Höffgen (Bergisch Gladbach)

Höffgen City of Bergisch Gladbach Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 13 "  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 34"  E
Location of Höffgen in Bergisch Gladbach

Höffgen is a district in the Refrath district of Bergisch Gladbach .

history

Houses in Höffgen

The name of the settlement Höffgen takes up the old name Auf den Höfe in a dialectic subsidiary form . This is recorded in the original cadastre east of Vürels . The field name referred to the high medieval Weidenpescher Gut , which was laid out in the area of ​​the Gewannes as Köttersgut of the Vürelser Hof. Höffgen / Höfchen is derived as a diminutive of Höfen from the Middle High German "hof" (= court, home, property). It denotes a small agricultural property.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Andree Schulte, Bergisch Gladbach, city history in street names , published by the Bergisch Gladbach city archive, volume 3, and by the Bergisches Geschichtsverein department Rhein-Berg e. V., Volume 11, Bergisch Gladbach 1995, p. 246, ISBN 3-9804448-0-5

literature

• Gerd Müller: Refrath, history of the districts of Bensberg-Refrath and -Frankenforst , published by Peter Bürling in collaboration with the city of Bensberg, 1974