Köttingen (Langenfeld)

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Köttingen
Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 54 ″  N , 6 ° 58 ′ 31 ″  E
Height : 62 m above sea level NN
Köttingen (Langenfeld (Rhineland))
Köttingen

Location of Köttingen in Langenfeld (Rhineland)

Köttingen is a locality of Reusrath and Reusrath is a district of Langenfeld .

location

Gut Höschen, Hausingen or Köttingen? At the confluence of Trompeter Str. With B 8

The current location of Köttingen includes Steinstrasse without Kämpe , the upper part of Brunnenstrasse and Opladener Strasse between Hausingen and Gut Hecke . The Gut Höschen monument shown in the picture , the former courtyard complex Opladener Straße 133 , forms the extreme north of the location, the Gut Hecke monument , the still existing courtyard complex Opladener Straße 197 , is adjacent to the south. Towards Schnepprath, there is currently a new development plan for the Köttingen area , which allows the individual local locations to grow closer together. With the densification of the buildings and the settlement of additional residents in this area, the earlier settlement structures with individual farmsteads continue to dissolve.

history

Köttingen has always been used for agriculture through some farms. As a place ending in -ingen , Köttingen is one of the earliest settlement names in our area. The place name research dates the founding to the time of the so-called declining Frankish conquest in the 6th and 7th centuries. This means that Köttingen, together with Hausingen and Bodingen (the last place name has expired in Reusrath), was settled earlier than the actual Reusrath (around the old market ). In addition, the Mauspfad , the oldest trade route through the Rhineland , passed Köttingen.

The large number of small hamlets, by the way, which once formed the Reusrath district and whose existence is reflected in the many locations, exemplifies the former settlement structure in the whole of Langenfeld. From a large number of scattered farmsteads and smaller settlements, today's Langenfeld first had to develop into an urban structure .

Despite the long history of the settlement, we did not find out anything in writing about Köttingen and "Köttingern" until the end of the Thirty Years' War , when on June 10, 1649 and April 9, 1665, men from all over Reusrath and men from Köttingen went through "witness interrogation" for the so-called normal year were interviewed. According to an agreement of the Peace of Westphalia , inquiries about the denominations were made in 1624. At that time, most of the men from all over Reusrath agreed that no one other than a Roman Catholic priest had been active at the time. They named the man Vicarius Krausskop . A few others, on the other hand, could remember a Lutheran preacher named Wilhelm Erhardi , so that clergymen of both denominations were detained in Reusrath for the normal year . The number of the respective witnesses , however, said nothing about the actual number of followers of a respective denomination, so that only when the religious comparison concluded in 1672 between the Elector of Brandenburg and the Count Palatinate of Pfalz-Neuburg came peace. He again allowed the Lutherans at Reusrath to practice their religion freely.

About the name

While the name researcher Heinrich Dittmaier suspects the founding of a Bodo with regard to Bodingen , Hans Bahlow adopts a name of Celtic origin that could be associated with or derived from water , swamp , mud , mold or moor . The same applies to Bahlow for Köttingen while Dittmaier respect Kött -ingens emanating from a building name. Whether the Gut Höschen, which was still called Gut Höschen in the 1920s and 19330s, could have formed the nucleus of the village of Köttingen, could at best be "wildly conjectured".

Miscellaneous

  • In 1799 a trader from Köttingen is mentioned.
  • In 1902 the first paving channels were laid near Köttingen to secure the former Cologne-Arnheimer Chaussee, today's B 8 .
  • In 1913 a " farm worker " Karl Joest from Köttingen was named as deputy arbitrator for Hermann Zons from Kämpe .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e f Rolf Müller, " Stadtgeschichte Langenfeld Rheinland ", Verlag Stadtarchiv Langenfeld 1992
  2. ^ Friedhelm Görgens: Langenfeld , Droste, Düsseldorf 1984
  3. ^ VVV eV, home book of the community Richrath-Reusrath , Hense Druck 1928, facsimile, Verlag Rheinlandia 1986