Wehrkotten

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Wehrkotten
Kurten municipality
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 46 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 24 ″  E
Postal code : 51515
Wehrkotten (Kürten)
Wehrkotten

Location of Wehrkotten in Kürten

Wehrkotten is a residential area in the municipality of Kürten in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis .

Location and description

The place is away from national roads north of Bechen .

history

The place is recorded on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 and on the Prussian first survey of 1840 as a Wehrkotten . From the Prussian new admission in 1892, it is regularly recorded as Wehrkotten on measuring table sheets .

In 1822 ten people lived in the place categorized as a house and called Werkotten . In 1830 the place had ten inhabitants and was called Werkotten . The place categorized as a courtyard according to the overview of the government district of Cologne in 1845 had a residential building at that time. At that time, nine residents lived in the village, all of them of Catholic faith. The municipal and estate district statistics of the Rhine Province lists Wehrkotten in 1871 with one house and five residents. In the parish dictionary for the Rhineland province of 1888, two houses with six residents are given. In 1895 the place had a house and nine residents. In 1905 the place had a house and seven residents and belonged denominationally to the Catholic parish of Bechen.

In 1927 the mayor's office in Kürten was transferred to the office of Kürten. In the Weimar Republic in 1929 the offices of Kürten were merged with the municipalities of Kürten and Bechen and Olpe with the municipalities of Olpe and Wipperfeld to form the office of Kürten. The Wipperfürth district became part of the Rheinisch-Bergisch district on October 1, 1932, with its seat in Bergisch Gladbach .

In 1975 the current municipality of Kürten was established on the basis of the Cologne Act , to which, in addition to the offices of Kürten, Bechen and Olpe, a sub-area of ​​the city of Bensberg with Dürscheid and the surrounding areas was added.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander A. Mützell: New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . tape 3 . Karl August Künnel, Halle 1822.
  2. ↑ Friedrich von Restorff :  Topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province , Nicolai, Berlin and Stettin 1830
  3. ↑ 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]
  4. ↑ Royal Statistical Bureau Prussia (ed.): The communities and manor districts of the Prussian state and their population . The Rhine Province, No. XI . Berlin 1874.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ 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
  8. ^ History of the municipality of Kürten
  9. ^ GV. NRW. 1974 p. 1072