Klef (Overath)

Klef City of Overath Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 55 ″  N , 7 ° 18 ′ 29 ″  E
Height :	106 m
Location of Klef in Overath
Hotel Alte Poststation

Klef is a district of Vilkerath in the town of Overath in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany .

Location and description

A small part of the district of Klef borders on federal highway 55 next to the Cologne - Gummersbach railway line and near the Agger . The hotel »Zur alten Poststation« reminds us that a transport connection existed here in the past. Up to an altitude, Klef is surrounded on three sides by forests, fields and meadows. In addition to another hotel and Bergisch half-timbered houses, modern individual houses in particular characterize the picture.

history

The place was first mentioned in a document in 1470. Klef and its forms Kleff , Klief , Klev , Clef , Clev are comparatively common place names in the region and derive from the Latin Clivus = hill , steeply sloping mountain slope , slope , embankment .

The Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies , Blatt Amt Steinbach , shows that the living space had a courtyard as early as 1715, which is labeled as Clef . The place is marked there with the symbol of a Freihof . Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking names the court on his charter of the Duchy of Berg in 1789 as Klef . From it it emerges that the place was part of the Honschaft Balken in the parish of Overath at that time .

The place is recorded on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1817 as Klev . The Prussian first recording from 1845 shows the residential area under the name Clef . From the Prussian new admission of 1892, the place is alternately recorded on measuring table sheets as Clef or Klef .

In 1822, 19 people lived in the place categorized as a courtyard , which after the collapse of the Napoleonic administration and its replacement, belonged to the Overath mayor's office in the Mülheim am Rhein district and was then called Kleverhof . For the year 1830 20 inhabitants are given for the place designated as leased property. The place categorized as a courtyard according to the overview of the government district of Cologne in 1845 had seven residential buildings with 60 inhabitants under the name of Kleve , all of them Catholic denominations. The municipality and estate district statistics of the Rhine province lists Klef under the name Clef 1871 with nine houses and 59 inhabitants. In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province of 1888, eleven houses with 67 inhabitants are given for Klef. In 1895 the place had twelve houses with 60 inhabitants, in 1905 13 houses and 52 inhabitants are given.

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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. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations for the Historical Atlas of the Rhine Province. Second volume: The map from 1789. Division and development of the territories from 1600 to 1794. Bonn 1898.
3. ↑ Alexander A. Mützell: New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . tape 2 . Karl August Künnel, Halle 1821.
4. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff :  Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
5. ↑ 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]
6. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
7. ↑ 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.
8. ↑ 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.
9. ↑ Königliches Statistisches 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.

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