Eversberg

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Eversberg
City of Meschede
Coat of arms of Eversberg
Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 2 ″  N , 8 ° 20 ′ 13 ″  E
Height : 377 m above sea level NHN
Residents : 1718  (December 31, 2017)
Incorporation : 1st January 1975
Postal code : 59872
Area code : 0291
Aerial photograph (2013)
Aerial photograph (2013)
Eversberg with castle ruins around 1740
View of Eversberg from the keep of the castle ruins

Eversberg is a district of the North Rhine-Westphalian city ​​of Meschede in the Arnsberg Forest Nature Park . On December 31, 2017, Eversberg had 1,718 inhabitants.

history

Already in the 11th century put Count Eberhard of Arnsberg today as ruins preserved castle Eversberg and two circular walls. In 1242 Count Gottfried III founded von Arnsberg Eversberg and in 1243 granted the Lippe town charter as well as its own minting and jurisdiction. In 1247 Archbishop Konrad of Cologne granted the city church baptism and burial rights . With the county of Arnsberg Eversberg became Electoral Cologne in 1369 .

The Gogericht ruled in 1453 a dispute between Eversberg and Velmede . In this context, the first Velmeder Schnadezug took place. The traditional pulls that still take place today go back to this.

Eversberg belonged to the Hanseatic League from the 16th century.

Cloth making played an important role, the products of which were mainly sold in the eastern regions of France by local traveling traders in the 18th century.

With the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, Eversberg came under the rule of the later Grand Duchy of Hesse as part of the Duchy of Westphalia . After the Congress of Vienna in 1815, it belonged to the Prussian province of Westphalia as the mayor of Eversberg in the Meschede district . It initially belonged to the Eversberg office, which was renamed the Bestwig office around 1840 . As part of the municipal reorganization, Eversberg became a district of Meschede on January 1, 1975.

In 1981 Eversberg was awarded the federal gold medal as the most beautiful village in the Federal Republic of Germany in the competition “ Our village should be more beautiful ”. Detlev Buck shot here for his film LiebesLuder in 2000 .

politics

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the former city of Eversberg Blazon :

A black boar in silver, floating above it a blue shield leaning to the right, with a gold-armored silver eagle.

Description:

A secretion seal handed down from 1348 shows a boar as a seal image and a right-leaning shield with the Arnsberg eagle floating above it. The Arnsberg coat of arms collection also shows the same picture. From 1917 to 1937 the city had a somewhat different coat of arms. There the shield was divided by blue and silver, at the top a silver, sloping gold-armored eagle, at the bottom a black boar. The coat of arms was made official by a resolution of the city council in 1937.

Attractions

From the castle Eversberg the ruins of the keep is only obtained, which is freely accessible as a lookout. In one of the numerous half-timbered and slate houses in the historic town center, the museum for rural handicraft and industrial history, landscape and cultural development is housed. It documents living and working in the place. In the center is the Catholic parish church of St. John the Evangelist from the 13th century.

Near Eversberg is located on the B 55 the military cemetery Eversberg with victims of the Second World War, mainly during the Ruhr pocket died -Schlacht.

The Lörmecke Tower , the Warsteiner Forest next to the highest point of the southern neighbor Warstein stands or near the highest point of the nature park Arnsberg Forest and was inaugurated on June 7, 2008 serves as a viewing option among other things, the nature park.

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View from the castle ruins

traffic

The Eversberg depot is on the Schwerte – Warburg railway line . Passenger trains don't stop here.

Sons and daughters

Local museum
Old Town Hall

→ See also: List of personalities in the city of Meschede

  • Curt Schumacher (1585–1660), wealthy merchant and mayor of Korbach
  • Johann Hermann Dietrich Gerling, city ​​judge since 1698
  • Nicolaus Hengesbach, 1726–1736 abbot of Wedinghausen Monastery
  • Martin Roingh, 1739 city judge
  • Hermann Christoph Hengesbach, 1744 city secretary and treasurer
  • Theodor Wilhelm Pape, 1779 city judge
  • August Pieper (1866–1942), German theologian and chairman of the Volksverein for Catholic Germany

literature

  • August Engel: The Westphalian community of Eversberg. Cotta, Stuttgart and Berlin 1902.
  • August Engel, Alfred Bruns: History of the city of Eversberg. City of Eversberg, Eversberg 1972, ISBN 3-925680-12-8 .
  • Carl Haase : The emergence of the Westphalian cities. 4th edition. Aschendorff, Münster 1984, ISBN 3-402-05867-7 .
  • Alfred Bruns: History of the city of Eversberg II. Meschede 1992, ISBN 3-925680-14-4 .
  • Wilfried Ehbrecht : Eversberg. Historical atlas of Westphalian cities. Volume 1. Ardey-Verlag, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-87023-367-9 .

Web links

Commons : Eversberg  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meschede: The population statistics of Meschede (PDF; 59 kB), accessed on February 13, 2018
  2. ↑ Sabina Butz: Meschede and the Hanseatic League. WOLL Summer 2020: 84-87
  3. ^ Franz Honselmann: Sauerländisches Familienarchiv, unaltered reprint, Paderborn 1983, p. 146f.
  4. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 335 .
  5. ^ Eduard Belke, Alfred Bruns, Helmut Müller: Communal coats of arms of the Duchy of Westphalia. Arnsberg 1986, ISBN 3-87793-017-4 , p. 146.
  6. ↑ Martin Rudolph: Korbacher Bürgerfamilien: The descendants of the Korbach mayor Curt Schumacher 1585-1660 , City Archives Korbach 1976, p. 1-3.
  7. ↑ Helmut Müller: The Territorial Archive of the Duchy of Westphalia, Vol. 1. Münster 2006, p. 148.
  8. ^ Franz Honselmann : Sauerland Family Archives, unaltered reprint, Paderborn 1983, p. 160.
  9. ^ Franz Honselmann : Sauerländisches Familien-Archiv, unaltered reprint, Paderborn 1983, pp. 85, 87.
  10. ^ Franz Honselmann : Sauerländisches Familien-Archiv, unchanged reprint, Paderborn 1983, p. 144.
  11. ↑ Franz Honselmann : Sauerländisches Familien-Archiv, unchanged reprint, Paderborn 1983, p. 274.