Lorkenhöhe

Lorkenhöhe City of Overath Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 18 ″  N , 7 ° 21 ′ 18 ″  E
Height :	273 m above sea level NN
Location of Lorkenhöhe in Overath
Lorkenhöhe seen from the country road

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

Location and description

Lorkenhöhe is located on Landesstraße 360 ​​and is part of the Marialinden district , an old place of pilgrimage. The development is diverse. In addition to single houses, there are rental houses with social housing, agriculture and a horse farm. A biogas plant produces electricity from liquid manure, and an advertising sign indicates that a former carnival prince couple is running the butcher's shop , they are still slaughtering themselves.

history

The Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies , Blatt Amt Steinbach , shows that the residential area had four farmsteads as early as 1715, which are labeled as Lorkenhöh . Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking names the court on his charter of the Duchy of Berg in 1789 as Lorkenhöhe . It shows that the place was part of the Honschaft Oderscheid in the parish of Overath at that time .

The place is recorded on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 as Lorkenhöhe . The Prussian first recording from 1845 shows the residential area under the name Lorkenhöh . From the Prussian new admission of 1892, the place is regularly recorded as Lorkenhöhe on measuring table sheets .

The place was on the Brüderstraße , an important medieval old highway from Flanders via Cologne to Leipzig . Today the state road 360 runs within the town on the route of the old Höhenweg. The old Brüderstraße led on to Federath at the end of the town , and on this section the route was also used for today's road connection.

In 1822, 32 people lived in the place categorized as a courtyard and known as Lorkenhoh , which after the collapse of the Napoleonic administration and its replacement belonged to the Overath mayor in the Mülheim am Rhein district . For the year 1830 38 inhabitants are given for the place called Hof. The place, categorized as a hamlet in 1845 according to the overview of the government district of Cologne , had eight residential buildings with 43 inhabitants, all of them Catholic denominations. The municipal and Gutbezirksstatistik the Rhine Province leads Lorkenhöhe 1871 with nine houses and 32 residents. In the municipality lexicon for the province of Rhineland from 1888, eight houses with 53 inhabitants are given for Lorkenhöhe. In 1895 the place has nine houses with 46 inhabitants and belonged denominationally to the Catholic parish Marialinden, in 1905 eight houses and 46 inhabitants are given.

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  settlement

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  Country butchery

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  Butcher couple

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  Biogas plant

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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
2. ^ 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 .
3. ↑ Alexander A. Mützell: New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . tape 3 . Karl August Künnel, Halle 1822.
4. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff :  Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
5. ↑ 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]
6. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
7. ↑ 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.
8. ↑ 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.
9. ↑ 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.

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