Koverstein

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Koverstein
City of Gummersbach
Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 46 ″  N , 7 ° 39 ′ 18 ″  E
Height : 295 m above sea level NN
Residents : 12  (Jun 30, 2016)
Postal code : 51645
Area code : 02261
Koverstein (Gummersbach)
Koverstein

Location of Koverstein in Gummersbach

Koverstein is a district of Gummersbach in the Oberbergischer Kreis in southern North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany .

geography

The place is about 10.1 km from the city center of Gummersbach on the L 323 at the eastern foot of the Aggerhomert (426 m above sea ​​level ) in the Aggertal .

history

Most likely, the local foundation was in 1413 or shortly thereafter place: John of Coversteyn was this year as the legacy of Adolf von Büchler Hausen, Engelskirchen , from Count Adolf of Cleves-Mark with "the house to Liberhausen as Burglehen" invested . The feudal taker transferred the place name from his headquarters in Koberstein in the Westerwald to the moated castle in Aggertal, which was built for his residential purposes . In addition to a sawmill and hammer mills , the residential buildings of the employees grew around the newly founded manor .

After the main building of the castle was demolished in 1865 due to dilapidation, only sparse remains of the wall are evidence of the former moated castle.

leisure

The historic hiking trail X29 (Meinerzhagen - Wissen ; 57.5 km) leads through Koverstein

traffic

The bus stop in Koverstein is connected to the 318 bus (Gummersbach - ( Niedernhagen -) Lieberhausen / Piene / Pernze ).

literature

  • E. Jaeger: How Koverstein Castle got its name. In: Oberbergische Heimat. Heimatblatt for the Oberbergischer Kreis, year 5, No. 12 (1951), ZDB -ID 400346-9 , p. 48.
  • Robert Czoelner: History of the noble estates in the parish of Lieberhausen. Gummersbach 1990.
  • Daniel Schneider: The history of the local community Obererbach (Westerwald). The villages of Hacksen, Niedererbach, Obererbach and Koberstein from the Middle Ages to the present. 2 volumes. Ortgemeinde Obererbach, Obererbach 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-027494-7 (with numerous references to Koverstein).

See also

  • Gut Koberstein , aristocratic residence in Obererbach (Westerwald), Altenkirchen district, Rhineland-Palatinate
  • Koberstein Castle , castle ruins in Obererbach (Westerwald), Altenkirchen district, Rhineland-Palatinate

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Daniel Schneider: The history of the local community Obererbach (Westerwald). The villages of Hacksen, Niedererbach, Obererbach and Koberstein from the Middle Ages to the present. 2009, Volume I, pp. 59-61.
  2. ↑ The parish of Lieberhausen ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / homepages.compuserve.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . As of July 17, 2008.
  3. ↑ Hellmuth Gensicke : Landesgeschichte des Westerwaldes , 3rd unaltered reprint (of the edition) Wiesbaden 1958, (publications of the Historical Commission for Nassau, vol. 13). Historical Commission for Nassau, Wiesbaden 1999, ISBN 3-922244-80-7 , p. 137, note 47.