway 4 .

Nearby is the large Alte Bremig forest area with many shady paths for hikers and joggers. At 338 m, the Wohlsberg is the second highest elevation in the municipality of Wiehl, while the Immerkopf near Brächen is higher at 364 m.

history

In 1575 the place is mentioned for the first time as Over Holthusen in the Arnold Mercator map. In the fodder sheet of the Homburg rule of 1580, one Wittgenstein and four Saynian subjects are counted as Zu Over Holtz taxable .

Culture and leisure

• The local circular hiking trail A1 touches Oberholzen in the north.
• The local circular route A3 touches Oberholzen in the north and in the east.

During a walk you can see little ponies, the "Minishetties vom Wohlsberg", in a few pastures.

Personalities

• Eugen Daub (* 1939), painter, lived temporarily in Oberholzen

literature

• Hans Joachim Söhn, Lothar Wirths: Oat feed label. Inhabitants and fireplaces in the Homburg rulership in 1580 (= materials and sources on the Oberberg regional history. H. 3). Galunder, Gummersbach 2003, ISBN 3-89909-012-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Minishetties from Wohlsberg