Bosberg (Kerkrade)
The Bosberg is an elevation in the area of the city of Kerkrade in the Netherlands .
term
The name Bosberg (also called Bergbos ) is Dutch and is made up of the Dutch terms bos ( German forest, bush ) and berg (German mountain, elevation ). The Bergbos was first mentioned in the Middle Ages and was used as a wooded elevation north of the Rolduc monastery .
Location and demarcation
The Bosberg is a hill that is barely noticeable from the south, on which the Op de Bossen settlement and the hamlet of Vink are located. To the west of the hill, the terrain slopes down relatively steeply to the Amstel valley. To the north and north-west, the terrain slopes down slightly towards the Wurmtal in the direction of the Wurmtal. In the west there is another, albeit much less pronounced and therefore apparently nameless valley in north-south direction. In the south, the Bosberg is only limited by an extremely flat basin, the Luikerheide . The Bosberg is mainly located in the area of the formerly independent municipality Eygelshoven .
geology
In the underground of Bosberges is found under a different powerful, often from loess existing clay layer in places, outcropping in the region, strongly foliated carbon of unfolded in the Variscan orogeny, later eingerumpften and again uplifted during alpiden folds Rhenish Massif . Sometimes at shallow depths it leads to minable coal seams, which mainly consist of lean coal and anthracite . The Bosberg lies on the edge of a tectonic fault. This fracture, covered by sediments from more recent times and therefore usually not reaching to the surface of the earth, is called Feldbiss . The Feldbiss is a tectonically active fracture zone and one of the most important faults in the transition area between the Rhenish Slate Mountains ( Eifel , Ardennes ) and the Lower Rhine Bay as part of the North German Plain .
colonization
A possible prehistoric settlement on the Bosberg in prehistoric times is probable based on finds from the surrounding areas ( Heerlen , Landgraaf, etc.), but not proven.
On the other hand, settlement from the Roman period is considered certain, since the remains of a Roman villa rustica were discovered around the turn of the last millennium during earthworks in the Holtskuil corridor in the north-west of the Bosberg (in the direction of the Haanrade district ) , the former bricks of which were partly in gardens and old buildings in the Environment can be found. Comparable finds from the area of Heerlen and Voerendaal suggest that the terrain between Chevremont and Eygelshoven, which is located in a kind of spur position, i.e. essentially the Bosberg and Luikerheide, includes the land of the so-called Villa Holtskuil .
Today's settlement is formed by the older, once rural hamlet of Vink, which is increasingly surrounded by the latest settlements, and the Op de Bossen settlement, which emerged from a miners' settlement from the interwar period (approx. 1920-1940) and expanded considerably in the 1980s has been. During the expansion, a street called Bosberg was also created.
swell
- ↑ cf. u. a. Driessen, J .: Kerkrade in oude views. 3rd edition, Zaltbommel 1974.
- ↑ cf. u. a. District of Aachen, district council / press office (ed.): 23 city maps, 7th edition, Aachen 1999; Map sheet Herzogenrath / Kerkrade, square E / 3.
- ↑ ibid., Fig. 13.
- ↑ Villa Holtskuil ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2007 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.
- ↑ Eelaart, AWA van den: Eygelshoven 850 Jaar. (see in particular the card inserts).
