Gronewald (Bergisch Gladbach)

Gronewald City of Bergisch Gladbach Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 16 ″  N , 7 ° 11 ′ 53 ″  E
Location of Gronewald in Bergisch Gladbach
Gronewald 2014

Gronewald is a district in the Herkenrath district of Bergisch Gladbach .

history

Gronewald was first mentioned as Grunewald in the 13th century . In the original cadastre , the settlement founding in the Middle Ages can be found as Am Grünenwald . The settlement name is derived from the Old High German word gruoen (= to grow tall, green) or the Middle High German word gruo / gruonen (= green / be fresh) and means “green forest” or “young forest” .

According to the overview of the government district of Cöln , the place categorized as a building property owned a house in 1845. At that time there were ten people living in the village, all of them Catholic. The spelling of the place name at that time was Gronenwald.

literature

• H. Jakob Schmitz: The millennial Herkenrath , Heider-Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 1950

Individual evidence

1. ^ Andree Schulte: Bergisch Gladbach, city history in street names , Bergisch Gladbach 1995, p. 199 ISBN 3-9804448-0-5
2. ↑ 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]