Wiehl

Wiehl is a municipality inside the Oberbergischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is placed about 41 km east of Cologne. The neighbouring municipalities Reichshof, Waldbrol, Numbrecht, Much, Engelskirchen and Gummersbach border on the town. Wiehl is first recorded in 1131 beneath the name of Wila. On the 1575 Mercator map it's far shown as Wiell. Wiehl become ultimately allocated in the 1604 Treaty of Siegburg to the Barony of Homburg and turned into subordinated with it to the House of Sayn-Wittgenstein.

In 1815, the Congress of Vienna assigned the little Homburg territory, which nearly simplest consisted of the municipalities of Wiehl and Nümbrecht, to Prussia. At that time, Wiehl became nevertheless an agriculturally orientated settlement with a village man or woman. Those within the populace who could not earn a residing from the land needed to serve as migratory labour. Not until the second one half of the 19th century were the situations created for a good sized boom in population.