Neichen (Overath)

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Neichen
City of Overath
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 52 ″  N , 7 ° 13 ′ 28 ″  E
Height : 136 m above sea level NN
Neichen (Overath)
Neichen

Location of Neichen in Overath
Friedenskirche Neichen
Friedenskirche Neichen

Neichen 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 Neichen lies above the federal motorway 4 and is growing together with Nallingen to form a common settlement area. Places in the near are Stichermühle am Holzbach, Müllenholz , Unterbech , Kleinhurden and Steeg . In terms of natural space, the area belongs to the Sülz plateau .

history

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 Nigen . From the chart of the Duchy of Berg by Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking from 1789, it emerges that the place was part of the Löderich family in the Overath parish at that time .

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

In 1822, eleven people lived in the town, which was categorized as a leasehold and called Neichen , 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 eleven inhabitants are given for the place called Neichen . The place, which was categorized as a courtyard in 1845 according to the overview of the government district of Cologne , had three residential buildings with 22 inhabitants at that time, all of them Catholic denominations.

The list of inhabitants and livestock from 1848 has 26 inhabitants in Neichen and names and professions of heads of households. So three of them are farmers . The family of six of a Gerhard Schleifer (four children) has 1 ox, 2 cows, 2 pigs and a Wilhelm Schmitt (three children) 2 cows, 1 cattle . Wittib Heinrich Schwamborn's family of six owns just as little cattle as the miners Heinrich Böhm and Adam Rockemann and the day laborers Peter Meyer and Frank Schleifer. A total of five unnamed servants are counted as servants .

The municipal and Gutbezirksstatistik the Rhine Province leads Neichen 1871 with six houses and 62 residents. In the municipality encyclopedia for the Rhineland province of 1888, seven houses with 41 inhabitants are given for Neichen . In 1895 the place had seven houses with 55 inhabitants. In 1905 eight houses and 53 inhabitants are given.

The most famous building in Neichen is the former Protestant Church of Peace Neichen , built in 1965 by architect Paul Smrha . Due to the dwindling number of visitors and financial difficulties, it was de-dedicated in April 2017 and the building was sold to the Free Church of Overath .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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
  2. ↑ Alexander A. Mützell: New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . tape 3 . Karl August Künnel, Halle 1822.
  3. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff :  Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
  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. ^ Berthold Gladbach, Peter Lückerath: The Overather population in lists of names, taxes and residents from the 15th to the 20th century, p. 182. Ed .: Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg, Bergisch Gladbach 2016. ISBN 978-3-932326-75 -2 , p. 335
  6. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ 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
  10. ↑ Stefan Brockmeier: The Friedenskirche Neichen is sold in: Kölner Stadtanzeiger from March 15, 2017. [1] /

literature

  • Karl-Heinz Weyers: The Protestant Peace Church in Steinenbrück-Neichen . In: Achera, contributions to the history of the city of Overath, part 8. Ed .: Bergischer Geschichtsverein Overath eV, Overath 2004, p. 12 f ISSN  0724-1534

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