Gillesbever

Gillesbever City of Hückeswagen Coordinates: 51 ° 8 ′ 49 ″  N , 7 ° 22 ′ 22 ″  E
Height :	295 m above sea level NN
Location of Gillesbever in Hückeswagen

Gillesbever was a court in Hückeswagen in the Oberbergisches Kreis in the administrative district of Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ). The yard was demolished in 1938 for the expansion of the Bevertalsperre and the site is now flooded.

Location and description

Gillesbever was in the Bever valley in the eastern Hückeswagen near the city limits of Wipperfürth . Neighboring places were Käfernberg , Wefelsen , Großberghausen , Ober- and Niederlangenberg , on Hückeswagener and Oberröttenscheid also Wipperfürth urban area. The neighboring Fröhlenhausen , Rotterdam and Rasselstein were also removed as part of the construction of the dam .

history

The map Topographia Ducatus Montani from 1715 shows the courtyard as o.Bever . In the 18th century the place belonged to the Bergisches Amt Bornefeld-Hückeswagen . The topographical recording of the Rhineland from 1824 shows the place as Bever and the Prussian first recording from 1844 as Gilles Bewer .

In 1815/16 there were 33 people living in the village. In 1832, Gillesbever belonged to the Berghauser Honschaft , which was part of the Hückeswagen external citizenship within the Hückeswagen mayor's office . The place, categorized as a hamlet according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , had six residential buildings and six agricultural buildings at the time. At that time, 45 residents lived in the village, 37 of them Catholic and eight Protestant.

In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province in 1885 three houses with 32 inhabitants are given. At that time the place belonged to the rural community Neuhückeswagen within the Lennep district . In 1895 the place had three houses with 19 inhabitants, in 1905 two houses and ten inhabitants.

In 1898, the old Bevertalsperre was dammed, below whose dam Gillesbever has since then been. When the dam was enlarged in 1938, the courtyard was located in the planned expanded storage space, was laid down and flooded.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and topography of the administrative district of Düsseldorf. Part 2: Containing the statistical table of places and distances and the alphabetical index of place names. Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1836, p. 13 .
2. ^ Royal Statistical Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland province. Based on the materials from the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources (= community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. Vol. 12, ZDB -ID 1046036-6 ). Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau, Berlin 1888.
3. ^ Royal Statistical Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland province. Based on the materials from the census of December 1, 1895 and other official sources (= community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. Vol. 12). Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau, Berlin 1897.
4. ^ Royal Statistical Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland province. Based on the materials from the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources (= community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. Vol. 12). Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau, Berlin 1909.