Eversberg

51.3671528.336835377Koordinaten: 51 ° 22 '2 " N, 8 ° 20' 13" E

Aerial view (2013 )

Evers Berg is a district of North Rhine- Westphalian city of Meschede in the Arnsberg Forest Nature Park. On 1 January 2013 Evers mountain had 1865 inhabitants.

History

Already in the 11th century put Graf Eberhard von Arnsberg today preserved as ruins Evers mountain and two ring walls. In 1242, Count Gottfried III. Arnsberg Evers mountain and gave the 1243 Lippische municipal law and its own coin and jurisdiction. 1247 gave Archbishop Conrad of Cologne, the town church, the baptismal and burial law. With the County Arnsberg Evers mountain was kurkölnisch in 1369.

The Gogericht decided in 1453 a dispute between Evers and mountain Velmede. In this context, the first Velmeder Schnadezug took place. On these which still held traditional Schnadezüge go back.

A significant role was the cloth-making, whose products were sold by local pedlars in the 18th century mainly in the eastern regions of France.

With the Imperial Diet of 1803 Evers mountain came as part of the duchy of Westphalia under the rule of the later Grand Duchy of Hesse. After the Congress of Vienna in 1815 it was as mayor Evers mountain in the county Meschede to the Prussian province Westphalia. In it belonged first to the Official Evers mountain, which was renamed in 1840 in the Official Bestwig. During the municipal reorganization Evers mountain was on 1 January 1975 a city district of Meschede.

1981 Evers mountain was in the competition " Our village is beautiful " as the prettiest village in the Federal Republic of Germany with the Federal Gold Medal. In 2000 Detlev Buck turned here for his film LiebesLuder.

Policy

Coat of arms

Argent, a black boar, about floating a fairly inclined blue shield with a gold braided silver eagle.

Description:

A Traditional built in 1348 as a seal image secretions seal shows a boar and about floating a fairly reclined sign with the Arnsberg eagle. The Arnsberg coat of arms collection shows the same picture. From 1917 to 1937, the city introduced a slightly different coat of arms. There the shield of blue and silver was divided, above a silver, gold inclined reinforced eagle, below a black boar. The coat of arms was officially established by resolution of the town council in 1937.

Attractions

From the castle Evers mountain the ruins of the keep is only obtained, which is freely available as a lookout. In one of the many half-timbered and slate houses in the historic center, the Museum of Peasant craft and commercial history, landscape and cultural development is housed. It documents the life and work in the village. In the center of the Catholic Parish Church of St. John the Evangelist from the 13th century.

Near Evers mountain is located on the B 55 the military cemetery Evers mountain with victims of the Second World War who died mainly during the stirred tank battle.

The Lörmecke Tower, which stands next to the highest point of its southern neighbor Warstein or near the highest point of the natural park Arnsberg Forest in the Warsteiner forest and was inaugurated on 7 June 2008, serves as a viewing option, among other things about the park.

Sons and daughters

  • Johann Hermann Dietrich Gerling, since 1698 the city judge
  • Nicolaus Hengesbach, 1726-1736 Abbot of the monastery Wedinghausen
  • Martin Roingh 1739 municipal judge
  • Hermann Christoph Hengesbach, 1744 City Secretary and Treasurer
  • Theodor Wilhelm Pape, 1779 municipal judge
  • August Pieper, (1866-1942), German theologian and Association Chairman of the People's Association for Catholic Germany
Konrad von Hochstaden Province of Westphalia Ruhr Pocket August Pieper (theologian)
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