Marialinden

Marialinden City of Overath Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 57 ″  N , 7 ° 19 ′ 22 ″  E
Location of Marialinden in Overath
Marienbrunnen

Marialinden is a district of Overath in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis in the south of North Rhine-Westphalia . The place has around 2,400 inhabitants.

history

Marialinden is mentioned for the first time in 1515. There it says: " de named to Sevenlynden ind nu named to Marienlynden" . The text shows that the place was called Siebenlinden up to the renaming mentioned in the document . The original place name Siebenlinden goes back easily to seven linden trees in the place. 1526 is mentioned as Mergenlynden .

The following is recorded in a certificate:

"A few years ago in the municipality of Overath in the village of Marialinden, under the guidance of Almighty God and his blessed mother Maria, first a house of saints, then a chapel in honor of the same Maria, the mother of God was built."

Legend has it that a miraculous image was found in one of the former seven linden trees. After it was removed from there, it had miraculously returned to the hollow linden tree the next day. As a result, a house of saints was built on this site.

However, the actual, historically secured foundation of the church was different: at the site of today's sacristy , a hunting chapel of the Counts of Bernsau was built at the crossroads of the path from Bernsau via Höhe to Meegen and the Cologne – Siegen trade route ( Brüderstraße ). The “Bernsauer Jagdweg” still bears witness to this today. Later inns settled there.

Pilgrimage Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary

The Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies , Blatt Amt Steinbach , shows a church village that is labeled as Marialinden . Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking names the courtship on his charter of the Duchy of Berg in 1789 as Marialinden . It shows that the place was part of the Honschaft Burg in the parish of Overath at that time .

The place is recorded on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1817 as Marialinde . The Prussian first recording from 1845 shows the residential area under the name Marialinden . From the Prussian new admission of 1892, the place is regularly recorded on measuring table sheets as Marialinden .

In 1822, 86 people lived in the village, which was categorized as a church village and after the collapse of the Napoleonic administration and its replacement, it belonged to the Overath mayor in the Mülheim am Rhein district . For the year 1830 106 inhabitants are given for Marialinden. The town, which was categorized as a church village in 1845 according to the overview of the government district of Cologne , had 23 residential buildings with 122 inhabitants, all of them Catholic denominations.

The municipality and manor district statistics of the Rhine province list Marialinden 1871 with 25 houses and 163 inhabitants. In the municipality lexicon for the province of Rhineland from 1888, 26 houses with 149 inhabitants are given. In 1895 the place has 29 houses with 180 inhabitants and belonged denominationally to the Catholic parish of Marialinden, in 1905 35 houses and 249 inhabitants are given.

The church was probably donated by one of three noble daughters in connection with two other Marienkirchen ( Marienheide and Marienberghausen ). The church was expanded in 1897 to include the double-towered west facade.

For centuries and until today, Marialinden has remained a place of pilgrimage to Mary . The main street of the village was then named Pilgerstrasse. St. Mary's Visitation is a pilgrimage church and the town's landmark. Outward signs of the veneration of Mary are the representations of the Pietà (larger ones in wood, smaller ones in terracotta ) in the right aisle of the church from the Middle Ages .

Personalities

• Ferdinand Stiefelhagen (* 1822 in Marialinden, † 1902 in Cologne), Catholic theologian, priest, cathedral capitular in Cologne
• Carl Maria Finkelnburg (* 1832 in Marialinden, † 1896 in Godesberg), doctor
• Fritz Wester (* 1880 in Marialinden, † 1950 in Cologne), physician and central politician

Web links

Commons : Marialinden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Marialinden
• History of Marialinden (Marialinden Citizens Committee)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Heinrich Dittmaier : Settlement names and settlement history of the Bergisches Land . In: Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein . tape 74 , parallel edition as a publication by the Institute for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland at the University of Bonn. Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1956.
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. ↑ 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.