Hofstatt (Eitorf)

The hamlet of Hofstatt is a desert in the municipality of Eitorf .

The hamlet was first mentioned in documents around 1813 during the conscription under Napoleon , when two Hofstätter men had to join his army. It concerned Johann Peter Hönscheid (born August 19, 1792), the son of Johann Peter Hönscheid and Gertrud Görgens zu Hofstatt and Peter Müller, the son of Jakob Müller and Elisabeth Zimmermann zu Hofstatt.

In 1830 the homestead had 17 residents.

Just a few decades later, the settlement went under again. After Gottfried Löbach from Hofstatt with his wife Elisabeth born. Hönscheid had submitted an application to leave the country as an emigrant and Mathias Dohr died in 1884, who owned the property of the married couple Johann Rösgen and Anna Maria geb. Hönscheid had acquired, only the Peter Josef Müller family, farmers and tradesman zu Hofstatt lived here with his wife Susanne geb. Ottersbach (born May 15, 1833). On April 6, 1881, Peter Müller submitted an application to emigrate with his wife Susanne and their children. With their departure, the hamlet became deserted. In the location register of the Rhine province from 1885, one house and 10 residents are noted for Hefstadt in the municipality of Eitorf, which may be due to the slow emigration permit or location registration .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Provinces
2. ↑ Bruno Warminski: Between Ottersschpich on screed me . In: Eitorfer Heimatblätter . Special print. Heimatverein Eitorf e. V., Eitorf 2000, DNB  018600417 .
3. ^ Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia . Volume XII. Rhineland Province. Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau, Berlin 1888, p. 115 ( online [PDF; 1.5 MB ; accessed on December 17, 2015]).

Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 3 ″  N , 7 ° 28 ′ 27 ″  E