Morsbach

Morsbach is a municipality in the Oberbergischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Geography

It is located about 50 km east of Cologne, in the southern corner of the Oberbergischen Kreis on the border of North Rhine-Westphalia to Rhineland-Palatinate .

Neighbouring places

Division of the town

History of the community Morsbach

Around 895 the place the first time was mentioned documentary namely " duplicate of a Copialbook of the inhabitant of Bonn Saint Cassiusstift " (Documentary first namings oberbergische places v. Klaus Pampus).

Manner of writing of the first naming: Morsbach

4000 - 1800 B.C. the first settlement of the Morsbacher area goes back till the Neolithic Age from what a stone hatchet and the fragment of a flint blade give report.

(Around 800 the empire Charlemagne a new region constitution receives. The first detectable area arrangement. The parish Morsbach belongs to the Auelgau (Sieggau) administered from the region count. Territorial men in the parish Morsbach are the counts of Sayn.

Morsbach (Wupper)

Morsbach (Wupper) is a river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

See also

Coordinates: 51°09′56″N 7°08′10″E / 51.1656°N 7.1361°E / 51.1656; 7.1361