Mountain farm
The Bergshof was in Birgel , a district of Düren in North Rhine-Westphalia .
In the early 15th century, the farm came into the possession of the Jülich von Berg family, who held the Pimmenich family as a Jülich fief . The first reliable documentary mention of the von Berg family comes from 1609.
A Johann Hermann von Berg was born in Birgel that year. He received his doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1637 and then lived on the Bergshof in Birgel. At that time, the estate seems to have been in the family for a long time. Johann Hermann von Berg became councilor in Jülich and later mayor of Düren. Franz Hermann von Berg, the fifth child of Johann Hermann, took over the farm "with his rights and duties" as hereditary forester.
After 1700, his son Franz Arnold sold the estate to the owner of the castle at the time, Birgel Anton Ricker, and moved with his family to Düren. What is certain is that Anton Ricker was still the owner of the estate in 1776. The forest areas and lands belonging to the farm must have been separated from the farm in the early 19th century and mainly assigned to the Wenau Forestry Office . The farm is mentioned for the last time in a commemorative publication from the Birgel church in 1902 .
Today nothing of the buildings of the Bergshof can be found. Only a stone cross from 1660 still reminds of Johann Hermann von Berg and his wife Catharina von Krepp. It was formerly on the corner of Bergstrasse and Monschauer Landstrasse.
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- Heiden, pp. 101–104, Castles and palaces in Düren Ohst,
- Domsta u Krebs, Düren timetable,
- Landesarchiv NRW, Düren document book.