Oberwillscheid

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Oberwillscheid is a part of the local community Vettelschoss in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Neuwied .

geography

Oberwillscheid is 1.5 kilometers west of the center of Vettelschoss and joins Kalenborn to the east . The village extends on a ridge that slopes northeast to the Erpeler Bach and includes altitudes between 280 and 320  m above sea level. NHN . The Erpeler Bach, which runs on the eastern edge of Oberwillscheid and is designated as a biotope complex on this section , has two source streams flowing into it. The district of Willscheid is around 500 m to the northeast. On the northern outskirts of the village, Oberwillscheid is passed from Landesstraße 252 (Kalenborn – Vettelschoss).

history

A farm located in today's area of ​​Oberwillscheid, the Geroltshof , was probably first recorded in an interest register by Rorich III in 1415 . Mentioned in a document by Rennberg . The place was then called "Wyllenscheidt", although in a "brotherhood book" of the parish of Neustadt from 1601 no distinction was made between Willscheid and Oberwillscheid. In 1660, during an inventory in the area of ​​the Electoral Cologne Office Altenwied zu Oberwillscheid, the Obristhof and the Unterste Hof were counted. In the context of censuses , Oberwillscheid was still listed as a farm together with Willscheid in 1830 , but was already shown separately as a hamlet in 1843 and comprised three residential and farm buildings each.

Population development
year Residents
1843 16
1885 40
1987 106

literature

  • Hans Heinrich Mohr: Reifstein and its interpretation . In: Kretzhaus. Reifstein. Vettelschoß , Bad Tölz 2006, pp. 232–237.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biotope complex "Erpeler Bach bei Kalenborn" , Osiris Rhineland-Palatinate
  2. ↑ August Welker: Inventory in the Altenwied office anno 1660. In: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Landkreis Neuwied , 1977, pp. 101-103.
  3. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolaische Buchhandlung, Berlin and Stettin 1830, p. 693
  4. ↑ Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Coblenz , Coblenz: Hölscher, 1843, page 71
  5. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia , Volume XII Provinz Rheinland, Verlag des Königlich Statistischen Bureaus (ed.), 1888, page 44
  6. ↑ State Statistical Office Rhineland-Palatinate - Official directory of the municipalities and parts of the municipality

Coordinates: 50 ° 37 ′ 13 ″  N , 7 ° 19 ′ 29 ″  E