Osthelden is a constituent community of Kreuztal, Siegen-Wittgenstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and has its name from the stream Osthelde. It is located on the road from Wenden to Kreuztal, where the road descends into the valley with a sharp bend and has 710 inhabitants.
Osthelden is a constituent community of Kreuztal, Siegen-Wittgenstein, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany and has its name from the stream Osthelde. It is located on the road from Wenden to Kreuztal, where the road descends into the valley with a sharp bend and has 710 inhabitants.
==History== Osthelden is one of the oldest settlements in the Siegerland. There is no document about its origin. In terms of folk culture, Osthelden is a Moselle Franconian-speaking place and is situated on the Uerdinger and Benrather lines. It is unclear since when the first humans used the protected hollow on the upper reaches of the Osthelden stream as a settlement. The first written reference to Osthelden can be found in the Bickenschen Mannbuch, a feudal register of the Lords of Bicken. There it says (in today's words): Anno Domini 1344 - "The Lords of Bicken (Burg Hainchen/Netphen) had left the tenth rights in Osthelden and Fellinghausen to the Gobel von der Hees".
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