Mountains (Meschede)

mountains City of Meschede Coordinates: 51 ° 19 ′ 53 ″  N , 8 ° 9 ′ 18 ″  E
Height :	240-575 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	1139  (December 31, 2017)
Postal code :	59872
Area code :	02903
Aerial photo (2013)

Berge is a district of Meschede in the North Rhine-Westphalian Hochsauerlandkreis .

geography

location

The place is at an altitude of 240 m to 575  m above sea level. NHN and stretches around three kilometers in a north-south direction along the Wenne and the parallel L 541.

Neighboring places

Wenne in mountains

Adjacent places are Olpe , Wallen , Blessenohl and Visbeck .

history

House Niederberge

There is evidence that the Lords of Berge existed as early as the 13th century. At the beginning of the 14th century they were feudal men of the Count of Arnsberg . In the fiefdom of Arnsberg Count Wilhelm from 1313 it says that the brothers Heinrich and Bolemann de Berge were entrusted with three farms in the valley of the Wennefluß, two of them in Oberberge and one in Berge. The ownership in Berge then changed hands several times. In 1661, Jobst Edmund von Brabeck bought the indebted property for 20,330 thalers. Three years later he built today's Niederberge manor house . The places Niederberge, Mittelberge and Oberberge existed for a long time as independent places. Around 1800 an ironworks was put into operation on the Wenne of the Berger Eisenhammer and in Mittelberge. The place Bergerhütte was created in the area of ​​this ironworks. The iron hammer remained in operation until 1862. In 1913 it was converted into a wire drawing shop after several changes of ownership. In 2013, the 700th anniversary was celebrated with a ceremony.

As of December 31, 2017, Berge had 1,139 inhabitants.

religion

Saint Lucia in mountains

The parish church of St. Lucia is in Mittelberge. It was consecrated on May 18, 1968 by the then Auxiliary Bishop Johannes Joachim Degenhardt . The Lucia Chapel in Oberberge was consecrated by Auxiliary Bishop Bernard Fricke on September 13, 1647 on his big confirmation and church consecration tour through the Sauerland.

Web links

Commons : Mountains  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• City of Meschede, history of mountains

Individual evidence

1. ↑ City of Meschede, History of Berge ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed August 18, 2009)  
2. ↑ City of Meschede: The population statistics of Meschede (PDF; 59 kB), accessed on February 14, 2018
3. ↑ City of Meschede, churches and chapels in Berge ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed August 18, 2009)