Cork
Korkus or the Korkus is a field name in the southeast of Eschweiler in the triangle of the districts of Nothberg , Scherpenseel and Volkenrath between the Omerbach and Otterbach brooks flowing into the Inde . The local street Im Korkus is a side street from Volkenrather Straße and Knippmühle . The cork is the nature reserve ACK-029.
Mining history
The forest “Im Kakus” (a = open o) near Volkenrath, where iron ore and later limestone were mined in pre-Roman times, was probably dedicated to the ancient Roman god “Cacus”. Cacus was the son of Volcanus and, according to legend, a fire-breathing giant who lived in a cave. The archaeologists of the Landesmuseum Bonn report in several yearbooks about the prehistoric settlement "Im Kokus" (Kakus). According to this, about 5000 stone chips and core pieces, numerous blades, scrapers, burins and other small parts, which the toolmakers of the Stone Age left behind here, were found in 1967/68 on the arable land sloping down to the Omerbach had. With the help of the very different patina of the stone material, different settlement periods could be determined, one in the older Stone Age (8000 years ago), two in the Middle Stone Age (5000 years ago) and one in the Younger Stone Age (4000 years ago).
The fields to the right of the road up to the "Steinknipp" halfway to Knippmühle were searched in 1969 and revealed a settlement from the younger Iron Age (around 200 years BC). Numerous sherds were found, including some decorated with a comb . Possibly the dwellings of the miners stood here in the Celtic times, who fetched the ore rock from the earth in the "Kakus".
The city of Eschweiler changed the name of this historic site in 1932 when it incorporated the bush area "Im Kakus" into a "Ko-r-kus".
Ore Mine For Good Hope
We know from the Eschweiler Mining Association that he had to close his ore mine "Zur Guten Hoffnung" there on the so-called "Düsteböschche" a few years after it was put into operation from 1880 to 1884, because they came across a long-exploited mine field, over 2,000 of which Years old tunnels were partly still very well preserved. These ore tunnels can be traced from the “Düvelskuhl” to Hamich and Wenau .
Origin of name
The name Korkus (Eschweiler dialect: cork ), for the first time Im Kakus , is derived from the Roman god Cacus , son of Vulcanus . It was declared based on the neighboring town of Eschweiler-Volkenrath, whose name comes from Vulcanus . Another theory connects the name cork with the Indo-European root * korko (= swamp).
See also
Web links
- Nature reserve “Korkus” (ACK-029) in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia
Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 56.5 ″ N , 6 ° 17 ′ 46.9 ″ E