Start here video with impressions of the city Bergheim

96.000 residents living at 96 squarekilometers and in 15 districts of Bergheim. So Bergheim is behind Stadt Kerpen the second biggest city of the rural district Rhein-Erft-Kreis.

Bergheim was mentionend in a certification in which the brother of the count platine Ezzo, Herzelin, who gives the lordship of Bergheim to the count platine Ezzo. 

In the 13. century the earls of Jülich have the lordship of Bergheim and allowed them to build a castle including a residental estate. Later the city Bergheim arises from here and was mentioned in 1312 for the first time. A rectangular castle wall and two citygates surrounded Bergheim in the Middle Ages. Caused of the stratetic lodation Bergheim was also station for coins and custom of the earls of Jülich. 

Bergheim was destroyed 1542 by the war between Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and his territorial sovereigns and couldn´t become for a long time the important which it had reached before. Bergheim got the titel "Kreisstadt Bergheim" in 1816, when the Prussians get the power and with the titel the funtion as the superordinated administration city. Since 1993 Bergheim is  the place of residence of  the rural district"Rhein-Erft-Kreis".

You can reach Bergheim by the highway A 61 (Koblenz - Mönchengladbach/Venlo) and is be served by railway to the metropolitans Köln/Bonn and Aachen.  

Here we present you the museums and sightseeings of Bergheim including possibilty of entry if it is opent to the public. 

In our E-Book-Shop you can find more digital papers with information about Bergheim and routes to explore the area of Bergheim for download.These material was madewithout KI - including the photos. So we ask for a protection of maximal EUR 10,00 per Download. 

The video at the beginning of this site is free of any costs and shall give you a first impression of Bergheim.

Updated: 2024-08-16