Bergneustadt

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Coat of arms of the city of Bergneustadt
Bergneustadt
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Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′  N , 7 ° 39 ′  E

Basic data
State : North Rhine-Westphalia
Administrative region : Cologne
Circle : Oberbergischer Kreis
Height : 240 m above sea level NHN
Area : 37.89 km 2
Residents: 18,677 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 493 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code : 51702
Primaries : 02261, 02763
License plate : GM
Community key : 05 3 74 004
LOCODE : DE BNT

City administration address : 		Kölner Str. 256
51702 Bergneustadt
Website : www.stadt-bergneustadt.de
Mayor : Wilfried Holberg (independent)
Location of the town of Bergneustadt in the Oberbergischer Kreis
Rhein-Sieg-Kreis Oberbergischer Kreis Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis Nordrhein-Westfalen Remscheid Wuppertal Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis Märkischer Kreis Kreis Olpe Kreis Siegen-Wittgenstein Rheinland-Pfalz Waldbröl Morsbach Nümbrecht Wiehl Reichshof Gummersbach Marienheide Bergneustadt Engelskirchen Lindlar Hückeswagen Wipperfürth Radevormwaldmap
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Bergneustadt (until 1884 Neustadt ) is a district town in the Bergisches Land around 50 kilometers east of Cologne . It belongs to the Oberbergischer Kreis in the North Rhine-Westphalian administrative district of Cologne and to the Rhineland Regional Council .

geography

Map of Bergneustadt

Urban area and neighboring communities

In addition to the city center of Bergneustadt, 22 districts belong to the 38 km² urban area:

Altenothe , Attenbach , Auf dem Dümpel , Baldenberg , Belmicke , Bösinghausen , Brelöh , Freischlade , Geschleide , Hackenberg , Höh , Hüngringhausen , Immicke , Leienbach , Neuenothe , Niederrengse , Pernze , Pustenbach , Rosenthal , Rosenthalseifen , Wiedenest and Wörde .

The city lies on the edge of the Oberbergischer Kreis and borders in the east on the city of Drolshagen in the Olpe district . To the north and west, the urban area of Gummersbach and to the south that of the municipality of Reichshof borders on Bergneustadt.

landscape

The urban area of ​​Bergneustadt is characterized by large coniferous and mixed forest areas (53.4%) and agricultural areas (22%) that are mainly used for livestock farming . For the Rhenish Slate Mountains belonging to the landscape is also characterized by a number of hills from. The lowest point of Bergneustadt at 206.1 m above sea level is on the western city limits of the Derschlag district of Gummersbach , the highest point is 500 m above sea level on the eastern border with Drolshagen.

Notable bodies of water in Bergneustadt are the Dörspe , which flows into the Agger in the Gummersbach area , and the Rengse , which flows into the Aggertalsperre and is dammed in the Bergneustadt area in the Rengsebecken. The dam itself is located in the urban area of ​​Gummersbach, but borders directly on the Bergneustädter district of Hackenberg.

history

First mention

Map section Le Comte de la Marck , Sanson 1692
Relief Bergneustadt 1832
The city forest

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1301. The evidence reads "The Brandenburg Drost Rutger von Altena begins building the Niestat". It was supposed to be a Brandenburg outpost against the Archbishop of Cologne. In addition, the new "Veste" was soon granted the same rights as Lüdenscheid . The spelling of the first mention was Niestat .

timeline

On 13 May 1301 the Servatius tag that Droste began Rutger von Altena on behalf of Count I. Eberhard von der Mark with the construction of the city castle Nyestadt in Brandenburg Sauerland in the district Wiedenau that are part of the parish was Wiedenest.

Bergneustadt, along with Wipperfürth , Lüdenscheid and Lennep, is one of a series of lordly city foundations in the Bergisch-Mark region, which began in the 13th century. In a purely rural landscape, in which there was not the slightest hint of urban development, Count Eberhard II had a city castle built in the southernmost tip of his county. She took on the role of border guard towards the counties of Berg and Sayn-Homburg as well as towards the Sauerland in the Electorate of Cologne. This sudden foundation of the Burgfleckens can only be understood from the play of forces of the territorial powers.

For various reasons, this small town was showered with sovereign privileges and urban functions in the first few centuries, for example city jurisdiction, seat of the bailiwick and vein court, wall and market law. The freedoms granted to citizens were exemplary. The military, administrative and judicial tasks as well as the flourishing economic life of the city (ore mining and processing into products with partly own trademarks, guns and hook boxes, charcoal production, extensive trade relations) brought about an excellent position and charisma far beyond the Aggerland.

A Mercator map from 1575 shows how the impressive town castle on the mountain spur in the Dörspetal was made. Castle house with a corner tower, the keep and the central church tower (capella St. Johannis) dominated the townscape. Double ring walls and two massive gates protected against unwanted intruders. A contemplative walk across Wallstrasse, Hauptstrasse and through the moat still gives the knowledgeable observer a glimpse into the medieval fabric of the city.

From 1610 to 1818 the city suffered legal losses due to shifts in political power. The Thirty Years' War left its mark, the plague in 1634/36 swept away the residents, devastating large fires in 1717 and 1742 led to huge losses, and around 1800 the iron industry collapsed. Poverty and misery ruled the city and its inhabitants. Only slowly did one recover from the setbacks and regain new strength. The construction of highways around 1830 and the Cologne– and Siegburg – Olpe railway line, which was built from 1896 to 1903, gave the city a new lease of life and liberated it from its provincial isolation. The local textile industry made a name for itself in the 19th century.

Bergneustadt has experienced strong industrial growth since 1950. The automotive industry, paper, metal and plastic processing as well as mechanical engineering continue the tradition of flourishing trade relationships.

On July 1, 1969, parts of the then neighboring communities of Denklingen, Gummersbach and Lieberhausen were incorporated.

Population development

Diagram of population development
Development of the population
year 1871 1900 1925 1939 1950 1961 1967 1969 1990 2003 2004 2005 2006 2011 2012 2013
population 1,549 3,518 3.816 4.183 6,280 9,276 11,453 16,256 20,040 20,683 20,600 20,721 20,375 19,745 18,897 18,835

politics

City council

The city council of Bergneustadt has 32 seats, which have been distributed among the individual parties as follows since the local elections on May 25, 2014:

Election date CDU SPD FDP GREEN UWG FWGB total
May 25, 2014 15th 11 2 2 2 0 32
August 30, 2009 16 9 3 2 1 1 32

mayor

In June 2014, Wilfried Holberg was elected to succeed Gerhard Halbe in the second ballot.

Finances

The city of Bergneustadt is over-indebted and is one of the particularly financially weak cities and municipalities in North Rhine-Westphalia that fall under Section 3 of the Strengthening Pact Act.

The municipal tax assessment rates in Bergneustadt are 460% for trade tax, 325% for property tax A and 959% for property tax B (as of January 2016). With regard to property tax B, Bergneustadt is one of the most expensive locations in Germany.

coat of arms

The Bergneustädter coat of arms contains elements of the coats of arms of its sovereigns, the Counts von der Mark and von Berg. The seal leads in the upper half of the shield a crossbar formed from two rows of chess, the shaft. This double-nested bar is reminiscent of the coat of arms of the county of Mark, which has a red and silver triple-nested crossbar in a gold field.

The top and bottom pinned bar, which appears in the lower half of the shield, appears twice in the coat of arms of the oldest count family von Berg, who died out in 1225 with Archbishop Engelbert of Cologne and from which the Counts of the Mark descended. The same coat of arms, as it shows the Neustädter Siegel, is simply used by many Bergisch knight families.

The Bergneustadt seal represents the union of the Märkisch and the old Bergisch coat of arms.

Working group Neustadt in Europe

City partnerships and city friendships

Bergneustadt maintains the following partnerships :

( Châtenay-Malabry and Landsmeer have been linked since 1986 )
  • GermanyGermany AustriaAustria HungaryHungary Czech RepublicCzech Republic PolandPoland SlovakiaSlovakia NetherlandsNetherlandsBergneustadt is a member of the largest international city friendship working group Neustadt in Europe , in which 37 cities and municipalities (as of July 2020) named Neustadt from Germany, Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and the Netherlands have come together.

Culture and sights

Vault frescos in the Wiedenest church
City library
Old town church Bergneustadt
Kreuzkirche Wiedenest

Buildings

Music and theater

  • Playhouse Bergneustadt
  • The Voices (mixed choir with newer songs)
  • Losemund Theater Bergneustadt
  • several Kantoreien , Sing circles , church , children and youth choruses in the Lutheran, Catholic and evangelisch Free Church churches
  • Liederkranz (mixed choir with traditional repertoire)
  • Trumpet choir of the Evangelical Church Community Bergneustadt
  • School orchestra, school choir and lower school choir at the Wüllenwebergymnasium
  • Music train of the volunteer fire department Bergneustadt
  • Big band from the Bergneustadt music school

societies

The sponsorship group for children, art & culture has been committed to the people in Bergneustadt and Oberberg since 1996. The association strives to create an attractive and comprehensive program of events. The focus of the activities is on children and young people, who should be able to enjoy meaningful leisure activities in the fields of art, culture and sport. In addition to the children's art school, the sculpture workshops and art projects, the association also supports young musicians in particular and offers them the opportunity for public appearances. Excursions and holiday camps are also organized.

The Freundeskreis Jugendgästehaus Bergneustadt e. V. (FJB), took over the former youth hostel in January 2005 and renovated it. He now operates the house primarily as a self-catering house for church institutions, scouts, sports clubs or other youth groups. Most of the work is carried out by volunteers.

Schützenverein Bergneustadt 1353 e. V.

In 1353, the rifle guild was mentioned for the first time in a document kept in the Schwarzenberg archive in Vienna . In the Middle Ages , however, the riflemen were not a club, but served as a vigilante for the security of the city. They were able to prove their usefulness in around 1404 when they successfully protected the fortress from attacks from the surrounding area. In the further course the rifle guild became the rifle club and later the rifle club .

In May 1853 the shooting festivals in Bergneustadt were resumed after they had not been held for a few years. They served to prove and improve the defense capability. In 1863 ten MPs from Neustadt traveled to the German Shooting Festival in Frankfurt am Main .

The first bird that was shot down and has always been in silver since then was studded with valuable coins, some of them from the 14th century, and in 1925 had an estimated value of 30,000 marks. It was donated by Duke Wilhelm IV of Jülich-Berg , known as “the rich”.

In 1903 , Wilhelm II presented the association with a silver royal medal for its 550th anniversary . This adorns the annual bird to this day.

During the First World War , many of the riflemen were drafted, and eleven of them died. After the Second World War , in which many shooters were also killed, the club was given a new structure and was divided into companies . These have their own board members and representatives on the board of the main association to this day.

The association currently has 530 members. The Rheinischer Schützenbund has 95 people from Bergneustädter and the youth rifle company has 70 members.

The annual rifle festival - traditionally associated with the fair - takes place on Whitsun.

SSV Bergneustadt 1908 e. V.

The SSV Bergneustadt is a football club that, after many years in the higher divisions of the Mittelrhein Football Association, is currently playing in the district B league. During the heyday of the first team, the SSV was also known beyond the Oberbergische Kreis for its youth work. a. the Bundesliga players Kim Falkenberg , Timo Röttger and Assimiou Touré . The SSV plays its home games in the Wilhelm-Bisterfeld-Stadion.

BSV Bergneustadt 1932 e. V.

The swimming club Bergneustadt 1932 eV offers the opportunity to learn to swim and competition training. He organizes regional swimming competitions.

The association came into being after a simple swimming pool had been built on the Dörspe in the early 1930s. By collecting donations, it was possible to set up an outdoor swimming pool in 1933. In 1963 the outdoor pool was renewed and the year before the clubhouse was inaugurated. With the completion of the new outdoor pool, an international swimming event was held for the first time. With the construction of the secondary school in 1967, an indoor swimming pool was built at the school on the initiative of the association, which the association still uses today.

TV Bergneustadt 1880 e. V.

The Turnverein Bergneustadt 1880 eV was founded in 1880 and has since offered a wide range of sports. These include gymnastics, cycling, skiing, karate and handball. The handball department played for many years in the top division of the Mittelrhein Handball Association (HVM), the Oberliga. In the 2015/2016 season, the first men's team of TV Bergneustadt starts in the association league of the HVM, which corresponds to the fifth-highest division in Germany.

TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt

The table tennis club TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt has been playing in the Bundesliga since 2014.

TV Kleinwiedenest 1890 e. V.

The TV Kleinwiedenest is one of the oldest sports clubs in the community. As the only association in Bergneustädter to date, the TV Kleinwiedenest has disabled sports groups and has had a rehab sports group since 2015. The club offers both classic sports and trend sports.

Economy and Infrastructure

Memory of the textile past of the place: "Spindel" roundabout

The city's largest employer is Metalsa Automobile GmbH, a company in the automotive supply industry with core competencies in the development and production of structural and protective systems for automobiles. Other important companies since 1920 are the Gizeh Group , a company from the plastics and packaging industry with around 300 employees in the Bergneustädter factory and the mechanical engineering company Bühler GmbH . The florist company LENI home design, the electronics supplier NORWE with a long local company history and the Bremicker group, a company specializing in electrical installation technology, building system technology and control engineering and more than 110 employees at four locations in Bergneustadt, Gummersbach and Cologne, are also located locally whose administrative headquarters are in Bergneustadt.

traffic

The station building was demolished in 2008.

The following bus routes operated by the Oberbergische Verkehrsgesellschaft (OVAG) operate in Bergneustadt :

  • 301 Olpe - Gummersbach
  • 313 Bergneustadt - Attenbach
  • 314 Bergneustadt - Hackenberg
  • 315 Bergneustadt - city forest

All bus lines meet at the Graf-Eberhard-Platz stop in the Bergneustädter center.

In the past, the Siegburg – Olpe railway also ran through the Bergneustädter urban area. The city train station was located at what is now the Graf-Eberhard-Platz bus stop. The route has almost completely disappeared today. At times this route was important, especially as a diversion route during and after the world wars. In 1976 there was still a big station festival, in 1979 passenger traffic was stopped. At first this was connected with protests by the population and local politics, but later politics and companies opposed the maintenance of the route. More and more sections towards Olpe gradually lost freight traffic. A route slide caused by improper construction work near Wiedenest also sealed the end of freight traffic there. Despite an insurance from the Bundesbahn, the latter waived their claims for recourse due to an alleged lack of interest and no longer had the damage repaired. In 1994 the last freight train left Bergneustadt. In the years that followed, the route was interrupted in many places. In the city center, the tracks were only removed after the turn of the millennium.

At the end of September 2008, the station building at the Graf-Eberhard-Platz bus stop was also torn down after years of vacancy and vandalism, so that there is not much left to imagine of the old route.

There is also a special landing site of the same name in the Auf dem Dümpel district , which is approved for gliders and powered aircraft up to 2000 kilograms.

Educational institutions

Municipal secondary school, 2001
Wüllenwebergymnasium, 2008
  • Bergneustadt Community Primary School "Auf dem Bursten"
  • Bergneustadt-Wiedenest Community Primary School
  • Bergneustadt-Hackenberg Community Primary School
  • Catholic primary school Bergneustadt
  • Bergneustadt community secondary school
  • Municipal secondary school Bergneustadt
  • Wüllenwebergymnasium Bergneustadt (WWG)
  • Biblical-Theological Academy (Theological College )

Libraries

  • Bergneustadt City Library
  • In addition to the city library, there is also the library in the Wiedenest district, which the city of Bergneustadt has given up and which is run by private individuals as the sponsoring association of the Wiedenest library. V. will be continued.

Internet expansion

Like the neighboring town of Gummersbach, Bergneustadt is one of the first places in Germany to offer large areas of the Internet via VDSL in conjunction with vectoring (data rate: up to 100 Mbit / s). For example, over 58 kilometers of fiber optic cables were laid in the two cities and 97 new multifunctional housings were installed.

religion

Parishes

Other religious communities

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

Personalities who have worked in the city

literature

  • Bergneustadt in view. Official journal of the city of Bergneustadt. City administration of Bergneustadt, Bergneustadt since 1975
1971–1974: Bergneustadt in view. Bulletin Feste Neustadt, official bulletin of the city of Bergneustadt ; published by the Heimatverein “Feste Neustadt”; Cologne
1961–1971: “Feste Neustadt” bulletin. Official bulletin of the Bergneustadt city administration ; published by the Heimatverein “Feste Neustadt” e. V .; Bergneustadt
  • City of Bergneustadt (ed.): Bergneustadt - writings on history and local history.
Vol. 1: Marianne Hack, Hubertus Dan (ed.): Bibliography on the history of Bergneustadt in the 19th and 20th centuries. Gronenberg, Gummersbach 1991, ISBN 3-88265-162-8 .
Vol. 2: Wilhelm Budde: Chronicle of the mayor's office Neustadt. Gronenberg, Gummersbach 1993, ISBN 3-88265-174-1 .
Vol. 3: Günther Ising (Ed.): Bergneustadt. City Court. Minutes of the city court. Part 1: 1685-1701. City of Bergneustadt, 1995.
Vol. 4: Günther Ising (Ed.): Bergneustadt. City Court. Minutes of the city court. Part 2: 1711-1725. City of Bergneustadt, 1997.
Vol. 5: Günther Ising (Ed.): Bergneustadt. City Court. Minutes of the city court. Part 3: 1734-1739. City of Bergneustadt, 1998.
Vol. 6: Günther Ising (Ed.): Minutes of the city court and other documents. Single sheet collections I and II, 18th and 19th centuries. = Single sheet collection from the 18th and 19th centuries from the archives of the Evangelical Church Community in Bergneustadt. City of Bergneustadt, 2001.
  • Günther Aders: Sources on the history of the city of Bergneustadt and the old Neustadt office from 1109 to 1630. In: Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein . Vol. 71, 1951, pp. 7-268.
  • Bergneustadt 1301–1951. Festival book for the 650th anniversary of Bergneustadt. Heimatverein “Feste Neustadt”, Bergneustadt 1951, DNB 451244311 .
  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Götze, Oskar Osberghaus: Bergneustadt . Published by Ernst-Herbert Ullenboom. Gronenberg, Gummersbach, 1990, ISBN 3-88265-160-1
  • Marianne Hack: Bergneustadt. The historic old town ensemble (= Rheinische Kunststätten. Issue 421). Neusser Druck und Verlag, Neuss 1996, ISBN 3-88094-803-8 .
  • Anke Mortsiefer: Bergneustadt. Traces from the past and present. A reader on the city's history. Gronenberg, Wiehl 2002, ISBN 3-88265-243-8 .
  • Karl Simon: The Oberbergische Kreis. A local reading and work book for school. City of Gummersbach, Gummersbach 1968.

Web links

Commons : Bergneustadt  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Population of the municipalities of North Rhine-Westphalia on December 31, 2019 - update of the population based on the census of May 9, 2011. State Office for Information and Technology North Rhine-Westphalia (IT.NRW), accessed on June 17, 2020 .  ( Help on this )
  2. ↑ Heimatmuseum Bergneustadt: Matters of the heart and main things: How Bergneustadt got its name . Magazine of the NRW Foundation 3/2009, accessed on July 20, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b c Figures, data, facts. (No longer available online.) City of Bergneustadt, archived from the original on March 28, 2014 ; Retrieved August 12, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadt-bergneustadt.de
  4. ^ 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 .
  5. ^ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the 1st reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia. A handbook for the local reorganization with systematic overviews and lists of the new and the dissolved communities (= Kommunale Schriften für Nordrhein-Westfalen. 32, ISSN  0454-2584 ). Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 80.
  6. ↑ http://www.wahlresults.nrw.de/kommunalwahlen/2014/aktuell/d374004kw1400.html
  7. ↑ List of the municipalities that fall under level 1 of the strengthening pact . ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Ministry of the Interior and Local Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia , December 13, 2011, accessed on January 28, 2016 (pdf; 41 kB). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mik.nrw.de
  8. ↑ Information on the assessment rates on the website of the city of Bergneustadt, accessed on January 28, 2016.
  9. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  10. ↑ Lookout tower on the Knollen ( Memento of the original dated December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the city of Bergneustadt  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadt-bergneustadt.de
  11. ^ Homepage of the SSV Bergneustadt
  12. ^ History of the BSV Bergneustadt 1932 e. V.
  13. ↑ Homepage of TV Bergneustadt
  14. ↑ For eternity - galvanized thread spindle impressively reminds of the textile history of Bergneustadt. Press release of the Lennestadt galvanizing plant on openPR, July 7th, 2009, accessed on September 4th, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Vectoring 100 Mbit / s DSL data turbo contract signed for Bergneustadt and Gummersbach for the area code 02261. In: News-On-Tour.de. March 6, 2014, accessed September 4, 2018 . Uta Kristina Maul: Telekom is expanding: data turbo for 12,800 households. In: Oberbergische Volkszeitung . March 6, 2014, accessed September 4, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Harald Knoop: Egyptian Christians: Copts buy the Reconciliation Church in Bergneustadt. In: Oberbergische Volkszeitung . February 11, 2020, accessed February 11, 2020 .