Bedburg

Bedburg is a city in the Rhineland in North Rhine Westphalia with approximately 25,000 population. It belongs to the Rhein Erft Kreis within the district of Cologne. Since 2011 she has the status of a middle circle town. The region Bedburg become first referred to in 893 because the Betbure in the Urbar of the abbey Prum and for the primary time in 1295 as a city oppidum. In the 12th century, the Counts of Saffenberg had owned Bedburg; they were inherited in 1175, after their extinction, via the Earls of Sayn.

In the Middle Ages Bedburg and the adjacent nowadays to Bedburg belonging Kaster scene of the armed conflicts among the archbishops of Cologne and the Counts later Dukes of Julich for the electricity question in the Erftraum. Due to the defeat of Kurkoln in the Battle of Worringen changed the feudal powers continuously. From 1384 Bedburg became part of the subordination within the kurkolnischen workplace Hulchrath. The town participated within the records of Kurkoln till the time of the French in 1794.