Egen

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Egen
City of Wipperfürth
Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 8 ″  N , 7 ° 24 ′ 29 ″  E
Height : 360 m above sea level NN
Residents : 372  (Dec. 31, 2004)
Postal code : 51688
Area code : 02267
Egen (Wipperfürth)
Egen

Location of Egen in Wipperfürth
Egen

Egen is a district and one of the seven church villages of Wipperfürth in the Oberbergisches Kreis in southern North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ) within the administrative district of Cologne .

Location and description

Egen is not far from the Bevertalsperre on the watershed between the Bever and Lüttgenau streams , which each feed a branch of the Bevertalsperre. A source brook of the Lüttgenau brook, the Egenbach , rises not far from the village.

Egen can be reached from all directions through a network of small access roads. The place is the highest point in the area.

history

First mention

In 1548 the place was mentioned for the first time in a document as op dem Eigen , namely "Jorgen op dem Eigen is listed in the lists of the Bergische Spann- und Schüppendienste."

In 1871 Egen was raised to an independent parish , as documented by Archbishop Paulus Melchers' parish census certificate . In the course of the reorganization of the parishes in the deanery and pastoral care area Wipperfürth, the parish was abolished by a document from Archbishop Joachim Cardinal Meisner on December 31, 2007 and assigned to the parish of St. Nikolaus in Wipperfürth on January 1, 2008.

Attractions

Catholic Church in Egen

The Catholic Church Immaculate Conception was built around 1850 on the initiative of the citizens of Egen . The cemetery is a little outside the town center.

leisure

Sports

There is a small sports field at TuS Egen near Egen.

Symbol Wanderer.svg Hiking and biking trails

There is a small hiking car park at the church in Egen, where the Wipperfürth local circular hiking trails A1, A2, A3, A5, A6 and A7 begin.

traffic

Egen is connected to public transport by bus route 337 to Wipperfürth.

Web links

Commons : Wipperfürth-Egen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Pampus: First documentary mentions of Oberbergischer places. Gummersbach 1998, ISBN 3-88265-206-3
  2. ^ Peter Opladen: The Deanery Wipperfürth. Siegburg 1955.
  3. ^ Official Journal of the Archdiocese of Cologne, Item 1, January 1, 2008