Altstrasse Neuss – Herdecke
The old street Neuss-Herdecke was an old street between the Rhineland and Westphalia .
The route was an important trunk road from the early Middle Ages to modern times , connecting the Rhineland with the cities of Herdecke and Dortmund . The course touched today's municipalities of Düsseldorf , Erkrath , Haan , Solingen , Wuppertal and Schwelm . Here the trail met from Cologne coming Heerweg Cologne-Dortmund and united with him.
The path is not named uniformly in the literature, in part the Altstraße is called Römerweg . The route Wuppertal – Hagen – Herdecke is also known as Wupper – Ennepe-Strasse, the section in the Hagen area is referred to as part of the Cologne – Berlin road.
In the Middle Ages, the path served as the connection between the Gerresheim canonical monastery and its duty-bound estate in Sonnborn. In addition, the path was used for pilgrimages between Gräfrath and Düsseldorf.
course
- Dusseldorf
- Of the Rhine transitions coming from the left bank of Neuss, the way strives south of the railway station Dusseldorf-Gerresheim the railway Dusseldorf-Derendorf-Dortmund South at Knuppertsbrück with the Heidberg incipient ridge to. Some ramparts with ditches were discovered on the Heidberg, which have not yet been fully explored. There is also a path over the long ridge, some of which has been preserved as a ravine . At Hochscheidt , he touches the municipality of Erkrath.
- Erkrath
- In Erkrath-Hochscheidt, the popular name of the path is Römerweg and touches the mouse path running in south-north direction near Rathelbeck . The further course of the route runs over the Korresberg, there a street is officially named Römerweg and is attested in older literature. In older city maps, the route is called the old street . The route continues to the west via Hochdahl and Millrath . The high-altitude route from Heidberg and Korresberg is not shown on the map Topographia Ducatus Montani (1715) by Erich Philipp Ploennies , the main traffic probably already used a route Gerresheim-Unterbach and Gerresheim-Erkrath-Hochdahl. The high-altitude route is shown on the detailed Wiebeking map from 1789/92.
- Haan
- Coming from Erkrath-Millrath, the streets of Millrather , Gruitener and Gräfrather Straße lie on this old street in the municipality of Haan . At Maiseiche , near the Bolthausen water reservoir, the municipality of Solingen is touched and another old street from Zons am Rhein struck this path.
- Wuppertal
- The Altstraße led in the Wuppertal / Solingen border area on today's streets Höhe and Roßkamper Straße past Haus Grünewald , in Klosterbusch near Schieten , Boltenheide the path turned north and descended the hillside. Several ravines and ramparts have been preserved here in the forest. On Schlieffenstrasse / Werderstrasse past the Hammerstein manor to Grotenbeck, right on the bend of the Wupper . On the Wupper to Sonnborn , there no further along the Wupper, but again over the heights ( Kirberg with Kirchhofstraße ). After that, the path coming from northern Düsseldorf via Mettmann came across Altstrasse from the west. The path continues over the Nützenberg as Nützenberger Straße and reaches the center of Elberfeld and the former Tafelhof and Elberfeld Castle . Via Barmen the route continued to Schwelm .
- Schwelm
- Here the route met the Heerweg Köln – Dortmund coming from Cologne via Lennep and Beyenburg and continued to Gevelsberg , Hagen and Herdecke on the eastern Hellweg .