Siepen (Halver)

Siepen City of Halver Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 27 ″  N , 7 ° 31 ′ 43 ″  E
Height :	360 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	58553
Area code :	02355
Location of Siepen in Halver

Siepen is a court in Halver in the Märkisches Kreis in the administrative district of Arnsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ).

Location and description

Siepen is located east of the main town in Halver at 360 meters above sea ​​level in the valley of the Sieperbach , a tributary of the Hälver . Neighboring towns are Schmidtsiepen , Ober- and Mittelherweg , Schröders Herweg , Lingen , Berge and Winkhof . The Sieperbach is dammed into a large pond in Siepen.

The section of the Wuppertal Railway on which the Schleifkottenbahn GmbH operates runs to the west of the village .

history

Siepen was first mentioned in a document in 1480, but the time of origin of the settlement is presumed to be between 1300 and 1400 following the second medieval clearing period. Siepen was probably a split from Lingen or Berge.

Around 1500 it is documented by documents that the Siepen farm was liable to the Bergisches Amt_Beyenburg . The jurisdiction of the court was subordinate to a Bergisch judge specially appointed for the Bergische Höfe in the otherwise Brandenburg- dominated parish of Halver, which often led to a dispute with the Brandenburg count actually responsible for the parish .

In 1818 15 people lived in the village. According to the location and distance table of the government district of Arnsberg , Siepen was categorized as a farm and in 1838 had a population of 23, all of whom were Protestant. The place belonged to the Ehringhauser peasantry within the mayor's office Halver and had three houses, a factory or mill and an agricultural building.

The community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia from 1887 gives a number of 20 residents who lived in four houses.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alfred Jung: Halver and Schalksmühle. Investigation and thoughts on the settlement history of the Halver Office, an old parish in the Saxon-Franconian border area. Friends of Altena Castle, Altena 1978 ( Altenaer contributions. Works on the history and local history of the former county Mark 13, ISSN  0516-8260 ).
2. ^ Gerd Helbeck : Beyenburg. History of a place on the Bergisch-Mark border and its surrounding area. Volume 1: The Middle Ages. Basics and advancement. Association for local history, Schwelm 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811749-1-5 , p. 236
3. ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Local and distance table of the government district Arnsberg, arranged according to the existing state division, with details of the earlier areas and offices, the parish and school districts and topographical information. Ritter, Arnsberg 1841.
4. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau (Prussia) (ed.): Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume X), Berlin 1887.