Winterhagen

Winterhagen City of Hückeswagen Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 31 "  N , 7 ° 17 ′ 58"  E
Height :	310 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	42499
Area code :	02192
Location of Winterhagen in Hückeswagen

Winterhagen , until the beginning of the 20th century Oberwinterhagen , is a place and district in Hückeswagen in the Oberbergischer Kreis in southern North Rhine-Westphalia within the administrative district of Cologne ( Germany ).

Location and description

Winterhagen is located in the west of Hückeswagen near the crossroads . Other neighboring towns are Niederwinterhagen , Sonnenschein , Oberdorp , Niederdorp , Junkernbusch , Heidt , Dörpe and the larger district of Wiehagen . The place has gained in importance through the construction of the largest industrial area in the city of Hückeswagen, the " Bergisch Land / Winterhagen industrial park ". Companies such as the mechanical engineering company Klingelnberg have settled here .

The Winterhagener Bach , a tributary of the Dörpe Bach , flows through the village .

history

The place was mentioned for the first time in a document in 1407 : A Johan Wynterhaige , judge in Hokishouen , appears in a document about the waiver of Stael v. Holstein to the office of hereditary droplets and hereditary stewardship in Berg . Spelling of the first mention : Wynterhaige .

In the 18th century the place belonged to the Bergisches Amt Bornefeld-Hückeswagen . In 1815/16 54 people lived in the village. In 1832, Winterhagen belonged under the name of Oberwinterhagen to the Great Honorship , which was part of the Hückeswagen external citizenship within the Hückeswagen mayor's office . The place, categorized as a hamlet according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , had four residential buildings and eight agricultural buildings at that time. At that time, 67 residents lived in the place, 55 Catholic and twelve Protestant faith.

In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province , nine houses with 76 inhabitants are given for 1885. At that time the place belonged to the rural community Neuhückeswagen within the Lennep district . In 1895 the place had nine houses with 47 inhabitants, in 1905 under the name Winterhagen twelve houses and 105 inhabitants.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Oberwinterhagen was renamed Winterhagen.

Associations and institutions

The sports club TV Winterhagen , which is also the social center, is of great importance for the place . The club's trampoline gymnasts have won numerous titles at national championships.

traffic

Until the closure of the Wipper valley course 1995, there were in Winterhagen a railway -Haltepunkt of at 51 ° 8 '54.2 "  N , 7 ° 18' 4"  O lay.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and topography of the administrative district of Düsseldorf. Part 2: Containing the statistical table of places and distances and the alphabetical index of place names. Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1836, p. 11 .
2. ^ Royal Statistical Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland province. Based on the materials from the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources (= community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. Vol. 12, ZDB -ID 1046036-6 ). Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau, Berlin 1888.
3. ^ Royal Statistical Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland province. Based on the materials from the census of December 1, 1895 and other official sources (= community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. Vol. 12). Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau, Berlin 1897.
4. ^ Royal Statistical Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland province. Based on the materials from the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources (= community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. Vol. 12). Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau, Berlin 1909.