Mellerhöfe

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Location of Mellerhöfe in Erftstadt

Mellerhöfe (also Meller ) forms together with Gymnich a district of Erftstadt in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis , North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

The origin of the place name Meller is unclear. It is possible that a Frankish settlement was built on a Roman milestone, "miliarium", which was named after this milestone.

middle Ages

Meller was first mentioned in 1155 in a manuscript from the Deutz Benedictine monastery as the place "Milre", which belonged to the Lechenich parish . In the Middle Ages , Meller was a small village consisting of several courtyards. Some courtyards were fiefs from the archbishopric Lechenich Castle, which were given to aristocrats . Some families, including those of the Jordan von Meller, mentioned in 1293, named themselves "von Meller" after their place of origin. Jordan was the ancestor of the noble von Meller family, who owned a fiefdom in Meller in the mid-15th century.

By inheritance, the court came to the Wolff Metternich family in 1485 via Iburg, the daughter of Heinrich von Meller zu Friesheim . The Mellerhof, which was also called Ottershof after the tenant Otter, remained in the possession of Count Wolff Metternich.

Modern times

Metternicher Hof, residential building

Meller never developed into a closed, protected village complex, so that the place was particularly affected by wars. During the Dutch War , houses and farmsteads were burned down and some were never rebuilt. During the siege of Lechenich in 1642, Meller, which was not far away, was also affected, the houses and farms still in existence were burned down again.

The residents of Meller, like the residents of Herrig, belonged to the Lechenich citizenry and together with Herrig paid the taxes due. They were represented by the Herriger mayor in the Lechenich city council. In the tax assessment of 1664 four houses and farms were recorded, the Adelshof of Wolff Metternich, the Weidenfelder or Mönchehof, the court of Wilhelm Statz and the smaller court of Jakob Bolder. In 1739 the number of taxable households in Meller remained unchanged. His heirs sold Jakob Bolder's farm to Messrs Wolff Metternich, who also acquired a large part of the Weidenfeld estate. These lands fell to the Metternicher Hof zu Meller. The remaining part of the Weidenfelder Hof was bought by the Kalscheuer family, who had also acquired the property of the Statz community of heirs.

19th and 20th centuries

In 1801 Meller consisted of two farms, the Metternicher Hof or Ottershof, and the farm of the Kalscheuer family. The place did not develop into a closed village in the following years, so that the name Mellerhöfe, which originated in the 19th century, retained its justification.

Mellerhöfe and Herrig belonged to the municipality of Mairie Lechenich of the canton of the same name during the Napoleonic period and to the mayor's office (since 1927 to the office) of Lechenich after 1815 . This division existed until the municipal administrative reform and the formation of the city of Erftstadt on July 1, 1969. After 1969, Mellerhöfe was assigned to Gymnich by the city of Erftstadt.

Today's townscape

Today the place consists of four courtyards and a few houses and is still strongly influenced by agriculture . The farms include the farm of the Statz families, already mentioned in 1664, and the Metternicher farm, which received a new owner in 1963. The house and courtyard were rebuilt, the old buildings were sold. After the restoration of the baroque house from 1730 and the other buildings in 1998 by the then owner, they were sold again.

In 2006, six wind turbines were built on the manageable fields between Mellerhöfe and Dirmerzheim to the east .

  • Entrance to Mellerhöfe

  • Metternicher Hof

  • Crucifix in Mellerhöfe

  • Wind turbines between Mellerhöfe and Dirmerzheim

literature

  • Karl and Hanna Stommel: Sources on the history of the city of Erftstadt. Vol. 1-5. Erftstadt 1990–1998.
  • Karl Stommel: The Mellerhöfe. In: The village of Blessem, The Mellerhöfe, Romanesque tower chapels. Euskirchen 1963.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Mürkens, The place names of the district of Euskirchen. Euskirchen 1958. Page 56/57
  2. ↑ HAStK inventory of Deutz Abbey RH2, copy of the lost Codex thiodorici
  3. ↑ HAStK Best. Auswärtiges 170b, published in: K. and H. Stommel, Sources for the history of the city of Erftstadt, Volume I No. 178
  4. ↑ HSTAD Kurköln II 1257, published in: Stommel, Quellen Volume II No. 1094
  5. ↑ Archive Schloss Gracht, file 554
  6. ↑ Archive Schloss Gracht, file 209
  7. ↑ Archive Schloss Gracht, file 51
  8. ^ Walram / Sarburg: The heroic defense of the castle and town of Lechenich 1642. Cologne 1643
  9. ↑ HAStK inventory Domstift Urkunde 3/1978, published in: Stommel, Quellen Volume III No. 1559
  10. ↑ Archive Schloss Gracht File 53
  11. ↑ HSTAD inventory Electorate of Cologne II in 1117, published in: Stommel, sources Volume IV No. 2,570th
  12. ↑ HSTAD Kurköln IV 2435, published in: Stommel, Quellen Volume V No. 2880
  13. ↑ K. Stommel, Die Mellerhöfe, pages 123-134 with a sketch by Meller around 1750
  14. ^ K. Stommel, the French population lists from Erftstadt 1798-1801, pages 261-262
  15. ↑ Martin Bünermann: The communities of the first reorganization program in North Rhine-Westphalia . Deutscher Gemeindeverlag, Cologne 1970, p. 86 .

Web links

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Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 15.9 ″  N , 6 ° 43 ′ 15.3 ″  E