Denklingen (Reichshof)

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municipality Reichshof
Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 55 ″  N , 7 ° 39 ′ 19 ″  E
Height : 258  (250-300)  m above sea level NHN
Residents : 2029  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Incorporation : 1st July 1969
Postal code : 51580
Area code : 02296
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Location of Denklingen in Reichshof
Catholic Church of St. Antonius in Denklingen
St. Antonius Chapel, today belongs to the Protestant parish
Evangelical Church in Denklingen

Denklingen is one of 106 localities that make up the Reichshof community in the North Rhine-Westphalian administrative district of Cologne in Germany .

Location and description

Denklingen is located south of the Wiehltalsperre , the closest centers are Gummersbach (20 km northwest), Cologne (50 km west), Olpe (26 km northeast) and Siegen (34 km southeast).

history

In 1404 the place was mentioned for the first time in the document: “In an atonement between Duke v. Berg and Count v. Sayn is called the Dencklyngen building . "

Denklingen had been an independent municipality since the early 19th century. On March 15, 1806, the Grand Duchy of Berg was created from the Duchy of Berg, including other areas. New administrative districts (arrondissements) took the place of the old official constitution. These were divided into Mairien (mayor's offices). The Mairie Eckenhagen included the later communities Eckenhagen and Denklingen.

The Napoleonic government intervened everywhere, in particular abolished serfdom. The serfs received all civil rights and the farmland as full property (Code Napoléon of January 1, 1810 - valid until 1900). However, these rights were opposed to orders that brought with them all kinds of difficulties, harassment and financial burdens.

It should correspond to the historical development to run the two mayorships of Eckenhagen and Denklingen in one administrative district. Since July 11, 1811, the management has been in the hands of the mayor (Maire) Chr. Mittelacher, who is based in Hüngringhausen, later in Denklingen - in the old pension building . Its predecessor was divine brown. The oldest document of the Eckenhagener mayor's office dated December 21, 1809 is a decree addressed to him by Baron von Preuschen in Dillenburg, district of Siegen, by the Justizrat Dr. Böttger.

It was probably a jubilee day when King Friedrich Wilhelm III. of Prussia by patent of April 5, 1815 on the basis of the resolution of the Vienna Conference from the Grand Duchy of Berg. First, all French names for administrative bodies and districts were eliminated. Thus departments became administrative districts, arrondissements became districts, municipal councils became municipal or city councils and the meire was replaced by the mayor.

The joint administration of the two rural communities only lasted until August 13, 1830. Then the separation took place. The above-mentioned Chr. Mittelacher, who held the office until July 31, 1856, became mayor of Denklingen.

This separation of the mayor's offices lasted until 1899.

From May 1st there was again a joint administration of the municipalities, but with a separate municipal budget. But this union was not to last long, on March 31, 1907 it was ended.

The census of December 1, 1910 showed that the community had an area of ​​4940 ha and 59 villages with 783 inhabited and 24 uninhabited dwellings, 4495 inhabitants. It had risen 1025, or 29.53%, since 1885. Of the residents, 3770 were Protestant, 567 Catholic and 158 of other or no denomination.

The census of October 29, 1946 then showed a population of 5,828, of which 2,499 were male and 3,329 were female. This development was also shaped by the losses of the two world wars as well as displacement, flight and bombed out townspeople who had found acceptance here.

The independence of the community of Denklingen ended on July 1, 1969 in the course of the regional reform in North Rhine-Westphalia. Denklingen was combined with Eckenhagen to form the new Reichshof community. Small areas of the communities Lieberhausen, Nümbrecht, Waldbröl and Wiehl were added. The new town hall was built in Denklingen.

The castle

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Originally, Denklingen seems to have been an old Sayn court seat. Already in the 14th century there was a castle in Denklingen that the Counts of Berg owned. In the atonement of July 9, 1404 between Young Duke Adolf von Berg and Johann von Loon, Lord von Heinsberg and Löwenburg and Young Count Gerhard von Sayn, Lord zu Freusburg and Homburg (in which Duke Wilhelm von Berg, Count Johann von Sayn and the Duke of Burgundy should be included) a comparison takes place because of the building they jointly built in Denklingen ...... "Vortine alsulge buwe, as zu Dencklyngen is buwet, davan is oeverkomen, dat one dairby the customer brengen sall, ind vunde one in the customer, dat des yet up deill us Gerhart joncgreven van Seyne were buwet, dat sall man affrechen of man sall us joncgreven dat myt vruntschaffen vurunthalden ” .

On February 23, 1413 (the day after Peter), Johann von Gimborn issued a lapel stating that he had made the Denklingen house, which Duke Adolf von Berg and the people in the Drolshagen parish owned for life, into an open house . This institution of the time owes its creation to the feudal system. Old-free owners of fortified castles mostly felt compelled in the 14th century to declare them to be the “Castrum ligium” open house with the "associated back seat" - people - the rising neighboring counts and dukes . So they could use them against enemies at any time, while the owners were taken under protection and shield.

On August 24, 1423 Engelbert von Scheidt, known as Weschpfenning, was enfeoffed with the Denklingen Castle.

In a document dated September 1, 1433, according to which Duke Adolf concludes an alliance with Landgrave Ludwig von Hessen that u. a. Denklingen should be this open house, Adolf speaks of “our lock” . On November 29, 1435, Duke Adolf pledged the castle and office of Windeck and Denklingen to the official Wilhelm von Nesselrode.

A document dated December 6, 1473 says that Windeck and Denklingen came into the possession of Bertram zu Ehrenstein.

Under Bergisch administration nothing is known about the history of the castle. That changes with the Siegburg Treaty in 1604. On December 2nd d. J. the mutual handover of the changed areas and people, as well as the homage to the new subjects in the vicinity of Heisterstock near Winterborn (municipality of Nümbrecht) takes place in the open field. The nobility of the now Bergisch parishes of Morsbach and Waldbröl were granted homage to the castle in Denklingen on March 11, 1605, in order to swear the oath of subjects to the duke as rulers.

Today's castle building, built in the 16th - 18th centuries, was a moated castle, the moats fed by Asbach, Sterzenbach and Hermesdorf-Bach. The two-story, plastered massive quarry stone building dates in part from the 15th - 16th centuries. Later it was rebuilt several times. Most of the window openings were changed in the 17th - 18th centuries. On the north side there is an inscription stone with the words "Anno Domini 1582". The two-story gateway on the east side was built in 1698.

After the complete destruction of the Windeck Fortress by the French in 1672, the administration was relocated to Denklingen Castle. Since the rentmaster had his seat here, it was called Rentei.

Most famous citizen

The parental home of Dr. August Dresbach , later district administrator and member of the Bundestag for the Oberbergischer Kreis, is in Ohlhagen. This is where he grew up. For six years he attended school in Ohlhagen, then the high school (grammar school) in Gummersbach.

Other buildings

The listed former office building in Denklingen is well worth seeing .

traffic

Bike paths

One of the four themed bike tours of the Reichshof community starts from Denklingen.

Tour de Denklingen

With 450 meters of altitude to be overcome, it is one of the easier routes. In some cases, however, inclines of over 10% have to be mastered.

Starting point at the Denklingen Town Hall

Route name Waymarks Driving distance Path length
Tour de
Denklingen
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 Heseln - Brüchermühle - Heischeid - Sotterbach - Heienbach
Remperg - Auf der Hardt - Rölefeld - Eiershagen - Denklingen 		23 km

Local public transport

On December 9, 2018, the implementation of the new local transport plan for the Oberbergischer Kreis began. Bus traffic in the southern district has been fundamentally reorganized and synchronized. Since December 9, 2018, two primary lines have been running through Denklingen and connect the main town of the community with many suburbs, as well as the neighboring communities of Waldbröl, Morsbach, Wiehl and the district town of Gummersbach.

OVAG, VBL and Bürgerbus
line Line course
303 Waldbröl - Denklingen - Eckenhagen - Derschlag - Gummersbach
304 Morsbach - Denklingen - Wiehl - Bielstein - Dieringhausen - Gummersbach
BB Citizen bus Reichshof: Denklingen Town Hall - Wiehl (only Wednesdays)
BB Citizen bus Reichshof: Denklingen - Waldbröl (Thursdays on market days)
BB Citizen bus Reichshof: Denklingen - Eckenhagen - Denklingen (Saturdays)

In Denklingen there are the stops Denklingen (line 303) , Morsbacher Straße (line 304) and Denklingen Rathaus (line 303 and 304).

Wiehltalbahn:

Denklingen is located on the Wiehl Valley Railway, which is currently used for tourism and goods traffic. At the moment there is only train service from and to Wiehl.

Schools and educational institutions

  • Community elementary school in Denklingen, Hermann-Löns Weg
  • Catholic kindergarten, Mühlenhardt
  • DRK Kindergarten Morgenstern, Im Asbachpark

Events

  • Tour de Denklingen - 23 km bike tour, starting at the town hall in Denklingen
  • Bazaar of the Protestant parish and the YMCA in Denklingen every 2 years at the Protestant parish hall
  • Every year at Whitsun, the Oberberg pottery market takes place in the historic castle courtyard. There artists from all over Germany, as well as Holland and Belgium exhibit their works.

Population development

  • December 31, 1991: 1495 inhabitants
  • December 31, 2001: 2127 inhabitants
  • December 31, 2006: 2177 inhabitants
  • December 31, 2008: 2154 inhabitants
  • December 31, 2013: 2029 inhabitants
  • December 31, 2017: 2022 inhabitants
  • December 31, 2018: 2079 inhabitants

literature

  • Oswald Gerhard: Eckenhagen and Denklingen through the ages. A home history of the former Reichshof area of ​​Eckenhagen (the current municipalities of Eckenhagen and Denklingen) as a contribution to the history of the Oberbergisches Land. Heimatverein eV, Eckenhagen 1953.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia (=  communal writings for North Rhine-Westphalia . Volume 32 ). Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, 1970, ISSN  0454-2584 , p. 81 .

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