Kepplerburg

Kepplerburg City of Overath Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 30 ″  N , 7 ° 17 ′ 40 ″  E
Height :	227 m
Location of Kepplerburg in Overath
Path from Griessiefen to Kepplerburg

Kepplerburg is a district of Vilkerath in the town of Overath in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany . The place is above the brook Lennefe in the northern part of Overath on the border with Lindlar . Kepplerburg belonged to the municipality of Hohkeppel until December 31, 1974 .

Location and description

The place is located in the north of Overath above the Lennefetal near the Lindlar district of Hohkeppel and can be reached via an access road from the state road 84, which also connects Griessiefen .

There is a former ring wall near Kepplerburg . On a mountain or terrain spur reaching into the Lennefetal, only the remains of this small fortification of approx. 110 × 80 m inner surface can be seen today. It is secured to the southwest by a rampart with a ditch, the rampart width is about 5 m, the width of the ditch 4 m. The ring wall was probably built around the end of the 9th or 10th century.

“Castle (750 m southwest of Hohkeppel across a cul-de-sac), a courtyard from the mid-19th century on a T-shaped plan consisting of half-timbered buildings. In the wooded area west of the courtyard, the Kepplerburg wall section (on the field path behind the courtyard approx. 30 m further), located on a steeply sloping spur on three sides, small oval ring wall, 150 x 70 m. Towards the mountain saddle the most pronounced with a ditch, here 1.3 m high. Age and function are not clarified, connections with the Hohkeppeler knight seat are suspected. "

- Lydia Kieven - cultural guide Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis

history

The place was first mentioned in 1550 as zur Burch . The name is derived from the nearby ring wall.

The Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies , Blatt Amt Steinbach , shows that the living space had a courtyard as early as 1715, which is labeled as a castle . Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking names the court on his charter of the Duchy of Berg in 1789 as a castle . It shows that the place was part of the Honschaft Vellingen in the parish of Hohkeppel at that time . The place was near Heidenstrasse , an important medieval old highway from Cologne via Kassel to Leipzig . Today's state road 84 follows the route of the old high path towards Hohkeppel .

The place is recorded on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1817 as a castle . The Prussian first recording from 1845 shows the living space under the name on d. Castle . As of the Prussian new admission in 1892, the place is regularly listed as a castle on measuring table sheets .

In 1822, 18 people lived in the place categorized as a courtyard , which after the collapse of the Napoleonic administration and its replacement belonged to the municipality of Hohkeppel of the Engelskirchen mayor in the Wipperfürth district . For the year 1830 38 inhabitants are given for the place called Hof. The place, which was categorized as a farm in 1845 according to the overview of the government district of Cologne , had three houses with 25 inhabitants at that time, all of them Catholic denominations. The municipality and estate district statistics of the Rhine province list Kepplerburg 1871 with four houses and 34 inhabitants. In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province of 1888, four houses with 32 inhabitants are given for Kepplerburg. In 1895 the place had five houses with 29 inhabitants, in 1905 four houses and 21 inhabitants are given.

Due to § 10 and § 14 of the Cologne Act , the municipality of Hohkeppel was dissolved in 1975 and incorporated into Lindlar. Some districts of Hohkeppels were converted into the municipality of Overath, including Burg. Since there was already a district of Burg in Overath, the name was changed from Burg to Kepplerburg.

literature

• Lydia Kieven: cultural guide Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis . Ed .: Bergischer Geschichtsverein department Rhein-Berg e. V. and Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis. Heider, Bergisch Gladbach 1998, ISBN 3-87314-334-8 , p. 200 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heinrich Dittmaier : settlement names and settlement history of the Bergisches Land . In: Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein . tape 74 , parallel edition as a publication by the Institute for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland at the University of Bonn. Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1956.
2. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius  : Explanations for the Historical Atlas of the Rhine Province ; Second volume: The map of 1789. Division and development of the territories from 1600 to 1794 ; Bonn; 1898
3. ^ Herbert Nicke : The Heidenstrasse. History and landscape along the historic highway from Cologne to Kassel . In: Land and history between Berg, Wildenburg and South Westphalia . tape 6 . Galunder, Wiehl 2001, ISBN 3-931251-74-8 , pp. 38 f .
4. ↑ Alexander A. Mützell: New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . tape 1 . Karl August Künnel, Halle 1821.
5. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff :  Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
6. ↑ Overview of the components and list of all the localities and individually named properties of the government district of Cologne: by districts, mayor's offices and parishes, with information on the number of people and the residential buildings, as well as the Confessions, Jurisdictions, Military and former state conditions. / ed. from the Royal Government of Cologne [Cologne], [1845]
7. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
8. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1888.
9. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1895 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1897.
10. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1909.
11. ^ The Cologne Act in full. Retrieved June 7, 2016 .