Stoppenbach

Stoppenbach municipality Lindlar Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 8 ″  N , 7 ° 21 ′ 47 ″  E
Height :	approx. 180 m
Postal code :	51789
Area code :	02266
Location of Stoppenbach in Lindlar

The village of Stoppenbach with about 65 inhabitants is part of the municipality of Lindlar , Oberbergischer Kreis in the administrative district of Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ).

Location and description

Stoppenbach lies north of Lindlar between Heibach and Untersteinbach .

history

The farm was first mentioned as stuppenbech in 1318 . The place name is derived from "stupp", the tree stump.

A hut in Stoppenbach is mentioned as early as 1587. So iron ore was mined.

In the place there used to be a cross in memory of the misfortune of the collapsed iron ore mine. In 1848 a chapel in honor of St. Odilia was built on this site and in 1937 it was replaced by the little holy house "auf dem Kuhzell".

The municipal and Gutbezirksstatistik the Rhine Province leads Stoppenbach 1871 with a dwelling house and ten inhabitants.

After 1945 a housing estate was built on the farm.

Attractions

• Half-timbered house, built around 1800
• Heiligenhäuschen "on the Kuhzell"

bus connections

Next stop Heibach :

• 332 Wipperfürth - Lindlar - Remshagen - Engelskirchen Bf. (OVAG)
• 335 Frielingsdorf - Hartegasse / Fenke - Lindlar - Linde - Biesfeld - Dürscheid - Herkenrath - Sand - Bergisch Gladbach (S) (OVAG)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Klaus Pampus: First documentary naming of Oberbergischer places (= contributions to Oberbergischen history. Sonderbd. 1). Oberbergische Department 1924 eV of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein, Gummersbach 1998, ISBN 3-88265-206-3 .
2. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.