Oberscheid (Lohmar)

Oberscheid City of Lohmar Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 10 ″  N , 7 ° 14 ′ 6 ″  E
Height :	approx. 170 m
Incorporation :	1st August 1969
Postal code :	53797
Area code :	02206
Location of Oberscheid in North Rhine-Westphalia

Oberscheid is a hamlet that belongs to the town of Lohmar in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

Oberscheid is located in the northwest of Lohmar. Surrounding towns are Neuenhof , Spechtsberg and Scheid in the north, Wahlscheid in the northeast, east and southeast, Schiffarth in the east, Brückerhof and Hitzhof in the southeast, Scheiderhöhe , Schöpcherhof and Hagerhof in the south and Muchensiefen and Gammersbacher Mühle in the west to southwest.

A nameless orographically left tributary of the Gammersbach rises west of Oberscheid. The Oberscheider Bach rises east of Oberscheid and flows into the Agger on the right .

history

In 1885 Oberscheid had 48 residents who lived in nine houses.

Until 1969, Oberscheid belonged to the previously independent community Scheiderhöhe .

Worth seeing

In Oberscheid there is a votive cross made of sandstone from 1844. The inscription reads: “Come to me, all of you who are laborious and burdened, I want to refresh you. Erected by the married couple Sybille Manns geb. Müller 1844 ".

traffic

• Oberscheid is on the L 84 state road .
• The Lohmar- Honrath train station at Jexmühle is relatively close.
• Two bus lines connect the place with Lohmar, Wahlscheid and Siegburg . Oberscheid belongs to the tariff area of ​​the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg (VRS).
• The shared call taxi (AST) supplements public transport .
• The Bergische Steifzug No. 18 “Bauernhofweg” and the circular hiking trail A3 from Honrath of the Sauerland Mountain Association (SGV) go through Oberscheid.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Topographic map 1: 25,000
2. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland (PDF; 1.5 MB), Verlag des Königlich Statistischen Bureaus, 1888, page 118
3. ↑ Gerd Streichardt: When stones talk - wayside crosses in Lohmar, ratio-books at ratio-books.de ( memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Mini timetables of the VRS 2009
5. ↑ Bergischer Steifzug No. 18 “Bauernhofweg” at bergisches-wanderland.de
6. ↑ Circular hiking trail A3 from Honrath of the Sauerland Mountain Association (SGV) at sgv-bergischesland.de