Rothenberg (Leichlingen)

Rothenberg City of Leichlingen (Rhineland) Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 20 ″  N , 6 ° 59 ′ 57 ″  E
Height :	62 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	42799
Location of Rothenberg in Leichlingen (Rhineland)

Rothenberg is a village in the town of Leichlingen (Rhineland) in the Rheinisch-Bergisch district that emerged from a court with several living spaces .

Location and description

Rothenberg is located on the former route of the state road L288, which bears the name Rothenberg in this section , on the southwestern edge of Leichlingen on the city limits to Langenfeld (Rhineland) and Leverkusen . The Troisdorf – Mülheim-Speldorf railway runs right past the village. To the west of Rothenberg are the nature reserves grassland and forest areas near Rothenberg and the Southerberg nature reserve belonging to Leverkusen, and to the south the Hülser Bruch nature reserve . The federal motorway 3 and the new route of the state road 288 run west of the village .

The Trompete residential area is located north of Rothenberg on the former state road , and the Posberg residential area south of Leverkusen . Other neighboring places, mostly those in the western suburbs of Leichlingen, are Rehborn , Schnugsheide , Hülserhof and Schraffenberg on Leichlinger, Hapelrath , Dückenburg , Virneburg , Krecklenberg , South and Reusrath on Langenfelder and Petersburg on Leverkusen city area. The neighboring Southerberg has gone off.

history

The place emerged from a courtyard that was on Sandstrasse , an old road from Aufderhöhe to Opladen . Along the sand road, further settlement areas arose in loose succession to the north and south of the core town in the 19th century, which consolidated into a closed settlement in the 20th century.

The map Topographia Ducatus Montani from 1715 shows three farms under the name Rodenberg . 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 lists the place as Rothenberg , the Prussian first survey from 1844 shows two residential areas. One of them, today's Rothenberg in the Leichlinger urban area, is labeled with Rodenberg . The other is now in the Leverkusen city area and is labeled Rothenberg . On the Leichlinger municipality map from 1830 the place is also labeled as Rodenberg .

In 1815/16 the place had 28 inhabitants. In 1832 Rothenberg belonged to the mayor's office in Leichlingen . The place, which was categorized as a court town according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , had ten residential buildings and nine agricultural buildings at that time. At that time 69 residents lived in the place, 15 of them Catholic and 54 Protestant faith.

In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province in 1885, 41 houses with 252 inhabitants are given. In 1895 the place had 31 houses with 165 inhabitants, in 1905 34 houses and 211 inhabitants.

In 1874 the railway line was opened, which after the municipal reform of 1975 between the federal highway 3 and the Wupper formed the new city border between Leichlingen and Leverkusen. From the beginning of the 20th century, the gaps in the residential and commercial development with the neighboring residential areas were closed.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
2. ↑ 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.
3. ↑ 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.
4. ↑ 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.