Schneppenkauten

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Schneppenkauter church and place around 1900

Schneppenkauten was one of seven hut settlements in Weidenau and later part of this community in the northern Siegen urban area in the Siegen district .

The hut at Schneppenkauten was mentioned in 1444 , and there was also a medieval hammer mill, which was converted into a puddling mill in 1849 and operated as a flange factory Gebr. Kiel from 1936 . Between 1711 and 1743 there was a Protestant and a Catholic parish, both in Siegen. On December 1, 1885 Schneppenkauten had 847 inhabitants. In 1888, the “Highest Ordinance” of the German Emperor Wilhelm II stipulated “that the districts of Haardt , Fickenhütten , Schneppenkauten, Münkershütten , Müßnershütten , Meinhardt and Weidenau, which make up the community of Weidenau in the Siegen district , are no longer used henceforth uniformly use the name 'Weidenau' ” . Until then, Schneppenkauten belonged to the Weidenau office .

The Schneppenkauten mine, first mentioned on July 13, 1831, was located in the area of ​​the village and later belonged to the important Neue Haardt mine .

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. a b Lothar Irle: Siegerländer Ortverzeichnis , 1973 ( Memento from March 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. Westfälisches Gemeindelexikon 1887, pp. 112/113
  3. ^ Mining - Mining - la Mine

Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 57 ″  N , 8 ° 1 ′ 32 ″  E