Meegen (Overath)

Meegen City of Overath Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 49 ″  N , 7 ° 17 ′ 4 ″  E
Height :	199 m above sea level NN
Location of Meegen in Overath

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

Location and description

The agricultural hamlet of Meegen is best reached from the center of Vilkerath via Hohkeppler Straße (Landesstraße 84). It consists of a few courtyards and individual houses, mainly in Bergisches half-timbered houses. Neighboring places are Hufenstuhl and Hufe .

Two tributaries of the Backenbach have their source near Meegen .

history

Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking names the court on his charter of the Duchy of Berg in 1789 as Megen . From it it emerges that the place was part of the Honschaft Balken in the parish of Overath at that time .

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

In 1822, 35 and 30 people respectively lived in the two Overather Meigen in two places categorized as courtyards, which after the collapse of the Napoleonic administration and its replacement belonged to the Overath mayor in the Mülheim am Rhein district . It is not clear from the list which of them is the Meigen mentioned here. For the year 1830, 41 and 36 inhabitants are given for the two places called Meigen . In 1845, according to the survey of the government district of Cöln, categorized as a courtyard and designated as Meegen , at that time it had five residential buildings with 32 residents, all of them Catholic denominations. The municipality and estate district statistics of the Rhine Province in 1871 list two Meegen with five residential buildings and 30 residents and seven residential buildings and 28 residents. In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province of 1888, seven houses with 31 inhabitants are given for Meegen near Hohkeppel . In 1895 the place had four houses with 25 inhabitants and belonged denominationally to the Catholic parish of Hohkeppel , in 1905 five houses and 27 inhabitants are given.

See also

• Lehmichsbachtal nature reserve

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. ↑ Alexander A. Mützell: New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . tape 3 . Karl August Künnel, Halle 1822.
3. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff :  Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
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.

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