Morkepuetz

Morkepuetz City of Wiehl Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 59 ″ N , 7 ° 33 ′ 13 ″ E
Height :	260 m above sea level NN
Residents :	261 (Dec. 31, 2004)
Postal code :	51674
Area code :	02262
Location of Morkepütz in Wiehl
	Morkepuetz

Morkepütz is a village in the city of Wiehl in the Oberbergisches Kreis in the administrative district of Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Location and description

The place is about 2 km north of Wiehl town center. Morkepütz is located south of the federal motorway 4 .

history

Mentions

First mentioned in 1443 (in the manuscript Liber Luppelheim) as Morkenpissel .
1529 in an order of the Saynischen bailiff zu Homburg Quad zu Isengarten about the leasing of the Bliebach (Bleibach) farm to a Johann von Morkepütz.
Listed as Morkelütz on the A. Mercator map of 1575 . In the feed sheet of the Homburg rule of 1580, 4 Bergische and 4 Saynische subjects are counted as taxable in Morcken Pütz

Also subsequently different spellings. Probable meaning (according to Dittmayer):

Morke = Murke / toad
Pissel = Peisel (Pütz, pond, trough)

development

The spring basin, protected on the southern slope, with abundant water resources favored the development from a single farm to a rural mountain hamlet. Morkepütz is now a purely residential area.

The lead mine Bliebach with the neighboring field Christiania , located south of the Alpebach, has a checkered history. The ownership structure changed several times, with new beginnings following downtimes. 54 people were employed in 1889, 118 in 1900.
The mayor of Wiehl reported on the state of industry in 1905:

“The Siegfried union partially shut down operations at the Bliebach mine in November and fired around 100 workers because the ore found did not meet the requirements. There are currently around 80 workers doing outreach work. "

- Mayor of Wiehl

From the lead mine , which was finally abandoned in 1911 , only remnants of the spoil heaps can be found. Ores had been extracted in the area around Hof Bliebach centuries earlier, initially probably by collecting and digging in open-cast mining .
The laundry processing plant was located on the nearby Alpebach in Mühlhausen (Wiehl) .
1945: After midday on April 11, US soldiers came from Marienhagen from the Enselskamp forest to the village and surprised a handful of German soldiers who expected opposing forces to appear from the opposite direction after they were on the ridge in sight of Wiehl-Wülfringhausen Heiligenhäuschen had observed a violent battle that resulted in numerous dead and wounded on both sides. Warning shots brought the battle-weary soldiers out of houses and shelters, who laid down their weapons and surrendered. The villagers were sent into houses and cellars by the US soldiers. Under the impression of the shots, a hidden air force sergeant tried to flee to a nearby shelter. Because he ignored stop calls and warning shots, he was shot. The US unit drove through the village in a long column of vehicles. Some of the GIs supplied themselves with fresh food in the farmhouses before setting off again in the direction of the Aggertal.

particularities

In the nationwide competition Our village should be more beautiful , Morkepütz was awarded the title Silver Village in 1996.

On April 9, 2005, a memorial stone with a stone toad was before firefighters - hose tower inaugurated. The greywacke column with a replica toad is a gift. The sculpture is supposed to commemorate the naming of 1443, according to which Morkenpissel means toad pond according to historians .

societies

Morkepütz quarry nature reserve ( Wilhelmsbruch )

City of Wiehl volunteer fire brigade - Bomig-Morkepütz fire-fighting train

Steigerturm (old fire station ) under monument protection

Morkepuetz village community

literature

Village chronicle: 555 years of Morkepütz (1998) Ed. Dorfgemeinschaft Morkepütz eV
Hans Joachim Söhn, Lothar Wirths: Oat feed label. Inhabitants and fireplaces in the Homburg rulership in 1580 (= materials and sources on the Oberberg regional history. H. 3). Galunder, Gummersbach 2003, ISBN 3-89909-012-8 .
K. Walter Blass: Lead extraction in the Alpetal. The Bliebach mine. In: Harry Böseke: The road to work. a journey through time in stories, memories and pictures. Gronenberg, Wiehl 2002, ISBN 3-88265-238-1 , p. 60 ff.
112 more than just fire ... 125 years of the Bomig-Morkepuetz fire brigade of the Wiehl volunteer fire brigade. Fire fighting train Bomig-Morkepütz, Wiehl 2005.