Broich (Bergisch Gladbach)

Broich City of Bergisch Gladbach Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 10 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 42 ″  E
Location of Broich in Bergisch Gladbach
Old half-timbered house in Broich

Broich is a district in the Bärbroich district of Bergisch Gladbach .

history

The Broich settlement emerged from a medieval farm . In the first documentary mention it is called "Broyke" . The word Broch is in the original register . When it was founded in the early modern period , the Hofgut belonged to the fiefdom of the Herkenrath Fronhof . As a result, the "guiter zoim Broich" were already mentioned in the church pew of 1630.

According to the survey of the government district of Cöln , the place categorized as a "farm" had two houses in 1845. At that time there were nine people living in the village, all of them Catholic. In 1905 there were nine residential buildings with 58 residents. Etymologically , Broich corresponds to the Old High German word “bruoh” and the Middle High German “bruoch” (= moorland, swamp). It was originally a swampy meadow or a thicket of bushes by the water.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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]
2. ^ Andree Schulte: Bergisch Gladbach City History in Street Names , published by the Bergisch Gladbach City Archives, Volume 3, and by the Bergisch Geschichtsverein department Rhein-Berg e. V., Volume 11, Bergisch Gladbach 1995, p. 219 ISBN 3-9804448-0-5