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City of Overath
Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 13 ″  N , 7 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  E
Height : 243 m above sea level NN
Bengelshöhe (Overath)
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Location of Bengelshöhe in Overath
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Bengelshöhe is a district of Vilkerath in the town of Overath in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany .

Location and description

The small, agricultural district of Bengelshöhe lies on the border with the Oberbergischer Kreis between Hohkeppel and Vilkerath. The best way to get there is via Landesstraße 84 (called Hohkeppler Straße here) and Kreutzweg.

history

The Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies , Blatt Amt Steinbach , shows that the residential area had three farmsteads as early as 1715, which are labeled as Bengelshöh . Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking names the court on his charter of the Duchy of Berg in 1789 as Bengelshöhe . From it it emerges that the place was part of the Honschaft Vilkerath in the parish Overath at that time .

The place was on Heidenstrasse , an important medieval old highway from Cologne via Kassel to Leipzig . Today's state road 84 follows the route of the old high path towards Hohkeppel .

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

In 1822, 25 people lived in the place categorized as a court and called Bengelshoh , 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, 29 inhabitants are given for the place called Bengelshof . In 1845, according to the survey of the government district of Cologne , the place categorized as a farm and called Bengelshöhe had seven residential buildings with 32 inhabitants, all of them Catholic denominations.

The list of residents and livestock from 1848 gives the names and occupations of the heads of households: Klein, Johann Wilhelm ( farm worker ): Klein, Wilhelm (day laborer); Schwamborn, Joh. (Ackerer); Spiegel, Heinrich (Ackerer); Oberbusch, Wilhelm (day laborer); Wiertz, Gerhard (Ackerer); Becker, Wilhelm (Ackerer); Clipper. Bertram (shoemaker); and Lang, Heinrich (day laborer) .

The municipal and Gutbezirksstatistik the Rhine Province leads Bengel height 1871 with ten houses and 47 residents. In the municipality lexicon for the province of Rhineland from 1888, six houses with 32 inhabitants are given for Bengelshöhe . In 1895 the place has six houses with 35 inhabitants and belonged denominationally to the Catholic parish of Hohkeppel, in 1905 five houses and 26 inhabitants are given.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations for the Historical Atlas of the Rhine Province. Second volume: The map from 1789. Division and development of the territories from 1600 to 1794. Bonn 1898.
  2. ^ Herbert Nicke : The Heidenstrasse. History and landscape along the historic highway from Cologne to Kassel . In: Land and history between Berg, Wildenburg and South Westphalia . tape 6 . Galunder, Wiehl 2001, ISBN 3-931251-74-8 , pp. 38 f .
  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. ↑ Berthold Gladbach, Peter Lückerath: The Overather population in name, tax and residents lists from the 15th to the 20th century. , P. 332. Ed. Bergischer Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg, Bergisch Gladbach 2016. ISBN 978-3-932326-75-2
  7. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ 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