Castle (Lindlar)

Castle municipality Lindlar Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 20 ″  N , 7 ° 23 ′ 58 ″  E
Height :	297 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	51789
Area code :	02266
Location of Burg in Lindlar
Lady Chapel in Lindlar Castle

The village of Burg is part of the municipality of Lindlar , Oberbergischen Kreis in the administrative district of Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ).

Location and description

Burg is located in the south of the municipality of Lindlar on a ridge south of Altenrath. The village can be reached via a maintained driveway from Eichholz . To the south of the castle an elevation reaches a height of 313.9 m.

history

Burg was mentioned for the first time as borch in 1470 . The name comes from a medieval ring wall nearby. In a list from 1550 the following is noted: " Zur Burch, hait inhengich Aleff Leien and Johann van Varr, 1 soll ".

Around 1611 castle belonged to the Helling Honschaft in the parish of Lindlar.

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 shows that the place was part of the Oberhelling Honschaft in the parish of Lindlar at that time .

The place is recorded on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1825 as a castle . The Prussian first recording from 1840 shows the residential area also under the name Burg . From the Prussian new admission of 1894/96, the place is regularly recorded as a castle on measuring table sheets .

In 1822 48 people lived in the place categorized as a courtyard, which after the collapse of the Napoleonic administration and its replacement belonged to the Lindlar mayor in the Wipperfürth district . For the year 1830 48 inhabitants are given for the place called castle . The place, which was categorized as a hamlet in 1845 according to the overview of the government district of Cologne , had six residential buildings with 69 inhabitants at that time, all of them Catholic denominations. The municipality and estate district statistics of the Rhine Province list Burg 1871 with eleven houses and 60 inhabitants.

In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province of 1888, ten houses with 62 inhabitants are given for Burg . In 1895 the place had seven houses with 50 inhabitants and belonged to the evangelical parish of Ründeroth , in 1905 eight houses and 36 inhabitants are given.

Attractions

Various old crosses, various old half-timbered houses and the Marienkapelle built in 1954 can be found in Burg. The atonement stone , which has grown into a linden tree, is said to have been erected in 1798 as atonement for a French soldier who was slain there in 1795.

Web links

Commons : Burg (Lindlar)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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 .
2. ^ 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.
3. ^ 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
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.