Birkerhof (Bergisch Gladbach)

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Birkerhof seen from the west

Birkerhof is a district of Bergisch Gladbach in the Moitzfeld district . The word Birker is etymologically explained from the Old High German birihha and the Middle High German birke or birche based on the Germanic tree name berko for birch.

history

The oldest reference to the farm with the name Birken is related to the Lehnhof Sulsen in Immekeppel . The Immekeppel court association was transferred in 1166 by Countess Hildegund von Meer to the Meer monastery in Büderich , which she founded , in order to support it economically. The Kloster Meer sold the Lehnhof Immekeppel together with the associated Birkerhof on February 21, 1726 to the Steinfeld Abbey in the Eifel . The property was given in 1759 as 150 acres , of which 80 acres of coppice forest, 60 acres of arable land, 6 acres of meadows and 4 acres of gardens. After secularization in the areas on the right bank of the Rhine in 1803 , the ecclesiastical property was expropriated and the official abolition of feudalism was ordered by an imperial-Napoleonic decree of January 11, 1809. The Birkerhof then changed hands several times.

In the 1870s the property was separated into two separate farmsteads. After a temporary use by the neighboring Winfriedheim, the old farm was acquired by the municipality of Bensberg in 1935 and leased to a farmer. The city of Bergisch Gladbach became the new owner in 1975. Since then there has been an allotment garden .

The high medieval settlement of Birken is one of the early settlement centers in the Bergisch Gladbach urban area and is older than the neighboring main town of Moitzfeld.

literature

  • Herbert Stahl : Moitzfeld. Through life, through the year "om Platz" , Bergischer Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg e. V., Volume 56, Bergisch Gladbach 2009, ISBN 3-932326-56-3 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Andree Schulte: Bergisch Gladbach city history in street names , published by the Bergisch Gladbach city archive, volume 3, and by the Bergisches Geschichtsverein department Rhein-Berg e. V., Volume 11, Bergisch Gladbach 1995, p. 352, ISBN 3-9804448-0-5
  2. ↑ Kleingartenverein Birkerhof eV accessed on July 6, 2014

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Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 19.9 ″  N , 7 ° 11 ′ 45.7 ″  E