Rönsahl
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Rönsahl
City of Kierspe
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| Incorporation : | 1st January 1969 | |
| Postal code : | 58566 | |
| Area code : | 02269 | |
Location of Rönsahl in North Rhine-Westphalia |
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The village of Rönsahl is a rural district of Kierspe in the Märkisches Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia . Until 1968, Rönsahl formed a municipality in what was then the district of Altena .
geography
The town of Rönsahl is geographically located in the Bergische plateau . The village of Rönsahl is about five kilometers west of the Kiersper town center. In addition to the eponymous village, the village of Rönsahl also includes the small settlements of Becke, Bürhausen, Dörscheln, Glietenberg, Haarbecke, Haarhausen, Meienborn, Mittelheukelbach, Nott, Oberheukelbach, Rönsahler Löh, Rönsahler Wöste and Ufer. In the north the village borders on the reservoir of the Kerspe dam . Until 1815, the south-eastern border point near the court in Dorn formed the triangle with the county of Gimborn and the Duchy of Berg .
history
Rönsahl, first mentioned in a document in 1395, originally belonged to the Altena office of the Grafschaft Mark and since 1817 to the Altena district in the Prussian province of Westphalia . From 1565 to 1753 there was a court in Rönsahl . Later Rönsahl became an important location for powder manufacturing .
On January 1, 1969, the municipality was incorporated into the city of Kierspe by the law on the reorganization of the Altena district and the independent city of Lüdenscheid . By the Cologne Act on January 1, 1975, the town of Meienborn, which had previously been in Oberberg, became part of Rönsahl. In return, some parts of the Rönsahl area moved to the Oberberg community of Marienheide .
Population development
| year | Residents | source |
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| 1832 | 749 | |
| 1871 | 850 | |
| 1885 | 794 | |
| 1910 | 755 | |
| 1925 | 702 | |
| 1939 | 923 |
Architectural monuments
Architectural monuments in Rönsahl include the Evangelical Servatius Church and the historic Rönsahl distillery .
Sports
The local sports club is TSV Rönsahl 1886 .
traffic
Rönsahl is on federal road 237 , which leads from Kierspe to Remscheid , and is connected to the core town of Kierspe by a bus line operated by the Märkische Verkehrsgesellschaft . There is also a bus connection from the Oberbergische Verkehrsgesellschaft to Wipperfürth .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Natural spatial classification of Germany, sheet 110 Arnsberg
- ↑ a b Community dictionary for the province of Westphalia 1885
- ↑ Rönsahl in GenWiki
- ↑ The history of the Rönsahl powder industry
- ^ Westphalia Lexicon 1832-1835 . In: Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (Ed.): Reprints for the Westphalian archive maintenance . tape 3 . Münster 1978 (reprint of the original from 1834).
- ^ The municipalities and manor districts of the Province of Westphalia in 1871
- ↑ Uli Schubert: German municipality register 1910. Retrieved on February 2, 2017 .
- ^ A b Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. altena.html. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).