Unterauel

Unterauel City of Overath Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 22 "  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 36"  E
Location of Unterauel in Overath
Sülzaue with Unterauel (hidden in the front group of trees)

Unterauel is a district of Untereschbach in the town of Overath in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany .

Location and description

The small district of Unterauel is located west of Overath above the Sülz on Landesstraße 284, which is called here Hoffnungsthaler Straße. Nearby places are Daubenbüchel , Mittelauel and Altenbrück . Against the resistance of parts of the population, planning by the city of Overath is to create a three-hectare industrial area in the nearby Sülzauen . A citizens' initiative has submitted a petition against the planning.

history

The name Auel is derived from * ouwala , * ouwila , whose root word ouwa (= waterland ) is to be understood in the sense of a river meadow surrounded by water on several sides.

The Unterauel settlement was part of the feudal area of the Meer Premonstratensian convent in Meerbusch .

The Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies , Blatt Amt Porz , shows that the living space had three farms as early as 1715 . Maul are labeled. Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking names the court on his charter of the Duchy of Berg in 1789 as Mauel . It emerges from it that the local area was part of the Unterirchspiel Immekeppel in the upper court of Bensberg at that time .

Former farm in Unterauel

The place is on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1817 as Unt. Aul listed. The Prussian first recording from 1845 shows the residential area under the name Unt. Owl . From the Prussian new admission of 1892, the place is regularly recorded on measuring table sheets as Unter-Auel or Unterauel .

In 1822, 17 people lived in the village, which was categorized as a farm and (Unter-) Auel and after the collapse of the Napoleonic administration and its replacement, it belonged to the mayor's office of Bensberg in the Mülheim am Rhein district . For the year 1830 26 inhabitants are given for the place called Unter-Auel . In 1845, according to the survey of the government district of Cöln, categorized as a farm and designated Unter-Auel had four residential buildings with 24 inhabitants, all of them Catholic denominations. The municipality and estate district statistics of the Rhine province lists Unterauel in 1871 with five houses and 23 residents. In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province of 1888, eight houses with 39 inhabitants are given for Unter Auel . In 1895 the place had six houses with 41 inhabitants and belonged denominationally to the Catholic parish Immekeppel and the Protestant parish Volberg . In 1905 eight houses and 49 inhabitants are given.

On the basis of Section 10 of the Cologne Act , several Bensberg outlying areas were converted into the municipality of Overath in 1975, including the area around Untereschbach with Unterauel.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stephan Brockmeier: Planned industrial area in the Sülzauen in: Kölner Rundschau from March 16, 2017
2. ↑ Petition: No industrial area in the Sülzauen between Untereschbach and Unterauel
3. ^ Heinrich Dittmaier : settlement names and settlement history of the Bergisches Land . In: Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein . tape 74 , parallel edition as a publication by the Institute for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland at the University of Bonn. Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1956.
4. ↑ Jörg Poettgen (Red.): Street names tell stories . Edited by Bergischer Geschichtsverein Overath, 2014, p. 38
5. ^ 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
6. ↑ Alexander A. Mützell: New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . tape 1 . Karl August Künnel, Halle 1821.
7. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff :  Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
8. ↑ 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]
9. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
10. ↑ 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.
11. ↑ 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.
12. ↑ 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
13. ^ The Cologne Act in full. Retrieved June 7, 2016 .