Gut Eichthal

Gut Eichthal City of Overath Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 15 ″  N , 7 ° 16 ′ 38 ″  E
Location of Gut Eichthal in Overath
Gut Eichthal

Gut Eichthal is a district of Overath in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany .

Location and description

Gut Eichthal is located south of Overath between Agger and Siegburger Strasse ( Bundesstrasse 484 ) on the border with the Rhein-Sieg district . The former manor house is the seat of the LVR's office for soil maintenance . It is a publicly accessible building with garden pavilions in an English landscape park . Places nearby are Broich , (from there a footbridge leads into the park), Cyriax with the school center, Kombach and Spich .

history

The site formerly belonged to the Cyriax provost , a branch of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Michael in Siegburg . In 1803 it went to an agricultural tenant. In 1829 the Cologne merchant Wilhelm Christians acquired the site. Probably in 1832 he built the main building, planted a row of oaks along the Aggerseite and named the house Eichthal .

The Prussian first recording from 1845 shows the residential area still unlabeled. On the Prussian new recording from 1895, the place is marked on measuring table sheets and labeled as Eichthal in the subsequent editions . In the 19th century the place belonged to the municipality of Heiliger in the Overath mayor's office in the Mülheim am Rhein district .

The place, which was categorized as an isolated house and designated Eichenthal in 1845 according to the overview of the government district of Cologne , had at that time a residential building with one inhabitant of the Catholic faith and three inhabitants of the Protestant denomination.

A list of inhabitants in 1846 counted in Eichenthal eight residents: the evangelical Ackerer Wilhelm Otto and his wife Amalia, the minor children Amalia, Emilia, Carolina and William, also the maid Catharina cherry and Dienstknecht Wilhelm Putz. On the list of residents and livestock from 1848, which was primarily used to collect taxes, the authorities noted the property of Wilhelm Otto: 2 oxen, 2 cows .

Between 1854 and 1867 the building was used by the Honrather union , a Belgian mining company. Their director had the English garden laid out. The municipal and Gutbezirksstatistik the Rhine Province leads Eichthal 1871 with a dwelling house, but no inhabitants. In 1880 it went to the Cologne architect Wilhelm Gärtner, who built an extension in 1891.

In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province of 1888, a house with five residents is given for Eichthal . In 1895 the place had a house with two inhabitants, in 1905 one house and three inhabitants are given.

After several changes of ownership, the Cologne merchant Carl Peters bought the property in 1900 . He owned the Peters department store on Breite Strasse in Cologne , from which Karstadt later emerged. In 1903 and the mid-1920s, the property was completely rebuilt, but the main house has not been changed since then. In the second renovation, Peters built a garden pavilion and expanded the English garden.

In 1948 his daughter Charlotte Peters signed the property over to the city of Overath.

today

Today the building is a branch of the Rhenish Office for the Preservation of Land Monuments .

As part of the Regionale 2010 , Gut Eichthal is a location for the “Bridging Nature and Education” project, in which nature-related educational offers, especially for young people, are planned.

The city of Overath plans to restore the English garden. A bridge over the Agger to the parking lots of the nearby Cyriax school center and a bathing facility were also built.

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  Pedestrian bridge from Broich to Gut Eichthal

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  Agger between Broich and Gut Eichthal

swell

• Rudolf Preuss: Gut Eichthal in Overath. In: Bergischer Geschichtsverein (ed.): Achera. Contributions to the history of the city of Overath. Episode 8 (2004). QuickPrinter GmbH, Overath. P. 32f, ISSN  0724-1534

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heimat und Bürgererverein Overath Gut Eichthal ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
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]
3. ↑ Berthold Gladbach, Peter Lückerath: The Overather population in lists of names, taxes and residents from the 15th to the 20th century, pp. 273, 343. Ed .: Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg, Bergisch Gladbach 2016. ISBN 978-3-932326-75-2
4. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
5. ↑ 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.
6. ↑ 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.
7. ↑ Königliches Statistisches 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.

literature

• Hartwig Soicke and Karl Schiffbauer: “Gut Eichthal and its residents. A little wandering through time ”. Ed .: Bergischer Geschichtsverein Overath. Special edition of the magazine "Achera", Overath 2019. ISSN 0724-1534

Web links

Commons : Gut Eichthal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Friends of Gut Eichthal /