Röttgen (Bergisch Gladbach)
Röttgen was a farm in the Königsforst on Brüderstraße (Cologne-Siegen) in the Moitzfeld district of Bergisch Gladbach . It was completely razed . The path was paved with part of the bricks .
history
The Röttgen farm developed from the establishment of a settlement in the high medieval Rodeepoch (1000-1300). In the original cadastre it is recorded with the name Am untersten Rötchen south of Landstrasse / Aggerstrasse . The Röttgen farm belonged to the free aristocratic estates of the Counts of Berg as a fiefdom to his castle residents in return for the oath of loyalty and the obligation to serve in arms.
Due to the flourishing mining in the Bensberg ore district , the population grew to 27 people in 1870. Due to the decline of the coal and steel industry from 1927, the number fell to 13 residents. In the 1970s, the federal motorway 4 was continued from Cologne to Olpe . Because it approached Röttgen immediately to the north, the settlement had to be abandoned.
The settlement name Rötgen or Rötchen goes back to the Middle High German designation riuten or red and stands for clearing, making arable. Röttgen was therefore the site of a clearing for the purpose of the corridor expansion or the settlement.
literature
- Kurt Kluxen : History of Bensberg , Paderborn 1976
- Herbert Nicke : Tütberg, an example of the decline of a settlement area. In: Waltraud Rexhaus, Robert Wagner (Ed.): Forsbach. On the life of a village between Königsforst and Sülztal , history association for the community of Rösrath and the surrounding area, Volume 26, Rösrath 2004, ISBN 3-922413-39-X , pp. 207 ff.
Individual evidence
- ^ Andree Schulte: Bergisch Gladbach City History in Street Names , published by the Bergisch Gladbach City Archives, Volume 3, and by the Bergisch Geschichtsverein department Rhein-Berg e. V., Volume 11, Bergisch Gladbach 1995, p. 365 f., ISBN 3-9804448-0-5
Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 3.6 ″ N , 7 ° 11 ′ 49.1 ″ E