Rittberg (Overath)

Rittberg City of Overath Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 58 ″  N , 7 ° 18 ′ 12 ″  E
Height :	148 m above sea level NN
Location of Rittberg in Overath
Aerial view of Rittberg, in the background water and the Overather town center

Rittberg is a district of Overath in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany .

Location and description

The elongated, ascending district of Rittberg above the Agger is best reached via Mucher Straße (K 312). A narrow country road connects it to the hamlet of Kram . Extensive fields surround a new development area with individual houses and a dog sports area with floodlights. At its highest point, Rittberg offers a wide view of the mountainous landscape.

The Tiefer Siefen stream , a tributary of the Agger, flows through the town.

history

Old writings show that a feudal court existed here as early as the 13th century , which was managed by a Theodoricus de Rucberg. The Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies , Blatt Amt Steinbach , proves that the residential area had three courtyards in 1715, which are labeled as Ripperg . Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking names the court on his charter of the Duchy of Berg in 1789 as Ripberg . It shows that the place was part of the Honschaft Burg in the parish of Overath at that time .

View from Rittberg to Marialinden

The place is recorded on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1817 as Rittberg . The Prussian first recording from 1845 shows the residential area without any lettering. From the Prussian new admission in 1892, the place is regularly recorded as Rittberg on measuring table sheets .

In 1822, 22 people lived in the place categorized as Hof and called Rittberg , which after the collapse of the Napoleonic administration and its replacement belonged to the Overath mayor in the Mülheim am Rhein district . For the year 1830 27 inhabitants are given for the place called Hof. The place, which was categorized as a courtyard in 1845 according to the overview of the government district of Cologne , had five residential buildings with 29 inhabitants, all of them Catholic denominations. The municipal and Gutbezirksstatistik the Rhine Province leads Rittenberg 1871 with six houses and 31 residents. In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province of 1888, six houses with 31 residents are given for Rittberg . In 1895 the place had six houses with 24 inhabitants, in 1905 six houses and 22 inhabitants are given.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hundeverein Overath-Rittenberg
2. ↑ Jörg Poettgen (editor): 950 years Overath (1064 - 2014) / street names tell history . Ed. Bergischer Geschichtsverein Overath eV., Overath 2014
3. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius : Explanations for the Historical Atlas of the Rhine Province. Second volume: The map from 1789. Division and development of the territories from 1600 to 1794. Bonn 1898.
4. ↑ Alexander A. Mützell: New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . tape 4 . Karl August Künnel, Halle 1823.
5. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff :  Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
6. ↑ Overview of the components and list of all the localities and individually named properties of the government district of Cologne: by districts, mayor's offices and parishes, with information on the number of people and the residential buildings, as well as the Confessions, Jurisdictions, Military and former state conditions. / ed. from the Royal Government of Cologne [Cologne], [1845]
7. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
8. ↑ 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.
9. ↑ 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.
10. ↑ 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.