Grosshurden

Grosshurden City of Overath Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 9 ″  N , 7 ° 14 ′ 45 ″  E
Height :	188 m above sea level NHN
Location of Großhurden in Overath

Großhurden is a district of Steinenbrück in the town of Overath in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany .

Location and description

The district of Großhurden is located above the federal motorway 4 on the county road 38, which connects Steinenbrück with Kreutzhäuschen and is called here Grabenstrasse. It belongs to the headwaters of the Holzbach , which flows into the Sülz . Places in the near are Heidermühle , Neuhurden , Mittelbech , Unterbech and Oberbech . Großhurden is the location of one of three Overather scattered settlements of Transylvanian Saxony .

history

The Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies , Blatt Amt Steinbach , shows that the residential area had four farmsteads as early as 1715, which are labeled as Hiden . Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking names the court on his charter of the Duchy of Berg in 1789 as Gr. Hucken . It shows that at that time the place was part of the Löderich family in the parish of Overath.

The place was on Heidenstrasse , an important medieval old highway from Cologne via Kassel to Leipzig . The old route of the old high path ran on today's road to Leffelsend .

The place is on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1817 as Gr. There are obstacles . The Prussian first recording from 1845 shows the residential area under the name Gr. Hurdles . From the Prussian new admission of 1892 the place is regularly as Gr. Hurden or Großhurden recorded.

In 1822, 43 people lived in the place, which was categorized as a courtyard and designated (major) hurdles , which after the collapse of the Napoleonic administration and its replacement belonged to the Overath mayor in the Mülheim am Rhein district . For the year 1830, a total of 78 inhabitants are given for large and small hurdles . In 1845, according to the overview of the government district of Cöln, categorized as a farm and designated Groß-Hurden , at that time it had five residential buildings with 35 inhabitants, all of them Catholic denominations. The municipal and Gutbezirksstatistik the Rhine Province leads Grosshurden 1871 with six houses and 49 residents. In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province of 1888, eight houses with 53 inhabitants are given for Groß Hurden . In 1895 the place had seven houses with 40 inhabitants, in 1905 nine houses and 39 inhabitants are given.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ursula Schmidt-Goertz: Return to the origin of the forefathers / 20 years of Transylvanian settlements in the district of Overath . In: Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar 1982. Ed. Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis, Bergisch Gladbach 1982. ISBN 387314-118-3
2. ↑ Die Siebenbürger in Overath / Kölner Stadtanzeiger from August 11, 2014
3. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations for the Historical Atlas of the Rhine Province ; Second volume: The map of 1789. Division and development of the territories from 1600 to 1794 ; Bonn; 1898
4. ^ Herbert Nicke : The Heidenstrasse. History and landscape along the historic highway from Cologne to Kassel . In: Land and history between Berg, Wildenburg and South Westphalia . tape 6 . Galunder, Wiehl 2001, ISBN 3-931251-74-8 , pp. 38 f .
5. ↑ Alexander A. Mützell: New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . tape 2 . Karl August Künnel, Halle 1821.
6. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff :  Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
7. ↑ Overview of the components and list of all the localities and individually named properties of the government district of Cologne: by districts, mayor's offices and parishes, with information on the number of people and the residential buildings, as well as the Confessions, Jurisdictions, Military and former state conditions. / ed. from the Royal Government of Cologne [Cologne], [1845]
8. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
9. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1888.
10. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1895 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1897.
11. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1909