Verr

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Verr
City of Wiehl
Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 11 ″  N , 7 ° 26 ′ 31 ″  E
Height : 295 m above sea level NN
Residents : 37  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Postal code : 51674
Area code : 02262
Verr (Wiehl)
Verr

Location of Verr in Wiehl

Verr ( hommersch Verr) is a village in the town of Wiehl in the Oberbergischer Kreis in the administrative district of Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ).

Location and description

The place is about 7 km west of the city center of Wiehl, as the crow flies, near Drabenderhöhe on the border with the municipality of Engelskirchen. Verr is located south of the federal highway 4 .

history

In 1413 the place was mentioned for the first time in a document, namely " Combing invoice for the Fronhof Lindlar ". Spelling of the first mention : Veyrr . The hamlet "Verr" was created during the clearing period, which presumably began with the beginning of the High Middle Ages. The word Verr contains the Old High German "fereha", which can be translated as oak or pine. Verr can be interpreted as a place that lies near the oaks.

The history of the hamlet is closely linked to that of the neighboring town of Büddelhagen . In 1413 the place was mentioned for the first time as "Veyrr" in the combing invoice of Sankt Severin zu Cologne for Fronhof Lindlar. At that time Verr still belonged to the parish of Lindlar . On the map by Arnold Mercator from 1575 the place is marked as "Vehr". In the church registers of Engelskirchen , Much and Drabenderhöhe it is also called “Vehr” in 1648, “Fähr” in 1655 and “Vehr” in 1675. On the ploennis map of the Duchy of Berg from 1715 and on the Wiebeking map from 1789 the place is noted as "Ferr". The hamlet is passed down as "Verre" on the fairy tale map of the county of Gimborn .

In 1554, Engelskirchen became independent from the Lindlar mother parish. Verr was officially assigned to this parish. But the residents switched to the Lutheran religion at this time and, due to the proximity of the chapel, joined Drabenderhöhe. The Chapel at Drabenderhöhe was claimed equally by the Dukes of Berg and the Counts of Sayn-Wittgenstein, while the actual place Drabenderhöhe belonged to the Homburg rule. Verr, on the other hand, was in the Duchy of Berg and thus, like the parish of Engelskirchen, in the office of Steinbach. With the agreement in the Siegburg settlement in 1604, which regulated the border between Homburg and Berg, Verr remained in the Duchy of Berg, despite its Protestant residents. However, these still adhered to the now independent Reformed parish of Drabenderhöhe.

In 1675 a person was first recorded by the Drabenderhöher pastor Johannes Haas. 7 households with 39 people were recorded.

This list also mentions the Kauert family, who came from Verr. Said Albert Kauert was the nephew of the later mine director Peter Kauert, who lived in Büddelhagen. Peter Kauert starts iron ore mining in Oberkaltenbach with a large investment of money. It was only after 1719 that he had success and, after enfeoffing the mountain court, he delimited his pit with 15 piles. The pit was called "des Peter Kauert 15 Löwenpfähl". He built an iron smelter next to the mine field. Peter Kauert supplied hammers to Agger, Leppe, Wiehl, as well as hammer mills in the county of Mark. He became the region's first industrial pioneer. Later he went to court against the Count of Nesselrode zu Ehreshoven, also owner of iron ore mines and Reichsmarschall of the Duchy of Berg. Despite the legal costs, he left his heirs a sum of 80,000 Reichsthalers after his death in 1750. It was not until 1871 that the Kauert family sold the mine in Oberkaltenbach to the Friedrich Krupp company in Essen, which then shut it down in 1911. The name Kauert can be traced back the furthest among the local families. Peter Kauert's ancestor and great-grandfather is Bergvogt Christian Kauert, who was already noted in a tax list from Verr in 1616. He was probably born around 1590. His son Dietrich Kauert also played an important role. You can find him as heir in files from 1649 and in 1664 he carried out the division of the Braunswerth estate as a land surveyor. The field name entry “Die Kauwarts Bruchten” goes back even further in Brächen on the Mercator map from 1575. This field name still exists today as “Auf den Kauerts Bröchen” in the Hipperich forest area.

In 1806 the French took over the Duchy of Berg and built a civil administration in 1808. The historical borders were not changed and Verr remained with the municipality of Engelskirchen, district of Wipperfürth. In 1815 the Kingdom of Prussia took over the administration. Since Jean Joseph Tranchot recorded the map in 1817, the spelling of the place has definitely been "Verr".

The place always remained a very small hamlet. The population figures in the 19th century prove this:

  • 1817 44 inhabitants
  • 1828 48 inhabitants
  • 1843 67 inhabitants
  • 1861 49 inhabitants
  • 1868 74 inhabitants
  • 1885 68 inhabitants
  • 1900 36 inhabitants

The place had 7 houses in 1843 and 13 houses in 1885. The people lived mainly from agriculture, not infrequently the men were also employed in the surrounding mines, such as the Silberkaule mine and the Bliesenbach mine in the Loopetal. Craft professions such as carpenter or bricklayer were also practiced. The sharp decline in population between 1885 and 1900 can be explained by the fact that the Silberkaule mine was closed and some families emigrated. In the Steimelsknippen corridor east of Verr, at the confluence of the Sungssiefen and the Loopebach, there is still a corridor name "Auf der Verrer Hütten". In the Middle Ages, the iron ore extracted in the Silberkaule was smelted here. There were probably several smelting sites along the loop. In the forest in the corridor “Im Küel” there are still the remains of such a system.

The population found the political borderline of the place stressful. Therefore, the residents of Büddelhagen, together with those of Verr, Brächen and Anfang (all of the municipality of Engelskirchen) supported an application from Scheidt, Pfaffenscheid and Obermiebach (municipality of Much, Siegkreis) for incorporation into the Drabenderhöhe mayor in the Gummersbach district. The mayor of the Catholic community in Engelskirchen, however, did not support this project at all and exerted very strong pressure on the Protestant residents of these places, so that they withdrew the application in 1926. In 1932, only the beginning, together with Scheidt and Pfaffenscheid, was united with Drabenderhöhe. The historical communal allocation was retained for all other locations. Hermann Lutter, the mayor of the municipality of Drabenderhöhe, tried in 1933 to remake the places that remained near Engelskirchen and Much. But the National Socialist regime had no interest in further changes to the municipal boundaries. In the 1920s, Verr also became interesting for tourists with the establishment of the "Christian recreation house Wald-Eck", a guesthouse without an inn, and a brochure from 1929 published by the Drabenderhöhe local history association advertised as "Verr health resort" with a quiet location a lot of forest without industry and without car traffic. Not far from the village, a lookout tower was built on the Löher Kopf in 1929 and an outdoor pool in the corridor “In den Weiern” in 1932.

With the municipal territorial reform in 1975, Verr, together with the localities of Büddelhagen and Brächen, as well as the Löher Hof near Drabenderhöhe, which emerged after the Second World War , was incorporated into the municipality of Wiehl, Oberbergischer Kreis. Up until this point in time, the places belonged to the Rheinisch-Bergischen district.

particularities

Wooded area: Kaltenbach Forest, owned by the Oberbergisches Kreis.

leisure

  • The local circular hiking trail A5 leads past the outskirts.