Weberhöhe

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Weberhöhe
City of Overath
Coordinates: 50 ° 56 ′ 42 ″  N , 7 ° 16 ′ 11 ″  E
Height : 208 m above sea level NHN
Weberhöhe (Overath)
Weberhöhe

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

Location and description

The small district Weberhöhe with mostly modern houses can be reached from Hohkeppler Straße (Landesstraße 84) or Rappenhohner Straße. An extension of the Katzbachtal nature reserve (GL-075) with alluvial forests and wetlands is directly adjacent to Weberhöhe. Nearby villages are Rappenhohn , Kotten and Stich .

A tributary of the Katzbach rises at Weberhöhe .

history

The mention of a Sophia de Ho in the 13th century was documented for this feudal court .

The Topographia Ducatus Montani by Erich Philipp Ploennies , Blatt Amt Steinbach , shows that the residential area had a courtyard in 1715, which is labeled as Weserhöh . Carl Friedrich von Wiebeking names the court on his charter of the Duchy of Berg in 1789 as Weber . From it it emerges that the place was part of the Honschaft Balken in the parish of Overath at that time .

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

In 1822, 21 people lived in the village, which was categorized as a court and called Weberhöhe , 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, 24 inhabitants are given for the place called Weberhöhe . The place, which was categorized as a courtyard in 1845 according to the overview of the government district of Cologne , had five residential buildings with 36 inhabitants at that time, all of them Catholic denominations.

The list of residents and livestock from 1848 names 35 residents for Weberhöhe, including the weaver Caspar Jackes, owner of two goats. The occupations of the other residents are four farm workers , four day laborers and a man without a trade . Three residents are marked as poor . The local and Gutbezirksstatistik the Rhine Province leads Weber height 1871 of six houses and 34 residents. In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province of 1888, six houses with 31 residents are given for Weberhöhe . In 1895 the place had eight houses with 40 inhabitants, in 1905 eight houses and 32 inhabitants are given.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Katzbachtal" nature reserve in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia , accessed on February 21, 2017.
  2. ↑ Jörg Poettgen (editor): 950 years Overath (1064–2014), street names tell stories . Ed .: Bergischer Geschichtsverein Overath e. V. Overath 2014.
  3. ^ Wilhelm Fabricius  : Explanations for the Historical Atlas of the Rhine Province. Second volume: The map from 1789. Division and development of the territories from 1600 to 1794. Bonn 1898.
  4. ↑ Alexander A. Mützell: New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . tape 5 . Karl August Künnel, Halle 1823.
  5. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff :  Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
  6. ↑ 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]
  7. ^ Berthold Gladbach, Peter Lückerath: The Overather population in names, tax and residents lists from the 15th to the 20th century , p. 344. Ed. Bergischer Geschichtsverein Rhein-Berg, Bergisch Gladbach 2016. ISBN 978-3-932326-75 -2
  8. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ 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