Köbach (Neunkirchen-Seelscheid)

Koebach Municipality Neunkirchen-Seelscheid Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 26 ″  N , 7 ° 23 ′ 19 ″  E
Height :	approx. 210 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	112  (December 31, 2015)
Postal code :	53819
Area code :	02247
Location of Köbach in North Rhine-Westphalia

The wayside cross of Köbach decorated for the Corpus Christi procession 2010

Köbach is a district on the eastern edge of the municipality of Neunkirchen-Seelscheid in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

The lower of two streams, also named Köbach, runs past Köbach to Werschbach , which flows into the Bröl . A few hundred meters northeast of the brook in the neighboring municipality of Much there is a village of Köbach on the smaller and higher Werschbach tributary of the same name.

Traditions

During celebrations such as weddings and communions, the Köbach village community decorates the affected house with a wreath of fir branches.

In Köbach there is a wayside cross or a wayside shrine . Every seven years the Corpus Christi procession leads from the church of St. Anna Hermerath through Köbach, for which the cross and the place are decorated. The inscription on the shrine reads:

Save your soul Erected for the glory of God by the married couple Albert Franken u. Elisabeth Franken born Herchenbach from Köbach 1919

A historical figure is the Göttscheid knight , who became the namesake of the Neunkirchen elementary school.

Web links

• A village street as the center of life. ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. November 28, 2007.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Population structure in Neunkirchen-Seelscheid. Municipality Neunkirchen-Seelscheid , accessed on 5 June 2017 .