Höffe (Odenthal)

Höffe (Odenthal) Odenthal municipality Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 25 ″  N , 7 ° 8 ′ 39 ″  E
Height :	105 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	51519
Area code :	02202
Location of Höffe (Odenthal) in Odenthal
View of Höffe from the north

Höffe is a district in Unterodenthal in the municipality of Odenthal in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis . It is located in the middle of the Scherfbachtal and borders with its north-western and eastern side on the nature reserve Scherfbachtal (Odenthal) . In the eastern part of the Hambach flows into the Scherfbach .

history

The proper name Höffe is derived from “hoven” (farm), meaning at least two farms that belonged together. Overall, it was a feudal property of the lordship in Odenthal. The first documentary mention of Höffe comes from October 10, 1344, where a "Gottschalk von Hove" is mentioned; in the register of inhabitants from 1326-1344 he is listed as "Gottschalk von Scherf zu Höffe". At that time the village was part of the Scherf community .

The Guth in den Hoffen is listed in a memo on May 29, 1694 as a fief of the Hertehmenhof . As such, it had to pay nine Albus and five 2/3 Heller hereditary interest to the Herzogenhof .

During the War of the Spanish Succession , the Odenthalers also had to make their contributions to national defense. In this context, a “Conrad in den Höffen” is listed. He had to provide 6  fascines and 18  stakes . In addition, a "Fey Jans Wittib in Höffen with Wilhelmsguth" is performed, which had to provide 22 fascines and 66 stakes.

The Topographia Ducatus Montani of Erich Philipp Ploennies Leaf Office Miselohe , shows that the living space in 1715 as four farms has been categorized with courtyards was called. Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking the Hofschaft calls on its Charter of the Duchy of Berg in 1789 as Höffe . It shows that Höffe was part of Unterodenthal in the Odenthal rulership at that time .

Under the French administration between 1806 and 1813, the rule was dissolved. Höffe was politically assigned to Mairie Odenthal in the canton of Bensberg . In 1816 the Prussians converted the Mairie to the mayor's office in Odenthal in the Mülheim am Rhein district .

The place is recorded on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 and on the Prussian first survey of 1840 as courtyards . Since the Prussian new admission in 1892, he is regularly listed as a courtier on measuring table sheets . Höffe belongs to the Catholic parish Odenthal.

Population development

year	Residents	Residential building	category
1822	60		Arable land
1830	78
1845	90	15th	Arable land
1871	78	13	Yard
1885	74	16	Locality
1895	69	14th	Locality
1905	64	12	Locality

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  View in Höffe

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  Half-timbered house in Höffe

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Gerd Müller: Odenthal, History of a Bergische Gemeinde, published by the Odenthal community, Odenthal 1976, p. 12ff.
2. ^ 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
3. ↑ Alexander A. Mützell: New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . tape 1 . Karl August Künnel, Halle 1821.
4. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff :  Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
5. ↑ 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]
6. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
7. ↑ 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.
8. ↑ 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.
9. ↑ 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, Issue XII), Berlin 1909.