<p>W<strong style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;">Walbrecken</strong><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style:inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px;">(in der Literatur wird auch die alte Schreibweise</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px;"> </span><strong style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;">Wallbrecken</strong><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px;">benutzt) ist ein</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px;"> </span><a style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px;margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; color: #5a3696;" title="Weiler" href="https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weiler">Weiler</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px;">im</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px;"> </span><a style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; color: #5a3696;" title="Wuppertal" href="https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal">Wuppertaler</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px;">Wohnquartier</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px;"> </span><a style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; color: #5a3696;" title="Herbringhausen (Quartier)" href="https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbringhausen_(Quartier)">Herbringhausen</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px;">im Stadtbezirk</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px;"> </span><a style="font-family: inherit;font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none;color: #5a3696;" title="Langerfeld-Beyenburg" href="https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langerfeld-Beyenburg">Langerfeld-Beyenburg</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px;">des</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px;"> </span><a style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; color: #5a3696;" title="Deutschland" href="https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutschland">deutschen</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px;"> </span><a style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; color: #5a3696;" title="Land (Deutschland)" href="https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_(Deutschland)">Bundeslandes</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px;"> </span><a style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; color: #5a3696;" title="Nordrhein-Westfalen" href="https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordrhein-Westfalen">Nordrhein-Westfalen</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px;">. Der Weiler liegt in unmittelbarer Nachbarschaft des Weilers</span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px;"> </span><a style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; color: #5a3696;" title="Spieckern" href="https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spieckern">Spieckern</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-size: 16px;">.</span></p> <div id="mf-section-0" class="mf-section-0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;"> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; 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font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;">Der von agrarisch genutzten Hochflächen umgebene Ort liegt auf 301 Meter über <a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; color: #5a3696;" title="Normalnull" href="https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normalnull">Normalnull</a> südlich von <a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; color: #5a3696;" title="Beyenburg" href="https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyenburg">Beyenburg</a> in der Quellmulde des <a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; 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Walbrecken ist Ausgangspunkt von mehreren markierten <a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; color: #5a3696;" title="Wanderweg"href="https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanderweg">Wanderwegen</a>.</p> </div> <div class="mw-ui-icon mw-ui-icon-arrow mw-ui-icon-element indicator" style="margin: 0.7em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border:0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; font-size: 0.4em; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; position: relative; min-height: 1.5em; min-width: 3.5em; text-indent: -999px; overflow: hidden; width: 3.5em; max-width: 3.5em; float: left;" title=""> </div> <h2 class="section-heading in-block collapsible-heading open-block" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0.5em 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #eaecf0; 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background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; -webkit-animation: fadeOutContainer 0.3s ease-in; animation: fadeOutContainer 0.3s ease-in; width: 220px; height: 142px;" data-src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Walbrecken_Hof.JPG/220px-Walbrecken_Hof.JPG" data-alt="" data-width="220" data-height="142" data-class="thumbimage"><img class="thumbimage" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: middle; background-image: none; box-sizing: border-box; opacity: 1; -webkit-animation: fadeInImage 0.3s ease-in; animation: fadeInImage 0.3s ease-in;" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Walbrecken_Hof.JPG/220px-Walbrecken_Hof.JPG" alt="" width="220" height="142" /></span></a> <div class="thumbcaption" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1.5; font-size:0.8em; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; color: #54595d; padding: 0px !important; width: auto !important;">Hof in Walbrecken</div> </div> </div> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;">Die genaue Herkunft des Namens istungeklärt. Die Endsilbe <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image:none;">-brecken</em> deutet vermutlich auf ein <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;">gebrochenes</em>, also gepflügtes Feld hin.<sup id="cite_ref-helbeck_1-0" class="reference" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; font-size: 0.75em; background-image: none;"><a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; color: #5a3696;" href="https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walbrecken#cite_note-helbeck-1">[1]</a></sup></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;">Walbrecken wurde erstmals in der ersten Hälfte des 12. Jahrhunderts (1150) als <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;">Walebreke</em>erwähnt. Ob Walbrecken mit dieser Erstnennung tatsächlich gemeint ist, ist aber nicht mit letzter Gewissheit geklärt.<sup id="cite_ref-helbeck_1-1" class="reference" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; font-size: 0.75em; background-image: none;"><a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; color: #5a3696;" href="https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walbrecken#cite_note-helbeck-1">[1]</a></sup></p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;">Im Mittelalter war Walbrecken Titualarort der gleichnamigen <a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit;vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; color: #5a3696;" title="Honschaft Walbrecken" href="https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honschaft_Walbrecken">Honschaft</a> im <a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;text-decoration: none; color: #5a3696;" title="Kirchspiel" href="https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirchspiel">Kirchspiel</a><a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; color: #5a3696;" title="Lüttringhausen" href="https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BCttringhausen">Lüttringhausen</a> des <a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; color: #5a3696;" title="Amt Beyenburg" href="https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amt_Beyenburg">Amtes Beyenburg</a>, der weitere 15 umliegende Höfe angehörten.<sup id="cite_ref-helbeck_1-2" class="reference" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit;font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; font-size: 0.75em; background-image: none;"><a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps:inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; color: #5a3696;" href="https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walbrecken#cite_note-helbeck-1">[1]</a></sup> 1547 ist eine Wohnstätte belegt.<sup id="cite_ref-helbeck_1-3" class="reference" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; font-size: 0.75em; background-image: none;"><a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; color: #5a3696;" href="https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walbrecken#cite_note-helbeck-1">[1]</a></sup> DerHof war zu dieser Zeit Teil des Hofverbands <a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; color: #5a3696;" title="Mosblech (Wuppertal)" href="https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosblech_(Wuppertal)">Mosblech</a>, der ein <a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; color: #5a3696;" title="Allod" href="https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allod">Allod</a> der <a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; color: #5a3696;" title="Herzogtum Berg" href="https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herzogtum_Berg">bergischen Herzöge</a> war.<sup id="cite_ref-kie.C3.9Fling_2-0" class="reference" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; font-size: 0.75em; background-image: none;"><a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; color: #5a3696;" href="https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walbrecken#cite_note-kie.C3.9Fling-2">[2]</a></sup> 1715 wird der Weiler auf der <a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit;vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; color: #5a3696;" title="Topographia Ducatus Montani" href="https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topographia_Ducatus_Montani">Topographia Ducatus Montani</a> als <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;">Walbreck</em> bezeichnet.</p> <p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit;vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;">1815/16 lebten 22 Einwohner im Ort. 1832 gehörte Walbrecken weiterhin zur Honschaft Walbrecken, die der <a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; color: #5a3696;" title="Bürgermeisterei Lüttringhausen" href="https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCrgermeisterei_L%C3%BCttringhausen">Bürgermeisterei Lüttringhausen</a> angehörte. Der laut der <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;">Statistik undTopographie des Regierungsbezirks Düsseldorf</em> Ort wurde zu dieser Zeit <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;">Wallbrecken</em> genannt und besaß zu dieser Zeit drei Wohnhäuser und vier landwirtschaftliche Gebäude. Zu dieser Zeit lebten 22 Einwohner im Ort, alle evangelischen Glaubens.<sup id="cite_ref-Viebahn_3-0" class="reference" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; font-size: 0.75em; background-image: none;"><a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; text-decoration: none; color: #5a3696;" href="https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walbrecken#cite_note-Viebahn-3">[3]</a></sup> Im <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none;">Gemeindelexikon für die Provinz Rheinland</em> von 1888 werden vier Wohnhäuser mit 41 Einwohnern angegeben.<sup id="cite_ref-Gemeindelexikon1888_4-0" class="reference" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; font-size: 0.75em; background-image: none;"><a style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; color: #5a3696;" href="https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walbrecken#cite_note-Gemeindelexikon1888-4">[4]</a></sup></p> </div> <h2 class="section-heading in-block collapsible-heading" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0.5em 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: #eaecf0; font-family: 'Linux Libertine', Georgia, Times, serif; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height:1.3; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; clear: both; word-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word; width: 892.796875px; display: table; outline: 0px; cursor: pointer; position: relative;" tabindex="0"> </h2>