Kreutzweg

This article covers the district in North Rhine-Westphalia. See also. Way of the Cross (disambiguation) .

Kreutzweg City of Overath Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 19 ″  N , 7 ° 17 ′ 54 ″  E
Height :	239 m above sea level NN
Location of Kreutzweg in Overath
Bus stop Kreutzweg / corner of Hohkeppeler Straße

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

Location and description

The small district of Kreutzweg essentially consists of an agricultural business and a residential building in Bergisches Fachwerk. It is connected to local public transport by the RSV bus lines 440 and 448 .

history

Kreutzweg was created in the second half of the 19th century at the intersection of today's L84 state road with the connecting road that branches off from federal road 55 at Rott in the Aggertal and leads via Oberheide , Bengelshöhe and Griessiefen to Kepplerburg . The national road 84 runs here on the ancient route of Heath Street , a major medieval Altfernstraße of Cologne via Kassel to Leipzig . From the Prussian new admission in 1892, the place is regularly recorded as Kreutzweg on measuring table sheets .

In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province of 1888, two houses with six residents are given for Kreutzweg . In 1895 the place had two houses with six inhabitants and belonged denominationally to the Catholic parish of Hohkeppel, in 1905 one house and eight inhabitants are given.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Herbert Nicke : The Heidenstrasse. History and landscape along the historic highway from Cologne to Kassel . In: Land and history between Berg, Wildenburg and South Westphalia . tape 6 . Galunder, Wiehl 2001, ISBN 3-931251-74-8 , pp. 38 f .
2. ↑ 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.
3. ↑ 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.
4. ↑ 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

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