Oberstaffelbach

Oberstaffelbach municipality Nümbrecht Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 46 ″  N , 7 ° 28 ′ 57 ″  E
Height :	263 m above sea level NN
Residents :	75  (Dec 31, 2006)
Postal code :	51588
Area code :	02262
Location of Oberstaffelbach in Nümbrecht

Oberstaffelbach is a district of Nümbrecht in the Oberbergischer Kreis in southern North Rhine-Westphalia within the administrative district of Cologne .

Location and description

The place is between Drabenderhöhe in the north and Marienberghausen in the south. The place is about 4.9 km northeast of the center of Nümbrecht as the crow flies.

history

First mention

The place was mentioned for the first time in 1316, namely "Division of the people of Nümbrecht. The spelling of the first mention was Staffilbech . This applies to Ober- and Niederstaffelbach.

The place got its name from the source of the Staffelbach, which rises in the middle of the old town center. The Staffelbach flowed through the extinguishing water pond of Oberstaffelbach, which was called the "cat pool" because small cats are said to have been drowned here in the past. After the connection to a powerful water supply, the pond was filled in. The Staffelbach now flows past Mühlenthal and through the Märchental, in which Engelbert Humperdinck is said to have had the idea for his opera " Hansel and Gretel ", after which it flows into the Homburg Bröl near Herfterath. At the end of the Second World War Oberstaffelbach was bombed with high explosive and incendiary bombs, where several houses were hit and their residents were left homeless. Fortunately, no human life was to be mourned from the bombardment. After the war, the place expanded in an easterly direction to the edge of Überdorf and is separated from this place by the course of the Diepersbach. Oberstaffelbach has no economic significance as no companies are based here.

Bus and train connections

Citizen bus

The bus stop for the community of Nümbrecht.

Route: Marienberghausen - Line 5

• Nümbrecht / bus station-Elsenroth-Löhe
• Nallingen-Krahm-Überdorf
• Oberstaffelbach-Marienberghausen
• Hochstraßen-Guxmühlen-Nümbrecht / bus station.

Public bus

Stop: Oberstaffelbach

• 323 Nümbrecht bus terminal. ( OVAG , school bus)

swell

1. ^ Klaus Pampus: First documentary naming of Oberbergischer places (= contributions to Oberbergischen history. Sonderbd. 1). Oberbergische Department 1924 eV of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein, Gummersbach 1998, ISBN 3-88265-206-3 .