Old School (Dönberg)

Old school City of Wuppertal Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 0 ″  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 50 ″  E
Height :	302 m above sea level NHN
Location of Alte Schule in Wuppertal

Alte Schule is a residential area in the north of the Bergisch city ​​of Wuppertal .

Location and description

The living space is in the Dönberg residential area in the Uellendahl-Katernberg district on the L433 state road (here called Horather Straße ) at the confluence of the Zum Lohbusch road at an altitude of 302  m above sea level. NHN . The original residential space has merged into the residential development along Horather Strasse .

Neighboring places, besides Dönberg, are the living spaces and farms Hohenholz , Krüppershaus , Steinenpitter , Hohenholz , Halbachsbusch , Prinzberg and Horather Schanze , as well as the immediately neighboring Hitzhaus and Hasenbach .

In the local dialect the place was also called olle Schoal .

Etymology and history

The name old school goes back to the location of the first Dönberg school , built in 1755. The first Bible study took place in it on June 12, 1831 , the regular holding of which in February 1832 led to the decision to build an own Dönberg chapel. In 1839 a new school was built at a different location, the old school building still exists today, converted into a residential building ( Horather Straße 197 ).

In the 19th century, the old school belonged to the suburbs of the farmers and the parish Dönberg in the mayor's office Hardenberg , which was renamed Neviges in 1935 . From 1816 to 1861 it belonged to the Elberfeld district and from 1861 to the old Mettmann district .

In the municipality lexicon for the Rhineland province of 1888, a house with ten residents is given for old school.

With the municipal reform of 1929, the southern part of Dönberg was split off and incorporated into the newly founded town of Wuppertal with other Nevigeser villages outside Dönberg, the rest of Dönberg's Old School initially remained with Neviges. As a result of the regional reform of North Rhine-Westphalia , Neviges came to the city of Velbert at the beginning of 1975 and the rest of the Dönberg was also incorporated into Wuppertal.

literature

• Rolf Müller: Dönberg, a parish on the edge , Aussaat Verlag, Wuppertal, 1976

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Rolf Müller: Dönberg, a parish on the edge, Aussaat Verlag, Wuppertal, 1976
2. ↑ 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.