Kettenberg (Kürten)

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Kettenberg
Kurten municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 26 ″  N , 7 ° 15 ′ 7 ″  E
Postal code : 51515
Kettenberg (Kürten)
Kettenberg

Location of Kettenberg in Kürten

Kettenberg is a residential area in the municipality of Kürten in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis .

Location and description

The place is away from national roads north of Breibach .

history

Kettenberg was first mentioned in 1280 as Ketherberghe . The appellative in the place name is not difficult to recognize Berg , the meaning of the determinant is unclear.

In 1822 five people lived in the place categorized as a house and called Kettenberg . The place, which was categorized as an isolated house in 1845 according to the overview of the government district of Cologne , had a residential building at that time. At that time, ten residents lived in the village, all of them of Catholic faith. The municipality and estate district statistics of the Rhine Province lists Kettenberg 1871 with three houses and 13 inhabitants. In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province from 1888, four residential buildings with 21 inhabitants are given. In 1895 the place had four houses and 22 residents. In 1905 the place had two houses and 16 residents and belonged denominationally to the Catholic parish of Kürten.

In 1927 the mayor's office in Kürten was transferred to the office of Kürten. In the Weimar Republic in 1929 the offices of Kürten were merged with the municipalities of Kürten and Bechen and Olpe with the municipalities of Olpe and Wipperfeld to form the office of Kürten. The Wipperfürth district became part of the Rheinisch-Bergisch district on October 1, 1932, with its seat in Bergisch Gladbach .

In 1975 the current municipality of Kürten was established on the basis of the Cologne Act , to which, in addition to the offices of Kürten, Bechen and Olpe, a sub-area of ​​the city of Bensberg with Dürscheid and the surrounding areas was added.

Others

The composer Karlheinz Stockhausen lived and died for many years in the small village of Kettenberg .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Heinrich Dittmaier : Settlement names and settlement history of the Bergisches Land . In: Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein . tape 74 , parallel edition as a publication by the Institute for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland at the University of Bonn. Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1956.
  2. ↑ Alexander A. Mützell: New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . tape 3 . Karl August Künnel, Halle 1822.
  3. ↑ Overview of the components and list of all the localities and individually named properties of the government district of Cologne: by districts, mayor's offices and parishes, with information on the number of people and the residential buildings, as well as the Confessions, Jurisdictions, Military and former state conditions. / ed. from the Royal Government of Cologne [Cologne], [1845]
  4. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
  5. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1888.
  6. ↑ Königliches Statistisches Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1895 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1897.
  7. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland Province, based on the materials of the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources, (Community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia, Volume XII), Berlin 1909
  8. ^ History of the municipality of Kürten
  9. ^ GV. NRW. 1974 p. 1072