Oberbech (Overath)

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Oberbech
City of Overath
Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 3 ″  N , 7 ° 15 ′ 31 ″  E
Height : 163 m above sea level NHN
Oberbech (Overath)
Oberbech

Location of Oberbech in Overath

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

Location and description

Oberbech is located above the federal highway 4 on the district road 38, which connects Steinenbrück with Kreutzhäuschen . Places in the near are Stich , Heidermühle , Mittelbech , Weberhöhe and Wüsterhöhe .

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 marked as Freihof and labeled as Bech . Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking names the court on his charter of the Duchy of Berg in 1789 as Bech . From it it emerges that the place was part of the Honschaft Balken in the parish of Overath at that time . 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 Oberbech on measurement 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 . The municipality and estate district statistics of the Rhine province lists Oberbech in 1871 with four houses and 20 inhabitants. In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province of 1888, four houses with 24 inhabitants are given for Oberbech . In 1895 the place had three houses with twelve inhabitants, in 1905 four houses and 13 inhabitants are given.

In the 19th century, non-ferrous metal ores were mined in the Hermann and Bavaria mines .

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 1 . Karl August Künnel, Halle 1821.
  3. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff :  Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
  4. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ 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