Schnepprath

Schnepprath City of Langenfeld (Rhineland) Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 43 "  N , 6 ° 58 ′ 31"  E
Height :	64 m above sea level NN
Location of Schnepprath in Langenfeld (Rhineland)

Schnepprath is a locality of Reusrath and Reusrath a district of the city ​​of Langenfeld .

The village of Schnepprath

Geographical location

Schnepprath is located south of Köttingen and Kämpe , north of the Neuburger Hof , west of Hecke and east of Mehlbruch . The middle of fields lying hamlet is Ackerstraße , Fountain Street and Stone Street reached. It consists of several homesteads , a few residential buildings , a tennis hall and several greenhouses .

The name 'Schnepprath'

While the suffix -rath is derived from clearing , the first syllable Schnepp- is assumed to be related to water in the broadest sense. According to the name researcher Hans Bahlow , a wealth of generic names for water, spring , brook , lake , swamp , moor , etc. have been preserved in many place names in Langenfeld as remnants from Celtic times. This also includes the first part of the name. Even an interpretation of the name as a "clearing in which many snipes nest", as his namesake Müller said, referring to the name researcher Heinrich Dittmaier , would reveal such a connection with water in the broadest sense.

History and economy

The Schneppraths fields adjoin the Neuburger courtyard where on a natural terrace to Wupper and Rhine out the Rosendahl Mountain , in the 1950s and 1960s (Stein haircuts for blades made of flint were discovered) that from the Paleolithic come. Ceramic fragments from the same site date to the Bronze and Iron Ages , a bronze consecration bell comes from Roman times . Perhaps more exciting for Schnepprath, on the other hand, is the discovery of a burial ground from the 1st century AD, because the associated settlement site has not yet been found. Perhaps it is hidden in Schnepprath, where no excavations have yet been carried out.

The aforementioned burial ground also points to the course of the first trade route through the Rhineland , which was also known as the grave road . The later Hansestrasse , known here as the Mauspfad , ran in Langenfeld from Opladen over the aforementioned Rosendahlsberg and Schnepprath to Hausingen . From there the route led via today's Opladener Straße through the village of Hagelkreuz , then past Galkhausen through Talstraße and via Hucklenbruch to Ganspohl . About the Richrather road (the Steinrausch ) and Rich Rath through the arrived travelers finally the Hilden road to Hilden not, of course without previously at customs house for the use of the path tolls have been paid. This route connected the Rheingau with Essen in a supraregional line , where it reached the Hellweg .

As a place ending in -rath , Schnepprath is in any case one of the earliest settlement names in our area. The place names research dates the founding of the period of decreasing so-called Frankish conquest , a re- colonization of the local area by the Franks in the 9th and 10th centuries. Reference should also be made to the excavations at the church desolation of St. Barbara and St. Martinus and the related research on the age of the settlements with the ending -rath .

Schnepprath has always been characterized by agriculture . Schnepprath is mentioned for the first time in a document in 1359. It is presumed that it has been inhabited by mostly farmers since that time . In 1816 a table with localities recorded Schnepprath as a peasantry with 54 inhabitants , a population that has probably remained the same since then.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c d} Rolf Müller, " Stadtgeschichte Langenfeld Rheinland ", Verlag Stadtarchiv Langenfeld 1992
2. ↑ Heinz Müller, place and field names in the home calendar of the Rhein-Wupper district 1955, p. 41 ff.
3. ^ Friedhelm Görgens: Langenfeld. Droste, Düsseldorf 1984.