Breitenstein (Overath)

Breitenstein City of Overath Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 25 ″  N , 7 ° 21 ′ 28 ″  E
Location of Breitenstein in Overath

Breitenstein is a district of Marialinden in the town of Overath in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany .

Location and description

The district of Breitenstein , which is primarily characterized by agriculture and forestry, lies on the largely nature-protected Naafbachtal , which here primarily forms the border with the Rhein-Sieg district . The naturally meandering Naafbach rises from two source streams in the forest area of ​​the Kleiner Heckberg and is also fed by a number of underground springs. The next localities are Niedergrützenbach , Obergrützenbach , Pit Nikolaus , Fischermühle and Eckhausen (Rhein-Sieg-Kreis). The whole area with its wetlands naturally belongs to the Marialinder Riedelland , which in turn belongs to the Agger-Sülz plateaus . The varied landscape is home to rare animals and plants, such as the red kite .

history

The Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies , Blatt Amt Steinbach , shows that the residential area had four farms as early as 1715, which are labeled as Breitenstein . Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking also names the court on his charter of the Duchy of Berg in 1789 as Breitenstein . It shows that the place was part of the Honschaft Oderscheid in the parish of Overath at that time .

The place is recorded on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1825 as Breitenstein . The Prussian first recording from 1845 shows the residential area also under the name Breitenstein . From the Prussian new admission of 1892, the place is regularly recorded as Breitenstein on measuring table sheets .

In 1822, 33 people lived in the place categorized as a courtyard and designated as Breitenstein , 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 39 inhabitants are given for the place called Breitenstein . The place, which was categorized as a village in 1845 according to the overview of the government district of Cologne , had eight residential buildings with 46 inhabitants, all of them Catholic denominations. The municipality and estate district statistics of the Rhine province lists Breitenstein in 1871 with 13 houses and 67 inhabitants. In the municipality lexicon for the province of Rhineland from 1888, twelve residential buildings with 52 inhabitants are given for the place. In 1895 the place had eleven houses with 57 inhabitants and belonged denominationally to the Catholic parish of Marialinden, in 1905 ten houses and 35 inhabitants are given.

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of nature reserves in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis
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. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
7. ↑ 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.
8. ↑ 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.
9. ↑ 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.

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