Leysiefen

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Leysiefen
Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 43 "  N , 7 ° 2 ′ 35"  E
Height : 86 m above sea level NN
Postal code : 42799
Leysiefen (Leichlingen (Rhineland))
Leysiefen

Location of Leysiefen in Leichlingen (Rhineland)
View of Leysiefen
View of Leysiefen

Leysiefen is a village that emerged from a court in the town of Leichlingen (Rhineland) in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis .

Location and description

Leysiefen is located in the Wupper valley northeast of the center of Leichling in the natural spatial unit of Lower Wuppertal . The nearby river forms the city limits to Solingen . The place on the edge of the forest borders on the nature reserve Wupperhangs with side depths and the Wupper north of Witzhelden and Leichlingen .

Neighboring towns are Haus Nesselrath , Altenhof , Kempen , Diepenbroich , Oberschmitte , Dierath , Hohlenweg and Pohligshof on Leichlinger and beyond the Wupper Wipperaue , Wippe , Wipperkotten , Hintenmeiswinkel , Friedrichshöhe , Friedrichsaue and Friedrichstal in the Solingen urban area.

The Motte Zoppesmur castle ruins are located in a wooded area on the Wupper near the village .

history

Entrance to Leyseifen

Leysiefen was first mentioned in 1280 as Leyginsyphen , in 1281 as Legensife and de Leinsippen . The place name is made up of the words as. Leia , ahd. Leige (= slate rock) and Siefen (for the origin of the word, see there). The name meaning is rocky brook valley .

The Topographia Ducatus Montani map from 1715 shows three farms under the name Leysivenhof . In the 18th century, the place belonged to the parish of Leichlingen in the Bergisches Amt Miselohe . The topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 and the Prussian first survey from 1844 both record the place as Leisiefen .

17 inhabitants lived in the village in 1815/16. In 1832 Leysiefen belonged to the mayor's office of Leichlingen under the name Leisiefer . The place, which was categorized as a court town according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , had three residential buildings and five agricultural buildings at the time. At that time, 23 residents lived in the village, two of them Catholic and 21 Protestant.

In the municipality lexicon for the province of Rhineland in 1885 ten houses with 69 inhabitants are given. In 1895 the place had ten houses with 66 inhabitants, in 1905 eleven houses and 58 inhabitants.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Dittmaier : Siedlungsnames und Siedlungsgeschichte des Bergisches Land , Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1956, p. 196 ( Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein , vol. 74 / parallel edition as a publication by the Institute for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland at the University of Bonn )
  2. ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ 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.