Wilhelmshöh

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Wilhelmshöh
City of Halver
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 50 "  N , 7 ° 30 ′ 43"  E
Height : 418 m above sea level NN
Postal code : 58553
Area code : 02355
Wilhelmshöh (Halver)
Wilhelmshöh

Location of Wilhelmshöh in Halver

Wilhelmshöh , often called against the official name Wilhelmshöhe , is a district of Halver in the Märkisches Kreis in the administrative district of Arnsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ).

Location and description

Wilhelmshöh is located south of the main town in Halver, at 418 meters above sea ​​level on the edge of the Bommert forest area . The neighboring towns are Hagebücherhöh , Hagebuchen , Wegerhof , Auf der Mark and Schulten Hedfeld . The place can be reached via a side road that branches off the state road L284 at Hagebücherhöh and connects the villages in southern Halver.

There is a restaurant in the village .

history

Wilhelmshöh was first mentioned in a document in 1887. The municipality encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia from 1887 gives a number of four residents who lived in a residential building.

An old road ran past Wilhelmshöh from Hagen via Breckerfeld , Halver and Rönsahl to Siegen , an important early medieval (according to other views already early historical ) trade , pilgrimage and military route . Another prehistoric old road via Radevormwald to Schwelm , running over today's state road L284, which was used as an iron and coal road, crossed the Heerweg in the neighboring Hagebücherhöh. For this reason, northwest of Wilhelmshöh in the forest area Bommert Hohlwegbündel and the road blocking land weirs .

Individual evidence

  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. ↑ 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.