Platzhausen

Platzhausen City of Hückeswagen Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 40 ″  N , 7 ° 22 ′ 31 ″  E
Height :	295 m above sea level NN
Location of Platzhausen in Hückeswagen

Platzhausen was an industrial town 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 Bevertalsperre in 1898 and the site is now flooded.

Location and description

Platzhausen was in the Bever valley in the east of Hückeswagen near the city limits of Wipperfürth . Neighboring towns were Käfernberg , Wefelsen , Mickenhagen , Eckenhausen , Kleinhöhfeld and Höhe , on Hückeswagener and Großhöhfeld also Wipperfürth urban area. The neighboring Girkenhausen and Fröhlenhausen were also removed as part of the construction of the dam .

history

In the 18th century the place belonged to the Bergisches Amt Bornefeld-Hückeswagen . The topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 shows the place and the Prussian first survey from 1844 as Platzhausen .

From 1782 to 1898 a cloth factory produced in the village. In 1815/16 twelve people lived in the village. In 1832, Platzhausen belonged to the Berghauser Honschaft , which was part of the Hückeswagen external citizenship within the Hückeswagen mayor . The place, categorized as a craftsman's apartment and iron hammer according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , had a residential building, two factories or mills and seven agricultural buildings at that time. At that time there were seven people living in the village, all of whom were Catholic.

In the municipality lexicon for the province of Rhineland in 1885 a house with three 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 seven residents.

In 1898 the old Bevertalsperre was dammed. Platzhausen was laid down and flooded as part of the dam construction.

Individual evidence

1. ^ 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. 13 .
2. ^ 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.
3. ^ 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.