Alpe (Reichshof)

Alp municipality Reichshof Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 20 ″  N , 7 ° 36 ′ 39 ″  E
Height :	299 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	254  (Dec. 31, 2008)
Postal code :	51580
Area code :	02261
Location of Alpe in Reichshof

Alpe is one of 106 localities in the Reichshof municipality in the Oberbergischer Kreis in the North Rhine-Westphalian administrative district of Cologne in Germany .

Location and description

Alpe is east of Dieringhausen , the nearest centers are Gummersbach (10 km northwest), Cologne (54 km west) and Siegen (46 km southeast).

First mention

The place was mentioned for the first time in 1361, namely “Johann von Alpe is a witness in a document for the Johanniterniederlassung Marienhagen .” Original document no. 64 from 1361 from Schönstein Castle.

Spelling of the first mention: Alpe

Alpe has a natural name: "In der Olpe" = swampy stream.

history

In the parish of Eckenhagen there existed until the beginning of the 19th century, when the legal differences between knight, saddle and farm property were completely eliminated, 6 saddle goods, u. a. Alp. This included "10 Aggerhöfe", in addition to the Upper and Lower Alps, Hunsheim, Berghausen, Dorn Ohlhagen, Fahrenberg, Seifen, Merkausen, Allinghausen and Allenbach.

In a contract dated May 27, 1257, in which disputes between Johann von Sponheim and his son Gottfried von Sayn on the one hand and her relative Adolf von Berg on the other, Sayn transferred the jurisdiction of Eckenhagen to Berg. Thus, Eckenhagen went over to the Bergische administration, the possession (property) of the two later mayors of Eckenhagen and Denklingen, however, only in the Siegburg Treaty of 1604.

In the treaty of 1257, sovereignty was transferred and "The Eigen von Eckenhagen" was created , a completely free property in contrast to the fiefdom. This designation was chosen in particular when the area was completely characterized by strange surrounding areas as a closed whole. In the Eckenhagener Weistum it says: "So we sit here, four or five gentlemen."

The expansion and rounding of the county of Berg went hand in hand with the formation of administrative districts and offices. The political structure took on more solid forms when Windeck became a bailiwick in 1260. It finally developed into an office around 1350.

The documents of the Alper Bürger Club show that stately stone buildings rose up around a well-fortified keep in Alpe, where otherwise the villages were only characterized by low half-timbered houses. Both places (“In der Olpe” and “In der nider Olpe”) are referred to as “ a castle and Adelicher seß (seat)”.

In 1575 witness interrogations and border inspections led to the definition of the border between Homburg and Berg. This is the reason for the creation of the Mercator map produced in the same year by the Windeck office, to which the "Eigen von Eckenhain" has belonged since 1257.

On June 12, 1604, the Siegburg Treaty was finally concluded to end the border disputes between the neighbors, and on November 19 of that year the borders were finally marked.

The book "Eckenhagen and Denklingen in the Changing Times" shows that there was a Peter von Heydt, known as Hüngerkausen, who lived in Niederalpe around the middle of the 16th century. In 1560 he married a non-aristocratic woman, Gertrud from Ohlhagen. The marriage resulted in 5 children. He sat down shortly before his death a memorial by the 10 Agger courts the "house to the mandrel together with the garden behind it, alloyed to the glory of God before one Kapell and schoolhouse and also fifty Rthlr." Gave. The execution of the will took place on October 9, 1622 by the brother Johann. For more details see also: Church or School.

The treasury or the compulsory tax, originally different from the conditional or voluntary tax, was levied on all goods and land subject to obligation. The Upper and Lower Alps were exempt from these taxes.

The Holy Born near Alpe

In the village of Alpe, a large village pond with an earth wall in front of it was reminiscent of an old moated castle, the last remains of the foundation wall are said to have been visible a generation ago. This castle was owned by the Count von der Heid, who owned seven permanent estates. The lord of the castle was obsessed with a wild passion for hunting, for whom nothing was better than forest and game, and who even on Sundays, when the farmers attended the church service in Marienhagen, pursued the hunt, let the Hifthorn sound merrily and hunted deer, deer and wild boars. His wife often had to accompany him on his hunting expeditions through the green meadows in a white tent.

On a Sunday morning, when the Marienhagen bells had just rung, it was fortunate that the count's hunter, instead of a roebuck, hit his wife in the chest. The unfortunate woman sank from her horse to the forest floor with a cry and the red blood seeped through her dress into the green moss.

Then the desperate archer pulled his hair, knelt down next to his dead pale wife and called on God and all the saints for help.

Suddenly someone patted him on the shoulder from behind. When the count looked around in astonishment, he saw an old dwarf who looked at him insistently but with kind eyes and said: "If you promise not to hunt on quiet Sunday from today, I will show you a fountain that miraculous water donates. Wash the wound with it and let your wife drink from it, and she will get well. "

Seriously and solemnly, the count made the vow and the dwarf led him to a nearby spring that rose from a dent in the bushes. He quickly filled his hunting horn with the precious liquid, gave his wife a drink and carefully washed the wound, which immediately stopped bleeding. Farmers returning home from church carried the countess back to the Alper Burg and she soon recovered. The count kept his promise and no longer desecrated Sundays.

From that time on the source was called the "Holy Born". It can be found in the Feldmark between Alpe and Merkhausen, still has its name today and is said to prove its healing power in the case of eye problems.

Mining

Mining began early on in the villages of Alpe, Fahrenberg and Pochwerk . For example, on February 18, 1762, shift supervisor Klein and the like were enfeoffed with the lead mine "near the Ober-Alpe", which was still in operation in 1765.

leisure

Association

Alper Ball Game Club

A football club was founded in Hunsheim in 1920. The teacher Bernhausen and the brothers Hermann, Rudolf and Gustav Reinhard were significantly involved. (From Alpe) The school yard served as a playing field. But the club died. In 1923 the Alper Ballspiel Club was founded. At times it had one of the best Oberberg football teams, also because they knew how to get foreign players excited about football up here on the mountain. The game was played on the self-built sports field in Berghausen. Through the introduction of the general Conscription in 1934 so many players were withdrawn that the 1st team could no longer exist and the club dissolved.

The chairman at that time was Ewald Dresbach from Dorn and the main supervisor of Landjäger Sarstedt.

The 1st team of the ABC was in the season 1930/31 football champions of the 1st district of the Oberberg district with 30 points and 60:27 goals.

Alper Citizens Club.

In May 1990 the ALPER BÜRGER CLUB eV emerged from the May Association 1975 eV The tasks of the association should be found, discussed and determined together with the citizens. For this purpose, an invitation was made to the club restaurant "Im Höffchen" on July 9, 1990. A new name should be found for the village association. Finally, the landlady Renate Schulzki had the idea to name the association ABC. The name ABC has a long tradition in Alpe and the surrounding area. In the 20s and 30s it was the Alper Ballspiel Club that caused a stir in Oberberg. The club colors green and white as well as the emblem (a three-leaf clover) were adopted.

particularities

Guilt and concern . Debt and Bede paid in 1753 in the Acher (Agger) Honschaft (about the district Agger before 1975): Hunsheim, Ohlhagen, Seifen, Merkausen, Schönenbach, Oberagger, Mittelagger, Breidenbach, Zimmerseifen, Ersbach and Baldenberg. Alpe (Ober- and Niederalpe), Berghausen and Sotterbach were exempt from these duties and taxes.

Every year in August a harvest festival is celebrated, with a harvest couple and harvest children couple.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Klaus Pampus: First documentary naming of Oberbergischer places (= contributions to Oberbergischen history. Sonderbd. 1). Oberbergische Department 1924 eV of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein, Gummersbach 1998, ISBN 3-88265-206-3 .

literature

• Oswald Gerhard: Eckenhagen and Denklingen through the ages. A home history of the former Reichshof area of ​​Eckenhagen (the current municipalities of Eckenhagen and Denklingen) as a contribution to the history of the Oberbergisches Land. Heimatverein eV, Eckenhagen 1953.
• Heinrich Kleibauer: Legends of the Oberbergisches Land. New edition. Gronenberg, Gummersbach 1977, ISBN 3-88265-011-7 .
• Chronicle 650 years of "Auf der Alpe" Alper Bürger Club 2011.