Hemgenberg
Hemgenberg is a deserted area in the municipality of Kreuzau in the Düren district , North Rhine-Westphalia .
The former village was in the triangle between Winden , Bergheim and Bilstein . The place got its name from the 250 m high Hemgenberg near the Rurkrümmung .
From 1654 to the 19th century, 75 births are recorded in Hemgenberg.
The village was first mentioned in a document between 1402 and 1423. Duke Reinhard von Jülich (1402–1423) gives Tilmann von Hemgenberg and his heirs his farm Bilstein tax-free along with the right to fetch firewood from the ducal forest for an annual fee of 15 Painted oats and annual delivery of 15 wagons of manure to the ducal vineyards at Winden on long lease.
In addition to farming , the residents also mined lead . The mining ended in the 17th century. After that, the Hemgenbergers earned their living by breaking stones from the red sandstone rocks for building houses and stairs. The small stream in the village dried up, so that more and more residents left the place. On the Tranchot map drawn up by Jean Joseph Tranchot between 1801 and 1828, a few buildings in the village are shown at the northeastern end of the Celtic wall. In 1830 Hemgenberg had twelve residents.
Before the First World War , the last inhabitants left the place. It was the Becker and Mevis families.
Individual evidence
- ^ Düren history sheets 1974
- ^ Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine, especially the Old Archdiocese of Cologne, Issue 62 Cologne 1896, p. 125
Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 4.5 " N , 6 ° 28 ′ 8.8" E