Geddenberg
Geddenberg was a district of Bedburg in the Rhein-Erft district in North Rhine-Westphalia .
The place was relocated in 1969 as part of the Garzweiler opencast mine . The new resettlement site is located in the city center and is called Bedburg-West .
geography
The place bordered in the south on the still preserved district Broich (Bedburg) . In the west it bordered Muchhaus and Tollhausen (Bedburg) as well as the Kaster district, which still exists today . The urban area of Grevenbroich , where the Neurath district is located, begins in the north .
There was lignite under Geddenberg . In Bedburg-West only Geddenbergerstraße reminds of the resettlement site.
history
In the 12th century there was a fortified aristocratic seat near Geddenberg and Broich. This was called Castrum Scidrike and was mentioned in a document in 1166. There was also a settlement with the same name near the seat, which later disappeared from the map.
There is little data about the first mention of the place. During the French period, the village was exposed to riots, e. B. by theft or horses ravaging fields, mentioned. The stagecoach stopped in Geddenberg from 1705 until around the end of the 18th century.
In 1969 the village was relocated in the course of open- cast lignite mining . The Geddenberg resettlement district, together with Oberschlag and Muchhaus, had 437 inhabitants before the resettlement. Significantly fewer people live at the new resettlement site.