Oberlangenscheid

Oberlangenscheid City of Halver Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 58 ″  N , 7 ° 30 ′ 10 ″  E
Height :	400 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	58553
Area code :	02355
Location of Oberlangenscheid in Halver
Oberlangenscheid at the top right next to the Oststraße industrial park

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

Location and description

Oberlangenscheid is located 400 meters above sea ​​level north of the main town in Halver, north of Eichholz . In addition to the main town, the other neighboring towns are the suburbs of Weißenpferd , Dicksiepen , Schlechtenbach , Clev and Oeckinghausen . The place can be reached via a spur road that branches off from the federal road 229 at Eichholz and also connects Niederlangenscheid and Dicksiepen, as well as from an access road from the state road L528.

A tributary of the Langenscheid Bach , a tributary of the Schlechtenbach, rises in the village .

An industrial park extends between Oberlangenscheid and Eichholz.

history

Oberlangenscheid was first mentioned in a document in 1599, the time of origin of the settlement is probably shortly before 1557. Oberlangenscheid was a split from the Niederlangenscheid court.

In 1818 22 people lived in the village. According to the location and distance table of the government district of Arnsberg , Oberlangenscheid was categorized as a farm under the name Obern Langenscheid and in 1838 had a population of 34, all of whom were Protestant. At that time, the place belonged to the Halveran village farmers within the mayor's office of Halver and owned four residential buildings, a factory or mill and two agricultural buildings.

The municipality lexicon for the province of Westphalia from 1887 gives a number of 49 inhabitants who lived in four 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.