Bourauel

This article deals with the community in North Rhine-Westphalia. For the German science fiction author Peter Bourauel, see Phillip P. Peterson .

Bourauel Eitorf municipality Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 45 "  N , 7 ° 25 ′ 35"  E
Height :	approx. 84 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	250  (2014)
Postal code :	53783
Area code :	02243
Location of Bourauel in North Rhine-Westphalia
View from the Küpp to Bourauel

Bourauel is a former chapel village with Bergisch half-timbered houses belonging to the municipality of Eitorf in North Rhine-Westphalia . It lies between the Nutscheid and the victory .

The village was part of the municipality of Merten until January 1, 1935 .

history

Village cross on a half-timbered house

The village was first mentioned in a document in 1261. Bourauel belonged to the Irlenbach honors . In the past, Bourauel Zentralort on the north bank was the victory for the hamlets

• Buchhof or Bog , first mentioned in 1656, a submerged Halfenhof of the Lords von Scheidt called Weschpfennig an der Sieg behind Lützgenauel
• Lützgenauel , first mentioned in 1645 and still independent
• Menghof, first mentioned in 1585, located between Bourauel and Lützgenauel and also sunk
• Brasshof, located in eastern Bourauel
• Hombacher Mühle, located on the Schmelzbach (Sieg) , went under
• Hombach , first mentioned in a document in 927, today also part of the village of Eitorf.

In addition, weierhof and Bonnhof were added, which were retained as land names.

Lies above Bourauel in the Nutscheid

• Thielenbach , first mentioned in 1436 and the center of its own honor, but also perished
• Uhlersharth , first mentioned in 1656 and sunk after 1843
• Forsthaus Storch, perished

and possibly a Brölerhof near the Römerstraße , point to the field names.

The tree farm, which is still above the source of the Mengbach, did not exist in the Middle Ages.

Today only one street name reminds of the formerly independent place Bourauel.

Residents

In 1821 the place had 137 residents.

In 1845 Bourauel had 185 inhabitants.

Viticulture

According corridor designations there used to be a wine growing : In the vineyard , Bottom vineyard , the top of the Proffgarten and in the old vineyard .

Club life

There is its own carnival club , a Veedelszoch and a chapel club.

literature

• Gabriel Busch: Merten (victory) . Publishing house Reckingen & Co., Siegburg 1978.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Municipality of Eitorf, accessed on February 22, 2014 ( Memento of the original from November 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District of Siegkreis. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
3. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia . Volume XII. Rhineland Province. Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau, Berlin 1888, p. 117 ( online [PDF; 1.5 MB ; accessed on December 17, 2015]).
4. ^ Dictionary of the Prussian State
5. ↑ Overview of the components and list of all localities ..., Reg.-Bez. Cologne, 1845