Piddelborn
Piddelborn is a district in the Gronau district of Bergisch Gladbach .
history
The name Piddelborn goes back to an early modern settlement name, which is documented for 1595 as at Piddelborn . The original cadastre records the Piddelborn farm as being on the road from Mülheim to Gladbach (today's Mülheimer Straße). There are different explanations for the interpretation of the name Piddelborn:
- The basic word born referred to a small spring (= Born) that was located in a nearby reed pond.
- The borrowed word Piddel is derived from the Middle Dutch word pedel (= Wetlands). The proximity of the reed pond suggests a swampy terrain and would confirm this interpretation.
- Another interpretation says that the said source could only be reached via a "piddel" , that is, dialectly via a protruding walking beam. In this case the name would have referred to an orally handed down wooden footbridge over a side stream of the Strunde.
Today's Piddelbornstrasse was named in 1895 after its destination on the way from the Piddelbornsmühle to the Piddelborn.
Piddelbornsmühle
South of the Piddelborn farm on the Strunde was the Piddelborn mill , which was demolished in 1976.
literature
- Herbert Stahl [editor], Gronau , Bergisch Gladbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-932326-51-6
Individual evidence
- ^ Andree Schulte, Bergisch Gladbach, city history in street names , Bergisch Gladbach 1995, p. 118, ISBN 3-9804448-0-5
Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ N , 7 ° 6 ′ 30.5 ″ E