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Old weather
City of Wetter (Ruhr)
Coat of arms of Alt-Wetter
Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ′ 20 ″  N , 7 ° 23 ′ 57 ″  E
Residents : 8229  (Jan 2, 2009)
Incorporation : 1st January 1969
Postal code : 58300
Area code : 02335
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Location of Alt-Wetter in Wetter (Ruhr)
today's district of Alt-Wetter, view of freedom
today's district of Alt-Wetter, view of freedom

Alt-Wetter is a district of Wetter (Ruhr) in the Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis ( North Rhine-Westphalia ), which formed the independent city of Wetter until 1970 when the communities of Esborn , Volmarstein and Wengern south of the Ruhr were incorporated .

geography

Alt-Wetter is located north of the Ruhr . The district includes the district Wetter and is surrounded by an arch of the Ruhr on the south side of a foothill of the Ardey Mountains . In the district, with the Citizens' Office, the Ruhr Valley Center, which opened in September 2010, and the Vivaldi Park, all essential administrative and supply facilities are located, also for the other districts of the city of Wetter.

Among the important local layers of old weather are next to the village weather the freedom and the Schöntal . Liberty served as an important place of justice in the 13th century. Today's district court was established on February 1, 1914 on the basis of a Prussian law of June 16, 1909 .

history

Alt-Wetter cemetery

The city Weather (today: Old-weather) originally belonged to the county of Mark , which from 1250 to 1274 by the Counts of Mark the Castle weather probably mainly as Brandenburg outpost against the Electorate of Cologne Castle Volmarstein built. With the introduction of the official constitution of the Brandenburg state, a bailiff of the Counts of the Mark, who usually belonged to the regional nobility, came to Wetter at the beginning of the 14th century .

Since the 19th century Wetter belonged to the district of Hagen in the administrative district of Arnsberg in the Prussian province of Westphalia . The city charter, which Wetter lost in 1809, was reassigned in 1909. Since 1929 Wetter belonged to the Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis. Through the law on the reorganization of the Ennepe-Ruhr district , the former city of Wetter (Ruhr) was merged with the neighboring communities Esborn, Volmarstein and Wengern to form a new city, which was also given the name Wetter (Ruhr) . The area of ​​the old town of Wetter has since formed the district of Alt-Wetter .

The coat of arms of the old city of Wetter (Ruhr) shows in gold (yellow) a bar nested in three rows of eight fields each from red to silver (white), above a black W. The coat of arms shows the signs of the Counts of the Mark (chess bars ) and the "W" for the city.

The old town hall Wetter with the statue of Freiherr vom und zum Stein , the Villa Bönnhoff and Villa Vorsteher as well as the Luther Church , built in 1905, are among the most important buildings in the district. Equally important is the approximately 5.2 hectare Alt-Wetters municipal cemetery, which is located on Gartenstrasse on the south-western slope of the Harkortberg . For several years it has been called the "Park of Tranquility".

Infrastructure

Wetter (Ruhr) station , station building from 1905

Alt-Wetter forms with the Wetter (Ruhr) station , which operates an hourly public transport connection to the next larger neighboring cities with the S5 S-Bahn line from DB Regio NRW and the Ruhr-Lenne-Bahn from Abellio Rail NRW Central point of the infrastructure . The station on the Ruhr Valley Railway in the Volmarstein district has been closed for passenger traffic. Since then, Hoffmann and Killer Bus bus routes have been operating there and in Esborn and Wengern .

Attractions

Web links

Commons : Alt-Wetter  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ City of Wetter (Ruhr): Demography Report 2009 . P. 6 (database: population registration data as of January 2, 2009)
  2. ↑ Problem area contaminated sites: From the tender to the subsequent use
  3. ↑ Law on the establishment of a local court in Wetter of June 16, 1909, PrGS p. 489
  4. ↑ Ordinance regarding the coming into force of the law of June 16, 1909. November 3, 1913, PrGS p. 395
  5. ^ Rudolf Buschmann: Wetter ad Ruhr, contribution to the history of the homeland . Commissionsverlag Carl Edelhoff Wwe., Wetter ad Ruhr 1901, p. 329 .
  6. ^ Urban history of weather