Menrath

Menrath Odenthal municipality Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 23 ″ N , 7 ° 7 ′ 16 ″ E
Height :	90 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	51519
Area code :	02174
Location of Menrath in Odenthal
	Old farm near Strauweiler Castle

Menrath is a district in Unterodenthal in the municipality of Odenthal in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis . It is located on Altenberger-Dom-Straße not far from Strauweiler Castle .

history

The name Menrath is made up of “mene, menne” meaning land route, driving route, roadway and “rode, rath” meaning clearing . Today's Menrath was first mentioned as Hof Menrath in a document dated January 30, 1237, with which the goods were listed that belonged to Altenberg Abbey . For the year 1399 it was reported that Menrath belonged to the Altenberg court. The income register of Altenberg Abbey for the years 1499–1502 shows that Gut Menrath had to deliver 20 Malter oats, 3 Malter barley, 6 chickens, 100 eggs, 1 Malter rye and half a pig to the abbey every year .

During the War of the Spanish Succession , the Odenthalers also had to make their contributions to national defense. In this context, a Jan Menrather Halfen is listed among others . He had to provide a palisade , 16 fascines and 48 stakes .

The Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies , Blatt Amt Miselohe , shows that the residential area was categorized as Freyhof in 1715 and was named Menrad . From Carl Friedrich von Wiebeering's chart of the Duchy of Berg in 1789, it emerges that Menrath was part of Unterodenthal in the Odenthal lordship at that time .

Under the French administration between 1806 and 1813, the rule was dissolved. Menrath was politically assigned to Mairie Odenthal in the canton of Bensberg . In 1816 the Prussians converted the Mairie to the mayor's office in Odenthal in the Mülheim am Rhein district .

The place is regularly recorded as Menrath on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824, on the Prussian first survey from 1840 and from the Prussian new survey from 1892 onwards .

Population development
year	Residents	Residential building	category
1830	20th		Arable land
1845	12	1	Kotten and arable land
1871	23	3	Farm estates
1885	17th	3	Locality
1895	12	2	Locality
1905	12	2	Locality

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Gerd Müller: Odenthal, History of a Bergische Gemeinde, published by the Odenthal community, Odenthal 1976, page 14ff.
^ 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
↑ Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
↑ 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]
↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ 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, Issue XII), Berlin 1909.

[Muller-1] Gerd Müller: Odenthal, History of a Bergische Gemeinde, published by the Odenthal community, Odenthal 1976, page 14ff.

[Fabricius2-2] 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

[restorff2-3] Friedrich von Restorff : Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830

[Uebersicht-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.

[Gemeindelexikon1888-6] 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.

[Gemeindelexikon1897-7] 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.

[Gemeindelexikon1909-8] 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, Issue XII), Berlin 1909.