Bridge (Leichlingen)

bridge City of Leichlingen (Rhineland) Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 19 ″  N , 7 ° 0 ′ 47 ″  E
Height :	63 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	42799
Location of Brücke in Leichlingen (Rhineland)
View from the bridge around 1763 (right side of the picture), in the foreground the Protestant church with the old tower before 1877

Brücke is a locality in the town of Leichlingen (Rhineland) in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis . Today the location is no longer perceptible as an independent residential area , but part of the inner city center of Leichlingen.

Location and description

The bridge is located on the Wupper on the orographic right bank of the river in the core town of Leichlingen in the area of ​​today's Brückenstraße , which also ran through the town in historical times. Neighboring places that have mostly also merged into the core town are Staderhof , Pastorat , Windgesheide , Scheeresberg , Kaltenberg , Brückerfeld , Bremsen , Untermitte , Bockstiege and Bahnhof . On the other side of Wuppers are the residential areas Am Hammer , Eicherhof Castle , Büscherhof and the historic Leichlingen town center with the Protestant church with the village of Leichlingen and the Breuhaus residential area .

history

Today's Marly-le-Roi bridge, in the background the Protestant church

The name Brücke for the settlement comes from the Leichlinger Wupperbrücke on site.

Today's Marly-le-Roi Bridge, built in 1926 and named in 1989 after its French twin town Marly-le-Roi , is the sixth bridge structure on this site since 1597. a. from the years 1757 and 1868.

Up until the 1920s, a bridge penny was charged to maintain the bridge. The village of Brücke was built on the right bank, which in the 19th century was, along with the church village and Büscherhöfen on the left side of the Wuppers, the largest settlement center of the Leichlingen mayor .

Brücke was the titular place of the Honschaft Brücke of the parish of Leichlingen.

The bridge is shown on the Topographia Ducatus Montani map from 1715, but without a location and the church on the wrong side of Wuppers. In the 18th century, the place belonged to the parish of Leichlingen in the Bergisches Amt Miselohe . The topographical recording of the Rhineland from 1824 shows the place unlabeled and the Prussian first recording from 1844 lists it as An der Brücke , the Leichlinger municipality map from 1830 as Brück .

In 1815/16 154 people lived in Brücke. In 1832, Brücke belonged to the mayor's office in Leichlingen. The place, categorized as a village according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , had 21 residential houses and 139 agricultural buildings at that time. At that time, 114 residents lived in the village, 37 of them Catholic and 77 Protestant.

In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province in 1885, 22 houses with 146 inhabitants are given. In 1895 the place had two houses without inhabitants, in 1905 21 houses and 168 inhabitants.

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Leichlingen arch bridge from 1926
2. ^ Article about bridge money at the Leichlinger Brücke
3. ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
4. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1888.
5. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1895 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1897.
6. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1909.