Osenberg (Breckerfeld)

Osenberg City of Breckerfeld Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 21 ″  N , 7 ° 26 ′ 31 ″  E
Height :	321 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	58339
Area code :	02338
Location of Osenberg in Breckerfeld

Osenberg is a district of Breckerfeld in the Ennepe-Ruhr district in the administrative district of Arnsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ).

Location and description

Osenberg is located in the southwest of the Breckerfeld urban area on the city limits of Halver and Radevormwald on the Ennepe -preperre of the Ennepetalsperre . The neighboring towns are the Halveran localities of Osenberg , Kamscheid , Oberbuschhausen and Dörnen as well as Schlechtenbeck and Wellershausen (both to Radevormwald).

The place can be reached via a road that branches off the federal road 229 at Niederennepe and connects the villages in the Ennepetal. Since the location is at the root of the Ennepetalsperre, access is only permitted to residents for reasons of water protection .

As the southernmost town in Breckerfeld, Osenberg is also the southernmost town in the Ruhr area , to which Breckerfeld politically belongs due to its membership in the Ruhr Regional Association .

history

Osenberg was first mentioned in a document in 1462, but the time of origin of the settlement is presumed to be between 900 and 1050 as a result of the Franconian - Carolingian settlement construction. Osenberg was in the 14./15. Century a saddle yard . At Osenberg, an old road from Radevormwald to Breckerfeld crossed the Ennepe. Traces of ravines have been preserved in the area to this day.

Due to the construction of the Ennepe Reservoir, only a few buildings have survived from the settlement - one of them is now used as a forester's house - that are located directly on the Ennepe-Vorperre dam. There, on the opposite right-hand side of the Ennepe, was the Osenberger Mühle, documented since 1367. In 1823 the Osenberger powder mill was founded a few hundred meters upstream , the location of which is now defined as the Halveran district of Osenberg.

For centuries, Osenberg was on the border formed by the Ennepe between the Duchy of Berg and the County of Mark on the Bergisch side and belonged to Radevormwald until 1928, but was then incorporated into Breckerfeld with the rest of the immediate catchment area of ​​the Ennepetalsperre.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alfred Jung, Halver and Schalksmühle - investigation and thoughts on the settlement history of the Halver Office, an old parish in the Saxon-Franconian border area , Volume 13 of the series Altenaer Posts - Works on the history and regional studies of the former county of Mark and the Märkisches Kreis , 1978
2. ↑ ^{a b} Gerd Helbeck: The Bergische Landwehr between Wupper, Ennepe and Bever. In: Romerike Berge. Solingen. 2003. Issue 3, page 2 ff.