Office of Kleverhamm

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The office of Kleverhamm was an office in the county, or (from 1417) in the Duchy of Kleve .

expansion

The Kleverhamm office comprised the Rhine lowlands northeast of Kleve and extended over parts of today's city of Kleve and the municipality of Bedburg-Hau . It included the villages of Kellen , Brienen , Wardhausen , Qualburg , Till-Moyland , Warbeyen , Huisberden and, at times, Griethausen .

history

The Kleverhamm was the scene of the Battle of Kleverhamm , in which on June 7, 1397 Count Adolf II. Von Kleve and his brother Count Dietrich von der Mark defeated and captured their uncle, Duke Wilhelm von Berg .

literature

  • Theodor Ilgen: Sources for the internal history of the Rhenish territories. Duchy of Kleve 1: Offices and Courts, Bd. 1: Presentation , Bonn 1921 (publications of the Society for Rhenish History 38).
  • Robert Scholten : Historical news about Cleverham, Brienen, Sombrienen and Griethausen, Kleve 1888.