Pothoff

Pothoff municipality Lindlar Coordinates: 51 ° 3 ′ 10 ″ N , 7 ° 26 ′ 28 ″ E
Location of Pothoff in Lindlar

Pothoff is a district of the municipality of Lindlar in the Oberbergisches Kreis , North Rhine-Westphalia.

Location and description

Pothoff is located in the eastern part of the municipality of Lindlar bei Scheel . The living space is no longer recognizable as an independent place and is completely fused with Scheel. A neighboring town is Frielingsdorf .

history

In 1487 the place was first mentioned in a loan list for Duke Wilhelm III. mentioned in a document by Berg . The spelling of the first mention was Potthof / Pothoffe.

The chart of the Duchy of Berg by Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking from 1789 shows that the local area was part of the Scheel family in the Lindlar parish at that time .

Individual evidence

^ Klaus Pampus: First documentary naming of Oberbergischer places (= contributions to Oberbergischen history. Sonderbd. 1). Oberbergische Department 1924 eV of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein, Gummersbach 1998, ISBN 3-88265-206-3 .
^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations for the Historical Atlas of the Rhine Province ; Second volume: The map of 1789. Division and development of the territories from 1600 to 1794 ; Bonn; 1898

[1] Klaus Pampus: First documentary naming of Oberbergischer places (= contributions to Oberbergischen history. Sonderbd. 1). Oberbergische Department 1924 eV of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein, Gummersbach 1998, ISBN 3-88265-206-3 .

[Fabricius-2] Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations for the Historical Atlas of the Rhine Province ; Second volume: The map of 1789. Division and development of the territories from 1600 to 1794 ; Bonn; 1898