Tip (Kürten)

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Kurten municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 32 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 11 ″  E
Postal code : 51515
Area code : 02207
Tip (Kürten)
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Location of tip in Kürten
Crossing in tip with two inns 2017
Crossing in tip with two inns 2017

Spitz is a district in the municipality of Kürten in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis .

description

The origin of the name has not been conclusively clarified. The place appears on Wiebeking's map as “Bitzen” , which means something like source, Pütz or fountain. If you walk a short distance in the direction of Herrenstrunden , you come to a wetland that indicates a former spring or a stream. It is possible that the name spike developed from this.

Spitz is a traffic junction in the region with the neighboring towns of Dürscheid , Bechen , Eikamp , Herkenrath , Moitzfeld (motorway connection), Herrenstrunden and Bergisch Gladbach , which are well connected in terms of transport.

history

The James - Chapel at peak was in 1663 first mentioned as the community Dürscheid 50 dollars " for the good of the chapel in Spitz" borrowed.

The place is shown in the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824.

Under the French administration between 1806 and 1813, the Porz office was dissolved and the Dürscheid Honschaft , which also included the head, was politically assigned to Mairie Bensberg in the Mülheim am Rhein arrondissement . In 1816 the Prussians converted the Mairie to the mayor's office in Bensberg in the Mülheim am Rhein district . In 1830, the peak had 41 inhabitants.

In the list of the Kingdom of Prussia for the 1885 census, tip was listed as a place to live in the rural community of Bensberg in the Mülheim am Rhein district. At that time, there were 21 houses with 116 inhabitants.

Due to the Cologne Act , the municipality of Kürten was merged with the previously independent municipalities of Bechen and Olpe and parts of the city of Bensberg to form the municipality of Kürten with effect from January 1, 1975 . In the process, pointed also became part of the municipality of Kürten.

Mining

Since 1869, iron ore has been extracted from the Luther mine in a large open-cast mine . Since 1888 had wells drilled are, because the overburden for the open pit was too powerful. At the end of October 1895, operations ceased. In the later years there were several experimental work. But you had to find out again and again that mining was no longer worthwhile.

The former town of Bensberg used the huge ping of the Luther mine as a garbage dump in the 1960s .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Street names of the municipality of Kürten - origin and meaning, place and hamlet names No. 41. Retrieved on April 8, 2017 .
  2. ^ Robert Plötz, Peter Rückert: Jakobuskult in the Rhineland . Gunter Narr Verlag.
  3. ^ Friedrich von Restorff: Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Provinces , Berlin and Stettin, 1830
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ^ Herbert Stahl (editor): Das Erbe des Erzes, Volume 3, The pits in the Paffrather Kalkmulde, p. 60, Bergisch Gladbach 2006, ISBN 3-932326-49-0