Bilge wood

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Bilge wood
Kurten municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 1 ′ 21 ″  N , 7 ° 14 ′ 2 ″  E
Height : 242 m above sea level NN
Lenzholz (Kürten)
Bilge wood

Location of Lenzholz in Kürten
The Lenzholz farm
The Lenzholz farm

Lenzholz is a farm in the Bergisch municipality of Kürten .

Location and description

The courtyard is located at an altitude of 242  m above sea level. NN in the west of Kürten. Neighboring places are Biesfeld , Miebach , Meiswinkel , Nelsbach , Durhaus , Scheid , Eiserwarr and Lenninghausen .

At Lenzholz there is a tributary of the Miebach, a tributary of the Dürschbach . The main source of the Miebach rises to the east of the court. The Paffrath Kalkmulde reaches its easternmost extent near Lenzholz .

Etymology and history

An early name for the court was om Lenksholz . The name is derived from the agriculturally favorable location of the farm on the southern slope of an elevation (height 287.6 m above sea level ), where the cultivation of the fields  could be started early. Lenksen is as spring planting , start of field work . The place name suffix Holz , Holt denotes a forest.

The Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies from 1715, Blatt Amt Steinbach , shows that the Lenzholz farm had two farms as early as 1715, which are labeled as Lenshols . Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking names the court on his charter of the Duchy of Berg in 1789 as Lensholtz . It shows that Lenzholz was part of the Engelsdorf community in the parish of Kürten at that time .

Under the French administration between 1806 and 1813, the office of Steinbach was dissolved and the Honschaft Engelsdorf with Lenzholz was politically assigned to the Mairie Kürten in the canton of Wipperfürth . In 1816 the Prussians converted the Mairie to the mayor's office in Kürten in the Wipperfürth district .

Lenzholz is shown on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 with one living space and on the Prussian first survey from 1840 with two living spaces. From the Prussian new admission of 1892 it is regularly recorded on measuring table sheets , from the edition of 1958 with a third place to live.

In 1822 13 people lived in the place categorized as a courtyard and called Lensholz . The place, which was categorized as a courtyard in 1845 according to the overview of the government district of Cologne , had three houses at that time. At that time there were 20 people living in the village, all of them Catholic. The municipal and Gutbezirksstatistik the Rhine Province leads Lenz wooden 1871 with five houses and 21 residents. In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province of 1888, two houses with 14 inhabitants are given for Lenzholz. In 1895 the place has two houses with 14 inhabitants and belonged denominationally to the Catholic parish of Biesfeld, in 1905 two houses and 14 inhabitants are given.

Iron ore was mined south of Lenzholz in the Katharinaglück mine field as early as the 19th century .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Street names of the municipality of Kürten - origin and meaning ; History association for the municipality of Kürten and the surrounding area
  2. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations for the Historical Atlas of the Rhine Province ; Second volume: The map of 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 3 . Karl August Künnel, Halle 1822.
  4. ↑ 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]
  5. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ 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.