Bergisch Born

Bergisch Born City of Remscheid Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 18 ″  N , 7 ° 15 ′ 51 ″  E
Postal code :	42897
Area code :	02191
Location of Bergisch Born in Remscheid

Entering the town from Lennep on federal highway 51

St. Andrew's Church

Bergisch Born , until the 20th century just Born , is part of the Lennep district of Remscheid and is divided into the statistical districts of Bergisch Born West and Bergisch Born Ost . The village is located on federal highways 51 and 237 in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia . The section of the B 51 in the Bergisches Land originally belonged to a trade route between Cologne and Berlin . In the west of the village is the headwaters of the Eschbach , which flows into the Wupper at Solingen-Burg .

history

The history of Bergisch Born begins with the establishment of the Bornefeld office , which was first mentioned in a document on March 17th, 1270. There a "iudicio sive officio de Burlevelt" is mentioned for the first time. It was only after 1511 that Bornefeld became the only designation. The office gained importance as the place of jurisdiction for the county of Berg under Gerhard I between 1350 and 1360. The Bornefeld office thus formed an administrative unit of the Bergisches Staatswesen that included Remscheid, Wermelskirchen, Dabringhausen, Dhünn and Lüttringhausen (until 1407). Although the Bornefelder council Bertram von Plettenberg also received the office man position in Hückeswagen in 1555 and both offices have been administered in personal union since then, the office remained until the territorial reorganization under Joachim Murat in 1807.

According to legendary stories, Napoleon or his general, later Marshal Ney, is said to have lived here in 1796. There is evidence that a detachement (250 men) of French soldiers camped on the Born. Other units have camped in Wermelskirchen-Osminghausen, in Nüxhausen (today Burscheid-Hilgen) and Hückeswagen. General Ney lived at Hückeswagen Castle. The fourage deliveries of wine and food to his general table and to his units in the camps kept the courts busy for years, so the connections are well known.

With the renovation of the Höhenstraße between Wermelskirchen and Lennep (today's B 51) and the construction of the country road via Hückeswagen to Siegen (today's B 237) in the years 1773-78, the nearby farm "Born" developed into the focus of the settlement and construction activity was concentrated along the streets.

The facilities of the railway lines from Wuppertal to Opladen 1876-81 and from Lennep to Wipperfürth -Hammern and on to Dieringhausen in 1876 ​​with their branch in Bergisch-Born tied the place into the network of the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft . A bus line to Cologne completed the connections.

In the 18th century, the settlement core of Bergisch Born belonged to the Bergisch Amt Bornefeld-Hückeswagen under the name Born . In 1815/16 there were 67 residents in the village. In 1832 Born belonged to the Lüdorfer Honschaft , which was part of the Hückeswagen external citizenship within the Hückeswagen mayor's office . The place, categorized as a hamlet according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , had eight residential buildings and 13 agricultural buildings at that time. At that time, 78 residents lived in the village, six of them Catholic and 72 Protestant.

In the parish dictionary for the Rhineland province , twelve houses with 109 inhabitants are given for 1885. At that time the place belonged to the rural community Neuhückeswagen within the Lennep district . In 1895 the place had 13 houses with 148 inhabitants, in 1905 22 houses and 239 inhabitants.

In 1943, a construction project that was closely guarded according to eyewitness reports began near the old "covering shop", to which a track led from the Borner train station. According to a confidential notification from the authorities, a special hospital facility for “ Aktion Brandt ” with 500 beds was planned here in the Third Reich , which observers brought into connection with euthanasia. The ominous building with seven chimneys allowed many speculations until a large part of the shell of this "alternative hospital" was destroyed by bombs in 1945. A retirement home was later built here, but it was demolished in 1980.

In the course of the North Rhine-Westphalian municipal area reform, the eastern area around Bergisch Born was separated from the town of Hückeswagen on January 1, 1975 and incorporated into the town of Remscheid. The north of today's district previously belonged to the city of Lennep (later Remscheid), the south to Wermelskirchen .

Bergisch Borner Landwehr

This so-called Landwehr with dam and ditch ran along the old west-north borders of Hückeswagen. This is still z. B. from Schückhausen over the cooking mill near Dhünn, over Dreibäum and the Rattenberg to today's B 51. The further course of this old border from Hückeswagen continued along the B 51. The last part, about from the road to Engelsburg-Radevormwald , could now be proven cartographically.

House Bergisch Born 147/149

Old Bergisches Haus on the B 51 No. 147/149

A picture shows this imposing house which has a rich history. In 1692 a son of Johann is named, after whose death on April 22nd, 1724 Arnold Arntz pays the Kurmut . In 1764 an Arnold Arntz protested at the Bornefeld court against an electoral ordinance. 1768 Henrich Arntz borrows 400 thalers from his inheritance on Born. In 1770 Henrich Arntz zum Born leads a trial at the Bornefelder court.

The Arntz family, who had become very wealthy, led many other lawsuits up to and including the Higher Appeal Court in Düsseldorf. The assets acquired it by iron hammers in Remscheid, Wipperfurth hammers, Reinshagen-Bever and Siamosen -Manufaktur in Hückeswagen. She participated u. a. with large sums of money to finance a British hussar and infantry regiment. In the end, however, the family became impoverished, went into debt with the powder manufacturer Cramer in Krummenohl and sold the estate in 1808 to the wine merchant Rhodius in Lennep and Cologne. In 1897 the estate passed to the family of the current owners.

Other buildings worth seeing in Bergisch Born

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  Old buildings in Bergisch Born

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  On the Bergisch Born street

Culture, events and infrastructure

The anthroposophically oriented Rudolf Steiner School is located near Bundesstraße 237 . Bergisch Born has a Protestant and a Catholic parish. A parish hall belongs to the Protestant church. The Catholic church is called "St. Andreas" and belongs to the church association St. Bonaventura and Holy Cross.

The Bergisch Born volunteer fire brigade organizes a summer party in the middle of the year. The IGBB organizes the New Year's reception and the St. Martins train in Bergisch Born. In addition, the citizens' association takes part in the "Picobello Remscheid" campaign and the Trassenfest, which takes place every other year.

After a few years of declining retail trade , the place now has significant supply structures again. These include two bank branches, a package agency, a bakery, a discount supermarket, a car parts shop, a hairdresser, a fashion and cosmetics shop, an organic shop, a tile shop, a forestry contractor, a bodywork and paint shop , a physiotherapy practice, a curtain house, several restaurants and sports facilities such as the tennis hall.

The legend of the "Stone Cross" - Why the Krammetsvogel Festival was celebrated

On October 17, 1554, the messenger Josef Waizel followed the old trade route from Cologne to Lennep, which ran through the Eschbachtal near the village of Born (today Bergisch Born). After Waizel had crossed the valley and turned into the ascent towards Lennep , two robbers jumped out of the bushes next to the ravine, knocked him down and stole the gold pieces from his messenger bag. Before Josef Weizel bled to death in the Eschbachtal, he turned his gaze to the sky, where a flock of Krammetsvögel (field thrushes) was just passing by and called out to the fleeing robbers with the last of his strength: "God will judge you, you murderers! The birds in the sky will betray you! " The robbers, unimpressed by the messenger's threat, went to an inn in the nearby Born to get drunk with the stolen gold and to dine properly. When the innkeeper put two mugs of beer and a plate of roasted Krammetsvögel in front of them, one of the robbers said: "These birds are dead. They will no longer betray the murder!" The landlord, having heard, immediately sent one of his servants to the nearby court house on Bornefeld and before the murderers had finished their meal they were arrested. They were brought to Cologne, where they were sentenced to death and sentenced to death. The Krammetsvögel had actually carried out the messenger's threat!

Was killed on the spot where Josef Waizel, near the present-day circular route around the Eschbachtalsperre , one was Stone cross erected. On it is written, hardly legible today: Request for the soul of Mr. Josef Waizels, whose attack this cross is placed, in memory of October 17th in the year of the Lord 1554. In memory of this event, in Bergisch Born to In 2012, the Krammetsvogelfesttage were celebrated every year on the last weekend in September. The Krammetsvögel that were eaten at the Borner Kirmes were neither hunted nor cooked. The famous "Bergisch Borner Krammetsvögel", baked in fat in the shape of birds, which, filled with jam or sprinkled with powdered sugar, could only be purchased and consumed once a year and only here.

traffic

Bus transport

The district of Bergisch Born is served by two bus routes and a shared taxi service. There are a total of seven stops in the village: Buchholzer Weg , Bergisch Born Post , Bornbacher Straße , Schwarzer Weg , Bornefeld , Am Weidenbroich and Langenbusch . There are also several stops for the collective call taxi (AST).

line	Line course
240	Lennep center - Bergisch-Born - Belten - Wermelskirchen center
336	Lennep Mitte - Bergisch-Born - Hückeswagen - Hammern - Wipperfürth - Niederwipper - Egerpohl - Klaswipper - Ohl - Gogarten - Marienheide - Müllenbach - Karlsbach - Gummersbach Mitte

Bicycle routes

Bergisch Born used to have a train station on the Wippertalbahn and the Wuppertal-Oberbarmen-Opladen ("Balkanexpress") line. In 1983 and 1986, respectively, passenger train traffic on the Wippertal Railway ended, and in 1997 all traffic was discontinued. On the route of the "Balkan Express" traffic was gradually stopped from the 1970s to 1991. In 2010 the route between Bergisch Born and Lennep was used several times for trolley trips. The interest group Bergisch Borner Bürger (IGBB) and Lennep Offensiv hoped that this would stimulate tourism. In the summer of 2010, however, the site was sold to the EWR , which dismantled all rails in the spring of 2011 and laid cables on the route .

As a result, a combined footpath and bike path was created that leads from Bergisch Born in three directions: 1) to Remscheid-Lennep, 2) via Wermelskirchen to Burscheid-Hilgen (planned to Leverkusen-Opladen ) and 3) via Hückeswagen and Wipperfürth to Marienheide . As a result, Bergisch Born is a hub of a cycle path network in the Bergisches Land.

Road traffic

The residents and the IGBB have been demanding the construction and continuation of the B 51n for years . This would relax the traffic situation in Bergisch Born a lot.

Clubs and organizations

• Sports club SSV Bergisch Born
• Carnival Society "Blue-White Boys" 1964 eV
• Interest group Bergisch Borner Bürger (IGBB)
• Bergisch Born volunteer fire department
• Lüdorf volunteer fire department

See also

• Töckelhausener Bachtal nature reserve

swell

• StadtArchiv Köln, Groß St. Martin, Rep. And HS, p. 55b, then H. Aubin: The emergence of Landeshoheit , 1920, p. 377f., Most recently: A. Kolidziej: Herzog Wilhelm I von Berg , Neustadt 2008
• NJBreidenbach: Family property and taxes ... , Verlag Gisela Breidenbach, Wermelskirchen 2003, ISBN 3-9802801-8-7

Web links

Commons : Bergisch Born  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Information on local history on a private website about Bergisch Born ( Memento from December 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
• Bergischborn.de Information, stories and pictures about Bergisch Born accessed on January 15, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} G. Seduced: The Niederhonschaft Wermelskirchen during the French period 1794-99 , SD Burscheider Zeitung 1940
2. ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
3. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1888.
4. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1895 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1897.
5. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1909.
6. ↑ Historical Center Remscheid, picture archive
7. ↑ Viola Schwanicke: An "extermination facility " in Bergisch Born? In: Current issues around Bergisch Born issues 103 + 104, 2015.
8. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 292 .
9. ^ NJ Breidenbach: The Bergisch Borner Landwehr . In: News about Berg.Born , Mittlblatt IGBB, Volume 21, No. 3, 2010
10. ^ NJ Breidenbach: Bergisch Born House No. 147/149 . In: Leiw Heukeshoven , issue 51/52, Hückeswagen 2011/2012, ISBN 978-3-87707-826-6
11. ^ NJ Breidenbach: The court in Wermelskirchen, Hückeswagen and Remscheid from 1639 to 1812 , Verlag Gisela Breidenbach, Wermelskirchen 2004, ISBN 3-9802801-5-2
12. ^ IGBB homepage , accessed on March 31, 2018.