Heinsberg

Heinsberg is the eponymous district city of Heinsberg, the westernmost district in Germany, and is placed in the administrative district of Cologne in the state of North Rhine Westphalia. After the Second World War located about one hundred cm beneath the contemporary direction of the elevated street a Roman street, which could be dated based totally on coin finds on 98 to 117 AD. Excavations within the Propsteikirche found graves from the pre-Frankish duration, which provide a clue to the time of the first settlement Heinsbergs. Their middle was in all likelihood to begin with within the area of modern citadel and Kirchberg. This vicinity is one of the most important preserved moth within the Rhineland.

A natural, on the threshold of the Rurtales elevating terrain spur turned into divided by means of two times excavation, specifically in the fort hill and the Kirchberg. The citadel hill have to also had been considerably extended. The lords of Heinsberg constructed their seat at the citadel hill, a Randhausburg. An artificially created ditch separated the fortress from the principle castle, on their territory one erected the parish and later collegiate church of St.Gangolf.