Efferoth

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Efferoth is a district of Aegidienberg , a district of Bad Honnef in the Rhein-Sieg district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

geography

The hamlet of Efferoth is located in the northern center of the Aegidienberg district north of the federal motorway 3 . The village extends over a sloping area to the east to the Kochbach and includes an upper one, at about 230  m above sea level. NHN as well as a lower one, at about 220  m above sea level. NHN located group of houses. To the A 3, Efferoth is delimited to the southwest by a deciduous forest area . The closest localities include Brüngsberg in the northwest and Hövel in the west on the other side of the motorway , both of which are above Efferoth.

history

The place appeared in documents as early as 1348 under the name Everoide , when the Merten monastery had meadows here . Since Karl Simrock later called the place "Ebenrot", the place name probably describes a clearing settlement that is located on flat terrain. The current name “Efferoth” was also interpreted as a settlement that originated from “Effen” (Rhenish for elms ). It was mentioned under this name in 1666, when a "Wilhelm zu Efferoth" is mentioned in a list of residents who are obliged to pay homage . Also in 1673 only his family of four (including the maid ) lived here , listed in the register of taxable residents. 1803 included the place three houses or house numbers.

Efferoth belonged to the parish until the dissolution of the Duchy of Berg in 1806 , then to the municipality of Aegidienberg. After the creation of the Rhenish-Westphalian original cadastre in 1823/24, the place was in the Hövel corridor . In a census in 1843, the hamlet of Efferoth counted 13 inhabitants in three residential buildings, in another in 1885 the population remained constant at 13 in two houses. By 1963 Efferoth had grown to 18 residents in four households, today the district comprises four house numbers, some of which consist of winding courtyards. This makes Efferoth the smallest district of Aegidienberg. In the east of Efferoth there is a working farm or riding stable .

coat of arms

Chalkboard as the town's coat of arms

In 2009 the artist Richard Lenzgen created a slate as the local coat of arms of Efferoth. In the four-part coat of arms above, in a landscape representation of the area around Efferoth, both the federal motorway 3 with noise protection wall and the two bridges from Hövel to Brüngsberg ( Westerwälder Tor ) and from Hövel in the direction of Kochbach, as well as the ICE high-speed line Cologne-Frankfurt with the Aegidienberg tunnel are shown . At the bottom left an oak branch with leaves in a yellow field should symbolize the forest around Efferoth and at the bottom right the golden ear of wheat framed by a silver horseshoe symbolizes the farming and horse industry there. Everything is completed in the part of the coat of arms below from the Kochbach in blue and the agricultural meadows.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theodor Sukopp: Documents and files of the Merten Monastery , Essen 1961, p. 14.
  2. ^ Karl Simrock: The picturesque and romantic Rhineland: With 60 steel engravings , Volume 9, Wigand, 1840, p. 428 .
  3. ^ Walter Hoffmann: From Himmerod and Rottbitze to Roda Kerkrade. In: Mededelingen van de Vereniging voor Limburgse Dialect- en Naamkunde , No. 86, Hasselt 1996, p. 12 u. 30 (PDF file; 484 kB).
  4. ^ West German Society for Family Studies (ed.); Johannes Jansen: Aegidienberger Familienbuch 1666-1875 , Cologne 2001, ISBN 3-933364-57-4 , S. XVIII u. XIX.
  5. ↑ Royal Government of Cologne: overview of the components u. Directory of all localities in the government district of Cologne. Cöln 1845, p. 85.
  6. ↑ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII Provinz Rheinland, Verlag des Königlich Statistischen Bureaus (Ed.), 1888, pages 114 u. 115 (PDF file; 1.5 MB)
  7. ↑ Karl Gast: Aegidienberg through the ages . Aegidienberg 1964, p. 93.

Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 11 ″  N , 7 ° 18 ′ 38 ″  E