Burgholz (Overath)

Burgholz City of Overath Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 18 ″  N , 7 ° 16 ′ 12 ″  E
Height :	178 m above sea level NN
Location of Burgholz in Overath
On forest paths ...

... to Burgholz

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

Location and description

From Landesstraße 136, here called Bensberger Straße, a narrow road and a forest path lead to the small, above-lying district of Burgholz. Some modern houses form the town center. Nearby are dilapidated properties, on which remains of walls, elaborate grids and steps testify to what was once a stately claim. From a hiking car park near the Katzenbach , hiking trails lead to Burgholz and further into the wooded and water-rich surroundings. Nearby villages are Wiedenhof , Großschwamborn and Kreutzhäuschen .

history

From the Prussian new admission of 1892, the place is regularly recorded on measuring table sheets as Burgholz .

For the year 1830, 17 inhabitants are given for the place designated as a leasehold. The place, which was categorized as an isolated house according to the survey of the government district of Cologne in 1845 , had at that time a residential building with four inhabitants of the Catholic faith and one inhabitant of the Protestant faith. The list of residents and livestock from 1848 names the residents of Burgholz as the five-member family of Phillipp Schmitt, road keeper, archer and landlord , owner of two cows. The municipality and estate district statistics of the Rhine Province are listed by Burgholz in 1871 with four houses and 22 inhabitants.

In the municipality encyclopedia for the province of Rhineland from 1888 four houses with 22 inhabitants are given for Burgholz . In 1895 the place had three houses with 17 inhabitants, in 1905 five houses and 19 inhabitants are given.

In 1932, Franz Schulte-Hordelhoff (1859–1932) bought the forest as a recreation center for Wattenscheid children. A memorial stone commemorates the patron.

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff :  Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
2. ↑ 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]
3. ↑ Berthold Gladbach, Peter Lückerath : The Overather population in name, tax and residents lists from the 15th to the 20th century , p. 338. Ed. Bergischer Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg, Bergisch Gladbach 2016. ISBN 978-3-932326-75 -2 .
4. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
5. ↑ 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.
6. ↑ 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.
7. ↑ 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.
8. ↑ List of foundations NRW

Web links

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