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City of Overath
Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 7 ″  N , 7 ° 16 ′ 14 ″  E
Wüsterhöhe (Overath)
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Location of Wüsterhöhe in Overath

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

Location and description

Wüsterhöhe is a small, agricultural district. It can be reached via Hohkeppeler Straße (Landesstraße 84). Nearby places are Oberbech , Kreutzhäuschen and Griesenbalken .

history

The Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies , Blatt Amt Steinbach , shows that the residential area already had three farmsteads in 1715, which are labeled as Wüsterhöh . Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking names the court on his charter of the Duchy of Berg in 1789 as Wüsterath . It shows that at that time the place was part of the Löderich family in the parish of Overath.

The place is recorded on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1817 as Wüsterhöhe . The Prussian first recording from 1845 shows the residential area under the name Westerhöh . From the Prussian new admission of 1892, the place is regularly recorded on measuring table sheets as Wüsterhöhe .

In 1822, 17 people lived in the place categorized as a courtyard and designated as (Wüster-) Höhe , which after the collapse of the Napoleonic administration and its replacement belonged to the Overath mayor in the Mülheim am Rhein district . For the year 1830 19 inhabitants are given for the place called Wüsterhöhe . The place, which was categorized as a courtyard in 1845 according to the overview of the government district of Cologne , had six residential buildings with 32 inhabitants at that time, all of them Catholic denominations. The municipal and Gutbezirksstatistik the Rhine Province leads Wüster height 1871 with five houses and 23 residents. In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province of 1888, three houses with 21 inhabitants are given for Wüsterhöhe . In 1895 the place had four houses with 25 inhabitants, in 1905 four houses and 26 inhabitants are given.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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
  2. ↑ Alexander A. Mützell: New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . tape 2 . Karl August Künnel, Halle 1821.
  3. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff :  Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
  4. ↑ 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]
  5. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ 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