Berken (Halver)

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Berken
City of Halver
Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 49 ″  N , 7 ° 28 ′ 14 ″  E
Height : 385 m above sea level NN
Postal code : 58553
Area code : 02355
Berken (Halver)
Berken

Location of Berken in Halver

Berken is a court in Halver in the Märkisches Kreis in the administrative district of Arnsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ).

Location and description

Berken is located at 385 meters above sea ​​level southwest of the main town in Halver, near the larger stop on the city limits of Wipperfürth . Other neighboring towns are Birkenbaum , Heinken-Hedfeld , Wiebusch-Hedfeld , Auf dem Wiebusch and Erlen (to Wipperfürth). The place can be reached via a driveway from the district road K30 between Kreuzberg andschlag .

The place was on the route of the early-shutdown stop-Wipperfürth branch of the Wuppertal Railway . To the north-east rises another hill at 406.2 meters above sea level. The Schleidebach , a tributary of the Hönnige , flows past to the west .

history

Berken was first mentioned in a document in 1473, but the time of origin of the settlement is assumed to have been between 693 and 750 during the Saxon - Franconian border disputes. Thus Berken is one of the early settlements in Halver.

Around 1500 it is documented by documents that the Berken farm was liable to the Bergisches Amt Beyenburg . The jurisdiction of the court was subordinate to a Bergisch judge specially appointed for the Bergische Höfe in the otherwise Brandenburg- dominated parish of Halver, which often led to a dispute with the Brandenburg count actually responsible for the parish .

In 1818 ten residents lived in the village. According to the locality and distance table of the government district of Arnsberg , Berken was categorized as a farm and in 1838 had a population of 18, all of whom were Protestant. At that time the place belonged to the Lausberg farmers within the mayor's office of Halver and owned three residential houses and two agricultural buildings.

The municipality encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia from 1887 gives a number of 20 inhabitants who lived in three houses.

An old road from Cologne via Wipperfürth , Halver, Lüdenscheid , Werdohl and Arnsberg to Soest ran past Berken on the route of today's district road , an early medieval (according to other views already prehistoric ) trade , pilgrimage and military route .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Alfred Jung: Halver and Schalksmühle. Investigation and thoughts on the settlement history of the Halver Office, an old parish in the Saxon-Franconian border area. Friends of Altena Castle, Altena 1978 ( Altenaer contributions. Works on the history and local history of the former county Mark 13, ISSN  0516-8260 ).
  2. ^ Gerd Helbeck : Beyenburg. History of a place on the Bergisch-Mark border and its surrounding area. Volume 1: The Middle Ages. Basics and advancement. Association for local history, Schwelm 2007, ISBN 978-3-9811749-1-5 , p. 236
  3. ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Local and distance table of the government district Arnsberg, arranged according to the existing state division, with details of the earlier areas and offices, the parish and school districts and topographical information. Ritter, Arnsberg 1841.
  4. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau (Prussia) (ed.): Community encyclopedia for the province of Westphalia, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume X), Berlin 1887.