Hilchenbach

Hilchenbach is a town in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany. It belongs to the district of Siegen Wittgenstein. The first documentary point out of Hilchenbach goes again to the 17th June 1292, as the location Heylichinbach is noted in a deed of the Countess Agnes of Nassau and her eldest son Henry to the monastery Keppel. However, there is evidence that a church on this region changed into founded among 950 and 1000 from Corvey Monastery, suggesting a settlement. In a document dated July 20, 1365 at Festes residence Wilhelmsburg is mentioned in Hilchenbach, with the 1489 to 1622 the nobles Wischel von Langenau have been feeble.

In 1466 Hilchenbach had 47 houses and approximately 300 inhabitants. From 1467 dates the primary written point out of Amt Hilchenbach. In the years 1490 and 1547 the plague raged in Hilchenbach. The first point out of a customs workplace in Hilchenbach took place in 1533. 1611 is the primary documentary mention of a college in Hilchenbach recorded. In 1625, the village Hilchenbach changed into raised because of an inheritance department to the house of Count Wilhelm von Nassau Siegen Hilchenbach.