Petticoat

Petticoat City of Hückeswagen Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 9 ″  N , 7 ° 19 ′ 14 ″  E
Height :	253 m above sea level NN
Location of Niederkretze in Hückeswagen

Niederkretze , in the 19th century also Kritze or Kretze , was a court in Hückeswagen in the Oberbergisches Kreis in the administrative district of Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ). The yard was demolished for the construction of the Wuppertalsperre and the site is now flooded.

Location and description

Niederkretze lay in the northern Hückeswagen in the Wupper valley . Neighboring towns that were also lost were Oberkretze , Karrenstein , Steffenshagen , Vosshagen , Dürhagen , Engelshagen and Niederhombrechen .

The court was accessible via an access road from the direction of Dürhagen , a footbridge led across the Wupper at Niederkretze.

history

In 1481 the towns of Ober- and Niederkretze are mentioned in a list of donations for the Marien Altar of the Hückeswagen church. Both places are named "Im Kretze". The map Topographia Ducatus Montani from 1715 shows the courtyard as o.Kretz . In the 18th century the place belonged to the Bergisches Amt Bornefeld-Hückeswagen .

In 1815/16 14 people lived in the village. In 1832, under the name of Kritze , Niederkretze belonged to the Lüdorfer Honschaft , which was part of the Hückeswagen external citizenship within the Hückeswagen mayor's office . The place, categorized as a hamlet according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , had two residential buildings and four agricultural buildings at the time. At that time 19 residents lived in the place, all of them Protestant faith.

In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province in 1885, two houses with eight residents are given. At that time the place belonged to the rural community Neuhückeswagen within the Lennep district . In 1895 the place had two houses with 13 inhabitants, in 1905 two houses and nine inhabitants.

In the 1960s , the Motorsportfreunde Kräwinklerbrücke association held motocross races in the fields around Niederkretze . In 1964 the buildings for the planned construction of the Wuppertalsperre were demolished. In the 1970s, the Neukretze court was re-established a few hundred meters east of Niederkretze . In 1982 the damming began, which flooded the residential area.

In the 1970s, the energy company RWE considered building a nuclear power plant near Niederkretze . Due to the insecure supply of cooling water through the Wupper, these considerations were not continued.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Klaus Pampus: First documentary naming of Oberbergischer places (= contributions to Oberbergischen history. Sonderbd. 1). Oberbergische Department 1924 eV of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein, Gummersbach 1998, ISBN 3-88265-206-3 .
2. ^ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and topography of the administrative district of Düsseldorf. Part 2: Containing the statistical table of places and distances and the alphabetical index of place names. Schreiner, Düsseldorf 1836, p. 12 .
3. ^ Royal Statistical Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland province. Based on the materials from the census of December 1, 1885 and other official sources (= community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. Vol. 12, ZDB -ID 1046036-6 ). Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau, Berlin 1888.
4. ^ Royal Statistical Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland province. Based on the materials from the census of December 1, 1895 and other official sources (= community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. Vol. 12). Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau, Berlin 1897.
5. ^ Royal Statistical Bureau (Prussia) (Ed.): Community encyclopedia for the Rhineland province. Based on the materials from the census of December 1, 1905 and other official sources (= community encyclopedia for the Kingdom of Prussia. Vol. 12). Publishing house of the Royal Statistical Bureau, Berlin 1909.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Niederkretze at wupperindustrie.de