Oberschmitte

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Oberschmitte
Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 13 ″  N , 7 ° 2 ′ 6 ″  E
Height : 141 m above sea level NN
Postal code : 42799
Oberschmitte (Leichlingen (Rhineland))
Oberschmitte

Location of Oberschmitte in Leichlingen (Rhineland)

Oberschmitte is a village in the town of Leichlingen (Rhineland) in the Rheinisch-Bergisch district that emerged from a court .

Location and description

Oberschmitte is located northeast of the Leichlinger center on the Leichlinger plateau at the Landesstraße 359. Today the place forms a closed settlement area with the neighboring Bennert and Diepenbroich as well as Ellenbogen . North of Oberschmitte the plateau slopes down to the Lower Wuppertal , there is also the Siefental nature reserve north of Oberschmitte . The Bennert Municipal Community Primary School is located between Bennert and Oberschmitte.

Other neighboring towns are Leysiefen , Haus Nesselrath , Altenhof , Scheidt , Hohlenweg , Dierath , Hülstrung , Kuhle , Buntenbach , Weide , Waltenrath , Bergerhof and Bertenrath . Wüst has fallen Büchel house .

history

A Schmitte near Leichlingen was first mentioned in 1363 as being in the Smitten . It remains unclear whether this order (top) Schmitte or beyond the Wupper located under Schmitte is meant. The place name is derived from a forge . The map Topographia Ducatus Montani from 1715 shows the farm under the name Schmitten . In the 18th century, the place belonged to the parish of Leichlingen in the Bergisches Amt Miselohe . The topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 and the first Prussian survey from 1844 record the place as Schmitte and Ob.Schmidte .

In 1832 Oberschmitte belonged to the mayor's office of Leichlingen under the name Schmitte . The place, which was categorized as a court town according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , had six residential buildings and seven agricultural buildings at that time. At that time, 36 residents lived in the village, four of them Catholic and 32 Protestant.

In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province in 1885, 20 houses with 106 inhabitants are given. In 1895 the place had eleven houses with 51 inhabitants, in 1905 ten houses and 54 inhabitants.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Dittmaier : settlement names and settlement history of the Bergisches Land , Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1956 ( journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein , vol. 74 / parallel edition as a publication of the Institute for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland at the University of Bonn )
  2. Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Königliches Statistisches 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.