Eckenhagen

Eckenhagen municipality Reichshof Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 17 ″  N , 7 ° 41 ′ 37 ″  E
Height :	312 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	2023  (December 31, 2015)
Incorporation :	1st July 1969
Postal code :	51580
Area code :	02265
Location of Eckenhagen in Reichshof

View of the baroque church

Eckenhagen is the second largest of 106 localities in the Reichshof municipality in the Oberbergischer Kreis in the North Rhine-Westphalian administrative district of Cologne in Germany .

Location and description

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

history

Old town Eckenhagen

Interior of the baroque church

The oldest history of the area is unknown. Historical sources are only available from the 12th century. But Eckenhagen was clearly imperial property. The imperial courts are primarily a creation of Charlemagne. It is believed that the corner house was founded at this time. It is not to be proven with documents.

The place was mentioned for the first time in a document in 1167, namely in a document concerning the "donation of the Imperial Court of Eckenhagen by Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa to the Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Cologne Rainald von Dassel ":

"Furthermore, we grant and give to him and his successors for all time our entire court at Eckenhagen, including its people, possessions, silver mines and all other righteous persons and all accessories of the court."

The spelling of the first mention was Eckenhagen . In a document in Latin from 1204, a Honschaft was listed as a parish "Eckinhain" in the Decania Sybergensis.

In the fighting between the Staufer and Guelf lines that broke out after Barbarossa's death, Eckenhagen went like a plaything into the hands of the respective favorite. It is assumed that it was not until the time of the Archbishop of Cologne, Konrad von Hochstaden (1238–1261), that Eckenhagen was sold to Sayn.

In a contract dated May 27, 1257, in which disputes between Johann von Sponheim and his son Gottfried von Sayn on the one hand and her relative Adolf von Berg on the other, Sayn transferred the jurisdiction of Eckenhagen to Berg. Thus, Eckenhagen went over to the Bergische administration, the possession (property) of the two later mayors of Eckenhagen and Denklingen, however, only in the Siegburg Treaty of 1604.

The Reformation began in the Windeck district as early as the 1560s and Reformed communities were formed. In Eckenhagen this can be proven as early as 1569 under the preacher Johann Lang. From the mid-1610s, the parishes were again taken over by Catholic priests, as the Protestant faith was largely suppressed again in the Duchy of Berg. After 1672 a religious comparison was made between the dukes of Berg and Brandenburg and in Eckenhagen the Protestant community was able to become active again. For example, Protestant synods took place in Eckenhagen as early as 1679 and 1781. In a study from 1831 there were 276 Protestant and 121 Catholic people living in the community.

Eigen Eckenhagen

In the treaty of 1257 the sovereignty was transferred and the result was "the own von Eckenhagen", a completely free property in contrast to the fiefdom. This designation was chosen in particular when the area was completely characterized as a closed whole by strange surrounding areas. In the Eckenhagener Weistum it says: "So we sit here, four or five gentlemen."

The expansion and rounding of the county of Berg went hand in hand with the formation of administrative districts and offices. The political structure took on more solid forms when the Windeck district became a bailiwick in 1260 . Eckenhagen had its own regional court, which despite belonging to the Windeck office had a special feature. In earlier times this district court had no consultation in the Windeck office. The Lindlar Regional Court in the Steinbach office was responsible for legal instruction. So if no verdict could be reached in dubious cases, one had to go to the Lindlar Regional Court, whose verdict was only announced at the next court hearing in Eckenhagen, appeal from Eckenhagen or the Windeck Office went to the main court in Porz.

In 1575 witness interrogations and border inspections led to the definition of the border between Homburg and Berg. This is the reason for the creation of the Mercator map produced in the same year by the Windeck office, to which the "Eigen von Eckenhain" has belonged since 1257.

On June 12, 1604, the Siegburg Treaty was signed to end the border disputes between the neighbors, and on November 19 of that year the borders were finally marked.

In 1777 a major fire destroyed 47 houses, the old church and the school building. In the course of the reconstruction, the baroque church with its important organ , which is still preserved today, was built .

On March 15, 1806, the Grand Duchy of Berg was created from the Duchy of Berg, including other areas. The old official constitution was abolished and new administrative districts (arrondissements) took their place. 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.

The independence of the community of Eckenhagen ended on July 1, 1969 in the course of the regional reform in North Rhine-Westphalia. Eckenhagen was combined with Denklingen 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.

Since 1991, Eckenhagen has been a climatic health resort, since 1998 the location of an important rehabilitation clinic for the indications: oncology , neurology and pulmonology .

Attractions

• Baroque church Eckenhagen
• Mineral grotto and doll museum Eckenhagen: In the museum in Barbarossastraße there are over 600 dolls in traditional costumes from all over the world. In addition, mineral finds from the Oberberg pits near Mittelagger and Wildberg are on display. Additional exhibits come from the former Yugoslavia, Tuscany and other non-European countries.
• Eckenhagen Farm Museum
• Eckenhagen Monkey and Bird Park

leisure

Eckenhagen is both summer and winter destination for regional tourism, which allows skiing on the log cabin and cross-country skiing when it is snowing, and is a destination for bike tours and hikes in summer. There is also a bird park and the indoor pool with sauna. Hot air ballooning also has a stronghold here.

traffic

Bike paths

One of the four themed bike tours of the Reichshof municipality starts from Eckenhagen.

Tour de Eckenhagen

This tour is the second longest tour of the bike park and has 550 meters in altitude and inclines in some cases over 10%.

Starting point is Rodener Platz in Eckenhagen

Route name	Waymarks	Driving distance	Path length
Tour de Eckenhagen		Wehnrath - Schönenbach - Middle excavator - Upper excavator Hüngringhausen - Hecke - Eckenhagen	25 km

Local public transport

• Line 303: Gummersbach - Derschlag - Eckenhagen - Denklingen - Waldbröl
• Line 321: Eckenhagen - Wehnrath - Wiehl (only on school days)
• Line 345: Eckenhagen - Wildbergerhütte - Waldbröl

Educational and educational institutions

• Community elementary school
• Reichshof comprehensive school
• Children's home St. Josefshaus Eckenhagen

Parishes

• Catholic parish, St. Franziskus-Xaverius
• Catholic church choir Cäcilia Eckenhagen
• Evangelical parish
• Evangelical church choir Eckenhagen

particularities

The only online weather station of the German Weather Service in the district is located in Eckenhagen , where air temperature and humidity, duration of sunshine and temperature in the ground are measured every 10 minutes.

Personalities

• Sabine Lisicki (* 1989), German tennis player, lived in Eckenhagen when she was a child

literature

• Oswald Gerhard: Eckenhagen and Denklingen through the ages

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Google Maps. Retrieved April 19, 2019 (de-US). 
2. ^ 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 .
3. ^ Anton Joseph Binterim, Joseph Hubert Mooren. In: The Archdiocese of Cologne in the Middle Ages. III. The Rhine Franconian decanates . 1892, Düsseldorf, Voss, p. [421] 443.
4. ^ Heinrich Friedrich Jacobson. In: Historical sources of the evangelical church council of the provinces of Rhineland and Westphalia . 1844, p. [62] 40.
5. ^ Heinrich Friedrich Jacobson. In: Historical sources of the Protestant church law of the province of Rhineland and Westphalia . 1844, p. [136] 114.
6. ^ Heinrich Friedrich Jacobson. In: Historical sources of the Protestant church law of the province of Rhineland and Westphalia . 1844, p. [217] 195.
7. ↑ Hermann Henstenberg. In: The former Duchy of Berg . 1897, Elberfeld, p. [78] 68.
8. ^ 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 .