Bornhausen

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Bornhausen
City of Wiehl
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 42 ″  N , 7 ° 30 ′ 40 ″  E
Height : 245 m above sea level NN
Residents : 213  (Sep 29, 2004)
Postal code : 51674
Area code : 02262
Börnhausen (Wiehl)
Bornhausen

Location of Börnhausen in Wiehl
Bornhausen Castle
Bornhausen Castle

Börnhausen is one of 51 localities in the city of Wiehl in the Oberbergisches Kreis in the administrative district of Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Location and description

The place is on the L 95 state road and is around 3 km west of Wiehl town center. Börnhausen is located south of the federal motorway 4 .

history

The noble family von und zu Börnhausen was first mentioned in a document in 1395 as feudal people of Count von Sayn zu Homburg. The spelling of the first mention was Burnhusin . On the A. Mercator map from 1575 the name is Burrenhausen . Börnhausen Castle , built in the 13th or beginning of the 14th century, is now used as a residential building.

In the feed sheet of the Homburg rule of 1580, one Wittgenstein, three Saynic and four Bergische subjects are counted as subject to tax in Bornhaussen .

In the past, rich iron ore fields such as Gries Grube and Röttchen were exploited here .

leisure

  • Children's playground with soccer field

Association

  • Non-profit association Börnhausen / Wald e. V.
  • Johanniter day care center

literature

  • Dieter Dresbach, Fritz Licht: Börnhausen and its neighboring towns. The history of the Bechtal. Castles - villages and farmsteads on an ancient high and high road. Gronenberg, Wiehl-Bomig 2004, ISBN 3-88265-251-9 .
  • Hans Joachim Söhn, Lothar Wirths: Oat feed label. Inhabitants and fireplaces in the Homburg rulership in 1580 (= materials and sources on the Oberberg regional history. H. 3). Galunder, Gummersbach 2003, ISBN 3-89909-012-8 .