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Olefin
City of Bergisch Gladbach
Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 19 ″ N , 7 ° 8 ′ 48 ″ E
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Location of Olefant in Bergisch Gladbach |
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 Olefant residential and commercial building
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Olefant also Olephant is a district in the Frankenforst district of Bergisch Gladbach .
history
The name Olefant takes up the old field name Olephant , which is contained in old names in Bensberg-Freiheit and Bensberg-Honschaft . In the early modern period , Olephant appears as a settlement name and is first mentioned in 1719. There are different interpretations of the meaning of the field name:
- It can be a drinking vessel. The Middle High German "Olifant / olivante" (= horn of an elephant, drinking horn) refers to a medieval hunting and drinking horn made of ivory . Such vessels were used for drinking after the ducal hunt in the Königsforst was celebrated.
- The spelling of the tub designation at Bensberg-Freiheit is Olephant . In Bensberg-Honschaft the spelling is Ollephant , with an "l" doubling. This gives rise to the possibility that a shrimp bakery located here is meant that used an oil pan. In the Rhenish dialect, oil is said to be ollich .
Mining
The Julien mine also extends around Olefant. In test drilling between 1966 and 1969, a deposit of around 1.5 million tons of minable zinc and lead ores was found here and an application was made for a mining and operating permit. After long negotiations with the mining authority in Siegen and the city of Bergisch Gladbach, mining was to begin on November 25, 1975 with a groundbreaking ceremony and at the same time the public was informed. That created unrest among the population. A citizens' initiative was founded, which had set itself the task of preventing future mining. The pressure became so strong that no further work was done. A notice of annulment was issued on March 22, 1977. The ore is still in the ground.
Bensberg train station
Since 1870 Bensberg was connected to the Cologne-Mülheim-Lindlar railway line with a train station . This passenger and freight station was here at the Olefant. On September 29, 1965, the last passenger train left Bensberg station. For the transport of goods, the railway line remained in operation until May 22, 1966. Some of the buildings stood until 1989.
literature
Kurt Kluxen : History of Bensberg , Paderborn 1976, ISBN 3-506-74590-5
Individual evidence
- ^ Andree Schulte, Bergisch Gladbach, city history in street names , published by the Bergisch Gladbach city archive, volume 3, and by the Bergisches Geschichtsverein department Rhein-Berg e. V., Volume 11, Bergisch Gladbach 1995, pp. 280 f., ISBN 3-9804448-0-5
- ^ Eisenbahn-Romantik in Bensberg accessed on April 29, 2015