Bennert (Leichlingen)

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Bennert
Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 9 ″  N , 7 ° 1 ′ 53 ″  E
Height : 140 m above sea level NN
Postal code : 42799
Bennert (Leichlingen (Rhineland))
Bennert

Location of Bennert in Leichlingen (Rhineland)

Bennert is a village that emerged from a court in the city of Leichlingen (Rhineland) in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis .

Location and description

Bennert is located northeast of the Leichlinger center on the Leichlinger plateau at Landesstraße 359. Today, the place forms a closed settlement area with the immediately neighboring Oberschmitte , Ellenbogen and Diepenbroich . North of Bennert or Oberschmitte the plateau slopes down to the Lower Wuppertal , there is also the Siefental nature reserve north of Oberschmitte . The municipal community elementary school Bennert is located between Bennert and Oberschmitte.

Other neighboring towns are Leysiefen , Haus Nesselrath , Altenhof , Scheidt , Hohlenweg , Dierath , Hülstrung , Kuhle , Buntenbach , Weide , Waltenrath , Bergerhof and Bertenrath . Wüst has fallen Büchel house .

history

Bennert was first mentioned in a document in 1597 as auff dem Benrodt . The place name is a typical clearing name . The map Topographia Ducatus Montani from 1715 shows the farm under the name Bennert . In the 18th century, the place belonged to the parish of Leichlingen in the Bergisches Amt Miselohe . The topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 and the Prussian first survey from 1844 record the place as Bennerth and Bennert, respectively .

In 1815/16 there were 25 people living in the village. In 1832 Bennert belonged to the mayor's office in Leichlingen . The place, which was categorized as a court town according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , had seven residential buildings and seven agricultural buildings at that time. At that time 44 people lived in the place, four of them Catholic and 40 Protestant faith.

In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province in 1885, eight houses with 45 inhabitants are given. In 1895 the place had seven houses with 39 inhabitants, in 1905 nine houses and 47 inhabitants.

In 1905 a water tower was built in Bennert am Ellenbogen with a capacity of 60,000 liters. The water came with a natural gradient from the sources of the Emdensiefen (one of the Schmerbach springs ). In July 1968 it was " decrepit and no longer quite steadfast ".

school

There is evidence of school lessons in Heckschulen ( angle schools ) at the end of the 17th century and the beginning of the 18th century . In the baptism, marriage and death registers there are references, e.g. B. at the baptism of Johann [es] Bennert on May 25, 1706, the godfather Johannes from the Öge, schoolmaster in Hülstrung is called.

In 1749, a petition, signed by 50 people from Bennert and the surrounding area, went to the Opladen office with the request not to " ... cut off (dissolve) our stern clod with it , but rather to transport it cheaply (safely) , as we have an ancient tradition of sixty years that was a strong stern floe in this district ... Leichlingen Feb. 4, 1749 ".

1753 " Peter Steffens and Herm. Hermanns are warned with a fine of 25 guilders that they should no longer employ a schoolmaster. ... Opladen August 27, 1753, Joh. Joseph v. Märken, court clerk ".

In 1785 the first Bennerter school building existed and regular classes began. A new school building was inaugurated at the same location on June 11, 1952; the municipal community primary school was here in 2017.

societies

Men's choir "Liederkranz Leichlingen-Bennert eV 1850"

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Dittmaier : settlement names and settlement history of the Bergisches Land , Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1956 ( journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein , vol. 74 / parallel edition as a publication of the Institute for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland at the University of Bonn )
  2. ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ Heinrich Stiefken (city manager in Leichlingen 1953 to 29 June 1971): Leichlingen in transition from village to town .
  7. ↑ Joachim Köhler, Klaus Peter Tepper: Family book of the evangelical families Leichlingen 1656-1809 . Ed .: Leichlinger Geschichtsstammtisch, Bergischer Geschichtsverein Abt. Leverkusen-Niederwupper eV 2nd edition. 2016 ( geschichtsstammtisch-leichlingen.de [PDF]).
  8. ↑ a b Fritz Hinrichs: History of the Leichlingen-Bennert School .