Overath

Overath is a medium-sized district town in the Rheinisch - Bergisch district in the south of North Rhine- Westphalia. The village was first mentioned in 1060. Today the city has about 27,000 people.

  • 2.1 Population development
  • 4.1 City Council
  • 4.2 Mayor
  • 4.3 Coat of Arms
  • 4.4 Town twinning
  • 5.1 Structures
  • 5.2 Sports
  • 5.3 Music
  • 5.4 Regular events
  • 6.1 traffic 6.1.1 Air Transport
  • 6.1.2 rail and bus
  • 6.1.3 roads

Geography

Location

The main village is located about 25 km east of Cologne in Agger in the Bergische Land. The other local locations are found in Agger, in the adjacent Sülztal and on the surrounding hills.

Highest point of the urban area, and also the entire Rheinisch- Bergische circle, with 348 meters of Little Heckberg at Federath.

Neighboring cities and communities

At Overath borders (clockwise ) to the west Rösrath and to the northwest Bergisch Gladbach (both Rheinisch- Bergisch District ), in the north Kürten Rheinisch- Bergisch District, in the northeast of Lindlar and to the east angels Churches ( Oberbergischer circle ) and in the southeast Much, in the south of Neunkirchen Campsie and southwest Lohmar (Rhein- Sieg-Kreis ).

Districts

In addition to the main town with about 8000 inhabitants belong to the city Overath following neighborhoods:

  • Brombach
  • Holy House
  • Immekeppel
  • Maria Linden
  • Stone bridge
  • Untereschbach
  • Vilkerath

Other local locations are:

Abelsnaaf - Old bridge - Bengel height - Bixnaaf - Breidenassel - Brombacherberg - Castle - Cyriax - Eulenthal - Falcon Mich. - Federath - United Or Scheid - Großhurden - Großschwamborn - Halfenslennefe - Halzemich - Hentgesnaaf - hooves - Hufenstuhl - Height - fabric roll - Kepplerburg - Klef - Small Or Scheid - Kleinschwamborn - figurines - Krahwinkel - Kramp height - Kreutz cottage - Landwehr - Leffelsend - Linde - Lokenbach - Lorkenhöhe - Lölsberg - Meegen - Meesbalken - Mittelauel - New House - Lower groats Bach - Oberauel - Upper groats Bach - Obermiebach - Obersteeg - Probst bar - black horse scorn - Rittenberg - Rott - Schalken - Terry Thal - Siefen - Unterauel - Four bridges - Voßwinkel - Warth

History

At its first mention in 1065 to the place " Achera " was (after Agger ). Probably because of the settlement at the Aue- grubbing changed the name to " Ouerode " ( about 1280 ), " Ovverode " ( 1304), " Overadt " (1582 ), and finally to " Overath ". At that time the Archbishop of Cologne, Anno II transferred the Hofverband Achera - divided into Oberacher ( Achera superior) and lower Acher ( Achera inferior) - with all accessories to the he founded the abbey of Siegburg, whereby the Abbot of Siegburg basic and liege in Overath was. Anno had acquired upper and lower Acher by the Utrecht bishop or of a Count Konrad through exchange. In the year 1363 Overath, after previous pledge of prerogatives in 1311 and the low jurisdiction of Overath and Altenrath to Count Adolf VI. transferred from the mountain, through the transfer of office Lowenberg with the Count of Berg. Then Overath belonged to the Duchy of Berg, according to UW offices Overath classification was assigned to the Office Steinbach.

The district Cyriax was founded as a monastery courtyard from Siegburg Abbey, or paid to this. The farm is located about 1.5 km from the city center close to the school center Overath ( with high school and junior high school ). Today, agriculture is no more, but the court and the properties are still preserved.

Already in 1250 Overather Honschaften saint, castle, Or Scheid, Miebach, beams and Vilkerath are attested.

The oldest known travelogue from Overath comes from 1591st Buchelius Arnoldus ( 1565-1641 ) reported in his diary, inter alia, about the stages of a journey over the brothers road on which he spent the night in Overath:

"I saw a beautiful covered with lead church, a silver- clear river, were in the many trout, the Agger, a umpflanztes with beautiful trees castle owned by the nobles to Bernsau and a gorgeous, sweet girl, a true feast for the eyes here. "

During the municipal reorganization in 1975 the municipality of the city were Bensberg ( districts Untereschbach and Immekeppel ) and the communities Hohkeppel and Rösrath incorporated pursuant to § 10 - Cologne Act as of January 1. The city has Overath law since 1 January 1997.

Population Development

Population figures for the respective territorial status. Values ​​to 1970 are from the Census. Values ​​from 1975 are from the official continuation of the management and relate to the 1975 enlarged the city.

Religion

The Catholic church in the village is dedicated to Saint Walburga. Until 1803 there was a monastery in the Cyriax branch of the Benedictine Abbey of Michael's Mount in Siegburg.

The district Maria Linden is a Marian shrine. There stands the Sanctuary of St. Visitation.

In the chapel in the main village road Overath is the Protestant Church of Reconciliation.

The Mosque of Islamic cultural and development association is located in the hammer mill.

In the district of stone bridge, there is a congregation of the New Apostolic Church.

Policy

City ​​council

  • CDU: 18
  • SPD: 9
  • FDP: 8
  • Green: 7
  • BFO: 2

The city council has 44 seats and is elected every five years.

Mayor

Mayor since 2004 Andreas Heider ( CDU). He was reelected in 2009 with 41.5 % of the valid votes in his office.

First Deputy Dieter Schmitz ( FDP), second Rolf Trefz (SPD ) and third Siegfried Raimann ( CDU).

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of Overath there since 5 March 1938.

Blazon: "Divided by silver and blue, above a border, doppelschwänziger, winning blue, blue reinforced red lion, down a floating golden bell ".

The lion is the Bergische lion. It clarifies the former belonging to the manor of the Counts of Berg.

The bell should stand for in Overath of 14 residents to the 16th century bell-founder. However, there are doubts as to whether were cast in Overath depending bells. To date, however about 130 bells are obtained, which can be attributed to the workshop of a family "of Ouerraide ", but this was probably based in Cologne.

Twinning

Overath is twinned with the town of Pérenchies in France and Colne Valley, an Urban District of Kirklees in England. The German - French partnership was formed in 1973 by the mayors Joseph Buescher ( Overath ) and Roger Dutriez ( Pérenchies ) sealed.

Culture and sights

Structures

The castle ruins Großbernsau stands near the main road 55 in the direction of Overath angels churches in a freely accessible forest and can be visited any time.

See also: list of architectural monuments in Overath and List of archaeological monuments in Overath

Sports

The SSV Overath 1919 eV is the popular sports club in Overather center. Offered are football, handball, basketball, fist ball, volleyball, athletics, children's gymnastics and gymnastics.

The Karate -Do Overath eV offers since 2001 Shotokan Karate in Overath.

Music

Numerous clubs dominate the music scene in Overath. The Men's Choir and the drum corps "Edelweiss" are firmly established in Overather club life and are involved even beyond the musical activities. Another variable is the Big Band under the direction of Dirk Pawelka Overath, which is now known far beyond the borders of the city.

Regular events

The Big Band Big Band Overath regularly hosts festivals, concerts and similar events in Overath and the surrounding area.

The Pentecost YUAI (Japanese Friendship Meeting) is the largest karate popular sports event in Germany. It is organized by the Karate federation North Rhine -Westphalia since 1991. Organizer since 2003 of Karate -Do Overath eV

Since 2004 in Overath once a year, the Overath Rock City Open Air Festival. After a break in 2007, the fourth edition of the music festival was held in Overath Cyriax on 16 August 2008.

In the spring starts the series of events Overather Culture Spring. The prelude to the series took place in 2010 with a show of cabaret Nessi Tausendschön. Over a period of three months take place performances in the fields of cabaret, comedy, readings and live music.

Economy and infrastructure

The assessment rates for 2008 are for the property tax A at 230 percent for property tax B at 410 % and for trade tax at 440 %.

Traffic

Traffic

The Cologne / Bonn Airport can be reached by car in about 25 minutes.

Rail and bus

Due to the convenient traffic of Cologne and Bonn live in Overath many commuters.

In rail transport Overath is connected to the railway Agger ( KBS 459 ) from Cologne via Gummersbach to Marie Heath, on the Oberbergische (RB 25 ) to Cologne every 30 minutes and runs every 60 minutes after Marie Heath. The travel time between Overath and Cologne Central Station is about 35 minutes.

In the road passenger transport bus services run from the train station in Overath in the districts Holy House, Mary Linden, stone bridge, Untereschbach and Vilkerath and on to Gummersbach, Bergisch Gladbach, Siegburg and Much. From the city center operates a call taxi in the developed not by buses surrounding urban areas.

Overath belongs to the tariff zone of the transport association Rhein-Sieg (VRS ).

Overath is served by the A 4 with two connection points, " Overath - Untereschbach " and " Overath ". Near the junction " Overath " is also the roadhouse " Agger ".

The B 55 crosses the city. From Cologne they now leads to the junction Overath the A 4 and from there as a separate road heading east. The former route of the B55 met within the village Overath on the B 484, which begins there. Today belongs to the connection between this junction and the junction Overath both the B 55 and B 484 for

An old trade route from Cologne to Siegen, the brothers road, ran through the neighborhoods Untereschbach, stone bridge, the Holy House, Overath itself, the local situation and the castle district of Maria Linden through the urban area.

Established businesses

The Dienes Werke GmbH & Co. KG has in Overath their headquarters and their development department. It exists since 1913 and is today with over 400 employees - 200 of them in Overath - various products for industrial cutting applications ago.

The Metten Stein Design GmbH & Co. KG manufactures materials for urban, landscape and garden design. These include concrete paving systems, concrete slabs, wall systems and natural stones for the exterior design.

The Karl Scharrenbroich GmbH & Co. KG is a resident with two production facilities in the city. The main work is still in Overath itself. In the metal processing, the company operates as a specialist in precision cutting technology, mainly as a supplier to the automotive industry.

The RLE International is an international service company.

Soennecken has moved since 2007 the company headquarters to Overath.

Authorities

The Rhenish Office for Heritage Management has an outpost on Good Eichthal.

Train

  • Primary schools ( 6 in total) - 1,260 students
  • Secondary school - 390 pupils ( in resolution)
  • At school center Cyriax School Overath (under construction) - 112 students
  • Bergische Realschule ( BRO ) ( in resolution) - 630 students
  • Paul- Klee -Gymnasium ( PKG) - 1,243 students

( Primary schools, secondary school, BRO of September 2009, PKG March 2010)

All elementary schools have courses in the open all- day schools.

  • Community College Overath / Rösrath

Libraries

As an institution of the Catholic Church of St. Walburga in cooperation with the City Overath, the Public Library of St. Walburga is responsible for the general information and literature. It is located in the city center on Steinhofgründe space and has over 40,000 visitors a year. The media package includes 20,000 books, magazines, audio books, music CDs, CD -ROMs, DVDs, videos and board games. Other recreational amenities include two internet jobs and online interlibrary loan. In the event offering the promotion of reading occupies an important place for children. The Catalogue and further information are accessible via the Library homepage. (July 2006)

Two smaller Catholic Public libraries are located in the Holy House ( KÖB St. Rochus ) and Maria Linden ( KÖB St. Visitation ).

A school library there at the school center Cyriax.

Since 2011 located in the square in front of the Kulturbahnhof a public bookcase.

Medical care

Overath has no hospital. The medical care take over the hospitals in the neighboring towns Bergisch Gladbach ( Bensberg ) and Angel churches.

Personalities

  • The comedian Ingo Appelt lives in the village of Maria Linden.
  • Peer Augustinski lives in a district.
  • Hans Blum aka Henry Valentino lives in the village of substrates Me.
  • Alexander von Cube lived for decades, until his death, in Overath.
  • Rainer Deppe, directly elected Member of Parliament for the Rheinisch- Bergisch district II
  • The total known from TV presenter Elton lives in Großhurden.
  • Martin Fassbender was born in the hamlet of stone bridge.
  • The boxer Henry Maske has bought a house near the village.
  • Pop singer Peter Orloff lives in a district.
  • The comedian Markus Maria Profitlich had his office in Untereschbach.
  • The affluent children began their careers in Overath
  • The former footballer and football coach known Gero Bisanz lives in Overath.
  • Albert SiebenMorgen, 1919-1962 teacher in Immekeppel.
  • Stefan Reinartz, grew up in the Holy House.
  • Wolfgang " Gröön " Klever, founding member of BAP lives in Maria Linden.
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