Birschels

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Birschels
City of Haan
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 '5 "  N , 7 ° 1' 43"  E
Height : approx. 140 m
Birschels (Haan)
Birschels

Location of Birschels in Haan

The location of Birschels belongs to the North Rhine-Westphalian town of Haan in the Mettmann district , it goes back to an old court . Birschels is part of the Gruiten district .

location

The Hofschaft, also called Gut Birschels, is located in the east of Haans near the municipal boundary to Wuppertal on Vohwinkeler Straße , which is classified as Landesstraße 423. To the west, the Kleine Düssel flows past the Birschels. In the north is pit 10 , in which limestone was formerly extracted.

Neighboring locations were: (in the municipality of Wuppertals) Osterholz , Alt-Derken , Schrotzberg and Wüst fallen Steeg . In Haan are neighboring: Aue , Lohoff , Tückmantel and, in the meantime, Klevenhof , Mühlenfeld , Isenberg and Vogelsang .

etymology

The origin of the name comes from 'birsen', 'birschen', 'Birssel' or 'Byrzel'. 'Birsen' means a process in which game is brought up with sniffer dogs. This was abundant here on the edge of the Osterholz forest area .

history

The court is mentioned for the first time in 1430 in an interest list by Corvey , but it cannot be ruled out that it is even older. Other variants of the name were: 'Birsels'.

Remains of a defensive tower ( peasant tower ) are said to have been preserved in the basement of the farm building.

On the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824, the place is recorded under the name variant 'Burschels', on the Prussian first survey from 1843 with the name 'Birschels'.

At the end of the 19th century, Birchels belonged to the independent municipality of Obgruiten .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gut Birschels on http://www.historisches-dorf-gruiten.de (historical educational trail), accessed April 2011
  2. ^ Gut Birschels , accessed April 2011
  3. ↑ a b Municipality of Obgruiten on www.zeitspurensuche.de, accessed April 2011
  4. ^ Gut Birschels on historisches-dorf-gruiten.de, accessed April 2011

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