Galkhausen

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Galkhausen
Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 38 "  N , 6 ° 57 ′ 40"  E
Height : 55 m above sea level NN
Galkhausen (Langenfeld (Rhineland))
Galkhausen

Location of Galkhausen in Langenfeld (Rhineland)

Galkhausen is a location in the Reusrath district in the city ​​of Langenfeld (Rhineland) .

geography

To Galkhausen today include the terrain of the Rheinische Kliniken , the Galkhauser forest between Dückeburg and Flachenhof with the Galkhauser Bach and the new industrial park at the Albert Einstein street . Former newer residential quarters belonging to Galkhausen consider themselves to be part of Reusrath.

About the name

Galkhausen is one of the oldest settlement areas in Langenfeld (Rhineland) . Research on names suggests that settlement began in the 9th and 10th centuries. A Galico may have been the godfather with his name for the Galk before the suffix -hausen . Others suspect a derivation of Kolk and refer to the location Kalkhecke on the city limits of Hitdorf and Voigtslach , both of which are now part of Leverkusen . Galkhausen is first mentioned in writing as Galghusen around the year 1258. A place of execution ( Galgenplatz ), which the Americans took from aerial photographs from 1945 for the street Am Galkhause (ne) r Bach (the brook is called Galkhauser Bach ) , should not go unmentioned , says Dr. Peter Pieper in his lecture on the nailed skull from Langenfeld on February 21, 2008. The woman whose skull was later nailed on display on Via Publica , later Cologne-Arnheimer Chaussee and today's B 8, was allegedly beheaded at this place .

history

Galkhausen is one of the locations in Langenfeld that were touched by the mouse path . The well-known trade route ran in Langenfeld from Opladen over the Rosendahlsberg ( Neuburger Hof ) and then crossed Schnepprath and Hausingen . From there it led over today's Opladener Straße and through the localities Hagelkreuz and Galkhausen. Via the valley road with the localities of Hucklenbruch and Ganspohl, the route opened up today's city center. From Immigrath the road then went on Richrather road (with the Steinrausch and Rich Rath itself) before about Hilden street with the Customs House Hilden reached. This path connected the Rheingau with Essen in a supraregional line , where it merged into the Hellweg .

As a local location, Galkhausen appears late in history and then only occasionally. The Galkhausen estate is occasionally mentioned as security in long-term leases. In addition, there is a document of the monastery Altenberg listed on the edge, because on August 23, 1419 a bush called Berenbroich part acquired the monastery "hindering Galckhuysen" but already on November 5, 1440 against an estate near the Rheindorfer parish exchanged again has been. In 1466 the estate was bought by the von Etzbach family . Negotiations for the division of the daughters of Etzbach (1669) and subsequent further arrangements in this matter led in 1677 the ownership of the Galkhausen estate into the hands of Franz Wilhelm von Spieß, Mr. zu Schimperen and his wife Mechthild Elisabeth von Etzbach . In 1603 Galkhausen was owned by Etzbacher with around 200 acres of land . And finally around 1816 Galkhausen is listed in a table as a country estate with 13 inhabitants .

By marriage , the Galkhausen estate came from the von Etzbach s to the von Velbrück s and finally in 1829 again through a sale in the possession of the von Mirbach-Harff family .

From 1897, your Galkhausen estate formed the building ground for the "6th Provincial Insane Asylum", which was first built in the pavilion style - at that time so-called . During the Nazi regime, the sick were forcibly sterilized here in 1936, and after 1940 several hundred people were deported from here to be murdered. The Galkhausen sanatorium was involved in the so-called nationwide euthanasia murders .

The facility is now called LVR-Klinik Langenfeld and the "Catholic / Protestant Institution Church ", which is also under monument protection, is located in its geographical center .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Rolf Müller, " Stadtgeschichte Langenfeld Rheinland ", Verlag Stadtarchiv Langenfeld 1992
  2. ↑ [1] ritter-pitter.de, "To hobnailed skull from Langenfeld", accessed on September 14, 2014
  3. ^ A b Friedhelm Görgens, Langenfeld , Droste, Düsseldorf 1984
  4. ↑ a b c Environmental Protection and Beautification Association Langenfeld eV, A guide through the built history of Langenfeld