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Dürhölzen is a village in the municipality Marienheide in the Oberbergischer Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia. The place was first documented in 1542, when "Henneßgen to Doerhuyht" was mentioned in the Turks tax list.The hamlet Dürhölzen belonged until 1806 to the imperial rule Gimborn-Neustadt. After belonging to the Grand Duchy of Berg (1806-1813) and a provisional transitional administration, the region came in 1815 to the Kingdom of Prussia due to the agreements reached at the Congress of Vienna. Under the Prussian administration of the place first belonged to the district Gimborn (1816-1825) and then to the district Gummersbach in the Rhine Province. In 1843 Dürhölzen had 108 inhabitants (92 Catholic and 16 Protestant), who lived in 18 houses. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%BCrh%C3%B6lzen