Welzen

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Welzen
municipality Lindlar
Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 59 ″  N , 7 ° 16 ′ 45 ″  E
Height : 130 m above sea level NN
Postal code : 51789
Area code : 02207
Welzen (Lindlar)
Welzen

Location of Welzen in Lindlar

The place Welzen is a district of the municipality Lindlar in the Oberbergischer Kreis in the administrative district of Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ).

Location and description

Welzen is located in the west of the municipality of Lindlar on the municipal and district border with the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis and the municipality of Kürten in the Sülztal. The immediate neighboring town is Hommerich , other neighboring towns are Schmitzhöhe and Ebbinghausen .

history

The place was mentioned for the first time in 1487 as weltzhusen . The name Welzen is derived from the field roller and is a reference to the originally agricultural character of the place.

In 1782, Christian Hamm from Bergscheid bought land in Welzen in order to put an iron hammer into operation.

In 1830 the topographical-statistical description of the Royal Prussian Rhine Province noted: "[...] Weltzen, a farm with 21 inhabitants and double iron hammers".

Due to § 10 and § 14 of the Cologne Act , the municipality of Hohkeppel was dissolved in 1975 and extensive parts of Lindlar were incorporated. Including Welzen.

Today the place consists of 15 houses and has around 80 inhabitants.

bus connections

Welzen stop :

  • VRS ( OVAG ) line 335 Scheel - Frielingsdorf - Lindlar - Linde - Biesfeld - Bergisch Gladbach
  • 401 Industriegebiet Klause - Lindlar - Waldbruch - Schmitzhöhe - Hommerich - Kürten School Center ( KWS , school bus service)
  • 408 Kürten - Offermannsheide - Biesfeld - Kürten (KWS, school bus service)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Pampus: First documentary naming of Oberbergischer places (= contributions to Oberbergischen history. Sonderbd. 1). Oberbergische Department 1924 eV of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein, Gummersbach 1998, ISBN 3-88265-206-3 .
  2. ^ The Cologne Act in full. Retrieved June 7, 2016 .