Oberkretze

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Oberkretze
City of Hückeswagen
Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 7 ″  N , 7 ° 19 ′ 27 ″  E
Height : 253 m above sea level NN
Oberkretze (Hückeswagen)
Oberkretze

Location of Oberkretze in Hückeswagen

Oberkretze , also Kritze or Kretze in the 19th century , 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

Oberkretze was in the valley of the Wupper in the northern Hückeswagen. Neighboring places were the also lost Niederkretze , Karrenstein , Steffenshagen , Vosshagen , Dürhagen , Engelshagen and Niederhombrechen .

The court was accessible via an access road from Niederhombrechen, a footbridge led over the Wupper at Oberkretze.

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 farm as n.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, Oberkretze belonged to the Herdingsfelder Honschaft under the name of Kritz , 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 administrative district of Düsseldorf , had a residential house and three agricultural buildings at that time. At that time there were seven people living in the village, all of whom were Protestant.

In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province in 1885, a house with eight inhabitants is given. At that time the place belonged to the rural community Neuhückeswagen within the Lennep district . In 1895 the place had a house with nine inhabitants, in 1905 one house and seven inhabitants.

In the 1970s, the buildings for the planned construction of the Wuppertalsperre were demolished. At the same time, the Neukretze court was re-established a few hundred meters east of Oberkretze . In 1982 the damming began, which flooded the residential area.

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Pampus; First documentary mention of Oberbergischer places
  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 Oberkretze at wupperindustrie.de