Steeg (Overath)

Steeg (Overath) City of Overath Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 13 ″  N , 7 ° 13 ′ 32 ″  E
Height :	106 m above sea level NN
Location of Steeg (Overath) in Overath
Over the Untersteeg bridge ...

... to Steeg

Steeg , formerly called Untersteeg to distinguish it from the nearby towns of Obersteeg and Mittelsteeg , is a district of Steinenbrück in the town of Overath in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany .

Location and description

The small district of Steeg is located on the Sülz , to be reached via the state road 284 (Oberauel) between Untereschbach and Immekeppel. Nearby places are Schmitzbüchel and Tongrube Oberauel .

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 Steeg . Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking names the court on his charter of the Duchy of Berg in 1789 as am Stege . It shows that at that time the place was part of the Löderich family in the parish of Overath.

The place is recorded on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1817 as Steeg . The Prussian first recording from 1845 shows the residential area under the name Steg . The Prussian new recording from 1892 shows the place as a Untersteeg . After that, it is regularly listed as Steeg on measuring table sheets .

In 1822 15 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 19 inhabitants are given for the place called Steeg . The place, which was categorized as a farm and mill according to the overview of the government district of Cologne in 1845 , had eight residential buildings with 37 inhabitants, all of them Catholic denominations.

The list of residents and livestock from 1848, which among other things was used to collect taxes, gives a little insight into the living conditions at that time. It has 35 residents in Steeg, including 16 children. Four of the seven heads of household are listed as farm workers: Johann Joseph Joust, Wilhelm Krütt, Johann Katzemich and Christoph Schwamborn. Three are called day laborers : Friedrich Altenrath, Peter Miebach and Jacob Scherer (1 goat, poor). Jacob Müllerholz is mentioned as without trade , owner 1 goat and poor . Most of the cattle in the village were counted by the authorities at Johann Katzemich: 1 ox, 3 cows, 2 pigs .

The municipality and manor district statistics of the Rhine province are listed by Steeg in 1871 with ten houses and 58 inhabitants. In the municipality encyclopedia for the Rhineland province of 1888, 12 houses with 69 inhabitants are given for Steeg . In 1895 the place had ten houses with 66 inhabitants, in 1905 eleven houses and 67 inhabitants are given.

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Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius  : Explanations for the Historical Atlas of the Rhine Province ; Second volume: The map of 1789. Division and development of the territories from 1600 to 1794 ; Bonn; 1898
2. ↑ Alexander A. Mützell: New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . tape 4 . Karl August Künnel, Halle 1823.
3. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff :  Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
4. ↑ 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]
5. ↑ Berthold Gladbach, Peter Lückerath: The Overather population in name, tax and residents lists from the 15th to the 20th century . Ed .: Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg, Bergisch Gladbach 2016. ISBN 978-3-932326-75-2 , p. 335
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. ↑ Royal Statistical 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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