Schalken (Overath)

Schalken City of Overath Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 12 ″  N , 7 ° 23 ′ 29 ″  E
Height :	324 m above sea level NN
Location of Schalken in Overath

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

Location and description

The small, agricultural district of Schalken is located on the far eastern outskirts of Overath on the border with the Oberbergischer Kreis . The courtyard is best reached from the hiking car park in Federath . The area near the Heckberg belongs natural area considered for rear Wald , in turn, to the Oberagger- and Wiehl Bergland counts. Rare plants and animals find their home in the wet green areas .

history

Schalken was first mentioned in a document as Schadeleke in the 13th century . Both the origin of the basic word and the defining word in the place name remain unclear on the whole.

The Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies , Blatt Amt Steinbach , shows that the residential area had four farms as early as 1715, which are labeled as Schalck . Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking names the courtship on his charter of the Duchy of Berg in 1789 as Schalken . It shows that the place was part of the Honschaft Oderscheid in the parish of Overath at that time .

The place is recorded on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1825 as Schalken . The Prussian first recording from 1845 shows the residential area also under the name Schalken . From the Prussian new admission of 1892, the place is regularly recorded as Schalken on measuring table sheets .

In 1822 57 people lived in the place categorized as a courtyard, 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 67 inhabitants are given for the place called Schalken . The place, which was categorized as a courtyard in 1845 according to the overview of the government district of Cologne , had at that time 13 residential buildings with 57 inhabitants of Catholic faith and two inhabitants of Protestant faith. The municipality and estate district statistics of the Rhine Province listed Schalken 1871 with 13 houses and 62 inhabitants. In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province of 1888, 16 houses with 64 inhabitants are given for Schalken . In 1895 the place had twelve houses with 47 inhabitants and belonged denominationally to the Catholic parish of Marialinden, in 1905 four houses and 17 inhabitants are given.

See also

• Schlingenbachtal nature reserve

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heinrich Dittmaier : settlement names and settlement history of the Bergisches Land . In: Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein . tape 74 , parallel edition as a publication by the Institute for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland at the University of Bonn. Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1956.
2. ^ 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.
3. ↑ Alexander A. Mützell: New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . tape 4 . Karl August Künnel, Halle 1823.
4. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff :  Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
5. ↑ 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]
6. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
7. ↑ 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.
8. ↑ 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.
9. ↑ 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.