Wiehl
Encyclopedia
Wiehl is a municipality in the Oberbergischer Kreis, in Northrhine-Westfalia, Germany
. It is located approx. 41 km east of Cologne
. The neighbouring municipalities Reichshof
, Waldbröl
, Nümbrecht
, Much
, Engelskirchen
and Gummersbach
border on the town.
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. It is located approx. 41 km east of Cologne
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
. The neighbouring municipalities Reichshof
Reichshof
Reichshof is a Northrhine-Westfalian municipality in the Oberbergischer Kreis in Germany, about 40 km east of Cologne. It is a health resort, known for its good climate.-General meaning:...
, Waldbröl
Waldbröl
Waldbröl is a town is in the southern part of the Oberbergischer Kreis , in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.-Geographical location:The city lies on the slopes of the Nutscheid and is part of the Naturpark Bergisches Land...
, Nümbrecht
Nümbrecht
Nümbrecht is a municipality in the Oberbergischer Kreis, in Northrhine-Westfalia, Germany. It is a health resort, known for its good climate.-Neighbouring places:North: WiehlWest: Engelskirchen NümbrechtEast: Reichshof...
, Much
Much, Germany
Much is a municipality in the Rhein-Sieg district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated approx. 30 km north-east of Bonn, and 20 km south-west of Gummersbach.-Twin towns:* Doullens, France, since 1976...
, Engelskirchen
Engelskirchen
Engelskirchen is a municipality in Oberbergischer Kreis, Germany in North Rhine-Westphalia, about 40 kilometers east of Cologne. The neighbouring municipalities are Overath, Lindlar, Gummersbach, Wiehl and Much.-History:...
and Gummersbach
Gummersbach
Gummersbach is a city in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, being the district seat of the Oberbergischer Kreis. It is located 50 km east of Cologne. In the past it was nicknamed "the Lime Tree Town", because lime trees lined the main street...
border on the town.
Geography
Between the highway and Wiehl lies the biggest Wiehl industrial area, covering about 81 ha: Wiehl-Bomig. The river of the same name, Wiehl, flows by the town in an east-west direction.| North: Gummersbach Gummersbach Gummersbach is a city in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, being the district seat of the Oberbergischer Kreis. It is located 50 km east of Cologne. In the past it was nicknamed "the Lime Tree Town", because lime trees lined the main street... | ||
| West: Much Much, Germany Much is a municipality in the Rhein-Sieg district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated approx. 30 km north-east of Bonn, and 20 km south-west of Gummersbach.-Twin towns:* Doullens, France, since 1976... | Wiehl | East: Reichshof Reichshof Reichshof is a Northrhine-Westfalian municipality in the Oberbergischer Kreis in Germany, about 40 km east of Cologne. It is a health resort, known for its good climate.-General meaning:... |
| South: Nümbrecht Nümbrecht Nümbrecht is a municipality in the Oberbergischer Kreis, in Northrhine-Westfalia, Germany. It is a health resort, known for its good climate.-Neighbouring places:North: WiehlWest: Engelskirchen NümbrechtEast: Reichshof... |
History
In 1131 Wiehl is mentioned under the name Wila for the first time in a document. On the Mercator map of 1575 it is registered as a Wiell. Wiehl was slammed by the Siegburger comparison of 1604 finally of the rule Homburg and was subordinated with it to the house Sayn-Wittgenstein. In 1815 the Viennese congress assigned the Homburger little country which existed practically only of the municipalities of Wiehl and Nümbrecht to Prussia. Wiehl was in this time still an agriculturally stamped place of village character whose population surplus had to live by travelling work. Only the use of the water power of the Wiehl by the Ohler hammer since 1860 as well as stream production since 1895, the connection with the railroad network in 1897 and the foundation of the mountain broads clever axis factory of Wiehl (BPW) in 1898 created the condition for reinforced growth in population. The national socialism left Wiehl a new city hall (today old). After the second world war integrated Wiehl the influx of bombed out and from expelled, by the regional reorganisation in 1969 it was combined with Bielstein and Drabenderhöhe and received in 1971, 840 years after his first naming, town right. Since that time it takes pleasure, also thanks to the Zuzugs of emigrants and a skilful industrial politics, respectable and steady growth.The coat of arms of Wiehl
The coat of arms served the power Homburg as a basis of today's Wiehler coat of arms. It consists of a two tower castle with open gate and portcullis. The unresolved Knight of St John of Jerusalem cross over the right lower tower was taken at the association of the municipalities of Wiehl and Bielstein from the Bielsteiner coat of arms.Villages
| A | Alferzhagen - Alpe - Alperbrück - Angfurten |
| B | Bielstein - Bieberstein - Börnhausen - Bomig - Brächen - Breidenbruch - Büddelhagen - Büttinghausen - |
| D | Dahl - Drabenderhöhe - Dreisbach - Drosselhardt |
| F | Fahlenbruch - Faulmert - Forst |
| G | Gassenhagen - Großfischbach |
| H | Hahn - Hau - Hengstenberg - Hillerscheid - Hübender - Hückhausen |
| I | Immen |
| J | Jennecken |
| K | Kleinfischbach - Kurtensiefen |
| L | Linden |
| M | Marienhagen - Merkausen - Monsau - Morkepütz - Mühlen - Mühlhausen |
| N | Neuklef - Niederbellinghausen - Niederhof |
| O | Oberbantenberg - Oberholzen - Oberwiehl |
| P | Pfaffenberg - Pergenroth |
| R | Remperg |
| S | Siefen - Steinacker |
| V | Verr |
| W | Wald - Weiershagen - Wiehlsiefen |
Sports
- Wiehltal stadium with little field (art lawn)
- Sports field Eichhardt
- Sports and gymnasia at the high school and the elementary school
- Solar open-air swimming pool with super slide
- Ice sports hall
- Sauna, undergoing a Kneipp cure plant
- Wiehlpark for leisure time, game and sports
- Walks in the Oberbergischen country
Buildings
- Protestant church and half-timbered houses restored form the town center. In the foreground the river Wiehl. The Protestant church in hugging as is the largest of the Wiehler churches. The oldest part has stood since the 11th century. The nave was rebuilt repeatedly. The belltower remained at its place. The baptismal font is under the pulpit in the chancel from the 12th century (dismantled in the context of the last reorganization measures in 2003). The church extends along the main street in west east direction.
- Restored half-timbering ensemble in the upper village, classified as a historical monument
- The Bismarckturm is an outlook tower which was built at the emperor time 1909. It is 16.8 m high, has a regular hexagonal ground plan and was built from Grauwacke.
- One of the so-called colored Kerken, a church with medieval ceiling frescos, is in the district Marienhagen.
Museums
- The museum "axis, wheel and car" represents the 5.500 year history of the vehicle engineering on an over 1,000 m² large exhibition space: Wiehl-Ohlerhammer, tel. (0049 2262) 78 12 80, admission free.
- Old agricultural equipment and machines are exhibited in the idyllically situated farmer museum: Wiehl, area Monsau, tel. (0 22, 62) 9 29 11.
- Siebenbürger Heimatstube in the arts center Drabenderhöhe. Insights into the to this day neat customs of the more than 800 years old tradition and culture strive and arrange household effects in the seven citizen country.
Regular events
- The international Wiehler Jazztage, these enjoy great attention in the Jazzscene, regularly take place (2004 already for the 15th time) since 1989. Well-known jazz musicians like Lilian Boutte (gospel song singer), Al di Meola (guitarist), Götz Alsmann, Lyambiko, Melva Houston, Albie Donnelly's super rank and many others have already appeared in Wiehl.
- Hundreds of different kinds of Dahlien can be inspected at the Wiehler Dahlienschau from August until October.
- Weekly market on Wednesday.
- Native country celebration at the Bismarckturm (beginning of June).
- Town celebration (in August).
- Christmas market at the 1st weekend in December
Other
- Get 30 m under the earth in the Wiehler dripstone cave marriage ceremonies of the Wiehler registry office are carried out regularly.
- game park
- The "Oberbergische PostkutscheOberbergische PostkutscheThe Oberbergische Postkutsche is a replica of a 19th-century mail coach run as a tourist attraction between Nümbrecht and Wiehl in Germany.The original stagecoach operated from 1871...
", a mail coach, runs between Nümbrecht and Wiehl every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from May to the end of October. It is a reproduction of the mail coach of the Imperial Post Office around 1871. - Woods and nature trail
- In the Siefen below the dripstone cave groundGroundGround may refer to:* Earth's surface* Soil, a mixture of clay, sand and organic matter present on the surface of the Earth and serving as substrate for plant growth and micro-organisms development...
monumentMonumentA monument is a type of structure either explicitly created to commemorate a person or important event or which has become important to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times or cultural heritage, or simply as an example of historic architecture...
"golden trough an old mountain work gallery which served the mining of iron ore and extended in branched pit countries to under the villages Hübender, cleric mountain and Abbenroth (municipality of Nümbrecht)". Siefen was mined in the 19th century, the support was finally adjusted 1912 because too low ores lined up at least since the beginning. The gallery served over decades of the Wiehler water supply later. At the restored gallery entrance built with mortar becomes the at times missing stone with the eingemeisselten inscription: Golden trough 1813 " built " again. - about 6 km eastern of Wiehl Wiehltal dam.
- Wiehl's French twin town is HemHemTo hem a piece of cloth is to sew a cut edge in such a way as to prevent unraveling of the fabric.There are many different styles of hems of varying complexities. The most common hem...
in the Nord département.
Facilities for young and old
- 1 of municipal and 2 church nursery schools
- Walldorf nursery school
- Town Youth meeting in the Bions store
- Ev. House of the youth
- Youth café "checkpoint"
- Youth hotel (youth hostel)
- Oasis open work for senior citizens
- Old and nursing home "Bethel"
- Welfare and social work and Knight of St John of Jerusalem health and advice center
- Knight of St John of Jerusalem accident help
Organizations
- Balloon sports-fans Oberberg e.V
- Handicapped person sports
- Choir Nostalgie
- YMCA Wiehl e.V.
- DLRG OG Wiehl
- DRK Ortsgruppe
- FV Wiehl 2000
- Judo Wiehl e.V.
- Kneipp-Verein Wiehl
- Maltese hospice group Wiehl
- Crazy golf sports club Wiehl
- Ecumenical initiative youth café Wiehl e.V.
- Sauerländischer GebirgsvereinSauerländischer GebirgsvereinThe '"Sauerländische of mountain association", briefly "SGV", an association is for hiking and Nordic Walking.The association was founded in 1891 by forest advice Ernst Ehmsen and Karl Féaux de Lacroix from mountain Arns in Sauerland and today has about 50,000 members...
SGV - Chess club
- German shepherd organization OG Wiehl
- Competitive dancing TSC Wiehl
- TC Wiehl
- Tennis club Wiehl
- TUS Wiehl
- TUS Wiehl sportsIce sports club
- Baseball-team Wiehl
- Male-voice choir 1878 e.V. Wiehl
- Track and field athletics club Wiehl
Schools and educational institutions
- Community elementary school
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer high school
- Wiehltalhalle, hall of the high school for events of every kind
- School of music of the Homburgischen municipalities of registered association
- Circle adult education center department Wiehl
- Town library
- Kulturkreis Wiehl e.V.
Literature
- Siegfried Lauff, "Wiehl in the change of the times 1-3", Wiehl and thinking ore groves 1978-1990 (ISBN 3-88913-150-6)
- Ulrich Melk, Chronik von Wiehl 1131 bis 1920, Wiehl 2001 (ISBN 3-00-008600-5)
- Torsten Sülzer, Vom Dorfbrunnen zum Wasserwerk : Die Geschichte der Wasserwirtschaft an Agger - Wiehl - Bröhl, (ISBN 3-88265-207-1)
- Joachim Kleinmanns, Wiehl-Marienhagen, Broschüre - Rheinischer Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz e.V. (ISBN 3-88094-571-3)
- Dietrich Rentsch, Oberbergischer Kreis 2. Marienheide - Wiehl, 1976
- 850 Jahre Wiehl 1131–1981, Festschrift zur 850-Jahrfeier der Stadt Wiehl, hg. v. Heimatverein Wiehl, o.O., o.J. [Wiehl 1982]
- Klaus Pampus: "Documentary first mentionings oberbergischer places" .Herausgeber (ed.): Bergischer history organization /Oberberg (ISBN 3-88265-206-3)
- "food oatmeal piece of paper" into exercise book 3, "materials and sources for the oberbergischen regional history". Editor: H.J. Söhn and Lothar Wirths. Ed. Bergischer history organization Oberbergische Abtlg. 2003
- Gottfr. Corbach: "Contributions to the Bergischen history". SCRIBA publishing house, Cologne. Stress this . Ausg.1976 . ISBN 3-921232-48-1
- the same: Represented and processed according to archival sources by Otto merchant to "the Homburg country in the Thirty Years' War", Brosch. ed. of the Raiffeisenbank Nümbrecht (1983)