Vommelbach

Vommelbach City of Halver Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 48 ″  N , 7 ° 33 ′ 54 ″  E
Height :	300 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	58553
Area code :	02355
Location of Vömmelbach in Halver

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

Location and description

Vömmelbach is located in the eastern Halver near the city limits of Lüdenscheid at 300 meters above sea ​​level north of the larger district of Oberbrügge , whose residential areas have grown up to the place. Other neighboring towns are Lüdenscheid- Ahelle , Grünewald , Pottheinrich and Ehringhausen .

The place can be reached from the Volmetal through Oberbrugge. To the east of Vömmelbach rises the Mühlenberg at 329 meters above sea level, to the north an unnamed elevation at 396 meters and to the northwest the 409 meter high Rafflenberg.

The Vommelbach , a tributary of the Volme, flows through the village .

history

The Freigut Vömmelbach was first documented in the years 900 and 1130, the time of origin of the settlement by sugambrische tribes but on the period between the era suspected and the year 500th Thus Vömmelbach is one of the very first settlement areas in the city area.

In 1818 there were 13 people living in the village. In 1838 Vömmelbach belonged to the Ehringhauser peasantry within the Halver mayor's office . The place categorized as a courtyard according to the location and distance table of the government district of Arnsberg had four houses and four agricultural buildings at that time. At that time, 15 residents lived in the village, all of whom were Protestant.

The municipality encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia from 1887 gives a number of 29 inhabitants who lived in three 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. ↑ 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.