Castle (Overath)

Castle City of Overath Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 17 ″  N , 7 ° 18 ′ 16 ″  E
Height :	163 m above sea level NN
Location of Burg in Overath
Aerial view of the castle

Burg is a district of Overath in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany .

Location and description

The district of Burg lies on a hill between the Aggertal and Marialinden . Burg can be reached from Landesstraße 312 (Mucher Straße) via Marialindener Straße (the former Brüderstraße). Crosses and footfalls made of sandstone testify that the steep path has been a pilgrimage route to the Marialinden pilgrimage site for centuries.

history

The place was first mentioned in the 13th century as a castle , in 1427 as BC. the borch . The name is derived from the nearby Wallburg Overath , a ring wall system.

The Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies , Blatt Amt Steinbach , shows that the residential area already had four courtyards in 1715, which are labeled as a castle . Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking names the court on his charter of the Duchy of Berg in 1789 as a castle . It emerges from it that the place was titular place of the Honschaft Burg in the parish of Overath at that time . The place was on the Brüderstraße , an important medieval old highway from Flanders via Cologne to Leipzig .

The place is recorded on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1817 as a castle . The Prussian first recording from 1845 shows the living space under the name on d. Castle . As of the Prussian new admission in 1892, the place is regularly listed as a castle on measuring table sheets .

In 1822 56 people lived in the place categorized as a courtyard , which after the collapse of the Napoleonic administration and its replacement belonged to the Overath mayor in the Mülheim am Rhein district . For the year 1830 60 inhabitants are given. The place, which was categorized as a village in 1845 according to the overview of the government district of Cologne , had 19 residential buildings with 96 inhabitants, all of them Catholic denominations. The municipality and estate district statistics of the Rhine Province list Burg 1871 with 18 houses and 76 inhabitants. In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province of 1888, 18 houses with 67 inhabitants are given for Burg. In 1895 the place had 13 houses with 56 inhabitants and belonged denominationally to the Catholic parish Overath, in 1905 16 houses and 71 inhabitants are given.

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  Castle entrance

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  Agger At the curtain wall

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  Remnants of the ring wall

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  Wayside cross

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  Station of the cross

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heinrich Dittmaier : settlement names and settlement history of the Bergisches Land . In: Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein . tape 74 , parallel edition as a publication by the Institute for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland at the University of Bonn. Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1956.
2. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius  : Explanations for the Historical Atlas of the Rhine Province ; Second volume: The map of 1789. Division and development of the territories from 1600 to 1794 ; Bonn; 1898
3. ^ Herbert Nicke : The Brothers Street. From the history of the old country road from Cologne to Siegen . In: Land and history between Berg, Wildenburg and South Westphalia . tape 4 . Galunder, Wiehl 2001, p. 70 ff .
4. ↑ Alexander A. Mützell: New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . tape 1 . Karl August Künnel, Halle 1821.
5. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff :  Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
6. ↑ Overview of the components and list of all the localities and individually named properties of the government district of Cologne: by districts, mayor's offices and parishes, with information on the number of people and the residential buildings, as well as the Confessions, Jurisdictions, Military and former state conditions. / ed. from the Royal Government of Cologne [Cologne], [1845]
7. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
8. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1888.
9. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1895 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1897.
10. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1909.

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