At the brass

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City of Wuppertal
Coordinates: 51 ° 18 ′ 13 ″  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 12 ″  E
Height : 289 m above sea level NHN
Am Brass (Wuppertal)
At the brass

Location of Am Brass in Wuppertal

Am Brass is a residential area in the north of the Bergisch city ​​of Wuppertal .

Location and description

The living space is in the north of the Dönberg residential area in the Uellendahl-Katernberg district on Landesstraße 433 (here called Horather Straße ) at the confluence of the Stürmannweg at an altitude of 289  m above sea level. NHN .

Neighboring places, besides Dönberg, are the residential areas and farms Winterberg , Krüppershaus , Steinenpitter , Am Strauch , Danzberg , Grades and Stürmann .

In the local dialect, the place was also known as am hohlen Wech (= Am Hohlweg ).

history

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

The place is on the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1824 as a. Hollow road and unmarked on the Prussian first recording from 1843. The place was at the lower end of a rising, deeply cut ravine on the route of the forerunner of today's Horather Straße .

In the municipality lexicon for the province of Rhineland from 1888, a house with six inhabitants is given. The place is called the Hohlenweg there.

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 with Am Brass 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. ^ 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.