Gurath

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Gürath on the Grevenbroich tranchot card from 1807

Gürath was a village in what is now the city of Grevenbroich . Around 1900, the place was the first village to give way to lignite mining in the Rhenish district. Gürath (older spellings: Judenrode, Gudenrode) was the seat of a commander of the Ballei Koblenz of the Teutonic Order . The village of Elsen was bought in 1263 by the friars from Gürath. Later Gürath lost its importance for the Teutonic Order and the seat of the commander was relocated to Elsen.

The tranchot map shows a large water-fenced complex that Paul Clemen could describe shortly before the farm was demolished, which took place in the course of lignite mining:

" an irregular square complex that must have been subject to many changes and alterations over the centuries; the house is a two-story building on five axes with curly quilted gables and a slated gable roof. The entrance door is in the second axis. On one of the farm buildings the coat of arms of the Teutonic Order with the year 1782 is embedded . "

During the secularization, the Neurath Hof comprised more than 113 hectares of land, so the farm was a very important property.

The place name

Judenrode is the medieval form of the place name Gürath . The place name probably goes back to a personal name (genitive from Judo or similar). According to Kirchhoff (2006), the younger form Gürath is a hyper-correct replacement of the J by a G after the older G was initially shifted to the J in dialect . Such an older G at first was probably wrongly suspected in Judenrode.

literature

  • Hans Georg Kirchhoff: On the relationship between Frimmersdorf and Neurath in the Middle Ages . In: Frimmersdorf through the ages. Edited by the history association for Grevenbroich and the surrounding area e. V. Grevenbroich 2005 (Contributions to the history of the city of Grevenbroich 16), pp. 78–89, especially pp. 88–89.
  • Franz Hoppe: Chronicle of the parish St. Stephanus Elsen . Grevenbroich 1983.
  • Paul Clemen: The art monuments of the Grevenbroich district . Düsseldorf 1897 (The art monuments of the Rhine Province 3.5).

Remarks

  1. ↑ Quote from Paul Clemen: The art monuments of the Grevenbroich district . Düsseldorf 1897 (Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz 3,5), p. 61.

Coordinates: 51 ° 5 '  N , 6 ° 31'  E