Stumps

Stumps Odenthal municipality Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 0 ″  N , 7 ° 11 ′ 6 ″  E
Location of Strünken in Odenthal
Map of the Great Dhünntalsperre with the location of Strünken

Strünken was a district of Odenthal that disappeared due to the construction of the Great Dhünntalsperre .

history

In stumps was slag from a smelting furnace found, according to a survey by the radiocarbon method was from the 13th century. The first written mention of the place comes from 1340. At that time, the owner was the St. Gereon Abbey in Cologne. A short time later it became the property of the Cistercian Abbey of Altenberg . It was a single house with stables. When the abbey was abolished in 1803, the farm passed into the hands of the tax authorities . It was in the immediate vicinity of Loosenau and for many decades was exposed to the dangers posed by the powder mills there. At the point where Strünken once was, the dam of the dam stands today .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Gechter: An overview of the state of research on mining archeology in the Bergisches Land , in: Bergbau im Bergisches Land, History Association Rösrath, Volume 32, 2002, p. 33, ISBN 3-922413-52-8
2. ↑ Manfred Link: The upper Dhünntal - Great Dhünntalsperre , ed. Landscape and History e. V., Odenthal 2010, p. 83
3. ↑ Peter Kombüche: Sibillenstiftung and Klosterpfarre Altenberg, in: Bergischer Calendar 1955, p. 35
4. ↑ Map accessed on April 17, 2017
5. ↑ Das Dhünntal, The Hofschaften accessed on April 17, 2017

literature

• Marita Jendrischewski: The Dhünntal - people and history (s) of a sunken landscape , Verlag Jendrischewski, ISBN 978-3-00-047635-8

Web pages

• Time travel to the sunken Dhünntal accessed on April 14, 2017
• Home gave way to Dhünn Dam. On the trail of a lost world, accessed on April 14, 2017