Abelsnaaf

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Abelsnaaf
City of Overath
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 36 ″  N , 7 ° 22 ′ 35 ″  E
Height : 102 m above sea level NN
Abelsnaaf (Overath)
Abelsnaaf

Location of Abelsnaaf in Overath

Abelsnaaf is a district of Marialinden in the town of Overath in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany .

Location and description

The agricultural district of Abelsnaaf lies between Federath , Schommelsnaaf and the small Siebelsnaaf on the border with the Rhein-Sieg district . It can best be reached from Marialinden via Landesstraße 360, the old Brüderstraße . In Abelsnaaf, the western and eastern source brooks unite to form the largely natural Naafbach , which flows into the Agger . The Naafbach is also fed by many underground springs. Above all, the vast wetlands of the area with its special flora and fauna are under nature conservation and natural area for Maria Linder Riedelland counted.

history

The brook name Naaf , in the 13th century as de Nafe , in 1555 as the Nave , is a river name word of Indo-European origin, the root of which cannot be traced in German . The meaning seems to be neutral flow and is related to the Greek nao (= flow ), Latin nato (= swimme ) , navis (= ship ). The defining word Abels is probably derived from a personal name Abel .

2.60 meter high sandstone cross from 1796

The Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies , Blatt Amt Steinbach , shows that the living space had four farmsteads as early as 1715, which are labeled as Abels Naf . Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking names the court on his charter of the Duchy of Berg in 1789 as Abelsnaf . It shows that the place was part of the Honschaft Oderscheid in the parish of Overath at that time .

The place is recorded on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1825 as Abels-Naaf . The Prussian first recording from 1845 shows the residential area under the name Abbelsnaf . From the Prussian new admission in 1892, the place is regularly recorded as Abelsnaaf on measuring table sheets .

In 1822, 26 people lived in the village, which was categorized as a courtyard and mill , which after the collapse of the Napoleonic administration and its replacement belonged to the Overath mayor's office in the Mülheim am Rhein district and was called Abelsnafen . For the year 1830 30 inhabitants are given for the place called Hof mit Mühle . In 1845, according to the overview of the government district of Cöln, the place named Abelsnaf and categorized as a village had 10 residential buildings with 58 inhabitants at that time, all of them Catholic denominations. The municipality and estate district statistics of the Rhine Province lists Abelsnaaf in 1871 with 15 houses and 62 inhabitants. In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province of 1888, 15 houses with 64 inhabitants are given for Abelsnaaf. In 1895 the place had eleven houses with 68 inhabitants and belonged denominationally to the Catholic parish Marialinden, in 1905 eleven houses and 55 inhabitants are given.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Dittmaier : settlement names and settlement history of the Bergisches Land . In: Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein . tape 74 , parallel edition as a publication by the Institute for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland at the University of Bonn. Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1956.
  2. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius  : Explanations for the Historical Atlas of the Rhine Province ; Second volume: The map of 1789. Division and development of the territories from 1600 to 1794 ; Bonn; 1898
  3. ↑ Alexander A. Mützell: New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . tape 1 . Karl August Künnel, Halle 1821.
  4. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff :  Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
  5. ↑ Overview of the components and list of all the localities and individually named properties of the government district of Cologne: by districts, mayor's offices and parishes, with information on the number of people and the residential buildings, as well as the Confessions, Jurisdictions, Military and former state conditions. / ed. from the Royal Government of Cologne [Cologne], [1845]
  6. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
  7. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1888.
  8. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1895 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1897.
  9. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1909.