Hermitage (Lindlar)

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Hermitage
municipality Lindlar
Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 39 ″  N , 7 ° 22 ′ 55 ″  E
Postal code : 51789
Area code : 02266
Hermitage (Lindlar)
Hermitage

Location of the Hermitage in Lindlar

Hermitage is a district of the municipality of Lindlar in the Oberbergischer Kreis . Only a few inhabitants live in the hamlet today.

Location and description

The place is about two kilometers away from the center of Lindlar in a northerly direction on the Brungerst or Brungerstberg . The modern dismantling of the greywacke of the Lindlar stone industry has changed the surrounding area of ​​the settlement very strongly.

history

Archaeological finds from the years 2008/2009 have been comprehensively evaluated and prove that what is proven to be the oldest forest in the world was in Lindlar. Archaeologists discovered remains of leaves and branches in 2008. In the Middle Devon, about 390 million years ago, before the dinosaurs, the two to three meter high trees - calamophyton - grew on a sand island in the shallow sea. It is believed that the trees were washed into the sea by a prehistoric tsunami, were covered with mud and are still petrified today. The Lindlarer Grauwacke, a 350 million year old sedimentary rock, owes its origin to these sludge deposits. The finds come from the quarries of Brungerst not far from the Hermitage.

The small settlement got its name Hermitage from the fact that hermits actually lived here for at least a century . The last hermit was called Severin Stelberg . The Hermitage consisted of an apartment, a chapel with a contribution and a garden. Wilhelm Breidenbach finds the deaths of the following hermits in the church archive's death register:

  1. February 29, 1756, Brother Anton, hermit
  2. December 26, 1772, Georgius Horne, hermit
  3. April 9, 1785, Severinus Stelberg, Eremita.

After 1785 the Hermitage fell into disrepair as no new hermit was found. It was not until 1820 that the mayor of Lindlar, Alexander Court, bought the crumbling building in order to build a house from the materials that were still there.

Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking names the place on his chart of the Duchy of Berg in 1789 as Einsiedley . It emerges from it that the place was part of the upper village honors in the upper parish of Lindlar at that time .

The place is recorded on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1825 as the Hermitage . The Prussian premiere from 1840 shows the residential area also under the name Hermitage . As of the Prussian new admission of 1894/96, the place is regularly listed as the Hermitage on measurement table sheets .

In 1822 five people lived in the place categorized as a house, which after the collapse of the Napoleonic administration and its replacement, belonged to the Lindlar mayor in the Wipperfürth district . For the year 1830, together with Berghäusgen, Dörl, Falkenhof, the rear Falkenhof, Clause and Frauenhaus, 57 inhabitants are given for the place designated as the Hermitage . The place, which was categorized as a courtyard in 1845 according to the overview of the government district of Cologne , had two residential buildings with 16 residents, all of them Catholic denominations.

The municipality and manor district statistics of the Rhine province list the Hermitage 1871 with two houses and 20 inhabitants. In the parish dictionary for the Rhineland province of 1888, three houses with 40 inhabitants are given for the Hermitage . In 1895 the place has three houses with 30 inhabitants and belonged denominationally to the Catholic parish of Lindlar, in 1905 four houses and 23 inhabitants are given.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The oldest forest is said to have been in Lindlar Focus.de from August 20, 2015. Accessed on October 21, 2015.
  2. ↑ Contributions to the local history of the Lindlar community, ed. by Dr. Josef Gronewald 1977
  3. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations for the Historical Atlas of the Rhine Province ; Second volume: The map of 1789. Division and development of the territories from 1600 to 1794 ; Bonn; 1898
  4. ↑ Alexander A. Mützell: New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . tape 1 . Karl August Künnel, Halle 1821.
  5. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff :  Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
  6. ↑ 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]
  7. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ 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.