Ellingen (Morsbach)

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Ellingen
municipality Morsbach
Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 37 "  N , 7 ° 44 ′ 13"  E
Height : 270 m above sea level NN
Residents : 190  (Dec 31, 2007)
Postal code : 51597
Area code : 02294

Ellingen is a district of Morsbach in the Oberbergisches Kreis in southern North Rhine-Westphalia within the administrative district of Cologne .

Location and description

Ellingen is located at the southern end of the Oberbergischer Kreis. The closest cities are Waldbröl (12 km), Wissen (15 km), Betzdorf (21 km), Siegen (33 km), Gummersbach (35 km) and Cologne (65 km).

Neighboring districts are Rome in the west, Wendershagen and Korseifen in the north, Lützelseifen and Oberwarnsbach in the east and Birken and Ortseifen in the south.

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1482: in the Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg zu Schönstein archive the entry “Arnt v. Deitzinghuysen called van Eldingen and his sister Katharina, married to Dietrich v. Gebhardshain concluded an inheritance contract "

The spelling of the first mention was Eldingen .

The further history of Ellingen is described in detail in two books: "On the history of the Rhenish noble families" by Oswald Gerhard and "History of Waldbröl" by Gottfried Corbach. A total of three noble families resided in Ellingen for over 3 centuries: from 1450 to 1646 von Diezenkausen von / zu Ellingen, from 1646 to 1672 von Burgsdorff, from 1672 to 1749 von Ley. The von Diezenkausen zu Ellingen and von Ley families died out due to a lack of male descendants, the noble von Burgsdorff family still exists today in Schleswig-Holstein and Hesse. May 25, 1575. The cartographer Gerhard Mercator is commissioned to draw up the correct and “true boundaries” between the Duchy of Berg and the Lordship of Homburg so that the protracted border disputes would come to an end. At that time Ellingen was already divided into Ober- and Niderellingen, the border ran from the Warteich (Warech) through the Müllensiefen, up the Bröche towards Lützelseifen. This means that Oberellingen is part of the Wildenburg rule, Niederellingen is part of the "Morsbach property".

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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 .