Leverkusen (Remscheid)
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Leverkusen
City of Remscheid
Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 21 ″ N , 7 ° 15 ′ 56 ″ E
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 Leverkusen
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Leverkusen is a court in the southeast of the Bergisch city of Remscheid in North Rhine-Westphalia .
Location and description
Leverkusen belongs to the statistical district of Engelsburg in the Lennep district and is located at a height of 314 meters above sea level at the root of the tank dam . Neighboring villages / locations are Engelsburg , Eichenhof , Repslöh , Eichendahlerhof and Stöcken .
To the west of Leverkusen run the federal highway 51 and the route of the disused railway line Wuppertal-Oberbarmen-Opladen , which is now used as a cycle and footpath. From here there are direct connections to the Oberbergisches Land, to Lennep and to Wermelskirchen and to Leverkusen-Opladen.
history
Leverkusen was first mentioned in 1247 as Laverinckhusen . In 1487 the place was called Leverkusin . The -inghausen -form of the court name suggests an early settlement in the 6th to 8th centuries by tribes from the Saxon area. From 1658 the first inhabitants of the place are to be proven by name. The map Topographia Ducatus Montani from 1715 shows the farm as Lebrickhusen . In the 18th century, the place belonged to the area of fifteen yards within the Bergisches Amt Bornefeld-Hückeswagen .
In 1815/16 there were 29 people living in the village. In 1832 Leverkusen was part of the rural community of Fünfzehnhöfe, which was founded in 1806 and now belonged to the mayor's office of Wermelskirchen . Which according to the statistics and topography of the district of Dusseldorf as Ackergut designated place had at this time four homes and four farm buildings. At that time 32 residents lived in the place, two Catholic and 30 Protestant faith.
The chemical entrepreneur Carl Leverkus came from this farm and founded a chemical factory near Wiesdorf am Rhein in the mid-19th century. In memory of the family seat in Lennep, he gave the settlement of his workers there the name Leverkusen , which was transferred to the newly founded city of Leverkusen in 1930 . At that time, as part of a local government reform, the towns of Rheindorf , Schlebusch , Steinbüchel and Wiesdorf were merged into one city, although the new town name should not be based on one of the old place names.
In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province , six houses with 47 inhabitants are given for the year 1885. At that time the place belonged to the mayor's office of Fünfzehnhöfe within the Lennep district . In 1895 the place had six houses with 43 inhabitants, in 1905 six houses and 43 inhabitants. In 1906, the mayor's office was incorporated into the city of Lennep with Leverkusen.
Leverkuser Strasse in Lennep - located between Wupperstrasse and the commercial complex on Ringstrasse - is also reminiscent of Carl Leverkus and the court .
Individual evidence
- ↑ On May 5, 1658, the baptism of Antonius von Leffrinckhausen as the son of Antonius von Leffrinckhausen is recorded in Lennep (evidence: Carsten Pick, Familienbuch Lennep , 2014, p. 1674; there also other spellings of the place).
- ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.