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Central cup City of Overath Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 54 ″  N , 7 ° 14 ′ 54 ″  E
Height :	150 m above sea level NHN
Location of Mittelbech in Overath

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

Location and description

The district of Mittelbech is located above the federal motorway 4 on the district road 38, which connects Kreutzhäuschen with Steinenbrück. It is connected to local public transport by bus line 425. Places in the near are Heidermühle , Großhurden , Oberbech , Unterbech , and Heide .

history

The Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies , Blatt Amt Steinbach , shows that the living space had a courtyard as early as 1715, which is labeled as Bech . Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking names the court on his charter of the Duchy of Berg in 1789 as Bech . It shows that at that time the place was part of the Löderich family in the parish of Overath.

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

In 1822, 15 people lived in the place categorized as Hof and designated Bech , 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 19 inhabitants are given for the place designated as Bech . According to the overview of the government district of Cöln, categorized as Hof and designated Mittelbech in 1845 , it had five residential buildings with 21 residents, all of them Catholic denominations.

The list of residents and livestock from 1848 names nine people for Mittelbech. These include the farmer Peter Hasberg, who counts 1 ox, 1 cow and 1 cattle , as well as the day laborer Jacob Barg, owner of 1 cow . According to the list, the family of three of the farmer and Wittib Wilhelm Becher has no cattle. The name of the day laborer Johann Sommerheuser is noted: still has to identify himself . The municipality and district statistics of the Rhine Province lists Mittelbech in 1871 with seven houses and 38 inhabitants. In the municipality lexicon for the province of Rhineland from 1888, six houses with 25 inhabitants are given for Mittelbech . In 1895 the place had five houses with 20 inhabitants, in 1905 five houses and 26 inhabitants are given.

In the 19th century, non-ferrous metal ores were mined at the Achenbach mine.

school

At the beginning of the 19th century an elementary school was founded in Mittelbech, a secondary school of the Overath secondary school. The school chronicle reports in detail about the first teacher there: Johann Peter Schönenborn. He was responsible for the entire Löderich school district until 1835 . The classroom in Mittelbech was in Schönenborn's house. Because he was paralyzed and walked on crutches, he was nicknamed Kröckenpitter . He used crutches as a rod as a drastic means of maintaining order in the classroom. His educational methods went too far for the school supervisory authority under the direction of Pastor Schmidt in Overath, which is why Schönenborn had to pay a Reichstaler fine in 1824 because, as the authorities found, he had already been guilty of such improper punishments several times .

See also

• Holzbachaue nature reserve

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Regionalverkehr Köln GmbH
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 1 . Karl August Künnel, Halle 1821.
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 name tax and residents lists from the 15th to the 20th century , p. 337. Ed. Bergischer Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg e. V., 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
11. ^ Franz Becher: 900 years Overath / 1064-1964 . Reprint of the 1964 edition, pp. 206f. Edited by Bergischer Geschichtsverein Overath e. V., Verlag Bücken and Sulzer, Overath 1964. ISBN 3-936-405-28X