Königsspitze (Kürten)

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Map of the Great Dhünntalsperre with the location of Königsspitze

Königsspitze was a district southeast of Dabringhausen and northwest of Kürten in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis . He sank in the Great Dhünntalsperre .

history

First mention

First mention of Königsspitze : In a document from 1217, Count Adolf III von Berg confirms the gifts, income and possessions made by his father. Among other things, two Hufen Land in Kuningspuzze . This happens when the crusade to the Holy Land begins in favor of the Johanniter Hospital in Burg an der Wupper .

In the year 1371 a Henricus de Konixputz is called. Königsspitze became a fief of the Altenberg Abbey through a donation from Adolf's father, Count Engelbert .

In 1454, on May 17th, Duke Gerhard von Jülich-Berg transferred the Königspitz court in the parish of Bechen, Amt Steinbach , to his house marshal and councilor Johann vam me Huyss (1414–1497) .

Around the year 1500 there is talk of two farms in Altenberg documents. Altenberg Abbey has had to fight for its rights over and over again over the centuries. The farms themselves were run by tenants.

On May 4, 1629, the von der Horst vam Huyss and Bell siblings sold their noble royal court Königsspitz to the widow Heinrich Gelen for an undisclosed sum of money. He was a council member of the city of Kempen and his widow was Gud (ul) a van der Böckel from Cologne. Melchior von Mondorf, Abbot of Altenberg, granted the sire's approval for this. At the same time, the sellers transferred all rights belonging to the property , in particular fishing in the Dhünn and the right of occupation ( collation ) of the parish in Radevormwald . As a result, the widow Gelen transferred her property to the Gelenische Studienstiftung, which is why the inspectors of that foundation had to assign said pastor's post as collators in the event that occurred. After the former Cologne University of Applied Sciences was abolished, the Königspützer Hof became a member of the administrative board of the local study foundation.

Foundation for Poor Students

Aegidius Gelenius around 1631

The widow Heinrich Gelen issued a letter of foundation on March 28, 1631, which transferred the Königspitz court in the parish of Bechen, Steinbach District, to the Cologne Study Foundation. This took place at the instigation of her two sons Johann and Aegidius. The former was Vicar General in Cologne, the latter Canonicus to St. Andreas in Cologne and auxiliary bishop in Osnabrück.

In a contract dated March 23, 1651, Aegidius Gelen (Gelenius) wrote that the income that the pastor of Radevormwald received from the Königsspitzer court was only due to a Roman Catholic priest.

Over the centuries, the Königsspitze farm was connected by feudal rights to the Altenberg Abbey and the feudal court of the Dhün Abbey (a small hamlet west of Königsspitze, perished in the Great Dhünntalsperre) recorded a great number of related events in its files.

Before 1834, the Studienstiftung's income from the Königsspitzer Hof was 348 thalers a year.

Sale and distribution

By order of the royal provincial and school council and the administrative board of the Study Foundation in Cologne, the property at the Königsspitze was put up for public auction on June 4 and December 18, 1834. At that time the estate had 70 acres of arable land, 27 acres of meadows, 251 acres of woodland; a total of 348 acres. Estimated value: 5366 thalers.

The Board of Directors of the Studienstiftung auctioned the property in 1838 to Peter Johann Platte from Großeledder for 5230 thalers. After 1851, Peter Johann Platte parceled the originally 500 acre estate to two farmers from Kürten.

The farms were sold to the Wupperverband in 1953 and 1974 to build the Great Dhünntalsperre . Archaeological excavations were carried out in 1982 and published in 1991. In 1988 the Great Dhünntalsperre, built between 1975 and 1985, was put into operation, in which the living space sank.

literature

  • NJ Breidenbach: The Königsspitzer Hof near Kürten , in: Kürtener Schriften, Heft 6, Kürten 2007, p. 93ff
  • M. Rech: The upper Dhünntal , Rhine. Excavations, Bd. 33, Cologne 1991
  • Marita Jendrischewski: People and Stories of a Sunken Landscape - The Courts of the Upper Dhünntal , self-published, 2009

Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 13 ″  N , 7 ° 13 ′ 26 ″  E