Oeynhausen (Nieheim)

Oeynhausen City of Nieheim Coordinates: 51 ° 48 ′ 49 ″  N , 9 ° 3 ′ 9 ″  E
Height :	165 m
Area :	6.75 km²
Residents :	478  (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	71 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	January 1, 1970
Postal code :	33039
Area code :	05274
Location of Oeynhausen in Nieheim

Oeynhausen [ 'ø: inhaʊzən ] is a western town in the city of Nieheim in the Höxter district , North Rhine-Westphalia . On December 31, 2018, the place had 478 inhabitants.

location

Oeynhausen is bordered by the core town of Nieheim in the east, the town of Pömbsen in the town of Bad Driburg in the south, the towns of Himmighausen and Merlsheim in the town of Nieheim in the west and the Bergheim district of the town of Steinheim in the north (all in the Höxter district).

history

Telegraph station on the Bilsterberg

A first document from the year 936 mentions the place under the name Agingehusen . Later it was referred to in the Busdorf deed in 1036 as a main courtyard with Oggenhusen Castle , with the castle being the official court of the bishops of Paderborn , as confirmed by excavations from the late 1980s. To this homestead in the form of a created heap village which formed village Oeynhausen.

From 1529 the landowners were the lords of Oeynhausen , who later transferred the property as a fief to the lords of Spiegel zum Desenberg , who administered it until the 19th century.

Between 1832 and 1849 Oeynhausen was the location of a station of the Prussian optical telegraph between Berlin and Koblenz. This station with the number 32 was reconstructed on the old foundation walls between 1983 and 1984 on the initiative of the Oeynhausen Heimatverein. It can be visited.

On January 1, 1970, Oeynhausen was incorporated into the city of Nieheim.

In addition, there was a military base of the British armed forces on Bilster Berg , about 3 kilometers south of the village from 1973 to 1993 .

Web links

• Oeynhausen website
• Oeynhausen (Nieheim) in the Westphalia Culture Atlas

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.kreis-hoexter.de/unser-kreis/zahlen-daten-ffekten/m_5855
2. ↑ Website of the Eggegebirge / Teutoburg Forest Nature Park ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 7, 2007 
3. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 109 .