Siefen (Overath)

Siefen City of Overath Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 29 ″  N , 7 ° 20 ′ 15 ″  E
Height :	225 m
Location of Siefen in Overath
Siefen

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

Location and description

Siefen is located between Vilkerather Straße (Kreisstraße 37) and Landesstraße 360 ​​near Landwehr . The district consists mainly of forests and fields. Individual half-timbered houses and modern houses alternate. The Siefen street stretches for 5 kilometers through the district. The only crossing is adorned with a listed wooden cross from 1883. The name Siefen goes back to Henricus dictus Oderscheit de Siphen , who was enfeoffed with this courtyard.

history

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

The place is recorded on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 as Sifen . The Prussian first recording from 1845 shows the residential area under the name Siefen. From the Prussian new admission of 1892, the place is regularly recorded as seven on measuring table sheets .

In 1822 22 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's office in the Mülheim am Rhein district and was then called Sifen . For the year 1830 26 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 four residential buildings with 19 residents at that time, all of which were Catholic. The municipality and estate district statistics of the Rhine Province lists Siefen in 1871 with five houses and 25 inhabitants. In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province of 1888, five houses with 26 inhabitants are given for Siefen. In 1895 the place has six houses with 25 inhabitants and belonged denominationally to the Catholic parish Marialinden, in 1905 five houses and 23 inhabitants are given.

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See also

• Lombachtal nature reserve

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jörg Poettgen (editor): 950 years Overath (1064 - 2014) / street names tell history
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.

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