Förstchen

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Förstchen
Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 59 ″  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 56 ″  E
Height : 57 m above sea level NN
Postal code : 42799
Förstchen (Leichlingen (Rhineland))
Förstchen

Location of Förstchen in Leichlingen (Rhineland)

Förstchen is a location in the town of Leichlingen (Rhineland) in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis that emerged from a court .

Location and description

Förstchen is located on the former route of the state road L288, which is also called Förstchen in this section , at the level of the side street Am Förstchen on the western edge of Leichlingen on the city limits of Langenfeld (Rhineland) . The name Förstchen of the village, which was still independent in the first half of the 20th century, can only be found in the street names ; the place of origin has gone up in the closed residential and commercial development.

Federal motorway 3 runs west of Förstchen . In between is the Riedbachaue nature reserve , where the Galkhauser Bach rises. North of Förstchen on the former state road is the Roßlenbruch residential area , and the Sandberg residential area to the south . The Windfahne residential area borders the village to the northeast, and Altenhof residential area to the southwest .

Other neighboring places, mostly those in the western suburb of Leichlingen, are Kellerhansberg , Scheeresberg , Kaltenberg , Brückerfeld , Bremsen , Zwei Eichen , Trompete , Schraffenberg and Schnugsheide .

history

Förstchen was first mentioned in a document in 1591 as Vorstgenn . The name is self-explanatory and indicates a small forest at this point. In the 17th century the courtyards in the village of Haus Vorst were subject to tax.

The place was on Sandstrasse , an old road from Aufderhöhe to Opladen . The map Topographia Ducatus Montani from 1715 shows six farms under the name Förstchen . In the 18th century, the place belonged to the parish of Leichlingen in the Bergisches Amt Miselohe . The topographical recording of the Rhineland from 1824 shows the place as in the Förstchen and the Prussian first recording from 1844 shows it as a Förstchen , the Leichlinger municipality map from 1830 as Foerstchen .

In 1815/16 there were 75 people living in the village. In 1832 Förstchen belonged to the mayor's office in Leichlingen . The place, categorized as a village according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , had 23 residential houses and 25 agricultural buildings at that time. At that time there were 106 residents in the village, six of them Catholic and 100 Protestant.

In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province in 1885, 30 houses with 179 inhabitants are given. In 1895 the place had 33 houses with 180 inhabitants, in 1905 28 houses and 196 inhabitants.

From the middle of the 20th century, the gaps in the residential and commercial development with the neighboring residential areas were closed and Förstchen became part of the western suburb of Leichlingen.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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 )
  2. Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.