Eversburg

Eversburg is a district located in the north-west of the city of Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany.

Location

On the north side, Eversburg borders on the district of Büren in the municipality of Lotte, in North Rhine-Westphalia. It also borders on the Osnabrück district of Pye, Hafen, Westerberg and Atter (in a clockwise direction).

Name origin

This formerly infertile area – through which a stream today known as the “Landwehrbach” (territorial army stream) flows – was once the site of the Hof Eversfeld (Eversfeld Farm) which belonged to the nobleman Hermann von Blankena; in 1223 he sold it to the cathedral chapter of Osnabrück. Continual disputes with the counts of Tecklenburg necessitated the establishment of a territorial army in Osnabrück and the fortification of the farm around 1300. The cathedral chapter converted the Hof Eversfeld into a moated castle, whose trenches were supplied from the river. From this point onwards the farm became known as Eversburg; this name was first mentioned in city accounts in 1383.