Sohlbach (Siegen)

Sohlbach City of Siegen
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 0 ″  N , 7 ° 59 ′ 31 ″  E
Height :	293  (270-330)  m
Area :	1.98 km²
Residents :	577  (December 31, 2016)
Population density :	291 inhabitants / km²
Incorporation :	July 1, 1966
Incorporated into:	Hut Valley
Postal code :	57078
Area code :	0271
Location of Sohlbach in Siegen
Buchen-Sohlbach home parlor

Sohlbach is a district of the city ​​of Siegen .

geography

Sohlbach is located about 8 km northwest of the center of Siegen in the Sohlbach valley. The place is at an altitude between 270 and 330  m . The highest mountain in the district is Holenborn with a height of 404.8  m to the west of the village.

Sohlbach is located in the north of Siegen and borders among other things on the districts of Geisweid in the south, Langenholdinghausen and Buchen in the west as well as on the Kreuztaler districts of Fellinghausen in the northwest and Buschhütten in the northeast. The Sohlbacher district with 1.98 km² is one of the smaller districts in the Siegen city area. The place is overgrown with Geisweid in the south and beeches in the northwest.

history

Sohlbach was first mentioned in a document in 1461.

Parts of Sohlbach were incorporated into the municipality of Klafeld on October 1, 1958 . On July 1, 1966, the municipality , which up to this point had belonged to the Weidenau office, was incorporated into the newly founded town of Hüttental by the first law to reorganize the district of Siegen . In the course of the renewed municipal reorganization, the city of Hüttental was incorporated into the city of Siegen on January 1, 1975, making Sohlbach a district of Siegen.

Population numbers

Population of the place:

year Residents 1818 53 1885 74 1895 66 1905 116 1910 171 1925 224

year Residents 1933 240 1939 285 1950 371 1961 417 1994 574 2004 564

year Residents 2006 586 2008 578 2009 571 2010 569 2011 547 2012 549

year Residents 2013 537 2014 537 2015 585 2016 577

Infrastructure

The north of Sohlbach is very agricultural, industry is not represented here. In the south of the village, east of the main road, is a small, long industrial area. The place is on the district road 26, which leads from Geisweid to Junkernhees. Sohlbach is directly connected to Buschhütten via a junction. Via Geisweid the place is connected to the Hüttentalstraße and the federal autobahn 45 .

Buchen has a community center, a community center, a community center, a playground and a primary school, the Albert Schweitzer School.

Personalities

• Jakob Scheiner (1820–1911); painter

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map of the Principality of Nassau-Siegen: Documentary evidence of settlement up to 1500 ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Stephanie Reekers: The regional development of the districts and communities of Westphalia 1817-1967 . Aschendorff, Münster Westfalen 1977, ISBN 3-402-05875-8 , p. 283 .
3. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 336 .
4. ↑ Otto Schaefer: The district of Siegen. Wins 1968.
5. ↑ siegen.de: main resident population by district (updated regularly)
6. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia. Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau, Berlin 1887, ZDB -ID 1458761-0 , p. 112/113.
7. ^ Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia. Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau, Berlin 1897, pp. 114/115.
8. ↑ gemeindeververzeichnis.de: District of Siegen
9. ↑ genealogy.net: Weidenau Office
10. ↑ ^{a b} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Siegen. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
11. ↑ Martin Bünermann, Heinz Köstering: The communities and districts after the municipal territorial reform in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1975, ISBN 3-555-30092-X , p. 251 .
12. ↑ Hartmut Eichenauer: Siegen ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 12.2 MB) , approx. 1995