City of Blankenberg

City of Blankenberg City of Hennef (Sieg)
Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 42 ″  N , 7 ° 21 ′ 49 ″  E
Height :	163 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	632  (Jan 2020)
Incorporation :	April 1, 1934
Incorporated into:	Geistingen
Postal code :	53773
Area code :	02248
Location of the city of Blankenberg in North Rhine-Westphalia
Cityscape

City of Blankenberg is a district of the city of Hennef in the Rhein-Sieg district . The component "city" of the place name comes from the fact that the place was an independent city from 1245 to 1805 and the surrounding villages belonged to it. The place emerged from the castle of the same name , which was built as the seat of the Counts of Sayn .

Geographical location

Katharinenturm with the so-called " Eitorfer Tor"

City of Blankenberg, aerial view from the southeast

City of Blankenberg, aerial view from the south

City of Blankenberg is located around 5.5 kilometers east of the Hennef city center, directly on a loop of the Sieg River . Blankenberg is not located directly on the river, but on a steep mountain ridge above the Sieg.

The height in the northern area of ​​the place of the castle ruins is 152  m above sea level. NHN . The victory is at this point at about 73  m above sea level. NHN .

Below the city of Blankenberg, at the foot of the mountain, lies the Stein district .

history

The name "Blankenberg" may have originated from the fact that the bare rock of the mountain is visible towards the victory.

The first documentary mention was made in 1171 by the Archbishop of Cologne, Philipp von Heinsberg , who informed the Abbess Gepa and the convent of the holy virgins of Cologne (later called St. Ursula ) of the existence of a Freihof in Blanckenberge . The Castle Blankenberg was probably built 1150-1180.

The Counts of Sayn, two brothers Eberhard I and Heinrich I, transferred the castle and the Sayn farm near Bendorf to the Archbishop of Trier in 1152 after the Archbishop of Cologne Arnold II had them besieged and destroyed, and they resided in Blankenberg. After they remained calm militarily, Arnold II let them go.

In 1245 Blankenberg received city rights from Count Heinrich III. von Sayn and his wife Countess Mechthild von Meißen-Landsberg . Successor to Count Heinrich III. von Sayn were his nephews, the children of Adelheid von Sayn and Count Gottfried III. von Sponheim , from which Heinrich I von Heinsberg received the possession of Blankenberg.

In 1363 the castle with the city and the surrounding area went to the counts and later dukes of Berg . The villages of Muche, Herchen, Dattenfeld Hoenrath and Walterscheidt belonged to the Blankenberg dominion. The area was now also called Amt Blankenberg . At the end of the 15th century it was the largest office in the Duchy of Berg.

In 1450, Duke Gerhard von Jülich and Berg agreed with the Archbishopric of Cologne to sell various areas and cities to the Archbishopric for 204,000 guilders. Blankenberg was the only one of the towns sold to become the property of the Archbishopric immediately after the purchase agreement was signed.

This sale of various areas and cities, including Blankenberg, to the ore monastery was revoked 19 years later. In a document dated February 1, 1469, an amicable agreement to cancel the contract of 1450 against payment of 45,000 guilders by Duke Gerhard von Jülich and Berg is agreed with the Archbishop of Cologne.

In 1583 Blankenberg was conquered on the night of June 28th by the troops of Count Adolf von Neuenahr , a defending peasant crowd led by the bailiff was quickly dispersed ( Truchsessischer Krieg ).

During the Thirty Years War the castle was conquered by Swedish troops and occupied for several years. Later the castle was partially razed to prevent other warlords from being a worthwhile destination. Nevertheless, the castle complex with four towers and city wall still offers the image of a compact castle complex.

In 1633 the first baptismal and grape register for the parish of Blankenberg was created.

In 1805 the city of Blankenberg lost its town charter when the Duchy of Berg passed to Napoleon after the Treaty of Schönbrunn .

Blankenberg community

After the treaties concluded at the Congress of Vienna , the area came to the Kingdom of Prussia . Under the Prussian administration the town of Blankenburg, was the administrative district of the mayoralty Hennef assigned to that part of the circle Uckerath in Cologne Region was. After the dissolution of the Uckerath district (1820), the municipality of Blankenberg became part of the Siegburg district (renamed Siegkreis in 1825 ).

In 1885, the municipality of Blankenberg had 133 residential buildings (with uninhabited ones) and 118 households with 525 inhabitants (260 men, 265 women) in seven places. There were 517 Catholics in the community who were cared for by the parishes of Blankenberg and Bödingen . There were also five citizens of the Jewish faith and three of the Protestant faith (parish of Eitorf ).

The municipality had an area of ​​428 hectares , of which 234 hectares were arable, 25 hectares of meadows and 103 hectares of forest.

In 1829 the then major Friedrich Ernst Theodor von Delitz acquired the Blankenberg castle hill with the ruins and parts of the old town in order to run a winery there. In 1913 the site was sold to the factory owner Richard Grüneberg.

On April 1, 1934, Blankenberg became part of the Geistingen community . In the same year the community of Hennef was formed and the community of Geistingen was incorporated.

In 1953, Blankenberg was renamed the city ​​of Blankenberg .

Local division

In addition to the town of Blankenberg, the towns of Attenberg , Auel , Berg, Hof , Neuenhof and Stein belonged to the municipality before it was incorporated into the town of Hennef .

Population development

Source: Statistics of the Rhein-Sieg district

year	Residents
1816	549
1843	593
1871	554
1905	471
1933	562

Buildings and monument protection

Blankenberg Castle with the village Stein below on a postcard from around 1900

Hambitzer house from 1679

→ Main article : Blankenberg Castle

In 1987 the town center of Blankenberg was placed under monument protection as a so-called monument area . With its extensive castle complex, which was listed as a historical monument in 1985, and the half-timbered town center, the town of Blankenberg is still a medieval gem. Most of the half-timbered houses date from the 18th century, the oldest is Haus Hambitzer with the year 1679 in a wooden beam. To the south outside the castle walls there are only village buildings; the northern part of the mountain drops steeply into the wooded Siegtal, where the view can still wander over wooded heights and small villages. Another focal point is the lonely cone of the Michaelsberg , whose abbey was also a castle in the past.

• Church of St. Catherine (Blankenberg)
• Katharinenturm (13th / 14th century) with local history museum

Since 2008 the city of Blankenberg has belonged to the monument area “Historical cultural landscape 'Lower Siegtal : City of Blankenberg - Bödingen '”. The main components of the area are the town of Blankenberg with the castle and the pilgrimage site of Bödingen with the pilgrimage church “To the painful mother” . In addition to the castle hill of the city of Blankenberg and the opposite Marienberg with Bödingen, this also includes the entire Siegaue, which connects both sides.

Personalities

The working-class philosopher and journalist Peter Joseph Dietzgen was born on December 9, 1828 in the city of Blankenberg.

Documentary mentions of the mayor / Schultheiße

• 1506/1526 Dederich Mynten
• 1532 Dietrich Wißmann / Wesemann
• 1570 Vehling
• 1590 Konrad Henseler ∞ Catharina von Zweiffel born. from Lückerath
• 1593 Anton Henseler ∞ Gertrud Stommel
• 1615 Wilhelm Puetz
• In 1657 Godtfriedt Ditscheidt died, mayor all here
• 1683 Wilhelm Arnold Zarth (donor of the stone cross in front of the southern city wall)

Tree press from 1620, exhibited in the city of Blankenberg

Blankenberg station

Events

• Katharinenkirmes with medieval market in mid-November
• Flea and craft market on the 2nd Sunday of September
• Traditional May Festival of the bachelor club "Alte Burg" on May 1st

Historical plant population

Viticulture has been practiced in Blankenberg since the castle was founded, as evidenced in the Middle Ages. The old tradition, which has now been discontinued everywhere on the Sieg, has been revived today with a vineyard and a visitor wine path. After two of the last hundred-year-old vines were recently destroyed, a specimen of the rare historical variety Schwarzer Oberlin still stands on the castle wall.

As with other castles, traces of the plants that used to be cultivated in the castle have been preserved. a. also the barberry used to flavor dishes and for jams .

traffic

The place can be reached via Landesstraße 333 , which runs alongside the Sieg, and Landesstraße 268, which runs past Blankenberg at the height. Furthermore, the runs in the Valley Victory route to the station Blankenberg (Sieg), on which the line S 12 S-Bahn Cologne keeps every hour, in addition, individual features of the line S 19 morning stops here on weekdays a Rhein-Sieg-Express ( RE 9) in the direction of Cologne.

literature

• Helmut Fischer : Blankenberg - a small town on the mountain . Ed .: Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Stadt Blankenberg e. V. Rheinlandia Verlag, Siegburg 1995, ISBN 3-925551-90-5 .
• Helmut Fischer: The parish church of St. Katharina, City of Blankenberg 1248–1998 . Ed .: Parish of St. Katharina, City of Blankenberg. Rheinlandia-Verlag, Siegburg 1998, ISBN 3-931509-74-5 .
• Jens Friedhoff : Hachenburg, Blankenberg and Sayn. Castles, cities and valley settlements as the dominant centers of the Counts of Sayn . In: Nassau Annals . tape 125 , 2014, ISSN  0077-2887 , p. 67-106 .
• Fried Mühlberg : Hennef - City of Blankenberg (=  Rheinische Kunststätten . Issue 98). 5th edition. Society for book printing, Neuss 1979, ISBN 3-88094-285-4 .
• Carlheinz Pfitzner: Hennef-Sieg health resort, town of Blankenberg and Bödingen (=  Rheinische Kunststätten . Row 10: Die Sieg, 1/2). Schwann, Düsseldorf 1936, DNB  362034605 .

Web links

Commons : City of Blankenberg  - Collection of images

Wikisource: Blanckenburg in the Topographia Westphaliae (Matthäus Merian)  - sources and full texts

• City of Blankenberg: Medieval gem, imposing castle complex , idyllic place, night watchman tours at www.hennef-tourismus.de ; accessed on June 25, 2018.
• Website of the Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Stadt Blankenberg e. V.
• The history of the city of Blankenberg. on Stadt-Blankenberg.de (private website about the city of Blankenberg)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hennef: Housing directory , residents ' registration office of the city of Hennef
2. ^ City of Blankenberg. The historic city in the Siegtal. Archived from the original on January 2, 2017 ; accessed on August 5, 2017 .  
3. ↑ Heinrich Gottfried Gengler: Regesta and documents on the constitutional and legal history of German cities in the Middle Ages , Erlangen 1863, pp. 236-237 .
4. ^ Theodor Joseph Lacomblet, in: Document book for the history of the Lower Rhine or the Archbishopric of Cologne, Certificate 294 , 1846, Volume 4, 1401 to 1609, p. [379] 353.
5. ^ Theodor Joseph Lacomblet, in: Document book for the history of the Lower Rhine or the Archbishopric of Cologne, Document 344 , 1846, Volume 4, 1401 to 1609, p. [458] 432.
6. ↑ GvBelow: Negotiations of the Duke of Julich-Cleve with Geard Steward and Ernst Cologne in July and August 1583 in ZdBG, vol 36, p 72nd
7. ↑ ^{a b c d} Community dictionary for the Kingdom of Prussia . Volume XII. Rhineland Province. Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau, Berlin 1888, p. 114–115 ( digitized version [PDF; 1.5 MB ; accessed on July 16, 2016]).
8. ↑ Census results from 1816 to 1970 of the cities and municipalities . Contributions to the statistics of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, Vol. 17 / Siegburg 1980, pp. 46–47.
9. ↑ Monuments in Hennef List of Monuments of the City of Hennef , Part D, Monument Areas; accessed on June 29, 2018.
10. ↑ Monuments in Hennef List of Monuments of the City of Hennef , Part A, Architectural Monuments; accessed on June 29, 2018.
11. ↑ Tour through the city of Blankenberg. (PDF) Retrieved August 5, 2017 . 
12. ↑ Tower Museum City of Blankenberg. In: www.rheinischemuseen.de. Retrieved January 20, 2018 . 
13. ^ Siegtal - cultural landscape & living space on the website of the home association Bödingen ; accessed on January 20, 2018.
14. ^ HStA Düsseldorf, Bödingen No. 161
15. ↑ Katharinenkirmes - medieval market town of Blankenberg. Retrieved January 20, 2018 . 
16. ^ Ingo Eisner: Flea and craft market in Blankenberg - On the hunt for old treasures. In: Generalanzeiger. Retrieved November 2, 2016 . 

Remarks

1. ↑ These villages are mentioned in a document from 1397 for the rule Blankenberg. In this document, Count Adolf von Berg and Junggrave Gerhard von Sayn agree on the amount of compensation for losses that the Lords of Sayn had suffered during military service for the Berger. (in: Document book for the history of the Lower Rhine or the Archbishopric of Cologne, TJ Lacomblet, Volume 3, 1853, p. [950/51] 938/39)