Oberwiehl

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Oberwiehl
City of Wiehl
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 40 ″  N , 7 ° 34 ′ 57 ″  E
Height : 212 m
Residents : 2555  (Dec. 31, 2004)
Postal code : 51674
Area code : 02262
Oberwiehl (Wiehl)
Oberwiehl

Location of Oberwiehl in Wiehl

Oberwiehl in the Oberbergischer Kreis is a village in the city of Wiehl in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ) in the administrative district of Cologne .

Location and description

The place is about two kilometers east of the center of Wiehl on the river Wiehl and south of the federal highway 4 .

Development of the population

Year / date Residents
1840 100
1961 673
2002 971
2004 2,555
2016 2,646
Paul Schneider House in Oberwiehl

history

  • The place was mentioned for the first time in 1316, namely "Division of the people of Nümbrecht: The line of division begins" et villa que dicitur zo de wele "
  • Spelling of the first mention: zo de Wele
  • In the fodder oat labels of the Homburg rulership of 1580, 3 Sayniche and 5 Bergische subjects are counted as taxable for the place An der Wiell .
  • 1586 The mayor Johann Dicken , who lives in Ober Wyel , is visited in his living room by the sworn imperial messenger and summoned to Speyer before the Imperial Court of Justice ; there he should be heard because of the border quarrel between the Counts of Sayn-Wittgenstein (Homburg) and the Duke of Berg. (Main archive Düsseldorf RKG p. 49/183). The dispute over territorial claims to rule only ended with the Siegburg settlement of 1604.
  • In 1840 Oberwiehl had 100 inhabitants.
  • 1842-1852 the Wiehltalstraße was expanded to connect Aggertal with the Siegtal. In 1851 it was finished by Wiehl and in 1852 by Oberwiehl.
  • In 1894 the school in Oberwiehl, the ironworks and the hammer mill were opened.
  • In 1898/1899 the Hans synthetic wool factory and the Grümer ironworks were opened.
  • At the turn of the 20th century, the Hans Kunstwollfabrik generated electricity and used it to supply houses and street lighting.
  • In 1900 the Oberwiehl volunteer fire brigade was founded.
  • The Wiehl - Waldbröl railway via Oberwiehl has been in use since 1905.
  • The mayor of Wiehl reported on the state of industry in 1906: "The Oberwiehl synthetic wool factory now employs 35 workers. The companies mentioned (in the municipality) do not report any particular changes".
  • In 1961, 673 people lived in Oberwiehl.
  • On October 1, 1965, passenger traffic on the railway was stopped.
  • In 1967 the places Heckelsiefen, Mühlenau, Scheidt, Perke, Soelseifen, Siefen and Schlenke were merged to form Oberwiehl.
  • In 1969 Oberwiehl was incorporated into the town of Wiehl (later town of Wiehl).
  • In the 1980s , the Oberwiehler Kunstwollfabrik Hans and the Eisenwerk Grümer were shut down and temporarily used for other purposes. The resulting industrial wasteland will later be revitalized by the Oberwiehler Gewerbepark GmbH (OWG), which is supported by the Bergischeachsefabrik together with the city of Wiehl, and will be used for mixed service and residential use ( living by the lake ).
  • In 2002 there were 971 residents in Wiehl.
  • In 2004 the population had grown to 2555.
  • In 2006 the embankment of the Hansteich was renovated according to an expert report by the University of Siegen .
  • In 2008, the "Golddorf Oberwiehl" award was presented in the " Our village has a future " competition .

Economy and industry

Former factories and today's industrial area at Hans-Teich, 2004

Oberwiehl has two business parks and a service center with a total area of ​​10 hectares. The business park Oberwiehler Gewerbepark has an area of ​​4.2 hectares. It is located on Derschlager Strasse and is 8 km from the AS 25 junction of the A 4 . The Sengberg industrial park is 3.3 hectares in size. It is located on Derschlager Straße with a distance of 9 km to AS 25 of the A4 . The Heckelsiefen service center is 2.5 hectares in size. It is on the L 336 state road. It is 8 km to AS 25 of the A 4 .

particularities

Oberwiehl station building, 2004
  • Oberwiehl is connected to the rail network with its own train station. The support group for the rescue of the Wiehl Valley Railway , which was shut down in 1997 and reopened in 1999, regularly runs special trips with an MAN railcar and, together with the Dieringhausen Railway Museum, with the steam train.
  • The station building (now restaurant) than a typical time-framed with quarry stone building under monument protection provided.
  • The Oberwiehler Kamp with its old oak stock is one of the last rook colonies in the Oberbergischen to be placed under nature protection.

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 .
  • Gottfried Corbach: Contributions to the history of the Bergisches Land, expanded to include the ecclesiastical conditions in the Oberberg area in the second half of the 16th century. Edited by Dieter Corbach. With a foreword by Johannes Rau . 2nd edition, reprint of the 1976 edition, revised by Irene Corbach. Scriba-Verlag, Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-921232-48-1 .

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