Weiershagen

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Weiershagen
City of Wiehl
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 26 ″  N , 7 ° 29 ′ 23 ″  E
Height : 154 m
Residents : 789  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Postal code : 51674
Area code : 02262
Weiershagen (Wiehl)
Weiershagen

Location of Weiershagen in Wiehl
Wiehltalbrücke and company premises of the Edelstahlwerk Kind & Co. in the foreground
Wiehltalbrücke and company premises of the Edelstahlwerk Kind & Co. in the foreground

Weiershagen ( hommersch Weierschen) in the Oberbergischer Kreis is one of 51 localities in the city of Wiehl in the administrative district of Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ).

Location and description

The place is about 7 km as the crow flies from the center of Wiehl.

The Wiehl flows through Weiershagen , here the federal motorway 4 also runs at a height of around 70 meters over the Wiehl valley bridge . The Wiehltalbahn (tourist traffic) has reactivated a stop here.

Mentions

  • Weiershagen was first mentioned in a document in 1396, namely "Johan van Wiershaym and other helpers of Johann von Sayn are in a feud with the city of Cologne ". The spelling of the first mention was Wiershaym . The addition -hagen in the later renaming to Weiershagen was common for settlements that were fenced in or surrounded by hedges.
  • The largest iron smelting works in the area was recorded as early as 1575 .
  • In 1912 Weiershagen was introduced as a collective name for 12 farms and hamlets in close proximity , including Steeg, Kleebornen, Reuschenbach, Zur Hardt, Weiden, Vor der Ley, Hütte and the like. a.

Others

A spectacular traffic accident on August 26, 2004 caused a sensation nationwide: after the collision caused by a passenger car, a tanker truck fell off the Wiehl valley bridge on the A4 and went up in flames, the truck driver was killed. Residential buildings close to the crash site were spared the flames. The steel construction of the bridge was badly damaged by the enormous heat development. For security reasons, the motorway between the Engelskirchen and Gummersbach / Wiehl junctions was temporarily closed; For weeks there were severe disabilities on the roads in the Agger - and Wiehl valley . The bridge renovation, which cost around 30 million euros, was completed in October 2007.

Economy and industry

The Weiershagen industrial park is 3.7 hectares in size. It is located on the outskirts and is about. 6 km from junction 24 of the A 4 .

Hiking and biking trails

  • The local circular hiking trail O "Around Bielstein " runs through Weiershagen.
  • The local circular route "Weiershagener Rundwanderweg" was opened in 2017

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