Owls (Kürten)

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Map of the Great Dhünntalsperre with the location of owls

Eulen was a district of Kürten that sank into the Great Dhünntalsperre, which was built between 1975 and 1985 and opened in 1988 .

history

The place name owls is not derived from the owl bird genus , but is a form of uowa , * ouwale , * ouwila meaning " waterland" , " a river meadow surrounded by water on several sides" . Other forms of this common type of name are -ohl and -auel .

From the chart of the Duchy of Berg 1789 by Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking it emerges that Eulen was part of the Oberhonschaft in the parish of Kürten in the district court of Kürten at that time . He names the place as Uhlen .

Under the French administration between 1806 and 1813, the Steinbach office was dissolved and Eulen was politically assigned to the Mairie Kürten in the canton of Wipperfürth in the Elberfeld arrondissement . In 1816 the Prussians converted the Mairie to the mayor's office in Kürten in the Wipperfürth district . At that time Eulen belonged to the municipality of Bechen.

In 1822 45 people lived in the place categorized as a courtyard and known as owls . In 1830 the place had 49 inhabitants. The place, categorized as a hamlet according to the overview of the government district of Cologne in 1845 , had six houses at that time. At that time there were 68 residents in the village, all of them of Catholic faith. The municipal and Gutbezirksstatistik the Rhine Province leads Owls 1871 with twelve houses and 51 residents. In the municipality encyclopedia for the Rhineland province of 1888, ten houses with 57 inhabitants are given. In 1895 the place had nine houses and 45 residents. In 1905 the place had nine houses and 36 inhabitants and belonged denominationally to the Catholic parish of Kürten.

In 1927 the mayor's office was transferred to the office. In the Weimar Republic in 1929 the offices of Kürten were merged with the municipalities of Kürten and Bechen and Olpe with the municipalities of Olpe and Wipperfeld to form the office of Kürten. The Wipperfürth district became part of the Rheinisch-Bergisch district on October 1, 1932, with its seat in Bergisch Gladbach .

In 1975 the current municipality of Kürten was established on the basis of the Cologne Act , to which, in addition to the offices of Kürten, Bechen and Olpe, a sub-area of ​​the city of Bensberg with Dürscheid and the surrounding areas was added.

In Eulen there were eight houses that were far from other settlements. You had to go steeply uphill on unpaved dirt roads to Hutsherweg or Dhünnberg in order to get slightly downhill from there via Doktorsdhünn to Eulen. Due to the construction of the older dam , the village was no longer inhabited since the end of the 1950s.

Others

There is a nice story about the "Altrüscher van Ülen" who lived here from around 1880 to 1930. His name was Forester . Although he also sold new things, his old “ clothes ” such as suits, underwear and shoes were particularly popular. All year round, these offers brought customers from near and far to owls who either wanted to sell something or to buy cheaply. This made the place famous in the whole area.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Dittmaier : settlement names and settlement history of the Bergisches Land . In: Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein . tape 74 , parallel edition as a publication by the Institute for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland at the University of Bonn. Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1956.
  2. ^ 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
  3. ↑ JC Dänzer: Décret impérial sur la circonscription territoriale du grand-duché de Berg… Imperial decree on the division of the Grand Duchy of Berg . 1808, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 1-84858 .
  4. ↑ a b History of the municipality of Kürten
  5. ↑ Alexander A. Mützell: New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . tape 3 . Karl August Künnel, Halle 1822.
  6. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff :  Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
  7. ↑ 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]
  8. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ Royal Statistical 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
  12. ^ GV. NRW. 1974 p. 1072
  13. ↑ The Dhünntal - The Courtships accessed on April 26, 2017
  14. ↑ Old smokers are called people who trade in old things by buying or collecting such things and reselling them.
  15. ↑ Manfred Link and Randolf Link: The upper Dhünntal - Great Dhünn dam , revised version of the 1st book “The Great Dhünn dam”, published by Landschaft und Geschichte e. V., Odenthal 2010, p. 56 f.

literature

  • Marita Jendrischewski: The Dhünntal - people and history (s) of a sunken landscape , Verlag Jendrischewski, ISBN 978-3-00-047635-8

Web pages

Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 24.8 "  N , 7 ° 14 ′ 50.7"  E