House Ley (Engelskirchen)

House Ley Municipality Engelskirchen Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 11 ″  N , 7 ° 26 ′ 32 ″  E
Height :	136 m above sea level NHN
Postal code :	51766
Area code :	02263
Location of Haus Ley in Engelskirchen

Haus Ley is a place in the municipality of Engelskirchen in the Oberbergisches Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Location and description

The place is in the east of Engelskirchen north of the Agger . Neighboring towns are Hardt , Ründeroth , Bellingroth and Unterkaltenbach . The place houses the former moated castle, also called Haus Ley .

history

In 1370 the place was first mentioned under the name of Lyen by a Siegburg abbot in connection with a fiefdom. The buildings at the address “Haus Ley 1” are under monument protection. They used to belong to a moated castle. In the Prussian first recording from 1845 a stone building or a castle is noted. The moated castle was mentioned as early as the 15th century.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Topographical Information Management TIM-online, provided by the Cologne District Government
2. ^ 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 .
3. ↑ Architectural monuments of the community Engelskirchen accessed on February 14, 2016
4. ^ Historika25, State Surveying Office NRW, sheet 5010, Engelskirchen
5. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. House Ley - pictures and first mention