Büddelhagen

Büddelhagen City of Wiehl Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 0 ″  N , 7 ° 25 ′ 52 ″  E
Height :	320 m above sea level NN
Residents :	27  (Dec. 31, 2013)
Postal code :	51674
Area code :	02262
Location of Büddelhagen in Wiehl

Büddelhagen ( hommersch Bü'eln / Bö'eln) is a village in the town of Wiehl in the Oberbergisches Kreis in the administrative district of Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Location and description

The place is about 7 km west of the city center of Wiehl, as the crow flies, near Drabenderhöhe on the border with the municipality of Engelskirchen. Büddelhagen is located south of the federal highway 4 .

history

The hamlet "Büddelhagen" was created during the clearing period, which probably began with the beginning of the High Middle Ages. The place name is characterized by the combination of a pair of names with the basic word "Hagen", which stands for a fenced-in dwelling, and the old Franconian personal name of "Bodilo". Büddelhagen means Bodilo's enclosed place of residence.

In 1413 the place was mentioned for the first time in a document from Sankt Severin zu Cologne for the Fronhof Lindlar as "Bodelhaen". At that time Büddelhagen still belonged to the parish of Lindlar. On the map by A. Mercator from 1575 the place is marked as "Beulhain". In the church registers of Engelskirchen, Much and Drabenderhöhe it is 1651 “Budelhain”, 1653 “Buettel” and 1675 “Budelhag”. "Buttelhayn" is noted on the Wiebeking map from 1789. The different ways of writing lead back to the dialect name "Bü'eln", which was often mixed with the common written language. As in the parish Drabenderhöhe, the Homburg dialect is used in Büddelhagen . The “d” in the Büddel part of the word is omitted and the vowel ü is diphthongized to a “ü'e”. In the part of the word “hagen”, the “g” is omitted and is drawn together to “haan”. However, the "h" is not pronounced and only shortened to an "n", so that "Bü'eln" arises.

The first mention from 1280 as "Buddenhain", mentioned in earlier publications, has meanwhile been refuted. It concerned the tax list of the department Sankt Michael in Siegburg for the parish Overath . But Büddelhagen did not belong to the Overath parish. It is the hamlet of Boddert near Untereschbach.

In 1554 Engelskirchen became independent from the Lindlar mother parish. Büddelhagen was officially assigned to this parish. But the residents switched to the Lutheran religion at this time and, due to the proximity of the chapel, joined Drabenderhöhe. The Chapel at Drabenderhöhe was claimed equally by the Dukes of Berg and the Counts of Sayn-Wittgenstein, while the actual place Drabenderhöhe belonged to the Homburg rule. Büddelhagen, however, was in the Duchy of Berg and thus, like the parish of Engelskirchen, in the Steinbach district. With the agreement in the Siegburg settlement in 1604, which regulated the border between Homburg and Berg, Büddelhagen remained in the Duchy of Berg, despite its Protestant residents. However, these still adhered to the now independent Reformed parish of Drabenderhöhe.

In 1675 a person was first recorded by the Drabenderhöher pastor Johannes Haas. 3 households with 17 people were recorded:

• Bestgen Kauert, with Agnes and her children Albert, Henrich, Annagirdraut, Pitter and Catrina
• Peter Voss (Romanist, so he was Catholic), with Agnes and their children Bestg, Dirich, Kristg and Elsgen
• Dirich Klein, with Gretg and their children Johannis and Eiaß

The later mine director Peter Kauert is also mentioned in this list. He was the son of Bergvogt Sebastian Kauert and began mining iron ore in Oberkaltenbach with a large investment of money. It was only after 1719 that he had success and, after enfeoffing the mountain court, he delimited his pit with 15 piles. The pit was called "des Peter Kauert 15 Löwenpfähl". He built an iron smelter next to the mine field. Peter Kauert supplied hammers to Agger, Leppe, Wiehl, as well as hammer mills in the county of Mark. He became the region's first industrial pioneer. Later he went to court against the Count of Nesselrode zu Ehreshoven, also owner of iron ore mines and Reichsmarschall of the Duchy of Berg. Despite the legal costs, he left his heirs a sum of 80,000 Reichsthalers after his death in 1750. It was not until 1871 that the Kauert family sold the mine in Oberkaltenbach to the Friedrich Krupp company in Essen, which then shut it down in 1911. The name Kauert can be traced back the furthest among the local families. Peter Kauert's ancestor and great-grandfather is Bergvogt Christian Kauert, who was already noted in a tax list from Verr in 1616. He was probably born around 1590. His son Dietrich Kauert also played an important role. You can find him as heir in files from 1649 and in 1664 he carried out the division of the Braunswerth estate as a land surveyor. The field name entry “Die Kauwarts Bruchten” goes back even further in Brächen on the Mercator map from 1575. This field name still exists today as “Auf den Kauerts Bröchen” in the Hipperich forest area.

In 1806 the French took over the Duchy of Berg and built a civil administration in 1808. The historical borders were not changed and Büddelhagen remained with the municipality of Engelskirchen, district of Wipperfürth. In 1815 the Kingdom of Prussia took over the administration and began to record cadastral maps in 1828, where "Büdelhagen" and later "Büddelhagen" appear as the place name for the first time.

Büddelhagen, however, always remained a very small hamlet. The population figures in the 19th century prove this:

• 1817 44 inhabitants
• 1828 58 inhabitants
• 1843 66 inhabitants (64 Protestants, 2 Catholics)
• 1861 70 inhabitants (70 Evangelicals)
• 1885 61 inhabitants
• 1900 58 inhabitants

The people lived mainly from agriculture, not infrequently the men were also employed in the surrounding mines, such as the Silberkaule and the Bliesenbach mine in the Loopetal. Craft professions such as carpenter or bricklayer were also practiced.

The population found the political borderline of the place stressful. Therefore, the residents of Büddelhagen supported, together with those of Verr , Brächen and Anfang (all municipality of Engelskirchen), an application from Scheidt , Pfaffenscheid and Obermiebach (municipality of Much, Siegkreis) for incorporation into the mayor's office of Drabenderhöhe , district of Gummersbach. The mayor of the Catholic parish of Engelskirchen, however, did not support this project at all and exerted very strong pressure on the Protestant residents of these places, so that they withdrew the application in 1926. In 1932, only the beginning, together with Scheidt and Pfaffenscheid, was united with Drabenderhöhe. The historical communal allocation was retained for all other locations. Hermann Lutter, the mayor of the municipality of Drabenderhöhe, tried in 1933 to reconcile the places that remained near Engelskirchen and Much. But the National Socialist regime had no interest in further changes to the municipal boundaries.

With the municipal territorial reform in 1975, Büddelhagen was incorporated into the municipality of Wiehl, Oberbergischer Kreis, together with the villages of Verr and Brächen as well as the Löher Hof near Drabenderhöhe that was created after the Second World War . Up until this point in time, the places belonged to the Rheinisch-Bergischen district. However, the western parts of the Büddelhagen and Velten corridors and the Steimelsknippen, Hipperich, Kiefhau and Landerscheid corridors remained near Engelskirchen.

particularities

Wooded area: Kaltenbach Forest, owned by the Oberbergisches Kreis.

leisure

Hiking and biking trails

• The local circular hiking trail A7 (starting point Drabenderhöhe ) runs through the village.

Personalities

• Peter Kauert, mine operator (* around 1675, † March 1750) (Oberbergian early pioneer in mining)

literature

• E. Rosenkranz: Origin of old person and place names. In: Oberbergisches Heimatbuch. 5th edition of the Heimatbuch for the former district of Gummersbach and 5th edition of the local history of the former district of Waldbröl. Luyken, Gummersbach 1936.