Waltenrath

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Waltenrath
Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 58 ″  N , 7 ° 1 ′ 57 ″  E
Height : 142 m above sea level NN
Postal code : 42799
Waltenrath (Leichlingen (Rhineland))
Waltenrath

Location of Waltenrath in Leichlingen (Rhineland)

Waltenrath is a residential area in the town of Leichlingen (Rhineland) in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis .

Location and description

Waltenrath is located north of the Leichlinger town center on the Leichlinger plateau on Landesstraße 359. Neighboring towns are Roderhof , Schmerbach , Wachholder , Scheidt , Neuland , Hülstrung , Bergerhof , Weide , Bennert , Diepenbroich , Oberschmitte , Ellenbogen , Buntenbach , Bechlenberg , Pohligshof and Dierath .

history

Waltenrath was first mentioned in 1327 as Waldenrode . The place name has the clearing toponym -rath , combined with forest . The meaning of the place name is clearing of the forest . The estate belonged to the Deutz Abbey (Cologne) and the Cologne city archive contains "Lease letters and reversals on the Waldrather Hof zu Leichlingen" from 1597 to 1760. The Topographia Ducatus Montani map from 1715 shows the farm under the name Waterhof . In the 18th century, the place belonged to the parish of Leichlingen in the Bergisches Amt Miselohe . The topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 and the Prussian first survey from 1844 both record the place as Waltenrath .

In 1815/16 ten people lived in the village. In 1832 Waltenrath belonged to the mayor's office in Leichlingen . The place, which was categorized as arable property according to the statistics and topography of the Düsseldorf administrative district , had a residential house and three agricultural buildings at that time. At that time there were seven people living in the village, one of which was Catholic and six Protestant.

In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province in 1885, two houses with eleven inhabitants are given. In 1895 the place had two houses with eleven inhabitants, in 1905 two houses and ten inhabitants.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Dittmaier : settlement names and settlement history of the Bergisches Land , Schmidt, Neustadt ad Aisch 1956 ( journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein , vol. 74 / parallel edition as a publication of the Institute for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland at the University of Bonn )
  2. ↑ Johann Georg von Viebahn : Statistics and Topography of the Administrative District of Düsseldorf , 1836
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ Königliches Statistisches 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.