Oberdollendorf is a

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, a city in the

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district, in

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. The vineyards which dominate the town are part of the Mittelrhein wine region.

Geography

The town is situated between Niederdollendorf on the right bank of the

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and the

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mountain range. It borders Königswinter proper in the south and the

Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr r ...

districts of Oberkassel in the north. It includes the borough .

History

Dollendorf ("Dullendorf") was first referred to in a 966 document by

Emperor Otto I Otto I (23 November 912 – 7 May 973), traditionally known as Otto the Great (german: Otto der Große, it, Ottone il Grande), was East Frankish king from 936 and Holy Roman Emperor from 962 until his death in 973. He was the oldest son of He ...

, and an 1144 deed first made the distinction between Oberdollendorf and Niederdollendorf. From the 15th century onwards Oberdollendorf was part of the

Duchy of Berg Berg was a state—originally a county, later a duchy—in the Rhineland of Germany. Its capital was Düsseldorf. It existed as a distinct political entity from the early 12th to the 19th centuries. The name of the county lives on in the modern ...

in its administrative unit of Löwenburg. In 1597 Oberdollendorf was part of the "

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Concord" ("Linzer Eintracht"), a mutual defence treaty between cities along the Rhine.Die Linzer Eintracht
at "Kreis der Heimatfreunde Niederdollendorf" The parishes of Niederdollendorf, Oberdollendorf and Oberkassel together formed the court system of Dollendorf. The parish Oberdollendorf was up to the dissolution of the Duchy of Berg in 1806 administered through a "Markgedinge", to which the seven commons ("freihofe") of the village seconded jurors: the Grevenhof of

Heisterbach Abbey Heisterbach Abbey (Kloster Heisterbach; also Petersthal, formerly Petersberg) was a Cistercian monastery in the ''Siebengebirge'' near Oberdollendorf in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Petersberg The tradition of its origin is that a knight name ...

, the Mertenhof of the Merten Priory, the estates of the lords of Drachenfels, the Rennenbergerhof of the lords of Rennenberg, the Edelkirchenerhof of the lords of Edelkirchen in Römlinghoven and the "Klamerspol" of the Junkers zu Kalmit. The parish had following officers: a mayor, a parish administrator ("Kirchmeister"), a sacristan (who doubled as a schoolmaster) and a gendarm ("

Schütze ''Schütze'' in German means "rifleman" or "shooter", or in older terms originally connoted "archer" before the advent of the rifle. It also occasionally occurs as a surname, or as Schütz, as in the opera ''Der Freischütz''. The word itself is ...

"). They were appointed by the "Markgedinge" and -with the exception of the sacristan- regularly (sometimes annually) replaced. From 1816 to 1969 the municipality of Oberdollendorf was part of the mayoralty of Oberkassel, within Prussia's Rhine Province. From 1949 to 1955 the town formed part of the "Enklave Bonn", a special administrative area set up around the provisional seat of government of the Federal Republic of Germany under the command of the

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. As part of the municipal reorganization of Bonn in 1969 the town was assigned to the city of Königswinter.Martin Bünermann: "Die Gemeinden des ersten Neugliederungsprogramms in Nordrhein-Westfalen". Deutscher Gemeindeverlag. 1970

Demography

Population data (including its borough Römlinghoven) * 1815: 966 * 1816: 991 * 1825: 1,214 * 1871: 1,386 * 1885: 1,395 * 1905: 2,067 * 1925: 2,504 * 1933: 2,571 * 1939: 2,471 * 1946: 3,199 * 1967: 4,790 * 2012: 5,362 excluding second residences
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Economy

Until well into the 19th century the economic activity in Oberdollendorf was dominated by wine production. In 1878, 51.06 hectares were under cultivation, which dropped to 23 hectares in 1906 and 5.5 hectares in 1924. Following the

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job creation programs encouraged re-cultivation and the area again rose to 23 hectares in 1934. By 1939 Oberdollendorf counted 89 wineries, although most of them were only operated as a sideline to another business. Today there is only one winery left. The vineyards on the western slope of the "Dollendorfer Hardt" are classified as part of the Mittelrhein wine growing region, Siebengebirge wine district ("Bereich"), Petersberg site ("Großlage") and from north to south include the vineyards of Rosenhügel, Laurentiusberg and Sülzenberg.

Main sights

* The Catholic Church of Saint Laurentius. * The "Brückenhofmuseum", a small museum with a permanent collection on local history and temporary exhibitions covering regional themes and art. * A statue of

Caesarius of Heisterbach Caesarius of Heisterbach (ca. 1180 – ca. 1240), sometimes erroneously called, in English, Caesar of Heisterbach, was the prior of a Cistercian monastery, Heisterbach Abbey, which was located in the Siebengebirge, near the small town of Oberdolle ...

by the artist Ernemann Sander. * "Gut Sülz", a listed building at the foot of the Sülzenberg vineyards. A working winery until 1967, it now houses a restaurant * A 2 kilometre wine trail through the vines has information panels on wine and viticulture. * the ruins of

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