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22-521: Mühlenbach may refer to: Mühlenbach , a town in Ortenau district, Baden-Württemberg, Germany Mühlenbach, a location in the town of Waldbröl , North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Streams and rivers in Germany [ edit ] Mühlenbach (Eggel) Mühlenbach (Emmer) , a river of Ostwestfalen-Lippe Mühlenbach (Ruhr) Mühlenbach (Schwalm) ,

44-633: A 7-year-old boy, witnessed the arrest of his father, who was then a professor in Leuven. Gerardus Mercator was suspected of Lutheranism. His father was released after a few months. The family remained impoverished in Leuven for a few more years until 1552. In 1552 the Mercator family moved to the imperial city of Duisburg . The Duke of Cleves, the Lutheran William V , was hospitable to humanist scholars. Gerardus Mercator may have been attracted by

66-518: A Waldbröl citizen was in a document of 1212, when a priest named Wolradu resided there and made a donation to St. Michael's abbey in the Berg county. In 1261, the knightly Isengarten dynasty was mentioned for the first time, followed by Diezenkausen in 1300 and Beuinghausen in 1323. They were long term ministers of the counts of Sayn and Berg and had received fiefs from them in the area of the modern town. In 1314, Waldbröl experienced an epidemic plague and

88-628: A big famine. The first modern districts of Waldbröl were mentioned in 1316. In 1575, almost all today's districts were drawn on the map by Arnoldus Mercator . By the Treaty of Siegburg, Waldbröl went to the duchy of Berg and was attributed to the Windeck authority. When Johann Wilhelm, the last duke of Berg-Mark, died in 1609, the Treaty of Xanten attributed the Berg County (including Waldbröl) to

110-571: A population of about 11,000, there are 64 separate sub-districts: Brölerhütte - Bruchhausen In 1131, the place was mentioned for the first time, as Waltprugele in a papal deed of ownership for the St. Cassius abbey in Bonn. In this document Pope Innocent II confirmed the Church's ownership and the ecclesiastical tithe (which later evolved into land tax and wealth tax). Back then, this housing estate belonged to

132-498: A tributary of the Schwalm river Mühlenbach (Schwarzbach) Mühlenbach (Werre) Halterner Mühlenbach See also [ edit ] Muhlenbach (disambiguation) Mühlebach (disambiguation) Mühlbach (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Mühlenbach . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

154-565: The "Town Of The KdF Vehicle (Volkswagen Beetle) ( Wolfsburg ), were finished to a large extent. Apart from some unfinished buildings, only the hotel survived and initially after the war served as hospital, subsequently as school of the German armed forces and since 2006 as 'centre for encounter' of the European Institute of Applied Buddhism . Furthermore, the former architect house of the planned Adolf Hitler School still exists. Since

176-657: The Bergisches Amt Windeck and the rulership of Homburg") from 1575 is very well known. The map was copied by Hans Weirich in 1995 and reissued with the help of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein - Oberberg department. Arnold also devoted himself to classical philology . At Werden Abbey he examined manuscripts written in Visigothic and Latin, dating back to the time of the Visigothic king Alaric . Arnold's son Michaël later reported on

198-578: The Duke's intention to found a university in Duisburg. Arnold learned the trade of cartography and mathematics from his father. He began as a cartographer in 1558 with a map of Iceland . His map of the Trier diocese from 1566 is also documented. Arnold Mercator came to Cologne in 1569, where the city council submitted his drawing of the city's floor plan for a decision on 11 September 1570. The drawing formed

220-706: The Nutscheid range of hills and is part of the Bergisches Land Nature Park. It is about 64 kilometres (40 miles) east of the city of Cologne . The town of Waldbröl itself is much larger than the municipal centres of all its neighbouring municipalities and serves as their local shopping town and source of local services. Beginning with Reichshof in the North and moving on clockwise, the neighbouring municipalities are Morsbach, Windeck, Ruppichteroth and Nümbrecht. In addition to Waldbröl itself, which has

242-539: The Soviet Union/CIS countries; at least 3,000 of them became inhabitants of Waldbröl. Among others, this process was fostered by the fact that Waldbröl resident Horst Waffenschmidt was Commissioner for Ethnic German Immigrants (Aussiedlerbeauftragter) of the Federal Government. Since 1952 Waldbröl has been entitled to bear the town coat of arms as described in §2, section 2, of the main statute of

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264-837: The Transformation Centre (), the Psychological Defense School ( Schule für psychologische Verteidigung ), the Communication Academy ( Akademie für Kommunikation ), the Department for Studies and Exercises ( Amt für Studien und Übungen ), and the Centre For Analyses And Studies ( Zentrum für Analysen und Studien ), was accommodated in the hotel building. From 1990 onwards, Waldbröl was the destination of intense immigration of ethnic German immigrants from

286-518: The Wiehltalbahn. Arnold Mercator Arnold or Arnoldus Mercator ( Leuven , 31 August 1537 – Duisburg , 6 July 1587) was a Southern Netherlandish cartographer, mathematician and classical philologist . He was the eldest son of cartographer Gerardus Mercator and a brother of Rumold Mercator . Arnold was the eldest child of Gerardus Mercator and Barbara Schellekens from Leuven , who married in 1536. Arnold grew up in Leuven and, as

308-681: The duchy of Pfalz-Neuburg of the Wittelsbach family. Between 1816 and 1932, the town of Waldbröl was the residence of the head of the district authority and seat of the Prussian Administrative District of Waldbröl existing at that time. On 15 December 1906 the extension of the Wiehl Valley railroad was brought on steam from Wiehl to Waldbröl, linking Waldbröl to the German railway network. Hailing from Niederbreidenbach near Nümbrecht, Dr. Robert Ley , one of

330-649: The early 1950s it has served as the country hostel of the Humboldt Grammar School in Düsseldorf. In 1957, Waldbröl was the third municipality in upper Berg county to be awarded the status of "town". Between 1990 and 2006, Waldbröl was the location of the German Armed Forces Academy for Information and Communication ( Akademie der Bundeswehr für Information und Kommunikation ), which was founded here and like its predecessors

352-506: The first, masterfully executed city map of Cologne and is the basis for the famous copper engraving from 1571, the Cologne city view from 1570 ( Kölner Stadtansicht von 1570 ), which is dedicated to Cologne's Archbishop Salentin of Isenburg . From a bird's eye view, the city map shows not only the streets with 196 location information, but also the individual buildings in three-dimensional form and relatively true to scale (scale 1: 2450) in

374-552: The format 109 × 170 cm. The engraving was published on 31 August 31 1571 - Arnold Mercator's birthday. Arnold Mercator created the first city map of Cologne in 1570, which was based on precise calculations and served as the basis for the city plans created later. He made, albeit less elaborate, city plans of Windeck , Homberg and Trier . He created many maps in the Bergisches Land . The map Grenzen des Bergischen Amtes Windeck und der Herrschaft Homburg ("borders of

396-429: The leading representatives of National Socialism, intended to make Waldbröl the "largest town between Cologne and Kassel ". Amongst other things, the so-called Volkstraktorenwerke (National Tractor Plants), an Adolf Hitler School, and a Strength Through Joy (KdF) hotel were projected. Aside from the uncompleted hotel, none of the projects was ever realised. The population figure was meant to increase up to 300,000. It

418-402: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mühlenbach&oldid=1169205279 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Waldbr%C3%B6l The town is located on the slopes of

440-417: The sphere of influence of the first counts of Berg, as well as of the first counts of Sayn. In the same year, construction began on a new Protestant church, whose steeple survives to the present day. In 1174, Waldbröl came under the governance of Homburg, which was owned by the counts of Sayn. However, the property situation between the counts of Berg and of Sayn remained controversial. The first reference to

462-399: The town: "On a green ground a black oak tree, bearing leaves and acorns, between two small silver shields. At the base of the tree a silver brook flows. The left-hand shield bears an inverted blue ploughshare; the right-hand shield bears a red lion rampant, with blue teeth and claws and a forked tail." Cattle market, village fair, St. Martin's market, Christmas market, historic train rides on

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484-411: Was planned to establish an underground barracks, a theatre, a cinema and a motorway access. Planning continued until autumn 1944 but then got stuck in an early stage due to the course of the war and Ley's waning influence. Only the topographical studies of the garden and landscape designer Wilhelm Heintz, who was already involved in the planning of the "Town Of The Hermann Göring Plants ( Salzgitter )" and

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