Wegberg

Wegberg is the northernmost town within the district of Heinsberg in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Wegberg is situated between Monchengladbach inside the northeast and Erkelenz inside the southeast; the city of Rheindahlen is to the east. The town lies inside the Naturpark Maas-Schwalm-Nette, a nature and flora and fauna park hugging the border to the Netherlands. Its call derives from the three rivers that outline its barriers. The first point out of Wegberg under the name of Berck is in a report courting from during the reign of Otto I, dated 966. Its current-day name appeared across the 14th century, and derives from the metropolis's place on an old Roman street.

The many castles and protection structures that dot the region in entire or as ruins are warning signs of a records of martial in addition to raiding forays in and round Wegberg. One notorious stronghold that stays the focus of many anecdotes is the fortress of a robber baron placed in close by Gripekoven. The castle with its partitions and swampy trenches was deemed impregnable until 1354, when it turned into efficiently besieged and razed. Today, simplest a small hill recommendations at its former area.