Desert divide
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Desert divide
City of Bergisch Gladbach
Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 31 ″ N , 7 ° 13 ′ 28 ″ E
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Location of Wüstenherscheid in Bergisch Gladbach |
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 Wüstenherscheid seen from Hasselheide
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Wüstenherscheid is a district in the Bärbroich district of Bergisch Gladbach .
history
Wüstenherscheid emerged from a medieval settlement, the date of which dates back to between 1100 and 1300. The pew ordinance of 1630 in Herkenrath assigned the guit in the desert Heescheid a pew . The original cadastre recorded the hamlet west of Oberselbach as Im Wüstenherscheid .
According to the survey of the government district of Cöln , the place categorized as “farm goods” had seven houses in 1845. At that time there were 43 people living in the village, all of them Catholic. The spelling of the place name at that time was Wüsten-Herscheid. In 1905 there were twelve buildings with 65 residents.
The defining word desert is etymologically derived from the Old High German “wuosti” (= wüst, barren, lonely) or the Middle High German “wüeste / wuoste” (= desert, abandoned; as a noun: barren area, wilderness) and indicates something that is not cultivated Property or a dilapidated or neglected settlement. The basic word herscheid is also used in the settlement names Dresherscheid and Ottoherscheid . It can be deduced from the earlier form Haenscheid . Haen represents a subsidiary form of "Hain / Hohn" (in field names = enclosed forest), while "Scheid" generally denotes a border (also wooded elevation). As a result, herscheid can be interpreted as a tree line or border forest .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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]
- ^ Andree Schulte: Bergisch Gladbach City History in Street Names , published by the Bergisch Gladbach City Archives, Volume 3, and by the Bergisch Geschichtsverein department Rhein-Berg e. V., Volume 11, Bergisch Gladbach 1995, p. 225 f. ISBN 3-9804448-0-5