Steinbach (Halver)

Steinbach City of Halver Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 2 ″  N , 7 ° 31 ′ 56 ″  E
Height :	310 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	58553
Area code :	02355
Location of Steinbach in Halver

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

Location and description

Steinbach is located at 310 meters above sea ​​level northeast of the main town in Halver at the confluence of the Steinbach in the Hälver . The place can be reached via the state road L868; A driveway branches off at Heesfelder Hammer , which is framed by modern residential developments in the form of a street village up to the historic town center.

Other neighboring towns are Wiene , Carthausen , Bruch , Lömmelscheid , the Heesfelder Mühle and In der Hälver . The Susannenhöhe rises to the south, 350 meters above sea level , and Steinbach is surrounded by numerous hills in the other directions due to its valley location.

history

Steinbach was first mentioned in a document in 1557, but the time of origin of the settlement is assumed to have been between 1200 and 1300 at the end of the medieval clearing period. Steinbach was a split from the Carthausen court.

In 1818 nine residents lived in the village. In 1838 Steinbach belonged to the Oeckinghauser peasantry within the Halver mayor . The place, which was categorized as arable property according to the location and distance table of the government district of Arnsberg , had a house, two factories or mills and an agricultural building at that time. At that time, twelve people lived in the village, all of whom were Protestant.

The municipality encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia from 1887 gives a number of 24 inhabitants who lived in four houses.

Steinbach had a stop on the Hälvertalbahn .

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. ↑ 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.
3. ↑ 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.