Vossbruch

Vossbruch municipality Lindlar Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 34 ″  N , 7 ° 22 ′ 6 ″  E
Height :	225 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	51789
Area code :	02266
Location of Vossbruch in Lindlar
View of Vossbruch

The village of Voßbruch with about 90 inhabitants is part of the municipality of Lindlar , Oberbergischer Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ).

Location and description

Vossbruch is located in the south not far from Lindlar. Other neighborhoods are Bolzenbach and Unterheiligenhoven .

history

Old ravine in Lindlar-Voßbruch

Vossbruch was mentioned for the first time in 1467 as voesbroich . In 1807 the place was mentioned as Vosbrog "In the layout of the Guthes zur Wiedenhoff and the tithe belonging to the local pastorate".

The origin of the place name is difficult to determine. The suffix “-bruch” usually denotes a moor or a swampy place. This syllable can be explained relatively clearly due to the slope and valley location of Vossbruch with the corresponding flowing water. The prefix “Voss-” is more difficult to interpret. According to oral tradition, there are said to have been many foxes in Vossbruch in the "Bruch", ie in the areas close to the water . These are referred to in the dialect as "Vüsse" or "Vuss" in the singular (also in the village of Vosshagen in Hückeswagen ). The term “Vussbruch”, as Vossbruch is still called in the dialect today, must have come about over the course of time .

The chapel of St. John the Baptist is mentioned in a church bill in 1658. There the wages for 2000 "Deckspähn" for the "Cruitzheussgen" in Vossbruch is mentioned. The chapel must have been built during this time.

In the Middle Ages Vossbruch belonged to the Helling Honschaft in the parish of Lindlar.

In a church visitation report from 1731, the chapel at Vossbruch is confirmed, it says there that “ at the patronage festivals and here and there at the request of supplicants, services are held ”.

In 1830 the "Topographical-Statistical Description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province" noted: Vosbroch with 69 [inhabitants].

In the extraordinary cattle census on December 1, 1908, 14 farms in Vossbruch, 11 of which kept cattle, were noted. There was a total of one horse, 39 cattle and 8 pigs. On August 28, 1931, Vossbruch received a public telephone. When the Allies reached Lindlar territory on April 12, 1945, parts of a German division had established themselves in Lindlar territory. The fellow citizens Karl Robert Wolfgang Hähnel and Heinz Friedrich Seresse died in Vossbruch through the Allied artillery bombardment.

Attractions

Johanneskapelle near Vossbruch

In Voßbruch there are old wayside crosses, an old sunken road and a chapel from 1658 . This Johanneskapelle , a simple quarry stone building with a small church bell , was also mentioned in 1705 in a service order.

In the village there is a courtyard with a two-story half-timbered building from the 18th century. It has been in the family since 1830. In this courtyard there is still an old boundary stone from 1760 by Oberheiligenhoven. Another Oberheiligenhover boundary stone is located in one of the two crossroads in Vossbruch. There is also a well-preserved ravine in the village. It is used as a beaten path between two asphalt roads.

The two crossroads in Voßbruch bear the inscriptions:

• "Dises K (R) EUTZ HAD IN THE GLORY OF GOD LET THE WOMEN GEORG FRANGENBERG AND (D) ANNA SIBILLA BRÖCHER ZU VOSBROCH IN THE YEAR 1843, 23/3"
• "Erected by ANNA MARGARETHA BRÜCHER widow of PETER REÜDENBACH and their children GERHARD REÜDENBACH and ANNA GERTRUD REÜDENBACH in Vosbruch in 1848"

freetime and sports

The circular hiking trails A1 ( Lindlar - Oberheiligenhoven - Unterheiligenhoven - Voßbruch - Lindlar) and A3 (Lindlar - Voßbruch - Unterheiligenhoven - Wüstenhof - Hölzer Kopf - east of Tannenhof - Oberschümmerich - Unterschümmerich - Altenrath - Böhl - Lindlar) lead through Voßbruch.

Economy, industry and infrastructure

Of enormous importance for Voßbruch is still the agriculture . There is also an inn .

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 .