Bornhausen
Bornhausen
City of Wiehl
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 42 ″ N , 7 ° 30 ′ 40 ″ E
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Height : | 245 m above sea level NN | |
Residents : | 213 (Sep 29, 2004) | |
Postal code : | 51674 | |
Area code : | 02262 | |
Location of Börnhausen in Wiehl |
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Bornhausen Castle
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Börnhausen is one of 51 localities in the city of Wiehl in the Oberbergisches Kreis in the administrative district of Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia .
Location and description
The place is on the L 95 state road and is around 3 km west of Wiehl town center. Börnhausen is located south of the federal motorway 4 .
history
The noble family von und zu Börnhausen was first mentioned in a document in 1395 as feudal people of Count von Sayn zu Homburg. The spelling of the first mention was Burnhusin . On the A. Mercator map from 1575 the name is Burrenhausen . Börnhausen Castle , built in the 13th or beginning of the 14th century, is now used as a residential building.
In the feed sheet of the Homburg rule of 1580, one Wittgenstein, three Saynic and four Bergische subjects are counted as subject to tax in Bornhaussen .
In the past, rich iron ore fields such as Gries Grube and Röttchen were exploited here .
leisure
- Children's playground with soccer field
Association
- Non-profit association Börnhausen / Wald e. V.
- Johanniter day care center
literature
- Dieter Dresbach, Fritz Licht: Börnhausen and its neighboring towns. The history of the Bechtal. Castles - villages and farmsteads on an ancient high and high road. Gronenberg, Wiehl-Bomig 2004, ISBN 3-88265-251-9 .
- Hans Joachim Söhn, Lothar Wirths: Oat feed label. Inhabitants and fireplaces in the Homburg rulership in 1580 (= materials and sources on the Oberberg regional history. H. 3). Galunder, Gummersbach 2003, ISBN 3-89909-012-8 .