Stüttgenhof

Stüttgenweg marks the western edge of the district here, as well as the outer green belt. Official location data place the farm within Lindenthal, though Wikipedia's description situates it in the Junkersdorf area.

In the 1920s and 1930s, Fritz Fremersdorf laid the groundwork for systematic archaeological-topographical research across the city, leading to the 1929 excavation of the "Lindenthal village," a Stone Age settlement between Stüttgenweg and Militärringstraße, which researchers Buttler and Haberey attributed to the Linear Pottery culture. In 1973, the Romano-Germanic Museum learned that Stüttgenhof land had passed to Rheinbraun AG, which planned to build offices there — prompting new excavations. Digs south of Dürener Straße and northeast of the farm uncovered evidence of a settlement belonging to the Hunsrück-Eifel culture, an Iron Age group of the Middle Rhine region active from the late 7th century BC to around 250 BC.

The name traces back to Germanic roots: the Anglo-Saxon and Low German word "stôd," related to Middle High German "stuod," meant a horse enclosure. This likely refers to herds of wild and semi-wild horses found on the left bank of the Rhine from Frankish times into the early Middle Ages, which farms would capture and pen in order to gradually domesticate. Old documents refer to the farm as "zum Stuytgen" or "zom Stuitgin." At its first mention in 1271, the "Villa Stute" belonged to the Teutonic Order's commandery of St. Catherine in Cologne, later the Jungen-Biesen commandery.