Honesty saint
The Honschaft saint was from the Middle Ages to the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries one of seven Honschaften the parish Overath in the court of Keppel Berg Office Steinbach . The Honschaftsgebiet was north and south of the Agger at the level of the Overather city center. The honor was named after the Siegburg Probstei Cyriax , whose chapel was consecrated to Saint Cyriacus .
The honor has been documented since the middle of the 13th century. In addition to Cyriax and Overath, places of residence and places in the community were Broich , Brücke , Buschhoven , Eichen , Eulenthal , Halzemich , Hasenberg , Kram , Kulhoven , Linde , Lölsberg , Schiefenthal , Viersbrücken , Warth , Wasser and Windhausen .
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, Volume 2: The map of 1789. Bonn, Hermann Behrend, 1898, p. 322
- ^ Franz Becher: 900 years Overath 1064-1964: Chronicle of the Overather Heimat , Bücken Sulzer, 2005, ISBN 9783936405286
- ↑ Chart of the Duchy of Berg by Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking , 1789