Bockenberg

Bockenberg City of Bergisch Gladbach Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 41 ″ N , 7 ° 10 ′ 45 ″ E
Height :	199 m above sea level NN
Area :	1.24 km²
Residents :	3030 (December 31, 2017)
Population density :	2,444 inhabitants / km²
Postal code :	51429
Area code :	02204
Location of Bockenberg in Bergisch Gladbach
	Thomas More Academy in the Cardinal Schulte House

Postcard (lithograph) of the Bockenberg restaurant with the tower of the Emilienhöhe

postmark dated September 4, 1909

Bockenberg is a district of Bergisch Gladbach and with the number 53 belongs to the statistics district 5 of the city.

history

The restaurant Haus Bockenberg , which was of great importance as an excursion restaurant around 1900, is well known. There is also a bus stop called Am Bockenberg on Overather Straße below today's technology park . Otherwise, no street name reminds of the Bockenberg . The Vinzenz-Pallotti-Hospital stands at its highest point. From there it drops to the south and west to the Rhine valley. Halfway up, the Archdiocese of Cologne under Cardinal Schulte built the seminary at the beginning of the 1920s , today Cardinal-Schulte-Haus .

Halfway on the footpath from the Vinzenz-Pallotti-Hospital to Bensberg is the so-called Emilienhöhe , named after the founder Emilie Schmitz , who also donated the Emilienbrunnen . The former observation tower was damaged and removed in the 1940s.

Bockenberg settlement

The high-rise buildings in Giselbertstrasse and Reginharstrasse were built between 1970 and 1974. The settlement has received the nickname "Little Manhattan" , but the official name is Wohnpark Bensberg. If you have a clear view to the east from Cologne, they outshine the panoramic view of the city of Bergisch Gladbach. About 1500 people live here.

Mining

From 1854 mining was carried out on the Bockenberg in the Liebig mine field (since 1858 consolidated with the Julien mine ), which came to a standstill again in 1882. Lead and zinc ores were mined there. Around 1950, halfway between Overather Strasse and the Vinzenz-Pallotti-Hospital, a winding tower was built and a 110-meter-deep test shaft was sunk because the non-ferrous metal prices reached maximum prices due to the Korean War .

population

According to the EDP population register, Bockenberg had a total of 3,029 residents on June 30, 2017 (including 735 foreigners). The age group over 65 years with 641 inhabitants (including 54 foreigners) was stronger than the age group under 18 years with 564 inhabitants (including 148 foreigners).

literature

Bensberg Beautification Association (ed.): Guide for Bensberg and the surrounding area , self-published n.d. (around 1900)
Kurt Kluxen : History of Bensberg , Paderborn 1976

Individual evidence

^ City of Bergisch Gladbach, The Mayor, Statistics Service (ed.): Selected population structure data . December 31, 2017, p. 7 ( population data including households [PDF; 82 kB ; retrieved on November 17, 2018] A compact overview (as of December 31, 2017) contains the current population structure data according to individual districts (formerly: residential places)).

^ Andree Schulte Bergisch Gladbach, Stadtgeschichte in Straßenennamen , Bergisch Gladbach 2015, p. 427ff., ISBN 978-3-9813488-4-2 .

↑ wohnparkbensberg.de ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 17, 2015. @1@ 2