Landwehr (Overath)

Landwehr City of Overath Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 22 "  N , 7 ° 20 ′ 58"  E
Height :	273 m
Postal code :	51491
Area code :	02206
Location of Landwehr in Overath
Aerial view of the Landwehr

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

Location and description

Landwehr is on Landesstraße 360 ​​and is part of the Marialinden district , an old pilgrimage site . It borders on the districts of Lorkenhöhe in the direction of Federath and on Krampenhöhe . A nature reserve separates it from Krahwinkel . The source area of ​​the Kleiner Naafbach is located near the village .

In Landwehr only a few Bergische half-timbered houses can be seen, especially modern single houses characterize the picture. There are no more shops in the district.

Postmarked Landwehr

Until the end of the 1960s, Landwehr had its own post office, which was founded by the British occupying forces around 1946 as a post office and which also used its own postmark. A small grocery store closed in 1976.

Customs have survived: neighbors decorate the doors or gates of bridal couples or communion children with wreaths, flowers and crosses, street parties are also celebrated together.

history

Landwehr was created in the first half of the 19th century and is not yet recorded on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824. The Prussian first recording from 1845 shows the residential area under the name Landwehr Häuschen . From the Prussian new admission of 1892, the place is regularly recorded on the measurement table as a Landwehr .

The place was on the Brüderstraße , an important medieval old highway from Flanders via Cologne to Leipzig . On the route of the old high route , the state road 360 runs in this section today.

The town, which was categorized as an isolated house in 1845 according to the survey of the government district of Cologne , had at that time a house with eight inhabitants, all of whom were Catholic. The list of inhabitants and livestock from 1848 names 8 inhabitants in Landwehr: Johann Büscher's family of seven, to whom a cow is assigned, and the widower Peter Fähre.

The municipal and Gutbezirksstatistik the Rhine Province leads Landwehr 1874 with a house and six residents. He belonged to the Overath mayor's office in the Mülheim am Rhein district . In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province of 1888, three houses with 16 inhabitants are given for Landwehr. In 1895 the place has four houses with 17 inhabitants and belonged denominationally to the Catholic parish Marialinden, in 1905 five houses and 30 inhabitants are given.

The place name Landwehr refers to a road barrier on Brüderstraße, which was 1.5 Prussian rods and 1.5 feet wide and was called like similar systems in the Grengel region. This Landwehr moved from the source area of ​​the Kleiner Naafbach over the Höhenweg to the source area of ​​the Krahwinkler Siefens and thus efficiently blocked the passage at this point. The total area of ​​the Landwehr strip was 1 acre and 106 rods. A Moritz Fischer from Krausenhöhe leased this area in 1772 for an annual long lease of 20 Albus . In 1938 a piece of the Landwehr moat was still available south of the village. In Landwehr, only the name of a street and a restaurant reminds us that there was a road block here in earlier times.

From Landwehr you can sometimes watch roe deer and a herd of mouflons in the valley between Linde , Krahwinkel and Landwehr, which graze and sunbathe on harvested fields. Their home is the forest near Linde. The area hit the headlines because a newly immigrated she-wolf has probably killed one of these mouflons. The area is now one of the suspected wolf areas in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis , which the NRW Ministry of the Environment set up.

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  Gasthaus zur Landwehr

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  View from Landwehr to Hülsen

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  Turning hammer in Landwehr

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  Wedding wreath

Individual evidence

1. ^ Herbert Nicke : The Brothers Street. From the history of the old country road from Cologne to Siegen . In: Land and history between Berg, Wildenburg and South Westphalia . tape 4 . Galunder, Wiehl 2001, p. 70 ff .
2. ↑ 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]
3. ↑ Berthold Gladbach and Peter Lückerath: The Overather population in lists of names, taxes and residents from the 15th to the 20th century , p. 352. Ed. Bergischer Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg, Bergisch Gladbach 2016. ISBN 978-3-932326- 75-2
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. ↑ 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.
8. ^ Wilhelm Engels : The Landwehr in the outskirts of the Duchy of Berg . In: Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein . tape 66 , born in 1938. Martini & Grüttefien, Elberfeld 1938, p. 121 f .
9. ^ Stephan Brockmeier: Cross-border commuters from Overath. The wolf comes from Engelskirchen . In: Kölner Stadtanzeiger from November 7, 2019.
10. ↑ Bergisches Land becomes a suspected wolf area . At: Radio Berg on December 3, 2019. [1]

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