Claasholz

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Claasholz
Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 16 ″  N , 7 ° 5 ′ 6 ″  E
Height : 197 m above sea level NN
Postal code : 42799
Area code : 02174
Claasholz (Leichlingen (Rhineland))
Claasholz

Location of Claasholz in Leichlingen (Rhineland)

Claasholz , also called Klaasholz in the 19th century , is the name of a village in Leichlingen (Rhineland) in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis .

Location and description

The place is located northwest of Witzhelden on the edge of the plateau, which drops to the north in the nature reserve Wupperhang with side depths and the Wupper north of Witzhelden and Leichlingen steeply to the Lower Wuppertal . The foothills of the plateau towards the valley area are called Wupperberge . The place has grown together with its southwestern neighbor Oberbüscherhof to form a settlement area. Other neighboring towns are Unterbüchscherhof , Orth , Wolfsstall , Herscheid , Sieferhof , Krähwinkel , Holzerhof , Bechhausen and Schüddig .

history

The place name is derived from the personal name Nikolaus (short form Klaus ), wood is a common name for a forest area. In the 18th century, the place belonged to the parish Witzhelden in the Bergisches Amt Miselohe . The Prussian first recording from 1844 lists the farm as Klassholz .

In 1815/16 there were 21 residents in the village. In 1832 Claasholz belonged to the Burscheid mayor as a border town , the neighboring Oberbüscherhof belonged to the Leichlingen mayor . The place, categorized as a village according to the statistics and topography of the administrative district of Düsseldorf , had three residential buildings and eight agricultural buildings at that time. At that time, 16 residents lived in the village, all of whom were Protestant.

Due to the municipal code for the Rhine province, the parish of Witzhelden received the status of a municipality in 1845, left the Burscheid mayor and formed its own mayor's office from 1850 onwards . In the municipality lexicon for the province of Rhineland in 1885 four houses with 17 inhabitants are given. In 1895 the place had five houses with 28 inhabitants, in 1905 five houses and 23 inhabitants.

On January 1, 1975, the municipality of Witzhelden was incorporated into Leichlingen with Claasholz.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Topographical Information Management TIM-online, provided by the Cologne District Government
  2. ^ Heinrich Dittmaier : settlement names and settlement history of the Bergisches Land , Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1956 ( journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein , vol. 74 / parallel edition as a publication of the Institute for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland at the University of Bonn )
  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.
  7. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 298 .