Wintersberg (Bad Honnef)

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View of Wintersberg from the east (2011)

Wintersberg is a district of Aegidienberg , a district of Bad Honnef in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

The hamlet of Wintersberg is located in the southwest center of the Aegidienberg district at about 275  m above sea level. NHN . The village extends on a mountain ridge that generally slopes to the north between the Kochbach in the west and the Wintersberger Bach in the east and the confluence of the two brooks ( 235  m above sea level ) in the north, but is itself on a rather flat terrain. Immediately to the south is the district of Höhe , further neighboring towns are Siefenhoven in the west and Retscheid in the northeast. In the south, Wintersberg is bounded by Kreisstraße 6 ( Himberg - Wülscheid ), which runs in a west-east direction .

history

The place can be proven since 1666 at the latest, when it appears with two to three people in a list of residents obliged to pay homage . In 1673 in Wintersberg (at that time still Wintersbergh ) only the local aldermen "Theiss zu Wintersberg" was registered as a taxpayer. The place name probably describes the topographical location of the village ( winter = "on the north side") at the northern end of a mountain ridge. In 1803 the hamlet only comprised three houses or house numbers. Wintersberg belonged to the Honschaft Höhe, one of eight honors that made up the parish of Aegidienberg at the latest from the middle of the 18th century until the dissolution of the Duchy of Berg in 1806.

In a census in 1843 Wintersberg counted 31 inhabitants in four residential buildings, in another in 1885 the number of inhabitants had decreased to 22 in five houses. In 1951, the district road 6 was built on the southern edge of Wintersberg on the border to Höhe, which leads from Himberg with crossing under the motorway via Orscheid to Wülscheid . The size of the hamlet remained constant until at least 1963, since then the number of residential buildings has increased significantly to around ten. In 2006 a tree nursery was established in the east of Wintersberg , which covers an area of ​​two hectares .

coat of arms

Chalkboard as the town's coat of arms

In 2008 the artist Richard Lenzgen created a slate as the local coat of arms of Höhe and Wintersberg. The two-part coat of arms shows the two villages and their surroundings from the west in the lower half: the mountain ridge (s ) framed by Höher Bach and Cookingbach as well as the Wintersberger Weg as an old church path and the district road 6 ( Eudenbacher Straße ). Both districts are depicted with symbols that are reminiscent of the former ore mining on Höher Berg : Höhe with mallets and iron , Wintersberg with a miner's lamp . A wayside cross represents the importance that Christianity used to have in local life. In the upper half of the coat of arms a chestnut occupies a central place, which has existed since the middle of the 19th century. It is flanked by various agricultural tools, a rooster , another mallet and iron - embodying the development from traditional to modern professions - and a half-timbered house that stands for others in Wintersberg and Höhe.

Web links

Commons : Wintersberg  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ West German Society for Family Studies (ed.); Johannes Jansen: Aegidienberger Familienbuch 1666-1875 , Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-933364-57-4 , S. XVIII u. XIX.
  2. ↑ Helmut Arntz (with the assistance of Adolf Nekum ): Urkataster und Gewannen: using the example of the community of Honnef 1824/1826 . (= Heimat- und Geschichtsverein “Herrschaft Löwenburg” eV : Studies on the local history of the city of Bad Honnef am Rhein , Issue 13, Bad Honnef 2000; Society for the History of Wine eV : Writings on Wine History , ISSN  0302-0967 , No. 133, Wiesbaden 2000), p. 121.
  3. ^ Otmar Falkner: The Quirrenbacher Mühle. In: Heimatblätter des Rhein-Sieg-Kreis , 75th year 2007, p. 140.
  4. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, 2nd volume: The map of 1789. Bonn 1898, p. 315.
  5. ↑ Royal Government of Cologne: overview of the components u. Directory of all localities in the government district of Cologne. Cöln 1845, p. 86.
  6. ↑ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII Provinz Rheinland, Verlag des Königlich Statistischen Bureaus (Ed.), 1888, pages 114 u. 115 (PDF; 1.5 MB)
  7. ↑ Karl Gast: Aegidienberg through the ages . Aegidienberg 1964, p. 196.
  8. ↑ Karl Gast: Aegidienberg through the ages . Aegidienberg 1964, p. 93.
  9. ↑ Piel tree nursery website
  10. ↑ Well-known coat of arms painter from Hövel , Rundblick Siebengebirge, April 26, 2008

Coordinates: 50 ° 39 ′ 18 ″  N , 7 ° 18 ′ 44 ″  E