Katterbach (Bergisch Gladbach)

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Katterbach is a district of Bergisch Gladbach and belongs with the number 12 to the statistics district 1 of the city.

The name Katterbach

The stream named Katterbach gave the former hamlet and today's district its name. It rises in the area where Voiswinkeler Strasse and Hufer Weg meet. There are different interpretations for the defining word “hangover”. While the earliest mention of the name in the late Middle Ages is in today's spelling, the form "Kattenbach" can also be found in the 18th century. The original cadastre records the settlement in the dialect "Kattemich" form. The word is most likely derived from the Old High German "kataro" (= hangover), which is etymologically related to the late Latin "cattus / catta" . Accordingly, the name would have referred to a flowing body of water on which the wildcat, which was exterminated in the Rhineland, originally lived.

history

The Katterbach settlement was probably founded in Franconian times and is therefore one of the oldest early medieval settlement centers in the Bergisch Gladbach urban area. In the High Middle Ages there was a farm whose owner was mentioned in 1222 as "Jakob Herr zu Katterbach und über dem Bach" . In the 15th century there were two farmsteads on both sides of the brook, which the “Paffrath Red Missal” names under the place name “Katterberch” . The manor Katterbach was owned by the noble family of the same name, which went out in 1802 with Philipp von Katterbach . Until the beginning of the 20th century, Katterbach was limited to the original hamlet, which in 1841 consisted of only four to six smaller buildings.

The increasing population growth since the 1880s also resulted in increasing construction activity, so that within a few decades the centuries-old settlement area around Katterbach developed into a not closed, but densely built-up "district" that was the original Has largely reshaped the settlement landscape. Before the introduction of the so-called “living spaces”, Katterbach belonged to Paffrath and partly to Schildgen .

Traces of medieval mining on lawn iron stone and medieval iron smelting furnaces have been found in numerous places . During excavations, many kilns with fragments of the famous Paffrath spherical pots were found here .

population

According to the EDP population register, Katterbach had a total of 4,925 residents on June 30, 2017 (421 of them foreigners). The age group over 65 years with 1,264 inhabitants (of which 75 foreigners) was significantly stronger than the age group under 18 years with only 829 inhabitants (of which 48 foreigners).

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Andree Schulte Bergisch Gladbach, City History in Street Names , Bergisch Gladbach 2015, p. 41ff., ISBN 978-3-9813488-4-2 .
  2. ↑ Paul Holtermann: From the old Paffrath , in: Between Wipper und Rhein, Heimatblätter for the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis, No. 13, December 1948, p. 18
  3. ^ Herbert Stahl (editor), Gerhard Geurts , Hans Dieter Hilden, Herbert Ommer : Das Erbe des Erzes, Volume 3, The pits in the Paffrather Kalkmulde. Bergisch Gladbach 2006, p. 32 f. ISBN 3-932326-49-0
  4. ^ Statistics - City of Bergisch Gladbach. Retrieved July 25, 2017 .

literature

  • Helmut Rosenbach: Katterbach, a little local history , Schildgen 1971
  • Heinz Ewald Junkers (Hrsg.): The Paffrather Red Missing Book. Translated u. commented by Lothar Speer. Paffrather Raiffeisen Bank, Bergisch Gladbach 1991
  • Helmut Rosenbach: The old Paffrath, - Katterbach - Paffrath - Hand - , Bergisch Gladbach 1993
  • Anja Cakmak, Maria Frantzen, Lilian Gätke: 125 years of the Katterbach school, history and history of Bergisch Gladbach 1996
  • Helmut Rosenbach: Paffrath kaleidoscope with a view of Hand and Katterbach , Bergisch Gladbach 1998

Coordinates: 51 ° 0 '  N , 7 ° 4'  E