Orth (Leichlingen)

Orth City of Leichlingen (Rhineland) Coordinates: 51 ° 7 ′ 33 ″  N , 7 ° 5 ′ 33 ″  E
Height :	221 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	42799
Location of Orth in Leichlingen (Rhineland)

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

Location and description

The place is northwest of Witzhelden on the state road 427 on the edge of the plateau, which drops to the north in the nature reserve Wupper slopes with side depths and the Wupper north of Witzhelden and Leichlingen steeply to the Lower Wuppertal . The foothills of the plateau towards the valley area are called Wupperberge . The place has grown together with its northeastern neighbor Wolfstall to form a settlement area. Other neighboring towns are Oberbüscherhof , Claasholz , Raderhof , Herscheid , Scharweg , Sieferhof and Flamerscheid .

history

The map Topographia Ducatus Montani from 1715 shows the farm under the name Orth . 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 Prussian first survey from 1844 record the place as Ort or Orth .

In 1815/16 51 people lived in the village. In 1832 Orth belonged to the Witzhelden parish of the Burscheid mayor . The place, categorized as a village according to the statistics and topography of the administrative district of Düsseldorf , had eleven residential buildings and 18 agricultural buildings at that time. At that time there were 69 residents living in the village, all of whom were Protestant.

Due to the municipal code for the Rhine province, the parish of Witzhelden received the status of a municipality in 1845, left the Burscheid mayor and formed its own mayor's office from 1850 onwards . In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province in 1885, 19 houses with 79 inhabitants are given. In 1895 the place had 17 houses with 78 inhabitants, in 1905 15 houses and 61 inhabitants.

On January 1, 1975, the municipality of Witzhelden was incorporated with Orth in Leichlingen.

Orth was from Wupperhof to the 1970 end point of the blade ring - mountain race on the national road 427, which was in turn blade ring from 1954 part of the wheel heading.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Topographical Information Management TIM-online, provided by the Cologne District Government
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.
6. ^ Federal Statistical Office (ed.): Historical municipality directory for the Federal Republic of Germany. Name, border and key number changes in municipalities, counties and administrative districts from May 27, 1970 to December 31, 1982 . W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart / Mainz 1983, ISBN 3-17-003263-1 , p. 298 .
7. ↑ Klingenring interest group. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 17, 2014 ; accessed on March 9, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.