Birches (Morsbach)

Birch trees municipality Morsbach Coordinates: 50 ° 52 '53 " N , 7 ° 43' 48" E
Height :	239 m above sea level NN
Residents :	88 (Dec 31, 2007)
Postal code :	51597
Area code :	02294

Birken is a district of Morsbach in the Oberbergisches Kreis in southern North Rhine-Westphalia within the administrative district of Cologne .

Location and description

Birken is located in a rural, wooded area at the southernmost tip of the Oberbergisches Kreis. The cities of Gummersbach (38 km), Siegen (50 km) and Cologne (75 km) can be reached quickly.

Neighboring districts of Birken are Niederellingern in the north, Seifen in the east, Morsbach in the south and Hahn in the west.

history

First mention

The place was mentioned for the first time in 1439 , namely “Johan v. Birk is mentioned in the files about ailments (in Middle High German times up to around 1450 it was used to mean "break, penetrate with force, commit a crime") Berg-Homburg in the parish of Morsbach. "

The spelling of the first mention was Birk .

swell

^ Matthias Lexer : Middle High German Concise Dictionary. (At the same time as a supplement and alphabetical index to the Middle High German dictionary by Benecke - Müller - Zarncke ). Reprint of the Leipzig edition 1872–1878, with an introduction by Kurt Gärtner . Hirzel, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-7776-0488-7 .
^ 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 .

[1] Matthias Lexer : Middle High German Concise Dictionary. (At the same time as a supplement and alphabetical index to the Middle High German dictionary by Benecke - Müller - Zarncke ). Reprint of the Leipzig edition 1872–1878, with an introduction by Kurt Gärtner . Hirzel, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-7776-0488-7 .

[2] 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 .