Rome (Morsbach)

Rome municipality Morsbach Coordinates: 50 ° 53 ′ 58 ″  N , 7 ° 43 ′ 12 ″  E
Height :	324 m above sea level NN
Residents :	67  (Dec 31, 2007)
Postal code :	51597
Area code :	02294

Rome is a district of Morsbach in the Oberbergischer Kreis in southern North Rhine-Westphalia within the administrative district of Cologne .

Location and description

Rome is a small place near Lichtenberg . It has 8 permanent residents. In addition, there are around half a dozen inhabited weekend houses. At first the place consisted only of a pig breeding business of the so-called "pig pope". Later, a large restaurant for day trips and a few weekend houses were built in the 1960s.

Neighboring districts are Springe in the north, Wendershagen in the northeast, Ortsiefen in the south and Lichtenberg in the west.

Above Rome there is a ski lift operated by the innkeeper of the excursion restaurant.

Waters

The Römerbach, from which the name of the place is derived, runs past Rome. The Römer Weiher serves many residents as a bathing opportunity and, in the past, was used for swimming training in the surrounding villages.

history

In 1429 the place was mentioned for the first time in a document, namely "Johan von Ditzenhausen buys a part of Rome ".

Web links

• Greetings from ... Rome , in: WDR local time on Saturday, July 4th, 2020.

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1. ^ Klaus Pampus: First documentary naming of Oberbergischer places (= contributions to Oberbergischen history. Sonderbd. 1). Oberbergische Department 1924 eV of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein, Gummersbach 1998, ISBN 3-88265-206-3 .