Berghausen (Reichshof)

Berghausen municipality Reichshof Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 5 ″  N , 7 ° 37 ′ 10 ″  E
Height :	349 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	672  (Dec. 31, 2008)
Postal code :	51580
Area code :	02261
Location of Berghausen in Reichshof

Berghausen 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

Berghausen is located west of Eckenhagen , the closest 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 1492 , namely "Hannes von Berchuyssen is a witness to the establishment of the Bergisch rights in the Eigen von Eckenhagen ."

Spelling of the first mention : Berchuyssen

Berghausen, already listed with this name in the Mercator map of "Eigen von Eckenhagen" from 1575, has a natural name "Ansitz auf dem Berge"

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 the "10 Aggerhöfe", in addition to Berghausen also Oberalpe and Niederalpe, Hunsheim, Ohlhagen, Fahrenberg, Seifen, Merkausen, Allinghausen, Dorn and Allenbach.

The documents of the Alper Bürger Club indicate that stately stone buildings rose around a well-fortified keep, 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)”.

The "Eigen von Eckenhagen" reported in 1575 consisted of 2 church or parish villages, 83 hamlets and 18 individual farms.

Of all the pledged goods and land the treasure or the compulsory deduction from the tax was originally from the Bede distinguished or voluntary tax, levied. According to the waiter's bills from 1749, it was the task of the Honschaften in Eigen von Eckenhagen to collect the taxes in the 105 localities for the Windeck office. Berghausen was exempt from payment.

leisure

Association

• Berghausen village community

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.