Bridge (overath)

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City of Overath
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 1 ″  N , 7 ° 17 ′ 43 ″  E
Height : 98 m above sea level NN
Bridge (overath)
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Location of bridge in Overath
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Brücke is a district of Overath in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany .

Location and description

The old bridge residential area was on the east bank of the Agger , northeast of the center of Overather, roughly in the area of ​​today's streets An der Brücke , Am Aggersteg and Alte Mucher Straße . The name of the village refers to a wooden bridge that for centuries led the important trade route Brüderstraße over the Agger in different versions . Until the beginning of the 20th century, only one wooden bridge crossed the Agger. It had to be renewed frequently and overwhelmed the parish of Overath, which was not blessed with financial assets. The settlement can no longer be recognized as an independent residential area due to residential and commercial buildings.

Bridge on Mucher Strasse

Today's concrete bridge on Grauwacke foundations is located a little north of the old bridge location outside the original village of Brücke and is the extension of Muchstrasse . It leads over the Agger and the tracks of the Cologne-Kalk-Overath railway line onto Kreisstraße 484, here Kölner Straße. The narrow pedestrian bridge Aggersteg , built in the 20th century, connects the bridge with the center of Overath .

The Tiefer Siefen brook flows into the Agger at Brücke.

history

The Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies , Blatt Amt Steinbach , shows that the residential area had a courtyard as early as 1715, which is labeled as the Brückerhof . At that time the place was part of the honor of saints in the parish of Overath.

The residential area is recorded as a bridge on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1817 , as well as in the Prussian first survey from 1845 and the Prussian new survey from 1892.

In 1822 17 people lived in the place categorized as a courtyard, which after the collapse of the Napoleonic administration and its replacement belonged to the Overath mayor in the Mülheim am Rhein district . For the year 1830, 19 inhabitants are given for the place called the bridge . The place, which was categorized as a courtyard and referred to as a bridge in 1845 according to the overview of the government district of Cologne , had two residential buildings with nine inhabitants, all of them Catholic denominations.

According to the official list of residents and livestock from 1848, there were seven people living in Brücke, of which only the farmer Johann Gerhard Becher owned cattle: 1 horse, 1 ox, 5 cows, 2 cattle, 2 pigs .

The municipality and estate district statistics of the Rhine province list Brücke 1871 with three houses and 26 inhabitants. In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province of 1888, three houses with 25 inhabitants are given for Brücke . In 1895 the place had three houses with 25 inhabitants, in 1905 three houses and 18 inhabitants are given.

  • Agger At the bridge

  • Aggersteg pedestrian bridge

  • Path along the Agger

Bridge problems

From April 1632 on, the rule in the parish of Overath was that residents had to keep country roads in order, which also applied to the Brüderstraße with the bridge and was difficult to handle. In this context, the residents complained in 1707 (it was the time of the Spanish Wars of Succession ) to the Elector Jan Wellem that mail wagons and constantly moving armies were ruining their bridges and overburdening them financially.

As a rule, the timbered wooden bridges did not withstand the forces of the Agger for long. A bridge built in 1784 had to be renewed as early as 1805. When it was almost completed under the direction of bridge builder Johann Bolz from Krahwinkel , it was torn away by the flood on February 5th and Bolz and two other bridge builders drowned. An ice drift in turn destroyed a later bridge on New Year's Eve 1879/80. The last wooden bridge at this point fell victim to another flood in November 1890, the so-called Kathregenflog.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Becher: 900 years of Overath . Reprint of the 1964 edition, published by Bergischer Geschichtsverein Overath eV., P. 180, Bücken and Sulzer Verlag, Overath 2014, ISBN 3-936405-28-X
  2. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations for the Historical Atlas of the Rhine Province. Second volume: The map from 1789. Division and development of the territories from 1600 to 1794. Bonn 1898.
  3. ↑ Alexander A. Mützell: New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . tape 1 . Karl August Künnel, Halle 1821.
  4. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff :  Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
  5. ↑ Overview of the components and list of all the localities and individually named properties of the government district of Cologne: by districts, mayor's offices and parishes, with information on the number of people and the residential buildings, as well as the Confessions, Jurisdictions, Military and former state conditions. / ed. from the Royal Government of Cologne [Cologne], [1845]
  6. ^ Berthold Gladbach, Peter Lückerath: The Overather population in name, tax and residents lists from the 15th to the 20th century . Ed .: Bergischer Geschichtsverein eV, Overath, 2014.
  7. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ Georg Hirtsifer: Zu Oberadt Zopp sat ... / Traveling through Overath in old time , in: Achera / Contributions to the history of the city of Overath, No. 6, p. 65. Ed. Bergischer Geschichtsverein Overath eV, Overath 1999.
  12. ^ Franz Becher: 900 years of Overath . Reprint of the 1964 edition, published by Bergischer Geschichtsverein Overath eV., P. 180, Bücken and Sulzer Verlag, Overath 2014, ISBN 3-936405-28-X .

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