Schievelsberg
| Schievelsberg | ||
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| height | 203 m | |
| location | Ülpenich | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 40 ′ 7 " N , 6 ° 40 ′ 54" E | |
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| Type | hill | |
The Schievelsberg is actually not a mountain, but rather a wooded slope or hill south of Ülpenich , west of Enzen and east of Lövenich near Zülpich in the Euskirchen district . The hill, including a small residual forest, is mostly on a plateau at a height of 203 m on a western slope that is actually only a few meters high. The Schievelsberg achieved a particularly outstanding importance in the Middle Ages as a court seat in the open air and as a place of execution .
Origin of name
There are two theories about the origins of the name.
The first variant is based on an old legend according to which a Roman battle is said to have taken place on what was then known as the Schievelsheide .
The second theory is based on the name Schavegras as a reminder of the Germanic shipbuilding industry . In the shipbuilding industry, similar to the Romans, the soil was removed , including the growing grass, and then burned, which was supposed to serve as natural fertilization .
history
In Roman times , a Roman villa or even a military fortification is said to have existed on the Schiefelsberg . At that time, the Roman branch road led directly past Schievelsberg from Billig to the military camp called Tolbiacum (" Zülpich "). A military installation on the Schievelsberg may have served as a spying post in the form of a watchtower because of the good all-round view of the Zülpich plain in the west and the Eifel beginning in the south near Kommern . This could have been significantly useful to ward off potential attacks on the nearby Roman military camp Zülpich and to protect the Roman road from Zülpich to Billig.
According to legend , a battle between the Austrasian King Theudebert II and the Burgundian King Theodoric II took place here in 612 .
The Jülich district court, which had previously existed elsewhere, was relocated to the Schievelsberg in 1150. In 1233 fourteen so-called honors from the surrounding area were assigned to the Schievelsberg court . After 1279, under the Counts and Dukes of Jülich, the Vogteigericht, previously located on Schiefelsberg, was relocated directly to Enzen . From 1397 only nine places belonged to the court on the Schiefelsberg.
According to the documents, a certain Johann von Floren is said to have been executed in 1407 for breaking into the neighboring towns and a certain Schavard for stealing grain from the lord of Irnich on the Schievelsberg. A resident from Nemmenich is said to have been cruelly buried alive there once. The chronicles also tell of the beheading of a certain Schitvogel from Euskirchen on the Schiefelsberg.
The completed immediately after sentencing in place penalties ranged from the then customary grausemen methods such as wheels , death by hanging by the burning at the stake . Even the smallest offenses were punished with death as a general deterrent.
On the east side there has been a large water storage tank (so-called elevated tank ), which was last partially renovated in 2006, has been located almost directly on the edge of the forest since 1927 , which is used to supply the town of Ülpenich, approx. 800 m away , with drinking water through the waterworks in Eicks . The location of the water reservoir also marks the highest point of the Schievelsberg hill of approx. 203 m.
Also on the eastern edge of the forest, after the First World War, not far from the water reservoir, a " block house " was built into the forest along with a large, fenced property. How the property was originally used is unknown; the building has been used as a residential building for decades, the access road was named "Am Blockhaus" and despite the great distance of approx. 700 m it belongs to the village of Ülpenich .
In the 1990s, smaller areas were afforested on the eastern and northern edge of the forest, so that a wooded connection to the neighboring residual forest, the so-called Rutschberg on the direct south-western outskirts of Ülpenich, has now emerged via the so-called Kninnberg .
Individual evidence
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- ↑ http://www.zuelpich.de/index.php/%C3%BClpenich/217-geschichte48.html
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