Wegerhof (Halver)

Wegerhof City of Halver Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 52 ″ N , 7 ° 31 ′ 22 ″ E
Height :	375 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	58553
Area code :	02355
Location of Wegerhof in Halver

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

Location and description

Wegerhof is located at 375 meters above sea level in the southeast of Halver on the L528 state road on the watershed of the river systems of the Wupper and the Volme . Neighboring places are Bergfeld , Hohl , Schneehohl , Wilhelmshöh , Hagebücherhöh , Brüninghausen , Schulten Hedfeld and Schmidthausen .

history

Wegerhof was first mentioned in a document in 1437/38, but the time of origin of the settlement is assumed to be between 1050 and 1200 as a result of the clearing phase after the high medieval territorial formation. Wegerhof was a split from the Schmidthausen court.

1818 residents lived in the village. According to the table of localities and distances from the government district of Arnsberg , Wegerhof was categorized as a farm and in 1838 had a population of 38, one of them Catholic and 37 Protestant. The place belonged to the Bergfeld peasantry within the mayor's office of Halver and owned four houses, a factory or mill and four agricultural buildings.

The municipality encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia from 1887 gives a number of 49 inhabitants who lived in five houses.

An old road from Halver via Wipperfürth , Halver, Kierspe to Meinerzhagen ran past Wegerhof on the route of today's state road L528 , the Hileweg , an important early medieval (according to other views, early historical ) trade , pilgrimage and military route . For this reason, have located southeast of Wegerhof ravines get in the forest. Another prehistoric old road via Radevormwald to Schwelm branched off in Wegerhof in the direction of the attack , which was later used as an iron and coal road.

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b 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 ).
↑ 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.
↑ 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.

[jung-1] A ^b 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.

[Gemeindelexikon1887-3] 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.