Stone Gate (Kürten)

Stone gate Kurten municipality Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 29 ″ N , 7 ° 12 ′ 57 ″ E
Postal code :	51515
Area code :	02207
Location of Steintor in Kürten
	Old half-timbered house in stone gate.

Steintor is a residential area in the municipality of Kürten in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis .

Location and description

Steintor is located south of Dürscheid on the street of the same name, which branches off from Wipperfürther Straße between Dürscheid and Spitze . The older part of the settlement leads to today's Leo-Fahlenbockstraße.

In the 1960s, the settlement area was greatly expanded with new single-family houses.

The entire area of today's Dürschtalstraße in Dürscheid used to belong to Steintor.

history

Under the French administration between 1806 and 1813 the Porz office was dissolved and the Dürscheid Honschaft , to which Steintor also belonged, 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 . Steintor had 30 Catholic residents in 1845.

In the list of the Kingdom of Prussia for the 1885 census, Steintor, at that time still in the spelling Steinthor, was listed as a place to live for the rural community of Bensberg in the Mülheim am Rhein district. At that time, five houses with 25 residents were counted. Steintor is already recorded in the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 and from then on regularly on measuring table sheets.

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 . Steintor, which has been part of the municipality of Kürten with the Dürscheid residential area for some time now, has also become part of the community. Today the Steintor street is reminiscent of the residential area.

etymology

The name Steintor is an old name for a hallway. The designation indicates a fortified area (with a wall).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Street names of the municipality of Kürten, place and hamlet names , published by the history association for the municipality of Kürten and the surrounding area
↑ 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]
↑ 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.

[:0-1] Street names of the municipality of Kürten, place and hamlet names , published by the history association for the municipality of Kürten and the surrounding area

[Uebersicht-2] 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]

[Gemeindelexikon1888-3] 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.