Altenbrück

This article covers a district of Overath. For the district of Osterholz-Scharmbeck see Altenbrück (Osterholz-Scharmbeck) .

Altenbrück City of Overath Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 43 ″  N , 7 ° 13 ′ 17 ″  E
Location of Altenbrück in Overath
Old customs house . Documented in an old chronicle in 1675, burned down in autumn 2019.

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

Location and description

The district of Altenbrück is located between the Bundesautobahn 4 near the Untereschbach junction in the north, Olper Straße ( Bundesstraße 55 ) in the south, Bahnhofstraße (Landesstraße 284) in the west and Holzbachstraße (Kreisstraße 38) in the east. A short section of the Sülz flows through it.

history

The name Altenbrück (= old bridge ) refers to a river crossing of the Sülz in the village. The Brüderstraße , an important medieval old highway from Flanders via Cologne and Siegerland to Leipzig , led over the bridge . In 1486 a (bridge) toll is mentioned for the first time, in 1586 a stone bridge over the Sülz is mentioned. A so-called old customs house is documented in 1675.

In the Middle Ages Altenbrück was the titular place of the Honschaft Altenbrück in the parish of Bensberg . The Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies , Blatt Amt Steinbach , proves that the residential area had two farmsteads as early as 1715, which are labeled as Altenbrüg . Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking names the court on his charter of the Duchy of Berg in 1789 as Altebrück . It shows that at that time the place was part of the Löderich family in the parish of Overath.

The place is recorded on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1817 as Altenbrück . The Prussian first recording from 1845 shows the residential area also under the name Altenbrück . From the Prussian new admission of 1892, the place is regularly recorded as Altenbrück on measuring table sheets .

In 1822, 30 people lived in the place categorized as Hof und Mühle and designated (Alten-) Bruck , which after the collapse of the Napoleonic administration and its replacement belonged to the Overath mayor in the Mülheim am Rhein district . For the year 1830 30 inhabitants are given for the place called Altenbruck . According to the overview of the government district of Cöln in 1845 , the place categorized as Hof und Mühle and called Altenbrück had five residential buildings with 37 inhabitants at that time, all of them Catholic denominations.

The list of inhabitants and livestock from 1848 has 35 inhabitants in Altenbrück and names and occupations of the heads of households. Thus wealthiest was a Wilhelmstein Kruger, who as Ackerer , Wirth and operator of an herb press was recorded. His business consisted of 11 servants , (nameless) and 3 horses, 12 cows and 2 pigs . Other farm workers: Peter Eschbach ( 2 horses, 6 cows, 2 calves, 4 pigs ); Heinrich Hahn ( 1 cow ) and Gerhard Weber ( farmer and blacksmith, 1 cow ). Also registered as residents in Altenbrück: Christian Faßbender ( mountain climber ), Peter Schmitt day laborer and a second Peter Schmitt with the notes Wittib and arm .

The municipality and estate district statistics of the Rhine province lists Altenbrück in 1871 with six houses and 55 inhabitants. In the municipality lexicon for the province of Rhineland from 1888, nine houses with 74 inhabitants are given for Altenbrück . In 1895 the place had nine houses with 61 inhabitants. In 1905 ten houses and 90 inhabitants are given.

Individual evidence

1. ^ FW Overath: Fire in the commercial building - Old Customs House.Retrieved on October 10, 2019
2. ^ Herbert Nicke : The Brothers Street. From the history of the old country road from Cologne to Siegen . In: Land and history between Berg, Wildenburg and South Westphalia . tape 4 . Galunder, Wiehl 2001, p. 70 ff .
3. ↑ Vincenz Jacob von Zuccalmaglio: History and description of the city and the district of Mülheim aR . tape 2 . Feilner, 1846.
4. ^ 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
5. ↑ Alexander A. Mützell: New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . tape 1 . Karl August Künnel, Halle 1821.
6. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff :  Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
7. ↑ 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]
8. ^ Berthold Gladbach, Peter Lückerath: The Overather population in lists of names, taxes and residents from the 15th to the 20th century, p. 182. Ed .: Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg, Bergisch Gladbach 2016. ISBN 978-3-932326-75 -2 , p. 324
9. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
10. ↑ 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.
11. ↑ 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.
12. ↑ Royal Statistical 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