Birch soaps

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Birkenseifen is a desert in the area of ​​the local community Windhagen in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Neuwied .

The living space was in the south-east of the district of Windhagen near the border with what was then the municipality of Elsaffhal (now the municipality of Neustadt (Wied) ). The closest localities were to the northwest and above Birken (municipality of Windhagen) and to the southeast and below Dinkelbach (municipality of Elsnahmhal).

Documented in appearance which came homestead in 1660 under the name Birkerstraße soaps in an inventory in the Electoral Cologne office Altenwied than a house here was counted. The name describes the location of the farm in or on a sieve (“soap”) overgrown with birch trees. In 1787, 1805 and 1829 it was inhabited by one family each, according to baptismal registers . In the census in 1843, Birkenseifen recorded three residents and included two residential buildings and a farm building. The baptismal registers of the following years show that the homestead was inhabited by several families. In 1885 Birkenseifen had six residents in a residential building, in 1905 it was temporarily uninhabited, but was used for agriculture.

In the course of the construction of the former Reichsautobahn between Cologne and Frankfurt am Main (today Bundesautobahn 3 ), which runs through the Windhagen municipality, the Birkenseifen homestead was demolished in 1937 and turned into a desert.

literature

  • Anton Stockhausen: Lost settlements and farms. In: Windhagen - Ein Heimatbuch , Economica Verlag, Bonn 1994, p. 62.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ August Welker: Inventory in the Altenwied office in 1660 , in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Landkreis Neuwied, 1977, pp. 101-103.
  2. ^ Paul Vogt: The place names in Engersgau. In: Scientific contributions to the XIII. Annual reports , Neuwied 1890, p. 15
  3. ↑ Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Coblenz , Coblenz: Hölscher, 1843, page 66
  4. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia , Volume XII Provinz Rheinland, Verlag des Königlich Statistischen Bureaus (Ed.), 1888, Pages 44 and 45