Old Forge
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Old Forge
City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 43 " N , 7 ° 14 ′ 42" E
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| Height : | 312 m above sea level NHN | |
Location of Alteschmiede in Wuppertal |
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Alteschmiede is a district in the north of the Bergisch city of Wuppertal .
Location and description
The district is located at an altitude of 312 m above sea level. NHN on the watershed of the river systems of the Wupper and the Ruhr on both sides of the Mollenkotten street ( Landesstraße 432). The location consists of the original settlement area, the original Kotten An der alten Schmiede , of a newer, larger settlement area to the east of it, which extends to the Wuppertal-Oberbarmen junction of the federal motorway 46 , which runs south .
The district is located on the outskirts of the residential district Nachbarebreck-Ost ( Oberbarmen district ) on the border with the Sprockhövel districts of Gennebreck and Haßlinghausen . To the north of the locality are the villages of Kuxloh and Sundern in the Sprockhövel area . On the watershed, to the west of Alteschmiede, is the neighboring village of Mollenkotten , to the east of the Schmiedestrasse district . Southerly neighboring towns are the immediately adjoining Pannhütte , Kattenbreuken , next Brecker Busch , Hülsen , Hasenkamp and Holtkamp .
History and etymology
The area on the ridge had unfavorable soil conditions, so that settlement arose late. Alteschmiede was located on an important coal road from Witten to Elberfeld - today's state road 432, on which the factories in the Wupper area were supplied with fuel by independent coal drivers and which branched off from another important coal road to Barmen at Schmiedestraße. The state road has been named after the neighboring Mollenkotten since 1935 along its entire length between Einern and Schmiedestraße (Wuppertal) . It was previously called Berghausstrasse .
This coal route was also the reason for the construction of the Kottens An der alten Schmiede . As the name suggests, a smithy was operated here in 1704 , which was geared towards the needs of the passing coal drivers and carters. This smithy, called Schmitte an der Straße at that time , lost its importance when the toll collection point on the Kohlenstraße to Barmen, 200 meters east of the smithy, became more important. The resulting settlement took over the name Schmitte an der Straße (today Schmiedestraße) from the original settlement area, which was now increasingly referred to as the Alte Schmitte to distinguish it. This new name is first attested in 1789.
Alteschmiede was part of the weather office of the Counts of the Mark in the early modern period . After the conquest of the County of Mark by France , Alteschmiede was part of the Mairie Haßlinghausen in the Hagen arrondissement of the Ruhr department in the Grand Duchy of Berg from 1806 to 1813 . In 1815 the French-occupied area came to Prussia , which Mollenkotten allocated to the newly created district of Hagen the following year . From 1887 to 1922 Alteschmiede belonged to the office and the community of Haßlinghausen in the Schwelm district, which was split off from the district of Hagen . In 1929, the Ennepe-Ruhr district was founded, to which Haßlinghausen and Alteschmiede belonged. 1970 Haßlinghausen came to Sprockhövel, the area around Schmiedestraße with Alteschmiede was split off from Haßlinghausen and incorporated into Wuppertal.
Individual evidence
- ^ Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names. Their origin and meaning. Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8 .
- ^ Gerd Helbeck : Next Breck. History of a rural area on the Bergisch-Märkische border in the area of influence of the cities Schwelm and Barmen (= contributions to the history and local history of the Wuppertal. Vol. 30). Born-Verlag, Wuppertal 1984, ISBN 3-87093-036-5 .