History
Probably around the year 819, a Catholic basilica was built and became the seed for the town's growth. Today the Stiftskirche stands on the original church's place.
In 1324 Herdecke went from Cologne's ownership to the Shire of Mark. The earl took all jurisdiction from the abbot and erected a pillory in front of the church which existed until 1700.
1355 market rights were given by Earl Engelbert III. In the following centuries the regionally important corn market developed thanks to the good connection to trading roads from Cologne and other places.
1594 free jurisdiction was canceled.
1615 Herdecke was raised in status and given city rights by Friedrich Wilhelm I. in 1739.
In the winter of 1624/1625, Herdecke was host to a garnison of Hispanic veterans.
The Fourth Edition of Meyers Konversations-Lexikon noted in 1888: „Herdecke, town in Prussian government district Arnsberg, Hagen, 104 meters above sea levels. Lies at the navigable Ruhr and the lines Hagen-Witten, Hagen-Dahlhausen and Schwelm-Dortmund of the Prussian State Railroad Company. Has an evangelic and catholic church, great sandstone quarries as well as factories for fabrics, tobacco, leather paper and hardware, dye works and beer brewing. On the heights of the town is the Kaisberg with a tower commemorating the Baron of Stein; further away are the remnants of the Hohensyburg; the new tower was erected to honour president v. Vinke. Underneath the Hohensyburg lies the Sonnenstein, a 200 meter high plateau where every year in June the famous Rhein-Westfalic Sonnenstein fair is being held. Next to Herdecke lies Vorhalle with its iron and brass factories.“
1939 Ende was incorporated into Herdecke. In World War II the town was godfather to the U 751, a submarine that was sunk in the Atlantic by British planes on 17 July 1942.
Read more about this topic: Herdecke
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“The thing that struck me forcefully was the feeling of great age about the place. Standing on that old parade ground, which is now a cricket field, I could feel the dead generations crowding me. Here was the oldest settlement of freedmen in the Western world, no doubt. Men who had thrown off the bands of slavery by their own courage and ingenuity. The courage and daring of the Maroons strike like a purple beam across the history of Jamaica.”
—Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
“History is not what you thought. It is what you can remember. All other history defeats itself.
In Beverly Hills ... they don’t throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.”
—Mikhail Bakunin (1814–1876)
“Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)