Driesch (Bergisch Gladbach)

The Driescher Cross is on the roundabout.

Driesch is a district in the city center of Bergisch Gladbach . He was also called am Driesch or Dreesch . Driesch or Driesche means fallow, uncultivated land. ^{P. 23} The Driescher Cross still stands here today . In the dialect one said et Dreesche Krücks to it. It dates from 1799 and was entered under no. 63 in the list of architectural monuments in Bergisch Gladbach . The cross keeps awake the horrors of the Ruhr that broke out in Gronau that same year , to which Driesch used to belong. ^{P. 96}

history

The Driesch settlement is first mentioned as follows: 1582 under ahm Driesch , 1595 under auf dem Driesch , 1648, 1666, 1700 and 1731 under aufm Driesch and 1758 under zum Dresch . ^{P. 23}

For the year 1759 it is reported that the Wittib Müller and heirs owned the Driescher estate and had to pay the so-called Gladbach Fronhof tenth . It was on Köllenstrasse (today's main street) and had a total of 10 acres of land. ^{P. 183} Other goods belonging to the district of Driesch were the neighboring Ecks Gut with 4 acres of land and the Eckertsgut des Gerarden Eckert with 4 acres of land. ^{P. 184}

The old half-timbered houses are no longer there. The word Driesch does not exist today either as a place or street name. Where the district used to be, today is the roundabout. The remaining houses are on today's western main street.

Driescher top

The so-called Driescher Kreisel was planned until 2007 and put into operation in 2008. In December 2008, the first freight train drove its freight over the roundabout to the Zanders paper factory .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Anton Jux: The Bergisch Botenamt Gladbach, the history of Bergisch Gladbach up to the Prussian era, publisher of the City of Bergisch Gladbach Cultural Office, 1954
↑ Driescher roundabout successful transport structure, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, January 21, 2009. Accessed May 27, 2017
↑ Driescher Kreuz: Limited joy in the first test. Retrieved May 27, 2017 .

literature

August Kierspel : Dat Drescher Krücks , in Bergischer Volkskalender 1920, p. 46 ff

50.98938 7.12312Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 21.8 " N , 7 ° 7 ′ 23.2" E

[Jux-1] Anton Jux: The Bergisch Botenamt Gladbach, the history of Bergisch Gladbach up to the Prussian era, publisher of the City of Bergisch Gladbach Cultural Office, 1954

[2] Driescher roundabout successful transport structure, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, January 21, 2009. Accessed May 27, 2017

[3] Driescher Kreuz: Limited joy in the first test. Retrieved May 27, 2017 .