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Mees beam City of Overath Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 11 ″  N , 7 ° 17 ′ 30 ″  E
Location of Meesbalken in Overath

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

Location and description

The small district of Meesbalken, which is characterized by agriculture and trade, is located on Kreisstraße 38 above federal motorway 4.

history

The places Mees-, Probst- , Griesen- and Kleinbalken lie in a line on a Riedel-like hill . This suggests that the word form beams of the 13th century as Balcke referred to in records in local area this hill.

The Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies , Blatt Amt Steinbach , shows that the residential area had a courtyard as early as 1715, which is labeled as Miesbalcke . Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking names the court on his charter of the Duchy of Berg in 1789 as Miebelrath . It shows that the place was one of the titular places 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 a Mies bar . The Prussian first recording from 1845 shows the residential area under the name Miesbalken . From the Prussian new admission in 1892, the location is regularly recorded as a Meesbalken on measuring table sheets .

In 1822, 13 people lived in the place, which was categorized as a leasehold and called Miesbalken , 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 16 inhabitants are given for the place called Miesbalken . The place, which was categorized as a leasehold property in 1845 according to the overview of the government district of Cologne and was designated Mees-Balken , had a residential building with 13 inhabitants at that time, all of whom were Catholic. The list of inhabitants and cattle from 1848 names the village of Mesbalken and lists 7 inhabitants there. Including the family of four of the farmer Johann Müller, who owned 1 horse, 6 cows, 2 cattle, 3 calves and 5 pigs , as well as 3 servants without names. The local and Gutbezirksstatistik the Rhine Province leads Meesbalken 1871 with two houses and 21 residents. In the municipality lexicon for the province of Rhineland from 1888, two houses with 15 inhabitants are given for Meesbalken . In 1895 the place had two houses with 22 inhabitants and belonged denominationally to the Catholic parish of Marialinden, in 1905 two houses and 19 inhabitants are given.

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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. ↑ Berthold Gladbach, Peter Lückerath: The Overather population in lists of names, taxes and residents from the 15th to the 20th century , p. 343. Ed. Bergischer Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg, Bergisch Gladbach 2016. ISBN 978-3-932326- 75-2
7. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
8. ↑ 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.
9. ↑ 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.
10. ↑ Royal Statistical 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