Ommerborn

Ommerborn City of Wipperfürth Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 57 ″ N , 7 ° 20 ′ 8 ″ E
Height :	290 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	51688
Area code :	02267
Location of Ommerborn in Wipperfürth

Ommerborn is a village in Wipperfürth in the Oberbergischer Kreis in the administrative district of Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ). It is located south of Wipperfürth, on the border with Lindlar .

history

The nucleus of the place is the Ommerborn farm, which still exists today. It was first mentioned in a document in 1470. The naming is controversial. On the one hand, it is mentioned that "Ommer" means "flowing water", on the other hand this part of the name comes from the "goldhammer". The part “born” is also controversial, the old German term for source seems plausible here, since the Ommer stream has its source at the Ommerborn farm.

Probably the best-known ancestor was Pastor Johann Peter Ommerborn , who, as "Held von Ommerborn", organized the resistance of the Bergische farmers against the French revolutionary troops in 1795 (see also the literature reference below).

Attractions

In Ommerborn there was a Blessed Sacrament - Monastery , which was built in the 1922nd New members of the order used the building as a novice house, it was also used as a rest home. In the 1950s, it was common for Catholic schools to take students there when they finished school.

The former monastery was acquired by a Dutch investor in 2011 and converted into a guest house.

There is a small chapel built in 1849. Another attraction is an open-air altar, which is mainly used for the annual Corpus Christi procession .

literature

Peter Matthias Odenthal: The hero from Ommerborn , Roman, Bad Honnef
Jenny Kollenberg: Ommerborn - Bergischer Held , Gummersbach 1977

Web links

Video: A bird's eye view of Ommerborn (2017)