Morsbach

Morsbach
Coat of arms
Morsbach
Location of Morsbach within Oberbergischer Kreis district
Coordinates: 50°52′N 7°43′E / 50.867°N 7.717°E / 50.867; 7.717Coordinates: 50°52′N 7°43′E / 50.867°N 7.717°E / 50.867; 7.717
Country	Germany
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Admin. region	Köln
District	Oberbergischer Kreis
Government
• Mayor	Jörg Bukowski (Ind.)
Area
• Total	55.96 km2 (21.61 sq mi)
Elevation	206 m (676 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
• Total	10,402
• Density	190/km2 (480/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	51597
Dialling codes	02294
Vehicle registration	GM
Website	www.morsbach.de

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

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 .

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.

(Around 895 in the early-medieval directory of the Besitztümer of the canon's pen Saint Cassius and Florentius in Bonn Morsbach is mentioned for the first time documentary. Also a little later in the relations of that time displaying immovable directory of the diocese Cologne (Liber valoris). Morsbach is with it the eldest documentary mentioned place in the Oberbergischer Kreis.

1131 pope Innozenz II. confirms on 31.3 to the Bonn Cassiusstift the possession in the Morsbacher church and a part of the routine tenth (ecclesiam Moresbach cum parte decimae).

1174 the counts of mountain on castle in the Wupper received from earl Heinrich Raspe of Thuringia castle Windeck as a fief.

1276 from the saynischen department Nümbrecht, consisting of the parishes Nümbrecht, Waldbröl and Morsbach, becomes the independent rule detached by the main possession Homburg with the own constitution and management.

1311 the counts of Sayn-Homburg recognize the court legal in the parish Morsbach, the fishing right and the tenth of the copper mine Böcklingen as a possession of the counts of mountain.