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The Honschaft bar was from the Middle Ages to the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries one of seven Honschaften the parish Overath in the court of Keppel Berg Office Steinbach . The Honschaftsgebiet was between the Sülz and the Agger at the level of the Overather city center. Name-bearing places in the honors were Griesenbalken , Kleinbalken , Meesbalken and Probstbalken . The Honschaft was named after the Balker Höhe ridge on which a large part of the Honschaft area was located.
The honor has been documented since the middle of the 13th century. Living places and places in the Honschaft were, in addition to the titular towns, Oberbech , Diepenbroich , Ferrenberg , Ober- and Untergründemich , Höderath , Hufe , Hufenstuhl , Klef , Kotten , Lokenbach , Meegen , Stich , Weberhöhe , Wiedenhof and Wustsiefen .
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations of the historical atlas of the Rhine province, Volume 2: The map of 1789. Bonn, Hermann Behrend, 1898, p. 322
- ^ Franz Becher: 900 years Overath 1064-1964: Chronicle of the Overather Heimat , Bücken Sulzer, 2005, ISBN 9783936405286
- ↑ Chart of the Duchy of Berg by Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking , 1789
- ↑ Extract from the original cadastral maps of the localities in the western school district of the Mayor's Office Overath [Gem. Löderich, beam]. Made by the geometer Linder. For the correctness: Cologne, Feb. 1860. Kgl. Cadastral inspection