Girkenhausen

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Girkenhausen
City of Hückeswagen
Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 4 ″  N , 7 ° 22 ′ 35 ″  E
Height : 297 m above sea level NN
Girkenhausen (Hückeswagen)
Girkenhausen

Location of Girkenhausen in Hückeswagen

Girkenhausen 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

Girkenhausen was in the Bever valley in the east of Hückeswagen on the city limits of Radevormwald . Neighboring towns were Platzhausen , Siepersbever , Funkenhausen , Eckenhausen and Kleinhöhfeld on Hückeswagener and Stoote and Stooter Mühle in Radevormwalder's urban area, which were also lost.

history

In 1532 the place was mentioned for the first time in a list of Hückeswagen residents. Spelling of the first mention : Geritckehusen . The map Topographia Ducatus Montani from 1715 shows the farm as Gerickhusen . In the 18th century the place belonged to the Bergisches Amt Bornefeld-Hückeswagen .

17 inhabitants lived in the village in 1815/16. In 1832 Girkenhausen belonged to the Herdingsfelder Honschaft , which was part of the Hückeswagen external citizenship within the Hückeswagen mayor . The place, which was categorized as a hamlet according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , had a residential building and two agricultural buildings at the time. At that time, 15 residents lived in the village, all of whom were Protestant.

In the municipality lexicon for the province of Rhineland in 1885 a house with twelve inhabitants is given. At that time the place belonged to the rural community Neuhückeswagen within the Lennep district . In 1895 the place had a house with nine inhabitants, in 1905 one house and nine inhabitants.

In 1898 the old Bevertalsperre was dammed, on the banks of which Girkenhausen had been since then. 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. ^ Klaus Pampus: First documentary naming of Oberbergischer places (= contributions to Oberbergischen history. Sonderbd. 1). Oberbergische Department 1924 eV of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein, Gummersbach 1998, ISBN 3-88265-206-3 .
  2. ^ 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. 12 .
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.