Frankenforst (forest area)

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The Frankenforst on the Prussian map from 1844.

The Frankenforst is a historical forest area in the area of ​​today's city Bergisch Gladbach in the Rheinisch-Bergisch district .

etymology

The name Frankenforst goes back to the hunting use of the area as a forest by the Franconian kings. The names of today's Frankenforst district , the former residential area Frankenforst in Lückerath and the Frankenforstbach are derived from this forest area .

location

The historic forest area encompassed the area enclosed by the following area: starting from the Kaule in Alt-Refrath to the Kieppemühlenweg road over today's golf course area to the Zinkhütte , from there via Neuborn to Lückerath, on via Olefant to Hummelsbroich , along the Brüderstraße to about the height of Dolmanstraße and from there via Pippelstein north to the Kaule again. In the south the forest area merged into the Königsforst , in the west the Brücker Mark bordered. Historically, it covered around 1,000 acres , i.e. around 250 ha .

history

It is known that Hildegund von Meer gave the area to the Thurn family in the 12th century . In 1166, the Sulsen estate ( Immekeppel ) with other possessions and thus also its Frankenforst allodial estate came into the possession of the Meer monastery through a foundation . In 1268 the forest area was officially designated as the property of the monastery. Until the 19th century, the entire forest area remained almost unchanged as shown on the map from 1844. After the construction of Bensberg Castle , it was cut through by the new Jagdweg of Johann Wilhelm II. (Today Kölner Straße / Frankenforster Straße) and the Brüderstraße.

On September 30, 1718, the monastery finally sold the Frankenforst to the electoral chief hunter of the Duchy of Berg , Conrad Kurtenkauler and his wife Maria Charlotte, née Hoens. In 1747 the landowner Otto Siegen von der Steinbreche acquired the Franconian Forest. Later he came into the possession of Bernard Eyberg with the Steinbreche.

In 1843 Johann Anton Lautz, who was also the owner of the Hebborner Hof , bought the Kippekausen estate from the estate of Bernard Eyberg, and his son Heinrich bought the rest of the old manor Saal .

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, major clearings took place, so that new living spaces were created or existing ones grew, including the Alt-Frankenforst and Kippekausen settlement , which was further expanded in the 1950s and 1960s, including the park settlement Kippekausen and the Schmillenburg settlement .

Web links

literature

  • The possessions of the aristocratic Premonstratensian convent Meer in Sulsen-Immekeppel from the founding of the monastery from 1166 to 1600, Gerd Müller, Verlag W. Kleikamp, ​​1969

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andree Schulte, Bergisch Gladbach, city history in street names , published by the Bergisch Gladbach city archive, volume 3, and by the Bergisches Geschichtsverein department Rhein-Berg e. V., Volume 11, Bergisch Gladbach 1995, pp. 288 f., ISBN 3-9804448-0-5
  2. ^ The possessions of the aristocratic Premonstratensian convent Meer in Sulsen-Immekeppel from the founding of the monastery from 1166 to 1600, Gerd Müller, Verlag W. Kleikamp, ​​1969
  3. ^ A b Vincenz Jacob von Zuccalmaglio: History and description of the city and the district of Mülheim aR volume 2 . Feilner, 1846.
  4. ^ Herbert Stahl (editor), Gerhard Geurts , Hans-Dieter Hilden, Herbert Ommer : Das Erbe des Erzes. Volume 3: The pits in the Paffrath Kalkmulde. Bergischer Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg, Bergisch Gladbach 2006, ISBN 3-932326-49-0
  5. ^ Anton Jux: The Bergische Botenamt, the history of Bergisch Gladbach up to the Prussian period , published by the cultural office of the city of Bergisch Gladbach, Bergisch Gladbach 1964

Coordinates: 50 ° 57 '22.3 "  N , 7 ° 8' 19.2"  E