Roßlenbruch

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Roßlenbruch
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 18 ″  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 58 ″  E
Height : 79 m above sea level NN
Postal code : 42799
Roßlenbruch (Leichlingen (Rhineland))
Roßlenbruch

Location of Roßlenbruch in Leichlingen (Rhineland)

Roßlenbruch is a location in the town of Leichlingen (Rhineland) in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis that emerged from a court .

Location and description

Roßlenbruch is located on the former route of the state road L288 at the intersection of the streets Moltkestraße , Immigrather Straße , Unterschmitte and Roßlenbruch (last two names for sections of the state road) on the western edge of Leichlingen on the city limits of Langenfeld (Rhineland) . The name Roßlenbruch of the village, which was still independent in the first half of the 20th century, can only be found again as a street name, the place of origin is the closed residential and commercial development.

Federal motorway 3 runs west of Roßlenbruch . In between there is the Riedbachaue nature reserve south of Immigrather Straße , where the Galkhauser Bach rises. North of Roßlenbruch is located on the former main road of living space under Schmitte , south of the residential space Förstchen . The Windfahne residential area borders the town to the southeast .

Other neighboring places, mostly those in the western suburbs of Leichlingen, are Kellerhansberg , Scheeresberg , Kaltenberg , Brückerfeld , Bremsen , Zwei Eichen , Altenhof , Bockstiege and Bahnhof .

history

Roßlenbruch was first mentioned in 1446 as Rosselbruch , then in 1466 as Raisselbroich . Possibly the name comes from a person named Rocilo , Bruch is a common name for a swampy area.

Roßlenbruch was on Sandstrasse , an old road from Aufderhöhe to Opladen . The Topographia Ducatus Montani map from 1715 shows four farms under the name Rosselenbruch . In the 18th century, the place belonged to the parish of Leichlingen in the Bergisches Amt Miselohe . The topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 shows the place as Roslenbrug and the Prussian first survey from 1844 records it as Rosslenbruch , the Leichlinger municipality map from 1830 as Rossebruch .

In 1815/16 there were 70 people living in the village. In 1832 Roßlenbruch belonged to the mayor's office of Leichlingen under the name Roßlenbroich . The place, which was categorized as a court town according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , had a school, seven residential buildings and six agricultural buildings at that time. At that time there were 68 residents in the village, three of them Catholic and 65 Protestant.

In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province in 1885, 19 houses with 107 inhabitants are listed. In 1895 the place had 19 houses with 93 inhabitants, in 1905 25 houses and 163 inhabitants.

From the middle of the 20th century, the gaps in the residential and commercial development with the neighboring residential areas were closed and Roßlenbruch became part of the western suburb of Leichlingen.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Dittmaier : settlement names and settlement history of the Bergisches Land , Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1956 ( journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein , vol. 74 / parallel edition as a publication of the Institute for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland at the University of Bonn )
  2. ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ 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.