Brüderstraße (Cologne – Siegen)
The section of a medieval high road between Cologne and Siegen was called Brüderstraße (alde Broederstraiß) .
description
The Brüderstraße was part of the Brabanter Straße , which ran from Flanders to Leipzig . It was the most important connection between the Oberbergisches Land and the neighboring Siegerland and the Rhine . The road followed the paths and mule tracks that were created at the time of the Frankish settlement and mostly led over heights. It has only a few river cuts such as the Agger near Overath. The valleys were previously swampy and not yet drained, so that a route was only possible over the heights. The heights had a natural drainage due to the slope and enabled relatively dry and solid paths. For various reasons, slightly different routes have emerged over time - for example in the Nümbrecht area, the historically independent " Homburg region ". The old trade routes were, however, in a very poor condition until modern times; only in the height of summer could they be driven continuously by car or cart. The construction of the first “art roads” did not begin until the time of French rule under Napoleon . With the construction of the Cologne-Olper Chaussee (construction period 1823 to 1834), the Brüderstraße lost its importance.
course
The Brüderstraße had the following route:
- Cologne-Deutz
- Cologne-Brück (here the Brüderstraße crosses the Mauspfad , the old trade route from Frankfurt to Cologne)
- Lustheide
- Frankenforst (from here the Brüderstraße still runs through the Königsforst to Untereschbach )
- Bockenberg
- Moitzfeld
- Untereschbach (the path through the Königsforst in Großbuchholz ends here )
- Steinenbrück
- Heiligenhaus
- Overath
- Castle
- Marialinden
- Federath
- Heckberg
- Drabenderhöhe (here the Brüderstraße crosses the Zeithstraße , the old trade route from Hagen to Siegburg )
- Elsenroth
- Homburg's court (gallows) on the older route ( Homburg Castle )
- Stockheim on the younger route
- Prombach
- Oberbreidenbach
- Thinkers
- Erdingen
- Wildenburg
- Hohenhain (here immediately after Hohenhain the Brüderstraße crosses the Nassau countryside hedge on the Dicken Schlag / Alte Schanze)
- Freudenberg (In the urban area, the Brüderstraße ran across Kölner Straße, Oranienstraße, Färberstraße, Oststraße, Alte Poststraße in the direction of)
- Wins
Further forks connected the Brüderstraße with other trade routes into the Märkisches Land or via the Nutscheidstraße , with which the Brüderstraße converged at Hülstert east of Waldbröl , to Sieg and the Rhine Valley . A branch near Oberwiehl reached the Silberkuhle via Sinspert (silver and lead extraction). Other routes of these long-distance connections from Cologne or Bonn also bear the name Brüderstraße, presumably because missionaries and monks traveled on them.
Function as a pilgrimage
The Brüderstraße was also a pilgrimage route. A tour guide of mounted pilgrims from Hildesheim recorded the route in 1489 with overnight stays in Siegen, Overath and Cologne as well as a lunch break in Denklingen. The old trade routes are recorded on the A. Mercator map from 1575.
To the east of Frankenforst, shortly after the Brüderstraße becomes a farm road in the Königsforst, an old atonement stone from 1636 with the following inscription stands on the northern edge of the path :
- 1636 December 1st
- you are rutger
- the young one at drolshagen
- murder here
- DXP (= give him peace through Christ's death on the cross)
In 2007 the Brüderstraße was designated as part of a continuous pilgrimage route, as part of the Way of St. James , from Görlitz to Aachen . In the opposite direction from Cologne to Marburg it became the grave of St. Elisabeth of Thuringia is marked as the Elisabethpfad .
Course of the Brüderstraße in the Königsforst around 1893.
The name of the Brüderstraße has been preserved in the street name in Untereschbach to this day.
Elisabethpfad on the Heckberg in the municipality of Much
Mining
Mining has been practiced in the Königsforst for a very long time . Along the Brüderstraße the mines developed in the mid-19th century pit Consolidierte Catharina II , pit Galilei , pit Julien , pit Werner , pit Leopold von Buch , pit Felix , pit Grünewald , pit Napoleon and pit Lüderich .
literature
- E. Rosenkranz, in: Oberbergisches Heimatbuch. (no year).
- Eugen Schubach: The community of Bielstein / Rhineland formerly Drabenderhöhe. (no year).
- Regional Association of Rhineland / Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe (Ed.): Jakobswege. Way of the pilgrims in Rhineland and Westphalia. Volume 5: In 7 stages from Marburg via Siegen to Cologne. Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-7616-2065-6 .
- Herbert Nicke: The Brüderstraße. From the history of the old country road from Cologne to Siegen (Land and history between Berg, Wildenburg and Südwestfalen, Volume 4). Wiehl 2000.
Individual evidence
- ^ The Nutscheid from the Heimatverein Bödingen ; accessed on August 8, 2018
- ↑ Inscription of the atonement stone near Bensberg
Web links
Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 4.1 ″ N , 7 ° 9 ′ 6.9 ″ E